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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 11 96
Rank change year-on-year -90 +85 -66
Permanent jobs citing Docker 198 769 151
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.54% 15.10% 2.09%
As % of the System Software category 32.67% 80.86% 27.71%
Number of salaries quoted 141 91 78
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £44,625
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £74,786
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% -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 606 951 545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.71% 18.67% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 471 239 316
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,250 £33,125 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +13.16% -13.64%
75th Percentile £66,875 £67,500 £58,833
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £73,947
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -49 156 £70,000 +7.69% 44
Lancashire -56 21 £62,500 +13.12% 2
Merseyside -38 10 £95,000 +58.33% 4
Cheshire -69 9 £52,500 -25.00% 3
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 10 (5.05%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.02%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.02%) IIS
3 3 (1.52%) Apache
3 3 (1.52%) CMS
3 3 (1.52%) Headless CMS
3 3 (1.52%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 123 (62.12%) AWS
2 72 (36.36%) Azure
3 47 (23.74%) GitHub
4 39 (19.70%) GCP
5 29 (14.65%) Serverless
6 17 (8.59%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (8.08%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (7.07%) dbt
9 13 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (6.57%) GitHub Copilot
10 12 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (5.56%) OpenShift
12 9 (4.55%) Amazon S3
13 7 (3.54%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (3.54%) Datadog
14 6 (3.03%) Azure AI
15 5 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (2.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.53%) Internet
2 3 (1.52%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.01%) DHCP
3 2 (1.01%) DNS
4 1 (0.51%) AMQP
4 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.51%) VLAN
4 1 (0.51%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.12%) MongoDB
2 17 (8.59%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (4.55%) BigQuery
5 9 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 8 (4.04%) MySQL
7 7 (3.54%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (2.53%) Chroma
9 5 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.53%) Neo4j
9 5 (2.53%) Pinecone
9 5 (2.53%) Redis
10 4 (2.02%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.02%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 59 (29.80%) Git
2 51 (25.76%) GitLab
3 37 (18.69%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.57%) JUnit
4 13 (6.57%) Spock
5 7 (3.54%) Maven
6 6 (3.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (2.53%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.53%) JIRA
8 4 (2.02%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.02%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.02%) Robot Framework
8 4 (2.02%) Vagrant
8 4 (2.02%) Vite
9 3 (1.52%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.52%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.52%) Postman
9 3 (1.52%) Selenium
9 3 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.01%) Artifactory
General
1 41 (20.71%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.13%) Finance
3 14 (7.07%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.54%) Aerospace
5 7 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.03%) Advertising
7 5 (2.53%) Retail
8 3 (1.52%) Banking
8 3 (1.52%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Games
10 1 (0.51%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 58 (29.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 56 (28.28%) Senior
3 49 (24.75%) Developer
4 30 (15.15%) Software Engineer
5 22 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
6 21 (10.61%) Lead
7 19 (9.60%) Senior Developer
8 18 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 15 (7.58%) Java Developer
10 14 (7.07%) Data Engineer
10 14 (7.07%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 13 (6.57%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (5.05%) Lead DevOps
12 10 (5.05%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 10 (5.05%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (4.55%) GCP Engineer
13 9 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
13 9 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 9 (4.55%) Software Developer
14 8 (4.04%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (51.52%) Terraform
2 61 (30.81%) Spring
3 45 (22.73%) Spring Boot
4 44 (22.22%) React
5 26 (13.13%) AngularJS
6 23 (11.62%) .NET
7 22 (11.11%) Node.js
8 19 (9.60%) REST
9 16 (8.08%) Kafka
10 15 (7.58%) Vue
11 14 (7.07%) .NET Core
12 13 (6.57%) FastAPI
13 12 (6.06%) CSS
13 12 (6.06%) HTML
13 12 (6.06%) Next.js
13 12 (6.06%) RESTful
14 11 (5.56%) ASP.NET
14 11 (5.56%) LangChain
15 8 (4.04%) ASP.NET Core
15 8 (4.04%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 45 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 28 (14.14%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.57%) Private Cloud
4 9 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.53%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.52%) Life Science
7 3 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.52%) Replication
7 3 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.52%) Social Media
8 2 (1.01%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.01%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.01%) Hackathon
8 2 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (16.67%) Linux
2 13 (6.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.03%) CentOS
4 4 (2.02%) Unix
4 4 (2.02%) VMS
5 2 (1.01%) AIX
5 2 (1.01%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.01%) Windows
5 2 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (84.34%) CI/CD
2 125 (63.13%) DevOps
3 93 (46.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 87 (43.94%) Agile
5 78 (39.39%) Containerisation
6 67 (33.84%) Software Engineering
7 65 (32.83%) AI
8 63 (31.82%) Microservices
9 58 (29.29%) Mentoring
10 48 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 42 (21.21%) Test Automation
13 40 (20.20%) Platform Engineering
14 38 (19.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 37 (18.69%) Full-Stack Development
15 37 (18.69%) Observability
16 34 (17.17%) Scrum
17 25 (12.63%) SDLC
17 25 (12.63%) TDD
18 24 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 100 (50.51%) Python
2 80 (40.40%) Java
3 48 (24.24%) TypeScript
4 46 (23.23%) JavaScript
5 45 (22.73%) SQL
6 29 (14.65%) Bash
7 24 (12.12%) C#
8 12 (6.06%) Go
8 12 (6.06%) PowerShell
9 8 (4.04%) Groovy
9 8 (4.04%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.03%) Kotlin
10 6 (3.03%) Ruby
11 4 (2.02%) Bicep
11 4 (2.02%) Rust
11 4 (2.02%) Scala
12 3 (1.52%) C++
12 3 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.52%) PHP
13 2 (1.01%) Korn
Qualifications
1 66 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 40 (20.20%) DV Cleared
3 26 (13.13%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.54%) Degree
5 5 (2.53%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.01%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.01%) IBM AIX Certification
7 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.01%) RHCE
7 2 (1.01%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.56%) QA
2 4 (2.02%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.02%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (2.02%) Ceph
2 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 140 (70.71%) Kubernetes
2 56 (28.28%) Ansible
3 13 (6.57%) Prometheus
4 11 (5.56%) Grafana
5 9 (4.55%) Podman
6 8 (4.04%) Argo
7 7 (3.54%) Istio
7 7 (3.54%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.53%) Puppet
9 4 (2.02%) linkerd
9 4 (2.02%) Packer
10 3 (1.52%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.51%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.51%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 25 (12.63%) Splunk
2 23 (11.62%) Google
2 23 (11.62%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.57%) AppDynamics
4 12 (6.06%) OpenAI
5 9 (4.55%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.03%) Mistral
7 5 (2.53%) Databricks
8 4 (2.02%) HubSpot
8 4 (2.02%) Thales
9 3 (1.52%) Dell
9 3 (1.52%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.01%) IBM
10 2 (1.01%) New Relic
10 2 (1.01%) VMware
10 2 (1.01%) YouTube
11 1 (0.51%) Cisco
11 1 (0.51%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.51%) Oracle