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 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 98 33
Rank change year-on-year +81 -65 0
Permanent jobs citing Docker 561 152 298
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 11.69% 2.12% 7.10%
As % of the System Software category 75.20% 27.99% 41.10%
Number of salaries quoted 91 79 245
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,750 £44,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +3.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £84,622
England median annual salary £71,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +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 746 543 725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 15.55% 7.57% 17.27%
Number of salaries quoted 242 315 618
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £35,750 £38,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -13.64% +20.05%
75th Percentile £67,500 £59,540 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,144 £80,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 2025.

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 2025. 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
Lancashire +63 225 £55,250 -7.92% 32
Manchester +42 174 £65,000 +8.33% 66
Cheshire +49 137 £70,000 +7.69% 22
Merseyside +16 23 £60,000 -20.00% 7
Cumbria +9 1 - - 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 45 (8.02%) Confluence
2 4 (0.71%) Apache Solr
2 4 (0.71%) CMS
2 4 (0.71%) nginx
3 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.18%) Apache
4 1 (0.18%) IIS
4 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.18%) Strapi
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 209 (37.25%) AWS
2 164 (29.23%) Azure
3 74 (13.19%) GCP
4 19 (3.39%) GitHub
5 15 (2.67%) Serverless
6 13 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (1.25%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (1.25%) AWS CodeBuild
10 7 (1.25%) Route 53
10 7 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (1.07%) SaaS
12 5 (0.89%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (0.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 323 (57.58%) VPN
2 250 (44.56%) Cisco IOS
3 74 (13.19%) DNS
4 3 (0.53%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (20.86%) SQL Server
2 27 (4.81%) NoSQL
3 22 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (2.85%) MongoDB
5 15 (2.67%) MySQL
6 13 (2.32%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.89%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.71%) Redis
9 3 (0.53%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.36%) Big Data
10 2 (0.36%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.36%) DocumentDB
10 2 (0.36%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.36%) Metadata
10 2 (0.36%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.18%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.18%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 133 (23.71%) GitLab
2 119 (21.21%) JIRA
3 115 (20.50%) Cucumber
3 115 (20.50%) Selenium
4 111 (19.79%) SonarQube
5 110 (19.61%) Sonatype Nexus
6 109 (19.43%) Bitbucket
6 109 (19.43%) Maven
7 25 (4.46%) Jenkins
8 23 (4.10%) Git
9 8 (1.43%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.25%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.71%) webpack
12 2 (0.36%) ESLint
12 2 (0.36%) MLflow
12 2 (0.36%) Storybook
13 1 (0.18%) CA Release Automation
13 1 (0.18%) git-flow
13 1 (0.18%) Sinon.JS
13 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 432 (77.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 329 (58.65%) Analytical Skills
3 207 (36.90%) Finance
4 114 (20.32%) Banking
5 76 (13.55%) Retail
6 70 (12.48%) Corporate Banking
6 70 (12.48%) Investment Banking
7 32 (5.70%) Social Skills
8 11 (1.96%) Games
9 6 (1.07%) Marketing
10 3 (0.53%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.36%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.36%) Law
11 2 (0.36%) Legal
11 2 (0.36%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.18%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.18%) Electronics
12 1 (0.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 251 (44.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 130 (23.17%) Software Engineer
3 118 (21.03%) Developer
4 78 (13.90%) Software Developer
5 40 (7.13%) Senior
6 22 (3.92%) Senior Developer
7 18 (3.21%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (2.67%) Java Developer
9 14 (2.50%) Lead
9 14 (2.50%) Senior Java Developer
10 12 (2.14%) Architect
10 12 (2.14%) AWS Architect
