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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 80 39
Rank change year-on-year +25 -41 -19
Permanent jobs citing Docker 2,241 3,316 7,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.34% 3.38% 6.78%
As % of the System Software category 41.16% 26.90% 44.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,357 2,622 4,113
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 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.78% -0.69%
75th Percentile £98,474 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £64,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.47% -1.54% -

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 5,444 12,328 16,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.55% 12.56% 15.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,955 9,780 10,627
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,375 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -3.51%
75th Percentile £78,750 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £86,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,683 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.96% -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 26 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 26 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 +17 2,088 £77,500 +10.71% 2,115
UK excluding London +15 1,389 £67,500 +5.47% 1,005
Work from Home +20 900 £75,000 +11.11% 1,317
London +16 823 £90,000 +9.09% 1,299
North of England +59 634 £72,500 +18.85% 276
North West +58 522 £75,000 +15.38% 194
South East -14 298 £70,000 - 238
South West +8 150 £71,991 +19.99% 144
Midlands -38 104 £60,000 - 94
Yorkshire +26 100 £72,500 +31.82% 63
East of England +40 91 £57,500 -11.54% 107
Scotland +61 86 £74,870 +6.96% 99
West Midlands -17 63 £67,500 +12.50% 58
East Midlands -1 40 £60,000 +4.35% 33
Wales +3 28 £52,750 +11.05% 22
Northern Ireland +24 14 £55,000 -24.14% 39
North East +25 12 £63,750 +6.25% 20
Isle of Man +12 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 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
2 104 (4.64%) Apache Spark
3 90 (4.02%) Apache
4 74 (3.30%) Confluence
5 38 (1.70%) nginx
6 28 (1.25%) Jupyter
7 20 (0.89%) CMS
8 16 (0.71%) Tomcat
9 13 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 13 (0.58%) OpenStack
10 12 (0.54%) JBoss
10 12 (0.54%) Red Hat Fuse
11 10 (0.45%) SharePoint
12 9 (0.40%) Camunda
13 6 (0.27%) IIS
13 6 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.22%) WordPress
15 4 (0.18%) Apache Solr
16 3 (0.13%) Drupal
16 3 (0.13%) Mule
Applications
1 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (0.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (0.18%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
4 2 (0.089%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
2 9 (0.40%) Magento
2 9 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.089%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.045%) Endur
4 1 (0.045%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 1,076 (48.01%) AWS
2 752 (33.56%) Azure
3 388 (17.31%) GCP
4 345 (15.39%) Serverless
5 234 (10.44%) AWS Lambda
6 196 (8.75%) Amazon ECS
7 187 (8.34%) GitHub
8 176 (7.85%) Azure DevOps
9 168 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 163 (7.27%) Amazon S3
11 145 (6.47%) Amazon EC2
12 128 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
13 127 (5.67%) SaaS
14 118 (5.27%) OpenShift
15 98 (4.37%) Amazon SQS
16 96 (4.28%) dbt
17 90 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
18 61 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
19 50 (2.23%) Azure Service Bus
20 49 (2.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 439 (19.59%) DNS
2 412 (18.38%) VPN
3 48 (2.14%) Firewall
4 32 (1.43%) Network Security
5 29 (1.29%) Internet
6 25 (1.12%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.94%) HTTP
8 19 (0.85%) DHCP
9 14 (0.62%) SAN
10 11 (0.49%) NAS
10 11 (0.49%) VLAN
11 10 (0.45%) SSL
12 7 (0.31%) MQTT
13 6 (0.27%) Broadband
14 5 (0.22%) SMS
15 4 (0.18%) BGP
15 4 (0.18%) EIGRP
15 4 (0.18%) OSPF
15 4 (0.18%) SMTP
15 4 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 295 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
2 227 (10.13%) NoSQL
3 136 (6.07%) Elasticsearch
4 134 (5.98%) MySQL
5 133 (5.93%) MongoDB
6 123 (5.49%) SQL Server
7 108 (4.82%) Relational Database
8 101 (4.51%) Amazon RDS
9 95 (4.24%) DynamoDB
10 94 (4.19%) Redis
11 74 (3.30%) Amazon Athena
12 71 (3.17%) Apache Arrow
12 71 (3.17%) Apache Iceberg
12 71 (3.17%) Apache Ignite
12 71 (3.17%) Dremio
13 57 (2.54%) Big Data
14 42 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
15 40 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
16 31 (1.38%) RDBMS
17 30 (1.34%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 395 (17.63%) Git
2 311 (13.88%) Jenkins
3 150 (6.69%) GitLab
4 112 (5.00%) JIRA
5 95 (4.24%) Artifactory
6 89 (3.97%) JUnit
7 77 (3.44%) SonarQube
8 59 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
9 57 (2.54%) Selenium
10 56 (2.50%) Mockito
11 53 (2.37%) Maven
12 52 (2.32%) Sonatype Nexus
13 47 (2.10%) Visual Studio
14 41 (1.83%) IntelliJ
15 39 (1.74%) CircleCI
16 38 (1.70%) Team Foundation Server
17 37 (1.65%) Cypress.io
18 35 (1.56%) MSBuild
18 35 (1.56%) webpack
19 31 (1.38%) Jasmine
General
1 950 (42.39%) Finance
2 590 (26.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 544 (24.27%) Analytical Skills
4 440 (19.63%) Social Skills
5 249 (11.11%) Banking
6 127 (5.67%) Front Office
7 121 (5.40%) Public Sector
8 75 (3.35%) Marketing
9 63 (2.81%) Retail
10 58 (2.59%) Financial Institution
11 49 (2.19%) Advertising
11 49 (2.19%) Law
12 42 (1.87%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.20%) Games
14 21 (0.94%) Telecoms
15 19 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (0.80%) Legal
17 17 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (0.71%) Automotive
19 13 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 957 (42.70%) Developer
2 494 (22.04%) Software Developer
3 422 (18.83%) Senior
4 292 (13.03%) Software Engineer
5 283 (12.63%) DevOps Engineer
6 206 (9.19%) Lead
7 160 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
8 153 (6.83%) Python Engineer
9 143 (6.38%) AWS DevOps
10 141 (6.29%) Senior Developer
11 136 (6.07%) Architect
11 136 (6.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 130 (5.80%) Java Developer
13 124 (5.53%) Data Engineer
14 107 (4.77%) Java Engineer
15 94 (4.19%) Senior Software Engineer
16 85 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
17 82 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
18 57 (2.54%) Azure Engineer
19 55 (2.45%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 455 (20.30%) React
2 325 (14.50%) .NET
3 315 (14.06%) REST
4 286 (12.76%) Kafka
5 255 (11.38%) Node.js
6 252 (11.24%) AngularJS
7 226 (10.08%) Spring Boot
8 221 (9.86%) Spring
9 187 (8.34%) RESTful
10 174 (7.76%) HTML
11 147 (6.56%) CSS
12 101 (4.51%) J2EE
13 100 (4.46%) RabbitMQ
14 94 (4.19%) Web Services
15 90 (4.02%) PySpark
16 87 (3.88%) Elastic Stack
17 86 (3.84%) .NET Core
18 79 (3.53%) ASP.NET
19 73 (3.26%) Pandas
20 71 (3.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 469 (20.93%) Cyberattack
2 119 (5.31%) Cloud Native
3 114 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
4 98 (4.37%) Algorithms
5 66 (2.95%) Product Ownership
6 61 (2.72%) Management Information System
6 61 (2.72%) Public Cloud
7 37 (1.65%) Blog
7 37 (1.65%) Digital Media
8 36 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (1.43%) Private Cloud
10 29 (1.29%) Data Structures
11 28 (1.25%) Mobile App
12 25 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
12 25 (1.12%) Onboarding
13 24 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
14 22 (0.98%) Data Centre
15 20 (0.89%) IoT
16 19 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
17 18 (0.80%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 754 (33.65%) Linux
2 468 (20.88%) Android
3 86 (3.84%) Windows
4 47 (2.10%) Unix
5 39 (1.74%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.89%) Ubuntu
7 16 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.45%) CentOS
9 8 (0.36%) VMS
10 7 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.31%) Debian
