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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 12 123
Rank change year-on-year -91 +111 -80
Permanent jobs citing Docker 165 897 147
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.39% 17.30% 1.76%
As % of the System Software category 29.57% 80.74% 21.88%
Number of salaries quoted 130 118 94
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,375 £41,625
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,563 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,133 £89,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £69,308
% change year-on-year -6.90% +4.61% -7.59%

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 558 1,111 672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.70% 21.42% 8.03%
Number of salaries quoted 451 301 519
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £30,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -10.71%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -52 133 £70,000 +7.69% 89
Lancashire -58 15 £50,000 -9.50% 18
Cheshire -73 8 £52,500 -27.59% 9
Merseyside -41 7 £95,000 +72.73% 2
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 7 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.03%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.82%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 108 (65.45%) AWS
2 61 (36.97%) Azure
3 34 (20.61%) GCP
4 32 (19.39%) GitHub
5 28 (16.97%) Serverless
6 14 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (8.48%) Datadog
6 14 (8.48%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (7.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (7.88%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (7.27%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (6.67%) dbt
10 10 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
10 10 (6.06%) GitHub Copilot
11 9 (5.45%) OpenShift
12 7 (4.24%) Amazon EventBridge
13 6 (3.64%) Azure AI
13 6 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.82%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.61%) DHCP
2 1 (0.61%) DNS
2 1 (0.61%) LTE
2 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.61%) VLAN
2 1 (0.61%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.73%) MongoDB
2 15 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 15 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.06%) BigQuery
5 9 (5.45%) Relational Database
6 8 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (4.24%) DynamoDB
7 7 (4.24%) MySQL
8 6 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.42%) Neo4j
11 3 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.82%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.82%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.82%) Redis
12 1 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.61%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 44 (26.67%) Git
2 32 (19.39%) GitLab
3 29 (17.58%) Jenkins
4 12 (7.27%) JUnit
5 11 (6.67%) Spock
6 5 (3.03%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.42%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.42%) JIRA
7 4 (2.42%) Maven
7 4 (2.42%) Robot Framework
7 4 (2.42%) Vite
8 3 (1.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.82%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.82%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.82%) Postman
8 3 (1.82%) Selenium
8 3 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.21%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.21%) Mocha
10 1 (0.61%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 28 (16.97%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.55%) Finance
3 8 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.64%) Advertising
4 6 (3.64%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.42%) Retail
6 3 (1.82%) Banking
6 3 (1.82%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.21%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 53 (32.12%) Senior
2 47 (28.48%) Developer
3 29 (17.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (16.97%) Software Engineer
5 19 (11.52%) Lead
6 17 (10.30%) Java Developer
7 16 (9.70%) Principal Engineer
7 16 (9.70%) Senior Developer
8 15 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (7.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 12 (7.27%) Python Engineer
10 12 (7.27%) Senior Java Developer
11 11 (6.67%) Data Engineer
12 9 (5.45%) .NET Developer
12 9 (5.45%) Lead Developer
12 9 (5.45%) Python Software Engineer
12 9 (5.45%) Senior Software Developer
12 9 (5.45%) Software Developer
13 8 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (4.85%) Principal DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (28.48%) Spring
2 34 (20.61%) Spring Boot
3 33 (20.00%) React
4 24 (14.55%) .NET
4 24 (14.55%) AngularJS
5 19 (11.52%) Node.js
6 17 (10.30%) FastAPI
7 16 (9.70%) Vue
8 13 (7.88%) REST
9 12 (7.27%) .NET Core
9 12 (7.27%) ASP.NET
9 12 (7.27%) Next.js
9 12 (7.27%) RESTful
10 11 (6.67%) CSS
10 11 (6.67%) HTML
11 10 (6.06%) Kafka
11 10 (6.06%) LangChain
12 8 (4.85%) ASP.NET Core
13 7 (4.24%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (4.24%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 37 (22.42%) Cloud Native
2 31 (18.79%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.67%) Private Cloud
4 7 (4.24%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.42%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.82%) Replication
7 3 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.82%) Social Media
8 2 (1.21%) Life Science
8 2 (1.21%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.21%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.61%) Clustering
9 1 (0.61%) CUDA
9 1 (0.61%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.61%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.91%) Linux
2 7 (4.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.42%) Unix
4 3 (1.82%) CentOS
5 2 (1.21%) AIX
5 2 (1.21%) Solaris
5 2 (1.21%) VMS
5 2 (1.21%) Windows
6 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (79.39%) CI/CD
2 95 (57.58%) DevOps
3 67 (40.61%) Containerisation
3 67 (40.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (38.18%) Agile
5 59 (35.76%) AI
6 52 (31.52%) Software Engineering
7 51 (30.91%) Microservices
8 44 (26.67%) Mentoring
9 40 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (23.64%) Observability
11 33 (20.00%) TDD
12 30 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
12 30 (18.18%) Test Automation
13 28 (16.97%) Platform Engineering
14 27 (16.36%) Scrum
15 26 (15.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 20 (12.12%) Event-Driven
17 18 (10.91%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 83 (50.30%) Python
2 60 (36.36%) Java
3 40 (24.24%) JavaScript
4 38 (23.03%) TypeScript
5 36 (21.82%) SQL
6 24 (14.55%) C#
7 22 (13.33%) Bash
8 12 (7.27%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.64%) Go
9 6 (3.64%) Groovy
9 6 (3.64%) Ruby
10 4 (2.42%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.42%) PHP
11 3 (1.82%) Bicep
11 3 (1.82%) Scala
12 2 (1.21%) C++
12 2 (1.21%) Korn
12 2 (1.21%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.21%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.61%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 43 (26.06%) Security Cleared
2 25 (15.15%) DV Cleared
3 14 (8.48%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.45%) Degree
5 4 (2.42%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.21%) IBM AIX Certification
6 2 (1.21%) RHCE
6 2 (1.21%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.67%) QA
2 4 (2.42%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (2.42%) Ceph
2 3 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 117 (70.91%) Kubernetes
2 85 (51.52%) Terraform
3 40 (24.24%) Ansible
4 15 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 13 (7.88%) Grafana
6 7 (4.24%) Argo
6 7 (4.24%) Istio
6 7 (4.24%) Podman
7 5 (3.03%) Puppet
8 4 (2.42%) linkerd
9 3 (1.82%) Check_MK
9 3 (1.82%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.61%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 23 (13.94%) Splunk
2 14 (8.48%) Google
3 13 (7.88%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.67%) AppDynamics
5 9 (5.45%) OpenAI
6 7 (4.24%) HubSpot
6 7 (4.24%) Red Hat
7 5 (3.03%) VMware
8 3 (1.82%) Dell
8 3 (1.82%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.21%) IBM
9 2 (1.21%) Mirantis
9 2 (1.21%) Pega
9 2 (1.21%) WSO2
10 1 (0.61%) Cisco
10 1 (0.61%) Databricks
10 1 (0.61%) NVIDIA