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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 10 121
Rank change year-on-year -92 +111 -92
Permanent jobs citing Docker 184 879 137
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.45% 17.10% 1.77%
As % of the System Software category 30.21% 83.56% 23.99%
Number of salaries quoted 135 98 68
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,625 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,563 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £86,250 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,875 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £69,654
% change year-on-year -6.90% +4.09% -3.93%

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 609 1,052 571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.79% 20.46% 7.39%
Number of salaries quoted 475 247 364
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £53,750 £44,008
Median % change year-on-year -13.49% +22.14% -19.99%
75th Percentile £63,125 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,500 £69,625
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,683 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.35% -13.30% -

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 17 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 17 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 -47 147 £70,000 +7.69% 141
Lancashire -58 18 £61,250 +10.86% 24
Cheshire -75 9 £52,500 -27.59% 16
Merseyside -42 8 £95,000 +58.33% 8
Cumbria -9 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 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.17%) IIS
2 4 (2.17%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 117 (63.59%) AWS
2 64 (34.78%) Azure
3 41 (22.28%) GitHub
4 34 (18.48%) GCP
5 29 (15.76%) Serverless
6 20 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (9.24%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (7.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (7.61%) Datadog
10 12 (6.52%) GitHub Copilot
11 11 (5.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (5.98%) dbt
12 10 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (5.43%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (5.43%) OpenShift
13 9 (4.89%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (3.80%) Amazon EventBridge
14 7 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (3.26%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.63%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.09%) DHCP
2 2 (1.09%) DNS
3 1 (0.54%) Internet
3 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.54%) VLAN
3 1 (0.54%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 16 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 10 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.43%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (4.89%) BigQuery
4 9 (4.89%) MySQL
5 7 (3.80%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.80%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.72%) Neo4j
8 4 (2.17%) MariaDB
8 4 (2.17%) Redis
9 3 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.63%) Chroma
9 3 (1.63%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.09%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 48 (26.09%) Git
2 41 (22.28%) GitLab
3 32 (17.39%) Jenkins
4 13 (7.07%) JUnit
4 13 (7.07%) Spock
5 7 (3.80%) Maven
6 5 (2.72%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.72%) JIRA
7 4 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (2.17%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.17%) IntelliJ
7 4 (2.17%) Robot Framework
7 4 (2.17%) Vite
8 3 (1.63%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.63%) Postman
8 3 (1.63%) Selenium
8 3 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.09%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.09%) Mocha
9 2 (1.09%) Vagrant
General
1 35 (19.02%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.13%) Finance
3 10 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (5.43%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.26%) Advertising
4 6 (3.26%) Retail
5 5 (2.72%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.63%) Banking
7 3 (1.63%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.54%) Games
9 1 (0.54%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 54 (29.35%) Senior
2 49 (26.63%) Developer
3 42 (22.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (15.76%) Software Engineer
5 23 (12.50%) Lead
6 19 (10.33%) Principal Engineer
7 17 (9.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 17 (9.24%) Senior Developer
8 15 (8.15%) Java Developer
9 14 (7.61%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (5.98%) Data Engineer
10 11 (5.98%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (5.43%) Lead Developer
11 10 (5.43%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.43%) Python Engineer
11 10 (5.43%) Software Developer
12 9 (4.89%) GCP Engineer
13 8 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
13 8 (4.35%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 8 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (52.72%) Terraform
2 55 (29.89%) Spring
3 37 (20.11%) Spring Boot
4 36 (19.57%) React
5 27 (14.67%) AngularJS
6 22 (11.96%) .NET
7 20 (10.87%) Node.js
8 17 (9.24%) Vue
9 15 (8.15%) Kafka
10 14 (7.61%) FastAPI
10 14 (7.61%) REST
11 12 (6.52%) .NET Core
11 12 (6.52%) ASP.NET
11 12 (6.52%) RESTful
12 11 (5.98%) CSS
12 11 (5.98%) HTML
12 11 (5.98%) Next.js
13 9 (4.89%) LangChain
14 8 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
15 7 (3.80%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 42 (22.83%) Cloud Native
2 34 (18.48%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.07%) Private Cloud
4 9 (4.89%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.17%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.63%) Life Science
7 3 (1.63%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.63%) Replication
7 3 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.63%) Social Media
8 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.54%) Clustering
9 1 (0.54%) CUDA
9 1 (0.54%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.54%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.59%) Linux
2 11 (5.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.72%) Unix
4 4 (2.17%) CentOS
4 4 (2.17%) VMS
5 3 (1.63%) Windows
6 2 (1.09%) AIX
6 2 (1.09%) Solaris
6 2 (1.09%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (80.43%) CI/CD
2 108 (58.70%) DevOps
3 80 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (40.22%) Agile
5 73 (39.67%) Containerisation
6 65 (35.33%) AI
7 59 (32.07%) Microservices
7 59 (32.07%) Software Engineering
8 52 (28.26%) Mentoring
9 49 (26.63%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (26.09%) Observability
11 38 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (19.57%) Full-Stack Development
13 34 (18.48%) Test Automation
14 32 (17.39%) Scrum
15 31 (16.85%) Platform Engineering
15 31 (16.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 29 (15.76%) TDD
17 25 (13.59%) Event-Driven
18 20 (10.87%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 95 (51.63%) Python
2 72 (39.13%) Java
3 44 (23.91%) JavaScript
3 44 (23.91%) TypeScript
4 39 (21.20%) SQL
5 30 (16.30%) Bash
6 23 (12.50%) C#
7 16 (8.70%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.35%) Go
8 8 (4.35%) Groovy
9 6 (3.26%) Bicep
9 6 (3.26%) Ruby
10 4 (2.17%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.17%) PHP
10 4 (2.17%) Rust
10 4 (2.17%) Scala
10 4 (2.17%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.63%) C++
12 2 (1.09%) Korn
12 2 (1.09%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 53 (28.80%) Security Cleared
2 32 (17.39%) DV Cleared
3 19 (10.33%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.80%) Degree
5 5 (2.72%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.09%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.09%) IBM AIX Certification
7 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.09%) RHCE
7 2 (1.09%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.98%) QA
2 4 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (2.17%) Ceph
2 3 (1.63%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 131 (71.20%) Kubernetes
2 49 (26.63%) Ansible
3 16 (8.70%) Prometheus
4 14 (7.61%) Grafana
5 9 (4.89%) Podman
6 8 (4.35%) Argo
7 7 (3.80%) Istio
8 5 (2.72%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.72%) Puppet
9 4 (2.17%) linkerd
10 3 (1.63%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.09%) Packer
12 1 (0.54%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.54%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 25 (13.59%) Splunk
2 17 (9.24%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.70%) Google
4 13 (7.07%) AppDynamics
5 10 (5.43%) OpenAI
6 9 (4.89%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.80%) HubSpot
8 5 (2.72%) VMware
9 4 (2.17%) Mistral
10 3 (1.63%) Dell
10 3 (1.63%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.09%) Databricks
11 2 (1.09%) IBM
11 2 (1.09%) Mirantis
11 2 (1.09%) New Relic
11 2 (1.09%) Thales
12 1 (0.54%) Cisco
12 1 (0.54%) Oracle
12 1 (0.54%) Pega
12 1 (0.54%) WSO2