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 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 83 50
Rank change year-on-year +14 -33 -19
Permanent jobs citing Docker 1,408 2,132 3,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.86% 3.08% 5.68%
As % of the System Software category 39.57% 23.73% 37.63%
Number of salaries quoted 762 1,617 1,869
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,169 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% -

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 3,558 8,983 9,434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.74% 12.96% 15.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,529 7,229 6,072
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £68,525 £60,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,850 £75,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -3.51%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 +54 635 £72,500 +18.45% 236
North West +55 522 £75,000 +15.38% 163
South East -11 312 £70,000 - 269
South West +10 149 £71,991 +19.99% 128
Midlands -35 106 £60,000 - 113
Yorkshire +31 100 £72,500 +31.82% 54
East of England +45 96 £57,500 -11.54% 100
Scotland +56 85 £74,870 +6.96% 79
West Midlands -46 63 £67,500 +12.50% 67
East Midlands +8 43 £60,000 +2.13% 42
Wales +13 30 £52,750 +11.05% 20
Northern Ireland +25 13 £55,000 -24.14% 53
North East +22 13 £65,000 +8.33% 20
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 61 (4.33%) Confluence
2 26 (1.85%) Jupyter
3 17 (1.21%) CMS
3 17 (1.21%) nginx
4 13 (0.92%) Apache
5 12 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.85%) JBoss
5 12 (0.85%) Red Hat Fuse
6 10 (0.71%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.64%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.57%) SharePoint
9 7 (0.50%) Camunda
9 7 (0.50%) IIS
10 6 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.14%) WordPress
13 1 (0.071%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (0.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.14%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (0.64%) Magento
1 9 (0.64%) NetSuite
1 9 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.14%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 519 (36.86%) AWS
2 451 (32.03%) Azure
3 212 (15.06%) GCP
4 142 (10.09%) Serverless
5 119 (8.45%) GitHub
6 116 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
7 91 (6.46%) Amazon EKS
8 84 (5.97%) Amazon S3
9 76 (5.40%) AWS Lambda
10 61 (4.33%) Amazon EC2
10 61 (4.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 61 (4.33%) SaaS
11 59 (4.19%) Amazon ECS
12 50 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
13 48 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
14 45 (3.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 43 (3.05%) Azure Service Bus
16 37 (2.63%) SonarCloud
17 36 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
18 28 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 421 (29.90%) DNS
2 400 (28.41%) VPN
3 32 (2.27%) Firewall
4 29 (2.06%) Internet
5 23 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.07%) DHCP
7 12 (0.85%) Network Security
8 10 (0.71%) SAN
8 10 (0.71%) SSL
9 8 (0.57%) VLAN
10 7 (0.50%) HTTP
11 6 (0.43%) Broadband
11 6 (0.43%) NAS
12 4 (0.28%) 5G
12 4 (0.28%) BGP
12 4 (0.28%) EIGRP
12 4 (0.28%) LoRaWAN
12 4 (0.28%) OSPF
12 4 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (13.78%) PostgreSQL
2 146 (10.37%) NoSQL
3 98 (6.96%) Elasticsearch
4 84 (5.97%) MySQL
4 84 (5.97%) SQL Server
5 79 (5.61%) MongoDB
6 77 (5.47%) Relational Database
7 75 (5.33%) Redis
8 46 (3.27%) DynamoDB
9 40 (2.84%) Big Data
10 31 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
11 22 (1.56%) RDBMS
12 21 (1.49%) Power BI
13 14 (0.99%) Tableau
14 13 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (0.92%) Data Lake
15 12 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
16 10 (0.71%) BigQuery
16 10 (0.71%) Cloud Spanner
17 9 (0.64%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 279 (19.82%) Git
2 201 (14.28%) Jenkins
3 77 (5.47%) JUnit
4 72 (5.11%) JIRA
5 70 (4.97%) GitLab
6 54 (3.84%) SonarQube
7 52 (3.69%) Octopus Deploy
8 49 (3.48%) Mockito
9 47 (3.34%) Visual Studio
10 41 (2.91%) Selenium
11 37 (2.63%) Team Foundation Server
12 36 (2.56%) MSBuild
13 35 (2.49%) Cypress.io
14 34 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
15 32 (2.27%) Maven
16 28 (1.99%) webpack
17 25 (1.78%) JMeter
18 23 (1.63%) Eclipse
18 23 (1.63%) Jasmine
18 23 (1.63%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 631 (44.82%) Finance
2 528 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 480 (34.09%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (17.76%) Social Skills
5 135 (9.59%) Banking
6 103 (7.32%) Public Sector
7 53 (3.76%) Retail
8 45 (3.20%) Marketing
9 41 (2.91%) Advertising
10 23 (1.63%) Manufacturing
11 15 (1.07%) Automotive
12 14 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (0.78%) Games
13 11 (0.78%) Law
13 11 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (0.64%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.50%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.43%) Legal
17 5 (0.36%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 746 (52.98%) Developer
2 463 (32.88%) Software Developer
3 253 (17.97%) Senior
4 187 (13.28%) Software Engineer
5 118 (8.38%) Lead
6 99 (7.03%) DevOps Engineer
6 99 (7.03%) Java Developer
6 99 (7.03%) Senior Developer
7 82 (5.82%) Architect
8 63 (4.47%) Senior Software Engineer
9 48 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
10 38 (2.70%) .NET Developer
10 38 (2.70%) Technical Architect
11 35 (2.49%) Java Engineer
12 33 (2.34%) Data Scientist
13 31 (2.20%) C# Developer
14 30 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
15 29 (2.06%) Backend Developer
16 28 (1.99%) Cloud Engineer
