Docker Jobs in the UK excluding London

Docker
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 93 51
Rank change year-on-year +42 -42 -21
Permanent jobs citing Docker 1,862 2,062 3,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.73% 2.77% 5.92%
As % of the System Software category 44.75% 23.29% 37.31%
Number of salaries quoted 654 1,528 1,730
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.10% +2.14%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,161 8,853 9,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.57% 11.87% 15.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,330 6,985 5,661
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,875 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.75% -9.09% -

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the UK excluding London

Docker
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Docker in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Docker in the UK excluding London

Docker
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Docker in the UK excluding London

Docker
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
North of England +75 1,004 £72,500 +20.83% 1,608
North West +78 895 £72,500 +11.54% 796
South East -39 275 £70,000 +3.70% 2,073
Midlands +25 184 £64,500 +7.50% 1,289
South West +8 140 £71,991 +19.99% 855
Scotland +80 128 £74,870 +12.59% 289
East of England +38 109 £55,320 -11.49% 1,040
West Midlands +19 105 £67,626 +12.71% 695
Yorkshire +9 94 £74,870 +36.13% 639
East Midlands +15 77 £60,000 +4.35% 507
Wales +4 24 £57,500 +21.05% 189
North East +26 15 £62,500 +4.17% 176
Northern Ireland +26 9 £55,000 -10.20% 110
Isle of Man +12 1 £34,500 -
Docker
UK

