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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 11 112
Rank change year-on-year -99 +101 -68
Permanent jobs citing Docker 142 909 197
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.26% 17.65% 1.92%
As % of the System Software category 28.34% 80.87% 21.37%
Number of salaries quoted 121 129 148
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £52,188
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 £85,000 £84,919
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £95,600
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 501 1,124 922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.44% 21.82% 8.98%
Number of salaries quoted 419 311 773
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £24,561
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,125 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £53,750 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +23.56% -17.14%
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +1.01% -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 13 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 13 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 -51 117 £67,500 -3.57% 60
Lancashire -62 11 £42,500 -29.75% 18
Merseyside -50 7 £95,000 +72.73% 2
Cheshire -77 4 £66,250 +10.42% 8
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 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.11%) IIS
3 2 (1.41%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.70%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 98 (69.01%) AWS
2 58 (40.85%) Azure
3 30 (21.13%) Serverless
4 29 (20.42%) GCP
4 29 (20.42%) GitHub
5 14 (9.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (9.86%) Datadog
6 13 (9.15%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (9.15%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (9.15%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (7.75%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (7.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (6.34%) dbt
9 9 (6.34%) GitHub Copilot
10 7 (4.93%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (4.23%) Azure AI
11 6 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (3.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.11%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.70%) LTE
2 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.38%) MongoDB
2 16 (11.27%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (7.75%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.34%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (6.34%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.93%) DynamoDB
6 6 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (4.23%) BigQuery
6 6 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (4.23%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.52%) Neo4j
8 4 (2.82%) MySQL
9 3 (2.11%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.41%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.70%) Redis
11 1 (0.70%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 32 (22.54%) Git
2 26 (18.31%) GitLab
3 23 (16.20%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.34%) JUnit
5 8 (5.63%) Spock
6 4 (2.82%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.82%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.82%) JIRA
6 4 (2.82%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.82%) Vite
7 3 (2.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.11%) Maven
7 3 (2.11%) Postman
7 3 (2.11%) Selenium
8 2 (1.41%) Claude Code
8 2 (1.41%) IntelliJ
8 2 (1.41%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.70%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.70%) Mocha
General
1 20 (14.08%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.27%) Finance
3 6 (4.23%) Advertising
4 5 (3.52%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.82%) Retail
6 3 (2.11%) Banking
7 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.70%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.70%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (35.21%) Senior
2 43 (30.28%) Developer
3 30 (21.13%) Software Engineer
4 25 (17.61%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (12.68%) Java Developer
5 18 (12.68%) Lead
6 16 (11.27%) Senior Developer
7 15 (10.56%) Principal Engineer
8 13 (9.15%) Python Engineer
8 13 (9.15%) Senior Java Developer
8 13 (9.15%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (7.04%) Python Software Engineer
9 10 (7.04%) Software Developer
10 9 (6.34%) .NET Developer
10 9 (6.34%) Senior Software Developer
11 8 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (5.63%) Data Engineer
11 8 (5.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (5.63%) GCP Engineer
11 8 (5.63%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (29.58%) Spring
2 34 (23.94%) React
3 32 (22.54%) Spring Boot
4 22 (15.49%) .NET
5 19 (13.38%) AngularJS
5 19 (13.38%) FastAPI
6 16 (11.27%) Node.js
7 14 (9.86%) Vue
8 12 (8.45%) .NET Core
8 12 (8.45%) RESTful
9 11 (7.75%) ASP.NET
9 11 (7.75%) CSS
9 11 (7.75%) HTML
9 11 (7.75%) Next.js
10 10 (7.04%) Kafka
10 10 (7.04%) LangChain
10 10 (7.04%) REST
11 8 (5.63%) Django
12 7 (4.93%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (4.93%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 36 (25.35%) Cloud Native
2 27 (19.01%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.63%) Private Cloud
4 7 (4.93%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.82%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.41%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.70%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.15%) Linux
2 5 (3.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.11%) CentOS
3 3 (2.11%) Unix
4 2 (1.41%) Solaris
4 2 (1.41%) Windows
5 1 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (80.99%) CI/CD
2 84 (59.15%) DevOps
3 65 (45.77%) Containerisation
4 64 (45.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 54 (38.03%) Agile
6 44 (30.99%) AI
7 43 (30.28%) Software Engineering
8 41 (28.87%) Mentoring
8 41 (28.87%) Microservices
9 36 (25.35%) Observability
10 35 (24.65%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (23.24%) TDD
12 30 (21.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (19.72%) Platform Engineering
14 25 (17.61%) Scrum
15 24 (16.90%) Full-Stack Development
16 22 (15.49%) Test Automation
17 21 (14.79%) Clean Code
17 21 (14.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 18 (12.68%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 75 (52.82%) Python
2 54 (38.03%) Java
3 37 (26.06%) TypeScript
4 33 (23.24%) JavaScript
5 28 (19.72%) SQL
6 21 (14.79%) C#
7 18 (12.68%) Bash
8 11 (7.75%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.23%) Go
9 6 (4.23%) Ruby
10 5 (3.52%) Groovy
11 3 (2.11%) Bicep
11 3 (2.11%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.11%) Scala
12 2 (1.41%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.70%) C
13 1 (0.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (23.94%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.79%) DV Cleared
3 11 (7.75%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.63%) Degree
5 5 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.41%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.75%) QA
2 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.41%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 105 (73.94%) Kubernetes
2 82 (57.75%) Terraform
3 31 (21.83%) Ansible
4 13 (9.15%) Grafana
5 12 (8.45%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.82%) Argo
6 4 (2.82%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.11%) Istio
7 3 (2.11%) linkerd
8 2 (1.41%) Packer
8 2 (1.41%) Podman
8 2 (1.41%) Puppet
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 20 (14.08%) Splunk
2 12 (8.45%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.63%) AppDynamics
3 8 (5.63%) Google
4 7 (4.93%) HubSpot
5 6 (4.23%) OpenAI
6 5 (3.52%) VMware
7 3 (2.11%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.41%) Mirantis
8 2 (1.41%) Pega
8 2 (1.41%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.41%) WSO2
9 1 (0.70%) Databricks