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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 23 60
Rank change year-on-year -39 +37 -6
Permanent jobs citing Docker 10 63 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.96% 7.21% 3.33%
As % of the System Software category 15.15% 46.32% 32.65%
Number of salaries quoted 10 63 26
10th Percentile £51,535 £23,750 £33,677
25th Percentile £57,847 £31,250 £38,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,539 £32,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +107.81% -35.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £78,467 £65,000 £65,625
90th Percentile £78,790 - £76,875
UK median annual salary £71,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.07% +3.57% -3.45%

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 66 136 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 6.32% 15.56% 10.21%
Number of salaries quoted 51 105 68
10th Percentile £28,000 £23,750 £31,213
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £34,984
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,800 £47,307 £44,207
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% +7.01% -1.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £57,561
90th Percentile £78,790 £70,000 £71,904
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -37 9 £70,079 +115.63% 42
West Wales +6 1 £55,200 -15.08% 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
3 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) dbt
3 4 (40.00%) GCP
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECR
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (30.00%) GitHub
4 3 (30.00%) PaaS
4 3 (30.00%) Pulumi
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (20.00%) Azure API Management
5 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (20.00%) Sentry
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (10.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (30.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (30.00%) Redis
3 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) git-flow
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) JMeter
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Locust
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Django
2 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (10.00%) Flask
3 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
3 1 (10.00%) Jest
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) Playwright
3 1 (10.00%) pytest
3 1 (10.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (10.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (60.00%) Observability
5 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (40.00%) Agile
6 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (40.00%) Event-Driven
6 4 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
7 3 (30.00%) Microservices
7 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (30.00%) Service-Level Objective
8 2 (20.00%) BDD
8 2 (20.00%) FinOps
8 2 (20.00%) Open Source
8 2 (20.00%) Prototyping
8 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Delphi
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) QA
1 1 (10.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Terraform
2 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (30.00%) Grafana
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle