Docker
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Docker skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Docker over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 39 20
Rank change year-on-year -41 -19 0
Permanent jobs citing Docker 3,244 6,806 17,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.27% 6.70% 11.12%
As % of the System Software category 26.81% 43.75% 60.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,555 3,938 7,367
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.03% +11.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +18.18%

All System Software Skills
UK

Docker is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12,102 15,557 28,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.20% 15.32% 18.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,579 10,268 15,675
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,687
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.23% +1.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,486 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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 -36 2,879 £70,000 -5.41% 807
UK excluding London -40 2,089 £62,500 -3.85% 442
Work from Home -28 1,510 £67,500 -3.57% 527
London -28 1,033 £82,500 - 402
South East -6 682 £70,000 +3.70% 87
North of England -41 438 £60,000 -7.69% 123
South West -36 344 £60,000 -11.11% 77
Midlands -44 250 £58,750 -2.08% 61
North West -40 249 £65,000 -6.40% 73
Scotland -93 165 £70,000 +3.60% 41
West Midlands -17 151 £60,000 -7.69% 29
Yorkshire -29 151 £55,000 -12.00% 44
East of England -51 114 £63,750 -1.92% 36
East Midlands -56 100 £57,500 +9.52% 32
Wales 0 69 £47,500 -9.52% 14
North East -41 38 £60,000 -7.69% 7
Northern Ireland -37 27 £70,000 +16.67% 10
Isle of Man - 3 - -

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
1 159 (4.90%) Apache
2 113 (3.48%) nginx
3 67 (2.07%) OpenStack
4 66 (2.03%) Apache Spark
5 43 (1.33%) Confluence
6 42 (1.29%) CMS
7 37 (1.14%) Camunda
8 32 (0.99%) Drupal
9 30 (0.92%) Jupyter
10 27 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
11 21 (0.65%) JBoss
12 17 (0.52%) Tomcat
13 16 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
14 14 (0.43%) WordPress
15 13 (0.40%) IIS
16 11 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
17 8 (0.25%) WildFly
18 7 (0.22%) Umbraco
18 7 (0.22%) WebLogic
18 7 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.22%) GNU Octave
3 7 (0.22%) Simulink
4 6 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.092%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.031%) Blender
6 1 (0.031%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 12 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
2 9 (0.28%) Shopify
3 7 (0.22%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.092%) Magento
4 3 (0.092%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.062%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.031%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.031%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,725 (53.18%) AWS
2 1,249 (38.50%) Azure
3 399 (12.30%) GCP
4 355 (10.94%) Serverless
5 349 (10.76%) Azure DevOps
6 340 (10.48%) GitHub
7 286 (8.82%) SaaS
8 241 (7.43%) Amazon S3
9 212 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
10 208 (6.41%) OpenShift
11 198 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
12 167 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
13 144 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
14 133 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
15 108 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
16 105 (3.24%) Cloud Computing
17 93 (2.87%) IBM Cloud
18 84 (2.59%) PaaS
19 77 (2.37%) Datadog
20 76 (2.34%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 153 (4.72%) Firewall
2 107 (3.30%) DNS
3 103 (3.18%) VPN
4 87 (2.68%) TCP/IP
5 83 (2.56%) Internet
6 64 (1.97%) SNMP
7 63 (1.94%) HTTP
8 61 (1.88%) DHCP
9 58 (1.79%) IPsec
10 45 (1.39%) WAN
11 38 (1.17%) Network Security
12 35 (1.08%) SD-WAN
13 21 (0.65%) BGP
14 14 (0.43%) SSL
15 12 (0.37%) 5G
15 12 (0.37%) AMQP
15 12 (0.37%) MQTT
16 11 (0.34%) Ethernet VPN
16 11 (0.34%) MPLS
16 11 (0.34%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 365 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
