Docker Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Docker
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 35 89
Rank change year-on-year -125 +54 -38
Permanent jobs citing Docker 736 1,825 1,954
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.11% 6.30% 2.85%
As % of the System Software category 23.93% 45.36% 22.67%
Number of salaries quoted 508 708 1,557
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +10.28% -5.84%
75th Percentile £76,563 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £91,934
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -2.78%

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 3,076 4,023 8,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.66% 13.88% 12.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,271 2,421 7,030
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Docker relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Docker job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Docker
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

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 16 May 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
North of England -110 244 £67,500 -6.90% 156
South East -41 205 £65,000 -3.70% 125
South West -35 144 £55,000 -23.60% 83
Yorkshire -25 123 £72,500 -3.16% 40
North West -129 97 £67,500 -10.00% 85
Midlands -96 70 £65,000 +8.33% 48
West Midlands -81 44 £62,500 -7.41% 24
East of England -65 32 £61,250 +6.52% 20
North East -30 24 £55,000 -13.73% 33
East Midlands -80 24 £67,500 +12.50% 24
Scotland -76 22 £52,283 -30.17% 14
Wales -35 19 £53,085 +1.11% 4
Northern Ireland -40 6 £62,500 +13.64% 5
Isle of Man +4 2 £35,000 +1.45%
Docker
UK

