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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 90 51
Rank change year-on-year +32 -39 -20
Permanent jobs citing Docker 1,665 2,065 3,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.26% 2.91% 5.77%
As % of the System Software category 42.44% 23.43% 37.49%
Number of salaries quoted 740 1,564 1,798
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,410 £91,934 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.78% -0.69%

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 3,923 8,812 9,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.04% 12.41% 15.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,534 7,073 5,846
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £32,200
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 £66,438
90th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -1.79%

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 11 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 11 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 +70 809 £72,500 +20.83% 396
North West +71 699 £75,000 +15.38% 268
South East -30 290 £67,500 -3.57% 512
Midlands +1 174 £60,000 +0.84% 130
South West -2 139 £72,246 +20.41% 144
Scotland +75 133 £74,870 +11.75% 67
East of England +29 99 £57,500 -9.80% 127
West Midlands +9 96 £67,500 +12.50% 84
Yorkshire +23 95 £74,870 +36.13% 103
East Midlands +23 76 £60,000 +4.35% 38
Wales +5 28 £51,949 +9.37% 21
North East +28 15 £63,750 +6.25% 25
Northern Ireland +23 8 £55,000 -21.43% 30
Isle of Man +13 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
1 212 (12.73%) Confluence
2 26 (1.56%) Jupyter
3 15 (0.90%) CMS
4 14 (0.84%) Apache
5 13 (0.78%) JBoss
5 13 (0.78%) Red Hat Fuse
6 11 (0.66%) Tomcat
7 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.60%) nginx
7 10 (0.60%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.54%) Apache Spark
9 8 (0.48%) SharePoint
10 7 (0.42%) IIS
11 6 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.12%) WordPress
14 1 (0.060%) BizTalk Server
14 1 (0.060%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (0.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.12%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (0.54%) Magento
1 9 (0.54%) NetSuite
1 9 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.12%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.060%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.060%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 736 (44.20%) AWS
2 687 (41.26%) Azure
3 367 (22.04%) GCP
4 108 (6.49%) Serverless
5 107 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
6 90 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
7 79 (4.74%) GitHub
8 68 (4.08%) SaaS
9 65 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
10 61 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
11 58 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 56 (3.36%) Amazon S3
13 42 (2.52%) Azure Service Bus
13 42 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
14 41 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
14 41 (2.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 35 (2.10%) SonarCloud
16 30 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
17 26 (1.56%) Power Platform
18 21 (1.26%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 467 (28.05%) VPN
2 425 (25.53%) DNS
3 72 (4.32%) Cisco IOS
4 32 (1.92%) Firewall
5 28 (1.68%) Internet
6 22 (1.32%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.20%) DHCP
8 15 (0.90%) Network Security
9 13 (0.78%) SAN
10 10 (0.60%) NAS
11 9 (0.54%) HTTP
11 9 (0.54%) SSL
12 8 (0.48%) SMTP
12 8 (0.48%) VLAN
13 6 (0.36%) Broadband
13 6 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
13 6 (0.36%) VSAN
14 5 (0.30%) 5G
15 4 (0.24%) BGP
15 4 (0.24%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 322 (19.34%) SQL Server
2 160 (9.61%) PostgreSQL
3 140 (8.41%) NoSQL
4 99 (5.95%) Elasticsearch
5 84 (5.05%) MySQL
6 75 (4.50%) Relational Database
7 70 (4.20%) MongoDB
8 43 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
