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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 10 121
Rank change year-on-year -85 +111 -93
Permanent jobs citing Docker 186 882 137
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.45% 17.10% 1.76%
As % of the System Software category 30.79% 83.76% 23.95%
Number of salaries quoted 135 101 66
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £44,375
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £85,625
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% -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 604 1,053 572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.72% 20.41% 7.35%
Number of salaries quoted 472 248 360
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £53,750 £44,274
Median % change year-on-year -13.49% +21.40% -19.50%
75th Percentile £64,063 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £81,125 £78,250 £70,250
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 19 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 19 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 -48 148 £70,000 +7.69% 135
Lancashire -59 18 £61,250 +10.86% 22
Merseyside -46 9 £95,000 +58.33% 9
Cheshire -77 9 £52,500 -27.59% 13
Cumbria -5 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 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.15%) IIS
2 4 (2.15%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.54%) CMS
3 1 (0.54%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 115 (61.83%) AWS
2 66 (35.48%) Azure
3 42 (22.58%) GitHub
4 35 (18.82%) GCP
5 28 (15.05%) Serverless
6 20 (10.75%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (9.14%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (7.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (7.53%) Datadog
10 12 (6.45%) GitHub Copilot
11 11 (5.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (5.91%) dbt
12 10 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (5.38%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (5.38%) OpenShift
13 9 (4.84%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (3.76%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (3.23%) Azure AI
15 6 (3.23%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.61%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.08%) DHCP
2 2 (1.08%) DNS
2 2 (1.08%) Internet
3 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.54%) VLAN
3 1 (0.54%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.37%) MongoDB
2 16 (8.60%) NoSQL
3 10 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.38%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (4.84%) BigQuery
4 9 (4.84%) MySQL
5 7 (3.76%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.76%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.69%) Neo4j
8 4 (2.15%) MariaDB
8 4 (2.15%) Redis
9 3 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.61%) Chroma
9 3 (1.61%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.08%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 50 (26.88%) Git
2 42 (22.58%) GitLab
3 33 (17.74%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.99%) JUnit
4 13 (6.99%) Spock
5 7 (3.76%) Maven
6 5 (2.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (2.69%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.69%) JIRA
7 4 (2.15%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.15%) IntelliJ
7 4 (2.15%) Robot Framework
7 4 (2.15%) Vite
8 3 (1.61%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.61%) Postman
8 3 (1.61%) Selenium
8 3 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.08%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.08%) Mocha
9 2 (1.08%) Vagrant
General
1 36 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.98%) Finance
3 11 (5.91%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.23%) Advertising
5 6 (3.23%) Retail
6 5 (2.69%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.61%) Banking
8 3 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Games
10 1 (0.54%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 52 (27.96%) Senior
2 48 (25.81%) Developer
3 45 (24.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (15.59%) Software Engineer
5 23 (12.37%) Lead
6 21 (11.29%) Principal Engineer
7 17 (9.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 16 (8.60%) Senior Developer
9 14 (7.53%) Java Developer
9 14 (7.53%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (6.45%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 11 (5.91%) Data Engineer
12 10 (5.38%) Lead Developer
12 10 (5.38%) Python Engineer
12 10 (5.38%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (4.84%) GCP Engineer
13 9 (4.84%) Lead DevOps
13 9 (4.84%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 9 (4.84%) Software Developer
14 8 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (51.61%) Terraform
2 56 (30.11%) Spring
3 38 (20.43%) Spring Boot
4 37 (19.89%) React
5 27 (14.52%) AngularJS
6 22 (11.83%) .NET
7 21 (11.29%) Node.js
8 17 (9.14%) Vue
9 15 (8.06%) Kafka
10 14 (7.53%) FastAPI
10 14 (7.53%) REST
11 13 (6.99%) .NET Core
12 12 (6.45%) ASP.NET
12 12 (6.45%) RESTful
13 11 (5.91%) CSS
13 11 (5.91%) HTML
13 11 (5.91%) Next.js
14 9 (4.84%) LangChain
15 8 (4.30%) ASP.NET Core
16 7 (3.76%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 44 (23.66%) Cloud Native
2 34 (18.28%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.99%) Private Cloud
4 9 (4.84%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.15%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.61%) Life Science
7 3 (1.61%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.61%) Replication
7 3 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.61%) Social Media
8 2 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.54%) Clustering
9 1 (0.54%) CUDA
9 1 (0.54%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.54%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 26 (13.98%) Linux
2 12 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.69%) CentOS
3 5 (2.69%) Unix
4 4 (2.15%) VMS
5 2 (1.08%) AIX
5 2 (1.08%) Solaris
5 2 (1.08%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.08%) Windows
5 2 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (80.65%) CI/CD
2 110 (59.14%) DevOps
3 82 (44.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (39.78%) Containerisation
5 73 (39.25%) Agile
6 65 (34.95%) AI
7 61 (32.80%) Microservices
8 59 (31.72%) Software Engineering
9 51 (27.42%) Mentoring
10 49 (26.34%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (25.27%) Observability
12 38 (20.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
14 35 (18.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 33 (17.74%) Test Automation
16 32 (17.20%) Platform Engineering
17 30 (16.13%) Scrum
18 27 (14.52%) TDD
19 24 (12.90%) Event-Driven
20 20 (10.75%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 97 (52.15%) Python
2 73 (39.25%) Java
3 45 (24.19%) TypeScript
4 44 (23.66%) JavaScript
5 39 (20.97%) SQL
6 30 (16.13%) Bash
7 23 (12.37%) C#
8 16 (8.60%) PowerShell
9 8 (4.30%) Go
9 8 (4.30%) Groovy
10 6 (3.23%) Bicep
10 6 (3.23%) Ruby
11 5 (2.69%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.15%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.15%) PHP
12 4 (2.15%) Rust
12 4 (2.15%) Scala
13 3 (1.61%) C++
14 2 (1.08%) Korn
14 2 (1.08%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 56 (30.11%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.82%) DV Cleared
3 20 (10.75%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.76%) Degree
5 5 (2.69%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.08%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.08%) IBM AIX Certification
7 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.08%) RHCE
7 2 (1.08%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.91%) QA
2 4 (2.15%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (2.15%) Ceph
2 3 (1.61%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 132 (70.97%) Kubernetes
2 51 (27.42%) Ansible
3 16 (8.60%) Prometheus
4 14 (7.53%) Grafana
5 9 (4.84%) Podman
6 8 (4.30%) Argo
7 7 (3.76%) Istio
8 5 (2.69%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.69%) Puppet
9 4 (2.15%) linkerd
10 3 (1.61%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.08%) Packer
12 1 (0.54%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.54%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 25 (13.44%) Splunk
2 19 (10.22%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.14%) Google
4 13 (6.99%) AppDynamics
5 10 (5.38%) OpenAI
6 9 (4.84%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.76%) HubSpot
8 4 (2.15%) Mistral
8 4 (2.15%) VMware
9 3 (1.61%) Dell
9 3 (1.61%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.08%) Databricks
10 2 (1.08%) IBM
10 2 (1.08%) Mirantis
10 2 (1.08%) New Relic
10 2 (1.08%) Thales
11 1 (0.54%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.54%) Pega
11 1 (0.54%) WSO2
11 1 (0.54%) YouTube