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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 12 105
Rank change year-on-year -113 +93 -50
Permanent jobs citing Docker 117 895 232
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.09% 19.01% 2.10%
As % of the System Software category 26.83% 82.34% 24.02%
Number of salaries quoted 99 121 178
10th Percentile £47,250 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £58,125 £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 £87,500 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £92,375
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 436 1,087 966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.05% 23.09% 8.75%
Number of salaries quoted 359 277 818
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £24,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £35,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £63,125 £75,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,250 £93,778 £74,125
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 14 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 14 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 97 £67,500 -10.00% 54
Merseyside -44 7 £95,000 +72.73% 1
Lancashire -61 6 £62,500 +3.31% 12
Cheshire -73 4 £66,250 +10.42% 6
Cumbria -22 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 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.56%) IIS
3 2 (1.71%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 88 (75.21%) AWS
2 47 (40.17%) Azure
3 29 (24.79%) Serverless
4 24 (20.51%) GCP
5 20 (17.09%) GitHub
6 14 (11.97%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (11.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (11.11%) Datadog
8 11 (9.40%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (9.40%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (8.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (5.98%) Amazon EventBridge
11 7 (5.98%) dbt
12 6 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (3.42%) Amazon S3
14 4 (3.42%) Pulumi
14 4 (3.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.56%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.85%) LTE
2 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.68%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (11.97%) MongoDB
3 10 (8.55%) NoSQL
4 9 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.98%) DynamoDB
6 6 (5.13%) SQL Server
7 5 (4.27%) BigQuery
7 5 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (3.42%) MySQL
8 4 (3.42%) Neo4j
9 3 (2.56%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.85%) Redis
11 1 (0.85%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 24 (20.51%) Git
2 21 (17.95%) GitLab
3 18 (15.38%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.98%) JUnit
5 6 (5.13%) Spock
6 4 (3.42%) JIRA
6 4 (3.42%) Vite
7 2 (1.71%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.71%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.71%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.71%) Maven
7 2 (1.71%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.71%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.85%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.85%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.85%) Postman
8 1 (0.85%) Selenium
General
1 15 (12.82%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.11%) Finance
3 4 (3.42%) Retail
4 3 (2.56%) Banking
4 3 (2.56%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.71%) Advertising
5 2 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.85%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (38.46%) Senior
2 37 (31.62%) Developer
3 30 (25.64%) Software Engineer
4 16 (13.68%) Java Developer
5 14 (11.97%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (11.97%) Lead
5 14 (11.97%) Senior Developer
6 13 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (9.40%) Python Engineer
7 11 (9.40%) Senior Java Developer
8 10 (8.55%) Software Developer
9 9 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
10 8 (6.84%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (6.84%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.98%) Integration Developer
11 7 (5.98%) Integration Engineer
11 7 (5.98%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (5.98%) Python Software Engineer
12 6 (5.13%) Data Engineer
12 6 (5.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (25.64%) Spring
2 28 (23.93%) React
3 22 (18.80%) Spring Boot
4 19 (16.24%) .NET
5 17 (14.53%) FastAPI
6 15 (12.82%) Node.js
7 14 (11.97%) AngularJS
8 13 (11.11%) REST
9 11 (9.40%) .NET Core
10 10 (8.55%) Vue
11 9 (7.69%) LangChain
11 9 (7.69%) Next.js
12 8 (6.84%) Django
12 8 (6.84%) Kafka
12 8 (6.84%) RESTful
13 7 (5.98%) ASP.NET
13 7 (5.98%) CSS
13 7 (5.98%) HTML
13 7 (5.98%) OpenTelemetry
14 6 (5.13%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 31 (26.50%) Cloud Native
2 23 (19.66%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.13%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.42%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.71%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.85%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.55%) Linux
2 3 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.56%) Unix
3 2 (1.71%) Solaris
3 2 (1.71%) Windows
4 1 (0.85%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (79.49%) CI/CD
2 68 (58.12%) DevOps
3 53 (45.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (42.74%) Containerisation
5 45 (38.46%) Agile
6 39 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 37 (31.62%) Microservices
8 36 (30.77%) Mentoring
9 34 (29.06%) AI
10 33 (28.21%) Observability
11 31 (26.50%) TDD
12 29 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (21.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (19.66%) Platform Engineering
15 22 (18.80%) Scrum
16 18 (15.38%) Clean Code
16 18 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
16 18 (15.38%) Test Automation
17 17 (14.53%) Event-Driven
18 13 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 60 (51.28%) Python
2 40 (34.19%) Java
3 33 (28.21%) TypeScript
4 29 (24.79%) JavaScript
5 21 (17.95%) SQL
6 18 (15.38%) C#
7 16 (13.68%) Bash
8 11 (9.40%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.42%) Go
9 4 (3.42%) Groovy
9 4 (3.42%) Ruby
10 3 (2.56%) Bicep
11 2 (1.71%) C
11 2 (1.71%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.85%) PHP
12 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (18.80%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.40%) DV Cleared
3 9 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.98%) Degree
5 4 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.85%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.55%) QA
2 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.71%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 83 (70.94%) Kubernetes
2 69 (58.97%) Terraform
3 18 (15.38%) Ansible
4 12 (10.26%) Grafana
5 11 (9.40%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.42%) Argo
7 3 (2.56%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.71%) Istio
8 2 (1.71%) linkerd
8 2 (1.71%) Packer
8 2 (1.71%) Podman
9 1 (0.85%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (11.97%) Splunk
2 8 (6.84%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.98%) HubSpot
4 6 (5.13%) AppDynamics
4 6 (5.13%) Google
5 5 (4.27%) OpenAI
5 5 (4.27%) VMware
6 2 (1.71%) Mirantis
6 2 (1.71%) Pega
6 2 (1.71%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.71%) WSO2
7 1 (0.85%) Databricks
7 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace