Docker Jobs in the North West

Docker
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 115 43
Rank change year-on-year +99 -72 -8
Permanent jobs citing Docker 916 216 434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.94% 2.03% 6.41%
As % of the System Software category 78.42% 22.95% 39.21%
Number of salaries quoted 133 149 275
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,626 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,919 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,528 £95,400 £86,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +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 1,168 941 1,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 15.22% 8.83% 16.35%
Number of salaries quoted 348 775 761
10th Percentile £26,175 £24,623 £25,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £28,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £43,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -17.14% +11.40%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,475 £72,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.01% -10.00% -

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the North West

Docker
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Docker in the North West.

Salary trend for Docker in the North West

Docker
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in the North West over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

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 12 July 2025. 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
Lancashire +76 492 £50,000 -37.38% 70
Manchester +63 241 £70,000 +14.29% 97
Cheshire +48 142 £60,000 -25.00% 12
Merseyside +57 39 £55,000 +7.32% 12
Cumbria -53 2 - - 1
Docker
England

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 52 (5.68%) Confluence
2 6 (0.66%) CMS
3 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.44%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.33%) Apache Solr
4 3 (0.33%) IIS
4 3 (0.33%) nginx
5 2 (0.22%) Apache
5 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.22%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.11%) Strapi
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 239 (26.09%) AWS
2 185 (20.20%) Azure
3 87 (9.50%) GCP
4 17 (1.86%) Serverless
5 16 (1.75%) GitHub
6 15 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (1.09%) Amazon S3
10 9 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (0.87%) AWS CodeBuild
11 8 (0.87%) Azure Machine Learning
12 7 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (0.66%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (0.66%) Pulumi
14 5 (0.55%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 630 (68.78%) VPN
2 380 (41.48%) DNS
3 250 (27.29%) Cisco IOS
4 8 (0.87%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.44%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (0.33%) Broadband
6 3 (0.33%) Internet
7 1 (0.11%) Firewall
7 1 (0.11%) HTTP
7 1 (0.11%) NAS
7 1 (0.11%) SAN
7 1 (0.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (13.54%) SQL Server
2 36 (3.93%) NoSQL
3 29 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (1.75%) DynamoDB
4 16 (1.75%) MySQL
5 11 (1.20%) MongoDB
6 8 (0.87%) Cloud Spanner
6 8 (0.87%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.66%) Redis
9 4 (0.44%) TimescaleDB
10 3 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.33%) DocumentDB
10 3 (0.33%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.22%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.22%) Metadata
11 2 (0.22%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.11%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 132 (14.41%) GitLab
2 126 (13.76%) JIRA
3 118 (12.88%) SonarQube
4 117 (12.77%) Selenium
5 115 (12.55%) Cucumber
6 112 (12.23%) Bitbucket
6 112 (12.23%) Maven
6 112 (12.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 42 (4.59%) Git
8 23 (2.51%) Jenkins
9 6 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.55%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.55%) JMeter
11 4 (0.44%) webpack
12 3 (0.33%) Jaeger
12 3 (0.33%) JUnit
13 2 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.22%) ESLint
13 2 (0.22%) LoadRunner
13 2 (0.22%) WebDriver
General
1 744 (81.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 648 (70.74%) Analytical Skills
3 538 (58.73%) Finance
4 128 (13.97%) Banking
5 79 (8.62%) Retail
6 70 (7.64%) Corporate Banking
6 70 (7.64%) Investment Banking
7 58 (6.33%) Social Skills
8 10 (1.09%) Games
9 7 (0.76%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.33%) Marketing
11 2 (0.22%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.11%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.11%) Automotive
12 1 (0.11%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.11%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 426 (46.51%) Developer
