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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 10 121
Rank change year-on-year -88 +111 -93
Permanent jobs citing Docker 183 882 137
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.44% 17.10% 1.76%
As % of the System Software category 30.60% 83.76% 23.95%
Number of salaries quoted 133 101 66
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £44,375
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £85,625
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% -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 598 1,053 572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.70% 20.41% 7.35%
Number of salaries quoted 468 248 360
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £53,750 £44,274
Median % change year-on-year -13.49% +21.40% -19.50%
75th Percentile £64,063 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £81,625 £78,250 £70,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -12.73% -

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 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 18 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 -50 145 £70,000 +7.69% 129
Lancashire -62 18 £61,250 +10.86% 22
Merseyside -44 9 £95,000 +58.33% 9
Cheshire -77 9 £52,500 -27.59% 15
Cumbria -5 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 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.19%) IIS
2 4 (2.19%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 115 (62.84%) AWS
2 65 (35.52%) Azure
3 42 (22.95%) GitHub
4 35 (19.13%) GCP
5 27 (14.75%) Serverless
6 20 (10.93%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (7.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (7.65%) Datadog
10 12 (6.56%) GitHub Copilot
11 11 (6.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (6.01%) dbt
12 10 (5.46%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (5.46%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (5.46%) OpenShift
13 9 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (3.83%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (3.28%) Azure AKS
15 6 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.64%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.09%) DHCP
2 2 (1.09%) DNS
2 2 (1.09%) Internet
3 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.55%) VLAN
3 1 (0.55%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.57%) MongoDB
2 16 (8.74%) NoSQL
3 10 (5.46%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.46%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (4.92%) BigQuery
4 9 (4.92%) MySQL
5 7 (3.83%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.83%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.73%) Neo4j
8 4 (2.19%) MariaDB
8 4 (2.19%) Redis
9 3 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.64%) Chroma
9 3 (1.64%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.09%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 50 (27.32%) Git
2 42 (22.95%) GitLab
3 33 (18.03%) Jenkins
4 13 (7.10%) JUnit
4 13 (7.10%) Spock
5 7 (3.83%) Maven
6 5 (2.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (2.73%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.73%) JIRA
7 4 (2.19%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.19%) IntelliJ
7 4 (2.19%) Robot Framework
7 4 (2.19%) Vite
8 3 (1.64%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.64%) Postman
8 3 (1.64%) Selenium
8 3 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.09%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.09%) Mocha
9 2 (1.09%) Vagrant
General
1 36 (19.67%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.21%) Finance
3 11 (6.01%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.28%) Advertising
5 6 (3.28%) Retail
6 5 (2.73%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.64%) Banking
8 3 (1.64%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Games
10 1 (0.55%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 51 (27.87%) Senior
2 48 (26.23%) Developer
3 44 (24.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (14.75%) Software Engineer
5 23 (12.57%) Lead
6 21 (11.48%) Principal Engineer
7 17 (9.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 16 (8.74%) Senior Developer
9 14 (7.65%) Java Developer
10 13 (7.10%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (6.56%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 11 (6.01%) Data Engineer
13 10 (5.46%) Lead Developer
13 10 (5.46%) Python Engineer
13 10 (5.46%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (4.92%) GCP Engineer
14 9 (4.92%) Lead DevOps
14 9 (4.92%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 9 (4.92%) Software Developer
15 8 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (51.91%) Terraform
2 54 (29.51%) Spring
3 36 (19.67%) React
3 36 (19.67%) Spring Boot
4 27 (14.75%) AngularJS
5 21 (11.48%) .NET
6 20 (10.93%) Node.js
7 17 (9.29%) Vue
8 15 (8.20%) Kafka
9 14 (7.65%) FastAPI
10 13 (7.10%) REST
11 12 (6.56%) .NET Core
11 12 (6.56%) ASP.NET
11 12 (6.56%) RESTful
12 11 (6.01%) CSS
12 11 (6.01%) HTML
12 11 (6.01%) Next.js
13 9 (4.92%) LangChain
14 8 (4.37%) ASP.NET Core
15 7 (3.83%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 43 (23.50%) Cloud Native
2 34 (18.58%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.10%) Private Cloud
4 9 (4.92%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.19%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.64%) Life Science
7 3 (1.64%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.64%) Replication
7 3 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.64%) Social Media
8 2 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.55%) Clustering
9 1 (0.55%) CUDA
9 1 (0.55%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.21%) Linux
2 12 (6.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.73%) CentOS
3 5 (2.73%) Unix
4 4 (2.19%) VMS
5 2 (1.09%) AIX
5 2 (1.09%) Solaris
5 2 (1.09%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.09%) Windows
5 2 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (80.33%) CI/CD
2 108 (59.02%) DevOps
3 80 (43.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (39.89%) Containerisation
5 72 (39.34%) Agile
6 65 (35.52%) AI
7 59 (32.24%) Microservices
8 57 (31.15%) Software Engineering
9 51 (27.87%) Mentoring
10 49 (26.78%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (25.68%) Observability
12 37 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (19.67%) Full-Stack Development
14 34 (18.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 32 (17.49%) Platform Engineering
15 32 (17.49%) Test Automation
16 30 (16.39%) Scrum
17 26 (14.21%) TDD
18 24 (13.11%) Event-Driven
19 20 (10.93%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 96 (52.46%) Python
2 71 (38.80%) Java
3 44 (24.04%) JavaScript
3 44 (24.04%) TypeScript
4 39 (21.31%) SQL
5 30 (16.39%) Bash
6 22 (12.02%) C#
7 16 (8.74%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.37%) Go
8 8 (4.37%) Groovy
9 6 (3.28%) Bicep
9 6 (3.28%) Ruby
10 5 (2.73%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.19%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.19%) PHP
11 4 (2.19%) Rust
11 4 (2.19%) Scala
12 3 (1.64%) C++
13 2 (1.09%) Korn
13 2 (1.09%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 55 (30.05%) Security Cleared
2 34 (18.58%) DV Cleared
3 20 (10.93%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.83%) Degree
5 5 (2.73%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.09%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.09%) IBM AIX Certification
7 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.09%) RHCE
7 2 (1.09%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.01%) QA
2 4 (2.19%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (2.19%) Ceph
2 3 (1.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 130 (71.04%) Kubernetes
2 50 (27.32%) Ansible
3 16 (8.74%) Prometheus
4 14 (7.65%) Grafana
5 9 (4.92%) Podman
6 8 (4.37%) Argo
7 7 (3.83%) Istio
8 5 (2.73%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.73%) Puppet
9 4 (2.19%) linkerd
10 3 (1.64%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.09%) Packer
12 1 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.55%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 25 (13.66%) Splunk
2 18 (9.84%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.29%) Google
4 13 (7.10%) AppDynamics
5 10 (5.46%) OpenAI
6 9 (4.92%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.83%) HubSpot
8 4 (2.19%) Mistral
8 4 (2.19%) VMware
9 3 (1.64%) Dell
9 3 (1.64%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.09%) Databricks
10 2 (1.09%) IBM
10 2 (1.09%) Mirantis
10 2 (1.09%) New Relic
10 2 (1.09%) Thales
11 1 (0.55%) Cisco
11 1 (0.55%) Oracle
11 1 (0.55%) Pega
11 1 (0.55%) WSO2