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 215 (11.55%) Confluence
2 26 (1.40%) Jupyter
3 14 (0.75%) Apache
3 14 (0.75%) JBoss
3 14 (0.75%) Red Hat Fuse
4 13 (0.70%) nginx
5 12 (0.64%) CMS
5 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.48%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.43%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.38%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.38%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.27%) IIS
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.11%) WordPress
11 1 (0.054%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.054%) Mendix
Applications
1 9 (0.48%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.11%) Simulink
3 1 (0.054%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
2 9 (0.48%) Magento
2 9 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.054%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 810 (43.50%) AWS
2 652 (35.02%) Azure
3 356 (19.12%) GCP
4 104 (5.59%) Serverless
5 92 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
6 85 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
7 83 (4.46%) GitHub
8 76 (4.08%) Pulumi
9 69 (3.71%) Amazon EC2
9 69 (3.71%) Amazon S3
10 63 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
11 60 (3.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 49 (2.63%) SaaS
13 46 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
14 42 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (1.99%) Azure Service Bus
16 36 (1.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 31 (1.66%) SonarCloud
18 28 (1.50%) Amazon SQS
18 28 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 656 (35.23%) VPN
2 425 (22.82%) DNS
3 262 (14.07%) Cisco IOS
4 72 (3.87%) Broadband
5 38 (2.04%) Firewall
6 31 (1.66%) Internet
7 23 (1.24%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.02%) DHCP
9 16 (0.86%) SAN
10 13 (0.70%) Network Security
10 13 (0.70%) SMTP
11 12 (0.64%) HTTP
12 10 (0.54%) NAS
13 9 (0.48%) SSL
14 8 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
14 8 (0.43%) SSH
14 8 (0.43%) VLAN
15 7 (0.38%) FTP
16 6 (0.32%) VSAN
17 5 (0.27%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 314 (16.86%) SQL Server
2 194 (10.42%) NoSQL
3 167 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
4 135 (7.25%) Relational Database
5 94 (5.05%) Elasticsearch
6 83 (4.46%) MySQL
6 83 (4.46%) RDBMS
7 79 (4.24%) MongoDB
8 56 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
9 36 (1.93%) Big Data
9 36 (1.93%) Redis
10 27 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
11 24 (1.29%) DynamoDB
12 13 (0.70%) Power BI
13 11 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (0.54%) Cloud Spanner
15 9 (0.48%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.38%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 320 (17.19%) JIRA
2 307 (16.49%) GitLab
3 301 (16.17%) SonarQube
4 287 (15.41%) Maven
5 282 (15.15%) Selenium
6 275 (14.77%) Sonatype Nexus
7 271 (14.55%) Cucumber
8 256 (13.75%) Bitbucket
9 252 (13.53%) Git
10 184 (9.88%) Jenkins
11 79 (4.24%) JUnit
12 65 (3.49%) Jaeger
13 51 (2.74%) Mockito
14 46 (2.47%) Octopus Deploy
15 40 (2.15%) Visual Studio
16 33 (1.77%) Team Foundation Server
17 30 (1.61%) Cypress.io
17 30 (1.61%) MSBuild
18 23 (1.24%) webpack
19 19 (1.02%) JMeter
General
1 1,083 (58.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 870 (46.72%) Finance
3 740 (39.74%) Analytical Skills
4 364 (19.55%) Banking
5 217 (11.65%) Social Skills
6 132 (7.09%) Retail
7 94 (5.05%) Investment Banking
8 90 (4.83%) Corporate Banking
9 87 (4.67%) Public Sector
10 21 (1.13%) Marketing
11 20 (1.07%) Law
11 20 (1.07%) Manufacturing
12 13 (0.70%) Automotive
12 13 (0.70%) Games
13 12 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (0.54%) Telecoms
16 8 (0.43%) Advertising
17 7 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.32%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 705 (37.86%) Developer
2 453 (24.33%) Software Developer
3 393 (21.11%) Software Engineer
4 280 (15.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 211 (11.33%) Senior
6 183 (9.83%) Lead
7 103 (5.53%) Java Developer
8 95 (5.10%) DevOps Engineer
9 79 (4.24%) Senior Developer
10 76 (4.08%) Architect
11 74 (3.97%) Team Leader
12 53 (2.85%) Java Engineer
13 50 (2.69%) Senior Software Engineer
14 43 (2.31%) Full-Stack Developer
15 33 (1.77%) Technical Architect
16 32 (1.72%) .NET Developer
17 31 (1.66%) Solutions Architect
18 30 (1.61%) Lead Developer
19 26 (1.40%) Backend Developer
19 26 (1.40%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 459 (24.65%) React
2 406 (21.80%) Spring Boot
3 390 (20.95%) Spring
4 357 (19.17%) Elastic Stack
5 355 (19.07%) HTML
6 350 (18.80%) Kafka
7 336 (18.05%) CSS
8 280 (15.04%) JPA
9 253 (13.59%) Redux
10 246 (13.21%) REST
11 225 (12.08%) RESTful
12 215 (11.55%) Hibernate
13 196 (10.53%) .NET
14 136 (7.30%) Node.js
15 132 (7.09%) Jest
16 111 (5.96%) HTML5
17 107 (5.75%) CSS3
18 101 (5.42%) AngularJS
18 101 (5.42%) Sass
19 80 (4.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 710 (38.13%) Cyberattack
2 293 (15.74%) Product Ownership
