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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 10 112
Rank change year-on-year -93 +102 -84
Permanent jobs citing Docker 187 878 140
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.46% 17.13% 1.81%
As % of the System Software category 31.06% 84.10% 24.60%
Number of salaries quoted 135 97 68
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,500 £44,625
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £74,358
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,000 £80,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% -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 602 1,044 569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.70% 20.37% 7.37%
Number of salaries quoted 470 239 356
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,563 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £53,750 £44,637
Median % change year-on-year -13.49% +20.42% -18.84%
75th Percentile £64,688 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £81,375 £80,000 £69,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -12.73% -

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 21 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 21 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 -45 149 £70,000 +7.69% 164
Lancashire -62 18 £61,250 +10.86% 27
Merseyside -47 9 £95,000 +58.33% 8
Cheshire -79 9 £52,500 -27.59% 11
Cumbria -5 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 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.14%) IIS
2 4 (2.14%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.53%) CMS
3 1 (0.53%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 116 (62.03%) AWS
2 67 (35.83%) Azure
3 42 (22.46%) GitHub
4 36 (19.25%) GCP
5 28 (14.97%) Serverless
6 20 (10.70%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (8.56%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (7.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (7.49%) Datadog
10 12 (6.42%) GitHub Copilot
11 11 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (5.88%) dbt
12 10 (5.35%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (5.35%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (5.35%) OpenShift
13 9 (4.81%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (3.74%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (3.21%) Azure AKS
15 6 (3.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.60%) HTTPS
1 3 (1.60%) Internet
2 2 (1.07%) DHCP
2 2 (1.07%) DNS
3 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.53%) VLAN
3 1 (0.53%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.30%) MongoDB
2 16 (8.56%) NoSQL
3 10 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.35%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (4.81%) BigQuery
4 9 (4.81%) MySQL
5 7 (3.74%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.74%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.67%) Neo4j
8 4 (2.14%) MariaDB
8 4 (2.14%) Redis
9 3 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.60%) Chroma
9 3 (1.60%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.07%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 51 (27.27%) Git
2 42 (22.46%) GitLab
3 33 (17.65%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.95%) JUnit
4 13 (6.95%) Spock
5 7 (3.74%) Maven
6 5 (2.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (2.67%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.67%) JIRA
7 4 (2.14%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.14%) IntelliJ
7 4 (2.14%) Robot Framework
7 4 (2.14%) Vite
8 3 (1.60%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.60%) Postman
8 3 (1.60%) Selenium
8 3 (1.60%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.07%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.07%) Mocha
9 2 (1.07%) Vagrant
General
1 36 (19.25%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.90%) Finance
3 11 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.21%) Advertising
4 6 (3.21%) Retail
5 5 (2.67%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.60%) Banking
7 3 (1.60%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Games
9 1 (0.53%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 52 (27.81%) Senior
2 48 (25.67%) Developer
3 46 (24.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (15.51%) Software Engineer
5 23 (12.30%) Lead
6 21 (11.23%) Principal Engineer
7 17 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 16 (8.56%) Senior Developer
9 14 (7.49%) Java Developer
9 14 (7.49%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (6.42%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 11 (5.88%) Data Engineer
12 10 (5.35%) Lead Developer
12 10 (5.35%) Python Engineer
12 10 (5.35%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (4.81%) GCP Engineer
13 9 (4.81%) Lead DevOps
13 9 (4.81%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 9 (4.81%) Software Developer
14 8 (4.28%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (51.34%) Terraform
2 56 (29.95%) Spring
3 38 (20.32%) Spring Boot
4 37 (19.79%) React
5 27 (14.44%) AngularJS
6 22 (11.76%) .NET
7 21 (11.23%) Node.js
8 17 (9.09%) Vue
9 15 (8.02%) Kafka
10 14 (7.49%) FastAPI
10 14 (7.49%) REST
11 13 (6.95%) .NET Core
12 12 (6.42%) ASP.NET
12 12 (6.42%) RESTful
13 11 (5.88%) CSS
13 11 (5.88%) HTML
13 11 (5.88%) Next.js
14 9 (4.81%) LangChain
15 8 (4.28%) ASP.NET Core
16 7 (3.74%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 44 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 34 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.95%) Private Cloud
4 9 (4.81%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.14%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.60%) Life Science
7 3 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.60%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.60%) Replication
7 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.60%) Social Media
8 2 (1.07%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.53%) Clustering
9 1 (0.53%) CUDA
9 1 (0.53%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (14.44%) Linux
2 12 (6.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.67%) CentOS
3 5 (2.67%) Unix
4 4 (2.14%) VMS
5 2 (1.07%) AIX
5 2 (1.07%) Solaris
5 2 (1.07%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.07%) Windows
5 2 (1.07%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (80.75%) CI/CD
2 111 (59.36%) DevOps
3 83 (44.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (40.11%) Containerisation
5 73 (39.04%) Agile
6 65 (34.76%) AI
7 61 (32.62%) Microservices
8 59 (31.55%) Software Engineering
9 52 (27.81%) Mentoring
10 49 (26.20%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (25.13%) Observability
12 38 (20.32%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (19.25%) Full-Stack Development
13 36 (19.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 33 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
14 33 (17.65%) Test Automation
15 30 (16.04%) Scrum
16 27 (14.44%) TDD
17 24 (12.83%) Event-Driven
18 20 (10.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 97 (51.87%) Python
2 73 (39.04%) Java
3 45 (24.06%) TypeScript
4 44 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 39 (20.86%) SQL
6 30 (16.04%) Bash
7 23 (12.30%) C#
8 16 (8.56%) PowerShell
9 8 (4.28%) Go
9 8 (4.28%) Groovy
10 6 (3.21%) Bicep
10 6 (3.21%) Ruby
10 6 (3.21%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.14%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.14%) PHP
11 4 (2.14%) Rust
11 4 (2.14%) Scala
12 3 (1.60%) C++
13 2 (1.07%) Korn
13 2 (1.07%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 56 (29.95%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.72%) DV Cleared
3 20 (10.70%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.74%) Degree
5 5 (2.67%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.07%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.07%) IBM AIX Certification
7 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.07%) RHCE
7 2 (1.07%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.88%) QA
2 4 (2.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (2.14%) Ceph
2 3 (1.60%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 132 (70.59%) Kubernetes
2 51 (27.27%) Ansible
3 16 (8.56%) Prometheus
4 14 (7.49%) Grafana
5 9 (4.81%) Podman
6 8 (4.28%) Argo
7 7 (3.74%) Istio
8 5 (2.67%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.67%) Puppet
9 4 (2.14%) linkerd
10 3 (1.60%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.07%) Packer
12 1 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.53%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 25 (13.37%) Splunk
2 20 (10.70%) Microsoft
3 18 (9.63%) Google
4 13 (6.95%) AppDynamics
5 10 (5.35%) OpenAI
6 9 (4.81%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.74%) HubSpot
8 4 (2.14%) Mistral
8 4 (2.14%) VMware
9 3 (1.60%) Dell
9 3 (1.60%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.07%) Databricks
10 2 (1.07%) IBM
10 2 (1.07%) Mirantis
10 2 (1.07%) New Relic
10 2 (1.07%) Thales
11 1 (0.53%) Cisco
11 1 (0.53%) Oracle
11 1 (0.53%) Pega
11 1 (0.53%) WSO2