Docker Job Trends

Docker
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 54 56
Rank change year-on-year -63 +2 -22
Permanent jobs citing Docker 1,265 2,429 3,222
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.86% 4.94% 4.32%
As % of the System Software category 28.37% 37.73% 29.60%
Number of salaries quoted 848 1,441 2,741
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £118,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% +3.85% -

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,459 6,437 10,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.57% 13.08% 14.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,109 3,914 9,130
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £26,363
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £57,836 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.68% +15.67% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £52,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -18.27% +15.56% -5.26%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Docker job vacancy trend in the UK

Docker
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in the UK

Docker
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the UK over the 6 months to 18 February 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
England -68 1,098 £70,771 -8.68% 660
UK excluding London -99 596 £66,500 -1.48% 497
Work from Home -54 524 £70,000 -6.67% 406
London -36 511 £80,000 -15.79% 253
North of England -34 231 £70,000 +0.89% 134
South West -43 116 £57,500 -14.81% 101
Yorkshire -10 115 £75,000 +10.29% 36
South East -125 113 £70,000 +1.82% 147
North West -38 90 £67,500 -10.00% 82
Midlands -57 65 £65,000 - 64
West Midlands -19 45 £66,500 -4.05% 48
Scotland -57 32 £65,000 -13.18% 16
East of England -63 27 £62,500 +8.70% 24
North East +2 26 £70,000 +12.00% 16
East Midlands -63 18 £62,500 +4.17% 16
Wales -39 10 £71,940 +121.35% 14
Northern Ireland -33 9 £62,500 +8.70% 4

