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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 12 106
Rank change year-on-year -106 +94 -56
Permanent jobs citing Docker 124 900 232
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.14% 19.04% 2.06%
As % of the System Software category 26.90% 82.04% 24.04%
Number of salaries quoted 106 127 177
10th Percentile £46,875 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,125 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £88,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £92,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%

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 461 1,097 965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.22% 23.21% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 384 290 816
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £24,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £28,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,750 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.27% +22.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £61,563 £74,258 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,628 £74,375
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,881
% change year-on-year - +5.25% -9.31%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -55 103 £66,750 -7.93% 38
Merseyside -47 7 £95,000 +72.73% 1
Lancashire -67 7 £62,500 +3.31% 15
Cheshire -76 4 £66,250 +10.42% 4
Cumbria -19 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 5 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.42%) IIS
3 2 (1.61%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 94 (75.81%) AWS
2 50 (40.32%) Azure
3 30 (24.19%) Serverless
4 26 (20.97%) GCP
5 23 (18.55%) GitHub
6 14 (11.29%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (11.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (11.29%) Datadog
7 13 (10.48%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (8.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (8.06%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (5.65%) Amazon EventBridge
10 7 (5.65%) dbt
11 6 (4.84%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (4.03%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (4.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (3.23%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.42%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.81%) LTE
2 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.90%) MongoDB
1 16 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.06%) NoSQL
3 9 (7.26%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (7.26%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.65%) DynamoDB
5 6 (4.84%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.03%) BigQuery
6 5 (4.03%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.23%) MySQL
7 4 (3.23%) Neo4j
8 3 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.42%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.81%) Redis
9 1 (0.81%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 26 (20.97%) Git
2 22 (17.74%) GitLab
3 20 (16.13%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.65%) JUnit
5 6 (4.84%) Spock
6 4 (3.23%) JIRA
6 4 (3.23%) Vite
7 3 (2.42%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.42%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.42%) Robot Framework
8 2 (1.61%) Claude Code
8 2 (1.61%) Maven
8 2 (1.61%) Postman
8 2 (1.61%) Selenium
8 2 (1.61%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.81%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.81%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.81%) Mocha
General
1 15 (12.10%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.48%) Finance
3 4 (3.23%) Retail
4 3 (2.42%) Advertising
4 3 (2.42%) Banking
4 3 (2.42%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.81%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (38.71%) Senior
2 39 (31.45%) Developer
3 32 (25.81%) Software Engineer
4 17 (13.71%) Java Developer
5 15 (12.10%) Lead
5 15 (12.10%) Senior Developer
5 15 (12.10%) Senior Software Engineer
6 14 (11.29%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (10.48%) Python Engineer
8 12 (9.68%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (8.06%) Software Developer
10 9 (7.26%) Python Software Engineer
10 9 (7.26%) Senior Software Developer
11 8 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (6.45%) Lead Developer
11 8 (6.45%) Principal Engineer
12 7 (5.65%) Integration Developer
12 7 (5.65%) Integration Engineer
13 6 (4.84%) Java Software Developer
13 6 (4.84%) Senior Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (25.00%) React
1 31 (25.00%) Spring
2 23 (18.55%) Spring Boot
3 21 (16.94%) .NET
4 19 (15.32%) FastAPI
5 16 (12.90%) Node.js
6 15 (12.10%) AngularJS
7 13 (10.48%) REST
8 12 (9.68%) .NET Core
8 12 (9.68%) Vue
9 11 (8.87%) Next.js
10 10 (8.06%) LangChain
10 10 (8.06%) RESTful
11 9 (7.26%) Kafka
12 8 (6.45%) ASP.NET
12 8 (6.45%) CSS
12 8 (6.45%) Django
12 8 (6.45%) HTML
13 7 (5.65%) OpenTelemetry
14 6 (4.84%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 33 (26.61%) Cloud Native
2 24 (19.35%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.84%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.23%) AI Agents
4 4 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.61%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.81%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.06%) Linux
2 3 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.42%) Unix
3 2 (1.61%) Solaris
3 2 (1.61%) Windows
4 1 (0.81%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (79.03%) CI/CD
2 70 (56.45%) DevOps
3 54 (43.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (42.74%) Containerisation
5 46 (37.10%) Agile
6 42 (33.87%) Software Engineering
7 39 (31.45%) Microservices
8 38 (30.65%) AI
8 38 (30.65%) Mentoring
9 35 (28.23%) Observability
10 32 (25.81%) TDD
11 31 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (20.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (19.35%) Platform Engineering
14 22 (17.74%) Scrum
15 20 (16.13%) Clean Code
16 19 (15.32%) Full-Stack Development
16 19 (15.32%) Test Automation
17 18 (14.52%) Event-Driven
18 14 (11.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 63 (50.81%) Python
2 41 (33.06%) Java
3 34 (27.42%) TypeScript
4 30 (24.19%) JavaScript
5 22 (17.74%) SQL
6 20 (16.13%) C#
7 17 (13.71%) Bash
8 11 (8.87%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.84%) Ruby
10 5 (4.03%) Go
11 4 (3.23%) Groovy
12 3 (2.42%) Bicep
13 2 (1.61%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.61%) Scala
13 2 (1.61%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.81%) C
14 1 (0.81%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.06%) DV Cleared
3 9 (7.26%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.65%) Degree
5 4 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.42%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.81%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.06%) QA
2 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.61%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.61%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 88 (70.97%) Kubernetes
2 72 (58.06%) Terraform
3 20 (16.13%) Ansible
4 13 (10.48%) Grafana
5 12 (9.68%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.23%) Argo
6 4 (3.23%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.42%) Istio
7 3 (2.42%) linkerd
8 2 (1.61%) Packer
8 2 (1.61%) Podman
8 2 (1.61%) Puppet
9 1 (0.81%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 17 (13.71%) Splunk
2 9 (7.26%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.65%) Google
3 7 (5.65%) HubSpot
4 6 (4.84%) AppDynamics
4 6 (4.84%) OpenAI
5 5 (4.03%) VMware
6 2 (1.61%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.61%) Mirantis
6 2 (1.61%) Pega
6 2 (1.61%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.61%) WSO2
7 1 (0.81%) Databricks