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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 10 114
Rank change year-on-year -91 +104 -87
Permanent jobs citing Docker 191 877 139
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.49% 17.16% 1.83%
As % of the System Software category 31.52% 84.17% 24.78%
Number of salaries quoted 137 96 68
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,375 £44,625
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £74,358
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,125 £80,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £71,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.59% +2.14% -3.45%

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 606 1,042 561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.74% 20.39% 7.39%
Number of salaries quoted 473 237 349
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,125 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £53,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.49% +19.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £81,000 £80,000 £70,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -12.73% -

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -47 152 £70,000 +7.69% 147
Lancashire -58 18 £61,250 +10.86% 20
Merseyside -44 10 £95,000 +58.33% 13
Cheshire -77 9 £52,500 -26.32% 16
Cumbria -6 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 7 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.09%) IIS
2 4 (2.09%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.52%) CMS
3 1 (0.52%) Confluence
3 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 120 (62.83%) AWS
2 69 (36.13%) Azure
3 43 (22.51%) GitHub
4 37 (19.37%) GCP
5 30 (15.71%) Serverless
6 20 (10.47%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (9.42%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (8.38%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (7.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (7.33%) Datadog
11 12 (6.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (6.28%) GitHub Copilot
12 11 (5.76%) dbt
13 10 (5.24%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (5.24%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (5.24%) OpenShift
14 9 (4.71%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (3.66%) Amazon EventBridge
16 6 (3.14%) Azure AKS
16 6 (3.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.09%) Internet
2 3 (1.57%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.05%) DHCP
3 2 (1.05%) DNS
4 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.52%) VLAN
4 1 (0.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.04%) MongoDB
2 16 (8.38%) NoSQL
3 10 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.24%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (4.71%) BigQuery
4 9 (4.71%) MySQL
5 7 (3.66%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.66%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.62%) Neo4j
8 4 (2.09%) MariaDB
8 4 (2.09%) Redis
9 3 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.57%) Chroma
9 3 (1.57%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.05%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 52 (27.23%) Git
2 43 (22.51%) GitLab
3 34 (17.80%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.81%) JUnit
4 13 (6.81%) Spock
5 7 (3.66%) Maven
6 6 (3.14%) JIRA
7 5 (2.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (2.62%) Cypress.io
8 4 (2.09%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.09%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.09%) Robot Framework
8 4 (2.09%) Vagrant
8 4 (2.09%) Vite
9 3 (1.57%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.57%) Postman
9 3 (1.57%) Selenium
9 3 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.05%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.05%) Mocha
General
1 36 (18.85%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.61%) Finance
3 12 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.76%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.14%) Advertising
5 6 (3.14%) Retail
6 5 (2.62%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.57%) Banking
8 3 (1.57%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Games
10 1 (0.52%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 53 (27.75%) Senior
2 49 (25.65%) Developer
3 48 (25.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (15.71%) Software Engineer
5 23 (12.04%) Lead
6 21 (10.99%) Principal Engineer
7 17 (8.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 17 (8.90%) Senior Developer
8 14 (7.33%) Java Developer
8 14 (7.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (6.28%) Principal DevOps Engineer
10 11 (5.76%) Data Engineer
11 10 (5.24%) Lead Developer
11 10 (5.24%) Python Engineer
11 10 (5.24%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (4.71%) GCP Engineer
12 9 (4.71%) Lead DevOps
12 9 (4.71%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.71%) Software Developer
13 8 (4.19%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (51.83%) Terraform
2 58 (30.37%) Spring
3 40 (20.94%) Spring Boot
4 39 (20.42%) React
5 27 (14.14%) AngularJS
6 22 (11.52%) .NET
7 21 (10.99%) Node.js
8 17 (8.90%) Vue
9 15 (7.85%) Kafka
10 14 (7.33%) FastAPI
10 14 (7.33%) REST
11 13 (6.81%) .NET Core
12 12 (6.28%) ASP.NET
12 12 (6.28%) RESTful
13 11 (5.76%) CSS
13 11 (5.76%) HTML
13 11 (5.76%) Next.js
14 9 (4.71%) LangChain
15 8 (4.19%) ASP.NET Core
16 7 (3.66%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 45 (23.56%) Cloud Native
2 34 (17.80%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.81%) Private Cloud
4 9 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.09%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.57%) Life Science
7 3 (1.57%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.57%) Replication
7 3 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.57%) Social Media
8 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.52%) Clustering
9 1 (0.52%) CUDA
9 1 (0.52%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.52%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.18%) Linux
2 12 (6.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.14%) Unix
4 5 (2.62%) CentOS
5 4 (2.09%) VMS
6 2 (1.05%) AIX
6 2 (1.05%) Solaris
6 2 (1.05%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.05%) Windows
6 2 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (81.15%) CI/CD
2 115 (60.21%) DevOps
3 86 (45.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (40.31%) Containerisation
5 76 (39.79%) Agile
6 66 (34.55%) AI
7 61 (31.94%) Microservices
7 61 (31.94%) Software Engineering
8 54 (28.27%) Mentoring
9 50 (26.18%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (24.61%) Observability
11 40 (20.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (19.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 36 (18.85%) Full-Stack Development
14 34 (17.80%) Platform Engineering
15 33 (17.28%) Test Automation
16 32 (16.75%) Scrum
17 29 (15.18%) TDD
18 24 (12.57%) Event-Driven
19 20 (10.47%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 98 (51.31%) Python
2 75 (39.27%) Java
3 47 (24.61%) TypeScript
4 44 (23.04%) JavaScript
5 39 (20.42%) SQL
6 31 (16.23%) Bash
7 23 (12.04%) C#
8 17 (8.90%) PowerShell
9 8 (4.19%) Go
9 8 (4.19%) Groovy
10 7 (3.66%) Shell Script
11 6 (3.14%) Bicep
11 6 (3.14%) Ruby
12 4 (2.09%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.09%) PHP
12 4 (2.09%) Rust
12 4 (2.09%) Scala
13 3 (1.57%) C++
14 2 (1.05%) Korn
14 2 (1.05%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 56 (29.32%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.32%) DV Cleared
3 20 (10.47%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.66%) Degree
5 5 (2.62%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.05%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.05%) IBM AIX Certification
7 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.05%) RHCE
7 2 (1.05%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.76%) QA
2 4 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (2.09%) Ceph
2 3 (1.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 135 (70.68%) Kubernetes
2 51 (26.70%) Ansible
3 17 (8.90%) Prometheus
4 15 (7.85%) Grafana
5 9 (4.71%) Podman
6 8 (4.19%) Argo
7 7 (3.66%) Istio
7 7 (3.66%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.62%) Puppet
9 4 (2.09%) linkerd
9 4 (2.09%) Packer
10 3 (1.57%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.52%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 25 (13.09%) Splunk
2 21 (10.99%) Microsoft
3 19 (9.95%) Google
4 13 (6.81%) AppDynamics
5 10 (5.24%) OpenAI
6 9 (4.71%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.66%) HubSpot
8 4 (2.09%) Mistral
8 4 (2.09%) VMware
9 3 (1.57%) Dell
9 3 (1.57%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.05%) Databricks
10 2 (1.05%) IBM
10 2 (1.05%) Mirantis
10 2 (1.05%) New Relic
10 2 (1.05%) Thales
10 2 (1.05%) YouTube
11 1 (0.52%) Cisco
11 1 (0.52%) Oracle
11 1 (0.52%) WSO2