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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 12 119
Rank change year-on-year -94 +107 -70
Permanent jobs citing Docker 156 907 169
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.36% 17.63% 1.90%
As % of the System Software category 29.55% 81.05% 22.27%
Number of salaries quoted 128 128 121
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% -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 528 1,119 759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.60% 21.75% 8.51%
Number of salaries quoted 434 309 621
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £62,188 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,850 £73,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -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 28 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 28 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 -42 128 £67,125 -0.56% 77
Lancashire -66 13 £50,000 -9.50% 18
Merseyside -49 7 £95,000 +72.73% 1
Cheshire -76 5 £60,000 -17.24% 11
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 8 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.21%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.92%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.64%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 105 (67.31%) AWS
2 59 (37.82%) Azure
3 31 (19.87%) GCP
3 31 (19.87%) GitHub
4 30 (19.23%) Serverless
5 14 (8.97%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (8.97%) Datadog
5 14 (8.97%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (8.33%) dbt
7 11 (7.05%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (6.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (6.41%) GitHub Copilot
9 7 (4.49%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (3.85%) Azure AI
10 6 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (3.85%) OpenShift
11 5 (3.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.92%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.64%) LTE
2 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.82%) MongoDB
2 15 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 10 (6.41%) BigQuery
5 9 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (5.77%) SQL Server
6 8 (5.13%) Relational Database
7 7 (4.49%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (3.85%) MySQL
9 5 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.56%) Neo4j
11 3 (1.92%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.92%) Redis
12 2 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.28%) Data Lake
12 2 (1.28%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.64%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 41 (26.28%) Git
2 29 (18.59%) GitLab
3 27 (17.31%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.41%) JUnit
5 9 (5.77%) Spock
6 4 (2.56%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.56%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.56%) JIRA
6 4 (2.56%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.56%) Vite
7 3 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.92%) Maven
7 3 (1.92%) Postman
7 3 (1.92%) Selenium
8 2 (1.28%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.28%) Claude Code
8 2 (1.28%) IntelliJ
8 2 (1.28%) Vagrant
8 2 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.64%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 26 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.18%) Finance
3 7 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.85%) Advertising
5 5 (3.21%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.56%) Retail
7 3 (1.92%) Banking
8 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 52 (33.33%) Senior
2 43 (27.56%) Developer
3 30 (19.23%) Software Engineer
4 29 (18.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (12.18%) Lead
6 17 (10.90%) Java Developer
6 17 (10.90%) Principal Engineer
7 15 (9.62%) Senior Developer
8 14 (8.97%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (7.69%) Data Engineer
9 12 (7.69%) Python Engineer
9 12 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
10 10 (6.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (5.77%) .NET Developer
11 9 (5.77%) GCP Engineer
11 9 (5.77%) Python Software Engineer
11 9 (5.77%) Senior Software Developer
11 9 (5.77%) Software Developer
12 8 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (5.13%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (29.49%) Spring
2 35 (22.44%) Spring Boot
3 34 (21.79%) React
4 25 (16.03%) .NET
5 22 (14.10%) AngularJS
6 17 (10.90%) FastAPI
7 16 (10.26%) Node.js
8 15 (9.62%) Vue
9 12 (7.69%) .NET Core
9 12 (7.69%) ASP.NET
10 11 (7.05%) CSS
10 11 (7.05%) HTML
10 11 (7.05%) Next.js
10 11 (7.05%) REST
10 11 (7.05%) RESTful
11 10 (6.41%) Kafka
11 10 (6.41%) LangChain
12 8 (5.13%) ASP.NET Core
13 7 (4.49%) Entity Framework
13 7 (4.49%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 40 (25.64%) Cloud Native
2 29 (18.59%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.77%) Private Cloud
4 7 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.56%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.92%) Social Media
7 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.28%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.28%) Replication
7 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.64%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.62%) Linux
2 5 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.92%) CentOS
3 3 (1.92%) Unix
4 2 (1.28%) Solaris
5 1 (0.64%) VMS
5 1 (0.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (82.05%) CI/CD
2 93 (59.62%) DevOps
3 69 (44.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (42.95%) Containerisation
5 60 (38.46%) Agile
6 52 (33.33%) AI
7 46 (29.49%) Mentoring
7 46 (29.49%) Software Engineering
8 44 (28.21%) Microservices
9 38 (24.36%) Observability
9 38 (24.36%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (22.44%) TDD
11 31 (19.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (18.59%) Platform Engineering
13 26 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
13 26 (16.67%) Scrum
13 26 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 25 (16.03%) Test Automation
15 21 (13.46%) Clean Code
16 20 (12.82%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 81 (51.92%) Python
2 57 (36.54%) Java
3 36 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 33 (21.15%) JavaScript
4 33 (21.15%) SQL
5 24 (15.38%) C#
6 19 (12.18%) Bash
7 11 (7.05%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.49%) Go
9 6 (3.85%) Ruby
10 5 (3.21%) Groovy
11 3 (1.92%) Bicep
11 3 (1.92%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.92%) PHP
11 3 (1.92%) Scala
12 2 (1.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 38 (24.36%) Security Cleared
2 24 (15.38%) DV Cleared
3 12 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.49%) Degree
5 4 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.92%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.28%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.05%) QA
2 3 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (1.92%) Ceph
2 2 (1.28%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.64%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 112 (71.79%) Kubernetes
2 88 (56.41%) Terraform
3 37 (23.72%) Ansible
4 16 (10.26%) Prometheus
5 14 (8.97%) Grafana
6 7 (4.49%) Argo
6 7 (4.49%) Istio
7 5 (3.21%) Podman
7 5 (3.21%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.56%) linkerd
9 3 (1.92%) Check_MK
9 3 (1.92%) Puppet
10 2 (1.28%) Packer
11 1 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 21 (13.46%) Splunk
2 13 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.69%) Google
4 9 (5.77%) AppDynamics
5 8 (5.13%) OpenAI
6 7 (4.49%) HubSpot
7 5 (3.21%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.56%) VMware
9 3 (1.92%) Dell
9 3 (1.92%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.28%) Mirantis
10 2 (1.28%) Pega
10 2 (1.28%) WSO2
11 1 (0.64%) Databricks