Docker Job Trends in the North West

Docker
England > North West

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 11 112
Rank change year-on-year -110 +101 -68
Permanent jobs citing Docker 140 907 207
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.25% 18.02% 1.95%
As % of the System Software category 28.51% 81.20% 22.00%
Number of salaries quoted 120 129 155
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £43,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £96,200
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -6.67%

All System Software Skills
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 491 1,117 941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.38% 22.19% 8.84%
Number of salaries quoted 411 306 789
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £24,500
25th Percentile £32,250 £33,594 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +26.44% -17.14%
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,438 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £53,688 £51,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year +4.25% +4.04% -10.00%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Docker job vacancy trend in the North West

Docker
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in the North West over the 6 months to 6 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in the North West

Docker
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the North West region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Manchester -58 115 £67,500 -3.57% 52
Lancashire -64 11 £42,500 -29.75% 14
Merseyside -45 7 £95,000 +72.73% 3
Cheshire -78 4 £66,250 +10.42% 2
Cumbria -17 1 £45,000 -
Docker
England

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 6 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.14%) IIS
3 2 (1.43%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 99 (70.71%) AWS
2 57 (40.71%) Azure
3 31 (22.14%) Serverless
4 29 (20.71%) GCP
4 29 (20.71%) GitHub
5 14 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (10.00%) Datadog
6 13 (9.29%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (9.29%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (7.86%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (6.43%) dbt
9 9 (6.43%) GitHub Copilot
10 7 (5.00%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (4.29%) Azure AI
11 6 (4.29%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.14%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.71%) LTE
2 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.57%) MongoDB
2 16 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.43%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (6.43%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.00%) DynamoDB
6 6 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (4.29%) BigQuery
6 6 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (4.29%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.57%) Neo4j
8 4 (2.86%) MySQL
9 3 (2.14%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.43%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.71%) Redis
11 1 (0.71%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 31 (22.14%) Git
2 26 (18.57%) GitLab
3 23 (16.43%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.43%) JUnit
5 8 (5.71%) Spock
6 4 (2.86%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.86%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.86%) JIRA
6 4 (2.86%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.86%) Vite
7 3 (2.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.14%) Maven
7 3 (2.14%) Postman
7 3 (2.14%) Selenium
8 2 (1.43%) Claude Code
8 2 (1.43%) IntelliJ
8 2 (1.43%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.71%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.71%) Mocha
General
1 18 (12.86%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.71%) Finance
3 6 (4.29%) Advertising
4 5 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.86%) Retail
6 3 (2.14%) Banking
7 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.71%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (36.43%) Senior
2 43 (30.71%) Developer
3 30 (21.43%) Software Engineer
4 22 (15.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (12.86%) Java Developer
6 17 (12.14%) Lead
7 16 (11.43%) Senior Developer
8 14 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
9 13 (9.29%) Python Engineer
9 13 (9.29%) Senior Java Developer
9 13 (9.29%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (7.14%) Software Developer
11 9 (6.43%) .NET Developer
11 9 (6.43%) Python Software Engineer
11 9 (6.43%) Senior Software Developer
12 8 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (5.71%) Data Engineer
12 8 (5.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (5.71%) GCP Engineer
12 8 (5.71%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (28.57%) Spring
2 33 (23.57%) React
3 30 (21.43%) Spring Boot
4 23 (16.43%) .NET
5 19 (13.57%) AngularJS
5 19 (13.57%) FastAPI
6 16 (11.43%) Node.js
7 13 (9.29%) .NET Core
7 13 (9.29%) Vue
8 11 (7.86%) ASP.NET
8 11 (7.86%) CSS
8 11 (7.86%) HTML
8 11 (7.86%) Next.js
8 11 (7.86%) REST
8 11 (7.86%) RESTful
9 10 (7.14%) Kafka
9 10 (7.14%) LangChain
10 8 (5.71%) Django
11 7 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 37 (26.43%) Cloud Native
2 27 (19.29%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.71%) Private Cloud
4 7 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.86%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.43%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.71%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.57%) Linux
2 5 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.14%) CentOS
3 3 (2.14%) Unix
4 2 (1.43%) Solaris
4 2 (1.43%) Windows
5 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (80.71%) CI/CD
2 81 (57.86%) DevOps
3 62 (44.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (43.57%) Containerisation
5 53 (37.86%) Agile
6 44 (31.43%) AI
7 43 (30.71%) Software Engineering
8 42 (30.00%) Microservices
9 41 (29.29%) Mentoring
10 37 (26.43%) Observability
11 34 (24.29%) TDD
12 33 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (20.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (19.29%) Platform Engineering
15 25 (17.86%) Scrum
16 24 (17.14%) Full-Stack Development
17 22 (15.71%) Test Automation
18 21 (15.00%) Clean Code
19 19 (13.57%) Event-Driven
19 19 (13.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 72 (51.43%) Python
2 51 (36.43%) Java
3 37 (26.43%) TypeScript
4 33 (23.57%) JavaScript
5 27 (19.29%) SQL
6 22 (15.71%) C#
7 17 (12.14%) Bash
8 11 (7.86%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.29%) Ruby
10 5 (3.57%) Go
10 5 (3.57%) Groovy
11 3 (2.14%) Bicep
11 3 (2.14%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.14%) Scala
12 2 (1.43%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.71%) C
13 1 (0.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (22.14%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.86%) DV Cleared
3 11 (7.86%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.00%) Degree
5 4 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.14%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.43%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.86%) QA
2 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.43%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 102 (72.86%) Kubernetes
2 80 (57.14%) Terraform
3 28 (20.00%) Ansible
4 13 (9.29%) Grafana
5 12 (8.57%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.86%) Argo
6 4 (2.86%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.14%) Istio
7 3 (2.14%) linkerd
8 2 (1.43%) Packer
8 2 (1.43%) Podman
8 2 (1.43%) Puppet
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 20 (14.29%) Splunk
2 12 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.71%) AppDynamics
3 8 (5.71%) Google
4 7 (5.00%) HubSpot
5 6 (4.29%) OpenAI
6 5 (3.57%) VMware
7 3 (2.14%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.43%) Mirantis
8 2 (1.43%) Pega
8 2 (1.43%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.43%) WSO2
9 1 (0.71%) Databricks