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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 91 30
Rank change year-on-year +15 -61 +9
Permanent jobs citing Docker 127 151 286
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.53% 2.21% 7.41%
As % of the System Software category 40.32% 27.55% 42.00%
Number of salaries quoted 94 78 230
10th Percentile £50,900 £44,625 £44,313
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,563 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £77,125 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £89,250 £88,625 £86,625
England median annual salary £72,500 £74,000 £72,000
% change year-on-year -2.03% +2.78% -4.00%

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 315 548 681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.28% 8.02% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 253 314 573
10th Percentile £28,050 £29,150 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -9.52% +15.62%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,998 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,532 £74,144 £80,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £56,525 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.97% +2.77% -

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 18 November 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 18 November 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
Manchester +17 98 £65,000 +4.00% 129
Cheshire +10 22 £67,500 +6.30% 29
Merseyside -1 5 £55,000 -26.67% 7
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 4 (3.15%) Apache Solr
1 4 (3.15%) nginx
2 3 (2.36%) CMS
2 3 (2.36%) Confluence
3 2 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.57%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.57%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.79%) Apache
4 1 (0.79%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.79%) IIS
4 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.79%) Strapi
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 95 (74.80%) AWS
2 57 (44.88%) Azure
3 38 (29.92%) GCP
4 16 (12.60%) GitHub
5 15 (11.81%) Serverless
6 11 (8.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (7.87%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (7.09%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (6.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (6.30%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (5.51%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (4.72%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.72%) AWS CodeBuild
11 6 (4.72%) Route 53
11 6 (4.72%) SaaS
11 6 (4.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (3.94%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.15%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.79%) DNS
2 1 (0.79%) Firewall
2 1 (0.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (23.62%) NoSQL
2 19 (14.96%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (13.39%) MongoDB
3 17 (13.39%) MySQL
4 11 (8.66%) DynamoDB
5 7 (5.51%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (4.72%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.94%) Redis
8 4 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (3.15%) Neo4j
8 4 (3.15%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.57%) Big Data
9 2 (1.57%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.57%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.57%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.57%) Metadata
9 2 (1.57%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.79%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 23 (18.11%) Git
2 22 (17.32%) Jenkins
3 18 (14.17%) GitLab
4 7 (5.51%) Cypress.io
5 6 (4.72%) CircleCI
5 6 (4.72%) JIRA
6 4 (3.15%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.36%) Selenium
7 3 (2.36%) webpack
8 2 (1.57%) MLflow
8 2 (1.57%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.79%) CA Release Automation
9 1 (0.79%) ESLint
9 1 (0.79%) git-flow
9 1 (0.79%) Locust
9 1 (0.79%) Sinon.JS
9 1 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.79%) Storybook
9 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
General
1 32 (25.20%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.96%) Finance
3 9 (7.09%) Games
4 7 (5.51%) Retail
5 6 (4.72%) Marketing
6 4 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.15%) Banking
6 4 (3.15%) Legal
7 3 (2.36%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.57%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.57%) Law
9 1 (0.79%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.79%) Electronics
9 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (32.28%) Developer
1 41 (32.28%) Senior
2 24 (18.90%) Software Engineer
3 19 (14.96%) Senior Developer
4 17 (13.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (11.02%) Java Developer
6 12 (9.45%) Lead
7 11 (8.66%) Senior Java Developer
8 10 (7.87%) Senior DevOps
9 9 (7.09%) Architect
9 9 (7.09%) AWS Architect
9 9 (7.09%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (7.09%) AWS Solution Architect
9 9 (7.09%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (7.09%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (5.51%) DevOps Architect
10 7 (5.51%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Python Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Senior Architect
10 7 (5.51%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (25.20%) React
2 28 (22.05%) .NET
3 17 (13.39%) RESTful
4 16 (12.60%) Spring
4 16 (12.60%) Spring Boot
5 14 (11.02%) Node.js
6 13 (10.24%) HTML
7 12 (9.45%) .NET Core
7 12 (9.45%) CSS
8 10 (7.87%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (7.09%) .NET Framework
9 9 (7.09%) AngularJS
9 9 (7.09%) Next.js
10 8 (6.30%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (6.30%) Hibernate
10 8 (6.30%) REST
11 7 (5.51%) Django
11 7 (5.51%) Jest
11 7 (5.51%) Vue
12 6 (4.72%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 28 (22.05%) Cloud Native
2 18 (14.17%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.51%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.72%) e-Learning
4 6 (4.72%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.94%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (3.94%) Wiki
6 4 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.36%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.57%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.57%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.57%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.57%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.57%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.57%) Online Banking
8 2 (1.57%) Online Games
9 1 (0.79%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.90%) Linux
2 10 (7.87%) Windows
3 7 (5.51%) Ubuntu
4 6 (4.72%) Debian
5 5 (3.94%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.15%) Unix
7 2 (1.57%) VMS
8 1 (0.79%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (78.74%) CI/CD
2 83 (65.35%) DevOps
3 78 (61.42%) Containerisation
4 62 (48.82%) Agile
5 51 (40.16%) Microservices
6 44 (34.65%) Software Engineering
7 43 (33.86%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (25.98%) TDD
9 28 (22.05%) Clean Code
10 26 (20.47%) Infrastructure as Code
11 24 (18.90%) AI
12 23 (18.11%) Roadmaps
13 21 (16.54%) Observability
14 20 (15.75%) Event-Driven
15 19 (14.96%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (14.96%) Mentoring
15 19 (14.96%) Test Automation
16 18 (14.17%) Full-Stack Development
17 17 (13.39%) User Experience
18 16 (12.60%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 50 (39.37%) Python
2 40 (31.50%) Java
3 35 (27.56%) SQL
4 30 (23.62%) C#
5 29 (22.83%) JavaScript
6 26 (20.47%) TypeScript
7 15 (11.81%) Bash
8 7 (5.51%) PHP
9 6 (4.72%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.15%) Go
11 2 (1.57%) Bicep
12 1 (0.79%) C
12 1 (0.79%) C++
12 1 (0.79%) Julia
12 1 (0.79%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (7.87%) Azure Certification
2 9 (7.09%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.30%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (4.72%) Degree
5 6 (4.72%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.36%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.79%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.79%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.02%) GDPR
2 8 (6.30%) HIPAA
2 8 (6.30%) QA
3 7 (5.51%) NIST
4 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.15%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.36%) vSphere
3 2 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.57%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.79%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.79%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 89 (70.08%) Kubernetes
2 45 (35.43%) Terraform
3 20 (15.75%) Grafana
4 16 (12.60%) Ansible
5 13 (10.24%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.15%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.36%) Puppet
8 2 (1.57%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.79%) Argo
9 1 (0.79%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 19 (14.96%) Google
2 8 (6.30%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.72%) Splunk
4 4 (3.15%) Oracle
4 4 (3.15%) VMware
5 3 (2.36%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.57%) Databricks
7 1 (0.79%) F5
7 1 (0.79%) Okta
7 1 (0.79%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.79%) PayPal
7 1 (0.79%) Pega
7 1 (0.79%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.79%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.79%) SAP
7 1 (0.79%) WSO2