Docker Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Docker
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 63 45
Rank change year-on-year -37 -18 +14
Permanent jobs citing Docker 85 148 278
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.38% 4.09% 4.22%
As % of the System Software category 24.57% 42.65% 31.92%
Number of salaries quoted 47 79 238
10th Percentile £37,500 £48,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £79,375 £83,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £84,250 £86,500 £95,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 346 347 871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.63% 9.58% 13.23%
Number of salaries quoted 247 227 728
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £28,350
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £49,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +17.35% +3.16% -3.42%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Docker job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Docker
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in the Thames Valley

Docker
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
Berkshire -31 33 £62,500 -24.24% 4
Buckinghamshire -16 30 £68,750 -1.79% 8
Oxfordshire 0 22 £55,000 -4.35% 15
Docker
South East

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 8 (9.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.35%) Apache
2 2 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.35%) Confluence
2 2 (2.35%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.18%) IIS
3 1 (1.18%) JBoss
3 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 73 (85.88%) AWS
2 43 (50.59%) Azure
3 27 (31.76%) Serverless
4 19 (22.35%) GitHub
5 18 (21.18%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (18.82%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (16.47%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (14.12%) GCP
9 10 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (10.59%) Amazon S3
10 9 (10.59%) GitHub Copilot
11 8 (9.41%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (8.24%) SaaS
13 5 (5.88%) Azure AI
13 5 (5.88%) Figma
14 4 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
15 3 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 2 (2.35%) Apigee
16 2 (2.35%) AWS Step Functions
16 2 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (14.12%) Firewall
2 8 (9.41%) iSCSI
2 8 (9.41%) Remote Desktop
2 8 (9.41%) SAN
3 5 (5.88%) Internet
4 4 (4.71%) DHCP
4 4 (4.71%) DNS
5 3 (3.53%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.53%) VPN
6 2 (2.35%) HTTP
6 2 (2.35%) MQTT
6 2 (2.35%) Network Security
6 2 (2.35%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (30.59%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 15 (17.65%) SQL Server
3 13 (15.29%) MySQL
4 11 (12.94%) MongoDB
5 9 (10.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (5.88%) NoSQL
6 5 (5.88%) RDBMS
7 4 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (3.53%) DynamoDB
9 2 (2.35%) Redis
10 1 (1.18%) GIS
10 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.18%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 22 (25.88%) Jenkins
2 19 (22.35%) Git
3 9 (10.59%) GitLab
3 9 (10.59%) JUnit
4 7 (8.24%) JIRA
4 7 (8.24%) JMeter
4 7 (8.24%) Mockito
5 4 (4.71%) Postman
5 4 (4.71%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.71%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.35%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.35%) Maven
6 2 (2.35%) Mocha
6 2 (2.35%) Selenium
7 1 (1.18%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.18%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.18%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.18%) Eclipse RCP
7 1 (1.18%) Storybook
General
1 24 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.47%) Public Sector
3 11 (12.94%) Manufacturing
4 10 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.41%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.53%) Banking
6 3 (3.53%) Games
7 2 (2.35%) Finance
8 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.18%) Aviation
8 1 (1.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (28.24%) Developer
2 20 (23.53%) Software Engineer
3 14 (16.47%) Senior
4 12 (14.12%) Java Developer
5 9 (10.59%) .NET Developer
6 8 (9.41%) Linux Engineer
6 8 (9.41%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 7 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (8.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 7 (8.24%) Java Engineer
7 7 (8.24%) Lead
8 6 (7.06%) Architect
9 5 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (5.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Integration Architect
9 5 (5.88%) Support Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) Analyst
10 4 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (34.12%) REST
2 21 (24.71%) React
3 19 (22.35%) .NET
3 19 (22.35%) AngularJS
4 18 (21.18%) Spring Boot
5 16 (18.82%) HTML
5 16 (18.82%) Spring
5 16 (18.82%) Web Services
6 13 (15.29%) JSON
7 11 (12.94%) .NET Core
7 11 (12.94%) RESTful
8 10 (11.76%) ASP.NET
8 10 (11.76%) ASP.NET Core
8 10 (11.76%) CSS
8 10 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
8 10 (11.76%) XML
9 9 (10.59%) Hibernate
10 8 (9.41%) Apache Camel
10 8 (9.41%) Django
10 8 (9.41%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 23 (27.06%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (16.47%) Cloud Native
3 12 (14.12%) Product Ownership
4 8 (9.41%) Management Information System
4 8 (9.41%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (8.24%) Life Science
5 7 (8.24%) Onboarding
6 6 (7.06%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (4.71%) Clustering
8 4 (4.71%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (3.53%) Algorithms
9 3 (3.53%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (3.53%) Private Cloud
9 3 (3.53%) Public Cloud
9 3 (3.53%) Virtual Team
10 2 (2.35%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (1.18%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 30 (35.29%) Linux
2 8 (9.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (7.06%) Windows
4 4 (4.71%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.53%) Debian
5 3 (3.53%) Gentoo
6 2 (2.35%) CentOS
7 1 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (62.35%) CI/CD
2 49 (57.65%) Agile
3 40 (47.06%) Containerisation
4 35 (41.18%) Software Engineering
5 32 (37.65%) DevOps
5 32 (37.65%) Microservices
6 29 (34.12%) Full-Stack Development
7 28 (32.94%) TDD
8 27 (31.76%) Test Automation
9 24 (28.24%) AI
9 24 (28.24%) BDD
9 24 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (24.71%) Scrum
11 18 (21.18%) Computer Science
12 17 (20.00%) Kanban
13 16 (18.82%) Integration Testing
14 15 (17.65%) ITIL
15 14 (16.47%) Design Patterns
16 13 (15.29%) High Availability
16 13 (15.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 38 (44.71%) Python
2 26 (30.59%) Java
3 25 (29.41%) SQL
4 22 (25.88%) C#
5 19 (22.35%) TypeScript
6 18 (21.18%) JavaScript
7 16 (18.82%) Bash
8 12 (14.12%) PowerShell
9 9 (10.59%) Shell Script
10 6 (7.06%) Korn
11 5 (5.88%) C++
12 4 (4.71%) C
12 4 (4.71%) Groovy
12 4 (4.71%) PL/SQL
13 3 (3.53%) Ruby
14 2 (2.35%) Go
14 2 (2.35%) Perl
15 1 (1.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (35.29%) Degree
2 15 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 14 (16.47%) SC Cleared
4 12 (14.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (8.24%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.71%) Master's Degree
7 3 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (2.35%) RHCE
8 2 (2.35%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.65%) QA
2 3 (3.53%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.53%) SLA
2 3 (3.53%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 8 (9.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 5 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.71%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (2.35%) Samba
Systems Management
1 55 (64.71%) Kubernetes
2 13 (15.29%) Ansible
3 12 (14.12%) Terraform
4 11 (12.94%) Kibana
5 3 (3.53%) Grafana
5 3 (3.53%) Podman
5 3 (3.53%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.35%) Argo
6 2 (2.35%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.18%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (25.88%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.41%) Dell
2 8 (9.41%) Red Hat
3 7 (8.24%) Dynatrace
3 7 (8.24%) Oracle
3 7 (8.24%) Splunk
4 6 (7.06%) AppDynamics
5 5 (5.88%) IBM
6 3 (3.53%) Databricks
6 3 (3.53%) Google
6 3 (3.53%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.53%) VMware
7 2 (2.35%) D-Link
8 1 (1.18%) Cisco
8 1 (1.18%) NVIDIA