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 64 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (3.00%) Apache
3 36 (2.85%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.82%) nginx
5 21 (1.66%) Confluence
6 18 (1.42%) OpenStack
7 16 (1.26%) Appian
7 16 (1.26%) IIS
8 11 (0.87%) CMS
8 11 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.55%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.47%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.40%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.40%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.40%) Drupal
11 5 (0.40%) WordPress
12 4 (0.32%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.32%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 9 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.71%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (0.40%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.32%) Weka
4 2 (0.16%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.079%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (1.03%) Shopify
2 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.079%) Endur
3 1 (0.079%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 825 (65.22%) AWS
2 601 (47.51%) Azure
3 329 (26.01%) GCP
4 265 (20.95%) GitHub
5 226 (17.87%) Serverless
6 171 (13.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 168 (13.28%) GitHub Actions
8 143 (11.30%) Amazon S3
9 137 (10.83%) AWS Lambda
10 135 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
11 114 (9.01%) Amazon ECS
12 94 (7.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 74 (5.85%) SaaS
14 71 (5.61%) Datadog
15 67 (5.30%) Amazon EC2
16 66 (5.22%) Amazon EKS
16 66 (5.22%) AWS Step Functions
17 62 (4.90%) Amazon SQS
18 61 (4.82%) Amazon ECR
19 60 (4.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (4.90%) Broadband
2 44 (3.48%) Firewall
3 36 (2.85%) TCP/IP
4 31 (2.45%) DNS
5 27 (2.13%) VPN
6 16 (1.26%) Network Security
7 15 (1.19%) DHCP
8 11 (0.87%) WAN
9 9 (0.71%) HTTP
10 8 (0.63%) AMQP
11 7 (0.55%) Wireshark
12 6 (0.47%) MQTT
12 6 (0.47%) VLAN
13 5 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
14 4 (0.32%) ATM
14 4 (0.32%) Multicast
14 4 (0.32%) RTP
14 4 (0.32%) tcpdump
14 4 (0.32%) VoIP
14 4 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (15.02%) PostgreSQL
2 155 (12.25%) NoSQL
3 123 (9.72%) SQL Server
4 90 (7.11%) MongoDB
4 90 (7.11%) Relational Database
5 77 (6.09%) Amazon RDS
6 74 (5.85%) Elasticsearch
6 74 (5.85%) MySQL
7 67 (5.30%) DynamoDB
8 54 (4.27%) Redis
9 35 (2.77%) Pinecone
10 33 (2.61%) BigQuery
11 30 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
11 30 (2.37%) RDBMS
12 24 (1.90%) Neo4j
13 20 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
13 20 (1.58%) Big Data
13 20 (1.58%) Data Lake
14 16 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
15 15 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 273 (21.58%) Jenkins
2 241 (19.05%) Git
3 154 (12.17%) GitLab
4 50 (3.95%) TeamCity
5 48 (3.79%) JIRA
5 48 (3.79%) Maven
6 47 (3.72%) Cypress.io
7 45 (3.56%) MLflow
8 42 (3.32%) SonarQube
9 41 (3.24%) Selenium
10 37 (2.92%) Cucumber
11 36 (2.85%) Bitbucket
11 36 (2.85%) JUnit
12 30 (2.37%) CircleCI
12 30 (2.37%) JMeter
13 24 (1.90%) Mockito
14 21 (1.66%) Jaeger
15 16 (1.26%) Vite
16 12 (0.95%) Robot Framework
17 11 (0.87%) TestRail
General
1 343 (27.11%) Social Skills
2 231 (18.26%) Finance
3 89 (7.04%) Public Sector
4 57 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (4.03%) Banking
6 42 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (3.32%) Telecoms
7 37 (2.92%) Law
8 21 (1.66%) Marketing
8 21 (1.66%) Retail
9 19 (1.50%) Financial Institution
10 17 (1.34%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.11%) Aerospace
11 14 (1.11%) Electronics
12 13 (1.03%) Advertising
12 13 (1.03%) Investment Banking
13 12 (0.95%) Front Office
14 11 (0.87%) Games
15 10 (0.79%) Automotive
15 10 (0.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 358 (28.30%) Developer
2 314 (24.82%) Senior
3 166 (13.12%) Lead
4 149 (11.78%) Software Engineer
5 143 (11.30%) DevOps Engineer
6 112 (8.85%) Java Developer
7 91 (7.19%) Full-Stack Developer
8 86 (6.80%) Senior Developer
9 76 (6.01%) Cloud Engineer
10 72 (5.69%) Platform Engineer
11 64 (5.06%) Data Engineer
12 58 (4.58%) Architect
13 50 (3.95%) Python Developer
14 47 (3.72%) Senior Software Engineer
15 45 (3.56%) Software Developer
16 39 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 37 (2.92%) .NET Developer
18 36 (2.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 34 (2.69%) Azure Engineer
19 34 (2.69%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (18.97%) React
2 179 (14.15%) .NET
3 163 (12.89%) Spring Boot
4 161 (12.73%) Spring
5 147 (11.62%) REST
6 146 (11.54%) RESTful
7 143 (11.30%) Kafka
8 129 (10.20%) Node.js
9 123 (9.72%) AngularJS
10 99 (7.83%) Django
10 99 (7.83%) Elastic Stack
11 90 (7.11%) HTML
12 89 (7.04%) .NET Core
13 81 (6.40%) CSS
14 74 (5.85%) FastAPI
15 68 (5.38%) Flask
16 57 (4.51%) Vue
17 56 (4.43%) RabbitMQ
18 52 (4.11%) Web Services
