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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 11 116
Rank change year-on-year -102 +105 -65
Permanent jobs citing Docker 134 906 224
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.21% 18.58% 2.07%
As % of the System Software category 28.15% 81.62% 23.53%
Number of salaries quoted 116 130 170
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £43,625
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,563 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £79,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £91,625
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 476 1,110 952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.30% 22.76% 8.80%
Number of salaries quoted 399 301 801
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £24,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £43,742
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +25.74% -16.68%
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,886 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,250 £88,750 £72,500
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 29 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 29 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 -51 110 £67,500 -6.90% 41
Lancashire -64 10 £52,500 -13.22% 14
Merseyside -47 7 £95,000 +72.73% 3
Cheshire -78 4 £66,250 +10.42% 2
Cumbria -22 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 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.24%) IIS
3 2 (1.49%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 99 (73.88%) AWS
2 56 (41.79%) Azure
3 31 (23.13%) Serverless
4 29 (21.64%) GCP
5 27 (20.15%) GitHub
6 14 (10.45%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (10.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (10.45%) Datadog
7 13 (9.70%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (9.70%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (9.70%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (8.21%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (7.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (6.72%) dbt
11 8 (5.97%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (5.22%) Amazon EventBridge
13 6 (4.48%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (3.73%) Azure AI
14 5 (3.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.24%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.75%) LTE
2 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.43%) MongoDB
2 16 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.46%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.72%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (6.72%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.22%) DynamoDB
6 6 (4.48%) BigQuery
6 6 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (4.48%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (3.73%) Neo4j
8 4 (2.99%) MySQL
9 3 (2.24%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.49%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.75%) Redis
11 1 (0.75%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 29 (21.64%) Git
2 23 (17.16%) GitLab
3 22 (16.42%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.22%) JUnit
5 6 (4.48%) Spock
6 4 (2.99%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.99%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.99%) JIRA
6 4 (2.99%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.99%) Vite
7 3 (2.24%) Postman
7 3 (2.24%) Selenium
8 2 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.49%) Claude Code
8 2 (1.49%) Maven
8 2 (1.49%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.75%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.75%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.75%) Mocha
General
1 17 (12.69%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.70%) Finance
3 5 (3.73%) Advertising
4 4 (2.99%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.99%) Retail
5 3 (2.24%) Banking
6 2 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.75%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (37.31%) Senior
2 42 (31.34%) Developer
3 31 (23.13%) Software Engineer
4 18 (13.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (13.43%) Java Developer
5 16 (11.94%) Lead
5 16 (11.94%) Senior Developer
6 14 (10.45%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (9.70%) Python Engineer
7 13 (9.70%) Senior Java Developer
8 12 (8.96%) Principal Engineer
9 10 (7.46%) Software Developer
10 9 (6.72%) Python Software Engineer
10 9 (6.72%) Senior Software Developer
11 8 (5.97%) .NET Developer
11 8 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (5.97%) Data Engineer
11 8 (5.97%) GCP Engineer
11 8 (5.97%) Lead Developer
12 7 (5.22%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (26.12%) Spring
2 33 (24.63%) React
3 27 (20.15%) Spring Boot
4 23 (17.16%) .NET
5 19 (14.18%) FastAPI
6 17 (12.69%) AngularJS
7 16 (11.94%) Node.js
8 13 (9.70%) .NET Core
8 13 (9.70%) Vue
9 12 (8.96%) REST
10 11 (8.21%) Next.js
10 11 (8.21%) RESTful
11 10 (7.46%) ASP.NET
11 10 (7.46%) CSS
11 10 (7.46%) HTML
11 10 (7.46%) Kafka
11 10 (7.46%) LangChain
12 8 (5.97%) Django
13 7 (5.22%) OpenTelemetry
14 6 (4.48%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 36 (26.87%) Cloud Native
2 25 (18.66%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (4.48%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.99%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.49%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.75%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.21%) Linux
2 4 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.24%) Unix
4 2 (1.49%) CentOS
4 2 (1.49%) Solaris
4 2 (1.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (79.85%) CI/CD
2 75 (55.97%) DevOps
3 58 (43.28%) Containerisation
3 58 (43.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (37.31%) Agile
5 42 (31.34%) Software Engineering
6 41 (30.60%) AI
6 41 (30.60%) Mentoring
7 40 (29.85%) Microservices
8 35 (26.12%) Observability
9 33 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (24.63%) TDD
10 28 (20.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (19.40%) Platform Engineering
12 23 (17.16%) Scrum
13 21 (15.67%) Clean Code
13 21 (15.67%) Full-Stack Development
14 20 (14.93%) Test Automation
15 19 (14.18%) Event-Driven
16 15 (11.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 69 (51.49%) Python
2 46 (34.33%) Java
3 35 (26.12%) TypeScript
4 31 (23.13%) JavaScript
5 26 (19.40%) SQL
6 22 (16.42%) C#
7 17 (12.69%) Bash
8 11 (8.21%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.48%) Ruby
10 5 (3.73%) Go
11 4 (2.99%) Groovy
12 3 (2.24%) Bicep
12 3 (2.24%) Kotlin
12 3 (2.24%) Scala
13 2 (1.49%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.75%) C
14 1 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (20.15%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.45%) DV Cleared
3 10 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.22%) Degree
5 4 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.24%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.49%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.21%) QA
2 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.49%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 97 (72.39%) Kubernetes
2 77 (57.46%) Terraform
3 24 (17.91%) Ansible
4 13 (9.70%) Grafana
5 12 (8.96%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.99%) Argo
6 4 (2.99%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.24%) Istio
7 3 (2.24%) linkerd
8 2 (1.49%) Packer
8 2 (1.49%) Podman
8 2 (1.49%) Puppet
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 18 (13.43%) Splunk
2 11 (8.21%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.97%) Google
4 7 (5.22%) HubSpot
5 6 (4.48%) AppDynamics
5 6 (4.48%) OpenAI
6 5 (3.73%) VMware
7 3 (2.24%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.49%) Mirantis
8 2 (1.49%) Pega
8 2 (1.49%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.49%) WSO2
9 1 (0.75%) Databricks