Docker
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Docker skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Docker over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 45 30 22
Rank change year-on-year -15 -8 +3
Permanent jobs citing Docker 3,058 9,804 12,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.73% 7.82% 9.91%
As % of the System Software category 34.28% 51.22% 56.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,423 5,322 8,045
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,219 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%

All System Software Skills
UK

Docker is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,921 19,140 22,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.72% 15.27% 17.68%
Number of salaries quoted 7,088 12,732 16,007
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,557 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.89% +5.26% +5.56%

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 2 December 2023.

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 2 December 2023. 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 -12 2,756 £71,900 -4.13% 1,096
UK excluding London -10 1,694 £65,000 - 686
Work from Home -13 1,617 £70,000 - 783
London -11 1,191 £82,500 - 549
North of England -1 489 £62,500 -3.85% 175
South West +9 398 £61,750 +3.74% 86
South East -14 338 £70,000 +7.69% 218
North West +6 288 £67,500 -3.57% 111
Yorkshire -4 182 £62,500 - 43
Midlands +14 168 £60,000 -7.69% 69
Scotland -33 155 £70,000 +16.67% 51
East of England 0 103 £75,000 +7.14% 62
East Midlands +2 98 £62,500 -3.85% 23
West Midlands +13 73 £60,000 -8.40% 45
Wales -29 41 £50,000 -15.49% 20
North East -18 18 £57,500 -17.86% 22
Northern Ireland -43 16 £110,000 +83.33% 15

