Docker
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 79 39
Rank change year-on-year +21 -40 -19
Permanent jobs citing Docker 2,191 3,283 7,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.20% 3.34% 6.75%
As % of the System Software category 40.66% 26.76% 43.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,342 2,605 4,048
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £98,474 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £107,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 5,388 12,269 15,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.33% 12.48% 15.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,933 9,741 10,518
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £27,915
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £78,750 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the UK

Docker
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Docker.

Salary trend for Docker in the UK

Docker
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Docker in the UK

Docker
Top 18 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 30 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
England +15 2,036 £77,500 +10.71% 1,283
UK excluding London +14 1,355 £67,500 +8.00% 721
Work from Home +22 856 £75,000 +11.11% 985
London +14 805 £90,000 +9.09% 630
North of England +62 633 £72,500 +19.83% 273
North West +62 523 £75,000 +15.38% 190
South East -25 277 £68,750 -1.79% 123
South West +7 146 £72,500 +20.83% 94
Midlands -40 103 £60,000 - 85
Yorkshire +28 98 £72,500 +31.82% 64
Scotland +61 85 £74,870 +6.96% 51
East of England +28 85 £57,500 -11.54% 69
West Midlands -27 62 £67,500 +12.50% 52
East Midlands -10 39 £60,000 +4.35% 32
Wales +5 28 £52,750 +11.05% 13
Northern Ireland +22 14 £55,000 -24.14% 21
North East +24 12 £63,750 +6.25% 20
Isle of Man +13 1 £34,500 -

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 106 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
2 102 (4.66%) Apache Spark
3 90 (4.11%) Apache
4 73 (3.33%) Confluence
5 38 (1.73%) nginx
6 28 (1.28%) Jupyter
7 20 (0.91%) CMS
8 16 (0.73%) Tomcat
9 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 13 (0.59%) OpenStack
10 12 (0.55%) JBoss
10 12 (0.55%) Red Hat Fuse
11 10 (0.46%) SharePoint
12 9 (0.41%) Camunda
13 6 (0.27%) IIS
13 6 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.23%) WordPress
15 4 (0.18%) Apache Solr
16 3 (0.14%) Mule
16 3 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (0.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (0.18%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
4 2 (0.091%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
2 9 (0.41%) Magento
2 9 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.091%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.046%) Endur
4 1 (0.046%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 1,036 (47.28%) AWS
2 749 (34.19%) Azure
3 387 (17.66%) GCP
4 309 (14.10%) Serverless
5 198 (9.04%) AWS Lambda
6 196 (8.95%) Amazon ECS
7 174 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
8 168 (7.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 147 (6.71%) GitHub
10 146 (6.66%) Amazon EC2
11 128 (5.84%) Amazon EKS
12 126 (5.75%) Amazon S3
12 126 (5.75%) SaaS
13 120 (5.48%) OpenShift
14 96 (4.38%) dbt
15 87 (3.97%) GitHub Actions
16 62 (2.83%) Amazon SQS
16 62 (2.83%) Cloud Computing
17 50 (2.28%) Azure Service Bus
18 49 (2.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 439 (20.04%) DNS
2 412 (18.80%) VPN
3 48 (2.19%) Firewall
4 33 (1.51%) Network Security
5 29 (1.32%) Internet
6 25 (1.14%) TCP/IP
7 22 (1.00%) HTTP
8 21 (0.96%) DHCP
9 15 (0.68%) SAN
10 12 (0.55%) NAS
11 11 (0.50%) VLAN
12 10 (0.46%) SSL
13 8 (0.37%) 5G
14 7 (0.32%) MQTT
15 6 (0.27%) Broadband
16 5 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
16 5 (0.23%) SMS
16 5 (0.23%) SMTP
16 5 (0.23%) VSAN
17 4 (0.18%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (11.68%) PostgreSQL
2 223 (10.18%) NoSQL
3 137 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
4 132 (6.02%) MongoDB
4 132 (6.02%) MySQL
5 118 (5.39%) SQL Server
6 107 (4.88%) Relational Database
7 101 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
8 74 (3.38%) Amazon Athena
9 71 (3.24%) Apache Arrow
9 71 (3.24%) Apache Iceberg
9 71 (3.24%) Apache Ignite
9 71 (3.24%) Dremio
10 58 (2.65%) DynamoDB
10 58 (2.65%) Redis
11 55 (2.51%) Big Data
12 42 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
13 40 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
14 31 (1.41%) RDBMS
15 30 (1.37%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 389 (17.75%) Git
2 274 (12.51%) Jenkins
3 149 (6.80%) GitLab
4 111 (5.07%) JIRA
5 95 (4.34%) Artifactory
6 89 (4.06%) JUnit
7 76 (3.47%) SonarQube
8 59 (2.69%) Octopus Deploy
9 56 (2.56%) Mockito
10 54 (2.46%) Selenium
11 53 (2.42%) Maven
12 52 (2.37%) Sonatype Nexus
13 47 (2.15%) Visual Studio
14 42 (1.92%) IntelliJ
15 38 (1.73%) Team Foundation Server
16 36 (1.64%) CircleCI
17 35 (1.60%) MSBuild
17 35 (1.60%) webpack
18 34 (1.55%) Cypress.io
19 31 (1.41%) JMeter
General
1 947 (43.22%) Finance
2 556 (25.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 542 (24.74%) Analytical Skills
4 435 (19.85%) Social Skills
5 248 (11.32%) Banking
6 127 (5.80%) Front Office
7 118 (5.39%) Public Sector
8 63 (2.88%) Retail
9 58 (2.65%) Financial Institution
10 47 (2.15%) Law
11 41 (1.87%) Manufacturing
12 39 (1.78%) Marketing
13 27 (1.23%) Games
14 22 (1.00%) Telecoms
15 19 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (0.78%) Legal
16 17 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
17 16 (0.73%) Automotive
18 13 (0.59%) Advertising
19 12 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 949 (43.31%) Developer
2 491 (22.41%) Software Developer
3 412 (18.80%) Senior
4 280 (12.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 257 (11.73%) Software Engineer
6 206 (9.40%) Lead
7 160 (7.30%) AWS Engineer
8 151 (6.89%) Python Engineer
9 143 (6.53%) AWS DevOps
10 137 (6.25%) Senior Developer
11 136 (6.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 135 (6.16%) Architect
13 128 (5.84%) Java Developer
14 124 (5.66%) Data Engineer
15 109 (4.97%) Java Engineer
16 93 (4.24%) Senior Software Engineer
17 84 (3.83%) Full-Stack Developer
18 81 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
19 57 (2.60%) Azure Engineer
20 54 (2.46%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 411 (18.76%) React
2 315 (14.38%) .NET
3 282 (12.87%) Kafka
3 282 (12.87%) REST
4 225 (10.27%) Spring Boot
5 220 (10.04%) Node.js
5 220 (10.04%) Spring
6 213 (9.72%) AngularJS
7 190 (8.67%) RESTful
8 171 (7.80%) HTML
9 144 (6.57%) CSS
10 101 (4.61%) J2EE
11 96 (4.38%) RabbitMQ
12 94 (4.29%) Web Services
13 90 (4.11%) PySpark
14 86 (3.93%) Elastic Stack
15 84 (3.83%) .NET Core
16 78 (3.56%) ASP.NET
17 73 (3.33%) Pandas
18 71 (3.24%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 469 (21.41%) Cyberattack
