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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 12 119
Rank change year-on-year -89 +107 -88
Permanent jobs citing Docker 175 890 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.43% 17.16% 1.72%
As % of the System Software category 30.07% 81.35% 22.49%
Number of salaries quoted 135 110 76
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,625 £43,125
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £79,688 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,875 £85,625
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £68,654
% change year-on-year -6.90% +5.60% -8.46%

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 582 1,094 627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.76% 21.10% 7.66%
Number of salaries quoted 463 287 446
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £50,000 £44,008
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +13.62% -19.99%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -46 139 £70,000 +7.69% 135
Lancashire -62 18 £61,250 +10.86% 23
Cheshire -73 9 £53,750 -25.86% 10
Merseyside -41 7 £95,000 +72.73% 3
Cumbria -14 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 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.86%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.71%) IIS
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 113 (64.57%) AWS
2 64 (36.57%) Azure
3 38 (21.71%) GitHub
4 34 (19.43%) GCP
5 27 (15.43%) Serverless
6 18 (10.29%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (9.14%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (8.00%) Datadog
10 13 (7.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (6.29%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (6.29%) dbt
11 11 (6.29%) GitHub Copilot
12 10 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (5.71%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (5.71%) OpenShift
13 8 (4.57%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (4.00%) Amazon EventBridge
14 7 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (3.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.71%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.57%) DHCP
2 1 (0.57%) DNS
2 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.57%) VLAN
2 1 (0.57%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.00%) MongoDB
2 15 (8.57%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (6.29%) SQL Server
5 9 (5.14%) BigQuery
6 8 (4.57%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (4.57%) MySQL
6 8 (4.57%) Relational Database
7 7 (4.00%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.86%) Neo4j
10 4 (2.29%) Redis
11 3 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.71%) Chroma
11 3 (1.71%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.71%) Pinecone
12 2 (1.14%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 48 (27.43%) Git
2 39 (22.29%) GitLab
3 32 (18.29%) Jenkins
4 14 (8.00%) JUnit
5 13 (7.43%) Spock
6 7 (4.00%) Maven
7 5 (2.86%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.86%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (2.29%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.29%) JIRA
8 4 (2.29%) Robot Framework
8 4 (2.29%) Vite
9 3 (1.71%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.71%) Postman
9 3 (1.71%) Selenium
9 3 (1.71%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.14%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.14%) Mocha
11 1 (0.57%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 31 (17.71%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.86%) Finance
3 10 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.43%) Advertising
6 4 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.29%) Retail
7 3 (1.71%) Banking
7 3 (1.71%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.14%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Games
9 1 (0.57%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 51 (29.14%) Senior
2 50 (28.57%) Developer
3 37 (21.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (14.86%) Software Engineer
5 22 (12.57%) Lead
6 19 (10.86%) Principal Engineer
7 17 (9.71%) Java Developer
8 16 (9.14%) Senior Developer
9 15 (8.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 14 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (6.86%) Senior Java Developer
12 11 (6.29%) Data Engineer
13 10 (5.71%) Lead Developer
13 10 (5.71%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 10 (5.71%) Python Engineer
14 9 (5.14%) .NET Developer
14 9 (5.14%) GCP Engineer
14 9 (5.14%) Software Developer
15 8 (4.57%) Lead DevOps
15 8 (4.57%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (52.57%) Terraform
2 52 (29.71%) Spring
3 37 (21.14%) Spring Boot
4 34 (19.43%) React
5 27 (15.43%) AngularJS
6 23 (13.14%) .NET
7 21 (12.00%) Node.js
8 16 (9.14%) Vue
9 15 (8.57%) REST
10 14 (8.00%) FastAPI
11 12 (6.86%) ASP.NET
11 12 (6.86%) Kafka
11 12 (6.86%) Next.js
12 11 (6.29%) .NET Core
12 11 (6.29%) CSS
12 11 (6.29%) HTML
12 11 (6.29%) RESTful
13 9 (5.14%) LangChain
14 8 (4.57%) ASP.NET Core
15 7 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 39 (22.29%) Cloud Native
2 34 (19.43%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.43%) Private Cloud
4 9 (5.14%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.29%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.71%) Life Science
7 3 (1.71%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.71%) Replication
7 3 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.71%) Social Media
8 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.57%) Clustering
9 1 (0.57%) CUDA
9 1 (0.57%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.57%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.43%) Linux
2 8 (4.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.86%) Unix
4 4 (2.29%) CentOS
4 4 (2.29%) VMS
5 2 (1.14%) AIX
5 2 (1.14%) Solaris
5 2 (1.14%) Windows
6 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (81.14%) CI/CD
2 102 (58.29%) DevOps
3 73 (41.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (40.57%) Containerisation
5 68 (38.86%) Agile
6 63 (36.00%) AI
7 58 (33.14%) Microservices
8 54 (30.86%) Software Engineering
9 45 (25.71%) Mentoring
9 45 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (24.57%) Observability
11 36 (20.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (19.43%) Full-Stack Development
12 34 (19.43%) Test Automation
13 30 (17.14%) Platform Engineering
13 30 (17.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 29 (16.57%) Scrum
14 29 (16.57%) TDD
15 21 (12.00%) Event-Driven
16 19 (10.86%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 89 (50.86%) Python
2 68 (38.86%) Java
3 45 (25.71%) JavaScript
4 42 (24.00%) TypeScript
5 38 (21.71%) SQL
6 26 (14.86%) Bash
7 23 (13.14%) C#
8 14 (8.00%) PowerShell
9 8 (4.57%) Groovy
10 6 (3.43%) Go
10 6 (3.43%) Ruby
11 5 (2.86%) Bicep
12 4 (2.29%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.29%) PHP
12 4 (2.29%) Scala
13 3 (1.71%) C++
13 3 (1.71%) Rust
13 3 (1.71%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.14%) Korn
14 2 (1.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 48 (27.43%) Security Cleared
2 29 (16.57%) DV Cleared
3 16 (9.14%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.57%) Degree
5 4 (2.29%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.14%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.14%) IBM AIX Certification
7 2 (1.14%) RHCE
7 2 (1.14%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.29%) QA
2 4 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (2.29%) Ceph
2 3 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 126 (72.00%) Kubernetes
2 45 (25.71%) Ansible
3 15 (8.57%) Prometheus
4 13 (7.43%) Grafana
5 7 (4.00%) Argo
5 7 (4.00%) Istio
5 7 (4.00%) Podman
6 5 (2.86%) Puppet
7 4 (2.29%) linkerd
8 3 (1.71%) Check_MK
8 3 (1.71%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.57%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 25 (14.29%) Splunk
2 15 (8.57%) Google
2 15 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.43%) AppDynamics
4 9 (5.14%) OpenAI
5 7 (4.00%) HubSpot
5 7 (4.00%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.86%) VMware
7 4 (2.29%) Mistral
8 3 (1.71%) Dell
8 3 (1.71%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.14%) Databricks
9 2 (1.14%) IBM
9 2 (1.14%) Mirantis
9 2 (1.14%) Pega
9 2 (1.14%) WSO2
10 1 (0.57%) New Relic
10 1 (0.57%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.57%) Oracle
10 1 (0.57%) YouTube