Docker Job Trends in the South East

Docker
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 87 63
Rank change year-on-year -17 -24 -9
Permanent jobs citing Docker 230 241 649
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.58% 3.09% 3.57%
As % of the System Software category 25.19% 28.35% 27.06%
Number of salaries quoted 183 151 501
10th Percentile £46,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £87,000 - £95,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 913 850 2,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.27% 10.91% 13.19%
Number of salaries quoted 741 583 1,891
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £32,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -2.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,975 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Docker job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in the South East

Docker
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Hampshire +7 82 £62,500 +8.70% 33
Thames Valley -28 74 £70,000 -6.67% 19
Berkshire -42 31 £82,500 - 9
Buckinghamshire +5 28 £70,000 +3.32% 4
Surrey -19 24 £65,000 -10.34% 11
West Sussex -2 22 £65,000 -7.14% 3
Oxfordshire 0 15 £62,500 +13.64% 6
East Sussex -4 15 £60,000 +20.00% 2
Kent -26 12 £55,000 -21.43% 4
Sussex - 1 £59,500 -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (5.22%) OpenStack
2 8 (3.48%) Confluence
2 8 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.61%) Apache
4 5 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.30%) IIS
6 2 (0.87%) Apache Qpid
7 1 (0.43%) JBoss
7 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 138 (60.00%) AWS
2 128 (55.65%) Azure
3 54 (23.48%) GitHub
4 42 (18.26%) Serverless
5 40 (17.39%) GCP
6 25 (10.87%) Amazon EKS
7 24 (10.43%) Amazon ECS
7 24 (10.43%) GitHub Copilot
8 22 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (7.39%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (7.39%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (6.96%) Datadog
11 15 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (6.52%) Amazon S3
12 12 (5.22%) Azure AI
13 11 (4.78%) SaaS
14 9 (3.91%) OpenShift
15 8 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (3.04%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.09%) Firewall
2 12 (5.22%) VPN
3 11 (4.78%) MQTT
4 9 (3.91%) Network Security
5 8 (3.48%) iSCSI
5 8 (3.48%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (3.48%) SAN
6 7 (3.04%) Wireshark
7 6 (2.61%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.61%) VoIP
8 4 (1.74%) DHCP
8 4 (1.74%) DNS
8 4 (1.74%) HTTP
9 3 (1.30%) BGP
9 3 (1.30%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (1.30%) Internet
9 3 (1.30%) IPsec
9 3 (1.30%) MPLS
9 3 (1.30%) OSPF
9 3 (1.30%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (16.96%) MongoDB
2 37 (16.09%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (11.74%) Azure SQL Database
4 26 (11.30%) SQL Server
5 21 (9.13%) MySQL
6 18 (7.83%) Elasticsearch
6 18 (7.83%) Relational Database
7 16 (6.96%) NoSQL
8 9 (3.91%) Redis
9 5 (2.17%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.30%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.30%) Flink
10 3 (1.30%) Looker
11 2 (0.87%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.43%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 89 (38.70%) Git
2 45 (19.57%) GitLab
3 21 (9.13%) Jenkins
4 18 (7.83%) JIRA
5 15 (6.52%) Visual Studio Code
6 13 (5.65%) JUnit
7 10 (4.35%) Mockito
8 9 (3.91%) Selenium
9 8 (3.48%) JMeter
10 7 (3.04%) SonarQube
11 6 (2.61%) Postman
12 5 (2.17%) SpecFlow
13 4 (1.74%) Octopus Deploy
14 3 (1.30%) NUnit
14 3 (1.30%) Visual Studio
15 2 (0.87%) Jasmine
15 2 (0.87%) Mocha
15 2 (0.87%) MSTest
15 2 (0.87%) PHPUnit
15 2 (0.87%) TeamCity
General
1 72 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 25 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (9.57%) Finance
4 15 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.78%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.48%) Advertising
8 7 (3.04%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.61%) Games
10 5 (2.17%) Automotive
10 5 (2.17%) Aviation
10 5 (2.17%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.74%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.30%) Legal
12 3 (1.30%) Marketing
13 2 (0.87%) Electronics
13 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.43%) Banking
14 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (29.13%) Developer
2 47 (20.43%) Software Engineer
3 43 (18.70%) Senior
4 29 (12.61%) .NET Developer
5 28 (12.17%) Lead
6 20 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (7.39%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (5.65%) Java Developer
8 13 (5.65%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (5.65%) Site Engineer
8 13 (5.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 12 (5.22%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 12 (5.22%) Linux Engineer
9 12 (5.22%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 11 (4.78%) Software Developer