10 12 (2.14%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (2.14%) AWS Solution Architect
10 12 (2.14%) Senior DevOps
10 12 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (1.78%) DevOps Architect
11 10 (1.78%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (1.78%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 10 (1.78%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (46.17%) Elastic Stack
2 147 (26.20%) React
3 127 (22.64%) Spring
3 127 (22.64%) Spring Boot
4 121 (21.57%) CSS
4 121 (21.57%) HTML
5 120 (21.39%) Kafka
6 114 (20.32%) Redux
7 109 (19.43%) JPA
8 87 (15.51%) RESTful
9 80 (14.26%) Jest
9 80 (14.26%) REST
10 76 (13.55%) CSS3
11 74 (13.19%) HTML5
12 71 (12.66%) Sass
13 46 (8.20%) Hibernate
14 25 (4.46%) .NET
15 18 (3.21%) Node.js
16 11 (1.96%) Next.js
17 10 (1.78%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 323 (57.58%) Cyberattack
2 118 (21.03%) Product Ownership
3 109 (19.43%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (4.81%) Cloud Native
5 11 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.78%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.43%) e-Learning
7 8 (1.43%) Wiki
8 4 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.53%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.36%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.36%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.36%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.36%) Online Banking
10 2 (0.36%) Online Games
10 2 (0.36%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.18%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.18%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 345 (61.50%) Linux
2 323 (57.58%) Android
3 259 (46.17%) Windows
4 8 (1.43%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.25%) Debian
6 5 (0.89%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.53%) Unix
8 1 (0.18%) CentOS
8 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (79.50%) DevOps
2 328 (58.47%) Line Management
3 325 (57.93%) Mathematics
4 292 (52.05%) Problem-Solving
5 257 (45.81%) Platform Engineering
6 253 (45.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 253 (45.10%) Risk Management
7 252 (44.92%) Agile
8 251 (44.74%) Task Automation
9 250 (44.56%) Storage Management
10 206 (36.72%) CI/CD
11 183 (32.62%) Containerisation
12 163 (29.06%) Microservices
13 152 (27.09%) Software Engineering
14 133 (23.71%) Full-Stack Development
15 132 (23.53%) Test Automation
16 128 (22.82%) Front End Development
17 122 (21.75%) Performance Optimisation
18 118 (21.03%) SDLC
19 92 (16.40%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 368 (65.60%) Python
2 265 (47.24%) Bash
3 254 (45.28%) PowerShell
4 230 (41.00%) Java
5 141 (25.13%) SQL
6 139 (24.78%) JavaScript
7 103 (18.36%) TypeScript
8 77 (13.73%) Go
9 74 (13.19%) C++
10 29 (5.17%) C#
11 7 (1.25%) PHP
12 1 (0.18%) Julia
12 1 (0.18%) R
12 1 (0.18%) Rust
Qualifications
1 79 (14.08%) Security Cleared
2 75 (13.37%) DV Cleared
3 12 (2.14%) Azure Certification
4 11 (1.96%) AWS Certification
5 10 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (0.89%) Degree
7 4 (0.71%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.18%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.18%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (20.86%) QA
2 71 (12.66%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.03%) GDPR
4 11 (1.96%) HIPAA
5 10 (1.78%) NIST
6 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 251 (44.74%) Hyper-V
1 251 (44.74%) VMware NSX
1 251 (44.74%) vSphere
2 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Dovecot
3 1 (0.18%) Postfix
3 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 341 (60.78%) Ansible
2 295 (52.58%) Terraform
3 196 (34.94%) Kubernetes
4 21 (3.74%) Grafana
5 14 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.07%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.71%) Puppet
8 2 (0.36%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.18%) Argo
9 1 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 257 (45.81%) Splunk
2 250 (44.56%) 3PAR
2 250 (44.56%) Cisco
2 250 (44.56%) Juniper
3 109 (19.43%) Solace
4 22 (3.92%) Google
5 7 (1.25%) Microsoft
6 4 (0.71%) Oracle
7 3 (0.53%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.36%) Databricks
8 2 (0.36%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.36%) VMware
9 1 (0.18%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.18%) Okta
9 1 (0.18%) PayPal
9 1 (0.18%) Pega
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.18%) SAP
9 1 (0.18%) WSO2