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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 12 117
Rank change year-on-year -95 +105 -72
Permanent jobs citing Docker 165 897 150
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.39% 17.25% 1.79%
As % of the System Software category 29.84% 80.52% 22.12%
Number of salaries quoted 131 119 97
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,756 £88,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +6.62% -9.33%

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 553 1,114 678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.67% 21.42% 8.08%
Number of salaries quoted 448 304 525
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,175
25th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £30,001
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,125 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £61,563 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -10.71%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -45 133 £70,000 +7.69% 87
Lancashire -57 15 £50,000 -9.50% 17
Cheshire -71 8 £52,500 -27.59% 8
Merseyside -41 7 £95,000 +72.73% 2
Cumbria -16 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 7 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.03%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.82%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 108 (65.45%) AWS
2 61 (36.97%) Azure
3 35 (21.21%) GCP
4 32 (19.39%) GitHub
5 28 (16.97%) Serverless
6 14 (8.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (8.48%) Datadog
6 14 (8.48%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (7.88%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (7.88%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (7.27%) dbt
9 10 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (6.06%) GitHub Copilot
10 8 (4.85%) OpenShift
11 7 (4.24%) Amazon EventBridge
12 6 (3.64%) Azure AI
12 6 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.82%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.21%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.61%) DHCP
3 1 (0.61%) DNS
3 1 (0.61%) LTE
3 1 (0.61%) VLAN
3 1 (0.61%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.73%) MongoDB
2 15 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 15 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.06%) BigQuery
5 9 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (4.85%) Relational Database
7 7 (4.24%) DynamoDB
7 7 (4.24%) MySQL
8 6 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.42%) Neo4j
10 4 (2.42%) Redis
11 3 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.82%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.82%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.61%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 44 (26.67%) Git
2 31 (18.79%) GitLab
3 29 (17.58%) Jenkins
4 12 (7.27%) JUnit
5 11 (6.67%) Spock
6 4 (2.42%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.42%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.42%) JIRA
6 4 (2.42%) Maven
6 4 (2.42%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.42%) Vite
7 3 (1.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.82%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.82%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.82%) Postman
7 3 (1.82%) Selenium
7 3 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.21%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.61%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.61%) Mocha
General
1 28 (16.97%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.55%) Finance
3 8 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.64%) Advertising
4 6 (3.64%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.42%) Retail
7 3 (1.82%) Banking
7 3 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 53 (32.12%) Senior
2 47 (28.48%) Developer
3 29 (17.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (16.36%) Software Engineer
5 19 (11.52%) Lead
6 17 (10.30%) Java Developer
7 16 (9.70%) Principal Engineer
7 16 (9.70%) Senior Developer
8 14 (8.48%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (7.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 12 (7.27%) Python Engineer
9 12 (7.27%) Senior Java Developer
10 11 (6.67%) Data Engineer
11 9 (5.45%) .NET Developer
11 9 (5.45%) Lead Developer
11 9 (5.45%) Python Software Engineer
11 9 (5.45%) Senior Software Developer
11 9 (5.45%) Software Developer
12 8 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (4.85%) Principal DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (28.48%) Spring
2 34 (20.61%) Spring Boot
3 32 (19.39%) React
4 24 (14.55%) .NET
4 24 (14.55%) AngularJS
5 19 (11.52%) Node.js
6 17 (10.30%) FastAPI
7 16 (9.70%) Vue
8 12 (7.27%) .NET Core
8 12 (7.27%) ASP.NET
8 12 (7.27%) REST
8 12 (7.27%) RESTful
9 11 (6.67%) CSS
9 11 (6.67%) HTML
9 11 (6.67%) Next.js
10 10 (6.06%) Kafka
10 10 (6.06%) LangChain
11 8 (4.85%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (4.24%) Entity Framework
12 7 (4.24%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 37 (22.42%) Cloud Native
2 31 (18.79%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.67%) Private Cloud
4 7 (4.24%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.42%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.82%) Replication
7 3 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.82%) Social Media
8 2 (1.21%) Life Science
8 2 (1.21%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.21%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.61%) Clustering
9 1 (0.61%) CUDA
9 1 (0.61%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.61%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.52%) Linux
2 7 (4.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.03%) Unix
4 3 (1.82%) CentOS
5 2 (1.21%) AIX
5 2 (1.21%) Solaris
5 2 (1.21%) VMS
5 2 (1.21%) Windows
6 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 96 (58.18%) DevOps
3 67 (40.61%) Containerisation
3 67 (40.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (38.18%) Agile
5 58 (35.15%) AI
6 51 (30.91%) Microservices
6 51 (30.91%) Software Engineering
7 44 (26.67%) Mentoring
8 40 (24.24%) Observability
8 40 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (20.61%) TDD
10 29 (17.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (17.58%) Full-Stack Development
10 29 (17.58%) Platform Engineering
10 29 (17.58%) Test Automation
11 27 (16.36%) Scrum
12 26 (15.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 20 (12.12%) Event-Driven
14 19 (11.52%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 83 (50.30%) Python
2 60 (36.36%) Java
3 39 (23.64%) JavaScript
4 37 (22.42%) TypeScript
5 36 (21.82%) SQL
6 24 (14.55%) C#
7 22 (13.33%) Bash
8 12 (7.27%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.64%) Go
9 6 (3.64%) Groovy
9 6 (3.64%) Ruby
10 4 (2.42%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.42%) PHP
11 3 (1.82%) Bicep
11 3 (1.82%) Scala
12 2 (1.21%) C++
12 2 (1.21%) Korn
12 2 (1.21%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.21%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.61%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 43 (26.06%) Security Cleared
2 25 (15.15%) DV Cleared
3 14 (8.48%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.45%) Degree
5 4 (2.42%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.21%) IBM AIX Certification
6 2 (1.21%) RHCE
6 2 (1.21%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.67%) QA
2 4 (2.42%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (2.42%) Ceph
2 3 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 116 (70.30%) Kubernetes
2 85 (51.52%) Terraform
3 39 (23.64%) Ansible
4 15 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 13 (7.88%) Grafana
6 7 (4.24%) Argo
6 7 (4.24%) Istio
6 7 (4.24%) Podman
7 5 (3.03%) Puppet
8 4 (2.42%) linkerd
9 3 (1.82%) Check_MK
9 3 (1.82%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.61%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 23 (13.94%) Splunk
2 15 (9.09%) Google
3 13 (7.88%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.67%) AppDynamics
5 9 (5.45%) OpenAI
6 7 (4.24%) HubSpot
6 7 (4.24%) Red Hat
7 5 (3.03%) VMware
8 3 (1.82%) Dell
8 3 (1.82%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.21%) IBM
9 2 (1.21%) Mirantis
9 2 (1.21%) Pega
9 2 (1.21%) WSO2
10 1 (0.61%) Cisco
10 1 (0.61%) Databricks
10 1 (0.61%) NVIDIA