Docker
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 82 39
Rank change year-on-year +29 -43 -19
Permanent jobs citing Docker 2,485 3,212 6,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.54% 3.24% 6.69%
As % of the System Software category 43.26% 26.65% 43.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,335 2,540 3,948
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.78% -0.69%
75th Percentile £98,474 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £107,500 £109,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% -

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,745 12,052 15,490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.50% 12.15% 15.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,906 9,552 10,272
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £85,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the UK

Docker
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Docker.

Salary trend for Docker in the UK

Docker
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Docker in the UK

Docker
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 2025. 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
England +26 2,287 £77,500 +10.71% 2,111
UK excluding London +32 1,665 £67,500 +8.00% 1,385
Work from Home +23 1,168 £75,000 +11.11% 1,447
North of England +70 809 £72,500 +20.83% 392
London +14 792 £90,000 +9.09% 1,147
North West +71 699 £75,000 +15.38% 267
South East -30 290 £67,500 -3.57% 512
Midlands +1 174 £60,000 +0.84% 128
South West -2 139 £72,246 +20.41% 144
Scotland +75 133 £74,870 +11.75% 67
East of England +29 99 £57,500 -9.80% 127
West Midlands +9 96 £67,500 +12.50% 82
Yorkshire +23 95 £74,870 +36.13% 100
East Midlands +23 76 £60,000 +4.35% 38
Wales +5 28 £51,949 +9.37% 21
North East +28 15 £63,750 +6.25% 25
Northern Ireland +23 8 £55,000 -21.43% 30
Isle of Man +13 1 £34,500 -

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 226 (9.09%) Confluence
2 107 (4.31%) Apache Airflow
3 102 (4.10%) Apache Spark
4 91 (3.66%) Apache
5 30 (1.21%) nginx
6 27 (1.09%) Jupyter
7 17 (0.68%) CMS
7 17 (0.68%) Tomcat
8 14 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
9 13 (0.52%) JBoss
9 13 (0.52%) OpenStack
9 13 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
10 10 (0.40%) SharePoint
11 7 (0.28%) IIS
12 6 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.24%) WordPress
13 4 (0.16%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.12%) Drupal
14 3 (0.12%) Mule
14 3 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (0.28%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (0.12%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.080%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 9 (0.36%) Magento
2 9 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.080%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.040%) Endur
4 1 (0.040%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 1,275 (51.31%) AWS
2 995 (40.04%) Azure
3 542 (21.81%) GCP
4 303 (12.19%) Serverless
5 190 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
6 188 (7.57%) Amazon ECS
7 170 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
8 157 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 147 (5.92%) Amazon EC2
10 143 (5.75%) GitHub
11 130 (5.23%) Amazon EKS
12 129 (5.19%) SaaS
13 126 (5.07%) Amazon S3
14 110 (4.43%) OpenShift
15 97 (3.90%) dbt
16 85 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
17 63 (2.54%) Cloud Computing
18 57 (2.29%) Amazon SQS
19 49 (1.97%) Azure Service Bus
20 45 (1.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 483 (19.44%) VPN
2 441 (17.75%) DNS
3 73 (2.94%) Cisco IOS
4 50 (2.01%) Firewall
5 34 (1.37%) Network Security
6 29 (1.17%) Internet
7 25 (1.01%) HTTP
7 25 (1.01%) TCP/IP
8 23 (0.93%) DHCP
9 17 (0.68%) SAN
10 14 (0.56%) NAS
11 11 (0.44%) VLAN
12 10 (0.40%) SSL
13 8 (0.32%) 5G
13 8 (0.32%) MQTT
13 8 (0.32%) SMTP
14 6 (0.24%) Broadband
14 6 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
14 6 (0.24%) SMS
14 6 (0.24%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 367 (14.77%) SQL Server
2 262 (10.54%) PostgreSQL
3 223 (8.97%) NoSQL
4 137 (5.51%) Elasticsearch
5 132 (5.31%) MySQL
6 126 (5.07%) MongoDB
7 110 (4.43%) Relational Database
8 102 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
9 74 (2.98%) Amazon Athena
10 71 (2.86%) Apache Arrow
10 71 (2.86%) Apache Iceberg
10 71 (2.86%) Apache Ignite
10 71 (2.86%) Dremio
11 57 (2.29%) Redis
12 54 (2.17%) Big Data
13 48 (1.93%) DynamoDB
14 31 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
14 31 (1.25%) RDBMS
15 30 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
16 28 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 391 (15.73%) Git
2 390 (15.69%) GitLab
3 356 (14.33%) JIRA
4 328 (13.20%) SonarQube
5 305 (12.27%) Maven
6 301 (12.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 299 (12.03%) Selenium
8 289 (11.63%) Jenkins
9 274 (11.03%) Cucumber
10 268 (10.78%) Bitbucket
11 97 (3.90%) JUnit
12 89 (3.58%) Artifactory
13 62 (2.49%) Mockito
14 58 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
15 46 (1.85%) Visual Studio
16 44 (1.77%) IntelliJ
17 39 (1.57%) Team Foundation Server
18 34 (1.37%) CircleCI
18 34 (1.37%) MSBuild
18 34 (1.37%) webpack
General
1 1,179 (47.44%) Finance
2 869 (34.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 617 (24.83%) Analytical Skills
4 471 (18.95%) Banking
5 424 (17.06%) Social Skills
6 155 (6.24%) Retail
7 114 (4.59%) Front Office
8 113 (4.55%) Public Sector
9 102 (4.10%) Investment Banking
10 90 (3.62%) Corporate Banking
11 43 (1.73%) Financial Institution
12 41 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 41 (1.65%) Marketing
13 30 (1.21%) Law
14 26 (1.05%) Games
15 22 (0.89%) Telecoms
16 21 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
17 17 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (0.64%) Automotive
18 16 (0.64%) Legal
Job Titles
1 954 (38.39%) Developer
2 487 (19.60%) Software Developer
3 485 (19.52%) Software Engineer
4 397 (15.98%) Senior
5 273 (10.99%) DevOps Engineer
6 213 (8.57%) Lead
7 145 (5.84%) AWS Engineer
8 144 (5.79%) Python Engineer
9 138 (5.55%) AWS DevOps
10 137 (5.51%) Java Developer
11 133 (5.35%) Architect
12 130 (5.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 130 (5.23%) Senior Developer
13 126 (5.07%) Data Engineer
14 111 (4.47%) Java Engineer
15 110 (4.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 90 (3.62%) Senior Software Engineer
17 86 (3.46%) Full-Stack Developer
18 84 (3.38%) Platform Engineer
19 58 (2.33%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 640 (25.75%) React
2 531 (21.37%) Kafka
3 468 (18.83%) Spring Boot
4 460 (18.51%) Spring
5 417 (16.78%) HTML
6 392 (15.77%) CSS
7 379 (15.25%) REST
8 309 (12.43%) .NET
9 290 (11.67%) RESTful
10 286 (11.51%) JPA
11 267 (10.74%) Redux
12 233 (9.38%) Hibernate
13 200 (8.05%) AngularJS
14 198 (7.97%) Node.js
15 153 (6.16%) Elastic Stack
16 144 (5.79%) Jest
17 126 (5.07%) HTML5
18 120 (4.83%) CSS3
19 117 (4.71%) Sass
20 98 (3.94%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 540 (21.73%) Cyberattack
2 310 (12.47%) Product Ownership
3 257 (10.34%) Enterprise Software
4 127 (5.11%) Cloud Native
5 113 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
6 89 (3.58%) Algorithms
7 62 (2.49%) Management Information System
8 59 (2.37%) Public Cloud
9 39 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
10 32 (1.29%) Private Cloud
11 28 (1.13%) Mobile App
12 26 (1.05%) Data Structures
13 23 (0.93%) Onboarding
14 22 (0.89%) Data Centre
15 21 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
15 21 (0.85%) IoT
16 19 (0.76%) Clustering
16 19 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
16 19 (0.76%) Reinsurance
17 17 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 831 (33.44%) Linux
2 539 (21.69%) Android
3 160 (6.44%) Windows
4 47 (1.89%) Unix
5 43 (1.73%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.85%) Ubuntu
7 16 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.40%) CentOS
9 9 (0.36%) VMS
10 8 (0.32%) Debian
11 7 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.24%) SUSE
13 5 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 4 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
15 3 (0.12%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.080%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.080%) zOS
17 1 (0.040%) Mac OS
17 1 (0.040%) Solaris
17 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,424 (57.30%) Agile
2 1,220 (49.09%) DevOps
3 1,180 (47.48%) CI/CD
4 961 (38.67%) Containerisation
5 845 (34.00%) Microservices
6 831 (33.44%) Software Engineering
7 575 (23.14%) Design Patterns
8 550 (22.13%) Mathematics
9 536 (21.57%) Line Management
10 506 (20.36%) OO
11 495 (19.92%) OOP
12 477 (19.20%) Full-Stack Development
13 465 (18.71%) Test Automation
14 457 (18.39%) Android Development
15 437 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
16 404 (16.26%) TDD
17 382 (15.37%) SDLC
18 379 (15.25%) Mentoring
19 363 (14.61%) Front End Development
20 331 (13.32%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1,315 (52.92%) Java
2 1,254 (50.46%) Python
3 746 (30.02%) JavaScript
4 651 (26.20%) SQL
5 614 (24.71%) Go
6 482 (19.40%) C++
7 322 (12.96%) TypeScript
8 249 (10.02%) C#
9 197 (7.93%) Bash
10 179 (7.20%) PowerShell
11 72 (2.90%) PHP
12 64 (2.58%) Rust
13 42 (1.69%) Bicep
14 41 (1.65%) Shell Script
15 38 (1.53%) Scala
16 30 (1.21%) Ruby
17 20 (0.80%) C
18 19 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
19 17 (0.68%) Perl
20 16 (0.64%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 691 (27.81%) Security Cleared
2 534 (21.49%) DV Cleared
3 236 (9.50%) Degree
4 144 (5.79%) SC Cleared
5 124 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 65 (2.62%) AWS Certification
7 63 (2.54%) Master's Degree
8 56 (2.25%) Azure Certification
9 41 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 29 (1.17%) PhD
11 19 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 7 (0.28%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.20%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
17 3 (0.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 3 (0.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 321 (12.92%) QA
2 118 (4.75%) Accessibility
3 78 (3.14%) GDPR
4 39 (1.57%) HIPAA
5 18 (0.72%) SLA
6 16 (0.64%) SOC 2
7 15 (0.60%) Data Quality
7 15 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.56%) NIST
9 10 (0.40%) NCSC
10 6 (0.24%) CDISC
11 5 (0.20%) WCAG
12 4 (0.16%) GMP
12 4 (0.16%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.12%) SEPA
14 2 (0.080%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.080%) MiFID
15 1 (0.040%) IFRS
15 1 (0.040%) PMO
System Software
1 100 (4.02%) Hyper-V
2 88 (3.54%) vSphere
3 75 (3.02%) VMware NSX
4 51 (2.05%) Active Directory
4 51 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 40 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.24%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (0.24%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.20%) NFS
9 5 (0.20%) Postfix
10 4 (0.16%) LXC
11 3 (0.12%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.12%) Dovecot
11 3 (0.12%) HDFS
12 1 (0.040%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.040%) KVM
12 1 (0.040%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,536 (61.81%) Kubernetes
2 749 (30.14%) Ansible
3 689 (27.73%) Terraform
4 95 (3.82%) Prometheus
5 92 (3.70%) Grafana
6 51 (2.05%) Puppet
7 48 (1.93%) Progress Chef
8 30 (1.21%) Istio
9 28 (1.13%) Kibana
10 22 (0.89%) Argo
10 22 (0.89%) Podman
11 16 (0.64%) Nagios
12 15 (0.60%) Packer
13 13 (0.52%) vCenter Server
14 12 (0.48%) vMotion
15 11 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
16 10 (0.40%) Nessus
17 9 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
17 9 (0.36%) Proxmox
17 9 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 250 (10.06%) Solace
2 156 (6.28%) Google
3 131 (5.27%) Microsoft
4 118 (4.75%) Splunk
5 84 (3.38%) Cisco
6 78 (3.14%) Juniper
7 71 (2.86%) 3PAR
8 65 (2.62%) VMware
9 57 (2.29%) Databricks
10 45 (1.81%) Oracle
11 33 (1.33%) IBM
12 29 (1.17%) Red Hat
13 28 (1.13%) Dynatrace
14 19 (0.76%) New Relic
15 18 (0.72%) Citrix
16 16 (0.64%) Atlassian
16 16 (0.64%) SAP
17 12 (0.48%) HP
18 11 (0.44%) Adobe
18 11 (0.44%) Veeam