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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 12 120
Rank change year-on-year -97 +108 -74
Permanent jobs citing Docker 145 902 186
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.27% 17.57% 1.90%
As % of the System Software category 28.94% 80.82% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 121 123 137
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £52,500
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 £83,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,022 £92,750
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 501 1,116 868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.40% 21.73% 8.88%
Number of salaries quoted 416 304 723
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,500 £43,742
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +20.02% -16.68%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £53,688 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% - -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 20 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 20 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 -44 119 £67,500 -1.47% 51
Lancashire -68 11 £42,500 -29.75% 13
Merseyside -45 7 £95,000 +72.73% 2
Cheshire -75 5 £60,000 - 11
Cumbria -18 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 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.07%) IIS
3 2 (1.38%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 99 (68.28%) AWS
2 56 (38.62%) Azure
3 30 (20.69%) GitHub
3 30 (20.69%) Serverless
4 28 (19.31%) GCP
5 14 (9.66%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (9.66%) Datadog
6 13 (8.97%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (8.97%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (8.97%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (7.59%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (6.90%) dbt
8 10 (6.90%) GitHub Copilot
9 7 (4.83%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (4.14%) Azure AI
10 6 (4.14%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.76%) Pulumi
11 4 (2.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.07%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.69%) LTE
2 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.10%) MongoDB
2 15 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (7.59%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.21%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (6.21%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.83%) BigQuery
5 7 (4.83%) DynamoDB
5 7 (4.83%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.45%) MySQL
7 5 (3.45%) Neo4j
8 3 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.07%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.38%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.38%) Redis
10 1 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.69%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.69%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 33 (22.76%) Git
2 27 (18.62%) GitLab
3 24 (16.55%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.90%) JUnit
5 9 (6.21%) Spock
6 4 (2.76%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.76%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.76%) JIRA
6 4 (2.76%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.76%) Vite
7 3 (2.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.07%) Maven
7 3 (2.07%) Postman
7 3 (2.07%) Selenium
8 2 (1.38%) Claude Code
8 2 (1.38%) IntelliJ
8 2 (1.38%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.69%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.41%) Finance
3 6 (4.14%) Advertising
4 5 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.76%) Retail
6 3 (2.07%) Banking
6 3 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.38%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 49 (33.79%) Senior
2 43 (29.66%) Developer
3 30 (20.69%) Software Engineer
4 26 (17.93%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (12.41%) Lead
6 17 (11.72%) Java Developer
7 16 (11.03%) Principal Engineer
8 15 (10.34%) Senior Developer
9 13 (8.97%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (8.28%) Python Engineer
10 12 (8.28%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (6.90%) Software Developer
12 9 (6.21%) .NET Developer
12 9 (6.21%) Data Engineer
12 9 (6.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (6.21%) Python Software Engineer
12 9 (6.21%) Senior Software Developer
13 8 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (5.52%) GCP Engineer
13 8 (5.52%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (29.66%) Spring
2 34 (23.45%) React
3 32 (22.07%) Spring Boot
4 23 (15.86%) .NET
5 21 (14.48%) AngularJS
6 18 (12.41%) FastAPI
7 16 (11.03%) Node.js
8 14 (9.66%) Vue
9 12 (8.28%) .NET Core
10 11 (7.59%) ASP.NET
10 11 (7.59%) CSS
10 11 (7.59%) HTML
10 11 (7.59%) Next.js
10 11 (7.59%) RESTful
11 10 (6.90%) Kafka
11 10 (6.90%) LangChain
11 10 (6.90%) REST
12 7 (4.83%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (4.83%) Django
12 7 (4.83%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 38 (26.21%) Cloud Native
2 28 (19.31%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.21%) Private Cloud
4 7 (4.83%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.76%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.38%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.69%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.69%) Replication
8 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.28%) Linux
2 5 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.07%) CentOS
3 3 (2.07%) Unix
4 2 (1.38%) Solaris
5 1 (0.69%) VMS
5 1 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (80.69%) CI/CD
2 85 (58.62%) DevOps
3 64 (44.14%) Containerisation
3 64 (44.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (37.24%) Agile
5 46 (31.72%) AI
6 45 (31.03%) Software Engineering
7 43 (29.66%) Mentoring
7 43 (29.66%) Microservices
8 37 (25.52%) Observability
9 35 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (22.76%) TDD
11 29 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (19.31%) Platform Engineering
13 26 (17.93%) Scrum
14 25 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
15 24 (16.55%) Test Automation
16 22 (15.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 20 (13.79%) Clean Code
18 19 (13.10%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 76 (52.41%) Python
2 55 (37.93%) Java
3 38 (26.21%) TypeScript
4 34 (23.45%) JavaScript
5 29 (20.00%) SQL
6 22 (15.17%) C#
7 18 (12.41%) Bash
8 11 (7.59%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.14%) Go
9 6 (4.14%) Ruby
10 5 (3.45%) Groovy
11 3 (2.07%) Bicep
11 3 (2.07%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.07%) Scala
12 2 (1.38%) PHP
12 2 (1.38%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.69%) C
Qualifications
1 35 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.17%) DV Cleared
3 11 (7.59%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.83%) Degree
5 4 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.07%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.38%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.59%) QA
2 2 (1.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (1.38%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 105 (72.41%) Kubernetes
2 82 (56.55%) Terraform
3 31 (21.38%) Ansible
4 13 (8.97%) Grafana
5 12 (8.28%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.76%) Argo
6 4 (2.76%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.07%) Istio
7 3 (2.07%) linkerd
8 2 (1.38%) Packer
8 2 (1.38%) Podman
8 2 (1.38%) Puppet
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 21 (14.48%) Splunk
2 12 (8.28%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.21%) AppDynamics
3 9 (6.21%) Google
4 7 (4.83%) HubSpot
4 7 (4.83%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.76%) VMware
6 3 (2.07%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.38%) Mirantis
7 2 (1.38%) Pega
7 2 (1.38%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.38%) WSO2
8 1 (0.69%) Databricks