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

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 81 39
Rank change year-on-year +32 -42 -20
Permanent jobs citing Docker 2,838 3,194 6,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.07% 3.20% 6.76%
As % of the System Software category 45.09% 26.69% 43.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 2,516 3,874
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.10% +2.14%
75th Percentile £98,474 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £107,500 £108,750
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 6,294 11,967 15,379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.24% 11.99% 15.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,815 9,464 10,090
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £28,000
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% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £85,000 £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 18 May 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 18 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
England +34 2,653 £77,500 +10.71% 2,064
UK excluding London +40 1,900 £67,500 +8.00% 1,386
Work from Home +36 1,538 £75,000 +11.11% 1,531
North of England +81 998 £72,500 +20.83% 371
North West +80 885 £75,000 +15.38% 241
London +19 823 £90,000 +9.09% 1,084
South East -31 306 £67,500 - 516
Midlands +9 186 £60,000 - 135
South West +5 142 £71,991 +19.99% 162
East of England +45 123 £57,500 -8.00% 111
Scotland +74 122 £74,870 +11.75% 63
West Midlands +7 100 £67,500 +12.50% 88
Yorkshire +24 97 £74,870 +36.13% 102
East Midlands +14 84 £60,000 +4.35% 40
Wales +1 28 £52,750 +11.05% 26
North East +15 16 £63,750 +6.25% 28
Northern Ireland +25 8 £55,000 -21.43% 38
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
1 226 (7.96%) Confluence
2 101 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
3 95 (3.35%) Apache Spark
4 87 (3.07%) Apache
5 32 (1.13%) nginx
6 28 (0.99%) Jupyter
7 17 (0.60%) Tomcat
8 16 (0.56%) CMS
9 14 (0.49%) JBoss
9 14 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 14 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
10 13 (0.46%) OpenStack
11 10 (0.35%) SharePoint
12 7 (0.25%) IIS
13 6 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.18%) WordPress
15 4 (0.14%) Apache Solr
16 3 (0.11%) Drupal
16 3 (0.11%) Mule
16 3 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (0.28%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.11%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.070%) Simulink
4 2 (0.070%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.035%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 9 (0.32%) Magento
2 9 (0.32%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.070%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.035%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.035%) Endur
4 1 (0.035%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.035%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,476 (52.01%) AWS
2 975 (34.36%) Azure
3 536 (18.89%) GCP
4 288 (10.15%) Serverless
5 251 (8.84%) Pulumi
6 181 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
7 171 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
8 162 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
9 153 (5.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 144 (5.07%) GitHub
11 137 (4.83%) Amazon EC2
12 126 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
13 121 (4.26%) Amazon S3
14 117 (4.12%) SaaS
15 105 (3.70%) OpenShift
16 92 (3.24%) dbt
17 85 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
18 62 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
19 49 (1.73%) Amazon SQS
20 48 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 673 (23.71%) VPN
2 442 (15.57%) DNS
3 264 (9.30%) Cisco IOS
4 223 (7.86%) Broadband
5 55 (1.94%) Firewall
6 34 (1.20%) Network Security
7 29 (1.02%) Internet
8 25 (0.88%) HTTP
8 25 (0.88%) TCP/IP
9 22 (0.78%) DHCP
10 19 (0.67%) SAN
11 15 (0.53%) NAS
12 11 (0.39%) SMTP
13 10 (0.35%) SSL
13 10 (0.35%) VLAN
14 8 (0.28%) 5G
14 8 (0.28%) MQTT
15 7 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
