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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 79 52
Rank change year-on-year -21 -27 -8
Permanent jobs citing Docker 87 150 253
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.29% 3.04% 4.29%
As % of the System Software category 29.59% 32.68% 34.24%
Number of salaries quoted 75 86 213
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,875 £56,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £71,991 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.24% +15.19% -10.71%
75th Percentile £79,395 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £76,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.23% +9.29% -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 294 459 739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.35% 9.30% 12.52%
Number of salaries quoted 236 274 643
10th Percentile £28,125 £30,575 £26,216
25th Percentile £32,969 £39,727 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,927
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £49,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.78% +9.52% -4.55%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 -21 67 £67,500 -6.57% 59
Cheshire -13 13 £70,000 -3.45% 22
Merseyside -7 3 £77,500 +3.33% 11
Cumbria - 1 £55,000 - 1
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 (6.90%) nginx
2 2 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.30%) Apache Solr
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.30%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.15%) Apache
3 1 (1.15%) IIS
3 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 58 (66.67%) AWS
2 46 (52.87%) Azure
3 28 (32.18%) GCP
4 9 (10.34%) GitHub
5 7 (8.05%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (8.05%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (8.05%) Serverless
6 6 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (5.75%) Amazon S3
7 5 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.75%) PaaS
8 4 (4.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.60%) Azure AKS
8 4 (4.60%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.45%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.45%) SaaS
9 3 (3.45%) Sentry
9 3 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.45%) Firewall
1 3 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.30%) DNS
3 1 (1.15%) DHCP
3 1 (1.15%) Network Security
3 1 (1.15%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.15%) VLAN
3 1 (1.15%) VPN
3 1 (1.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (22.99%) NoSQL
2 13 (14.94%) MongoDB
3 11 (12.64%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (11.49%) MySQL
5 8 (9.20%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (9.20%) SQL Server
6 6 (6.90%) Neo4j
7 4 (4.60%) Redis
8 3 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (3.45%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.30%) Big Data
9 2 (2.30%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.30%) PostHog
10 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 16 (18.39%) Git
2 15 (17.24%) Jenkins
3 8 (9.20%) GitLab
4 5 (5.75%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.30%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.30%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.15%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (1.15%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.15%) git-flow
6 1 (1.15%) JMeter
6 1 (1.15%) Locust
6 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.15%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (14.94%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.20%) Finance
3 4 (4.60%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.45%) Banking
5 2 (2.30%) Law
5 2 (2.30%) Legal
5 2 (2.30%) Retail
6 1 (1.15%) Electronics
6 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.15%) Marketing
6 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (36.78%) Senior
2 24 (27.59%) Developer
3 23 (26.44%) Software Engineer
4 11 (12.64%) Java Developer
4 11 (12.64%) Senior Developer
5 10 (11.49%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (10.34%) Python Engineer
6 9 (10.34%) Senior Software Engineer
7 8 (9.20%) Lead
8 7 (8.05%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (8.05%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (5.75%) Python Software Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) .NET Developer
10 4 (4.60%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (4.60%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Senior .NET Developer
10 4 (4.60%) Software Developer
11 3 (3.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.29%) .NET
2 21 (24.14%) React
3 13 (14.94%) Spring
3 13 (14.94%) Spring Boot
4 12 (13.79%) .NET Core
5 11 (12.64%) CSS
5 11 (12.64%) HTML
5 11 (12.64%) RESTful
6 9 (10.34%) Django
7 8 (9.20%) AngularJS
7 8 (9.20%) FastAPI
7 8 (9.20%) REST
8 7 (8.05%) Hibernate
8 7 (8.05%) Node.js
8 7 (8.05%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (6.90%) Vue
10 5 (5.75%) .NET Framework
10 5 (5.75%) Celery
10 5 (5.75%) Flask
10 5 (5.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.99%) Cloud Native
2 17 (19.54%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.05%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.30%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.30%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.30%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.69%) Linux
2 10 (11.49%) Windows
3 3 (3.45%) Unix
3 3 (3.45%) VMS
3 3 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.30%) Debian
4 2 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.30%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.15%) CentOS
5 1 (1.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (82.76%) CI/CD
2 55 (63.22%) Containerisation
3 47 (54.02%) DevOps
4 36 (41.38%) Agile
5 35 (40.23%) Software Engineering
6 34 (39.08%) Microservices
7 29 (33.33%) TDD
8 27 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (26.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (20.69%) Clean Code
10 18 (20.69%) Observability
11 14 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (16.09%) Performance Optimisation
11 14 (16.09%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (13.79%) AI
13 11 (12.64%) Event-Driven
13 11 (12.64%) Mentoring
14 10 (11.49%) Open Source
14 10 (11.49%) Roadmaps
15 9 (10.34%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (39.08%) Python
2 24 (27.59%) Java
3 21 (24.14%) JavaScript
4 19 (21.84%) C#
4 19 (21.84%) SQL
5 16 (18.39%) TypeScript
6 8 (9.20%) Bash
7 6 (6.90%) PHP
8 4 (4.60%) C
8 4 (4.60%) Go
8 4 (4.60%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.30%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 13 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.05%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.90%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.75%) Degree
5 3 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.05%) QA
2 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.30%) GDPR
3 1 (1.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (5.75%) vSphere
2 4 (4.60%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.60%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.60%) VMware NSX
3 3 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.15%) Firmware
4 1 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 62 (71.26%) Kubernetes
2 32 (36.78%) Terraform
3 15 (17.24%) Ansible
4 13 (14.94%) Grafana
5 7 (8.05%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.45%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.30%) Puppet
8 1 (1.15%) Argo
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (1.15%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.15%) Nagios
8 1 (1.15%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (8.05%) VMware
2 6 (6.90%) Google
2 6 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.45%) AppDynamics
3 3 (3.45%) Oracle
4 2 (2.30%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.30%) Splunk
5 1 (1.15%) Adobe
5 1 (1.15%) F5
5 1 (1.15%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.15%) Mirantis
5 1 (1.15%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.15%) Pega
5 1 (1.15%) SAP
5 1 (1.15%) WSO2