Docker Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Docker
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 25 41
Rank change year-on-year -40 +16 -30
Permanent jobs citing Docker 6 8 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.65% 3.33% 3.98%
As % of the System Software category 24.00% 50.00% 42.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 11
10th Percentile - £47,750 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -21.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £74,774 - £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -2.78%

All System Software Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 25 16 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.69% 6.67% 9.49%
Number of salaries quoted 10 12 29
10th Percentile £32,000 £46,375 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,500 £49,375 £32,996
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +29.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £73,129 - £91,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Docker job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Docker
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Docker

Docker
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
County Antrim -30 6 £62,500 +13.64% 1
Docker
UK

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) dbt
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Pulumi
2 1 (16.67%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Advertising
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) LangChain
1 2 (33.33%) Next.js
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
1 2 (33.33%) React
2 1 (16.67%) Django
2 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (16.67%) Hugging Face
2 1 (16.67%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) scikit-learn
2 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (33.33%) AI
4 2 (33.33%) Asynchronous Programming
4 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (33.33%) Generative AI
4 2 (33.33%) LLM
4 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 1 (16.67%) MLOps
5 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Prompt Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google