Docker Jobs in the North West

Docker
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 100 54
Rank change year-on-year +82 -46 -24
Permanent jobs citing Docker 898 244 451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.44% 2.29% 6.10%
As % of the System Software category 80.18% 25.18% 38.38%
Number of salaries quoted 124 179 255
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,625 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,528 £92,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% -

All System Software Skills
North West

Docker falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,120 969 1,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.27% 9.08% 15.88%
Number of salaries quoted 308 820 788
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,250 £25,420
25th Percentile £36,250 £29,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £45,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.22% -11.76% +7.37%
75th Percentile £73,886 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,750 £72,625 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the North West

Docker
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Docker in the North West.

Salary trend for Docker in the North West

Docker
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in the North West over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Docker in the North West

Docker
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Lancashire +65 493 £50,000 -37.38% 220
Manchester +53 226 £75,000 +20.00% 677
Cheshire +40 140 £66,250 -17.19% 364
Merseyside +56 37 £55,000 -4.35% 168
Cumbria -67 2 - - 3
Docker
England

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 55 (6.12%) Confluence
2 4 (0.45%) CMS
3 3 (0.33%) IIS
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.33%) nginx
3 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.22%) Apache
4 2 (0.22%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.11%) Strapi
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 223 (24.83%) AWS
2 176 (19.60%) Azure
3 87 (9.69%) GCP
4 17 (1.89%) GitHub
5 14 (1.56%) Serverless
6 13 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (0.89%) Amazon S3
9 8 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (0.89%) Azure Machine Learning
9 8 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (0.67%) AWS CodeBuild
11 6 (0.67%) Pulumi
12 5 (0.56%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (0.56%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (0.56%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 630 (70.16%) VPN
2 380 (42.32%) DNS
3 250 (27.84%) Cisco IOS
4 8 (0.89%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.45%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (0.33%) Broadband
7 2 (0.22%) Internet
7 2 (0.22%) NAS
7 2 (0.22%) SAN
8 1 (0.11%) Firewall
8 1 (0.11%) HTTP
8 1 (0.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (13.70%) SQL Server
2 31 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 30 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (1.78%) MySQL
5 12 (1.34%) MongoDB
6 10 (1.11%) Cloud Spanner
7 9 (1.00%) DynamoDB
8 7 (0.78%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.67%) Redis
10 5 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.45%) TimescaleDB
12 3 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.33%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.22%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.22%) DocumentDB
14 1 (0.11%) Big Data
14 1 (0.11%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.11%) Neo4j
14 1 (0.11%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 129 (14.37%) GitLab
2 127 (14.14%) JIRA
3 121 (13.47%) SonarQube
4 117 (13.03%) Selenium
5 115 (12.81%) Cucumber
6 112 (12.47%) Bitbucket
6 112 (12.47%) Maven
6 112 (12.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 42 (4.68%) Git
8 24 (2.67%) Jenkins
9 5 (0.56%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.56%) JMeter
10 4 (0.45%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.33%) Jaeger
11 3 (0.33%) JUnit
12 2 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.22%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.22%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.22%) WebDriver
General
1 744 (82.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 649 (72.27%) Analytical Skills
3 537 (59.80%) Finance
4 133 (14.81%) Banking
5 77 (8.57%) Retail
6 70 (7.80%) Corporate Banking
6 70 (7.80%) Investment Banking
7 54 (6.01%) Social Skills
8 7 (0.78%) Manufacturing
9 6 (0.67%) Games
10 2 (0.22%) Marketing
11 1 (0.11%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.11%) Automotive
11 1 (0.11%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 421 (46.88%) Developer
2 380 (42.32%) Software Developer
3 252 (28.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 152 (16.93%) Software Engineer
5 50 (5.57%) Senior
