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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 12 118
Rank change year-on-year -95 +106 -83
Permanent jobs citing Docker 173 890 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.42% 17.13% 1.72%
As % of the System Software category 30.03% 81.28% 22.49%
Number of salaries quoted 134 110 76
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,625 £43,125
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,028 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.66% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £79,688 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,875 £85,625
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £68,654
% change year-on-year -6.90% +5.60% -8.46%

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 576 1,095 627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.71% 21.07% 7.66%
Number of salaries quoted 460 287 446
10th Percentile £28,475 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £50,000 £44,008
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +13.62% -19.99%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.81%

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 1 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 1 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 -46 138 £70,000 +7.69% 132
Lancashire -61 17 £60,000 +8.60% 26
Cheshire -74 9 £53,750 -25.86% 10
Merseyside -43 7 £95,000 +72.73% 3
Cumbria -14 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 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.89%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.73%) IIS
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 111 (64.16%) AWS
2 63 (36.42%) Azure
3 37 (21.39%) GitHub
4 34 (19.65%) GCP
5 27 (15.61%) Serverless
6 17 (9.83%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (8.67%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (8.09%) Datadog
9 13 (7.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (6.36%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (6.36%) dbt
10 11 (6.36%) GitHub Copilot
11 10 (5.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (5.78%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (5.78%) OpenShift
12 7 (4.05%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (4.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (3.47%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.73%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.58%) DHCP
2 1 (0.58%) DNS
2 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.58%) VLAN
2 1 (0.58%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.14%) MongoDB
2 15 (8.67%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (6.36%) SQL Server
5 9 (5.20%) BigQuery
6 8 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (4.62%) Relational Database
7 7 (4.05%) DynamoDB
7 7 (4.05%) MySQL
8 6 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.89%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.73%) Chroma
10 3 (1.73%) MariaDB
10 3 (1.73%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.73%) Redis
11 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 47 (27.17%) Git
2 37 (21.39%) GitLab
3 31 (17.92%) Jenkins
4 14 (8.09%) JUnit
5 13 (7.51%) Spock
6 6 (3.47%) Maven
7 5 (2.89%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.89%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (2.31%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.31%) JIRA
8 4 (2.31%) Robot Framework
8 4 (2.31%) Vite
9 3 (1.73%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.73%) Postman
9 3 (1.73%) Selenium
9 3 (1.73%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.16%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.16%) Mocha
11 1 (0.58%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 31 (17.92%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.03%) Finance
3 8 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (4.62%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.47%) Advertising
5 4 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.31%) Retail
6 3 (1.73%) Banking
6 3 (1.73%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.16%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Games
8 1 (0.58%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 50 (28.90%) Senior
2 49 (28.32%) Developer
3 36 (20.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (15.03%) Software Engineer
5 21 (12.14%) Lead
6 19 (10.98%) Principal Engineer
7 16 (9.25%) Java Developer
8 15 (8.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 15 (8.67%) Senior Developer
9 14 (8.09%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (6.36%) Data Engineer
10 11 (6.36%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (5.78%) Lead Developer
11 10 (5.78%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.78%) Python Engineer
12 9 (5.20%) .NET Developer
12 9 (5.20%) GCP Engineer
12 9 (5.20%) Software Developer
13 8 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (4.62%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (52.60%) Terraform
2 51 (29.48%) Spring
3 36 (20.81%) Spring Boot
4 33 (19.08%) React
5 27 (15.61%) AngularJS
6 23 (13.29%) .NET
7 21 (12.14%) Node.js
8 16 (9.25%) Vue
9 14 (8.09%) FastAPI
9 14 (8.09%) REST
10 12 (6.94%) ASP.NET
10 12 (6.94%) Next.js
11 11 (6.36%) .NET Core
11 11 (6.36%) CSS
11 11 (6.36%) HTML
11 11 (6.36%) Kafka
11 11 (6.36%) RESTful
12 9 (5.20%) LangChain
13 8 (4.62%) ASP.NET Core
14 7 (4.05%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 38 (21.97%) Cloud Native
2 34 (19.65%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.51%) Private Cloud
4 8 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.31%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.73%) Life Science
7 3 (1.73%) Replication
7 3 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.73%) Social Media
8 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.16%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.58%) Clustering
9 1 (0.58%) CUDA
9 1 (0.58%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.98%) Linux
2 8 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.31%) CentOS
3 4 (2.31%) Unix
3 4 (2.31%) VMS
4 2 (1.16%) AIX
4 2 (1.16%) Solaris
4 2 (1.16%) Windows
5 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (80.92%) CI/CD
2 101 (58.38%) DevOps
3 71 (41.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (39.88%) Containerisation
5 67 (38.73%) Agile
6 62 (35.84%) AI
7 57 (32.95%) Microservices
8 53 (30.64%) Software Engineering
9 44 (25.43%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (24.86%) Mentoring
11 42 (24.28%) Observability
12 35 (20.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (19.08%) Full-Stack Development
13 33 (19.08%) Test Automation
14 30 (17.34%) Platform Engineering
14 30 (17.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 29 (16.76%) Scrum
16 28 (16.18%) TDD
17 21 (12.14%) Event-Driven
18 18 (10.40%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 88 (50.87%) Python
2 67 (38.73%) Java
3 44 (25.43%) JavaScript
4 41 (23.70%) TypeScript
5 37 (21.39%) SQL
6 25 (14.45%) Bash
7 23 (13.29%) C#
8 13 (7.51%) PowerShell
9 8 (4.62%) Groovy
10 6 (3.47%) Go
10 6 (3.47%) Ruby
11 4 (2.31%) Bicep
11 4 (2.31%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.31%) PHP
11 4 (2.31%) Scala
12 3 (1.73%) C++
12 3 (1.73%) Rust
12 3 (1.73%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.16%) Korn
13 2 (1.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 48 (27.75%) Security Cleared
2 29 (16.76%) DV Cleared
3 16 (9.25%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.62%) Degree
5 4 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.16%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.16%) IBM AIX Certification
7 2 (1.16%) RHCE
7 2 (1.16%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.36%) QA
2 4 (2.31%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (2.31%) Ceph
2 3 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 124 (71.68%) Kubernetes
2 45 (26.01%) Ansible
3 15 (8.67%) Prometheus
4 13 (7.51%) Grafana
5 7 (4.05%) Argo
5 7 (4.05%) Istio
5 7 (4.05%) Podman
6 5 (2.89%) Puppet
7 4 (2.31%) linkerd
8 3 (1.73%) Check_MK
8 3 (1.73%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.58%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 25 (14.45%) Splunk
2 15 (8.67%) Google
3 14 (8.09%) Microsoft
4 13 (7.51%) AppDynamics
5 9 (5.20%) OpenAI
6 7 (4.05%) HubSpot
6 7 (4.05%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.89%) VMware
8 4 (2.31%) Mistral
9 3 (1.73%) Dell
9 3 (1.73%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.16%) Databricks
10 2 (1.16%) IBM
10 2 (1.16%) Mirantis
10 2 (1.16%) Pega
10 2 (1.16%) WSO2
11 1 (0.58%) Cisco
11 1 (0.58%) New Relic
11 1 (0.58%) NVIDIA