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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 68 71
Rank change year-on-year -61 +3 -22
Permanent jobs citing Docker 81 147 257
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.96% 3.84% 3.15%
As % of the System Software category 26.82% 35.85% 27.20%
Number of salaries quoted 72 119 220
10th Percentile £50,200 £50,000 £44,938
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £74,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% +14.62% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,778 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £97,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +10.71% -6.67%

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 302 410 945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.59% 10.72% 11.58%
Number of salaries quoted 246 321 842
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,425 £37,500 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,886 £63,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £93,778 £77,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -43 69 £67,500 -10.00% 53
Cheshire -30 6 £62,500 -14.97% 9
Merseyside -13 2 £77,500 +24.00% 8
Cumbria - 1 £55,000 -
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 4 (4.94%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.70%) nginx
2 3 (3.70%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.23%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 58 (71.60%) AWS
2 41 (50.62%) Azure
3 27 (33.33%) GCP
4 15 (18.52%) Serverless
5 8 (9.88%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (8.64%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (8.64%) Amazon S3
6 7 (8.64%) dbt
7 4 (4.94%) Azure AKS
7 4 (4.94%) PaaS
7 4 (4.94%) SaaS
7 4 (4.94%) Sentry
8 3 (3.70%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.70%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.70%) GitHub
8 3 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.70%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.70%) Firewall
3 1 (1.23%) DHCP
3 1 (1.23%) DNS
3 1 (1.23%) LTE
3 1 (1.23%) Network Security
3 1 (1.23%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.23%) VLAN
3 1 (1.23%) VPN
3 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.99%) NoSQL
2 16 (19.75%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (16.05%) MongoDB
4 8 (9.88%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (8.64%) MySQL
6 6 (7.41%) SQL Server
7 5 (6.17%) Redis
7 5 (6.17%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (4.94%) Neo4j
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.47%) BigQuery
9 2 (2.47%) PostHog
10 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 14 (17.28%) Git
2 5 (6.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.47%) GitLab
3 2 (2.47%) Vagrant
4 1 (1.23%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.23%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.23%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.23%) JMeter
4 1 (1.23%) JUnit
4 1 (1.23%) Locust
General
1 14 (17.28%) Social Skills
2 3 (3.70%) Finance
2 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.47%) Legal
3 2 (2.47%) Retail
4 1 (1.23%) Electronics
4 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.23%) Marketing
4 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (45.68%) Senior
2 26 (32.10%) Software Engineer
3 22 (27.16%) Developer
4 12 (14.81%) Java Developer
5 11 (13.58%) Senior Developer
6 10 (12.35%) Python Engineer
7 9 (11.11%) Lead
7 9 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (8.64%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (7.41%) Lead Software Engineer
10 5 (6.17%) .NET Developer
10 5 (6.17%) Data Engineer
10 5 (6.17%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (6.17%) Python Software Engineer
11 4 (4.94%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (4.94%) Senior .NET Developer
11 4 (4.94%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (4.94%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.94%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.93%) .NET
2 18 (22.22%) Spring
2 18 (22.22%) Spring Boot
3 17 (20.99%) React
4 11 (13.58%) Django
5 10 (12.35%) .NET Core
5 10 (12.35%) FastAPI
6 9 (11.11%) RESTful
7 8 (9.88%) AngularJS
7 8 (9.88%) REST
8 7 (8.64%) CSS
8 7 (8.64%) HTML
9 6 (7.41%) Celery
9 6 (7.41%) Hibernate
9 6 (7.41%) Node.js
9 6 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (7.41%) Vue
10 5 (6.17%) .NET Framework
10 5 (6.17%) Flask
10 5 (6.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (27.16%) Cloud Native
2 16 (19.75%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.64%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.47%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.47%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.47%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.28%) Linux
2 7 (8.64%) Windows
3 4 (4.94%) Unix
4 3 (3.70%) VMS
5 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.23%) CentOS
6 1 (1.23%) Solaris
6 1 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (85.19%) CI/CD
2 45 (55.56%) DevOps
3 42 (51.85%) Containerisation
4 36 (44.44%) Agile
5 33 (40.74%) Software Engineering
5 33 (40.74%) TDD
6 29 (35.80%) Microservices
7 27 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (27.16%) Clean Code
9 21 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (20.99%) Mentoring
12 15 (18.52%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (17.28%) Observability
14 13 (16.05%) Event-Driven
15 10 (12.35%) AI
15 10 (12.35%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 9 (11.11%) Open Source
16 9 (11.11%) Scrum
16 9 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (40.74%) Python
2 28 (34.57%) Java
3 20 (24.69%) SQL
4 18 (22.22%) C#
5 17 (20.99%) JavaScript
6 14 (17.28%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.94%) C
8 3 (3.70%) PHP
8 3 (3.70%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.47%) Bash
9 2 (2.47%) Bicep
10 1 (1.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.64%) DV Cleared
3 6 (7.41%) Degree
4 5 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.17%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.70%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.23%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) QA
2 2 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (7.41%) vSphere
2 5 (6.17%) VMware NSX
3 4 (4.94%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.70%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.23%) Firmware
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 58 (71.60%) Kubernetes
2 33 (40.74%) Terraform
3 11 (13.58%) Ansible
4 6 (7.41%) Grafana
5 2 (2.47%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (2.47%) Packer
5 2 (2.47%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.47%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.23%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.23%) Nagios
6 1 (1.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (9.88%) VMware
2 6 (7.41%) Google
3 4 (4.94%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.47%) Pega
4 2 (2.47%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.47%) WSO2
5 1 (1.23%) Adobe
5 1 (1.23%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.23%) F5
5 1 (1.23%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.23%) Mirantis
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle
5 1 (1.23%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.23%) SAP