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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 12 120
Rank change year-on-year -92 +108 -78
Permanent jobs citing Docker 159 905 161
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.37% 17.57% 1.83%
As % of the System Software category 29.72% 81.09% 22.15%
Number of salaries quoted 128 126 113
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,688 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £94,389 £91,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% -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 535 1,116 727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.61% 21.66% 8.25%
Number of salaries quoted 438 306 590
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £61,250 £69,688 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,250 £72,625
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -44 130 £66,750 -1.11% 79
Lancashire -59 13 £50,000 -9.50% 13
Merseyside -51 7 £95,000 +72.73% 1
Cheshire -72 6 £56,250 -22.41% 13
Cumbria -15 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 8 (5.03%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.14%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.89%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 105 (66.04%) AWS
2 59 (37.11%) Azure
3 32 (20.13%) GCP
4 31 (19.50%) GitHub
5 29 (18.24%) Serverless
6 14 (8.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (8.81%) Datadog
6 14 (8.81%) dbt
6 14 (8.81%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (8.18%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (8.18%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (6.92%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (6.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (6.29%) GitHub Copilot
10 7 (4.40%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (3.77%) Azure AI
11 6 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (3.77%) OpenShift
12 5 (3.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.89%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.26%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.63%) DHCP
3 1 (0.63%) DNS
3 1 (0.63%) LTE
3 1 (0.63%) VLAN
3 1 (0.63%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.21%) MongoDB
2 15 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.18%) NoSQL
4 11 (6.92%) BigQuery
4 11 (6.92%) SQL Server
5 9 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (5.03%) Relational Database
7 7 (4.40%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (3.77%) MySQL
9 5 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.52%) Neo4j
11 3 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.89%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.89%) Redis
12 2 (1.26%) Data Lake
12 2 (1.26%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.63%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 43 (27.04%) Git
2 31 (19.50%) GitLab
3 28 (17.61%) Jenkins
4 12 (7.55%) JUnit
5 11 (6.92%) Spock
6 4 (2.52%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.52%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.52%) JIRA
6 4 (2.52%) Maven
6 4 (2.52%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.52%) Vite
7 3 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.89%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.89%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.89%) Postman
7 3 (1.89%) Selenium
7 3 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.26%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.63%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.63%) Vagrant
General
1 27 (16.98%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.84%) Finance
3 8 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.77%) Advertising
5 5 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.14%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.52%) Retail
7 3 (1.89%) Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.63%) Games
8 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 53 (33.33%) Senior
2 43 (27.04%) Developer
3 29 (18.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (18.24%) Software Engineer
4 19 (11.95%) Lead
5 17 (10.69%) Java Developer
5 17 (10.69%) Principal Engineer
6 15 (9.43%) Senior Developer
7 14 (8.81%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (8.18%) Data Engineer
9 12 (7.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 12 (7.55%) Python Engineer
9 12 (7.55%) Senior Java Developer
10 9 (5.66%) .NET Developer
10 9 (5.66%) GCP Engineer
10 9 (5.66%) Python Software Engineer
10 9 (5.66%) Senior Software Developer
10 9 (5.66%) Software Developer
11 8 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (5.03%) Principal DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (29.56%) Spring
2 34 (21.38%) Spring Boot
3 33 (20.75%) React
4 25 (15.72%) .NET
5 24 (15.09%) AngularJS
6 17 (10.69%) FastAPI
7 16 (10.06%) Node.js
8 15 (9.43%) Vue
9 12 (7.55%) .NET Core
9 12 (7.55%) ASP.NET
10 11 (6.92%) CSS
10 11 (6.92%) HTML
10 11 (6.92%) Next.js
10 11 (6.92%) REST
10 11 (6.92%) RESTful
11 10 (6.29%) Kafka
11 10 (6.29%) LangChain
12 8 (5.03%) ASP.NET Core
13 7 (4.40%) Django
13 7 (4.40%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 39 (24.53%) Cloud Native
2 31 (19.50%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.92%) Private Cloud
4 7 (4.40%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.52%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.89%) Replication
6 3 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.89%) Social Media
7 2 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.26%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.63%) Clustering
8 1 (0.63%) CUDA
8 1 (0.63%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.06%) Linux
2 5 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.89%) CentOS
3 3 (1.89%) Unix
4 2 (1.26%) Solaris
4 2 (1.26%) VMS
4 2 (1.26%) Windows
5 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (81.76%) CI/CD
2 94 (59.12%) DevOps
3 68 (42.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (42.14%) Containerisation
5 61 (38.36%) Agile
6 56 (35.22%) AI
7 47 (29.56%) Software Engineering
8 46 (28.93%) Microservices
9 45 (28.30%) Mentoring
10 41 (25.79%) Observability
11 39 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
12 35 (22.01%) TDD
13 31 (19.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (18.24%) Platform Engineering
15 28 (17.61%) Full-Stack Development
15 28 (17.61%) Test Automation
16 27 (16.98%) Scrum
17 26 (16.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 20 (12.58%) Clean Code
18 20 (12.58%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 82 (51.57%) Python
2 58 (36.48%) Java
3 37 (23.27%) TypeScript
4 35 (22.01%) JavaScript
5 34 (21.38%) SQL
6 24 (15.09%) C#
7 20 (12.58%) Bash
8 12 (7.55%) PowerShell
9 7 (4.40%) Go
10 6 (3.77%) Groovy
10 6 (3.77%) Ruby
11 3 (1.89%) Bicep
11 3 (1.89%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.89%) PHP
11 3 (1.89%) Scala
12 2 (1.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 38 (23.90%) Security Cleared
2 24 (15.09%) DV Cleared
3 12 (7.55%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.40%) Degree
5 4 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.26%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.92%) QA
2 4 (2.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (2.52%) Ceph
2 3 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.63%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 111 (69.81%) Kubernetes
2 87 (54.72%) Terraform
3 37 (23.27%) Ansible
4 16 (10.06%) Prometheus
5 14 (8.81%) Grafana
6 7 (4.40%) Argo
6 7 (4.40%) Istio
7 5 (3.14%) Podman
8 4 (2.52%) linkerd
8 4 (2.52%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.89%) Check_MK
9 3 (1.89%) Puppet
10 1 (0.63%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.63%) Packer
10 1 (0.63%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 23 (14.47%) Splunk
2 13 (8.18%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.55%) Google
4 11 (6.92%) AppDynamics
5 8 (5.03%) OpenAI
6 7 (4.40%) HubSpot
7 5 (3.14%) Red Hat
7 5 (3.14%) VMware
8 3 (1.89%) Dell
8 3 (1.89%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.26%) Mirantis
9 2 (1.26%) Pega
9 2 (1.26%) WSO2
10 1 (0.63%) Cisco
10 1 (0.63%) Databricks
10 1 (0.63%) NVIDIA