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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 10 120
Rank change year-on-year -92 +110 -90
Permanent jobs citing Docker 179 883 135
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.43% 17.14% 1.73%
As % of the System Software category 29.83% 82.22% 23.68%
Number of salaries quoted 135 103 71
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,875 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +6.62% -6.21%

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 600 1,074 570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.79% 20.85% 7.29%
Number of salaries quoted 473 268 382
10th Percentile £28,300 £28,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,125 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £51,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.27% +13.89% -18.18%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,375 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -12.04% -1.82%

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 10 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 10 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 -47 143 £70,000 +7.69% 78
Lancashire -63 18 £61,250 +10.86% 17
Cheshire -72 9 £53,750 -25.86% 8
Merseyside -46 7 £95,000 +58.33% 1
Cumbria -11 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 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.79%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.68%) IIS
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 115 (64.25%) AWS
2 65 (36.31%) Azure
3 39 (21.79%) GitHub
4 34 (18.99%) GCP
5 27 (15.08%) Serverless
6 18 (10.06%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (8.38%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (7.82%) Datadog
10 13 (7.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (6.70%) GitHub Copilot
12 11 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (6.15%) dbt
13 10 (5.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (5.59%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (5.59%) OpenShift
14 8 (4.47%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (3.91%) Amazon EventBridge
15 7 (3.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 6 (3.35%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.68%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.56%) DHCP
2 1 (0.56%) DNS
2 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.56%) VLAN
2 1 (0.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.73%) MongoDB
2 16 (8.94%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (6.15%) SQL Server
5 9 (5.03%) BigQuery
6 8 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (4.47%) MySQL
6 8 (4.47%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.91%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.79%) Neo4j
10 4 (2.23%) Redis
11 3 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.68%) Chroma
11 3 (1.68%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.68%) Pinecone
12 2 (1.12%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 48 (26.82%) Git
2 39 (21.79%) GitLab
3 32 (17.88%) Jenkins
4 14 (7.82%) JUnit
5 13 (7.26%) Spock
6 7 (3.91%) Maven
7 5 (2.79%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.79%) IntelliJ
7 5 (2.79%) JIRA
8 4 (2.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (2.23%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.23%) Robot Framework
8 4 (2.23%) Vite
9 3 (1.68%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.68%) Postman
9 3 (1.68%) Selenium
9 3 (1.68%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.12%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.12%) Mocha
11 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
General
1 31 (17.32%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.53%) Finance
3 10 (5.59%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.35%) Advertising
5 6 (3.35%) Retail
6 5 (2.79%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.68%) Banking
8 3 (1.68%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Games
10 1 (0.56%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 51 (28.49%) Senior
2 50 (27.93%) Developer
3 40 (22.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (16.20%) Software Engineer
5 22 (12.29%) Lead
6 19 (10.61%) Principal Engineer
7 17 (9.50%) Java Developer
8 16 (8.94%) Senior Developer
9 15 (8.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 14 (7.82%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (6.70%) Senior Java Developer
12 11 (6.15%) Data Engineer
13 10 (5.59%) Lead Developer
13 10 (5.59%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 10 (5.59%) Python Engineer
14 9 (5.03%) .NET Developer
14 9 (5.03%) GCP Engineer
14 9 (5.03%) Software Developer
15 8 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
15 8 (4.47%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (51.96%) Terraform
2 52 (29.05%) Spring
3 37 (20.67%) Spring Boot
4 34 (18.99%) React
5 27 (15.08%) AngularJS
6 23 (12.85%) .NET
7 22 (12.29%) Node.js
8 16 (8.94%) Vue
9 15 (8.38%) REST
10 14 (7.82%) FastAPI
11 12 (6.70%) ASP.NET
11 12 (6.70%) Kafka
11 12 (6.70%) Next.js
12 11 (6.15%) .NET Core
12 11 (6.15%) CSS
12 11 (6.15%) HTML
12 11 (6.15%) RESTful
13 9 (5.03%) LangChain
14 8 (4.47%) ASP.NET Core
15 7 (3.91%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 39 (21.79%) Cloud Native
2 35 (19.55%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.26%) Private Cloud
4 9 (5.03%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.23%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.68%) Life Science
7 3 (1.68%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.68%) Replication
7 3 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.68%) Social Media
8 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.56%) Clustering
9 1 (0.56%) CUDA
9 1 (0.56%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.85%) Linux
2 10 (5.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.79%) Unix
4 4 (2.23%) CentOS
4 4 (2.23%) VMS
5 2 (1.12%) AIX
5 2 (1.12%) Solaris
5 2 (1.12%) Windows
6 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (81.56%) CI/CD
2 105 (58.66%) DevOps
3 75 (41.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (39.66%) Agile
4 71 (39.66%) Containerisation
5 64 (35.75%) AI
6 58 (32.40%) Microservices
7 57 (31.84%) Software Engineering
8 46 (25.70%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (25.14%) Mentoring
10 44 (24.58%) Observability
11 37 (20.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (19.55%) Full-Stack Development
13 34 (18.99%) Test Automation
14 30 (16.76%) Platform Engineering
14 30 (16.76%) Scrum
14 30 (16.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 29 (16.20%) TDD
16 22 (12.29%) Event-Driven
17 20 (11.17%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 92 (51.40%) Python
2 69 (38.55%) Java
3 45 (25.14%) JavaScript
4 43 (24.02%) TypeScript
5 39 (21.79%) SQL
6 28 (15.64%) Bash
7 23 (12.85%) C#
8 14 (7.82%) PowerShell
9 8 (4.47%) Go
9 8 (4.47%) Groovy
10 6 (3.35%) Ruby
11 5 (2.79%) Bicep
12 4 (2.23%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.23%) PHP
12 4 (2.23%) Scala
13 3 (1.68%) C++
13 3 (1.68%) Rust
13 3 (1.68%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.12%) Korn
14 2 (1.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 51 (28.49%) Security Cleared
2 30 (16.76%) DV Cleared
3 18 (10.06%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.47%) Degree
5 4 (2.23%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.12%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.12%) IBM AIX Certification
7 2 (1.12%) RHCE
7 2 (1.12%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.15%) QA
2 4 (2.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (2.23%) Ceph
2 3 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 127 (70.95%) Kubernetes
2 48 (26.82%) Ansible
3 15 (8.38%) Prometheus
4 13 (7.26%) Grafana
5 9 (5.03%) Podman
6 7 (3.91%) Argo
6 7 (3.91%) Istio
7 5 (2.79%) Puppet
8 4 (2.23%) linkerd
9 3 (1.68%) Check_MK
9 3 (1.68%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.56%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 25 (13.97%) Splunk
2 15 (8.38%) Google
2 15 (8.38%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.26%) AppDynamics
4 9 (5.03%) OpenAI
4 9 (5.03%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.91%) HubSpot
6 5 (2.79%) VMware
7 4 (2.23%) Mistral
8 3 (1.68%) Dell
8 3 (1.68%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.12%) Databricks
9 2 (1.12%) IBM
9 2 (1.12%) Mirantis
9 2 (1.12%) New Relic
9 2 (1.12%) Pega
9 2 (1.12%) Thales
9 2 (1.12%) WSO2
10 1 (0.56%) Cisco
10 1 (0.56%) Oracle