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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 12 95
Rank change year-on-year -133 +83 -40
Permanent jobs citing Docker 96 875 230
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.92% 18.91% 2.45%
As % of the System Software category 24.62% 80.72% 24.44%
Number of salaries quoted 83 116 190
10th Percentile £46,500 £53,125 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £93,778 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £91,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% -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 390 1,084 941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.74% 23.43% 10.01%
Number of salaries quoted 312 284 831
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £24,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +17.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £76,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £93,778 £75,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -69 76 £67,500 -10.00% 69
Merseyside -46 8 £95,000 +22.58% 5
Cheshire -81 4 £66,250 -9.86% 10
Lancashire -78 3 £62,500 +0.47% 18
Cumbria -18 2 £50,000 - 1
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 4 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.13%) nginx
3 2 (2.08%) IIS
3 2 (2.08%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.04%) Apache
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 68 (70.83%) AWS
2 43 (44.79%) Azure
3 26 (27.08%) Serverless
4 20 (20.83%) GCP
5 13 (13.54%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (11.46%) Datadog
7 10 (10.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (10.42%) GitHub
8 7 (7.29%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (7.29%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (6.25%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (6.25%) Amazon S3
9 6 (6.25%) dbt
9 6 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.17%) Azure AKS
10 4 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (4.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) Firewall
1 2 (2.08%) HTTPS
1 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.04%) DHCP
2 1 (1.04%) DNS
2 1 (1.04%) LTE
2 1 (1.04%) Network Security
2 1 (1.04%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.04%) VLAN
2 1 (1.04%) VPN
2 1 (1.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.58%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 12 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 9 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (9.38%) SQL Server
4 8 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 6 (6.25%) DynamoDB
6 5 (5.21%) MySQL
7 4 (4.17%) BigQuery
7 4 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (3.13%) Neo4j
8 3 (3.13%) Redis
9 2 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.08%) PostHog
10 1 (1.04%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 17 (17.71%) Git
2 10 (10.42%) GitLab
3 8 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.21%) JUnit
5 4 (4.17%) Spock
6 2 (2.08%) JIRA
6 2 (2.08%) Maven
6 2 (2.08%) Vagrant
6 2 (2.08%) Vite
7 1 (1.04%) Claude Code
7 1 (1.04%) IntelliJ
General
1 13 (13.54%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.42%) Finance
3 3 (3.13%) Retail
4 2 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.08%) Banking
4 2 (2.08%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.04%) Advertising
5 1 (1.04%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 38 (39.58%) Senior
2 36 (37.50%) Developer
3 23 (23.96%) Software Engineer
4 16 (16.67%) Java Developer
5 15 (15.63%) Senior Developer
6 13 (13.54%) Lead
7 10 (10.42%) Senior Java Developer
8 9 (9.38%) Software Developer
9 7 (7.29%) Lead Developer
9 7 (7.29%) Python Engineer
9 7 (7.29%) Senior Software Developer
9 7 (7.29%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (6.25%) .NET Developer
10 6 (6.25%) Integration Developer
10 6 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) Java Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) Java Software Developer
11 5 (5.21%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) Senior Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (26.04%) Spring
2 20 (20.83%) React
3 19 (19.79%) .NET
3 19 (19.79%) Spring Boot
4 14 (14.58%) Node.js
5 11 (11.46%) .NET Core
5 11 (11.46%) FastAPI
5 11 (11.46%) REST
6 9 (9.38%) AngularJS
6 9 (9.38%) CSS
6 9 (9.38%) HTML
7 8 (8.33%) Django
7 8 (8.33%) RESTful
8 7 (7.29%) ASP.NET
8 7 (7.29%) Kafka
9 6 (6.25%) .NET Framework
9 6 (6.25%) Entity Framework
9 6 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (6.25%) Vue
10 5 (5.21%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.92%) Cloud Native
2 19 (19.79%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.17%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.13%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.42%) Linux
2 4 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (4.17%) Unix
3 3 (3.13%) Solaris
3 3 (3.13%) Windows
4 1 (1.04%) CentOS
4 1 (1.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (79.17%) CI/CD
2 51 (53.13%) DevOps
3 42 (43.75%) Agile
4 39 (40.63%) Containerisation
5 38 (39.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (35.42%) Microservices
7 30 (31.25%) Mentoring
8 29 (30.21%) Software Engineering
8 29 (30.21%) TDD
9 25 (26.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (23.96%) AI
11 22 (22.92%) Observability
11 22 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (19.79%) Clean Code
13 18 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
13 18 (18.75%) Scrum
14 17 (17.71%) Event-Driven
15 15 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
16 14 (14.58%) Test Automation
17 12 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 41 (42.71%) Python
2 32 (33.33%) Java
3 28 (29.17%) TypeScript
4 25 (26.04%) JavaScript
5 18 (18.75%) C#
5 18 (18.75%) SQL
6 9 (9.38%) Bash
7 7 (7.29%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.17%) Groovy
9 3 (3.13%) C
10 2 (2.08%) Bicep
10 2 (2.08%) PHP
11 1 (1.04%) Go
11 1 (1.04%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.29%) DV Cleared
3 5 (5.21%) Degree
4 4 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.04%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.38%) QA
2 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.13%) VMware NSX
2 3 (3.13%) vSphere
3 1 (1.04%) Firmware
3 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 65 (67.71%) Kubernetes
2 50 (52.08%) Terraform
3 11 (11.46%) Ansible
4 9 (9.38%) Grafana
5 6 (6.25%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.13%) Podman
7 2 (2.08%) Packer
7 2 (2.08%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.04%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (1.04%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.04%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (7.29%) VMware
2 6 (6.25%) HubSpot
2 6 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.25%) Splunk
3 4 (4.17%) AppDynamics
3 4 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.13%) Google
4 3 (3.13%) Mirantis
5 2 (2.08%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.08%) Pega
5 2 (2.08%) WSO2
6 1 (1.04%) Adobe
6 1 (1.04%) Databricks
6 1 (1.04%) Fortinet