11 10 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (4.35%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.91%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (3.91%) Backend Developer
13 7 (3.04%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (20.87%) .NET
2 41 (17.83%) REST
3 39 (16.96%) React
4 34 (14.78%) AngularJS
5 32 (13.91%) ASP.NET
5 32 (13.91%) HTML
6 29 (12.61%) .NET Core
6 29 (12.61%) ASP.NET Core
7 28 (12.17%) Node.js
8 27 (11.74%) Kafka
9 26 (11.30%) CSS
10 24 (10.43%) Spring
11 22 (9.57%) Spring Boot
11 22 (9.57%) Web Services
12 21 (9.13%) RabbitMQ
13 18 (7.83%) RESTful
14 17 (7.39%) Vue
15 16 (6.96%) JSON
15 16 (6.96%) OAuth
16 14 (6.09%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.78%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (12.17%) Product Ownership
3 25 (10.87%) Cloud Native
4 22 (9.57%) Algorithms
5 13 (5.65%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (4.78%) Data Structures
7 9 (3.91%) Data Centre
8 8 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (3.48%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (3.48%) Management Information System
8 8 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (3.04%) Life Science
9 7 (3.04%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.61%) Clustering
11 5 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (1.74%) Embedded Systems
12 4 (1.74%) Robotics
13 3 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (1.30%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 83 (36.09%) Linux
2 25 (10.87%) Windows
3 19 (8.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (7.83%) Windows Server
5 14 (6.09%) Ubuntu
6 13 (5.65%) CentOS
7 5 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.74%) Debian
9 3 (1.30%) VMS
10 1 (0.43%) Gentoo
10 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (71.30%) CI/CD
2 121 (52.61%) Agile
3 108 (46.96%) DevOps
4 106 (46.09%) Containerisation
5 73 (31.74%) Microservices
6 72 (31.30%) Software Engineering
7 56 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (23.04%) Full-Stack Development
9 52 (22.61%) AI
9 52 (22.61%) Infrastructure as Code
10 50 (21.74%) TDD
11 46 (20.00%) Scrum
12 42 (18.26%) Test Automation
13 41 (17.83%) Computer Science
13 41 (17.83%) Kanban
14 40 (17.39%) Observability
15 34 (14.78%) BDD
15 34 (14.78%) Machine Learning
16 33 (14.35%) Continuous Improvement
17 32 (13.91%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 118 (51.30%) Python
2 65 (28.26%) SQL
3 60 (26.09%) C#
4 48 (20.87%) JavaScript
5 46 (20.00%) Java
6 43 (18.70%) Bash
7 42 (18.26%) PowerShell
8 38 (16.52%) TypeScript
9 28 (12.17%) C++
10 19 (8.26%) Rust
11 17 (7.39%) Go
12 11 (4.78%) PHP
12 11 (4.78%) Shell Script
13 7 (3.04%) Bicep
13 7 (3.04%) C
14 6 (2.61%) Korn
15 4 (1.74%) Perl
15 4 (1.74%) PL/SQL
16 3 (1.30%) Ruby
17 2 (0.87%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 68 (29.57%) Degree
2 63 (27.39%) Security Cleared
3 41 (17.83%) SC Cleared
4 24 (10.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.91%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.61%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.61%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.30%) CCNA
8 3 (1.30%) CCNP
8 3 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.87%) Linux+ Certification
9 2 (0.87%) LPIC
9 2 (0.87%) RHCE
9 2 (0.87%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.00%) QA
2 10 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 9 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.61%) SLA
5 5 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.17%) NIST
5 5 (2.17%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.30%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.87%) GDPR
7 2 (0.87%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (6.52%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 5 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.74%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.30%) Kamailio
5 3 (1.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 3 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.87%) Firmware
6 2 (0.87%) Samba
Systems Management
1 159 (69.13%) Kubernetes
2 73 (31.74%) Terraform
3 50 (21.74%) Ansible
4 29 (12.61%) Grafana
5 26 (11.30%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.65%) Nagios
6 13 (5.65%) Puppet
7 12 (5.22%) Kibana
8 10 (4.35%) Podman
9 6 (2.61%) Argo
10 5 (2.17%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.30%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.30%) Scalr
11 3 (1.30%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.87%) MIIS
13 1 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.43%) Packer
Vendors
1 50 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.83%) Dynatrace
3 17 (7.39%) Splunk
4 16 (6.96%) Red Hat
5 14 (6.09%) Google
6 8 (3.48%) Dell
7 7 (3.04%) Oracle
8 6 (2.61%) AppDynamics
8 6 (2.61%) Fortinet
9 5 (2.17%) IBM
9 5 (2.17%) NVIDIA
9 5 (2.17%) Tenable
10 4 (1.74%) Cisco
10 4 (1.74%) VMware
11 3 (1.30%) BT
11 3 (1.30%) Databricks
11 3 (1.30%) Facebook
11 3 (1.30%) Mitel
11 3 (1.30%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.30%) ServiceNow