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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 12 113
Rank change year-on-year -101 +101 -69
Permanent jobs citing Docker 147 905 175
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.29% 17.69% 1.90%
As % of the System Software category 28.65% 81.02% 21.77%
Number of salaries quoted 120 126 126
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £53,750
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 £82,751 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £93,125
England median annual salary £67,500 £74,870 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +6.96% -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 513 1,117 804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.51% 21.83% 8.73%
Number of salaries quoted 422 306 662
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £53,125 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +18.06% -14.29%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £79,975 £83,750 £73,625
England median annual salary £54,498 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.00% - -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 24 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 24 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 -46 122 £66,750 -1.20% 74
Lancashire -66 11 £42,500 -23.08% 23
Merseyside -52 7 £95,000 +72.73% 1
Cheshire -79 4 £66,250 -8.62% 10
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 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.72%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.04%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 100 (68.03%) AWS
2 56 (38.10%) Azure
3 30 (20.41%) GitHub
3 30 (20.41%) Serverless
4 29 (19.73%) GCP
5 14 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (9.52%) Datadog
6 13 (8.84%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (8.84%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (8.84%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (8.84%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (7.48%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (7.48%) dbt
8 10 (6.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (6.80%) GitHub Copilot
9 7 (4.76%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (4.08%) Azure AI
10 6 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (3.40%) OpenShift
11 5 (3.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.04%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.68%) LTE
2 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.61%) MongoDB
2 14 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (8.16%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (5.44%) BigQuery
5 8 (5.44%) Relational Database
5 8 (5.44%) SQL Server
6 7 (4.76%) DynamoDB
7 6 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.40%) MySQL
9 4 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.72%) Neo4j
10 3 (2.04%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.36%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.36%) Redis
12 1 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.68%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.68%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 37 (25.17%) Git
2 28 (19.05%) GitLab
3 26 (17.69%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.80%) JUnit
5 9 (6.12%) Spock
6 4 (2.72%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.72%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.72%) JIRA
6 4 (2.72%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.72%) Vite
7 3 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.04%) Maven
7 3 (2.04%) Postman
7 3 (2.04%) Selenium
8 2 (1.36%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.36%) Claude Code
8 2 (1.36%) IntelliJ
8 2 (1.36%) Vagrant
8 2 (1.36%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.68%) Mocha
General
1 23 (15.65%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.93%) Finance
3 6 (4.08%) Advertising
4 5 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.40%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.72%) Retail
6 3 (2.04%) Banking
7 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 49 (33.33%) Senior
2 42 (28.57%) Developer
3 29 (19.73%) Software Engineer
4 26 (17.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (12.24%) Lead
6 17 (11.56%) Java Developer
7 16 (10.88%) Principal Engineer
8 15 (10.20%) Senior Developer
9 13 (8.84%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (8.16%) Python Engineer
10 12 (8.16%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (6.80%) Data Engineer
12 9 (6.12%) .NET Developer
12 9 (6.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (6.12%) GCP Engineer
12 9 (6.12%) Python Software Engineer
12 9 (6.12%) Senior Software Developer
12 9 (6.12%) Software Developer
13 8 (5.44%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (5.44%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (29.25%) Spring
2 32 (21.77%) React
2 32 (21.77%) Spring Boot
3 23 (15.65%) .NET
4 20 (13.61%) AngularJS
5 17 (11.56%) FastAPI
6 16 (10.88%) Node.js
7 14 (9.52%) Vue
8 12 (8.16%) .NET Core
9 11 (7.48%) ASP.NET
9 11 (7.48%) CSS
9 11 (7.48%) HTML
9 11 (7.48%) Next.js
9 11 (7.48%) RESTful
10 10 (6.80%) Kafka
10 10 (6.80%) LangChain
10 10 (6.80%) REST
11 7 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (4.76%) Django
11 7 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 38 (25.85%) Cloud Native
2 28 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.12%) Private Cloud
4 7 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.72%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.36%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.36%) Replication
6 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.36%) Social Media
7 1 (0.68%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.52%) Linux
2 5 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.04%) CentOS
3 3 (2.04%) Unix
4 2 (1.36%) Solaris
5 1 (0.68%) VMS
5 1 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (81.63%) CI/CD
2 87 (59.18%) DevOps
3 65 (44.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (43.54%) Containerisation
5 56 (38.10%) Agile
6 50 (34.01%) AI
7 44 (29.93%) Software Engineering
8 43 (29.25%) Mentoring
9 42 (28.57%) Microservices
10 38 (25.85%) Observability
11 35 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (22.45%) TDD
13 29 (19.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (19.73%) Platform Engineering
14 26 (17.69%) Scrum
15 25 (17.01%) Full-Stack Development
15 25 (17.01%) Test Automation
16 23 (15.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 21 (14.29%) Clean Code
18 19 (12.93%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 76 (51.70%) Python
2 54 (36.73%) Java
3 36 (24.49%) TypeScript
4 33 (22.45%) JavaScript
5 30 (20.41%) SQL
6 22 (14.97%) C#
7 19 (12.93%) Bash
8 11 (7.48%) PowerShell
9 7 (4.76%) Go
10 6 (4.08%) Ruby
11 5 (3.40%) Groovy
12 3 (2.04%) Bicep
12 3 (2.04%) Kotlin
12 3 (2.04%) Scala
13 2 (1.36%) PHP
13 2 (1.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (23.13%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 11 (7.48%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.76%) Degree
5 4 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.04%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.36%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.48%) QA
2 3 (2.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (1.36%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.36%) Ceph
1 2 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 107 (72.79%) Kubernetes
2 82 (55.78%) Terraform
3 33 (22.45%) Ansible
4 15 (10.20%) Prometheus
5 14 (9.52%) Grafana
6 6 (4.08%) Argo
6 6 (4.08%) Istio
7 5 (3.40%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.72%) linkerd
8 4 (2.72%) Podman
9 3 (2.04%) Puppet
10 2 (1.36%) Check_MK
10 2 (1.36%) Packer
11 1 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 21 (14.29%) Splunk
2 12 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.12%) AppDynamics
3 9 (6.12%) Google
4 7 (4.76%) HubSpot
4 7 (4.76%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.72%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.72%) VMware
6 3 (2.04%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.36%) Dell
7 2 (1.36%) Mirantis
7 2 (1.36%) Pega
7 2 (1.36%) WSO2
8 1 (0.68%) Databricks