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 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 128 110 98
Rank change year-on-year -18 -12 +26
Permanent jobs citing Docker 51 92 83
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.96% 2.22% 2.20%
As % of the System Software category 24.76% 21.20% 14.69%
Number of salaries quoted 32 57 69
10th Percentile £48,775 £57,500 £45,600
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £78,790 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £99,500 £90,000 £85,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -6.67%

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 206 434 565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.90% 10.48% 14.98%
Number of salaries quoted 143 243 507
10th Percentile £28,942 £31,400 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -3.23%
75th Percentile £67,375 £65,000 £57,000
90th Percentile £79,758 £75,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £48,790 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.15% +4.55% -

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 14 January 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 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
Birmingham +9 25 £67,500 -2.61% 18
Coventry +4 8 £61,350 -12.36% 3
Herefordshire - 7 £92,500 - 2
Solihull +2 3 - -
Bilston - 3 £66,500 - 1
Warwickshire +26 2 - - 2
Staffordshire -10 1 - - 4
Worcestershire -33 1 £64,500 -0.77% 7
Shropshire - 1 - - 10
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 8 (15.69%) Confluence
2 7 (13.73%) nginx
3 6 (11.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (5.88%) CMS
5 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.96%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (5.88%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (5.88%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 39 (76.47%) AWS
2 24 (47.06%) Azure
3 12 (23.53%) GitHub
4 11 (21.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (21.57%) GCP
5 9 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (17.65%) Amazon S3
5 9 (17.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (13.73%) Amazon ELB
6 7 (13.73%) AWS KMS
7 6 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (7.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (7.84%) Route 53
8 4 (7.84%) SaaS
9 3 (5.88%) Amazon Glacier
9 3 (5.88%) dbt
9 3 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.65%) Firewall
2 8 (15.69%) DNS
2 8 (15.69%) HTTP
3 7 (13.73%) FTP
3 7 (13.73%) SMTP
3 7 (13.73%) SSH
4 4 (7.84%) IMAP
4 4 (7.84%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (7.84%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.96%) DHCP
5 1 (1.96%) SAN
5 1 (1.96%) SSL
5 1 (1.96%) VLAN
5 1 (1.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (21.57%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (11.76%) MySQL
4 4 (7.84%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (5.88%) Delta Lake
5 3 (5.88%) Redis
5 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.92%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (1.96%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.96%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.96%) Looker
7 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.96%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (35.29%) Git
2 15 (29.41%) Jenkins
3 11 (21.57%) JUnit
4 9 (17.65%) JIRA
4 9 (17.65%) Mockito
5 8 (15.69%) Maven
6 7 (13.73%) Vagrant
7 6 (11.76%) GitLab
8 3 (5.88%) Cucumber
8 3 (5.88%) Vite
9 2 (3.92%) MLflow
9 2 (3.92%) Selenium
10 1 (1.96%) JMeter
10 1 (1.96%) Locust
10 1 (1.96%) Snyk
10 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.57%) Public Sector
3 9 (17.65%) Finance
4 4 (7.84%) Advertising
4 4 (7.84%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Automotive
5 2 (3.92%) Banking
5 2 (3.92%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.92%) Retail
6 1 (1.96%) Law
6 1 (1.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (27.45%) Senior
3 12 (23.53%) Developer
4 9 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (17.65%) Java Developer
5 8 (15.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 7 (13.73%) Senior Developer
7 6 (11.76%) Lead
7 6 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (11.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (7.84%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (7.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) Data Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
9 3 (5.88%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.65%) REST
2 7 (13.73%) Spring
3 6 (11.76%) React
4 4 (7.84%) Django
4 4 (7.84%) LDAP
4 4 (7.84%) YAML
5 3 (5.88%) CSS
5 3 (5.88%) HTML
5 3 (5.88%) Laravel
5 3 (5.88%) LEMP Stack
5 3 (5.88%) RESTful
5 3 (5.88%) Spring Boot
5 3 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (5.88%) Vue
6 2 (3.92%) .NET
6 2 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.92%) Flask
6 2 (3.92%) pytest
7 1 (1.96%) JSON
7 1 (1.96%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.84%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.84%) Replication
4 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.96%) Derivative
5 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.96%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.96%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (50.98%) Linux
2 7 (13.73%) Amazon Linux
2 7 (13.73%) VMS
3 5 (9.80%) Ubuntu
3 5 (9.80%) Windows
4 2 (3.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (62.75%) DevOps
2 28 (54.90%) CI/CD
3 19 (37.25%) Agile
3 19 (37.25%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 15 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (27.45%) Microservices
7 10 (19.61%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (19.61%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (19.61%) TDD
8 9 (17.65%) Decision-Making
8 9 (17.65%) Scrum
9 8 (15.69%) Patch Management
10 7 (13.73%) Analytics
10 7 (13.73%) Change Management
10 7 (13.73%) Configuration Management
10 7 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (13.73%) SDLC
10 7 (13.73%) Sprint Planning
10 7 (13.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 30 (58.82%) Python
2 18 (35.29%) Java
3 17 (33.33%) SQL
4 12 (23.53%) Bash
5 11 (21.57%) JavaScript
6 8 (15.69%) PL/SQL
7 7 (13.73%) Groovy
7 7 (13.73%) PowerShell
7 7 (13.73%) TypeScript
8 5 (9.80%) C
9 4 (7.84%) Go
9 4 (7.84%) R
10 3 (5.88%) Bicep
10 3 (5.88%) Perl
10 3 (5.88%) PHP
11 2 (3.92%) C++
11 2 (3.92%) Delphi
12 1 (1.96%) C#
12 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (43.14%) Security Cleared
2 17 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.73%) AWS Certification
4 6 (11.76%) Degree
5 5 (9.80%) Azure Certification
5 5 (9.80%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.92%) CCNA
6 2 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.96%) CISSP
7 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.69%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) GDPR
3 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.96%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.96%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) DFS Replication
1 4 (7.84%) Dovecot
1 4 (7.84%) Postfix
1 4 (7.84%) Squid
2 3 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (68.63%) Kubernetes
2 20 (39.22%) Terraform
3 10 (19.61%) Grafana
4 8 (15.69%) Prometheus
5 7 (13.73%) Ansible
6 5 (9.80%) Nessus
7 4 (7.84%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.96%) Argo
8 1 (1.96%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (1.96%) Nagios
8 1 (1.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (21.57%) Oracle
2 7 (13.73%) ServiceNow
3 4 (7.84%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (5.88%) Google
5 1 (1.96%) Denodo
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.96%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.96%) Talend
5 1 (1.96%) VMware