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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 11 100
Rank change year-on-year -86 +89 -71
Permanent jobs citing Docker 190 874 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.47% 16.82% 1.90%
As % of the System Software category 31.61% 83.72% 25.09%
Number of salaries quoted 135 94 69
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,125 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,563 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £71,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.93% +1.43% -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 601 1,044 578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.65% 20.09% 7.58%
Number of salaries quoted 466 236 347
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,125 £32,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +18.89% -18.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -48 151 £70,000 +7.69% 161
Lancashire -60 19 £62,500 +13.12% 20
Merseyside -43 10 £95,000 +58.33% 12
Cheshire -84 8 £52,500 -25.00% 9
Cumbria -7 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 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.11%) IIS
2 4 (2.11%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) CMS
4 1 (0.53%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 121 (63.68%) AWS
2 70 (36.84%) Azure
3 44 (23.16%) GitHub
4 38 (20.00%) GCP
5 30 (15.79%) Serverless
6 20 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (8.42%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (7.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (6.84%) Datadog
11 12 (6.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (6.32%) dbt
11 12 (6.32%) GitHub Copilot
12 10 (5.26%) OpenShift
13 9 (4.74%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (4.74%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (4.74%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (3.16%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (3.16%) Azure AI
14 6 (3.16%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.63%) Internet
2 3 (1.58%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.05%) DHCP
3 2 (1.05%) DNS
4 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.53%) VLAN
4 1 (0.53%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.11%) MongoDB
2 15 (7.89%) NoSQL
3 10 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.26%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.74%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (4.74%) BigQuery
4 9 (4.74%) MySQL
5 7 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.68%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (3.16%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.63%) Neo4j
8 4 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.11%) MariaDB
8 4 (2.11%) Redis
9 3 (1.58%) Chroma
9 3 (1.58%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.05%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 54 (28.42%) Git
2 44 (23.16%) GitLab
3 34 (17.89%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.84%) JUnit
4 13 (6.84%) Spock
5 7 (3.68%) Maven
6 6 (3.16%) JIRA
7 5 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (2.63%) Cypress.io
8 4 (2.11%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.11%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.11%) Robot Framework
8 4 (2.11%) Vagrant
8 4 (2.11%) Vite
9 3 (1.58%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.58%) Postman
9 3 (1.58%) Selenium
9 3 (1.58%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.05%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.05%) Mocha
General
1 35 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.68%) Finance
3 13 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.32%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.16%) Advertising
5 6 (3.16%) Retail
6 5 (2.63%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.58%) Banking
7 3 (1.58%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Games
9 1 (0.53%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 53 (27.89%) Senior
2 49 (25.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 48 (25.26%) Developer
4 29 (15.26%) Software Engineer
5 22 (11.58%) Lead
6 21 (11.05%) Principal Engineer
7 17 (8.95%) Senior Developer
8 16 (8.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 14 (7.37%) Java Developer
9 14 (7.37%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (6.32%) Data Engineer
10 12 (6.32%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.26%) Python Engineer
11 10 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (4.74%) GCP Engineer
12 9 (4.74%) Lead Developer
12 9 (4.74%) Lead DevOps
12 9 (4.74%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.74%) Software Developer
13 8 (4.21%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (51.58%) Terraform
2 57 (30.00%) Spring
3 40 (21.05%) Spring Boot
4 39 (20.53%) React
5 27 (14.21%) AngularJS
6 22 (11.58%) .NET
7 19 (10.00%) Node.js
8 17 (8.95%) Vue
9 15 (7.89%) Kafka
10 14 (7.37%) FastAPI
10 14 (7.37%) REST
11 13 (6.84%) .NET Core
12 12 (6.32%) ASP.NET
13 11 (5.79%) CSS
13 11 (5.79%) HTML
13 11 (5.79%) Next.js
13 11 (5.79%) RESTful
14 9 (4.74%) LangChain
15 8 (4.21%) ASP.NET Core
16 7 (3.68%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 45 (23.68%) Cloud Native
2 33 (17.37%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.84%) Private Cloud
4 9 (4.74%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.11%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.58%) Life Science
8 3 (1.58%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.58%) Replication
8 3 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.58%) Social Media
9 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.53%) Clustering
10 1 (0.53%) CUDA
10 1 (0.53%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.26%) Linux
2 11 (5.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.63%) CentOS
3 5 (2.63%) Unix
4 4 (2.11%) VMS
5 2 (1.05%) AIX
5 2 (1.05%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.05%) Windows
5 2 (1.05%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.53%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (82.11%) CI/CD
2 117 (61.58%) DevOps
3 86 (45.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (40.53%) Agile
4 77 (40.53%) Containerisation
5 66 (34.74%) AI
6 60 (31.58%) Microservices
6 60 (31.58%) Software Engineering
7 54 (28.42%) Mentoring
8 50 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (24.21%) Observability
10 41 (21.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 35 (18.42%) Full-Stack Development
13 34 (17.89%) Platform Engineering
13 34 (17.89%) Test Automation
14 33 (17.37%) Scrum
15 29 (15.26%) TDD
16 23 (12.11%) Event-Driven
17 21 (11.05%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 97 (51.05%) Python
2 74 (38.95%) Java
3 45 (23.68%) TypeScript
4 44 (23.16%) JavaScript
5 39 (20.53%) SQL
6 30 (15.79%) Bash
7 23 (12.11%) C#
8 17 (8.95%) PowerShell
9 8 (4.21%) Go
9 8 (4.21%) Groovy
9 8 (4.21%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.16%) Bicep
10 6 (3.16%) Ruby
11 4 (2.11%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.11%) PHP
11 4 (2.11%) Rust
11 4 (2.11%) Scala
12 3 (1.58%) C++
13 2 (1.05%) Korn
13 2 (1.05%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 55 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.42%) DV Cleared
3 19 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.68%) Degree
5 5 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.05%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.05%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.05%) IBM AIX Certification
7 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.05%) RHCE
7 2 (1.05%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.79%) QA
2 4 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.05%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (2.11%) Ceph
2 3 (1.58%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 134 (70.53%) Kubernetes
2 50 (26.32%) Ansible
3 17 (8.95%) Prometheus
4 15 (7.89%) Grafana
5 8 (4.21%) Argo
5 8 (4.21%) Podman
6 7 (3.68%) Istio
6 7 (3.68%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.63%) Puppet
8 4 (2.11%) linkerd
8 4 (2.11%) Packer
9 3 (1.58%) Check_MK
9 3 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.53%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 25 (13.16%) Splunk
2 22 (11.58%) Microsoft
3 20 (10.53%) Google
4 13 (6.84%) AppDynamics
5 10 (5.26%) OpenAI
6 8 (4.21%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.16%) HubSpot
8 4 (2.11%) Mistral
9 3 (1.58%) Databricks
9 3 (1.58%) Dell
9 3 (1.58%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.58%) VMware
10 2 (1.05%) IBM
10 2 (1.05%) New Relic
10 2 (1.05%) Thales
10 2 (1.05%) YouTube
11 1 (0.53%) Mirantis
11 1 (0.53%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.53%) Pega
11 1 (0.53%) WSO2