3 252 (13.53%) Enterprise Software
4 83 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
5 72 (3.87%) Cloud Native
6 67 (3.60%) Algorithms
7 30 (1.61%) Private Cloud
8 28 (1.50%) Public Cloud
9 23 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (1.18%) Mobile App
11 21 (1.13%) IoT
12 18 (0.97%) Management Information System
13 14 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (0.70%) Clustering
14 13 (0.70%) Data Structures
14 13 (0.70%) PKI
14 13 (0.70%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
15 10 (0.54%) Wiki
16 9 (0.48%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 947 (50.86%) Linux
2 698 (37.49%) Android
3 328 (17.62%) Windows
4 91 (4.89%) Unix
5 28 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.18%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.59%) VMS
9 8 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.32%) CentOS
10 6 (0.32%) Debian
11 5 (0.27%) SUSE
11 5 (0.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.054%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.054%) Solaris
14 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,094 (58.75%) Agile
2 1,016 (54.56%) DevOps
3 718 (38.56%) Mathematics
4 708 (38.02%) Line Management
5 676 (36.31%) CI/CD
6 646 (34.69%) Containerisation
7 615 (33.03%) Microservices
8 547 (29.38%) Software Engineering
9 499 (26.80%) Design Patterns
10 469 (25.19%) Problem-Solving
11 466 (25.03%) OO
12 459 (24.65%) OOP
13 435 (23.36%) Android Development
14 398 (21.37%) Full-Stack Development
15 380 (20.41%) Test Automation
16 359 (19.28%) Performance Optimisation
17 340 (18.26%) Task Automation
18 313 (16.81%) Mentoring
19 312 (16.76%) SDLC
20 311 (16.70%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,071 (57.52%) Java
2 1,040 (55.85%) Python
3 618 (33.19%) JavaScript
4 522 (28.03%) Go
5 464 (24.92%) SQL
6 448 (24.06%) C++
7 378 (20.30%) Bash
8 320 (17.19%) PowerShell
9 230 (12.35%) TypeScript
10 147 (7.89%) C#
11 49 (2.63%) PHP
12 41 (2.20%) Rust
13 26 (1.40%) Shell Script
14 17 (0.91%) Groovy
15 12 (0.64%) C
15 12 (0.64%) Perl
16 9 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (0.48%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.43%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 598 (32.12%) Security Cleared
2 502 (26.96%) DV Cleared
3 96 (5.16%) AWS Certification
3 96 (5.16%) Degree
4 91 (4.89%) SC Cleared
5 54 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (1.93%) Azure Certification
7 14 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.27%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.16%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.16%) Linux+ Certification
12 3 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.16%) OCP
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.16%) RHCE
13 2 (0.11%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (14.82%) QA
2 101 (5.42%) Accessibility
3 47 (2.52%) GDPR
4 14 (0.75%) HIPAA
4 14 (0.75%) SLA
5 9 (0.48%) NIST
6 7 (0.38%) NCSC
7 6 (0.32%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.27%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.21%) GMP
10 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.11%) CDISC
11 2 (0.11%) SEPA
11 2 (0.11%) WCAG
12 1 (0.054%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.054%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.054%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.054%) ECSS
12 1 (0.054%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 280 (15.04%) Hyper-V
2 275 (14.77%) vSphere
3 264 (14.18%) VMware NSX
4 42 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 36 (1.93%) Active Directory
6 20 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.43%) Postfix
9 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.32%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.32%) Terminal Services
11 5 (0.27%) DFS Replication
11 5 (0.27%) Dovecot
11 5 (0.27%) NFS
12 4 (0.21%) LXC
13 2 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.11%) HDFS
13 2 (0.11%) Squid
14 1 (0.054%) Xen
Systems Management
1 903 (48.50%) Kubernetes
2 875 (46.99%) Ansible
3 570 (30.61%) Terraform
4 107 (5.75%) Prometheus
5 72 (3.87%) Argo
6 70 (3.76%) Kustomize
7 50 (2.69%) Grafana
8 20 (1.07%) Puppet
9 16 (0.86%) Kibana
10 13 (0.70%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.64%) Istio
11 12 (0.64%) vMotion
12 11 (0.59%) Nessus
12 11 (0.59%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.59%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.48%) Nagios
14 8 (0.43%) AWS Copilot
14 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.32%) Packer
15 6 (0.32%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 287 (15.41%) Splunk
2 267 (14.34%) Cisco
2 267 (14.34%) Juniper
3 260 (13.96%) 3PAR
4 246 (13.21%) Solace
5 141 (7.57%) Google
6 68 (3.65%) Microsoft
7 48 (2.58%) VMware
8 36 (1.93%) Oracle
9 24 (1.29%) IBM
10 19 (1.02%) Red Hat
11 18 (0.97%) Atlassian
11 18 (0.97%) Dynatrace
12 13 (0.70%) Databricks
13 12 (0.64%) Citrix
13 12 (0.64%) HP
14 10 (0.54%) New Relic
15 9 (0.48%) Adobe
15 9 (0.48%) ServiceNow
16 8 (0.43%) Veeam