Docker Job Trends in the South West

Docker
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West 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 82 42 28
Rank change year-on-year -40 -14 +7
Permanent jobs citing Docker 101 208 360
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.99% 5.02% 7.59%
As % of the System Software category 23.01% 32.96% 38.18%
Number of salaries quoted 88 114 268
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.03% +1.22%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,938 £75,625
90th Percentile £96,250 £91,250 £90,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -6.67%

All System Software Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 439 631 943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.64% 15.22% 19.87%
Number of salaries quoted 304 343 762
10th Percentile £26,110 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.14% +3.16%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,725 £87,200 £77,500
England median annual salary £48,790 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.15% +4.55% -

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Docker job vacancy trend in the South West

Docker
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in the South West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in the South West

Docker
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the South West 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
Bristol -27 27 £71,250 -3.39% 29
Gloucestershire -8 20 £57,500 -11.54% 46
Somerset -5 17 £45,000 -17.16% 15
Devon -3 12 £53,750 -17.31% 19
Dorset -10 8 £87,500 +75.00% 18
Wiltshire -2 4 £67,500 +17.39% 12
Cornwall -17 3 - - 15
Docker
England

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (4.95%) Apache
2 4 (3.96%) IIS
3 2 (1.98%) Confluence
4 1 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.99%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.99%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 59 (58.42%) Azure
2 57 (56.44%) AWS
3 25 (24.75%) GitHub
4 21 (20.79%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (18.81%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (16.83%) Serverless
7 16 (15.84%) GCP
8 14 (13.86%) Amazon S3
9 11 (10.89%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (10.89%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (8.91%) Azure AKS
11 8 (7.92%) OpenShift
12 7 (6.93%) SaaS
13 4 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (2.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
15 2 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 2 (1.98%) Azure Functions
15 2 (1.98%) Datadog
15 2 (1.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.94%) Firewall
1 6 (5.94%) VPN
2 5 (4.95%) AMQP
2 5 (4.95%) VLAN
3 4 (3.96%) Broadband
3 4 (3.96%) Cisco IOS
3 4 (3.96%) DHCP
3 4 (3.96%) DNS
3 4 (3.96%) IPsec
3 4 (3.96%) VoIP
3 4 (3.96%) Wireless
4 2 (1.98%) Network Security
5 1 (0.99%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.99%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.85%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (13.86%) SQL Server
3 10 (9.90%) NoSQL
4 7 (6.93%) Neo4j
4 7 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (5.94%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (5.94%) InfluxDB
5 6 (5.94%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.96%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.96%) MySQL
7 3 (2.97%) Big Data
7 3 (2.97%) CockroachDB
8 2 (1.98%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.99%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.99%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.99%) Metadata
9 1 (0.99%) Power BI
9 1 (0.99%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 27 (26.73%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.91%) GitLab
3 6 (5.94%) Git
4 5 (4.95%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.96%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.96%) JUnit
6 3 (2.97%) Gradle
6 3 (2.97%) Maven
6 3 (2.97%) Selenium
6 3 (2.97%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.97%) TestNG
7 2 (1.98%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.98%) Checkstyle
7 2 (1.98%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.98%) ESLint
7 2 (1.98%) JIRA
7 2 (1.98%) Mockito
7 2 (1.98%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.98%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.98%) TestRail
General
1 24 (23.76%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.86%) Finance
2 14 (13.86%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.92%) Electronics
3 8 (7.92%) Manufacturing
3 8 (7.92%) Marketing
3 8 (7.92%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.97%) Law
5 2 (1.98%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.99%) Games
6 1 (0.99%) Military
6 1 (0.99%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 27 (26.73%) Developer
2 20 (19.80%) Senior
3 12 (11.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (11.88%) Software Developer
3 12 (11.88%) Software Engineer
4 10 (9.90%) Lead
5 9 (8.91%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (8.91%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) Java Developer
