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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 73 62
Rank change year-on-year -36 -11 -19
Permanent jobs citing Docker 88 154 251
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.20% 3.38% 3.76%
As % of the System Software category 29.24% 36.15% 30.84%
Number of salaries quoted 77 100 222
10th Percentile £49,950 £52,500 £44,438
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +19.05% -3.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £78,438
90th Percentile £95,500 £98,474 £97,404
England median annual salary £71,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.39% +10.71% -6.67%

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 301 426 814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.10% 9.36% 12.19%
Number of salaries quoted 244 267 726
10th Percentile £28,075 £30,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +2.15%
75th Percentile £65,625 £73,886 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,875 £93,778 £77,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £58,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.53% +17.00% -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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -32 68 £67,500 -10.00% 56
Cheshire -15 12 £70,000 -3.45% 15
Merseyside -15 3 £77,500 +3.33% 5
Cumbria - 1 £55,000 -
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 6 (6.82%) nginx
2 3 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.27%) Apache Solr
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.27%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.14%) Apache
4 1 (1.14%) IIS
4 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 60 (68.18%) AWS
2 46 (52.27%) Azure
3 29 (32.95%) GCP
4 9 (10.23%) Serverless
5 8 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (7.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (7.95%) GitHub
7 6 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (6.82%) Amazon S3
7 6 (6.82%) dbt
7 6 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (6.82%) PaaS
8 4 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.55%) Azure AKS
8 4 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.55%) Sentry
9 3 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (3.41%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.41%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.41%) Firewall
3 2 (2.27%) DNS
4 1 (1.14%) DHCP
4 1 (1.14%) Network Security
4 1 (1.14%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.14%) VLAN
4 1 (1.14%) VPN
4 1 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (21.59%) NoSQL
2 13 (14.77%) MongoDB
3 12 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (11.36%) MySQL
5 9 (10.23%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (9.09%) SQL Server
7 6 (6.82%) Neo4j
8 5 (5.68%) Redis
9 4 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (4.55%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (2.27%) Big Data
10 2 (2.27%) Hadoop
10 2 (2.27%) PostHog
11 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
11 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
11 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 16 (18.18%) Git
2 11 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.82%) GitLab
4 4 (4.55%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.27%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.27%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.27%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.14%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.14%) git-flow
6 1 (1.14%) JMeter
6 1 (1.14%) Locust
General
1 15 (17.05%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.68%) Finance
3 4 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Law
5 2 (2.27%) Legal
5 2 (2.27%) Retail
6 1 (1.14%) Banking
6 1 (1.14%) Electronics
6 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.14%) Marketing
6 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (37.50%) Senior
2 24 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 23 (26.14%) Developer
4 10 (11.36%) Java Developer
4 10 (11.36%) Senior Developer
5 9 (10.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (10.23%) Python Engineer
5 9 (10.23%) Senior Software Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Lead
6 7 (7.95%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) .NET Developer
9 4 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Senior .NET Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (23.86%) .NET
1 21 (23.86%) React
2 13 (14.77%) Spring
2 13 (14.77%) Spring Boot
3 11 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 11 (12.50%) RESTful
4 10 (11.36%) CSS
4 10 (11.36%) Django
4 10 (11.36%) HTML
5 8 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 8 (9.09%) FastAPI
5 8 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (7.95%) Node.js
6 7 (7.95%) REST
7 6 (6.82%) Hibernate
7 6 (6.82%) Vue
8 5 (5.68%) .NET Framework
8 5 (5.68%) Celery
8 5 (5.68%) Flask
8 5 (5.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 16 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.95%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.27%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.27%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.14%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 17 (19.32%) Linux
2 8 (9.09%) Windows
3 4 (4.55%) Unix
4 3 (3.41%) VMS
4 3 (3.41%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.27%) Debian
5 2 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.27%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.14%) CentOS
6 1 (1.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 54 (61.36%) Containerisation
3 48 (54.55%) DevOps
4 38 (43.18%) Agile
5 35 (39.77%) Software Engineering
6 31 (35.23%) Microservices
7 30 (34.09%) TDD
8 26 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (28.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (21.59%) Clean Code
11 18 (20.45%) Observability
12 15 (17.05%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (15.91%) Mentoring
14 13 (14.77%) Performance Optimisation
15 12 (13.64%) AI
16 11 (12.50%) Event-Driven
17 10 (11.36%) Data Pipeline
17 10 (11.36%) Open Source
18 9 (10.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (39.77%) Python
2 25 (28.41%) Java
3 20 (22.73%) JavaScript
3 20 (22.73%) SQL
4 18 (20.45%) C#
5 16 (18.18%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.82%) PHP
7 5 (5.68%) Bash
8 4 (4.55%) C
8 4 (4.55%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.41%) Go
10 2 (2.27%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.82%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.68%) Degree
5 3 (3.41%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.14%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.09%) QA
2 2 (2.27%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (1.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (5.68%) vSphere
2 4 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.55%) VMware NSX
3 3 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.14%) Firmware
4 1 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 62 (70.45%) Kubernetes
2 34 (38.64%) Terraform
3 14 (15.91%) Ansible
4 12 (13.64%) Grafana
5 8 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.55%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.27%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (2.27%) Packer
7 2 (2.27%) Puppet
8 1 (1.14%) Argo
8 1 (1.14%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.14%) Nagios
8 1 (1.14%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (9.09%) Google
2 7 (7.95%) VMware
3 6 (6.82%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.41%) AppDynamics
4 3 (3.41%) Oracle
5 2 (2.27%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.27%) Splunk
6 1 (1.14%) Adobe
6 1 (1.14%) F5
6 1 (1.14%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.14%) Mirantis
6 1 (1.14%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.14%) Pega
6 1 (1.14%) SAP
6 1 (1.14%) WSO2