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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 64 77
Rank change year-on-year -63 +13 -20
Permanent jobs citing Docker 87 141 250
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.96% 3.95% 2.87%
As % of the System Software category 26.44% 37.60% 26.29%
Number of salaries quoted 75 118 209
10th Percentile £49,250 £52,500 £44,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,563 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £93,778 £82,548
90th Percentile £97,000 £98,474 £97,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £78,810 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.01% +12.59% -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 329 375 951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.64% 10.51% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 266 310 841
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £24,807
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,750 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £63,663 £74,144 £62,833
90th Percentile £81,250 £93,778 £76,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £56,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.50% +13.00% -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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -45 75 £67,500 -10.00% 60
Merseyside -13 4 £86,250 +72.50% 8
Cheshire -45 4 £66,250 -8.62% 9
Cumbria - 1 £55,000 -
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 4 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (4.60%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.45%) nginx
3 1 (1.15%) Apache
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 61 (70.11%) AWS
2 39 (44.83%) Azure
3 25 (28.74%) GCP
4 19 (21.84%) Serverless
5 12 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (8.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (8.05%) dbt
7 6 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (6.90%) Amazon S3
8 5 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (5.75%) Datadog
9 4 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.60%) Azure AKS
9 4 (4.60%) GitHub
9 4 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.60%) Sentry
10 3 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (3.45%) PaaS
10 3 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.45%) Firewall
3 1 (1.15%) DHCP
3 1 (1.15%) DNS
3 1 (1.15%) LTE
3 1 (1.15%) Network Security
3 1 (1.15%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.15%) VLAN
3 1 (1.15%) VPN
3 1 (1.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (21.84%) NoSQL
2 18 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (14.94%) MongoDB
4 7 (8.05%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (6.90%) MySQL
5 6 (6.90%) SQL Server
6 5 (5.75%) Redis
6 5 (5.75%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.60%) Neo4j
8 2 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.30%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.30%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.30%) PostHog
9 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 14 (16.09%) Git
2 6 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.30%) Vagrant
4 1 (1.15%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.15%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.15%) GitLab
4 1 (1.15%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.15%) JMeter
4 1 (1.15%) JUnit
4 1 (1.15%) Locust
General
1 16 (18.39%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.75%) Finance
3 4 (4.60%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.45%) Retail
5 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.30%) Legal
6 1 (1.15%) Electronics
6 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.15%) Marketing
6 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (41.38%) Senior
2 29 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 22 (25.29%) Developer
4 11 (12.64%) Lead
4 11 (12.64%) Python Engineer
5 10 (11.49%) Java Developer
5 10 (11.49%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (10.34%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.90%) Lead Software Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) .NET Developer
8 5 (5.75%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Java Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Python Software Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.60%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (22.99%) .NET
2 19 (21.84%) Spring
3 18 (20.69%) React
4 17 (19.54%) Spring Boot
5 12 (13.79%) Django
6 11 (12.64%) FastAPI
7 10 (11.49%) .NET Core
7 10 (11.49%) RESTful
8 9 (10.34%) Node.js
8 9 (10.34%) REST
9 8 (9.20%) AngularJS
10 7 (8.05%) CSS
10 7 (8.05%) HTML
11 6 (6.90%) Celery
11 6 (6.90%) Vue
11 6 (6.90%) Web Services
12 5 (5.75%) .NET Framework
12 5 (5.75%) Flask
12 5 (5.75%) Hibernate
12 5 (5.75%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 25 (28.74%) Cloud Native
2 20 (22.99%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.05%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.30%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.30%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.94%) Linux
2 6 (6.90%) Unix
3 4 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (4.60%) Windows
4 3 (3.45%) Solaris
5 2 (2.30%) VMS
6 1 (1.15%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (81.61%) CI/CD
2 47 (54.02%) DevOps
3 41 (47.13%) Containerisation
4 36 (41.38%) Software Engineering
5 34 (39.08%) Agile
6 33 (37.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (37.93%) TDD
7 31 (35.63%) Microservices
8 24 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (24.14%) Clean Code
10 20 (22.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (22.99%) Observability
11 19 (21.84%) Mentoring
12 17 (19.54%) Event-Driven
12 17 (19.54%) Platform Engineering
13 13 (14.94%) AI
13 13 (14.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 10 (11.49%) Scrum
15 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 9 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 38 (43.68%) Python
2 27 (31.03%) Java
3 22 (25.29%) SQL
4 19 (21.84%) TypeScript
5 18 (20.69%) C#
6 16 (18.39%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.90%) Bash
8 5 (5.75%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.60%) C
10 2 (2.30%) Bicep
10 2 (2.30%) PHP
11 1 (1.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.05%) DV Cleared
3 6 (6.90%) Degree
3 6 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.15%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) QA
2 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (5.75%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (5.75%) vSphere
2 4 (4.60%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.60%) VMware NSX
3 3 (3.45%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.15%) Firmware
4 1 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 62 (71.26%) Kubernetes
2 40 (45.98%) Terraform
3 12 (13.79%) Ansible
4 7 (8.05%) Grafana
5 4 (4.60%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.45%) Podman
7 2 (2.30%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (2.30%) Packer
7 2 (2.30%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.15%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (10.34%) VMware
2 5 (5.75%) Google
3 4 (4.60%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.45%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.45%) Mirantis
4 3 (3.45%) Pega
4 3 (3.45%) WSO2
5 2 (2.30%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.15%) Adobe
6 1 (1.15%) F5
6 1 (1.15%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.15%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.15%) SAP