9 39 (2.34%) Redis
10 36 (2.16%) Big Data
11 22 (1.32%) RDBMS
12 21 (1.26%) Power BI
13 18 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (0.96%) DynamoDB
15 14 (0.84%) Tableau
16 11 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
17 10 (0.60%) BigQuery
17 10 (0.60%) Cloud Spanner
17 10 (0.60%) Data Lake
18 8 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 316 (18.98%) JIRA
2 307 (18.44%) GitLab
3 302 (18.14%) SonarQube
4 287 (17.24%) Maven
5 284 (17.06%) Selenium
6 281 (16.88%) Sonatype Nexus
7 274 (16.46%) Git
8 268 (16.10%) Cucumber
9 255 (15.32%) Bitbucket
10 183 (10.99%) Jenkins
11 85 (5.11%) JUnit
12 55 (3.30%) Mockito
13 50 (3.00%) Octopus Deploy
14 45 (2.70%) Visual Studio
15 37 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
16 34 (2.04%) MSBuild
17 31 (1.86%) Cypress.io
18 26 (1.56%) webpack
19 25 (1.50%) JMeter
20 23 (1.38%) Eclipse
General
1 882 (52.97%) Finance
2 813 (48.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 552 (33.15%) Analytical Skills
4 378 (22.70%) Banking
5 232 (13.93%) Social Skills
6 144 (8.65%) Retail
7 93 (5.59%) Investment Banking
8 92 (5.53%) Public Sector
9 90 (5.41%) Corporate Banking
10 24 (1.44%) Manufacturing
11 16 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (0.90%) Automotive
13 12 (0.72%) Games
13 12 (0.72%) Marketing
14 9 (0.54%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.48%) Advertising
16 7 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.36%) Legal
18 5 (0.30%) Law
Job Titles
1 736 (44.20%) Developer
2 457 (27.45%) Software Developer
3 395 (23.72%) Software Engineer
4 230 (13.81%) Senior
5 121 (7.27%) Lead
6 108 (6.49%) Java Developer
7 95 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
8 93 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 87 (5.23%) Senior Developer
10 80 (4.80%) Architect
11 59 (3.54%) Senior Software Engineer
12 50 (3.00%) Full-Stack Developer
13 38 (2.28%) Java Engineer
14 37 (2.22%) Technical Architect
15 36 (2.16%) .NET Developer
16 32 (1.92%) Data Scientist
16 32 (1.92%) Solutions Architect
17 29 (1.74%) Cloud Engineer
18 28 (1.68%) Backend Developer
19 25 (1.50%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 474 (28.47%) React
2 404 (24.26%) Spring Boot
3 384 (23.06%) Spring
4 370 (22.22%) HTML
5 342 (20.54%) CSS
6 336 (20.18%) Kafka
7 279 (16.76%) JPA
8 259 (15.56%) REST
9 250 (15.02%) Redux
10 221 (13.27%) Hibernate
11 214 (12.85%) RESTful
12 209 (12.55%) .NET
13 135 (8.11%) Jest
13 135 (8.11%) Node.js
14 114 (6.85%) HTML5
15 110 (6.61%) CSS3
16 104 (6.25%) Sass
17 103 (6.19%) AngularJS
17 103 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
18 88 (5.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 520 (31.23%) Cyberattack
2 291 (17.48%) Product Ownership
3 253 (15.20%) Enterprise Software
4 80 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
5 78 (4.68%) Algorithms
6 59 (3.54%) Cloud Native
7 31 (1.86%) Private Cloud
8 27 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.50%) Public Cloud
10 24 (1.44%) Mobile App
11 20 (1.20%) IoT
12 16 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (0.96%) Management Information System
13 14 (0.84%) Clustering
13 14 (0.84%) Onboarding
14 13 (0.78%) PKI
14 13 (0.78%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.72%) Data Structures
16 10 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
17 9 (0.54%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 696 (41.80%) Linux
2 513 (30.81%) Android
3 135 (8.11%) Windows
4 29 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.68%) Unix
6 17 (1.02%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.36%) CentOS
8 6 (0.36%) VMS
9 5 (0.30%) Debian
9 5 (0.30%) SUSE
9 5 (0.30%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 3 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.12%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.12%) zOS
12 1 (0.060%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.060%) Solaris
12 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,048 (62.94%) Agile
2 776 (46.61%) DevOps