6 32 (3.56%) Lead
7 20 (2.23%) Senior Developer
8 19 (2.12%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (2.00%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (1.11%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (1.11%) Java Developer
10 10 (1.11%) Lead Developer
11 9 (1.00%) Architect
11 9 (1.00%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (1.00%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.89%) .NET Developer
12 8 (0.89%) Team Leader
13 7 (0.78%) AWS Architect
13 7 (0.78%) AWS DevOps
13 7 (0.78%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (28.84%) Elastic Stack
2 163 (18.15%) React
3 139 (15.48%) Kafka
4 133 (14.81%) Spring
5 132 (14.70%) Spring Boot
6 125 (13.92%) CSS
6 125 (13.92%) HTML
7 110 (12.25%) Redux
8 109 (12.14%) JPA
9 98 (10.91%) RESTful
10 79 (8.80%) REST
11 78 (8.69%) Jest
12 75 (8.35%) Sass
13 74 (8.24%) CSS3
14 73 (8.13%) HTML5
15 44 (4.90%) Hibernate
16 40 (4.45%) Node.js
17 29 (3.23%) .NET
18 17 (1.89%) .NET Core
19 8 (0.89%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 629 (70.04%) Cyberattack
2 118 (13.14%) Product Ownership
3 110 (12.25%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (2.67%) Cloud Native
5 11 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.00%) Algorithms
7 8 (0.89%) Public Cloud
7 8 (0.89%) Wiki
8 7 (0.78%) IoT
8 7 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (0.67%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.56%) e-Learning
10 5 (0.56%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 3 (0.33%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.33%) Low-Code
13 2 (0.22%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 661 (73.61%) Linux
2 629 (70.04%) Android
3 256 (28.51%) Windows
4 10 (1.11%) Unix
5 7 (0.78%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.45%) CentOS
6 4 (0.45%) Debian
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 638 (71.05%) Line Management
2 629 (70.04%) Mathematics
3 571 (63.59%) Agile
4 459 (51.11%) DevOps
5 383 (42.65%) OO
6 381 (42.43%) Design Patterns
6 381 (42.43%) OOP
7 379 (42.20%) Android Development
8 304 (33.85%) Problem-Solving
9 260 (28.95%) Platform Engineering
10 254 (28.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 253 (28.17%) Task Automation
12 252 (28.06%) Risk Management
13 250 (27.84%) Storage Management
14 201 (22.38%) CI/CD
15 177 (19.71%) Microservices
16 175 (19.49%) Software Engineering
17 162 (18.04%) Containerisation
18 146 (16.26%) Full-Stack Development
19 136 (15.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 682 (75.95%) Python
2 554 (61.69%) Java
3 389 (43.32%) Go
4 381 (42.43%) C++
5 263 (29.29%) Bash
6 260 (28.95%) PowerShell
7 161 (17.93%) JavaScript
8 150 (16.70%) SQL
9 121 (13.47%) TypeScript
10 20 (2.23%) C#
11 8 (0.89%) PHP
12 2 (0.22%) Rust
13 1 (0.11%) Bicep
13 1 (0.11%) Julia
13 1 (0.11%) R
13 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 385 (42.87%) Security Cleared
2 380 (42.32%) DV Cleared
3 18 (2.00%) Azure Certification
4 15 (1.67%) AWS Certification
5 12 (1.34%) Degree
6 8 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (0.56%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.33%) Linux+ Certification
9 3 (0.33%) RHCE
10 2 (0.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.11%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.11%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (13.14%) QA
2 75 (8.35%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.78%) GDPR
4 13 (1.45%) HIPAA
5 6 (0.67%) NIST
6 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 255 (28.40%) Hyper-V
2 250 (27.84%) VMware NSX
2 250 (27.84%) vSphere
3 6 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.33%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.33%) Dovecot
5 3 (0.33%) Postfix
6 1 (0.11%) KVM
Systems Management
1 647 (72.05%) Ansible
2 304 (33.85%) Terraform
3 220 (24.50%) Kubernetes
4 11 (1.22%) Grafana
5 10 (1.11%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.45%) Argo
6 4 (0.45%) Puppet
7 3 (0.33%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (0.33%) Istio
7 3 (0.33%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.11%) Automic
9 1 (0.11%) Consul
9 1 (0.11%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.11%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.11%) Kibana
9 1 (0.11%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.11%) Rancher
9 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 255 (28.40%) Splunk
2 250 (27.84%) 3PAR
2 250 (27.84%) Cisco
2 250 (27.84%) Juniper
3 109 (12.14%) Solace
4 39 (4.34%) Google
5 7 (0.78%) Microsoft
6 5 (0.56%) Red Hat
6 5 (0.56%) VMware
7 4 (0.45%) Ping Identity
8 3 (0.33%) Okta
9 1 (0.11%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.11%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.11%) New Relic
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle
9 1 (0.11%) PayPal
9 1 (0.11%) Zend