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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 12 102
Rank change year-on-year -112 +90 -51
Permanent jobs citing Docker 120 895 232
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.11% 19.01% 2.09%
As % of the System Software category 27.21% 82.26% 23.94%
Number of salaries quoted 102 121 177
10th Percentile £46,375 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £92,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -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 441 1,088 969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.08% 23.11% 8.74%
Number of salaries quoted 364 278 819
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £24,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £35,000 £28,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,375 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £74,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -57 99 £67,500 -10.00% 45
Merseyside -44 7 £95,000 +72.73% 4
Lancashire -61 7 £62,500 +3.31% 13
Cheshire -72 4 £66,250 +10.42% 6
Cumbria -21 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 5 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.50%) IIS
3 2 (1.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 90 (75.00%) AWS
2 50 (41.67%) Azure
3 30 (25.00%) Serverless
4 26 (21.67%) GCP
5 22 (18.33%) GitHub
6 14 (11.67%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (11.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (10.83%) Datadog
8 12 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (5.83%) Amazon EventBridge
10 7 (5.83%) dbt
11 6 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (3.33%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.50%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.83%) LTE
2 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 10 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 9 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (7.50%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.83%) DynamoDB
6 6 (5.00%) SQL Server
7 5 (4.17%) BigQuery
7 5 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (3.33%) MySQL
8 4 (3.33%) Neo4j
9 3 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.50%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.83%) Redis
10 1 (0.83%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 26 (21.67%) Git
2 22 (18.33%) GitLab
3 20 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.83%) JUnit
5 6 (5.00%) Spock
6 4 (3.33%) JIRA
6 4 (3.33%) Vite
7 2 (1.67%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.67%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.67%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.67%) Maven
7 2 (1.67%) Postman
7 2 (1.67%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.67%) Selenium
7 2 (1.67%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.83%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.83%) IntelliJ
General
1 15 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.83%) Finance
3 4 (3.33%) Retail
4 3 (2.50%) Advertising
4 3 (2.50%) Banking
4 3 (2.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.83%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (38.33%) Senior
2 39 (32.50%) Developer
3 30 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 17 (14.17%) Java Developer
5 15 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 14 (11.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (11.67%) Lead
7 13 (10.83%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (9.17%) Python Engineer
10 10 (8.33%) Software Developer
11 9 (7.50%) Senior Software Developer
12 8 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (6.67%) Lead Developer
13 7 (5.83%) Integration Developer
13 7 (5.83%) Integration Engineer
13 7 (5.83%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (5.83%) Python Software Engineer
14 6 (5.00%) Data Engineer
14 6 (5.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (25.83%) Spring
2 28 (23.33%) React
3 23 (19.17%) Spring Boot
4 20 (16.67%) .NET
5 17 (14.17%) FastAPI
6 15 (12.50%) Node.js
7 14 (11.67%) AngularJS
8 13 (10.83%) REST
9 12 (10.00%) .NET Core
10 10 (8.33%) Vue
11 9 (7.50%) Kafka
11 9 (7.50%) LangChain
11 9 (7.50%) Next.js
11 9 (7.50%) RESTful
12 8 (6.67%) ASP.NET
12 8 (6.67%) CSS
12 8 (6.67%) Django
12 8 (6.67%) HTML
13 7 (5.83%) OpenTelemetry
14 6 (5.00%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 32 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 23 (19.17%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.00%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.33%) AI Agents
4 4 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.67%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.83%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.33%) Linux
2 3 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.50%) Unix
3 2 (1.67%) Solaris
3 2 (1.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.83%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 68 (56.67%) DevOps
3 54 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (43.33%) Containerisation
5 46 (38.33%) Agile
6 39 (32.50%) Software Engineering
7 37 (30.83%) AI
7 37 (30.83%) Microservices
8 36 (30.00%) Mentoring
9 34 (28.33%) Observability
10 32 (26.67%) TDD
11 29 (24.17%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
14 22 (18.33%) Scrum
15 19 (15.83%) Clean Code
15 19 (15.83%) Full-Stack Development
16 18 (15.00%) Test Automation
17 17 (14.17%) Event-Driven
18 13 (10.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 61 (50.83%) Python
2 41 (34.17%) Java
3 33 (27.50%) TypeScript
4 29 (24.17%) JavaScript
5 22 (18.33%) SQL
6 19 (15.83%) C#
7 17 (14.17%) Bash
8 11 (9.17%) PowerShell
9 5 (4.17%) Go
10 4 (3.33%) Groovy
10 4 (3.33%) Ruby
11 3 (2.50%) Bicep
12 2 (1.67%) C
12 2 (1.67%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.67%) Scala
12 2 (1.67%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.83%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (18.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.17%) DV Cleared
3 9 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.83%) Degree
5 4 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.67%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 86 (71.67%) Kubernetes
2 70 (58.33%) Terraform
3 18 (15.00%) Ansible
4 13 (10.83%) Grafana
5 12 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.33%) Argo
6 4 (3.33%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.50%) Istio
7 3 (2.50%) linkerd
8 2 (1.67%) Packer
8 2 (1.67%) Podman
8 2 (1.67%) Puppet
9 1 (0.83%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 15 (12.50%) Splunk
2 9 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.83%) Google
3 7 (5.83%) HubSpot
4 6 (5.00%) AppDynamics
5 5 (4.17%) OpenAI
5 5 (4.17%) VMware
6 2 (1.67%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.67%) Mirantis
6 2 (1.67%) Pega
6 2 (1.67%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.67%) WSO2
7 1 (0.83%) Databricks