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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 18 92
Rank change year-on-year -127 +74 -38
Permanent jobs citing Docker 88 545 232
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.84% 12.89% 2.51%
As % of the System Software category 23.98% 71.15% 24.84%
Number of salaries quoted 76 118 192
10th Percentile £47,500 £53,375 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £78,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £96,010
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% -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 367 766 934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.51% 18.11% 10.09%
Number of salaries quoted 292 299 825
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £24,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £75,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,125 £93,778 £75,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -59 72 £67,125 -10.50% 45
Merseyside -30 8 £95,000 - 4
Cheshire -67 4 £66,250 -9.86% 6
Cumbria -13 2 £50,000 - 2
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 4 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.41%) nginx
3 2 (2.27%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.14%) Apache
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 61 (69.32%) AWS
2 38 (43.18%) Azure
3 24 (27.27%) Serverless
4 18 (20.45%) GCP
5 13 (14.77%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (12.50%) Datadog
7 10 (11.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (10.23%) GitHub
9 8 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (7.95%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (6.82%) Amazon EventBridge
12 5 (5.68%) Amazon S3
12 5 (5.68%) Azure AKS
12 5 (5.68%) dbt
12 5 (5.68%) Entra ID
13 3 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) Firewall
1 2 (2.27%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.14%) DHCP
2 1 (1.14%) DNS
2 1 (1.14%) LTE
2 1 (1.14%) Network Security
2 1 (1.14%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.14%) VLAN
2 1 (1.14%) VPN
2 1 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.91%) NoSQL
1 14 (15.91%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (11.36%) MongoDB
3 8 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (7.95%) SQL Server
5 6 (6.82%) DynamoDB
6 5 (5.68%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (4.55%) MySQL
8 3 (3.41%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.41%) Neo4j
8 3 (3.41%) Redis
9 2 (2.27%) PostHog
10 1 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 15 (17.05%) Git
2 7 (7.95%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.41%) GitLab
4 2 (2.27%) JIRA
4 2 (2.27%) Vagrant
4 2 (2.27%) Vite
5 1 (1.14%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.14%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.14%) JUnit
General
1 13 (14.77%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.82%) Finance
3 4 (4.55%) Retail
4 2 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (37.50%) Senior
2 26 (29.55%) Developer
3 25 (28.41%) Software Engineer
4 13 (14.77%) Lead
5 10 (11.36%) Senior Developer
6 8 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 8 (9.09%) Python Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (6.82%) .NET Developer
8 6 (6.82%) Integration Developer
8 6 (6.82%) Integration Engineer
8 6 (6.82%) Lead Developer
8 6 (6.82%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (5.68%) Data Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Java Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Lead Software Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.59%) React
2 18 (20.45%) .NET
3 17 (19.32%) Spring
4 15 (17.05%) Spring Boot
5 14 (15.91%) Node.js
6 11 (12.50%) FastAPI
7 10 (11.36%) .NET Core
8 9 (10.23%) REST
9 8 (9.09%) Django
9 8 (9.09%) RESTful
10 7 (7.95%) CSS
10 7 (7.95%) HTML
10 7 (7.95%) Kafka
11 6 (6.82%) AngularJS
11 6 (6.82%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (6.82%) Vue
12 5 (5.68%) .NET Framework
12 5 (5.68%) ARM Templates
12 5 (5.68%) Next.js
13 4 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (26.14%) Cloud Native
2 19 (21.59%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.68%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (3.41%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.14%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.14%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.36%) Linux
2 4 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (4.55%) Unix
3 3 (3.41%) Solaris
3 3 (3.41%) Windows
4 1 (1.14%) CentOS
4 1 (1.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (77.27%) CI/CD
2 42 (47.73%) DevOps
3 41 (46.59%) Containerisation
4 36 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (36.36%) Agile
5 32 (36.36%) Software Engineering
6 31 (35.23%) Microservices
7 29 (32.95%) TDD
8 26 (29.55%) Mentoring
9 23 (26.14%) Observability
10 22 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (23.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (22.73%) Event-Driven
13 18 (20.45%) Clean Code
13 18 (20.45%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (19.32%) AI
15 15 (17.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 12 (13.64%) Scrum
17 9 (10.23%) Full-Stack Development
17 9 (10.23%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 41 (46.59%) Python
2 25 (28.41%) TypeScript
3 23 (26.14%) Java
4 18 (20.45%) JavaScript
4 18 (20.45%) SQL
5 17 (19.32%) C#
6 9 (10.23%) Bash
7 8 (9.09%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.41%) Bicep
8 3 (3.41%) C
9 2 (2.27%) PHP
10 1 (1.14%) Go
10 1 (1.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.95%) DV Cleared
3 5 (5.68%) Degree
4 4 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.14%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) QA
2 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (5.68%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.41%) VMware NSX
3 3 (3.41%) vSphere
4 1 (1.14%) Firmware
4 1 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 64 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 47 (53.41%) Terraform
3 11 (12.50%) Ansible
4 9 (10.23%) Grafana
5 6 (6.82%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.41%) Podman
7 2 (2.27%) Packer
7 2 (2.27%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.14%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (1.14%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.14%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (7.95%) VMware
2 6 (6.82%) HubSpot
2 6 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.41%) Google
4 3 (3.41%) Mirantis
5 2 (2.27%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.27%) Pega
5 2 (2.27%) WSO2
6 1 (1.14%) Adobe
6 1 (1.14%) Databricks
6 1 (1.14%) Fortinet