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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 82 33
Rank change year-on-year -13 -49 +4
Permanent jobs citing Docker 101 142 245
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.62% 2.71% 6.25%
As % of the System Software category 33.67% 28.23% 40.70%
Number of salaries quoted 84 80 193
10th Percentile £49,350 £48,375 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,822 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,500 £91,375 £90,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.33% +6.27% -5.90%

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 300 503 602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.81% 9.58% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 243 305 504
10th Percentile £27,600 £30,200 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +6.10%
75th Percentile £64,737 £61,250 £67,906
90th Percentile £79,758 £75,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -7 79 £65,000 - 129
Cheshire -5 14 £71,250 -1.72% 51
Merseyside -11 4 £77,500 +3.33% 19
Cumbria - 1 £55,000 -
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 6 (5.94%) nginx
2 3 (2.97%) Apache Solr
3 2 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.98%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.99%) Apache
4 1 (0.99%) CMS
4 1 (0.99%) IIS
4 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 68 (67.33%) AWS
2 54 (53.47%) Azure
3 31 (30.69%) GCP
4 10 (9.90%) GitHub
5 8 (7.92%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (7.92%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (7.92%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (7.92%) Serverless
6 7 (6.93%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (5.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (4.95%) PaaS
9 4 (3.96%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.96%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (3.96%) AWS CodeBuild
9 4 (3.96%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.96%) OpenShift
9 4 (3.96%) Route 53
9 4 (3.96%) SaaS
9 4 (3.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.97%) Firewall
1 3 (2.97%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.98%) DNS
3 1 (0.99%) DHCP
3 1 (0.99%) Network Security
3 1 (0.99%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.99%) VLAN
3 1 (0.99%) VPN
3 1 (0.99%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (23.76%) NoSQL
2 15 (14.85%) MySQL
3 14 (13.86%) MongoDB
4 10 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (9.90%) SQL Server
5 8 (7.92%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (4.95%) Neo4j
6 5 (4.95%) Redis
7 3 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.98%) Big Data
8 2 (1.98%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.98%) PostHog
8 2 (1.98%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.99%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (19.80%) Git
2 19 (18.81%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.90%) GitLab
4 5 (4.95%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.96%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.98%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.99%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.99%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.99%) ESLint
7 1 (0.99%) git-flow
7 1 (0.99%) JIRA
7 1 (0.99%) JMeter
7 1 (0.99%) Locust
7 1 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.99%) Storybook
7 1 (0.99%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.99%) webpack
General
1 16 (15.84%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.91%) Finance
3 4 (3.96%) Games
3 4 (3.96%) Public Sector
3 4 (3.96%) Retail
4 3 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.97%) Banking
4 3 (2.97%) Legal
4 3 (2.97%) Marketing
5 2 (1.98%) Law
6 1 (0.99%) Digital Health
6 1 (0.99%) Electronics
6 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (31.68%) Senior
2 30 (29.70%) Developer
3 21 (20.79%) Software Engineer
4 13 (12.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (12.87%) Senior Developer
5 12 (11.88%) Lead
6 11 (10.89%) Java Developer
7 8 (7.92%) .NET Developer
7 8 (7.92%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.93%) Python Engineer
8 7 (6.93%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (5.94%) Senior .NET Developer
9 6 (5.94%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (4.95%) Software Developer
11 4 (3.96%) Architect
11 4 (3.96%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (3.96%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.96%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (27.72%) .NET
2 22 (21.78%) React
3 14 (13.86%) RESTful
4 13 (12.87%) CSS
4 13 (12.87%) HTML
4 13 (12.87%) Spring
4 13 (12.87%) Spring Boot
5 12 (11.88%) RabbitMQ
6 10 (9.90%) .NET Core
6 10 (9.90%) .NET Framework
6 10 (9.90%) AngularJS
7 8 (7.92%) Node.js
7 8 (7.92%) REST
8 7 (6.93%) Django
8 7 (6.93%) Hibernate
8 7 (6.93%) Next.js
9 6 (5.94%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (5.94%) Vue
10 5 (4.95%) Entity Framework
10 5 (4.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (22.77%) Cloud Native
2 18 (17.82%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.93%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (4.95%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.97%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.98%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.98%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.98%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.98%) Online Banking
6 2 (1.98%) Online Games
7 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.99%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.99%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.80%) Linux
2 10 (9.90%) Windows
3 4 (3.96%) Debian
3 4 (3.96%) Ubuntu
3 4 (3.96%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.97%) Unix
4 3 (2.97%) VMS
5 2 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.99%) CentOS
6 1 (0.99%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (81.19%) CI/CD
2 65 (64.36%) Containerisation
3 60 (59.41%) DevOps
4 47 (46.53%) Agile
5 42 (41.58%) Microservices
6 36 (35.64%) Software Engineering
7 30 (29.70%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (25.74%) TDD
9 24 (23.76%) Clean Code
9 24 (23.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (19.80%) Observability
11 19 (18.81%) Mentoring
12 17 (16.83%) AI
12 17 (16.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (16.83%) Roadmaps
13 15 (14.85%) Event-Driven
13 15 (14.85%) Platform Engineering
14 14 (13.86%) Performance Optimisation
15 11 (10.89%) Performance Engineering
15 11 (10.89%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (39.60%) Python
2 28 (27.72%) C#
2 28 (27.72%) Java
3 26 (25.74%) JavaScript
4 25 (24.75%) SQL
5 16 (15.84%) TypeScript
6 11 (10.89%) Bash
7 7 (6.93%) PHP
8 5 (4.95%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.96%) Go
10 3 (2.97%) C
11 2 (1.98%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 12 (11.88%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.93%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.94%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.95%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.96%) Degree
6 3 (2.97%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.92%) QA
2 5 (4.95%) GDPR
3 3 (2.97%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.97%) NIST
4 2 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.96%) Active Directory
1 4 (3.96%) vSphere
2 3 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.97%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.99%) Firmware
4 1 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 71 (70.30%) Kubernetes
2 33 (32.67%) Terraform
3 19 (18.81%) Grafana
4 16 (15.84%) Ansible
5 11 (10.89%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.97%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.98%) Puppet
8 1 (0.99%) Argo
8 1 (0.99%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.99%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.99%) Nagios
8 1 (0.99%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (9.90%) Google
2 7 (6.93%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.94%) VMware
4 4 (3.96%) Splunk
5 3 (2.97%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.97%) Oracle
6 2 (1.98%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.99%) Adobe
7 1 (0.99%) F5
7 1 (0.99%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.99%) Mirantis
7 1 (0.99%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.99%) Pega
7 1 (0.99%) SAP
7 1 (0.99%) WSO2