Docker Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Docker
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 49 25
Rank change year-on-year +8 -24 +13
Permanent jobs citing Docker 5 2 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire 1.23% 0.45% 6.60%
As % of the System Software category 13.16% 4.17% 40.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 24
10th Percentile £62,500 - £46,125
25th Percentile £64,375 £54,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £58,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -7.20% -34.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £54,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +14.16% -12.40% -3.85%

All System Software Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 38 48 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 9.38% 10.76% 16.27%
Number of salaries quoted 32 26 50
10th Percentile £26,025 £27,375 £25,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £46,250 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% -18.50% +71.97%
75th Percentile £57,500 £80,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £63,375 - £65,000
East Midlands median annual salary £30,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -33.33% -14.29% +16.67%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Docker relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Docker job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Docker
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Docker

Docker
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Northampton -4 5 £70,000 +20.69% 11
Docker
East Midlands

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Mockito
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) J2EE
1 1 (20.00%) Jest
1 1 (20.00%) JPA
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) Redux
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) API Development
4 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Go
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) AppDynamics