Docker Job Trends in Wales

Docker
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 52 41
Rank change year-on-year -2 -11 +10
Permanent jobs citing Docker 77 18 49
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.92% 2.27% 3.00%
As % of the System Software category 43.50% 29.51% 32.45%
Number of salaries quoted 71 17 48
10th Percentile £47,930 £48,196 £23,750
25th Percentile £54,000 £55,000 £29,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +37.93% -14.88%
75th Percentile £74,033 £71,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,060 £63,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.90% +7.41% -9.40%

All System Software Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 177 61 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 6.72% 7.68% 9.25%
Number of salaries quoted 156 56 116
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £23,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,230 £27,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,949 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.87% +34.93% -14.44%
75th Percentile £72,813 £71,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £57,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -10.71%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Docker relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Docker job vacancy trend in Wales

Docker
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in Wales over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in Wales

Docker
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Wales region over the 6 months to 10 August 2026. 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
South Wales -7 51 £66,000 +10.00% 15
West Wales - 26 £70,000 - 2
Docker
UK

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.90%) Confluence
2 2 (2.60%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 62 (80.52%) AWS
1 62 (80.52%) Azure
2 52 (67.53%) GCP
3 11 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (14.29%) GitHub
4 9 (11.69%) Serverless
5 8 (10.39%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (9.09%) SaaS
7 6 (7.79%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (6.49%) PaaS
9 3 (3.90%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (3.90%) IaaS
10 2 (2.60%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.60%) Datadog
10 2 (2.60%) dbt
10 2 (2.60%) npm
11 1 (1.30%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.30%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) Firewall
2 2 (2.60%) Intranet
3 1 (1.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.08%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (20.78%) MySQL
3 13 (16.88%) Relational Database
4 10 (12.99%) MongoDB
4 10 (12.99%) NoSQL
5 7 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 5 (6.49%) Redis
7 4 (5.19%) Ataccama
7 4 (5.19%) IBM InfoSphere
7 4 (5.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (5.19%) TIBCO EBX
8 3 (3.90%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 28 (36.36%) Git
2 9 (11.69%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.79%) JIRA
4 5 (6.49%) GitLab
4 5 (6.49%) RSpec
5 4 (5.19%) JUnit
5 4 (5.19%) minitest
5 4 (5.19%) Selenium
6 2 (2.60%) Bower
6 2 (2.60%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.60%) JMeter
7 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.30%) Gradle
7 1 (1.30%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.30%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.30%) Maven
7 1 (1.30%) Mocha
7 1 (1.30%) MSTest
7 1 (1.30%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 16 (20.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (15.58%) Social Skills
4 10 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (9.09%) Banking
6 3 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.60%) Finance
8 1 (1.30%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 34 (44.16%) Senior
2 31 (40.26%) Developer
3 21 (27.27%) Software Engineer
4 16 (20.78%) Lead
5 15 (19.48%) Software Developer
6 12 (15.58%) Senior Developer
7 11 (14.29%) Java Developer
7 11 (14.29%) Technical Leader
8 8 (10.39%) Senior Software Developer
9 6 (7.79%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Ruby Developer
11 3 (3.90%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.90%) Principal Developer
11 3 (3.90%) Principal Software Developer
11 3 (3.90%) Senior DevOps
11 3 (3.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.90%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (3.90%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (46.75%) React
2 21 (27.27%) RESTful
2 21 (27.27%) Spring
2 21 (27.27%) Spring Boot
3 18 (23.38%) NestJS
4 17 (22.08%) OAuth
4 17 (22.08%) OAuth2
4 17 (22.08%) OpenID
4 17 (22.08%) REST
4 17 (22.08%) SAML
5 15 (19.48%) Node.js
6 12 (15.58%) Kafka
7 11 (14.29%) CSS
7 11 (14.29%) JPA
7 11 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
7 11 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
8 10 (12.99%) Hibernate
8 10 (12.99%) HTML
9 8 (10.39%) AngularJS
10 7 (9.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 22 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 15 (19.48%) Product Ownership
3 12 (15.58%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (7.79%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (7.79%) Virtual Team
6 4 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (5.19%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (5.19%) Mobile App
6 4 (5.19%) Reference Data
7 3 (3.90%) Driving Licence
7 3 (3.90%) Mainframe
7 3 (3.90%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.29%) Linux
2 4 (5.19%) Unix
3 3 (3.90%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (79.22%) CI/CD
2 42 (54.55%) Agile
2 42 (54.55%) DevOps
3 34 (44.16%) Containerisation
3 34 (44.16%) Software Engineering
4 31 (40.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (33.77%) Mentoring
6 24 (31.17%) Microservices
7 23 (29.87%) Observability
8 22 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (28.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 21 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (24.68%) Technical Leadership
11 18 (23.38%) Scrum
12 15 (19.48%) Event-Driven
12 15 (19.48%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (19.48%) Test Automation
13 14 (18.18%) Technology Transformation
14 13 (16.88%) API Design
14 13 (16.88%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 29 (37.66%) Java
2 22 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 21 (27.27%) SQL
4 17 (22.08%) Python
5 12 (15.58%) TypeScript
6 11 (14.29%) Ruby
7 10 (12.99%) C#
8 5 (6.49%) Bash
8 5 (6.49%) PowerShell
9 4 (5.19%) Bicep
10 3 (3.90%) Go
11 2 (2.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (20.78%) SC Cleared
1 16 (20.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.19%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.90%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.60%) Degree
4 2 (2.60%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.30%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.29%) QA
2 9 (11.69%) Accessibility
3 6 (7.79%) WCAG
4 4 (5.19%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 54 (70.13%) Terraform
2 49 (63.64%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.39%) Grafana
4 7 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.30%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 14 (18.18%) Okta
1 14 (18.18%) Ping Identity
2 11 (14.29%) Informatica
3 9 (11.69%) Google
4 6 (7.79%) Microsoft
4 6 (7.79%) OneLogin
4 6 (7.79%) Splunk
5 4 (5.19%) ForgeRock
5 4 (5.19%) IBM
5 4 (5.19%) TIBCO
6 3 (3.90%) Oracle