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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 93 28
Rank change year-on-year +14 -65 +12
Permanent jobs citing Docker 117 148 268
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.22% 2.39% 7.40%
As % of the System Software category 36.91% 27.26% 42.54%
Number of salaries quoted 93 81 214
10th Percentile £52,000 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £91,250 £90,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +4.17% -4.00%

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 317 543 630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.02% 8.78% 17.40%
Number of salaries quoted 259 329 530
10th Percentile £28,200 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,813 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +14.13%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £48,500 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.91% +3.64% -

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 5 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 5 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 +10 93 £65,000 +4.00% 42
Cheshire -1 15 £71,250 -1.72% 13
Merseyside +2 5 £77,500 +3.33% 6
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 5 (4.27%) nginx
2 4 (3.42%) Apache Solr
3 2 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.71%) CMS
3 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.71%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.85%) IIS
4 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 81 (69.23%) AWS
2 57 (48.72%) Azure
3 34 (29.06%) GCP
4 12 (10.26%) Serverless
5 11 (9.40%) GitHub
6 10 (8.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (6.84%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.84%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (5.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (5.98%) Amazon S3
9 7 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (4.27%) AWS CodeBuild
11 5 (4.27%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (4.27%) PaaS
11 5 (4.27%) Route 53
11 5 (4.27%) SaaS
11 5 (4.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.71%) Firewall
1 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.85%) DNS
2 1 (0.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (23.93%) NoSQL
2 15 (12.82%) MySQL
3 14 (11.97%) MongoDB
4 12 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (7.69%) SQL Server
6 8 (6.84%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (5.98%) DynamoDB
8 5 (4.27%) Redis
9 4 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (3.42%) Neo4j
10 3 (2.56%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.71%) Big Data
11 2 (1.71%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.71%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.71%) Metadata
11 2 (1.71%) PostHog
11 2 (1.71%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 20 (17.09%) Git
1 20 (17.09%) Jenkins
2 11 (9.40%) GitLab
3 6 (5.13%) Cypress.io
4 5 (4.27%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.71%) JIRA
5 2 (1.71%) MLflow
5 2 (1.71%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.71%) webpack
6 1 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.85%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.85%) ESLint
6 1 (0.85%) git-flow
6 1 (0.85%) JMeter
6 1 (0.85%) Locust
6 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.85%) Storybook
6 1 (0.85%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (19.66%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.40%) Finance
3 6 (5.13%) Games
3 6 (5.13%) Retail
4 3 (2.56%) Banking
4 3 (2.56%) Legal
4 3 (2.56%) Marketing
4 3 (2.56%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.71%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.71%) Law
6 1 (0.85%) Digital Health
6 1 (0.85%) Electronics
6 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (32.48%) Senior
2 34 (29.06%) Developer
3 22 (18.80%) Software Engineer
4 16 (13.68%) Senior Developer
5 15 (12.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (12.82%) Lead
6 13 (11.11%) Java Developer
7 9 (7.69%) .NET Developer
7 9 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
7 9 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (6.84%) Architect
8 8 (6.84%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (6.84%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (5.98%) AWS Architect
9 7 (5.98%) AWS Solution Architect
9 7 (5.98%) Python Engineer
9 7 (5.98%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.13%) DevOps Architect
10 6 (5.13%) Senior .NET Developer
10 6 (5.13%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (26.50%) .NET
2 27 (23.08%) React
3 15 (12.82%) RESTful
4 14 (11.97%) Spring
4 14 (11.97%) Spring Boot
5 12 (10.26%) .NET Core
5 12 (10.26%) CSS
5 12 (10.26%) HTML
6 11 (9.40%) RabbitMQ
7 10 (8.55%) .NET Framework
7 10 (8.55%) Node.js
8 9 (7.69%) AngularJS
9 8 (6.84%) Hibernate
9 8 (6.84%) Next.js
10 7 (5.98%) Django
10 7 (5.98%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (5.98%) REST
11 6 (5.13%) Jest
11 6 (5.13%) Vue
12 5 (4.27%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 31 (26.50%) Cloud Native
2 20 (17.09%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.98%) Distributed Computing
4 6 (5.13%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.27%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.56%) e-Learning
6 3 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.71%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.71%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.71%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.71%) Online Banking
7 2 (1.71%) Online Games
8 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (19.66%) Linux
2 11 (9.40%) Windows
3 6 (5.13%) Ubuntu
4 5 (4.27%) Debian
4 5 (4.27%) Unix
4 5 (4.27%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.56%) VMS
6 2 (1.71%) CentOS
6 2 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.85%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (82.05%) CI/CD
2 75 (64.10%) Containerisation
3 73 (62.39%) DevOps
4 55 (47.01%) Agile
5 48 (41.03%) Microservices
6 41 (35.04%) Software Engineering
7 34 (29.06%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (24.79%) TDD
9 27 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (22.22%) Clean Code
11 22 (18.80%) Observability
11 22 (18.80%) Roadmaps
12 20 (17.09%) AI
12 20 (17.09%) Event-Driven
13 19 (16.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (16.24%) Mentoring
14 16 (13.68%) Performance Optimisation
15 15 (12.82%) Platform Engineering
16 14 (11.97%) Test Automation
17 13 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 49 (41.88%) Python
2 33 (28.21%) Java
3 32 (27.35%) C#
4 31 (26.50%) SQL
5 27 (23.08%) JavaScript
6 21 (17.95%) TypeScript
7 15 (12.82%) Bash
8 6 (5.13%) PHP
8 6 (5.13%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.42%) Go
10 2 (1.71%) Bicep
10 2 (1.71%) C
Qualifications
1 11 (9.40%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 7 (5.98%) AWS Certification
3 7 (5.98%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (4.27%) Degree
6 4 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.42%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.85%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.85%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.55%) QA
2 9 (7.69%) GDPR
3 7 (5.98%) HIPAA
4 6 (5.13%) NIST
5 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.42%) Active Directory
1 4 (3.42%) vSphere
2 3 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.56%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.85%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.85%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 82 (70.09%) Kubernetes
2 42 (35.90%) Terraform
3 21 (17.95%) Grafana
4 18 (15.38%) Ansible
5 13 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.42%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.56%) Puppet
8 2 (1.71%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.85%) Argo
9 1 (0.85%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.85%) Nagios
9 1 (0.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.85%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (11.11%) Google
2 8 (6.84%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.98%) VMware
4 5 (4.27%) Splunk
5 4 (3.42%) Oracle
6 3 (2.56%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.56%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.71%) Databricks
8 1 (0.85%) F5
8 1 (0.85%) Mirantis
8 1 (0.85%) Okta
8 1 (0.85%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.85%) Pega
8 1 (0.85%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.85%) SAP
8 1 (0.85%) WSO2