2 380 (41.48%) Software Developer
3 253 (27.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 151 (16.48%) Software Engineer
5 62 (6.77%) Senior
6 31 (3.38%) Lead
7 25 (2.73%) Senior Developer
8 22 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
9 19 (2.07%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (1.53%) Architect
10 14 (1.53%) Java Developer
10 14 (1.53%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (1.42%) AWS Architect
11 13 (1.42%) AWS Solution Architect
11 13 (1.42%) Senior Java Developer
12 11 (1.20%) AWS DevOps
12 11 (1.20%) DevOps Architect
12 11 (1.20%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (1.20%) Senior DevOps
12 11 (1.20%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (28.38%) Elastic Stack
2 168 (18.34%) React
3 139 (15.17%) Kafka
4 134 (14.63%) Spring Boot
5 132 (14.41%) Spring
6 126 (13.76%) CSS
6 126 (13.76%) HTML
7 111 (12.12%) Redux
8 109 (11.90%) JPA
9 101 (11.03%) RESTful
10 80 (8.73%) Jest
11 79 (8.62%) REST
12 75 (8.19%) CSS3
12 75 (8.19%) Sass
13 73 (7.97%) HTML5
14 46 (5.02%) Hibernate
15 39 (4.26%) Node.js
16 33 (3.60%) .NET
17 19 (2.07%) .NET Core
18 10 (1.09%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 629 (68.67%) Cyberattack
2 120 (13.10%) Product Ownership
3 110 (12.01%) Enterprise Software
4 31 (3.38%) Cloud Native
5 13 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.20%) Management Information System
7 9 (0.98%) Algorithms
7 9 (0.98%) e-Learning
8 8 (0.87%) Public Cloud
8 8 (0.87%) Wiki
9 7 (0.76%) IoT
9 7 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.66%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 3 (0.33%) Low-Code
14 2 (0.22%) Linux Command Line
14 2 (0.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 666 (72.71%) Linux
2 629 (68.67%) Android
3 256 (27.95%) Windows
4 12 (1.31%) Unix
5 10 (1.09%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.66%) Debian
7 5 (0.55%) CentOS
8 3 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 639 (69.76%) Line Management
2 629 (68.67%) Mathematics
3 579 (63.21%) Agile
4 476 (51.97%) DevOps
5 385 (42.03%) OO
6 383 (41.81%) OOP
7 381 (41.59%) Design Patterns
8 379 (41.38%) Android Development
9 310 (33.84%) Problem-Solving
10 260 (28.38%) Platform Engineering
11 255 (27.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 253 (27.62%) Risk Management
12 253 (27.62%) Task Automation
13 250 (27.29%) Storage Management
14 225 (24.56%) CI/CD
15 181 (19.76%) Microservices
16 178 (19.43%) Containerisation
17 176 (19.21%) Software Engineering
18 151 (16.48%) Full-Stack Development
19 142 (15.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 693 (75.66%) Python
2 560 (61.14%) Java
3 388 (42.36%) Go
4 381 (41.59%) C++
5 269 (29.37%) Bash
6 263 (28.71%) PowerShell
7 167 (18.23%) JavaScript
8 155 (16.92%) SQL
9 128 (13.97%) TypeScript
10 30 (3.28%) C#
11 8 (0.87%) PHP
12 2 (0.22%) Rust
13 1 (0.11%) Bicep
13 1 (0.11%) Julia
13 1 (0.11%) R
13 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 385 (42.03%) Security Cleared
2 380 (41.48%) DV Cleared
3 23 (2.51%) Azure Certification
4 20 (2.18%) AWS Certification
5 12 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (0.98%) Degree
7 5 (0.55%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.44%) Linux+ Certification
8 4 (0.44%) RHCE
9 1 (0.11%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (13.21%) QA
2 75 (8.19%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.51%) GDPR
4 19 (2.07%) HIPAA
5 11 (1.20%) NIST
6 4 (0.44%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 255 (27.84%) Hyper-V
2 250 (27.29%) VMware NSX
2 250 (27.29%) vSphere
3 5 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.44%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.44%) Dovecot
4 4 (0.44%) Postfix
4 4 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 649 (70.85%) Ansible
2 311 (33.95%) Terraform
3 231 (25.22%) Kubernetes
4 16 (1.75%) Grafana
5 12 (1.31%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.55%) Puppet
7 4 (0.44%) Argo
8 3 (0.33%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (0.33%) Istio
8 3 (0.33%) Kustomize
8 3 (0.33%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.22%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.11%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.11%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.11%) Kibana
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.11%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 255 (27.84%) Splunk
2 250 (27.29%) 3PAR
2 250 (27.29%) Cisco
2 250 (27.29%) Juniper
3 109 (11.90%) Solace
4 42 (4.59%) Google
5 9 (0.98%) Microsoft
6 5 (0.55%) Ping Identity
6 5 (0.55%) Red Hat
6 5 (0.55%) VMware
7 4 (0.44%) Okta
8 2 (0.22%) Databricks
9 1 (0.11%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle
9 1 (0.11%) PayPal
9 1 (0.11%) Zend