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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 39 20
Rank change year-on-year -40 -19 +1
Permanent jobs citing Docker 3,322 7,197 16,508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.42% 6.76% 10.78%
As % of the System Software category 26.83% 44.38% 59.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,640 4,177 7,439
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,219 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - +11.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +18.18%

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 12,383 16,217 27,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.74% 15.22% 18.23%
Number of salaries quoted 9,866 10,799 15,870
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024. 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 -31 2,945 £70,000 -6.67% 773
UK excluding London -33 2,142 £65,000 - 450
Work from Home -25 1,585 £67,500 -3.57% 526
London -28 1,053 £82,500 - 384
South East -7 681 £70,000 +3.70% 96
North of England -37 459 £61,206 -5.84% 119
South West -30 350 £60,000 -7.69% 76
Midlands -25 269 £60,000 -5.88% 55
North West -22 264 £65,000 - 65
Scotland -89 168 £70,000 +3.60% 50
West Midlands +3 164 £60,000 -7.69% 26
Yorkshire -27 156 £55,000 -8.33% 44
East of England -38 120 £66,250 +1.92% 31
East Midlands -53 108 £60,000 +9.09% 28
Wales 0 72 £47,500 -20.83% 17
North East -40 39 £60,000 -9.43% 12
Northern Ireland -35 28 £72,500 +20.83% 13
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1

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
1 158 (4.76%) Apache
2 105 (3.16%) nginx
3 68 (2.05%) OpenStack
4 62 (1.87%) Apache Spark
5 48 (1.44%) CMS
6 41 (1.23%) Confluence
7 38 (1.14%) Drupal
8 31 (0.93%) Camunda
9 27 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
9 27 (0.81%) Jupyter
10 20 (0.60%) JBoss
11 18 (0.54%) Tomcat
12 16 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
13 15 (0.45%) IIS
13 15 (0.45%) WordPress
14 11 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
15 8 (0.24%) SharePoint
15 8 (0.24%) WildFly
16 7 (0.21%) Umbraco
16 7 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.21%) GNU Octave
3 7 (0.21%) Simulink
4 6 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.090%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.030%) Blender
Business Applications
1 12 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 9 (0.27%) Shopify
3 7 (0.21%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.12%) Magento
5 3 (0.090%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.090%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.060%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.030%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.030%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,749 (52.65%) AWS
2 1,271 (38.26%) Azure
3 396 (11.92%) GCP
4 372 (11.20%) Serverless
5 366 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
6 349 (10.51%) GitHub
7 283 (8.52%) SaaS
8 245 (7.38%) Amazon S3
9 230 (6.92%) AWS Lambda
10 204 (6.14%) Amazon ECS
11 199 (5.99%) OpenShift
12 177 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 148 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
14 143 (4.30%) Amazon EKS
15 117 (3.52%) Cloud Computing
16 101 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
17 84 (2.53%) IBM Cloud
18 82 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
19 80 (2.41%) PaaS
20 66 (1.99%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 156 (4.70%) Firewall
2 107 (3.22%) VPN
3 104 (3.13%) DNS
4 85 (2.56%) Internet
5 83 (2.50%) TCP/IP
6 65 (1.96%) SNMP
7 60 (1.81%) HTTP
8 59 (1.78%) DHCP
8 59 (1.78%) IPsec
9 45 (1.35%) WAN
10 36 (1.08%) SD-WAN
11 34 (1.02%) Network Security
12 24 (0.72%) BGP
13 12 (0.36%) AMQP
13 12 (0.36%) SSL
14 11 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.33%) LAN
14 11 (0.33%) MPLS
14 11 (0.33%) NAS
14 11 (0.33%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 375 (11.29%) PostgreSQL
2 330 (9.93%) NoSQL
3 304 (9.15%) MySQL
4 251 (7.56%) MongoDB
5 221 (6.65%) SQL Server
6 202 (6.08%) Relational Database
7 193 (5.81%) Elasticsearch
8 152 (4.58%) Redis