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (2.72%) OpenStack
2 17 (2.31%) IIS
3 15 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.77%) nginx
5 12 (1.63%) Apache
6 11 (1.49%) Confluence
7 9 (1.22%) CMS
7 9 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.82%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.54%) Drupal
10 4 (0.54%) JBoss
10 4 (0.54%) WordPress
11 2 (0.27%) Apache Qpid
11 2 (0.27%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.27%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.14%) Camunda
12 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.54%) Photoshop
2 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.27%) Weka
4 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Shopify
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 472 (64.13%) AWS
2 336 (45.65%) Azure
3 184 (25.00%) Serverless
4 165 (22.42%) GitHub
5 134 (18.21%) Amazon S3
6 121 (16.44%) AWS Lambda
7 117 (15.90%) GCP
8 116 (15.76%) Amazon ECS
9 105 (14.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 88 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
11 81 (11.01%) GitHub Actions
12 73 (9.92%) AWS Step Functions
13 55 (7.47%) Amazon EC2
13 55 (7.47%) Datadog
14 53 (7.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 52 (7.07%) SaaS
16 51 (6.93%) Amazon ECR
17 49 (6.66%) Amazon SQS
18 42 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
18 42 (5.71%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.80%) Firewall
2 27 (3.67%) Network Security
3 17 (2.31%) Broadband
4 14 (1.90%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.77%) VPN
6 10 (1.36%) MQTT
6 10 (1.36%) Wireshark
7 9 (1.22%) Multicast
8 8 (1.09%) iSCSI
8 8 (1.09%) Remote Desktop
8 8 (1.09%) SAN
9 7 (0.95%) DNS
10 6 (0.82%) ATM
10 6 (0.82%) Internet
10 6 (0.82%) tcpdump
10 6 (0.82%) VoIP
11 5 (0.68%) DHCP
12 3 (0.41%) BGP
12 3 (0.41%) HTTP
12 3 (0.41%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (12.23%) NoSQL
3 84 (11.41%) MongoDB
4 80 (10.87%) DynamoDB
5 77 (10.46%) SQL Server
6 48 (6.52%) Relational Database
7 42 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 42 (5.71%) MySQL
8 38 (5.16%) Amazon RDS
8 38 (5.16%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (2.85%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (2.72%) Redis
11 9 (1.22%) Neo4j
12 8 (1.09%) InfluxDB
13 7 (0.95%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.68%) Big Data
15 4 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.54%) BigQuery
15 4 (0.54%) TimescaleDB
16 3 (0.41%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 202 (27.45%) Git
2 148 (20.11%) Jenkins
3 127 (17.26%) GitLab
4 59 (8.02%) Maven
5 58 (7.88%) Cypress.io
6 53 (7.20%) SonarQube
7 42 (5.71%) JIRA
8 34 (4.62%) JUnit
9 23 (3.13%) Mockito
10 18 (2.45%) Selenium
11 15 (2.04%) Cucumber
11 15 (2.04%) JMeter
11 15 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
12 11 (1.49%) Bitbucket
13 10 (1.36%) CircleCI
14 7 (0.95%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.95%) TeamCity
14 7 (0.95%) Vite
15 6 (0.82%) Postman
15 6 (0.82%) Robot Framework
General
1 168 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 70 (9.51%) Finance
3 49 (6.66%) Public Sector
4 42 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (3.26%) Automotive
7 23 (3.13%) Aerospace
8 15 (2.04%) Advertising
8 15 (2.04%) Manufacturing
9 14 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (1.77%) Games
11 11 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.49%) Retail
12 10 (1.36%) Marketing
13 8 (1.09%) Electronics
13 8 (1.09%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.82%) Spanish Language
15 5 (0.68%) Banking
15 5 (0.68%) Legal
16 4 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 267 (36.28%) Developer
2 174 (23.64%) Senior
3 102 (13.86%) Software Engineer
4 100 (13.59%) Java Developer
5 83 (11.28%) Lead
6 70 (9.51%) .NET Developer
7 64 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
8 53 (7.20%) Senior Developer
9 52 (7.07%) Full-Stack Developer
10 42 (5.71%) Software Developer
11 37 (5.03%) Senior Software Engineer
12 34 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
13 28 (3.80%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 26 (3.53%) Senior Java Developer
15 25 (3.40%) AWS Developer
15 25 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
16 24 (3.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 24 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
17 22 (2.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 21 (2.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (21.20%) .NET
2 135 (18.34%) React
3 127 (17.26%) AngularJS
4 115 (15.63%) Spring Boot
5 113 (15.35%) Node.js
6 103 (13.99%) REST
7 101 (13.72%) .NET Core
7 101 (13.72%) Spring
8 70 (9.51%) RESTful
9 69 (9.38%) ASP.NET
9 69 (9.38%) HTML
10 68 (9.24%) CSS
11 60 (8.15%) ASP.NET Core
12 48 (6.52%) Vue
13 47 (6.39%) Gherkin
14 46 (6.25%) Kafka
15 42 (5.71%) Jest
16 38 (5.16%) Web Services
17 35 (4.76%) .NET Framework
17 35 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 103 (13.99%) Cloud Native
2 77 (10.46%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (8.29%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.40%) Algorithms
5 20 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.31%) Management Information System
6 17 (2.31%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
9 14 (1.90%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.77%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.49%) Life Science
11 11 (1.49%) Over-the-Top Content
11 11 (1.49%) Video\Live Streaming
12 10 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (1.36%) Renewable Energy
13 9 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.22%) Data Centre
13 9 (1.22%) Digital TV
Operating Systems
1 197 (26.77%) Linux
2 58 (7.88%) Windows
3 28 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (2.58%) CentOS
4 19 (2.58%) Windows Server
5 18 (2.45%) Unix
6 17 (2.31%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.68%) Debian
8 4 (0.54%) Solaris
8 4 (0.54%) VMS
9 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.14%) Android
11 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (72.15%) CI/CD
2 377 (51.22%) DevOps
3 338 (45.92%) Containerisation
4 327 (44.43%) Agile
5 214 (29.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 192 (26.09%) Microservices
7 175 (23.78%) Software Engineering
8 171 (23.23%) Full-Stack Development
9 165 (22.42%) Problem-Solving
10 152 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 123 (16.71%) Test Automation
12 122 (16.58%) AI
12 122 (16.58%) Mentoring
13 106 (14.40%) Scrum
13 106 (14.40%) TDD
14 102 (13.86%) Observability
15 83 (11.28%) SDLC
16 81 (11.01%) DevSecOps
17 74 (10.05%) Computer Science
18 73 (9.92%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 322 (43.75%) Python
2 212 (28.80%) Java
3 189 (25.68%) SQL
4 161 (21.88%) Bash
4 161 (21.88%) JavaScript
5 153 (20.79%) TypeScript
6 150 (20.38%) C#
7 88 (11.96%) PowerShell
8 55 (7.47%) Groovy
9 35 (4.76%) C++
10 28 (3.80%) C
11 27 (3.67%) Go
11 27 (3.67%) PHP
12 24 (3.26%) Kotlin
13 19 (2.58%) Rust
14 18 (2.45%) Scala
15 16 (2.17%) Shell Script
16 13 (1.77%) PL/SQL
17 11 (1.49%) Bicep
18 6 (0.82%) R
Qualifications
1 139 (18.89%) Security Cleared
2 93 (12.64%) Degree
3 87 (11.82%) SC Cleared
4 66 (8.97%) AWS Certification
5 43 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (5.03%) DV Cleared
7 27 (3.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 26 (3.53%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
10 15 (2.04%) Azure Certification
11 12 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.49%) Master's Degree
13 9 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.82%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 5 (0.68%) CCNA
15 5 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.54%) RHCE
16 4 (0.54%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (8.97%) QA
2 21 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.31%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.36%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.22%) SOC 2
6 7 (0.95%) WCAG
7 6 (0.82%) ISO 9001
7 6 (0.82%) SLA
8 5 (0.68%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.68%) GDPR
8 5 (0.68%) NIST
9 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.27%) GxP
10 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 30 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.22%) vSphere
5 8 (1.09%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 7 (0.95%) KVM
7 6 (0.82%) Firmware
8 5 (0.68%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.54%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.54%) iptables
10 3 (0.41%) Kamailio
10 3 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.27%) Samba
11 2 (0.27%) Squid
12 1 (0.14%) QEMU
12 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 457 (62.09%) Kubernetes
2 262 (35.60%) Terraform
3 120 (16.30%) Ansible
4 91 (12.36%) Grafana
5 65 (8.83%) Prometheus
6 40 (5.43%) HP Fortify
7 32 (4.35%) Puppet
8 17 (2.31%) Kibana
8 17 (2.31%) Podman
8 17 (2.31%) Progress Chef
9 15 (2.04%) Nagios
10 12 (1.63%) Argo
11 7 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.82%) Packer
13 5 (0.68%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.54%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.54%) logstash
14 4 (0.54%) vCenter Server
15 3 (0.41%) Scalr
Vendors
1 96 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.62%) Red Hat
3 30 (4.08%) Splunk
4 28 (3.80%) Google
5 26 (3.53%) VMware
6 24 (3.26%) Oracle
7 22 (2.99%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
9 10 (1.36%) AppDynamics
10 9 (1.22%) Dell
11 8 (1.09%) Databricks
11 8 (1.09%) Typelevel
12 7 (0.95%) Fortinet
13 6 (0.82%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.82%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.68%) Cisco
14 5 (0.68%) IBM
14 5 (0.68%) NVIDIA
14 5 (0.68%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.68%) Tenable