Docker Job Trends in Somerset

Docker
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Somerset 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 43 43 34
Rank change year-on-year 0 -9 -5
Permanent jobs citing Docker 17 6 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 3.08% 1.35% 3.49%
As % of the System Software category 23.29% 15.79% 21.67%
Number of salaries quoted 16 3 12
10th Percentile - £46,677 £30,425
25th Percentile £42,500 £49,192 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,321 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.16% +27.81% -29.17%
75th Percentile £50,000 £61,379 £66,563
90th Percentile £57,500 £65,051 £79,875
South West median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £60,250
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.03% +0.42%

All System Software Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 73 38 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 13.22% 8.54% 16.09%
Number of salaries quoted 32 15 55
10th Percentile £27,075 £29,550 £26,450
25th Percentile £30,875 £30,625 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +31.58% -30.39%
75th Percentile £47,500 £55,129 £45,625
90th Percentile £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
South West median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.14% +3.16%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Docker job vacancy trend in Somerset

Docker
Salary Trend in Somerset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Docker

Docker
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Somerset 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
Taunton - 4 £55,000 -
Bath - 1 - - 15
Docker
South West

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 16 (94.12%) Azure
2 11 (64.71%) Azure DevOps
2 11 (64.71%) GitHub
2 11 (64.71%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (29.41%) Azure AKS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 1 (5.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Software Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) YAML
2 5 (29.41%) .NET
2 5 (29.41%) .NET Core
2 5 (29.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Life Science
2 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.88%) Omics
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) CI/CD
1 16 (94.12%) Containerisation
2 11 (64.71%) DevOps
2 11 (64.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (64.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (52.94%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (5.88%) Bioinformatics
4 1 (5.88%) Biology
4 1 (5.88%) Computational Biology
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis
4 1 (5.88%) Data Science
4 1 (5.88%) Digital Innovation
4 1 (5.88%) Experimental Design
4 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.88%) Statistics
4 1 (5.88%) Time Management
4 1 (5.88%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Bicep
2 5 (29.41%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
1 1 (5.88%) PhD
Systems Management
1 16 (94.12%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft