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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 118 28
Rank change year-on-year +107 -90 +7
Permanent jobs citing Docker 879 131 337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 17.24% 1.70% 7.25%
As % of the System Software category 83.40% 23.27% 43.77%
Number of salaries quoted 98 64 269
10th Percentile £49,625 £43,750 £46,306
25th Percentile £56,563 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +3.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,875 £81,875 £86,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £69,308 £74,500
% change year-on-year +4.61% -6.97% +2.76%

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 1,054 563 770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.67% 7.30% 16.57%
Number of salaries quoted 249 363 645
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £32,000 £38,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £43,742 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.88% -20.47% +19.57%
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £47,683 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.51% -0.91% -

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Docker 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 September 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 15 September 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 +72 488 £55,250 -18.15% 30
Manchester +66 207 £65,000 +6.12% 66
Cheshire +56 142 £72,500 +11.54% 21
Merseyside +29 40 £60,000 -20.00% 5
Cumbria +4 1 - -
Docker
England

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 45 (5.12%) Confluence
2 5 (0.57%) CMS
3 4 (0.46%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.46%) IIS
3 4 (0.46%) nginx
4 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.23%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.11%) Apache
5 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.11%) Strapi
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 213 (24.23%) AWS
2 161 (18.32%) Azure
3 72 (8.19%) GCP
4 16 (1.82%) GitHub
5 14 (1.59%) Serverless
6 13 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (0.91%) AWS CodeBuild
10 8 (0.91%) Route 53
10 8 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (0.80%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (0.68%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (0.68%) SaaS
13 5 (0.57%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (0.46%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 630 (71.67%) VPN
2 380 (43.23%) DNS
3 250 (28.44%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.11%) Firewall
5 1 (0.11%) Internet
5 1 (0.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (13.99%) SQL Server
2 33 (3.75%) NoSQL
3 24 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (1.82%) MySQL
5 14 (1.59%) MongoDB
6 13 (1.48%) DynamoDB
7 4 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.34%) Big Data
8 3 (0.34%) Neo4j
8 3 (0.34%) Redis
8 3 (0.34%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.23%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.23%) DocumentDB
9 2 (0.23%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.23%) Metadata
9 2 (0.23%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.11%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.11%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 136 (15.47%) GitLab
2 119 (13.54%) JIRA
3 115 (13.08%) Cucumber
3 115 (13.08%) Selenium
4 113 (12.86%) SonarQube
5 112 (12.74%) Sonatype Nexus
6 111 (12.63%) Maven
7 109 (12.40%) Bitbucket
8 29 (3.30%) Git
9 25 (2.84%) Jenkins
10 8 (0.91%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.46%) webpack
12 3 (0.34%) JMeter
13 2 (0.23%) ESLint
13 2 (0.23%) JUnit
13 2 (0.23%) MLflow
13 2 (0.23%) Storybook
14 1 (0.11%) CA Release Automation
14 1 (0.11%) git-flow
General
1 738 (83.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 635 (72.24%) Analytical Skills
3 513 (58.36%) Finance
4 115 (13.08%) Banking
5 78 (8.87%) Retail
6 70 (7.96%) Corporate Banking
6 70 (7.96%) Investment Banking
7 33 (3.75%) Social Skills
8 11 (1.25%) Games
9 5 (0.57%) Marketing
10 2 (0.23%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.23%) Law
10 2 (0.23%) Legal
11 1 (0.11%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.11%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 426 (48.46%) Developer
2 384 (43.69%) Software Developer
3 251 (28.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 133 (15.13%) Software Engineer
5 41 (4.66%) Senior
6 23 (2.62%) DevOps Engineer
7 21 (2.39%) Senior Developer
8 19 (2.16%) Lead
9 14 (1.59%) Architect
9 14 (1.59%) AWS Architect
9 14 (1.59%) AWS DevOps