3 689 (41.38%) CI/CD
4 630 (37.84%) Microservices
5 596 (35.80%) Containerisation
6 548 (32.91%) Software Engineering
7 527 (31.65%) Mathematics
8 516 (30.99%) Line Management
9 502 (30.15%) Design Patterns
10 468 (28.11%) OO
11 464 (27.87%) OOP
12 438 (26.31%) Android Development
13 405 (24.32%) Full-Stack Development
14 381 (22.88%) Test Automation
15 319 (19.16%) SDLC
16 312 (18.74%) TDD
17 295 (17.72%) Front End Development
17 295 (17.72%) Performance Optimisation
18 280 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
19 270 (16.22%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,004 (60.30%) Java
2 800 (48.05%) Python
3 573 (34.41%) JavaScript
4 475 (28.53%) SQL
5 467 (28.05%) Go
6 449 (26.97%) C++
7 238 (14.29%) TypeScript
8 161 (9.67%) C#
9 132 (7.93%) PowerShell
10 128 (7.69%) Bash
11 58 (3.48%) PHP
12 46 (2.76%) Rust
13 32 (1.92%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.96%) C
15 14 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
15 14 (0.84%) Perl
16 11 (0.66%) Ruby
17 10 (0.60%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.60%) PL/SQL
18 9 (0.54%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 607 (36.46%) Security Cleared
2 509 (30.57%) DV Cleared
3 116 (6.97%) Degree
4 93 (5.59%) SC Cleared
5 61 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (1.98%) Azure Certification
7 23 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 14 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 9 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.36%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.18%) Linux+ Certification
14 3 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.18%) OCP
14 3 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.18%) PhD
14 3 (0.18%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (16.40%) QA
2 101 (6.07%) Accessibility
3 48 (2.88%) GDPR
4 14 (0.84%) SLA
5 12 (0.72%) HIPAA
6 9 (0.54%) NCSC
7 7 (0.42%) NIST
8 6 (0.36%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.30%) WCAG
10 4 (0.24%) GMP
11 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.12%) CDISC
12 2 (0.12%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.12%) SEPA
13 1 (0.060%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.060%) Basel III
13 1 (0.060%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.060%) ECSS
13 1 (0.060%) IFRS
13 1 (0.060%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 91 (5.47%) Hyper-V
2 84 (5.05%) vSphere
3 74 (4.44%) VMware NSX
4 41 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 32 (1.92%) Active Directory
6 21 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.36%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (0.36%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.30%) NFS
10 5 (0.30%) Postfix
11 4 (0.24%) LXC
12 3 (0.18%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.18%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.12%) HDFS
14 1 (0.060%) KVM
14 1 (0.060%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.060%) Xen
Systems Management
1 875 (52.55%) Kubernetes
2 621 (37.30%) Ansible
3 320 (19.22%) Terraform
4 36 (2.16%) Grafana
5 29 (1.74%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.38%) Puppet
7 22 (1.32%) Kibana
8 14 (0.84%) Istio
9 13 (0.78%) Progress Chef
9 13 (0.78%) vCenter Server
10 12 (0.72%) vMotion
11 9 (0.54%) Nagios
11 9 (0.54%) Nessus
11 9 (0.54%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.48%) Argo
12 8 (0.48%) AWS Copilot
12 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.36%) Packer
13 6 (0.36%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.36%) vRealize
Vendors
1 246 (14.77%) Solace
2 97 (5.83%) Splunk
3 86 (5.17%) Microsoft
4 78 (4.68%) Cisco
5 77 (4.62%) Juniper
6 72 (4.32%) Google
7 70 (4.20%) 3PAR
8 47 (2.82%) VMware
9 30 (1.80%) IBM
10 28 (1.68%) Oracle
11 24 (1.44%) Dynatrace
12 15 (0.90%) Red Hat
13 14 (0.84%) Databricks
14 12 (0.72%) Citrix
14 12 (0.72%) HP
15 11 (0.66%) Adobe
15 11 (0.66%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.60%) New Relic
17 8 (0.48%) Veeam
18 7 (0.42%) SAP