17 24 (1.70%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (19.74%) React
2 228 (16.19%) .NET
3 195 (13.85%) REST
4 179 (12.71%) Node.js
5 150 (10.65%) Spring Boot
6 140 (9.94%) AngularJS
7 131 (9.30%) Spring
8 130 (9.23%) HTML
9 116 (8.24%) RESTful
10 97 (6.89%) CSS
11 92 (6.53%) Kafka
12 86 (6.11%) Web Services
13 75 (5.33%) ASP.NET
14 67 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
15 62 (4.40%) JSON
15 62 (4.40%) XML
16 59 (4.19%) Hibernate
17 56 (3.98%) .NET Core
18 47 (3.34%) .NET Framework
18 47 (3.34%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 450 (31.96%) Cyberattack
2 86 (6.11%) Algorithms
3 78 (5.54%) Distributed Systems
4 58 (4.12%) Cloud Native
5 46 (3.27%) Product Ownership
6 33 (2.34%) Blog
6 33 (2.34%) Digital Media
7 30 (2.13%) Public Cloud
8 29 (2.06%) Private Cloud
9 23 (1.63%) Mobile App
10 21 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (1.42%) IoT
12 18 (1.28%) Onboarding
13 17 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (1.21%) Management Information System
14 12 (0.85%) Data Structures
14 12 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (0.85%) Legacy Code
14 12 (0.85%) PKI
14 12 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 623 (44.25%) Linux
2 443 (31.46%) Android
3 57 (4.05%) Windows
4 29 (2.06%) Unix
5 21 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 17 (1.21%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.43%) CentOS
9 5 (0.36%) Debian
9 5 (0.36%) SUSE
9 5 (0.36%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 5 (0.36%) VMS
10 2 (0.14%) CoreOS
10 2 (0.14%) zOS
11 1 (0.071%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.071%) Solaris
11 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 855 (60.72%) Agile
2 500 (35.51%) Design Patterns
3 474 (33.66%) OO
4 469 (33.31%) DevOps
5 464 (32.95%) OOP
6 459 (32.60%) Mathematics
7 451 (32.03%) CI/CD
8 446 (31.68%) Line Management
9 438 (31.11%) Android Development
10 383 (27.20%) Microservices
11 361 (25.64%) Containerisation
12 350 (24.86%) Software Engineering
13 214 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
14 202 (14.35%) Full-Stack Development
15 192 (13.64%) Mentoring
16 143 (10.16%) TDD
17 137 (9.73%) Test Automation
18 130 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
19 126 (8.95%) Scrum
20 120 (8.52%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 745 (52.91%) Java
2 743 (52.77%) Python
3 469 (33.31%) Go
4 448 (31.82%) C++
5 346 (24.57%) JavaScript
6 239 (16.97%) SQL
7 186 (13.21%) TypeScript
8 184 (13.07%) C#
9 67 (4.76%) Bash
10 58 (4.12%) PHP
11 55 (3.91%) PowerShell
12 48 (3.41%) Rust
13 32 (2.27%) Shell Script
14 19 (1.35%) C
15 17 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
16 13 (0.92%) Perl
17 12 (0.85%) Ruby
18 11 (0.78%) Kotlin
18 11 (0.78%) PL/SQL
19 8 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 599 (42.54%) Security Cleared
2 505 (35.87%) DV Cleared
3 125 (8.88%) Degree
4 80 (5.68%) SC Cleared
5 66 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (1.85%) Azure Certification
7 18 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.21%) AWS Certification
9 10 (0.71%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 6 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.28%) OCP
13 4 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.28%) PhD
14 3 (0.21%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.21%) Linux+ Certification
14 3 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.21%) RHCE
15 2 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (3.34%) GDPR
2 27 (1.92%) QA
3 14 (0.99%) SLA
4 11 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 11 (0.78%) NCSC
5 9 (0.64%) HIPAA
6 7 (0.50%) WCAG
7 5 (0.36%) NIST
7 5 (0.36%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.28%) GMP
9 2 (0.14%) CDISC
9 2 (0.14%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.14%) SEPA
10 1 (0.071%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.071%) Basel III
10 1 (0.071%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.071%) ECSS
10 1 (0.071%) IFRS
10 1 (0.071%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 33 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.14%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.50%) vSphere
7 5 (0.36%) NFS
8 4 (0.28%) LXC
8 4 (0.28%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.21%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.21%) Dovecot
9 3 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.21%) Postfix
9 3 (0.21%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.14%) HDFS
11 1 (0.071%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.071%) KVM
11 1 (0.071%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.071%) Xen
Systems Management
1 690 (49.01%) Kubernetes
2 547 (38.85%) Ansible
3 263 (18.68%) Terraform
4 32 (2.27%) Grafana
5 28 (1.99%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.63%) Kibana
7 16 (1.14%) Puppet
8 15 (1.07%) Progress Chef
9 14 (0.99%) Istio
10 11 (0.78%) Argo
11 9 (0.64%) Nessus
11 9 (0.64%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.57%) AWS Copilot
13 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.43%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.43%) Nagios
14 6 (0.43%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.43%) vMotion
15 5 (0.36%) Packer
15 5 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 85 (6.04%) Microsoft
2 66 (4.69%) Google
3 39 (2.77%) VMware
4 38 (2.70%) Oracle
5 36 (2.56%) IBM
6 28 (1.99%) Splunk
7 23 (1.63%) Dynatrace
7 23 (1.63%) Red Hat
8 17 (1.21%) Databricks
9 11 (0.78%) Adobe
10 10 (0.71%) New Relic
11 9 (0.64%) Cisco
12 7 (0.50%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.50%) Juniper
12 7 (0.50%) SAP
13 6 (0.43%) Citrix
13 6 (0.43%) HP
14 5 (0.36%) NVIDIA
14 5 (0.36%) Ping Identity
15 4 (0.28%) CA Agile Central