15 7 (0.25%) SSH
16 6 (0.21%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 433 (15.26%) NoSQL
2 363 (12.79%) SQL Server
3 312 (10.99%) Relational Database
4 257 (9.06%) PostgreSQL
5 240 (8.46%) RDBMS
6 134 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
7 129 (4.55%) MongoDB
7 129 (4.55%) MySQL
8 99 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
9 70 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
10 67 (2.36%) Apache Arrow
10 67 (2.36%) Apache Iceberg
10 67 (2.36%) Apache Ignite
10 67 (2.36%) Dremio
11 56 (1.97%) Redis
12 52 (1.83%) Big Data
13 40 (1.41%) DynamoDB
14 27 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
15 25 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
16 24 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 395 (13.92%) GitLab
2 384 (13.53%) Git
3 356 (12.54%) JIRA
4 327 (11.52%) SonarQube
5 304 (10.71%) Maven
6 298 (10.50%) Selenium
6 298 (10.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 281 (9.90%) Jenkins
8 275 (9.69%) Cucumber
9 268 (9.44%) Bitbucket
10 216 (7.61%) Jaeger
11 88 (3.10%) JUnit
12 84 (2.96%) Artifactory
13 59 (2.08%) Octopus Deploy
14 54 (1.90%) Mockito
15 45 (1.59%) Visual Studio
16 41 (1.44%) IntelliJ
17 38 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
18 37 (1.30%) CircleCI
19 33 (1.16%) MSBuild
General
1 1,273 (44.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1,143 (40.27%) Finance
3 806 (28.40%) Analytical Skills
4 436 (15.36%) Banking
5 414 (14.59%) Social Skills
6 152 (5.36%) Retail
7 111 (3.91%) Public Sector
8 101 (3.56%) Front Office
9 100 (3.52%) Investment Banking
10 90 (3.17%) Corporate Banking
11 43 (1.52%) Marketing
12 39 (1.37%) Manufacturing
13 37 (1.30%) Financial Institution
14 29 (1.02%) Games
15 22 (0.78%) Telecoms
16 21 (0.74%) Law
17 20 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
19 16 (0.56%) Automotive
20 14 (0.49%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 935 (32.95%) Developer
2 487 (17.16%) Software Developer
3 478 (16.84%) Software Engineer
4 421 (14.83%) Lead
5 388 (13.67%) Senior
6 301 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 263 (9.27%) DevOps Engineer
8 232 (8.17%) Team Leader
9 139 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
10 133 (4.69%) Architect
11 132 (4.65%) Python Engineer
12 130 (4.58%) AWS DevOps
13 129 (4.55%) Java Developer
14 128 (4.51%) Senior Developer
15 121 (4.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 119 (4.19%) Data Engineer
17 114 (4.02%) Java Engineer
18 90 (3.17%) Senior Software Engineer
19 84 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
20 79 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 629 (22.16%) React
2 559 (19.70%) Elastic Stack
3 528 (18.60%) Kafka
4 454 (16.00%) Spring Boot
5 453 (15.96%) Spring
6 409 (14.41%) HTML
7 392 (13.81%) CSS
8 372 (13.11%) REST
9 308 (10.85%) .NET
10 293 (10.32%) RESTful
11 284 (10.01%) JPA
12 270 (9.51%) Redux
13 224 (7.89%) Hibernate
14 220 (7.75%) OpenTelemetry
15 192 (6.77%) Node.js
16 189 (6.66%) AngularJS
17 143 (5.04%) Jest
18 125 (4.40%) HTML5
19 119 (4.19%) CSS3
20 116 (4.09%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 731 (25.76%) Cyberattack
2 309 (10.89%) Product Ownership
3 256 (9.02%) Enterprise Software
4 127 (4.47%) Cloud Native
5 112 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
6 83 (2.92%) Algorithms
7 62 (2.18%) Management Information System
8 56 (1.97%) Public Cloud
9 37 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
10 32 (1.13%) Private Cloud
11 28 (0.99%) Mobile App
12 23 (0.81%) Data Centre
13 22 (0.78%) Data Structures
13 22 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
14 21 (0.74%) IoT
15 20 (0.70%) Onboarding
16 19 (0.67%) Clustering
16 19 (0.67%) Reinsurance
17 17 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
18 16 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1,231 (43.38%) Linux
2 729 (25.69%) Android
3 351 (12.37%) Windows
4 256 (9.02%) Unix
5 42 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.78%) Ubuntu
7 17 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.42%) VMS
9 10 (0.35%) CentOS
10 9 (0.32%) Debian
11 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.21%) SUSE