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 61 (1.99%) Apache
2 52 (1.70%) nginx
3 50 (1.64%) Confluence
4 49 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 47 (1.54%) Apache Spark
6 25 (0.82%) CMS
6 25 (0.82%) Jupyter
7 23 (0.75%) SharePoint
8 22 (0.72%) Drupal
8 22 (0.72%) OpenStack
9 16 (0.52%) Tomcat
10 13 (0.43%) IIS
10 13 (0.43%) JBoss
11 10 (0.33%) Apache Solr
11 10 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
12 7 (0.23%) Luigi
13 5 (0.16%) NServiceBus
13 5 (0.16%) WordPress
14 4 (0.13%) MQSeries
15 3 (0.098%) Tornado
Applications
1 4 (0.13%) Simulink
1 4 (0.13%) Trello
2 2 (0.065%) Campfire
3 1 (0.033%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.033%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.033%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.033%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.13%) Magento
4 2 (0.065%) SAP FI-GL
4 2 (0.065%) Shopify
5 1 (0.033%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.033%) Odoo
5 1 (0.033%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,709 (55.89%) AWS
2 1,322 (43.23%) Azure
3 517 (16.91%) GCP
4 408 (13.34%) Azure DevOps
5 403 (13.18%) Serverless
6 364 (11.90%) OpenShift
7 362 (11.84%) GitHub
8 257 (8.40%) SaaS
9 188 (6.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 181 (5.92%) PaaS
11 155 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
12 154 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
13 129 (4.22%) Amazon S3
14 120 (3.92%) IaaS
15 98 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
15 98 (3.20%) Cloud Computing
16 85 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
17 78 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
18 73 (2.39%) Azure AKS
19 60 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 142 (4.64%) DNS
2 109 (3.56%) TCP/IP
3 104 (3.40%) HTTP
4 78 (2.55%) DHCP
5 55 (1.80%) VPN
6 40 (1.31%) Firewall
7 37 (1.21%) Internet
8 28 (0.92%) IPv4
9 22 (0.72%) VLAN
10 20 (0.65%) Network Security
11 15 (0.49%) OSPF
11 15 (0.49%) SSL
12 14 (0.46%) AMQP
12 14 (0.46%) BGP
13 13 (0.43%) WAN
14 11 (0.36%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.26%) SSH
16 7 (0.23%) IPv6
16 7 (0.23%) VoIP
17 6 (0.20%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (8.37%) NoSQL
2 241 (7.88%) MySQL
3 214 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
4 196 (6.41%) MongoDB
5 149 (4.87%) Amazon RDS
6 126 (4.12%) SQL Server
7 125 (4.09%) Big Data
8 118 (3.86%) Relational Database
9 117 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
10 98 (3.20%) Redis
11 64 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 62 (2.03%) DynamoDB
13 43 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
14 39 (1.28%) Data Lake
14 39 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
15 34 (1.11%) BigQuery
16 30 (0.98%) Hadoop
16 30 (0.98%) Power BI
17 23 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
18 22 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 753 (24.62%) Jenkins
2 571 (18.67%) Git
3 262 (8.57%) GitLab
4 150 (4.91%) JIRA
5 144 (4.71%) Maven
6 142 (4.64%) Selenium
7 113 (3.70%) Cypress.io
8 86 (2.81%) Artifactory
9 85 (2.78%) Bitbucket
9 85 (2.78%) SonarQube
10 81 (2.65%) Gradle
11 80 (2.62%) Cucumber
12 72 (2.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 71 (2.32%) CircleCI
14 70 (2.29%) TeamCity
15 69 (2.26%) IntelliJ
16 60 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
17 59 (1.93%) JUnit
18 43 (1.41%) Mockito
19 40 (1.31%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 697 (22.79%) Finance
2 510 (16.68%) Social Skills
3 303 (9.91%) Banking
4 141 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 114 (3.73%) Retail
6 105 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
7 91 (2.98%) Public Sector
8 86 (2.81%) Front Office
9 83 (2.71%) Aerospace
10 54 (1.77%) Telecoms
11 47 (1.54%) Investment Banking
12 46 (1.50%) Games
13 44 (1.44%) Legal
14 43 (1.41%) Marketing
15 40 (1.31%) Law
16 31 (1.01%) Advertising
17 30 (0.98%) Retail Banking
18 27 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
19 25 (0.82%) Automotive
20 24 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 900 (29.43%) Developer
2 825 (26.98%) Senior
3 688 (22.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 377 (12.33%) Software Engineer
5 316 (10.33%) Java Developer
6 292 (9.55%) Lead
7 289 (9.45%) Senior Developer
8 233 (7.62%) AWS Engineer
9 174 (5.69%) Azure Engineer
10 170 (5.56%) Architect
11 159 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
12 154 (5.04%) Senior DevOps
13 149 (4.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 141 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
15 137 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 135 (4.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 133 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
18 132 (4.32%) Software Developer
19 122 (3.99%) Java Engineer
20 119 (3.89%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 523 (17.10%) React
2 430 (14.06%) .NET
3 364 (11.90%) Spring
4 353 (11.54%) Kafka
5 346 (11.31%) Spring Boot
6 293 (9.58%) HTML
7 285 (9.32%) AngularJS
8 241 (7.88%) CSS
9 219 (7.16%) Node.js
10 193 (6.31%) REST
11 157 (5.13%) RESTful
12 148 (4.84%) .NET Core
13 142 (4.64%) RabbitMQ
14 134 (4.38%) Elastic Stack
15 128 (4.19%) .NET Framework
16 120 (3.92%) JSON
17 112 (3.66%) Vue
18 99 (3.24%) Web Services
19 94 (3.07%) ASP.NET
20 89 (2.91%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 132 (4.32%) Public Cloud
