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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 12 103
Rank change year-on-year -105 +91 -54
Permanent jobs citing Docker 128 900 227
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.16% 18.94% 2.05%
As % of the System Software category 27.29% 81.89% 23.82%
Number of salaries quoted 110 127 173
10th Percentile £46,125 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,563 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £88,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £94,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -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 469 1,099 953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.26% 23.13% 8.61%
Number of salaries quoted 391 292 807
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £24,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +22.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £61,875 £74,258 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,250 £74,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year - +6.06% -10.00%

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 24 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 24 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 -51 106 £66,750 -7.93% 35
Lancashire -66 8 £52,500 -13.22% 16
Merseyside -46 7 £95,000 +72.73% 2
Cheshire -75 4 £66,250 +10.42% 4
Cumbria -19 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 6 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.34%) IIS
3 2 (1.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 97 (75.78%) AWS
2 53 (41.41%) Azure
3 31 (24.22%) Serverless
4 28 (21.88%) GCP
5 25 (19.53%) GitHub
6 14 (10.94%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (10.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (10.94%) Datadog
7 13 (10.16%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (10.16%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (10.16%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (8.59%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (7.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (6.25%) dbt
11 7 (5.47%) Amazon EventBridge
11 7 (5.47%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (4.69%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (3.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (3.13%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.34%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.78%) LTE
2 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.28%) MongoDB
2 16 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.81%) NoSQL
4 9 (7.03%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (7.03%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.47%) DynamoDB
6 6 (4.69%) BigQuery
6 6 (4.69%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.13%) MySQL
8 4 (3.13%) Neo4j
9 3 (2.34%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.78%) Redis
10 1 (0.78%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 28 (21.88%) Git
2 22 (17.19%) GitLab
3 21 (16.41%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.47%) JUnit
5 6 (4.69%) Spock
6 4 (3.13%) JIRA
6 4 (3.13%) Vite
7 3 (2.34%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.34%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.34%) Postman
7 3 (2.34%) Robot Framework
7 3 (2.34%) Selenium
8 2 (1.56%) Claude Code
8 2 (1.56%) Maven
8 2 (1.56%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.78%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.78%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.78%) Mocha
General
1 16 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.16%) Finance
3 4 (3.13%) Advertising
3 4 (3.13%) Retail
4 3 (2.34%) Banking
4 3 (2.34%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.78%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (39.06%) Senior
2 41 (32.03%) Developer
3 32 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 18 (14.06%) Java Developer
5 16 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 15 (11.72%) Lead
6 15 (11.72%) Senior Software Engineer
7 14 (10.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (10.16%) Python Engineer
8 13 (10.16%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (7.81%) Software Developer
10 9 (7.03%) Principal Engineer
10 9 (7.03%) Python Software Engineer
10 9 (7.03%) Senior Software Developer
11 8 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (6.25%) Lead Developer
12 7 (5.47%) .NET Developer
12 7 (5.47%) Data Engineer
12 7 (5.47%) Integration Developer
12 7 (5.47%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (25.00%) React
1 32 (25.00%) Spring
2 24 (18.75%) Spring Boot
3 23 (17.97%) .NET
4 19 (14.84%) FastAPI
5 16 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 16 (12.50%) Node.js
6 13 (10.16%) .NET Core
6 13 (10.16%) REST
7 12 (9.38%) Vue
8 11 (8.59%) Next.js
8 11 (8.59%) RESTful
9 10 (7.81%) Kafka
9 10 (7.81%) LangChain
10 9 (7.03%) ASP.NET
10 9 (7.03%) CSS
10 9 (7.03%) HTML
11 8 (6.25%) Django
12 7 (5.47%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (4.69%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 34 (26.56%) Cloud Native
2 25 (19.53%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.69%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.13%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.56%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.78%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.81%) Linux
2 3 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.34%) Unix
3 2 (1.56%) Solaris
3 2 (1.56%) Windows
4 1 (0.78%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (79.69%) CI/CD
2 71 (55.47%) DevOps
3 55 (42.97%) Containerisation
4 54 (42.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (37.50%) Agile
6 43 (33.59%) Software Engineering
7 40 (31.25%) AI
7 40 (31.25%) Mentoring
7 40 (31.25%) Microservices
8 35 (27.34%) Observability
9 33 (25.78%) TDD
10 32 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (20.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (19.53%) Platform Engineering
13 22 (17.19%) Scrum
14 21 (16.41%) Clean Code
15 20 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
16 19 (14.84%) Event-Driven
16 19 (14.84%) Test Automation
17 15 (11.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 64 (50.00%) Python
2 42 (32.81%) Java
3 34 (26.56%) TypeScript
4 30 (23.44%) JavaScript
5 24 (18.75%) SQL
6 22 (17.19%) C#
7 17 (13.28%) Bash
8 11 (8.59%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.69%) Ruby
10 5 (3.91%) Go
11 4 (3.13%) Groovy
12 3 (2.34%) Bicep
12 3 (2.34%) Kotlin
12 3 (2.34%) Scala
13 2 (1.56%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.78%) C
14 1 (0.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.81%) DV Cleared
3 9 (7.03%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.47%) Degree
5 4 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.34%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.78%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.59%) QA
2 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.56%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (71.09%) Kubernetes
2 73 (57.03%) Terraform
3 20 (15.63%) Ansible
4 13 (10.16%) Grafana
5 12 (9.38%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.13%) Argo
6 4 (3.13%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.34%) Istio
7 3 (2.34%) linkerd
8 2 (1.56%) Packer
8 2 (1.56%) Podman
8 2 (1.56%) Puppet
9 1 (0.78%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 18 (14.06%) Splunk
2 10 (7.81%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.47%) Google
3 7 (5.47%) HubSpot
4 6 (4.69%) AppDynamics
4 6 (4.69%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.91%) VMware
6 3 (2.34%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.56%) Mirantis
7 2 (1.56%) Pega
7 2 (1.56%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.56%) WSO2
8 1 (0.78%) Databricks