9 137 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
10 104 (3.13%) Big Data
11 62 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
12 46 (1.38%) DynamoDB
13 39 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 39 (1.17%) Hadoop
14 38 (1.14%) Oracle Database
15 36 (1.08%) RDBMS
16 29 (0.87%) Data Lake
16 29 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
17 24 (0.72%) InfluxDB
18 23 (0.69%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 773 (23.27%) Git
2 710 (21.37%) Jenkins
3 255 (7.68%) GitLab
4 192 (5.78%) JIRA
5 150 (4.52%) Selenium
6 97 (2.92%) TeamCity
7 93 (2.80%) Cypress.io
8 86 (2.59%) JUnit
9 68 (2.05%) Maven
10 58 (1.75%) Bitbucket
11 54 (1.63%) Cucumber
11 54 (1.63%) SonarQube
12 50 (1.51%) Artifactory
13 48 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
14 47 (1.41%) CircleCI
15 45 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
16 43 (1.29%) Gradle
17 40 (1.20%) Mockito
18 36 (1.08%) IntelliJ
19 30 (0.90%) SoapUI
General
1 702 (21.13%) Finance
2 584 (17.58%) Social Skills
3 274 (8.25%) Public Sector
4 189 (5.69%) Banking
5 158 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 139 (4.18%) Analytical Skills
7 114 (3.43%) Retail
8 96 (2.89%) Law
9 93 (2.80%) Marketing
10 68 (2.05%) Telecoms
11 66 (1.99%) Games
12 62 (1.87%) Aerospace
13 53 (1.60%) Front Office
14 44 (1.32%) Financial Institution
15 40 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
16 35 (1.05%) Legal
17 33 (0.99%) Retail Banking
18 32 (0.96%) Automotive
19 31 (0.93%) Manufacturing
20 24 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,222 (36.79%) Developer
2 850 (25.59%) Senior
3 505 (15.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 398 (11.98%) Lead
5 385 (11.59%) Software Engineer
6 365 (10.99%) Senior Developer
7 304 (9.15%) Java Developer
8 232 (6.98%) Software Developer
9 202 (6.08%) Architect
10 200 (6.02%) Full Stack Developer
11 189 (5.69%) AWS Engineer
12 130 (3.91%) .NET Developer
12 130 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 129 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
14 124 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
15 118 (3.55%) Senior Software Engineer
16 116 (3.49%) Lead Developer
17 113 (3.40%) AWS DevOps
18 109 (3.28%) Java Engineer
19 105 (3.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 754 (22.70%) React
2 586 (17.64%) .NET
3 389 (11.71%) Kafka
4 375 (11.29%) Spring
5 361 (10.87%) AngularJS
5 361 (10.87%) Spring Boot
6 342 (10.30%) REST
7 340 (10.23%) Node.js
8 285 (8.58%) HTML
9 261 (7.86%) CSS
10 216 (6.50%) RabbitMQ
10 216 (6.50%) RESTful
11 180 (5.42%) Web Services
12 160 (4.82%) Vue
13 148 (4.46%) ASP.NET
14 146 (4.39%) JSON
15 145 (4.36%) .NET Core
16 133 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
17 124 (3.73%) Laravel
18 121 (3.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 204 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
2 127 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
3 125 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 117 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 116 (3.49%) Data Centre
5 116 (3.49%) Public Cloud
6 110 (3.31%) Blockchain
7 109 (3.28%) Cloud Native
8 103 (3.10%) Management Information System
9 78 (2.35%) Algorithms
10 68 (2.05%) Data Structures
11 64 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
12 60 (1.81%) Private Cloud
13 58 (1.75%) Mobile App
14 52 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
15 51 (1.54%) Client/Server
16 41 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
17 37 (1.11%) e-Learning
18 36 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
18 36 (1.08%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 799 (24.05%) Linux
2 317 (9.54%) Windows
3 95 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 83 (2.50%) CentOS
5 64 (1.93%) Unix
6 63 (1.90%) Windows Server
7 54 (1.63%) Data ONTAP
8 47 (1.41%) Debian
9 46 (1.38%) Alpine Linux
10 28 (0.84%) Android
10 28 (0.84%) Apple iOS
11 21 (0.63%) Ubuntu
12 20 (0.60%) VMS
13 14 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
14 12 (0.36%) Windows 10
15 11 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
