Docker Job Trends in the West Midlands

Docker
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 82 119
Rank change year-on-year -78 +37 -24
Permanent jobs citing Docker 44 98 149
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.52% 3.08% 2.00%
As % of the System Software category 18.33% 25.59% 18.13%
Number of salaries quoted 29 52 116
10th Percentile £45,000 - £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £76,253 £77,500 £86,485
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% -3.45%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 240 383 822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.83% 12.05% 11.05%
Number of salaries quoted 171 267 687
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,500 £25,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £71,250
England median annual salary £53,688 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.39% +10.00% -9.09%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Docker job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Docker
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in the West Midlands

Docker
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Birmingham -23 23 £62,500 -10.71% 13
Coventry -13 10 £65,000 - 4
Bilston - 4 £66,500 -
Worcestershire -25 2 £49,000 -24.62% 4
Shropshire -34 2 £62,500 +4.17% 1
Warwickshire -18 1 - - 2
Docker
England

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (11.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (9.09%) CMS
2 4 (9.09%) nginx
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.27%) Confluence
3 1 (2.27%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (9.09%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 33 (75.00%) AWS
2 22 (50.00%) Azure
3 11 (25.00%) GitHub
4 7 (15.91%) Serverless
5 5 (11.36%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (11.36%) Amazon S3
5 5 (11.36%) GCP
5 5 (11.36%) SaaS
6 4 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (6.82%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (6.82%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (6.82%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.55%) Datadog
8 2 (4.55%) dbt
8 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) Firewall
2 2 (4.55%) Network Security
3 1 (2.27%) DNS
3 1 (2.27%) VLAN
3 1 (2.27%) VPN
3 1 (2.27%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) MySQL
2 3 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.82%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.82%) Redis
2 3 (6.82%) TimescaleDB
3 2 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.27%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.27%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.27%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 12 (27.27%) Git
2 9 (20.45%) JUnit
2 9 (20.45%) Maven
2 9 (20.45%) Mockito
3 5 (11.36%) Jenkins
4 4 (9.09%) Vite
5 3 (6.82%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.55%) GitLab
6 2 (4.55%) JIRA
6 2 (4.55%) JMeter
6 2 (4.55%) Locust
7 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.27%) MLflow
7 1 (2.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 15 (34.09%) Finance
2 12 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.09%) Advertising
4 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Banking
4 3 (6.82%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.27%) Automotive
6 1 (2.27%) Law
6 1 (2.27%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (38.64%) Developer
2 11 (25.00%) Senior
3 10 (22.73%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (18.18%) Lead
4 8 (18.18%) Senior Developer
5 7 (15.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 7 (15.91%) Java Developer
6 5 (11.36%) Product Owner
6 5 (11.36%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (11.36%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (6.82%) .NET Developer
8 3 (6.82%) Administrator
8 3 (6.82%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.82%) Linux Administrator
8 3 (6.82%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 3 (6.82%) Systems Administrator
9 2 (4.55%) Lead Java Developer
9 2 (4.55%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (27.27%) REST
2 11 (25.00%) React
3 7 (15.91%) Node.js
3 7 (15.91%) Vue
4 6 (13.64%) CSS
4 6 (13.64%) HTML
4 6 (13.64%) Spring
5 5 (11.36%) .NET
6 4 (9.09%) GraphQL
6 4 (9.09%) Laravel
6 4 (9.09%) LEMP Stack
6 4 (9.09%) RESTful
6 4 (9.09%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (9.09%) YAML
7 3 (6.82%) .NET Core
7 3 (6.82%) AngularJS
7 3 (6.82%) ASP.NET
7 3 (6.82%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (4.55%) NumPy
8 2 (4.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Product Ownership
2 5 (11.36%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.55%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.27%) IoT
6 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (34.09%) Linux
2 3 (6.82%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.55%) CentOS
3 2 (4.55%) Debian
4 1 (2.27%) Android
4 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.27%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (56.82%) Agile
1 25 (56.82%) CI/CD
2 17 (38.64%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (36.36%) Containerisation
3 16 (36.36%) DevOps
3 16 (36.36%) Microservices
4 15 (34.09%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (29.55%) Scrum
7 12 (27.27%) TDD
8 11 (25.00%) Decision-Making
8 11 (25.00%) Mentoring
9 10 (22.73%) AI
9 10 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (20.45%) Sprint Planning
11 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (18.18%) Unit Testing
12 7 (15.91%) Computer Science
12 7 (15.91%) Product Backlog
12 7 (15.91%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (43.18%) SQL
2 17 (38.64%) Java
3 15 (34.09%) Python
4 13 (29.55%) Bash
4 13 (29.55%) JavaScript
5 9 (20.45%) PL/SQL
6 7 (15.91%) C
6 7 (15.91%) TypeScript
7 6 (13.64%) C#
8 4 (9.09%) C++
8 4 (9.09%) PHP
8 4 (9.09%) R
9 3 (6.82%) Go
10 2 (4.55%) Scala
10 2 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
1 7 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 4 (9.09%) Degree
3 3 (6.82%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (6.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (6.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 3 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.27%) CISSP
4 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (25.00%) QA
2 3 (6.82%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.55%) WCAG
4 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.27%) GDPR
4 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.27%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 35 (79.55%) Kubernetes
2 13 (29.55%) Terraform
3 7 (15.91%) Ansible
4 4 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.82%) Grafana
5 3 (6.82%) Nagios
6 2 (4.55%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.55%) Puppet
7 1 (2.27%) Argo
7 1 (2.27%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) Oracle
2 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.27%) Databricks
4 1 (2.27%) Denodo
4 1 (2.27%) Facebook
4 1 (2.27%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.27%) Talend