7 5 (4.95%) Architect
7 5 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Test Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
8 4 (3.96%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) IT Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.83%) React
2 15 (14.85%) .NET
3 14 (13.86%) AngularJS
3 14 (13.86%) Spring
4 13 (12.87%) RESTful
5 12 (11.88%) Spring Boot
6 11 (10.89%) .NET Core
6 11 (10.89%) YAML
7 8 (7.92%) REST
8 6 (5.94%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (5.94%) MERN Stack
9 5 (4.95%) CSS
9 5 (4.95%) HTML
9 5 (4.95%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (3.96%) Kafka
11 3 (2.97%) Akka
11 3 (2.97%) Dapper ORM
11 3 (2.97%) Entity Framework
11 3 (2.97%) OAuth
11 3 (2.97%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 27 (26.73%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.94%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.96%) Clustering
3 4 (3.96%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.97%) Over-the-Top Content
4 3 (2.97%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.97%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (1.98%) Blockchain
5 2 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.98%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.98%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.99%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.99%) Life Science
6 1 (0.99%) Omics
6 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.80%) Linux
2 10 (9.90%) Windows
3 5 (4.95%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.96%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.97%) CentOS
5 3 (2.97%) Unix
6 2 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.99%) Solaris
7 1 (0.99%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (67.33%) CI/CD
2 67 (66.34%) Containerisation
3 54 (53.47%) DevOps
4 35 (34.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (32.67%) Agile
6 25 (24.75%) Software Engineering
7 18 (17.82%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (15.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (15.84%) Microservices
9 15 (14.85%) Mentoring
10 14 (13.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (13.86%) Test Automation
11 13 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (10.89%) Collaborative Culture
12 11 (10.89%) Migration
13 10 (9.90%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (9.90%) Scrum
14 9 (8.91%) Deployment Automation
14 9 (8.91%) DevSecOps
14 9 (8.91%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 50 (49.50%) Python
2 30 (29.70%) Java
3 24 (23.76%) JavaScript
4 22 (21.78%) SQL
5 20 (19.80%) TypeScript
6 19 (18.81%) Bash
7 17 (16.83%) Bicep
8 16 (15.84%) PowerShell
9 15 (14.85%) C#
10 7 (6.93%) C
11 6 (5.94%) Go
12 4 (3.96%) PHP
13 3 (2.97%) Elixir
13 3 (2.97%) Erlang
13 3 (2.97%) Scala
13 3 (2.97%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.98%) Kotlin
14 2 (1.98%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.98%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.99%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 27 (26.73%) Security Cleared
2 19 (18.81%) DV Cleared
3 15 (14.85%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (3.96%) ACMT
5 4 (3.96%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.96%) Degree
6 3 (2.97%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.98%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.98%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.99%) CCNA
8 1 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.99%) PhD
8 1 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.95%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.96%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.97%) QA
4 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (4.95%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.96%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.98%) iptables
3 2 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.99%) Ceph
4 1 (0.99%) Lustre
4 1 (0.99%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.99%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.99%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 85 (84.16%) Kubernetes
2 26 (25.74%) Terraform
3 18 (17.82%) Ansible
4 16 (15.84%) Grafana
5 12 (11.88%) Prometheus
6 6 (5.94%) Progress Chef
7 5 (4.95%) vCenter Server
8 4 (3.96%) Autotask
8 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (3.96%) Puppet
9 3 (2.97%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.99%) Argo
10 1 (0.99%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.99%) Podman
Vendors
1 12 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.90%) Oracle
3 8 (7.92%) SAP
4 6 (5.94%) VMware
5 5 (4.95%) Cisco
5 5 (4.95%) Google
6 4 (3.96%) Apple
6 4 (3.96%) Datto
6 4 (3.96%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.96%) Sophos
6 4 (3.96%) Splunk
6 4 (3.96%) Veeam
7 2 (1.98%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.99%) Databricks
8 1 (0.99%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.99%) Mirantis
8 1 (0.99%) Palo Alto