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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 70 54
Rank change year-on-year -34 -16 -10
Permanent jobs citing Docker 83 156 257
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.16% 3.31% 3.89%
As % of the System Software category 27.85% 35.86% 31.50%
Number of salaries quoted 71 97 226
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,875 £57,500 £52,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +19.05% -6.67%
75th Percentile £78,790 £93,778 £79,688
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £95,000
England median annual salary £71,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.39% +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 298 435 816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.16% 9.24% 12.36%
Number of salaries quoted 239 268 724
10th Percentile £28,200 £30,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,592 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% +0.19% +1.06%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,813 £64,063
90th Percentile £78,790 £92,883 £79,625
England median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +16.00% -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 10 February 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 10 February 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 -30 65 £67,500 -10.00% 56
Cheshire -20 11 £70,000 -3.45% 16
Merseyside -15 3 £77,500 +3.33% 7
Cumbria - 1 £55,000 - 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 6 (7.23%) nginx
2 2 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.41%) Apache Solr
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.41%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.20%) Apache
3 1 (1.20%) IIS
3 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 56 (67.47%) AWS
2 44 (53.01%) Azure
3 27 (32.53%) GCP
4 8 (9.64%) GitHub
4 8 (9.64%) Serverless
5 7 (8.43%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (8.43%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (7.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (6.02%) Amazon S3
7 5 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.02%) PaaS
8 4 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.82%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.61%) dbt
9 3 (3.61%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.61%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.61%) SaaS
9 3 (3.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.61%) Firewall
1 3 (3.61%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.41%) DNS
3 1 (1.20%) DHCP
3 1 (1.20%) Network Security
3 1 (1.20%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.20%) VLAN
3 1 (1.20%) VPN
3 1 (1.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (21.69%) NoSQL
2 12 (14.46%) MongoDB
3 10 (12.05%) MySQL
3 10 (12.05%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (9.64%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (9.64%) SQL Server
5 6 (7.23%) Neo4j
6 4 (4.82%) Redis
7 3 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.61%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.41%) Big Data
8 2 (2.41%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.41%) PostHog
9 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 15 (18.07%) Git
2 12 (14.46%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.23%) GitLab
4 4 (4.82%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.41%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.41%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.20%) git-flow
6 1 (1.20%) JMeter
6 1 (1.20%) Locust
6 1 (1.20%) Vagrant
General
1 11 (13.25%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.23%) Finance
3 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.41%) Law
5 2 (2.41%) Legal
5 2 (2.41%) Retail
6 1 (1.20%) Banking
6 1 (1.20%) Electronics
6 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.20%) Marketing
6 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (37.35%) Senior
2 24 (28.92%) Developer
3 21 (25.30%) Software Engineer
4 11 (13.25%) Java Developer
4 11 (13.25%) Senior Developer
5 8 (9.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (9.64%) Python Engineer
5 8 (9.64%) Senior Software Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Lead
6 7 (8.43%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (4.82%) .NET Developer
7 4 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (4.82%) Python Software Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Senior .NET Developer
7 4 (4.82%) Software Developer
8 3 (3.61%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (3.61%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (24.10%) .NET
1 20 (24.10%) React
2 14 (16.87%) Spring
2 14 (16.87%) Spring Boot
3 11 (13.25%) .NET Core
4 10 (12.05%) CSS
4 10 (12.05%) HTML
4 10 (12.05%) RESTful
5 8 (9.64%) AngularJS
5 8 (9.64%) Django
6 7 (8.43%) FastAPI
6 7 (8.43%) Hibernate
6 7 (8.43%) Node.js
6 7 (8.43%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (8.43%) REST
7 5 (6.02%) .NET Framework
7 5 (6.02%) Vue
7 5 (6.02%) Web Services
8 4 (4.82%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (4.82%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.10%) Cloud Native
2 17 (20.48%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.43%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.61%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.41%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.41%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.20%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.28%) Linux
2 8 (9.64%) Windows
3 3 (3.61%) Unix
3 3 (3.61%) VMS
3 3 (3.61%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.41%) Debian
4 2 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.41%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.20%) CentOS
5 1 (1.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (81.93%) CI/CD
2 52 (62.65%) Containerisation
3 45 (54.22%) DevOps
4 36 (43.37%) Agile
5 33 (39.76%) Software Engineering
6 32 (38.55%) Microservices
7 28 (33.73%) TDD
8 25 (30.12%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (27.71%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (22.89%) Clean Code
11 16 (19.28%) Observability
12 15 (18.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (16.87%) Performance Optimisation
13 14 (16.87%) Platform Engineering
14 12 (14.46%) AI
14 12 (14.46%) Mentoring
15 11 (13.25%) Event-Driven
16 10 (12.05%) Open Source
16 10 (12.05%) Roadmaps
17 9 (10.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 31 (37.35%) Python
2 24 (28.92%) Java
3 20 (24.10%) JavaScript
4 17 (20.48%) C#
5 16 (19.28%) SQL
5 16 (19.28%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.23%) Bash
6 6 (7.23%) PHP
7 4 (4.82%) C
7 4 (4.82%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.61%) Go
9 2 (2.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 12 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.82%) Degree
5 3 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.43%) QA
2 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.41%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (6.02%) vSphere
2 4 (4.82%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.82%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.82%) VMware NSX
3 3 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.20%) Firmware
4 1 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 60 (72.29%) Kubernetes
2 31 (37.35%) Terraform
3 14 (16.87%) Ansible
4 11 (13.25%) Grafana
5 7 (8.43%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.82%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.41%) Puppet
8 1 (1.20%) Argo
8 1 (1.20%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (1.20%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.20%) Nagios
8 1 (1.20%) Packer
8 1 (1.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (8.43%) VMware
2 6 (7.23%) Google
2 6 (7.23%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.61%) AppDynamics
3 3 (3.61%) Oracle
4 2 (2.41%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.41%) Splunk
5 1 (1.20%) Adobe
5 1 (1.20%) F5
5 1 (1.20%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.20%) Mirantis
5 1 (1.20%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.20%) Pega
5 1 (1.20%) SAP
5 1 (1.20%) WSO2