16 10 (0.30%) Solaris
17 9 (0.27%) Mac OS
17 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
18 7 (0.21%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,454 (43.77%) DevOps
2 1,385 (41.69%) Agile
3 1,256 (37.81%) CI/CD
4 911 (27.42%) Software Engineering
5 875 (26.34%) Containerisation
6 780 (23.48%) Microservices
7 641 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
8 497 (14.96%) Full Stack Development
9 489 (14.72%) Infrastructure as Code
10 462 (13.91%) Computer Science
11 387 (11.65%) Mentoring
12 378 (11.38%) TDD
13 377 (11.35%) Artificial Intelligence
14 376 (11.32%) Continuous Integration
15 358 (10.78%) Scrum
16 355 (10.69%) SDLC
17 286 (8.61%) Test Automation
18 242 (7.28%) Fintech
19 221 (6.65%) Roadmaps
20 209 (6.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,132 (34.08%) Python
2 1,091 (32.84%) Java
3 847 (25.50%) JavaScript
4 646 (19.45%) C#
5 630 (18.96%) SQL
6 483 (14.54%) TypeScript
7 300 (9.03%) Bash
8 270 (8.13%) PHP
9 259 (7.80%) Go
10 234 (7.04%) PowerShell
11 92 (2.77%) C++
12 85 (2.56%) Ruby
13 82 (2.47%) Shell Script
14 66 (1.99%) C
15 56 (1.69%) Kotlin
16 50 (1.51%) Perl
17 41 (1.23%) Bicep
18 35 (1.05%) Groovy
19 30 (0.90%) Lua
20 29 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 549 (16.53%) Degree
2 430 (12.94%) Security Cleared
3 326 (9.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 253 (7.62%) SC Cleared
5 150 (4.52%) AWS Certification
6 140 (4.21%) DV Cleared
7 130 (3.91%) Azure Certification
8 101 (3.04%) Master's Degree
9 68 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 54 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 41 (1.23%) MCSA
11 41 (1.23%) MCSE
12 37 (1.11%) PhD
13 36 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 35 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
15 34 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 34 (1.02%) CCSK
15 34 (1.02%) CCSP
15 34 (1.02%) CISSP
16 33 (0.99%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (4.43%) QA
2 37 (1.11%) NIST
2 37 (1.11%) WCAG
3 30 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (0.60%) Accessibility
5 17 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 16 (0.48%) SEPA
7 15 (0.45%) NCSC
8 10 (0.30%) GDPR
9 7 (0.21%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.15%) Data Quality
11 4 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.12%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.12%) SLA
11 4 (0.12%) WAI
12 3 (0.090%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.060%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.060%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.030%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 144 (4.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 118 (3.55%) Hyper-V
3 90 (2.71%) Active Directory
4 52 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.36%) Firmware
6 12 (0.36%) pfSense
7 11 (0.33%) NFS
8 8 (0.24%) KVM
9 7 (0.21%) vSphere
10 6 (0.18%) Ceph
10 6 (0.18%) VirtualBox
11 5 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.090%) Gluster
13 3 (0.090%) oVirt
13 3 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.060%) HDFS
14 2 (0.060%) QEMU
14 2 (0.060%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2,267 (68.24%) Kubernetes
2 934 (28.12%) Terraform
3 590 (17.76%) Ansible
4 203 (6.11%) Prometheus
5 186 (5.60%) Puppet
6 181 (5.45%) Grafana
7 94 (2.83%) Progress Chef
8 77 (2.32%) vCenter Server
9 55 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
10 43 (1.29%) Kibana
11 31 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
11 31 (0.93%) HAProxy
12 29 (0.87%) Nagios
12 29 (0.87%) ZABBIX
13 22 (0.66%) Consul
13 22 (0.66%) Packer
14 21 (0.63%) Salt
15 15 (0.45%) Podman
15 15 (0.45%) SCCM
16 14 (0.42%) Argo
Vendors
1 328 (9.87%) Microsoft
2 265 (7.98%) Google
3 202 (6.08%) Red Hat
4 180 (5.42%) Oracle
5 178 (5.36%) VMware
6 99 (2.98%) IBM
7 67 (2.02%) Splunk
8 58 (1.75%) Palo Alto
9 57 (1.72%) NetApp
10 54 (1.63%) SolidFire
11 43 (1.29%) WSO2
12 39 (1.17%) Dynatrace
13 32 (0.96%) Cisco
14 28 (0.84%) Atlassian
15 26 (0.78%) Facebook
16 23 (0.69%) Veeam
17 20 (0.60%) Juniper
18 19 (0.57%) ForgeRock
18 19 (0.57%) McAfee
19 18 (0.54%) Apple