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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 11 101
Rank change year-on-year -86 +90 -73
Permanent jobs citing Docker 194 872 150
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.50% 16.71% 1.99%
As % of the System Software category 32.72% 83.21% 26.36%
Number of salaries quoted 137 92 74
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,875 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £65,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% +6.12% -12.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £86,525
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -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 593 1,048 569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.58% 20.08% 7.56%
Number of salaries quoted 463 236 338
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,125 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +19.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £58,438
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £72,500
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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -44 154 £70,000 +7.69% 173
Lancashire -58 19 £62,500 +13.12% 22
Merseyside -41 10 £95,000 +58.33% 10
Cheshire -82 8 £52,500 -25.00% 7
Cumbria -5 1 £45,000 - 2
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 8 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.06%) IIS
2 4 (2.06%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.03%) CMS
3 2 (1.03%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 122 (62.89%) AWS
2 72 (37.11%) Azure
3 44 (22.68%) GitHub
4 39 (20.10%) GCP
5 32 (16.49%) Serverless
6 20 (10.31%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (9.28%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (8.76%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (7.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (6.70%) Datadog
11 12 (6.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (6.19%) dbt
11 12 (6.19%) GitHub Copilot
12 10 (5.15%) OpenShift
13 9 (4.64%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (4.64%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (4.64%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (3.09%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (3.09%) Azure AI
14 6 (3.09%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.58%) Internet
2 3 (1.55%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.03%) DHCP
3 2 (1.03%) DNS
4 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.52%) VLAN
4 1 (0.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.86%) MongoDB
2 16 (8.25%) NoSQL
3 10 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.15%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.64%) BigQuery
4 9 (4.64%) MySQL
5 7 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.61%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (3.09%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.58%) Neo4j
8 4 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.06%) MariaDB
8 4 (2.06%) Redis
9 3 (1.55%) Chroma
9 3 (1.55%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.03%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 54 (27.84%) Git
2 44 (22.68%) GitLab
3 34 (17.53%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.70%) JUnit
4 13 (6.70%) Spock
5 7 (3.61%) Maven
6 6 (3.09%) JIRA
7 5 (2.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (2.58%) Cypress.io
8 4 (2.06%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.06%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.06%) Robot Framework
8 4 (2.06%) Vagrant
8 4 (2.06%) Vite
9 3 (1.55%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.55%) Postman
9 3 (1.55%) Selenium
9 3 (1.55%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.03%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.03%) Mocha
General
1 35 (18.04%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.40%) Finance
3 13 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.61%) Retail
6 6 (3.09%) Advertising
6 6 (3.09%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.55%) Banking
8 3 (1.55%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Games
10 1 (0.52%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 53 (27.32%) Senior
2 50 (25.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 49 (25.26%) Developer
4 31 (15.98%) Software Engineer
5 22 (11.34%) Lead
6 21 (10.82%) Principal Engineer
7 17 (8.76%) Senior Developer
8 16 (8.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 15 (7.73%) Java Developer
10 14 (7.22%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (6.19%) Data Engineer
11 12 (6.19%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 10 (5.15%) Python Engineer
12 10 (5.15%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (4.64%) GCP Engineer
13 9 (4.64%) Lead Developer
13 9 (4.64%) Lead DevOps
13 9 (4.64%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 9 (4.64%) Software Developer
14 8 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (51.03%) Terraform
2 58 (29.90%) Spring
3 41 (21.13%) React
3 41 (21.13%) Spring Boot
4 27 (13.92%) AngularJS
5 23 (11.86%) .NET
6 21 (10.82%) Node.js
7 17 (8.76%) Vue
8 15 (7.73%) Kafka
8 15 (7.73%) REST
9 14 (7.22%) .NET Core
9 14 (7.22%) FastAPI
10 12 (6.19%) ASP.NET
11 11 (5.67%) CSS
11 11 (5.67%) HTML
11 11 (5.67%) Next.js
11 11 (5.67%) RESTful
12 9 (4.64%) LangChain
13 8 (4.12%) ASP.NET Core
14 7 (3.61%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 47 (24.23%) Cloud Native
2 33 (17.01%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.70%) Private Cloud
4 9 (4.64%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.58%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.06%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.55%) Life Science
8 3 (1.55%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.55%) Replication
8 3 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.55%) Social Media
9 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.52%) CUDA
10 1 (0.52%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.52%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.52%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.52%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.46%) Linux
2 12 (6.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.58%) CentOS
3 5 (2.58%) Unix
4 4 (2.06%) VMS
5 2 (1.03%) AIX
5 2 (1.03%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.03%) Windows
5 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.52%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (82.47%) CI/CD
2 119 (61.34%) DevOps
3 88 (45.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 79 (40.72%) Agile
5 78 (40.21%) Containerisation
6 67 (34.54%) AI
7 63 (32.47%) Software Engineering
8 61 (31.44%) Microservices
9 54 (27.84%) Mentoring
10 51 (26.29%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (23.71%) Observability
12 43 (22.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (19.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 35 (18.04%) Full-Stack Development
14 35 (18.04%) Platform Engineering
14 35 (18.04%) Test Automation
15 33 (17.01%) Scrum
16 29 (14.95%) TDD
17 23 (11.86%) Event-Driven
18 22 (11.34%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 100 (51.55%) Python
2 75 (38.66%) Java
3 47 (24.23%) TypeScript
4 46 (23.71%) JavaScript
5 39 (20.10%) SQL
6 31 (15.98%) Bash
7 24 (12.37%) C#
8 17 (8.76%) PowerShell
9 9 (4.64%) Go
10 8 (4.12%) Groovy
10 8 (4.12%) Shell Script
11 6 (3.09%) Bicep
11 6 (3.09%) Ruby
12 4 (2.06%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.06%) PHP
12 4 (2.06%) Rust
12 4 (2.06%) Scala
13 3 (1.55%) C++
14 2 (1.03%) Korn
14 2 (1.03%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 56 (28.87%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.04%) DV Cleared
3 20 (10.31%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.12%) Degree
5 5 (2.58%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.03%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.03%) IBM AIX Certification
7 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.03%) RHCE
7 2 (1.03%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.67%) QA
2 4 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.03%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (2.06%) Ceph
2 3 (1.55%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 136 (70.10%) Kubernetes
2 51 (26.29%) Ansible
3 17 (8.76%) Prometheus
4 15 (7.73%) Grafana
5 9 (4.64%) Podman
6 8 (4.12%) Argo
7 7 (3.61%) Istio
7 7 (3.61%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.58%) Puppet
9 4 (2.06%) linkerd
9 4 (2.06%) Packer
10 3 (1.55%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.52%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 25 (12.89%) Splunk
2 24 (12.37%) Microsoft
3 21 (10.82%) Google
4 13 (6.70%) AppDynamics
5 10 (5.15%) OpenAI
6 9 (4.64%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.09%) HubSpot
8 4 (2.06%) Mistral
9 3 (1.55%) Databricks
9 3 (1.55%) Dell
9 3 (1.55%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.55%) Thales
9 3 (1.55%) VMware
10 2 (1.03%) IBM
10 2 (1.03%) New Relic
10 2 (1.03%) YouTube
11 1 (0.52%) Mirantis
11 1 (0.52%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.52%) Pega
11 1 (0.52%) WSO2