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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 12 109
Rank change year-on-year -122 +97 -58
Permanent jobs citing Docker 107 896 227
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.00% 19.10% 2.11%
As % of the System Software category 25.36% 82.89% 23.77%
Number of salaries quoted 94 123 175
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,250 £44,250
25th Percentile £57,813 £58,500 £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 £87,500 £89,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £93,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 422 1,081 955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.96% 23.04% 8.89%
Number of salaries quoted 348 274 813
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £24,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £35,574 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +22.22% -12.74%
75th Percentile £62,725 £75,938 £61,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £93,778 £72,500
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 9 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 9 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 88 £67,500 -10.00% 53
Merseyside -45 7 £95,000 +72.73% 1
Lancashire -66 5 £62,500 +3.31% 14
Cheshire -76 4 £66,250 +10.42% 8
Cumbria -23 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 (4.67%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.80%) IIS
3 2 (1.87%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.93%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 82 (76.64%) AWS
2 42 (39.25%) Azure
3 29 (27.10%) Serverless
4 23 (21.50%) GCP
5 16 (14.95%) GitHub
6 14 (13.08%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (12.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (12.15%) Datadog
8 12 (11.21%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (10.28%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (8.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (8.41%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (8.41%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (6.54%) Amazon EventBridge
11 7 (6.54%) dbt
12 5 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (4.67%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (3.74%) Amazon S3
13 4 (3.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (2.80%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.80%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.93%) LTE
2 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.08%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (11.21%) MongoDB
3 9 (8.41%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (8.41%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.54%) DynamoDB
4 7 (6.54%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.61%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.67%) BigQuery
6 5 (4.67%) MySQL
7 4 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.80%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (18.69%) Git
2 16 (14.95%) GitLab
3 15 (14.02%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.67%) JUnit
5 4 (3.74%) JIRA
5 4 (3.74%) Spock
6 2 (1.87%) Maven
6 2 (1.87%) Vagrant
6 2 (1.87%) Vite
7 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.93%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.93%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.93%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.93%) Postman
7 1 (0.93%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.93%) Selenium
General
1 14 (13.08%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.35%) Finance
3 4 (3.74%) Retail
4 3 (2.80%) Banking
5 2 (1.87%) Advertising
5 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.87%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (38.32%) Senior
2 37 (34.58%) Developer
3 26 (24.30%) Software Engineer
4 16 (14.95%) Java Developer
5 14 (13.08%) Lead
5 14 (13.08%) Senior Developer
6 12 (11.21%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (10.28%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (10.28%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (10.28%) Software Developer
8 10 (9.35%) Python Engineer
9 9 (8.41%) Senior Software Developer
10 8 (7.48%) Lead Developer
11 7 (6.54%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (6.54%) Integration Developer
11 7 (6.54%) Integration Engineer
11 7 (6.54%) Principal Engineer
12 6 (5.61%) Data Engineer
12 6 (5.61%) Python Software Engineer
12 6 (5.61%) Senior Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (26.17%) Spring
2 24 (22.43%) React
3 22 (20.56%) Spring Boot
4 19 (17.76%) .NET
5 15 (14.02%) Node.js
6 14 (13.08%) FastAPI
7 12 (11.21%) REST
8 11 (10.28%) .NET Core
8 11 (10.28%) AngularJS
9 9 (8.41%) RESTful
9 9 (8.41%) Vue
10 8 (7.48%) CSS
10 8 (7.48%) Django
10 8 (7.48%) HTML
10 8 (7.48%) Kafka
11 7 (6.54%) ASP.NET
11 7 (6.54%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (5.61%) Entity Framework
12 6 (5.61%) LangChain
12 6 (5.61%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (24.30%) Cloud Native
2 21 (19.63%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.74%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.80%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.93%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.41%) Linux
2 3 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.80%) Unix
3 2 (1.87%) Solaris
3 2 (1.87%) Windows
4 1 (0.93%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (80.37%) CI/CD
2 61 (57.01%) DevOps
3 48 (44.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (42.06%) Containerisation
5 39 (36.45%) Agile
6 36 (33.64%) Mentoring
7 33 (30.84%) Microservices
8 32 (29.91%) Software Engineering
9 29 (27.10%) AI
9 29 (27.10%) TDD
10 26 (24.30%) Observability
11 25 (23.36%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (20.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (19.63%) Platform Engineering
14 20 (18.69%) Scrum
15 18 (16.82%) Clean Code
16 17 (15.89%) Event-Driven
17 14 (13.08%) Full-Stack Development
17 14 (13.08%) Test Automation
18 13 (12.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 52 (48.60%) Python
2 35 (32.71%) Java
3 27 (25.23%) TypeScript
4 24 (22.43%) JavaScript
5 18 (16.82%) C#
5 18 (16.82%) SQL
6 13 (12.15%) Bash
7 9 (8.41%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.74%) Groovy
9 3 (2.80%) Go
9 3 (2.80%) Ruby
10 2 (1.87%) Bicep
10 2 (1.87%) C
10 2 (1.87%) PHP
10 2 (1.87%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.35%) DV Cleared
3 6 (5.61%) Degree
3 6 (5.61%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.35%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.87%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 75 (70.09%) Kubernetes
2 63 (58.88%) Terraform
3 16 (14.95%) Ansible
4 10 (9.35%) Grafana
5 9 (8.41%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.80%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.87%) Argo
7 2 (1.87%) Packer
7 2 (1.87%) Podman
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.93%) Istio
8 1 (0.93%) linkerd
8 1 (0.93%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (10.28%) Splunk
2 7 (6.54%) HubSpot
2 7 (6.54%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.61%) Google
4 5 (4.67%) VMware
5 4 (3.74%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.80%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.87%) Mirantis
7 2 (1.87%) Pega
7 2 (1.87%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.87%) WSO2
8 1 (0.93%) Adobe
8 1 (0.93%) Databricks
8 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace