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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 12 121
Rank change year-on-year -91 +109 -78
Permanent jobs citing Docker 163 898 150
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.38% 17.39% 1.79%
As % of the System Software category 29.58% 80.76% 22.06%
Number of salaries quoted 130 119 97
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £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 551 1,112 680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.65% 21.54% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 447 302 527
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,200
25th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £60,625
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 11 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 11 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 -47 132 £70,000 +7.69% 98
Lancashire -62 14 £50,000 -9.50% 19
Cheshire -69 8 £52,500 -27.59% 25
Merseyside -45 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 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.07%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.84%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 109 (66.87%) AWS
2 61 (37.42%) Azure
3 35 (21.47%) GCP
4 32 (19.63%) GitHub
5 29 (17.79%) Serverless
6 14 (8.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (8.59%) Datadog
6 14 (8.59%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (7.98%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (7.36%) dbt
9 10 (6.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (6.13%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (6.13%) GitHub Copilot
10 7 (4.29%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (3.68%) Azure AI
11 6 (3.68%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (3.68%) OpenShift
12 5 (3.07%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.84%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.23%) 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 (12.88%) MongoDB
2 15 (9.20%) NoSQL
2 15 (9.20%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.75%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.13%) BigQuery
5 9 (5.52%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (4.91%) Relational Database
7 7 (4.29%) DynamoDB
7 7 (4.29%) MySQL
8 6 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.07%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.45%) Neo4j
10 4 (2.45%) Redis
11 3 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.84%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.84%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.61%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 44 (26.99%) Git
2 31 (19.02%) GitLab
3 29 (17.79%) Jenkins
4 12 (7.36%) JUnit
5 11 (6.75%) Spock
6 4 (2.45%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.45%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.45%) JIRA
6 4 (2.45%) Maven
6 4 (2.45%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.45%) Vite
7 3 (1.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.84%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.84%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.84%) Postman
7 3 (1.84%) Selenium
7 3 (1.84%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.23%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.61%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.61%) Vagrant
General
1 27 (16.56%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.72%) Finance
3 8 (4.91%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.68%) Advertising
4 6 (3.68%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.45%) Retail
7 3 (1.84%) Banking
7 3 (1.84%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 53 (32.52%) Senior
2 46 (28.22%) Developer
3 28 (17.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (17.18%) Software Engineer
4 19 (11.66%) Lead
5 17 (10.43%) Java Developer
6 16 (9.82%) Principal Engineer
6 16 (9.82%) Senior Developer
7 14 (8.59%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (7.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 12 (7.36%) Python Engineer
8 12 (7.36%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (6.75%) Data Engineer
10 9 (5.52%) .NET Developer
10 9 (5.52%) Lead Developer
10 9 (5.52%) Python Software Engineer
10 9 (5.52%) Senior Software Developer
10 9 (5.52%) Software Developer
11 8 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (4.91%) Principal DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (29.45%) Spring
2 35 (21.47%) Spring Boot
3 33 (20.25%) React
4 24 (14.72%) .NET
4 24 (14.72%) AngularJS
5 17 (10.43%) FastAPI
5 17 (10.43%) Node.js
6 16 (9.82%) Vue
7 12 (7.36%) .NET Core
7 12 (7.36%) ASP.NET
7 12 (7.36%) REST
7 12 (7.36%) RESTful
8 11 (6.75%) CSS
8 11 (6.75%) HTML
8 11 (6.75%) Next.js
9 10 (6.13%) Kafka
9 10 (6.13%) LangChain
10 8 (4.91%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (4.29%) Entity Framework
11 7 (4.29%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 38 (23.31%) Cloud Native
2 31 (19.02%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.75%) Private Cloud
4 7 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.45%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.84%) Replication
7 3 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.84%) Social Media
8 2 (1.23%) Life Science
8 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.23%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.23%) 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 18 (11.04%) Linux
2 6 (3.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.45%) Unix
4 3 (1.84%) CentOS
5 2 (1.23%) Solaris
5 2 (1.23%) VMS
5 2 (1.23%) Windows
6 1 (0.61%) AIX
6 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (80.37%) CI/CD
2 96 (58.90%) DevOps
3 68 (41.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (41.10%) Containerisation
5 63 (38.65%) Agile
6 58 (35.58%) AI
7 52 (31.90%) Software Engineering
8 50 (30.67%) Microservices
9 45 (27.61%) Mentoring
10 40 (24.54%) Observability
10 40 (24.54%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (21.47%) TDD
12 30 (18.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (17.79%) Full-Stack Development
13 29 (17.79%) Platform Engineering
13 29 (17.79%) Test Automation
14 28 (17.18%) Scrum
15 26 (15.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 20 (12.27%) Clean Code
16 20 (12.27%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 82 (50.31%) Python
2 61 (37.42%) Java
3 38 (23.31%) TypeScript
4 37 (22.70%) JavaScript
5 36 (22.09%) SQL
6 24 (14.72%) C#
7 21 (12.88%) Bash
8 12 (7.36%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.68%) Go
9 6 (3.68%) Groovy
9 6 (3.68%) Ruby
10 4 (2.45%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.45%) PHP
11 3 (1.84%) Bicep
11 3 (1.84%) Scala
12 2 (1.23%) C++
12 2 (1.23%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.61%) C
13 1 (0.61%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (24.54%) Security Cleared
2 25 (15.34%) DV Cleared
3 12 (7.36%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.52%) Degree
5 4 (2.45%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.61%) IBM AIX Certification
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.61%) RHCE
6 1 (0.61%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.75%) QA
2 4 (2.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (2.45%) Ceph
2 3 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 115 (70.55%) Kubernetes
2 86 (52.76%) Terraform
3 38 (23.31%) Ansible
4 15 (9.20%) Prometheus
5 13 (7.98%) Grafana
6 7 (4.29%) Argo
6 7 (4.29%) Istio
7 6 (3.68%) Podman
8 4 (2.45%) linkerd
8 4 (2.45%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.45%) Puppet
9 3 (1.84%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.61%) Packer
10 1 (0.61%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 23 (14.11%) Splunk
2 15 (9.20%) Google
3 13 (7.98%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.75%) AppDynamics
5 9 (5.52%) OpenAI
6 7 (4.29%) HubSpot
7 6 (3.68%) Red Hat
8 5 (3.07%) VMware
9 3 (1.84%) Dell
9 3 (1.84%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.23%) Mirantis
10 2 (1.23%) Pega
10 2 (1.23%) WSO2
11 1 (0.61%) Cisco
11 1 (0.61%) Databricks
11 1 (0.61%) IBM
11 1 (0.61%) NVIDIA