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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 12 95
Rank change year-on-year -125 +83 -45
Permanent jobs citing Docker 109 884 225
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.99% 19.47% 2.29%
As % of the System Software category 25.47% 83.08% 23.99%
Number of salaries quoted 95 115 181
10th Percentile £45,500 £51,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,200 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £74,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% +14.62% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,139 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £91,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -4.25%

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 428 1,064 938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.87% 23.44% 9.56%
Number of salaries quoted 351 261 817
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £24,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £76,250 £62,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £93,778 £74,400
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -70 89 £66,750 -11.00% 47
Merseyside -44 8 £95,000 +22.58% 1
Lancashire -76 5 £62,500 +1.87% 19
Cheshire -84 4 £66,250 -8.62% 6
Cumbria -13 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 5 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.75%) IIS
3 2 (1.83%) nginx
3 2 (1.83%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.92%) Apache
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.92%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 80 (73.39%) AWS
2 45 (41.28%) Azure
3 29 (26.61%) Serverless
4 23 (21.10%) GCP
5 16 (14.68%) GitHub
6 14 (12.84%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (11.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (11.93%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (11.93%) Datadog
8 11 (10.09%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (8.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (8.26%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (8.26%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (6.42%) Amazon EventBridge
10 7 (6.42%) dbt
11 6 (5.50%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (4.59%) Amazon S3
12 5 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (3.67%) Entra ID
13 4 (3.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.75%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.83%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.92%) DHCP
3 1 (0.92%) DNS
3 1 (0.92%) Firewall
3 1 (0.92%) LTE
3 1 (0.92%) Network Security
3 1 (0.92%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.92%) VLAN
3 1 (0.92%) VPN
3 1 (0.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.84%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (11.93%) MongoDB
3 9 (8.26%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (8.26%) NoSQL
3 9 (8.26%) Relational Database
3 9 (8.26%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.42%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.59%) BigQuery
5 5 (4.59%) MySQL
6 3 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.83%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.83%) Redis
8 1 (0.92%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.92%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 22 (20.18%) Git
2 16 (14.68%) GitLab
3 15 (13.76%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.59%) JUnit
5 4 (3.67%) JIRA
5 4 (3.67%) Spock
6 2 (1.83%) Maven
6 2 (1.83%) Vagrant
6 2 (1.83%) Vite
7 1 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.92%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.92%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.92%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.92%) Postman
7 1 (0.92%) Selenium
General
1 16 (14.68%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.09%) Finance
3 4 (3.67%) Retail
4 3 (2.75%) Banking
4 3 (2.75%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.83%) Advertising
5 2 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.92%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 44 (40.37%) Senior
2 39 (35.78%) Developer
3 25 (22.94%) Software Engineer
4 16 (14.68%) Java Developer
4 16 (14.68%) Senior Developer
5 15 (13.76%) Lead
6 12 (11.01%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (10.09%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (10.09%) Software Developer
8 10 (9.17%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (8.26%) Python Engineer
9 9 (8.26%) Senior Software Developer
10 8 (7.34%) Lead Developer
11 7 (6.42%) .NET Developer
11 7 (6.42%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (6.42%) Integration Developer
11 7 (6.42%) Integration Engineer
12 6 (5.50%) Data Engineer
12 6 (5.50%) Java Software Developer
12 6 (5.50%) Senior Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (25.69%) Spring
2 22 (20.18%) Spring Boot
3 21 (19.27%) React
4 20 (18.35%) .NET
5 16 (14.68%) Node.js
6 13 (11.93%) .NET Core
6 13 (11.93%) FastAPI
7 12 (11.01%) REST
8 10 (9.17%) CSS
8 10 (9.17%) HTML
8 10 (9.17%) RESTful
9 9 (8.26%) AngularJS
10 8 (7.34%) ASP.NET
10 8 (7.34%) Django
10 8 (7.34%) Kafka
10 8 (7.34%) Vue
11 7 (6.42%) Entity Framework
11 7 (6.42%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (5.50%) .NET Framework
12 6 (5.50%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.85%) Cloud Native
2 20 (18.35%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.67%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.75%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.75%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.92%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.17%) Linux
2 3 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.75%) Unix
2 3 (2.75%) Windows
3 2 (1.83%) Solaris
4 1 (0.92%) CentOS
4 1 (0.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (81.65%) CI/CD
2 62 (56.88%) DevOps
3 49 (44.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (43.12%) Containerisation
5 42 (38.53%) Agile
6 36 (33.03%) Mentoring
7 34 (31.19%) Microservices
8 30 (27.52%) Software Engineering
8 30 (27.52%) TDD
9 29 (26.61%) AI
10 27 (24.77%) Observability
11 23 (21.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (20.18%) Platform Engineering
13 20 (18.35%) Scrum
14 19 (17.43%) Clean Code
15 17 (15.60%) Event-Driven
16 15 (13.76%) Full-Stack Development
17 14 (12.84%) Test Automation
18 12 (11.01%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 50 (45.87%) Python
2 34 (31.19%) Java
3 28 (25.69%) TypeScript
4 25 (22.94%) JavaScript
5 20 (18.35%) SQL
6 19 (17.43%) C#
7 13 (11.93%) Bash
8 10 (9.17%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.67%) Groovy
10 3 (2.75%) Go
11 2 (1.83%) Bicep
11 2 (1.83%) C
11 2 (1.83%) PHP
11 2 (1.83%) Ruby
11 2 (1.83%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.92%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (14.68%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.17%) DV Cleared
3 6 (5.50%) Degree
3 6 (5.50%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.75%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.09%) QA
2 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.75%) VMware NSX
2 3 (2.75%) vSphere
3 1 (0.92%) Firmware
3 1 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 76 (69.72%) Kubernetes
2 63 (57.80%) Terraform
3 16 (14.68%) Ansible
4 11 (10.09%) Grafana
5 9 (8.26%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.75%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.83%) Argo
7 2 (1.83%) Packer
7 2 (1.83%) Podman
8 1 (0.92%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.92%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.92%) Istio
8 1 (0.92%) linkerd
8 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (9.17%) Splunk
2 8 (7.34%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.42%) HubSpot
4 6 (5.50%) Google
4 6 (5.50%) VMware
5 4 (3.67%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.75%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.83%) Mirantis
7 2 (1.83%) Pega
7 2 (1.83%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.83%) WSO2
8 1 (0.92%) Adobe
8 1 (0.92%) Databricks
8 1 (0.92%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.92%) Fortinet