2 319 (9.83%) NoSQL
3 286 (8.82%) MySQL
4 265 (8.17%) MongoDB
5 228 (7.03%) SQL Server
6 203 (6.26%) Relational Database
7 182 (5.61%) Elasticsearch
8 144 (4.44%) Redis
9 127 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
10 92 (2.84%) Big Data
11 54 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
12 43 (1.33%) Oracle Database
13 42 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
13 42 (1.29%) RDBMS
14 40 (1.23%) Hadoop
15 39 (1.20%) DynamoDB
16 29 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
17 27 (0.83%) BigQuery
17 27 (0.83%) Data Lake
18 25 (0.77%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 774 (23.86%) Git
2 691 (21.30%) Jenkins
3 246 (7.58%) GitLab
4 195 (6.01%) JIRA
5 147 (4.53%) Selenium
6 94 (2.90%) TeamCity
7 88 (2.71%) Cypress.io
8 84 (2.59%) JUnit
9 58 (1.79%) Bitbucket
10 56 (1.73%) Maven
11 53 (1.63%) SonarQube
12 52 (1.60%) Cucumber
13 50 (1.54%) CircleCI
13 50 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
14 40 (1.23%) Artifactory
14 40 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
15 36 (1.11%) Gradle
16 34 (1.05%) Mockito
17 29 (0.89%) IntelliJ
18 27 (0.83%) Subversion
General
1 659 (20.31%) Finance
2 598 (18.43%) Social Skills
3 294 (9.06%) Public Sector
4 183 (5.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 146 (4.50%) Banking
6 139 (4.28%) Analytical Skills
7 111 (3.42%) Retail
8 104 (3.21%) Law
9 92 (2.84%) Marketing
10 70 (2.16%) Aerospace
11 67 (2.07%) Telecoms
12 65 (2.00%) Games
13 45 (1.39%) Front Office
14 44 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
15 43 (1.33%) Financial Institution
16 38 (1.17%) Retail Banking
17 34 (1.05%) Automotive
18 32 (0.99%) Manufacturing
19 26 (0.80%) Tech for Good
20 25 (0.77%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1,176 (36.25%) Developer
2 823 (25.37%) Senior
3 495 (15.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 405 (12.48%) Lead
5 368 (11.34%) Software Engineer
6 348 (10.73%) Senior Developer
7 278 (8.57%) Java Developer
8 219 (6.75%) Software Developer
9 191 (5.89%) Architect
9 191 (5.89%) AWS Engineer
10 187 (5.76%) Full Stack Developer
11 137 (4.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 131 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
13 124 (3.82%) .NET Developer
14 119 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
15 118 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
16 110 (3.39%) AWS DevOps
17 108 (3.33%) Lead Developer
18 106 (3.27%) Java Engineer
18 106 (3.27%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 736 (22.69%) React
2 585 (18.03%) .NET
3 363 (11.19%) Kafka
4 347 (10.70%) Node.js
4 347 (10.70%) Spring
5 336 (10.36%) REST
6 335 (10.33%) AngularJS
7 325 (10.02%) Spring Boot
8 253 (7.80%) HTML
9 249 (7.68%) CSS
10 221 (6.81%) RabbitMQ
11 212 (6.54%) RESTful
12 187 (5.76%) Web Services
13 156 (4.81%) Vue
14 143 (4.41%) .NET Core
15 138 (4.25%) ASP.NET
16 134 (4.13%) JSON
17 131 (4.04%) Elastic Stack
18 120 (3.70%) Laravel
19 117 (3.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 209 (6.44%) Distributed Systems
2 129 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
3 128 (3.95%) Public Cloud
4 127 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 124 (3.82%) Product Ownership
6 115 (3.55%) Data Centre
7 112 (3.45%) Blockchain
8 111 (3.42%) Cloud Native
9 105 (3.24%) Management Information System
10 77 (2.37%) Algorithms
11 70 (2.16%) Data Structures
12 64 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
13 58 (1.79%) Private Cloud
14 57 (1.76%) Mobile App
15 51 (1.57%) Client/Server
16 49 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
17 48 (1.48%) e-Learning
18 37 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
19 35 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
19 35 (1.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 799 (24.63%) Linux
2 318 (9.80%) Windows
3 100 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 83 (2.56%) CentOS
5 66 (2.03%) Windows Server
6 65 (2.00%) Unix
7 54 (1.66%) Data ONTAP
8 46 (1.42%) Alpine Linux
8 46 (1.42%) Debian
9 28 (0.86%) Android
10 27 (0.83%) Apple iOS
11 23 (0.71%) Ubuntu
12 18 (0.55%) VMS
13 15 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
14 12 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