11 6 (0.27%) SUSE
12 5 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.13%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.089%) CoreOS
14 2 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.089%) zOS
15 1 (0.045%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.045%) Rocky
15 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,259 (56.18%) Agile
2 947 (42.26%) CI/CD
3 915 (40.83%) DevOps
4 722 (32.22%) Containerisation
5 657 (29.32%) Software Engineering
6 589 (26.28%) Microservices
7 579 (25.84%) Design Patterns
8 512 (22.85%) OO
9 497 (22.18%) OOP
10 479 (21.37%) Mathematics
11 466 (20.79%) Line Management
12 457 (20.39%) Android Development
13 367 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
14 318 (14.19%) Infrastructure as Code
15 316 (14.10%) Mentoring
16 277 (12.36%) Full-Stack Development
17 232 (10.35%) TDD
18 214 (9.55%) Test Automation
19 197 (8.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 196 (8.75%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,202 (53.64%) Python
2 1,074 (47.93%) Java
3 617 (27.53%) Go
4 519 (23.16%) JavaScript
5 481 (21.46%) C++
6 407 (18.16%) SQL
7 268 (11.96%) C#
7 268 (11.96%) TypeScript
8 134 (5.98%) Bash
9 106 (4.73%) PowerShell
10 73 (3.26%) PHP
11 66 (2.95%) Rust
12 42 (1.87%) Bicep
13 39 (1.74%) Shell Script
14 37 (1.65%) Scala
15 30 (1.34%) Ruby
16 24 (1.07%) C
17 21 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
18 19 (0.85%) Kotlin
19 15 (0.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 685 (30.57%) Security Cleared
2 534 (23.83%) DV Cleared
3 245 (10.93%) Degree
4 133 (5.93%) SC Cleared
5 132 (5.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 65 (2.90%) Master's Degree
7 63 (2.81%) AWS Certification
8 50 (2.23%) Azure Certification
9 41 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 29 (1.29%) PhD
11 21 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 7 (0.31%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.18%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
15 4 (0.18%) OCP
15 4 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (3.48%) GDPR
2 73 (3.26%) QA
3 38 (1.70%) HIPAA
4 29 (1.29%) Accessibility
5 15 (0.67%) SLA
5 15 (0.67%) SOC 2
6 13 (0.58%) Data Quality
6 13 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.54%) NIST
8 11 (0.49%) NCSC
9 7 (0.31%) WCAG
10 6 (0.27%) CDISC
11 4 (0.18%) GMP
11 4 (0.18%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.13%) SEPA
13 2 (0.089%) MiFID
14 1 (0.045%) COBIT
14 1 (0.045%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 47 (2.10%) Active Directory
2 46 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 18 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.54%) vSphere
7 7 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.22%) NFS
9 4 (0.18%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.18%) LXC
9 4 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.18%) Terminal Services
9 4 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
10 3 (0.13%) HDFS
10 3 (0.13%) Postfix
11 1 (0.045%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.045%) KVM
11 1 (0.045%) Samba
11 1 (0.045%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,362 (60.78%) Kubernetes
2 675 (30.12%) Ansible
3 635 (28.34%) Terraform
4 94 (4.19%) Prometheus
5 88 (3.93%) Grafana
6 50 (2.23%) Progress Chef
7 46 (2.05%) Puppet
8 30 (1.34%) Istio
9 28 (1.25%) Argo
10 27 (1.20%) Kibana
11 22 (0.98%) Podman
12 16 (0.71%) Packer
13 15 (0.67%) Nagios
14 11 (0.49%) AWS Copilot
14 11 (0.49%) Kustomize
15 10 (0.45%) Nessus
16 9 (0.40%) Proxmox
16 9 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
17 8 (0.36%) vCenter Server
17 8 (0.36%) vMotion
Vendors
1 155 (6.92%) Google
2 131 (5.85%) Microsoft
3 60 (2.68%) VMware
4 58 (2.59%) Databricks
5 56 (2.50%) Oracle
6 48 (2.14%) Splunk
7 41 (1.83%) IBM
8 38 (1.70%) Red Hat
9 27 (1.20%) Dynatrace
10 21 (0.94%) New Relic
11 16 (0.71%) SAP
12 15 (0.67%) Citrix
13 13 (0.58%) Atlassian
13 13 (0.58%) Cisco
14 11 (0.49%) Adobe
15 8 (0.36%) HP
15 8 (0.36%) Veeam
16 7 (0.31%) Juniper
17 6 (0.27%) CA Agile Central
17 6 (0.27%) Confluent