19 51 (4.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 233 (18.42%) Cloud Native
2 141 (11.15%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (5.53%) Product Ownership
4 54 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (3.24%) Over-the-Top Content
5 41 (3.24%) Video\Live Streaming
6 34 (2.69%) AI Agents
7 24 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 24 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 23 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
8 23 (1.82%) PKI
9 22 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
10 21 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (1.66%) Low-Code
11 20 (1.58%) Distributed Architecture
12 16 (1.26%) Algorithms
13 14 (1.11%) Data Centre
13 14 (1.11%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 280 (22.13%) Linux
2 102 (8.06%) Windows
3 74 (5.85%) Unix
4 37 (2.92%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.74%) VMS
6 21 (1.66%) Ubuntu
7 20 (1.58%) Android
8 16 (1.26%) CentOS
9 10 (0.79%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.24%) Debian
13 3 (0.24%) Solaris
13 3 (0.24%) SUSE
14 1 (0.079%) AIX
14 1 (0.079%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 852 (67.35%) CI/CD
2 674 (53.28%) DevOps
3 639 (50.51%) Containerisation
4 507 (40.08%) Agile
5 440 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 383 (30.28%) Microservices
7 338 (26.72%) Problem-Solving
8 319 (25.22%) Software Engineering
9 253 (20.00%) AI
10 233 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 203 (16.05%) Full-Stack Development
11 203 (16.05%) Test Automation
12 199 (15.73%) Mentoring
13 191 (15.10%) Observability
14 172 (13.60%) Machine Learning
15 135 (10.67%) Clean Code
16 129 (10.20%) Analytics
17 125 (9.88%) TDD
18 124 (9.80%) Platform Engineering
19 122 (9.64%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 635 (50.20%) Python
2 377 (29.80%) Java
3 310 (24.51%) SQL
4 290 (22.92%) JavaScript
5 213 (16.84%) Bash
6 190 (15.02%) TypeScript
7 169 (13.36%) C#
8 116 (9.17%) Go
9 109 (8.62%) PowerShell
10 58 (4.58%) Scala
11 57 (4.51%) PHP
12 42 (3.32%) Bicep
13 41 (3.24%) C++
14 33 (2.61%) C
15 27 (2.13%) Groovy
16 23 (1.82%) Kotlin
17 21 (1.66%) Shell Script
18 19 (1.50%) Rust
19 11 (0.87%) R
20 9 (0.71%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 254 (20.08%) Security Cleared
2 143 (11.30%) SC Cleared
3 125 (9.88%) Degree
4 109 (8.62%) AWS Certification
5 75 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 75 (5.93%) DV Cleared
6 39 (3.08%) Azure Certification
7 24 (1.90%) AWS Certified Developer
8 23 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (1.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 16 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
12 14 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (1.11%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.63%) CISSP
13 8 (0.63%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 5 (0.40%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 4 (0.32%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (6.64%) QA
2 41 (3.24%) Accessibility
3 38 (3.00%) Data Quality
4 34 (2.69%) GDPR
5 26 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.34%) PCI DSS
7 11 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 11 (0.87%) SOC 2
8 10 (0.79%) NIST
9 7 (0.55%) WCAG
10 5 (0.40%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.32%) SLA
12 3 (0.24%) SEPA
13 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.16%) ECSS
13 2 (0.16%) GxP
13 2 (0.16%) PSD2
14 1 (0.079%) MiFID
14 1 (0.079%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (3.24%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (1.03%) vSphere
5 10 (0.79%) KVM
6 9 (0.71%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.63%) vCloud
8 6 (0.47%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.32%) iptables
10 3 (0.24%) Kamailio
10 3 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.16%) Ceph
11 2 (0.16%) Firmware
11 2 (0.16%) Lustre
11 2 (0.16%) NFS
11 2 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 872 (68.93%) Kubernetes
2 521 (41.19%) Terraform
3 209 (16.52%) Ansible
4 174 (13.75%) Grafana
5 166 (13.12%) Prometheus
6 60 (4.74%) Argo
7 32 (2.53%) Puppet
8 28 (2.21%) HP Fortify
9 19 (1.50%) Kustomize
10 17 (1.34%) AWS Copilot
11 14 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
11 14 (1.11%) Kibana
11 14 (1.11%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.79%) Nagios
13 8 (0.63%) Istio
13 8 (0.63%) linkerd
13 8 (0.63%) Mesos
13 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.40%) Podman
15 4 (0.32%) logstash
Vendors
1 121 (9.57%) Microsoft
2 118 (9.33%) Google
3 60 (4.74%) Oracle
4 48 (3.79%) Splunk
5 45 (3.56%) VMware
6 41 (3.24%) OpenAI
7 35 (2.77%) Databricks
8 34 (2.69%) Red Hat
9 24 (1.90%) Atlassian
10 21 (1.66%) Dynatrace
11 18 (1.42%) SAP
11 18 (1.42%) Typelevel
12 16 (1.26%) CrowdStrike
12 16 (1.26%) Palo Alto
13 15 (1.19%) Fortinet
14 13 (1.03%) UiPath
15 12 (0.95%) Automation Anywhere
15 12 (0.95%) Palantir
16 8 (0.63%) Foundry
16 8 (0.63%) IBM