9 14 (1.59%) AWS Solution Architect
9 14 (1.59%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.48%) Java Developer
10 13 (1.48%) Senior DevOps
10 13 (1.48%) Senior Java Developer
11 12 (1.37%) DevOps Architect
11 12 (1.37%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (1.37%) Senior Architect
11 12 (1.37%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (29.69%) Elastic Stack
2 149 (16.95%) React
3 125 (14.22%) Spring
3 125 (14.22%) Spring Boot
4 123 (13.99%) CSS
4 123 (13.99%) HTML
4 123 (13.99%) Kafka
5 112 (12.74%) Redux
6 109 (12.40%) JPA
7 85 (9.67%) RESTful
8 80 (9.10%) REST
9 77 (8.76%) Jest
10 75 (8.53%) CSS3
11 74 (8.42%) Sass
12 73 (8.30%) HTML5
13 46 (5.23%) Hibernate
14 32 (3.64%) .NET
15 19 (2.16%) Node.js
16 17 (1.93%) .NET Core
17 10 (1.14%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 629 (71.56%) Cyberattack
2 120 (13.65%) Product Ownership
3 109 (12.40%) Enterprise Software
4 32 (3.64%) Cloud Native
5 12 (1.37%) Management Information System
6 8 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (0.91%) e-Learning
6 8 (0.91%) Wiki
7 6 (0.68%) Mobile App
8 5 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.23%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.23%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.23%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.23%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.23%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.23%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.23%) Online Games
10 2 (0.23%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.11%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 653 (74.29%) Linux
2 629 (71.56%) Android
3 257 (29.24%) Windows
4 10 (1.14%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.02%) Debian
6 5 (0.57%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.46%) Unix
8 2 (0.23%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 637 (72.47%) Line Management
2 631 (71.79%) Mathematics
3 558 (63.48%) Agile
4 457 (51.99%) DevOps
5 385 (43.80%) OO
6 381 (43.34%) OOP
7 380 (43.23%) Design Patterns
8 379 (43.12%) Android Development
9 290 (32.99%) Problem-Solving
10 258 (29.35%) Platform Engineering
11 253 (28.78%) Risk Management
12 252 (28.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 251 (28.56%) Task Automation
14 250 (28.44%) Storage Management
15 213 (24.23%) CI/CD
16 181 (20.59%) Containerisation
17 169 (19.23%) Microservices
18 154 (17.52%) Software Engineering
19 140 (15.93%) Full-Stack Development
20 132 (15.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 685 (77.93%) Python
2 537 (61.09%) Java
3 385 (43.80%) Go
4 380 (43.23%) C++
5 270 (30.72%) Bash
6 257 (29.24%) PowerShell
7 148 (16.84%) SQL
8 145 (16.50%) JavaScript
9 109 (12.40%) TypeScript
10 36 (4.10%) C#
11 5 (0.57%) PHP
12 2 (0.23%) Rust
13 1 (0.11%) Bicep
13 1 (0.11%) Julia
13 1 (0.11%) R
13 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 384 (43.69%) Security Cleared
2 381 (43.34%) DV Cleared
3 15 (1.71%) Azure Certification
4 14 (1.59%) AWS Certification
5 12 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (0.57%) Degree
7 3 (0.34%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.11%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.11%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.11%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (13.31%) QA
2 71 (8.08%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.16%) GDPR
4 13 (1.48%) HIPAA
5 12 (1.37%) NIST
6 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 251 (28.56%) Hyper-V
2 250 (28.44%) VMware NSX
2 250 (28.44%) vSphere
3 2 (0.23%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.11%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.11%) Postfix
4 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 649 (73.83%) Ansible
2 307 (34.93%) Terraform
3 201 (22.87%) Kubernetes
4 23 (2.62%) Grafana
5 17 (1.93%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.68%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.46%) Puppet
8 2 (0.23%) Argo
8 2 (0.23%) Istio
8 2 (0.23%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.11%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 258 (29.35%) Splunk
2 250 (28.44%) 3PAR
2 250 (28.44%) Cisco
2 250 (28.44%) Juniper
3 109 (12.40%) Solace
4 20 (2.28%) Google
5 7 (0.80%) Microsoft
6 3 (0.34%) Oracle
7 2 (0.23%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.23%) Databricks
7 2 (0.23%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.11%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.11%) Okta
8 1 (0.11%) PayPal
8 1 (0.11%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.11%) VMware