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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 12 120
Rank change year-on-year -95 +108 -78
Permanent jobs citing Docker 169 895 148
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.42% 17.14% 1.77%
As % of the System Software category 29.91% 80.56% 22.39%
Number of salaries quoted 134 116 90
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,125 £41,125
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £84,375 £77,813 £74,786
90th Percentile £97,500 £89,375 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +6.62% -9.33%

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 565 1,111 661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.73% 21.28% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 456 301 504
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £47,683 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +5.96% -18.18%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.91%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -48 137 £70,000 +7.69% 68
Lancashire -59 15 £50,000 -9.50% 17
Cheshire -74 8 £52,500 -27.59% 5
Merseyside -46 7 £95,000 +72.73% 1
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 7 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.96%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.78%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.59%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 109 (64.50%) AWS
2 61 (36.09%) Azure
3 34 (20.12%) GCP
3 34 (20.12%) GitHub
4 28 (16.57%) Serverless
5 15 (8.88%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (8.28%) Datadog
7 13 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (7.10%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (6.51%) dbt
10 10 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (5.92%) Amazon SQS
10 10 (5.92%) GitHub Copilot
11 9 (5.33%) OpenShift
12 7 (4.14%) Amazon EventBridge
13 6 (3.55%) Azure AI
13 6 (3.55%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (3.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.78%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.59%) DHCP
2 1 (0.59%) DNS
2 1 (0.59%) LTE
2 1 (0.59%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.59%) VLAN
2 1 (0.59%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.43%) MongoDB
2 14 (8.28%) NoSQL
2 14 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.51%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.92%) BigQuery
5 8 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (4.73%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.14%) DynamoDB
6 7 (4.14%) MySQL
7 6 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.37%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.78%) MariaDB
10 3 (1.78%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.78%) Redis
11 1 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.59%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 46 (27.22%) Git
2 33 (19.53%) GitLab
3 30 (17.75%) Jenkins
4 12 (7.10%) JUnit
5 11 (6.51%) Spock
6 5 (2.96%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (2.37%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.37%) JIRA
7 4 (2.37%) Maven
7 4 (2.37%) Robot Framework
7 4 (2.37%) Vite
8 3 (1.78%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.78%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.78%) Postman
8 3 (1.78%) Selenium
8 3 (1.78%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.18%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.18%) Mocha
10 1 (0.59%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 29 (17.16%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.20%) Finance
3 8 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.14%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.55%) Advertising
6 4 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.37%) Retail
7 3 (1.78%) Banking
7 3 (1.78%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.18%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Games
Job Titles
1 53 (31.36%) Senior
2 48 (28.40%) Developer
3 34 (20.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (15.98%) Software Engineer
5 21 (12.43%) Lead
6 18 (10.65%) Principal Engineer
7 17 (10.06%) Java Developer
8 16 (9.47%) Senior Developer
9 14 (8.28%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 12 (7.10%) Senior Java Developer
12 11 (6.51%) Data Engineer
12 11 (6.51%) Python Engineer
13 10 (5.92%) Lead Developer
13 10 (5.92%) Principal DevOps Engineer
14 9 (5.33%) .NET Developer
14 9 (5.33%) Senior Software Developer
14 9 (5.33%) Software Developer
15 8 (4.73%) Cloud Engineer
15 8 (4.73%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (29.59%) Spring
2 37 (21.89%) Spring Boot
3 32 (18.93%) React
4 24 (14.20%) .NET
4 24 (14.20%) AngularJS
5 19 (11.24%) Node.js
6 16 (9.47%) FastAPI
7 15 (8.88%) Vue
8 14 (8.28%) REST
9 12 (7.10%) .NET Core
9 12 (7.10%) ASP.NET
9 12 (7.10%) Next.js
10 11 (6.51%) CSS
10 11 (6.51%) HTML
10 11 (6.51%) RESTful
11 10 (5.92%) Kafka
11 10 (5.92%) LangChain
12 8 (4.73%) ASP.NET Core
13 7 (4.14%) OpenAPI
13 7 (4.14%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 38 (22.49%) Cloud Native
2 31 (18.34%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.51%) Private Cloud
4 7 (4.14%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.37%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.78%) Replication
7 3 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.78%) Social Media
8 2 (1.18%) Life Science
8 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.18%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.59%) Clustering
9 1 (0.59%) CUDA
9 1 (0.59%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.59%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.24%) Linux
2 8 (4.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.37%) CentOS
3 4 (2.37%) Unix
4 2 (1.18%) AIX
4 2 (1.18%) Solaris
4 2 (1.18%) VMS
4 2 (1.18%) Windows
5 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (80.47%) CI/CD
2 99 (58.58%) DevOps
3 71 (42.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (40.83%) Containerisation
5 64 (37.87%) Agile
6 59 (34.91%) AI
7 53 (31.36%) Microservices
8 51 (30.18%) Software Engineering
9 45 (26.63%) Mentoring
10 41 (24.26%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (23.08%) Observability
12 32 (18.93%) TDD
13 31 (18.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (18.34%) Test Automation
14 30 (17.75%) Full-Stack Development
14 30 (17.75%) Platform Engineering
14 30 (17.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 27 (15.98%) Scrum
16 20 (11.83%) Event-Driven
17 18 (10.65%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 85 (50.30%) Python
2 63 (37.28%) Java
3 41 (24.26%) JavaScript
4 38 (22.49%) TypeScript
5 35 (20.71%) SQL
6 24 (14.20%) C#
7 23 (13.61%) Bash
8 12 (7.10%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.55%) Go
9 6 (3.55%) Groovy
9 6 (3.55%) Ruby
10 4 (2.37%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.37%) PHP
11 3 (1.78%) Bicep
11 3 (1.78%) C++
11 3 (1.78%) Scala
12 2 (1.18%) Korn
12 2 (1.18%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.18%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.59%) C
Qualifications
1 46 (27.22%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.57%) DV Cleared
3 15 (8.88%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.73%) Degree
5 4 (2.37%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.18%) IBM AIX Certification
7 2 (1.18%) RHCE
7 2 (1.18%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.10%) QA
2 4 (2.37%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (2.37%) Ceph
2 3 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.59%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.59%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 121 (71.60%) Kubernetes
2 90 (53.25%) Terraform
3 44 (26.04%) Ansible
4 15 (8.88%) Prometheus
5 13 (7.69%) Grafana
6 7 (4.14%) Argo
6 7 (4.14%) Istio
6 7 (4.14%) Podman
7 5 (2.96%) Puppet
8 4 (2.37%) linkerd
9 3 (1.78%) Check_MK
9 3 (1.78%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.59%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (13.61%) Splunk
2 14 (8.28%) Google
3 13 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.51%) AppDynamics
5 9 (5.33%) OpenAI
6 7 (4.14%) HubSpot
6 7 (4.14%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.96%) VMware
8 3 (1.78%) Dell
8 3 (1.78%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.18%) IBM
9 2 (1.18%) Mirantis
9 2 (1.18%) Pega
9 2 (1.18%) WSO2
10 1 (0.59%) Cisco
10 1 (0.59%) Databricks
10 1 (0.59%) NVIDIA