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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 66 69
Rank change year-on-year -52 +3 -25
Permanent jobs citing Docker 81 153 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.99% 3.86% 3.33%
As % of the System Software category 28.72% 37.32% 28.21%
Number of salaries quoted 72 119 229
10th Percentile £50,075 £50,000 £44,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,778 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £97,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +10.71% -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 282 410 943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.44% 10.36% 11.80%
Number of salaries quoted 234 306 839
10th Percentile £26,975 £26,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £39,000 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £47,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% +2.15% -2.11%
75th Percentile £64,292 £73,886 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £93,778 £77,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -45 66 £67,500 -6.90% 51
Cheshire -32 9 £65,000 -11.56% 12
Merseyside -15 2 £77,500 +24.00% 2
Cumbria - 1 £55,000 -
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 4 (4.94%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.70%) nginx
2 3 (3.70%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.23%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 57 (70.37%) AWS
2 44 (54.32%) Azure
3 30 (37.04%) GCP
4 13 (16.05%) Serverless
5 8 (9.88%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (8.64%) dbt
7 6 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (7.41%) Amazon S3
7 6 (7.41%) GitHub
8 5 (6.17%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.94%) Azure AKS
9 4 (4.94%) PaaS
9 4 (4.94%) SaaS
9 4 (4.94%) Sentry
10 3 (3.70%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.70%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.70%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.70%) Firewall
3 1 (1.23%) DHCP
3 1 (1.23%) DNS
3 1 (1.23%) LTE
3 1 (1.23%) Network Security
3 1 (1.23%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.23%) VLAN
3 1 (1.23%) VPN
3 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.99%) NoSQL
2 16 (19.75%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (16.05%) MongoDB
4 8 (9.88%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (8.64%) MySQL
6 6 (7.41%) SQL Server
7 5 (6.17%) Redis
7 5 (6.17%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (4.94%) Neo4j
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.47%) BigQuery
9 2 (2.47%) PostHog
10 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 14 (17.28%) Git
2 8 (9.88%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.94%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.47%) GitLab
4 2 (2.47%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.23%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.23%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.23%) JMeter
5 1 (1.23%) JUnit
5 1 (1.23%) Locust
General
1 14 (17.28%) Social Skills
2 4 (4.94%) Finance
3 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.47%) Legal
4 2 (2.47%) Retail
5 1 (1.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.23%) Banking
5 1 (1.23%) Electronics
5 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.23%) Marketing
5 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (45.68%) Senior
2 25 (30.86%) Software Engineer
3 24 (29.63%) Developer
4 13 (16.05%) Java Developer
5 12 (14.81%) Senior Developer
6 10 (12.35%) Python Engineer
7 9 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (9.88%) Lead
8 8 (9.88%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (6.17%) .NET Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Data Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Lead Software Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Python Software Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Senior .NET Developer
10 4 (4.94%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.70%) C Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (24.69%) .NET
2 19 (23.46%) React
3 18 (22.22%) Spring
3 18 (22.22%) Spring Boot
4 11 (13.58%) Django
4 11 (13.58%) RESTful
5 10 (12.35%) .NET Core
5 10 (12.35%) FastAPI
6 9 (11.11%) AngularJS
7 8 (9.88%) CSS
7 8 (9.88%) HTML
8 7 (8.64%) Hibernate
8 7 (8.64%) Node.js
8 7 (8.64%) REST
8 7 (8.64%) Vue
9 6 (7.41%) Celery
9 6 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (6.17%) .NET Framework
10 5 (6.17%) Flask
10 5 (6.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (27.16%) Cloud Native
2 17 (20.99%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.64%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.47%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.47%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.47%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.23%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.05%) Linux
2 6 (7.41%) Windows
3 4 (4.94%) Unix
4 3 (3.70%) VMS
5 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.23%) CentOS
6 1 (1.23%) Solaris
6 1 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (85.19%) CI/CD
2 44 (54.32%) DevOps
3 43 (53.09%) Containerisation
4 37 (45.68%) Agile
5 33 (40.74%) Software Engineering
6 32 (39.51%) TDD
7 29 (35.80%) Microservices
8 24 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (27.16%) Clean Code
9 22 (27.16%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (19.75%) Mentoring
12 14 (17.28%) Platform Engineering
13 13 (16.05%) Observability
14 12 (14.81%) Event-Driven
15 10 (12.35%) AI
15 10 (12.35%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 10 (12.35%) Open Source
15 10 (12.35%) Performance Optimisation
16 9 (11.11%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 33 (40.74%) Python
2 29 (35.80%) Java
3 20 (24.69%) SQL
4 19 (23.46%) JavaScript
5 17 (20.99%) C#
6 16 (19.75%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.94%) C
8 3 (3.70%) PHP
8 3 (3.70%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.47%) Bash
9 2 (2.47%) Bicep
10 1 (1.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.64%) DV Cleared
3 6 (7.41%) Degree
4 5 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.17%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.70%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.23%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) QA
2 2 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (6.17%) vSphere
2 4 (4.94%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.94%) VMware NSX
3 3 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.23%) Firmware
4 1 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 58 (71.60%) Kubernetes
2 29 (35.80%) Terraform
3 10 (12.35%) Ansible
4 7 (8.64%) Grafana
5 2 (2.47%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (2.47%) Packer
5 2 (2.47%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.47%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.23%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.23%) Nagios
6 1 (1.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (9.88%) Google
2 7 (8.64%) VMware
3 4 (4.94%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.47%) Pega
4 2 (2.47%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.47%) WSO2
5 1 (1.23%) Adobe
5 1 (1.23%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.23%) F5
5 1 (1.23%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.23%) Mirantis
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle
5 1 (1.23%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.23%) SAP