2 128 (4.19%) Product Ownership
3 109 (3.56%) Greenfield Project
4 104 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
5 84 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 83 (2.71%) Cloud Native
7 82 (2.68%) Private Cloud
8 67 (2.19%) Algorithms
9 58 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
10 57 (1.86%) Virtual Team
11 46 (1.50%) Data Structures
12 44 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
13 43 (1.41%) Blockchain
13 43 (1.41%) Mobile App
14 38 (1.24%) Onboarding
14 38 (1.24%) Robotics
15 34 (1.11%) Hedge funds
16 31 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
17 29 (0.95%) Data Centre
18 26 (0.85%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 708 (23.15%) Linux
2 282 (9.22%) Windows
3 107 (3.50%) Unix
4 97 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 54 (1.77%) Ubuntu
6 47 (1.54%) Windows Server
7 32 (1.05%) Mac OS
8 29 (0.95%) Android
9 28 (0.92%) Debian
10 25 (0.82%) Apple iOS
11 20 (0.65%) CentOS
12 17 (0.56%) VMS
13 8 (0.26%) Solaris
14 7 (0.23%) CoreOS
14 7 (0.23%) Windows 10
14 7 (0.23%) zOS
15 3 (0.098%) Windows Server 2016
16 2 (0.065%) QNX Neutrino
16 2 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
17 1 (0.033%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,552 (50.75%) DevOps
2 1,297 (42.41%) CI/CD
3 1,265 (41.37%) Agile
4 857 (28.02%) Containerisation
5 823 (26.91%) Microservices
6 760 (24.85%) Software Engineering
7 628 (20.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 442 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
9 339 (11.09%) Computer Science
10 332 (10.86%) Mentoring
11 319 (10.43%) Continuous Integration
12 297 (9.71%) Configuration Management
13 286 (9.35%) Test Automation
14 280 (9.16%) Scrum
15 249 (8.14%) Full Stack Development
16 239 (7.82%) SDLC
17 220 (7.19%) TDD
18 219 (7.16%) Fintech
19 210 (6.87%) Artificial Intelligence
20 195 (6.38%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,198 (39.18%) Python
2 1,187 (38.82%) Java
3 655 (21.42%) JavaScript
4 565 (18.48%) SQL
5 504 (16.48%) C#
6 501 (16.38%) Bash
7 398 (13.02%) PowerShell
8 326 (10.66%) TypeScript
9 202 (6.61%) Go
10 164 (5.36%) PHP
11 150 (4.91%) C++
12 98 (3.20%) Ruby
13 97 (3.17%) Shell Script
14 74 (2.42%) Kotlin
15 54 (1.77%) Bicep
16 49 (1.60%) Groovy
17 48 (1.57%) Perl
18 28 (0.92%) C
18 28 (0.92%) R
19 24 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 424 (13.87%) Degree
2 385 (12.59%) Security Cleared
3 245 (8.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 188 (6.15%) SC Cleared
5 134 (4.38%) DV Cleared
6 103 (3.37%) AWS Certification
7 61 (1.99%) Master's Degree
8 44 (1.44%) Azure Certification
9 34 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 32 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 25 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 23 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
13 19 (0.62%) CISSP
14 18 (0.59%) PhD
15 12 (0.39%) MBA
15 12 (0.39%) RHCE
16 11 (0.36%) CCNA
17 10 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 10 (0.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (5.00%) QA
2 28 (0.92%) SEPA
3 26 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (0.72%) WCAG
5 15 (0.49%) GDPR
5 15 (0.49%) ISO 20022
6 13 (0.43%) Data Quality
6 13 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.29%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.29%) NCSC
8 7 (0.23%) NIST
9 4 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.098%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.065%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.065%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.065%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.065%) PSD2
11 2 (0.065%) SLA
11 2 (0.065%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.065%) WAI
System Software
1 133 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 95 (3.11%) Hyper-V
3 86 (2.81%) Active Directory
4 47 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.36%) Ceph
7 10 (0.33%) vSphere
8 8 (0.26%) KVM
9 7 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 4 (0.13%) LXC
11 3 (0.098%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.065%) Firmware
12 2 (0.065%) HDFS
12 2 (0.065%) Kamailio
12 2 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.065%) OpenSIPS
12 2 (0.065%) pfSense
12 2 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.065%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2,183 (71.39%) Kubernetes
2 1,055 (34.50%) Terraform
3 586 (19.16%) Ansible
4 250 (8.18%) Puppet
5 194 (6.34%) Grafana
6 167 (5.46%) Prometheus
7 102 (3.34%) Progress Chef
8 50 (1.64%) Argo
9 47 (1.54%) Packer
10 45 (1.47%) Rancher
11 33 (1.08%) Kibana
11 33 (1.08%) Nagios
12 23 (0.75%) Istio
13 19 (0.62%) HAProxy
14 16 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
15 15 (0.49%) Salt
16 14 (0.46%) Consul
16 14 (0.46%) Kustomize
17 10 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
17 10 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 261 (8.53%) Microsoft
2 173 (5.66%) Google
3 159 (5.20%) VMware
4 116 (3.79%) Red Hat
5 93 (3.04%) Oracle
6 83 (2.71%) Splunk
7 49 (1.60%) IBM
8 41 (1.34%) New Relic
9 36 (1.18%) Atlassian
10 24 (0.78%) AppDynamics
11 20 (0.65%) Databricks
12 19 (0.62%) SaltStack
13 15 (0.49%) Cisco
13 15 (0.49%) WSO2
14 14 (0.46%) Veracode
15 12 (0.39%) Dynatrace
16 11 (0.36%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.33%) Alteryx
17 10 (0.33%) TOWER Software
18 9 (0.29%) CyberArk