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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 17 98
Rank change year-on-year -78 +81 -65
Permanent jobs citing Docker 198 561 152
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.53% 11.69% 2.12%
As % of the System Software category 32.84% 75.20% 27.99%
Number of salaries quoted 142 91 79
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £44,750
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 £84,375 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £71,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.93% +1.43% -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 603 746 543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.67% 15.55% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 470 242 315
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,125 £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 £67,188 £67,500 £59,540
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £74,144
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 16 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 16 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 -44 157 £70,000 +7.69% 123
Lancashire -61 21 £62,500 +13.12% 10
Merseyside -30 9 £95,000 +58.33% 7
Cheshire -69 9 £52,500 -25.00% 4
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 11 (5.56%) 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
1 122 (61.62%) AWS
2 72 (36.36%) Azure
3 48 (24.24%) GitHub
4 40 (20.20%) GCP
5 28 (14.14%) Serverless
6 17 (8.59%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (8.08%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (7.07%) dbt
9 13 (6.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (6.57%) GitHub Copilot
10 11 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (5.56%) OpenShift
11 9 (4.55%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (3.03%) Azure AI
13 6 (3.03%) Datadog
14 5 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (2.53%) SaaS
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%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (4.55%) BigQuery
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%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.52%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.52%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 60 (30.30%) 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
8 4 (2.02%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.02%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.02%) JIRA
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 15 (7.58%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.03%) Advertising
6 6 (3.03%) Aerospace
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 57 (28.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 56 (28.28%) Senior
3 49 (24.75%) Developer
4 31 (15.66%) Software Engineer
5 22 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
6 20 (10.10%) 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
12 10 (5.05%) Software Developer
13 9 (4.55%) GCP Engineer
13 9 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
13 9 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 8 (4.04%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (51.01%) 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 21 (10.61%) Node.js
8 19 (9.60%) REST
9 15 (7.58%) Kafka
9 15 (7.58%) Vue
10 14 (7.07%) .NET Core
11 13 (6.57%) FastAPI
12 12 (6.06%) CSS
12 12 (6.06%) HTML
12 12 (6.06%) Next.js
12 12 (6.06%) RESTful
13 11 (5.56%) ASP.NET
13 11 (5.56%) LangChain
14 8 (4.04%) ASP.NET Core
14 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%) Clustering
9 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.16%) 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
1 168 (84.85%) CI/CD
2 124 (62.63%) DevOps
3 93 (46.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 87 (43.94%) Agile
5 78 (39.39%) Containerisation
6 69 (34.85%) Software Engineering
7 65 (32.83%) AI
8 63 (31.82%) Microservices
9 57 (28.79%) Mentoring
10 48 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (21.72%) Test Automation
13 39 (19.70%) Platform Engineering
14 38 (19.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 37 (18.69%) Full-Stack Development
16 36 (18.18%) Observability
17 33 (16.67%) Scrum
18 25 (12.63%) TDD
19 24 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
19 24 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 100 (50.51%) Python
2 80 (40.40%) Java
3 47 (23.74%) TypeScript
4 46 (23.23%) SQL
5 45 (22.73%) JavaScript
6 29 (14.65%) Bash
7 24 (12.12%) C#
8 13 (6.57%) Go
9 12 (6.06%) PowerShell
10 8 (4.04%) Groovy
10 8 (4.04%) Shell Script
11 6 (3.03%) Kotlin
11 6 (3.03%) Ruby
12 4 (2.02%) Bicep
12 4 (2.02%) Rust
12 4 (2.02%) Scala
13 3 (1.52%) C++
13 3 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.52%) PHP
14 2 (1.01%) Korn
Qualifications
1 66 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 39 (19.70%) DV Cleared
3 27 (13.64%) 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 12 (6.06%) QA
2 5 (2.53%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.02%) Accessibility
4 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
1 138 (69.70%) Kubernetes
2 55 (27.78%) 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%) Thales
9 3 (1.52%) Dell
9 3 (1.52%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.52%) HubSpot
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