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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 12 121
Rank change year-on-year -90 +109 -77
Permanent jobs citing Docker 169 894 148
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.41% 17.17% 1.77%
As % of the System Software category 29.55% 80.54% 22.42%
Number of salaries quoted 134 115 90
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,000 £41,125
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,125 £74,786
90th Percentile £97,500 £89,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +6.62% -9.33%

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 572 1,110 660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.77% 21.32% 7.90%
Number of salaries quoted 463 300 503
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,250 £47,683 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +5.96% -18.18%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.34%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -48 136 £70,000 +7.69% 74
Lancashire -59 16 £55,000 -0.45% 18
Cheshire -71 8 £52,500 -27.59% 7
Merseyside -50 7 £95,000 +72.73% 1
Cumbria -16 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 7 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.96%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.78%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.59%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 110 (65.09%) AWS
2 62 (36.69%) Azure
3 35 (20.71%) GCP
3 35 (20.71%) GitHub
4 28 (16.57%) Serverless
5 15 (8.88%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (8.28%) Datadog
7 13 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (7.10%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (7.10%) dbt
9 11 (6.51%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (5.92%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (5.33%) OpenShift
12 7 (4.14%) Amazon EventBridge
13 6 (3.55%) Azure AI
13 6 (3.55%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (3.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.78%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.59%) DHCP
2 1 (0.59%) DNS
2 1 (0.59%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.59%) VLAN
2 1 (0.59%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.43%) MongoDB
2 15 (8.88%) NoSQL
3 13 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (6.51%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.92%) BigQuery
6 8 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (4.73%) Relational Database
7 7 (4.14%) DynamoDB
7 7 (4.14%) MySQL
8 6 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.37%) Neo4j
11 3 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.78%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.78%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.78%) Redis
12 2 (1.18%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.59%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 46 (27.22%) Git
2 33 (19.53%) GitLab
3 30 (17.75%) Jenkins
4 12 (7.10%) JUnit
5 11 (6.51%) Spock
6 5 (2.96%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (2.37%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.37%) JIRA
7 4 (2.37%) Maven
7 4 (2.37%) Robot Framework
7 4 (2.37%) Vite
8 3 (1.78%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.78%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.78%) Postman
8 3 (1.78%) Selenium
8 3 (1.78%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.18%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.18%) Mocha
10 1 (0.59%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 29 (17.16%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.20%) Finance
3 8 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.14%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.55%) Advertising
6 4 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.37%) Retail
7 3 (1.78%) Banking
7 3 (1.78%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.18%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Games
Job Titles
1 52 (30.77%) Senior
2 48 (28.40%) Developer
3 34 (20.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (15.98%) Software Engineer
5 21 (12.43%) Lead
6 19 (11.24%) Principal Engineer
7 17 (10.06%) Java Developer
8 16 (9.47%) Senior Developer
9 14 (8.28%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 12 (7.10%) Data Engineer
11 12 (7.10%) Senior Java Developer
12 11 (6.51%) Python Engineer
13 10 (5.92%) Lead Developer
13 10 (5.92%) Principal DevOps Engineer
14 9 (5.33%) .NET Developer
14 9 (5.33%) GCP Engineer
14 9 (5.33%) Senior Software Developer
14 9 (5.33%) Software Developer
15 8 (4.73%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (29.59%) Spring
2 37 (21.89%) Spring Boot
3 32 (18.93%) React
4 24 (14.20%) AngularJS
5 23 (13.61%) .NET
6 20 (11.83%) Node.js
7 15 (8.88%) FastAPI
7 15 (8.88%) Vue
8 13 (7.69%) REST
9 12 (7.10%) ASP.NET
9 12 (7.10%) Next.js
10 11 (6.51%) .NET Core
10 11 (6.51%) CSS
10 11 (6.51%) HTML
10 11 (6.51%) RESTful
11 10 (5.92%) Kafka
12 9 (5.33%) LangChain
13 8 (4.73%) ASP.NET Core
14 7 (4.14%) OpenTelemetry
14 7 (4.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 38 (22.49%) Cloud Native
2 32 (18.93%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.51%) Private Cloud
4 7 (4.14%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.37%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.78%) Replication
7 3 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.78%) Social Media
8 2 (1.18%) Life Science
8 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.18%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.59%) Clustering
9 1 (0.59%) CUDA
9 1 (0.59%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.59%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.24%) Linux
2 8 (4.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.37%) CentOS
3 4 (2.37%) Unix
4 2 (1.18%) AIX
4 2 (1.18%) Solaris
4 2 (1.18%) VMS
4 2 (1.18%) Windows
5 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (81.07%) CI/CD
2 99 (58.58%) DevOps
3 71 (42.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (40.24%) Containerisation
5 65 (38.46%) Agile
6 59 (34.91%) AI
7 52 (30.77%) Microservices
8 51 (30.18%) Software Engineering
9 45 (26.63%) Mentoring
10 42 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (23.67%) Observability
12 32 (18.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (18.34%) Full-Stack Development
13 31 (18.34%) TDD
13 31 (18.34%) Test Automation
14 30 (17.75%) Platform Engineering
14 30 (17.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 28 (16.57%) Scrum
16 21 (12.43%) Event-Driven
17 19 (11.24%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 86 (50.89%) Python
2 64 (37.87%) Java
3 41 (24.26%) JavaScript
4 39 (23.08%) TypeScript
5 37 (21.89%) SQL
6 23 (13.61%) Bash
6 23 (13.61%) C#
7 12 (7.10%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.55%) Go
8 6 (3.55%) Groovy
8 6 (3.55%) Ruby
9 4 (2.37%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.37%) PHP
10 3 (1.78%) Bicep
10 3 (1.78%) C++
10 3 (1.78%) Scala
11 2 (1.18%) Korn
11 2 (1.18%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.18%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.59%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 46 (27.22%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.57%) DV Cleared
3 15 (8.88%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.73%) Degree
5 4 (2.37%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.18%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.18%) IBM AIX Certification
7 2 (1.18%) RHCE
7 2 (1.18%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.10%) QA
2 4 (2.37%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (2.37%) Ceph
2 3 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.59%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.59%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 121 (71.60%) Kubernetes
2 90 (53.25%) Terraform
3 44 (26.04%) Ansible
4 15 (8.88%) Prometheus
5 13 (7.69%) Grafana
6 7 (4.14%) Argo
6 7 (4.14%) Istio
6 7 (4.14%) Podman
7 5 (2.96%) Puppet
8 4 (2.37%) linkerd
9 3 (1.78%) Check_MK
9 3 (1.78%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.59%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (13.61%) Splunk
2 15 (8.88%) Google
3 13 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.51%) AppDynamics
5 9 (5.33%) OpenAI
6 7 (4.14%) HubSpot
6 7 (4.14%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.96%) VMware
8 3 (1.78%) Dell
8 3 (1.78%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.18%) IBM
9 2 (1.18%) Mirantis
9 2 (1.18%) Pega
9 2 (1.18%) WSO2
10 1 (0.59%) Cisco
10 1 (0.59%) Databricks
10 1 (0.59%) New Relic
10 1 (0.59%) NVIDIA