14 12 (0.37%) Solaris
15 11 (0.34%) Windows 10
16 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
17 8 (0.25%) Mac OS
18 7 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,427 (43.99%) DevOps
2 1,343 (41.40%) Agile
3 1,261 (38.87%) CI/CD
4 861 (26.54%) Software Engineering
5 850 (26.20%) Containerisation
6 745 (22.97%) Microservices
7 630 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
8 494 (15.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 480 (14.80%) Full Stack Development
10 443 (13.66%) Computer Science
11 397 (12.24%) Mentoring
12 386 (11.90%) TDD
13 380 (11.71%) Artificial Intelligence
14 377 (11.62%) Continuous Integration
15 347 (10.70%) Scrum
16 330 (10.17%) SDLC
17 283 (8.72%) Test Automation
18 224 (6.91%) Fintech
19 216 (6.66%) Roadmaps
20 214 (6.60%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,096 (33.79%) Python
2 1,030 (31.75%) Java
3 821 (25.31%) JavaScript
4 626 (19.30%) C#
5 611 (18.83%) SQL
6 461 (14.21%) TypeScript
7 307 (9.46%) Bash
8 259 (7.98%) PHP
9 255 (7.86%) Go
10 231 (7.12%) PowerShell
11 89 (2.74%) C++
12 82 (2.53%) Shell Script
13 73 (2.25%) Ruby
14 66 (2.03%) C
15 54 (1.66%) Kotlin
16 46 (1.42%) Perl
17 39 (1.20%) Bicep
18 37 (1.14%) Groovy
19 36 (1.11%) Lua
20 28 (0.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 527 (16.25%) Degree
2 436 (13.44%) Security Cleared
3 310 (9.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 257 (7.92%) SC Cleared
5 151 (4.65%) AWS Certification
6 147 (4.53%) DV Cleared
7 128 (3.95%) Azure Certification
8 97 (2.99%) Master's Degree
9 68 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 48 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 40 (1.23%) MCSA
11 40 (1.23%) MCSE
12 36 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 35 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
13 35 (1.08%) PhD
14 34 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 34 (1.05%) CCSK
14 34 (1.05%) CCSP
14 34 (1.05%) CISSP
15 33 (1.02%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (4.16%) QA
2 39 (1.20%) NIST
3 35 (1.08%) WCAG
4 30 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (0.46%) NCSC
8 9 (0.28%) GDPR
9 6 (0.18%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.15%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.15%) SEPA
10 5 (0.15%) SLA
11 4 (0.12%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.092%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.092%) WAI
13 2 (0.062%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.031%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.031%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 148 (4.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 118 (3.64%) Hyper-V
3 83 (2.56%) Active Directory
4 54 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.43%) NFS
7 13 (0.40%) Firmware
8 12 (0.37%) pfSense
9 8 (0.25%) KVM
10 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.22%) vSphere
11 6 (0.18%) Ceph
11 6 (0.18%) VirtualBox
12 5 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
12 5 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.092%) Gluster
13 3 (0.092%) oVirt
13 3 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.062%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.062%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2,223 (68.53%) Kubernetes
2 935 (28.82%) Terraform
3 597 (18.40%) Ansible
4 209 (6.44%) Prometheus
5 186 (5.73%) Puppet
6 180 (5.55%) Grafana
7 92 (2.84%) Progress Chef
8 76 (2.34%) vCenter Server
9 58 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
10 43 (1.33%) Kibana
11 35 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
12 32 (0.99%) Nagios
13 31 (0.96%) HAProxy
14 28 (0.86%) ZABBIX
15 23 (0.71%) Consul
16 22 (0.68%) Packer
17 21 (0.65%) Salt
18 15 (0.46%) Podman
18 15 (0.46%) SCCM
19 14 (0.43%) Argo
Vendors
1 312 (9.62%) Microsoft
2 249 (7.68%) Google
3 217 (6.69%) Red Hat
4 193 (5.95%) Oracle
5 183 (5.64%) VMware
6 106 (3.27%) IBM
7 75 (2.31%) Splunk
8 57 (1.76%) NetApp
8 57 (1.76%) Palo Alto
9 54 (1.66%) SolidFire
10 45 (1.39%) Dynatrace
11 42 (1.29%) WSO2
12 30 (0.92%) Cisco
13 29 (0.89%) Atlassian
14 26 (0.80%) Facebook
15 23 (0.71%) Veeam
16 22 (0.68%) ForgeRock
17 19 (0.59%) Juniper
18 18 (0.55%) Apple
18 18 (0.55%) New Relic