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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 11 101
Rank change year-on-year -89 +90 -72
Permanent jobs citing Docker 189 839 152
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.47% 16.12% 2.08%
As % of the System Software category 31.66% 82.34% 27.74%
Number of salaries quoted 134 90 77
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,875 £44,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £84,375 £77,500 £74,144
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £85,550
England median annual salary £67,500 £71,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.93% +1.43% -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 597 1,019 548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.64% 19.58% 7.51%
Number of salaries quoted 466 237 318
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £33,125 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,750 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +16.85% -16.36%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -49 148 £70,000 +7.69% 134
Lancashire -56 21 £62,500 +13.12% 16
Merseyside -43 9 £95,000 +58.33% 6
Cheshire -68 8 £52,500 -25.00% 6
Cumbria -3 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 10 (5.29%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.12%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.12%) IIS
3 3 (1.59%) Apache
3 3 (1.59%) CMS
3 3 (1.59%) Headless CMS
3 3 (1.59%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 115 (60.85%) AWS
2 70 (37.04%) Azure
3 44 (23.28%) GitHub
4 37 (19.58%) GCP
5 28 (14.81%) Serverless
6 16 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (7.41%) dbt
8 13 (6.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (6.35%) GitHub Copilot
10 11 (5.82%) OpenShift
11 8 (4.23%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.70%) Datadog
13 6 (3.17%) Azure AI
14 5 (2.65%) Azure AKS
14 5 (2.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.65%) Internet
2 3 (1.59%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.06%) DHCP
3 2 (1.06%) DNS
4 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.53%) VLAN
4 1 (0.53%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.64%) MongoDB
2 14 (7.41%) NoSQL
3 10 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (5.29%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.76%) BigQuery
4 9 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (4.23%) MySQL
5 8 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (3.17%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.65%) Chroma
7 5 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.65%) Neo4j
7 5 (2.65%) Pinecone
8 4 (2.12%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.12%) MariaDB
8 4 (2.12%) Redis
9 3 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 57 (30.16%) Git
2 48 (25.40%) GitLab
3 32 (16.93%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.88%) JUnit
4 13 (6.88%) Spock
5 7 (3.70%) Maven
6 6 (3.17%) JIRA
7 5 (2.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (2.65%) Cypress.io
8 4 (2.12%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.12%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.12%) Robot Framework
8 4 (2.12%) Vagrant
8 4 (2.12%) Vite
9 3 (1.59%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.59%) Postman
9 3 (1.59%) Selenium
9 3 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.06%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.06%) Mocha
General
1 35 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.23%) Finance
3 13 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (6.88%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.17%) Advertising
5 6 (3.17%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.65%) Retail
7 3 (1.59%) Banking
7 3 (1.59%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Games
9 1 (0.53%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 54 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (28.04%) Senior
3 48 (25.40%) Developer
4 28 (14.81%) Software Engineer
5 20 (10.58%) Lead
6 19 (10.05%) Principal Engineer
7 18 (9.52%) Senior Developer
8 16 (8.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 15 (7.94%) Java Developer
10 14 (7.41%) Data Engineer
11 13 (6.88%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (6.35%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 10 (5.29%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (4.76%) GCP Engineer
14 9 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
14 9 (4.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 9 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
14 9 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 9 (4.76%) Software Developer
15 8 (4.23%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (51.32%) Terraform
2 58 (30.69%) Spring
3 42 (22.22%) Spring Boot
4 41 (21.69%) React
5 26 (13.76%) AngularJS
6 24 (12.70%) .NET
7 19 (10.05%) Node.js
8 16 (8.47%) REST
8 16 (8.47%) Vue
9 15 (7.94%) .NET Core
9 15 (7.94%) Kafka
10 13 (6.88%) FastAPI
11 12 (6.35%) ASP.NET
12 11 (5.82%) CSS
12 11 (5.82%) HTML
12 11 (5.82%) LangChain
12 11 (5.82%) Next.js
13 9 (4.76%) RESTful
14 8 (4.23%) ASP.NET Core
15 7 (3.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 41 (21.69%) Cloud Native
2 27 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.88%) Private Cloud
4 9 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.65%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.59%) Life Science
7 3 (1.59%) Replication
7 3 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.59%) Social Media
8 2 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.06%) Hackathon
8 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.53%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.87%) Linux
2 11 (5.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.65%) CentOS
4 4 (2.12%) Unix
4 4 (2.12%) VMS
5 2 (1.06%) AIX
5 2 (1.06%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.06%) Windows
5 2 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (84.13%) CI/CD
2 117 (61.90%) DevOps
3 87 (46.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 84 (44.44%) Agile
5 74 (39.15%) Containerisation
6 63 (33.33%) AI
7 60 (31.75%) Software Engineering
8 59 (31.22%) Microservices
9 54 (28.57%) Mentoring
10 48 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (20.63%) Test Automation
13 37 (19.58%) Observability
13 37 (19.58%) Platform Engineering
14 36 (19.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 34 (17.99%) Full-Stack Development
15 34 (17.99%) Scrum
16 25 (13.23%) TDD
17 23 (12.17%) SDLC
18 21 (11.11%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 98 (51.85%) Python
2 76 (40.21%) Java
3 46 (24.34%) TypeScript
4 45 (23.81%) JavaScript
5 40 (21.16%) SQL
6 28 (14.81%) Bash
7 25 (13.23%) C#
8 13 (6.88%) PowerShell
9 10 (5.29%) Go
10 8 (4.23%) Groovy
10 8 (4.23%) Shell Script
11 6 (3.17%) Ruby
12 5 (2.65%) Bicep
13 4 (2.12%) Kotlin
13 4 (2.12%) Rust
13 4 (2.12%) Scala
14 3 (1.59%) C++
14 3 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.59%) PHP
15 2 (1.06%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 60 (31.75%) Security Cleared
2 38 (20.11%) DV Cleared
3 21 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.23%) Degree
5 4 (2.12%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.12%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.06%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.06%) IBM AIX Certification
6 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.06%) RHCE
6 2 (1.06%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.82%) QA
2 4 (2.12%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.12%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (2.12%) Ceph
2 2 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 132 (69.84%) Kubernetes
2 52 (27.51%) Ansible
3 13 (6.88%) Prometheus
4 11 (5.82%) Grafana
5 8 (4.23%) Argo
5 8 (4.23%) Podman
6 7 (3.70%) Istio
6 7 (3.70%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.65%) Puppet
8 4 (2.12%) linkerd
8 4 (2.12%) Packer
9 3 (1.59%) Check_MK
9 3 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.53%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 25 (13.23%) Microsoft
1 25 (13.23%) Splunk
2 22 (11.64%) Google
3 13 (6.88%) AppDynamics
4 12 (6.35%) OpenAI
5 8 (4.23%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.17%) Mistral
7 5 (2.65%) Databricks
8 4 (2.12%) HubSpot
9 3 (1.59%) Dell
9 3 (1.59%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.59%) Thales
10 2 (1.06%) IBM
10 2 (1.06%) New Relic
10 2 (1.06%) VMware
10 2 (1.06%) YouTube
11 1 (0.53%) Cisco
11 1 (0.53%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.53%) Oracle