13 5 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.070%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.035%) Fedora
15 1 (0.035%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.035%) Solaris
15 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,604 (56.52%) Agile
2 1,602 (56.45%) DevOps
3 1,160 (40.87%) Containerisation
4 1,149 (40.49%) CI/CD
5 826 (29.11%) Microservices
6 812 (28.61%) Software Engineering
7 741 (26.11%) Mathematics
8 727 (25.62%) Line Management
9 617 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
10 573 (20.19%) Design Patterns
11 569 (20.05%) Mentoring
12 549 (19.34%) Performance Optimisation
13 520 (18.32%) Infrastructure as Code
14 506 (17.83%) OO
15 496 (17.48%) OOP
16 495 (17.44%) Task Automation
17 474 (16.70%) Full-Stack Development
18 459 (16.17%) Test Automation
19 456 (16.07%) Android Development
20 395 (13.92%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,636 (57.65%) Python
2 1,504 (53.00%) Java
3 949 (33.44%) JavaScript
4 816 (28.75%) Go
5 644 (22.69%) SQL
6 599 (21.11%) Bash
7 482 (16.98%) C++
8 368 (12.97%) PowerShell
9 324 (11.42%) TypeScript
10 248 (8.74%) C#
11 70 (2.47%) PHP
12 63 (2.22%) Rust
13 37 (1.30%) Bicep
14 35 (1.23%) Shell Script
15 33 (1.16%) Scala
16 28 (0.99%) Ruby
17 19 (0.67%) C
18 18 (0.63%) Groovy
18 18 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
18 18 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 688 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 535 (18.85%) DV Cleared
3 282 (9.94%) AWS Certification
4 233 (8.21%) Degree
5 141 (4.97%) SC Cleared
6 121 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 57 (2.01%) Azure Certification
9 42 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 29 (1.02%) PhD
11 18 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 7 (0.25%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
16 4 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.14%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.14%) Linux+ Certification
17 3 (0.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 323 (11.38%) QA
2 117 (4.12%) Accessibility
3 77 (2.71%) GDPR
4 40 (1.41%) HIPAA
5 19 (0.67%) SLA
6 16 (0.56%) SOC 2
7 15 (0.53%) Data Quality
7 15 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.53%) NIST
8 9 (0.32%) NCSC
9 6 (0.21%) CDISC
10 5 (0.18%) WCAG
11 4 (0.14%) GMP
11 4 (0.14%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.11%) SEPA
13 2 (0.070%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.070%) MiFID
14 1 (0.035%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.035%) PMO
System Software
1 291 (10.25%) Hyper-V
2 279 (9.83%) vSphere
3 266 (9.37%) VMware NSX
4 53 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 51 (1.80%) Active Directory
6 39 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.21%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (0.21%) Postfix
9 6 (0.21%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.18%) NFS
11 4 (0.14%) DFS Replication
11 4 (0.14%) Dovecot
11 4 (0.14%) LXC
12 3 (0.11%) HDFS
13 2 (0.070%) KVM
14 1 (0.035%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 1 (0.035%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,710 (60.25%) Kubernetes
2 1,151 (40.56%) Ansible
3 1,076 (37.91%) Terraform
4 322 (11.35%) Prometheus
5 237 (8.35%) Argo
6 224 (7.89%) Kustomize
7 102 (3.59%) Grafana
8 48 (1.69%) Puppet
9 44 (1.55%) Progress Chef
10 28 (0.99%) Istio
11 22 (0.78%) Kibana
12 20 (0.70%) Podman
13 15 (0.53%) Nagios
13 15 (0.53%) Packer
14 13 (0.46%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.42%) vMotion
16 11 (0.39%) AWS Copilot
16 11 (0.39%) Nessus
17 10 (0.35%) Proxmox
18 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 369 (13.00%) Google
2 305 (10.75%) Splunk
3 276 (9.73%) Cisco
4 270 (9.51%) Juniper
5 262 (9.23%) 3PAR
6 250 (8.81%) Solace
7 126 (4.44%) Microsoft
8 67 (2.36%) VMware
9 58 (2.04%) Databricks
10 46 (1.62%) Oracle
11 30 (1.06%) IBM
11 30 (1.06%) Red Hat
12 22 (0.78%) Dynatrace
13 19 (0.67%) New Relic
14 18 (0.63%) Citrix
15 17 (0.60%) Atlassian
15 17 (0.60%) SAP
16 13 (0.46%) HP
17 11 (0.39%) Adobe
18 10 (0.35%) Veeam