2 123 (5.61%) Cloud Native
3 111 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
4 96 (4.38%) Algorithms
5 65 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 62 (2.83%) Public Cloud
7 60 (2.74%) Management Information System
8 37 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (1.46%) Private Cloud
10 29 (1.32%) Data Structures
11 28 (1.28%) Mobile App
12 25 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
13 24 (1.10%) Onboarding
14 23 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
15 22 (1.00%) Data Centre
16 20 (0.91%) IoT
17 19 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
18 18 (0.82%) Blockchain
18 18 (0.82%) Reinsurance
19 17 (0.78%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 754 (34.41%) Linux
2 468 (21.36%) Android
3 87 (3.97%) Windows
4 46 (2.10%) Unix
5 41 (1.87%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.96%) Ubuntu
7 16 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.46%) CentOS
9 8 (0.37%) Debian
9 8 (0.37%) VMS
10 7 (0.32%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.27%) SUSE
12 5 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.14%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.091%) CoreOS
14 2 (0.091%) zOS
15 1 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.046%) Fedora
15 1 (0.046%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,213 (55.36%) Agile
2 938 (42.81%) CI/CD
3 910 (41.53%) DevOps
4 716 (32.68%) Containerisation
5 616 (28.12%) Software Engineering
6 590 (26.93%) Microservices
7 577 (26.34%) Design Patterns
8 511 (23.32%) OO
9 496 (22.64%) OOP
10 479 (21.86%) Mathematics
11 465 (21.22%) Line Management
12 457 (20.86%) Android Development
13 364 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
14 313 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
15 312 (14.24%) Mentoring
16 238 (10.86%) Full-Stack Development
17 232 (10.59%) TDD
18 214 (9.77%) Test Automation
19 197 (8.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 191 (8.72%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,194 (54.50%) Python
2 1,076 (49.11%) Java
3 618 (28.21%) Go
4 513 (23.41%) JavaScript
5 483 (22.04%) C++
6 401 (18.30%) SQL
7 258 (11.78%) C#
8 228 (10.41%) TypeScript
9 133 (6.07%) Bash
10 105 (4.79%) PowerShell
11 72 (3.29%) PHP
12 66 (3.01%) Rust
13 42 (1.92%) Bicep
14 39 (1.78%) Shell Script
15 37 (1.69%) Scala
16 30 (1.37%) Ruby
17 24 (1.10%) C
18 21 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
19 18 (0.82%) Kotlin
20 14 (0.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 684 (31.22%) Security Cleared
2 536 (24.46%) DV Cleared
3 241 (11.00%) Degree
4 132 (6.02%) SC Cleared
5 131 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 63 (2.88%) AWS Certification
6 63 (2.88%) Master's Degree
7 50 (2.28%) Azure Certification
8 41 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 29 (1.32%) PhD
10 20 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 7 (0.32%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
14 4 (0.18%) OCP
14 4 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (3.56%) GDPR
2 73 (3.33%) QA
3 38 (1.73%) HIPAA
4 27 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 15 (0.68%) SLA
5 15 (0.68%) SOC 2
6 13 (0.59%) Data Quality
6 13 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.55%) NIST
8 10 (0.46%) NCSC
9 6 (0.27%) CDISC
9 6 (0.27%) WCAG
10 4 (0.18%) GMP
10 4 (0.18%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.14%) SEPA
12 2 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.091%) MiFID
13 1 (0.046%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.046%) PMO
System Software
1 49 (2.24%) Active Directory
2 47 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.64%) vSphere
7 7 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.23%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.23%) NFS
8 5 (0.23%) Terminal Services
9 4 (0.18%) LXC
9 4 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.14%) Dovecot
10 3 (0.14%) HDFS
10 3 (0.14%) Postfix
11 1 (0.046%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.046%) KVM
11 1 (0.046%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.046%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,317 (60.11%) Kubernetes
2 673 (30.72%) Ansible
3 628 (28.66%) Terraform
4 93 (4.24%) Prometheus
5 87 (3.97%) Grafana
6 49 (2.24%) Progress Chef
7 47 (2.15%) Puppet
8 30 (1.37%) Istio
9 27 (1.23%) Argo
9 27 (1.23%) Kibana
10 22 (1.00%) Podman
11 16 (0.73%) Nagios
11 16 (0.73%) Packer
12 11 (0.50%) AWS Copilot
12 11 (0.50%) Kustomize
13 10 (0.46%) Nessus
13 10 (0.46%) vCenter Server
13 10 (0.46%) vMotion
14 9 (0.41%) Proxmox
14 9 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 155 (7.07%) Google
2 130 (5.93%) Microsoft
3 61 (2.78%) VMware
4 56 (2.56%) Databricks
5 54 (2.46%) Oracle
6 48 (2.19%) Splunk
7 41 (1.87%) IBM
8 37 (1.69%) Red Hat
9 27 (1.23%) Dynatrace
10 21 (0.96%) New Relic
11 16 (0.73%) Citrix
11 16 (0.73%) SAP
12 13 (0.59%) Atlassian
12 13 (0.59%) Cisco
13 11 (0.50%) Adobe
14 10 (0.46%) HP
15 9 (0.41%) Veeam
16 7 (0.32%) Juniper
17 6 (0.27%) CA Agile Central
17 6 (0.27%) Confluent