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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 31 39
Rank change year-on-year -24 +8 -27
Permanent jobs citing Docker 4 16 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.79% 4.04% 2.42%
As % of the System Software category 13.33% 47.06% 17.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £62,763 - £73,500
25th Percentile £65,031 £57,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £64,654 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.15% -41.22% +83.33%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 -
90th Percentile - - £113,000
UK median annual salary £71,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.07% +3.57% -3.45%

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 30 34 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 5.94% 8.59% 13.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 37
10th Percentile £42,950 - £32,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £52,500 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.90% +28.05% -8.89%
75th Percentile £78,790 £62,500 £48,750
90th Percentile - £74,144 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -

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 13 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
County Antrim -9 4 £73,801 +6.48% 20
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 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) dbt
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Pulumi
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (25.00%) Datadog
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) Locust
General
1 1 (25.00%) Advertising
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (25.00%) LangChain
2 1 (25.00%) Next.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) AI
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) OWASP
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google