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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 39 19
Rank change year-on-year -43 -20 +1
Permanent jobs citing Docker 3,194 6,719 18,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.20% 6.78% 11.26%
As % of the System Software category 26.66% 43.69% 61.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,515 3,868 7,313
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 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,450 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,125 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.42% - +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 11,980 15,379 29,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.99% 15.51% 18.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,464 10,075 15,564
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,860 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 18 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 18 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 -41 2,834 £70,000 -3.45% 890
UK excluding London -42 2,055 £62,125 -4.42% 531
Work from Home -30 1,477 £67,500 -3.57% 543
London -30 1,022 £82,500 +2.48% 484
South East -5 670 £67,500 - 173
North of England -47 433 £60,000 -7.69% 128
South West -35 336 £60,000 -11.11% 78
North West -43 248 £65,000 -6.40% 76
Midlands -46 246 £60,000 - 57
Scotland -99 163 £67,000 -0.94% 33
West Midlands -15 149 £60,000 -7.69% 29
Yorkshire -34 147 £55,000 -12.00% 46
East of England -55 111 £62,500 -3.85% 42
East Midlands -60 97 £57,500 +9.52% 28
Wales -4 68 £47,500 -21.81% 18
North East -41 38 £60,000 -7.69% 8
Northern Ireland -40 26 £70,000 +16.67% 8
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
1 160 (5.01%) Apache
2 114 (3.57%) nginx
3 66 (2.07%) OpenStack
4 64 (2.00%) Apache Spark
5 45 (1.41%) Confluence
6 41 (1.28%) CMS
7 37 (1.16%) Camunda
8 30 (0.94%) Drupal
8 30 (0.94%) Jupyter
9 26 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
10 21 (0.66%) JBoss
11 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.50%) Tomcat
12 13 (0.41%) IIS
12 13 (0.41%) WordPress
13 10 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
14 8 (0.25%) WildFly
15 7 (0.22%) Umbraco
15 7 (0.22%) WebLogic
15 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 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.19%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.094%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.031%) Blender
6 1 (0.031%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.031%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 12 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 9 (0.28%) Shopify
3 7 (0.22%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.094%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.063%) Magento
5 2 (0.063%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.031%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.031%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.031%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,690 (52.91%) AWS
2 1,223 (38.29%) Azure
3 401 (12.55%) GCP
4 348 (10.90%) Serverless
5 344 (10.77%) GitHub
6 334 (10.46%) Azure DevOps
7 285 (8.92%) SaaS
8 238 (7.45%) Amazon S3
9 206 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
10 200 (6.26%) OpenShift
11 194 (6.07%) Amazon ECS
12 152 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 141 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
14 130 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
15 110 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
16 102 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
17 93 (2.91%) IBM Cloud
18 88 (2.76%) PaaS
19 78 (2.44%) Datadog
20 72 (2.25%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 152 (4.76%) Firewall
2 103 (3.22%) DNS
3 101 (3.16%) VPN
4 84 (2.63%) TCP/IP
5 81 (2.54%) Internet
6 63 (1.97%) SNMP
7 62 (1.94%) HTTP
8 59 (1.85%) DHCP
9 58 (1.82%) IPsec
10 44 (1.38%) WAN
11 39 (1.22%) Network Security
12 34 (1.06%) SD-WAN
13 20 (0.63%) BGP
14 15 (0.47%) SSL
15 12 (0.38%) 5G
15 12 (0.38%) AMQP
15 12 (0.38%) MQTT
16 11 (0.34%) Ethernet VPN
16 11 (0.34%) MPLS
16 11 (0.34%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 365 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
2 309 (9.67%) NoSQL
3 287 (8.99%) MySQL
4 264 (8.27%) MongoDB
5 230 (7.20%) SQL Server
6 199 (6.23%) Relational Database
7 175 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
8 144 (4.51%) Redis
9 126 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
10 84 (2.63%) Big Data
11 51 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
12 43 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
12 43 (1.35%) Oracle Database
13 42 (1.31%) RDBMS
14 38 (1.19%) Hadoop
15 37 (1.16%) DynamoDB
16 28 (0.88%) BigQuery
17 27 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
18 26 (0.81%) Data Lake
19 23 (0.72%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 770 (24.11%) Git
2 672 (21.04%) Jenkins
3 237 (7.42%) GitLab
4 195 (6.11%) JIRA
5 146 (4.57%) Selenium
6 94 (2.94%) TeamCity
7 85 (2.66%) Cypress.io
8 78 (2.44%) JUnit
9 60 (1.88%) Bitbucket
10 54 (1.69%) Maven
10 54 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
11 52 (1.63%) CircleCI
12 48 (1.50%) Cucumber
13 41 (1.28%) SonarQube
14 40 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
15 38 (1.19%) Artifactory
16 35 (1.10%) Gradle
17 29 (0.91%) Mockito
18 27 (0.85%) Subversion
18 27 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 658 (20.60%) Finance
2 607 (19.00%) Social Skills
3 294 (9.20%) Public Sector
4 183 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 142 (4.45%) Banking
6 139 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 105 (3.29%) Retail
8 103 (3.22%) Law
9 93 (2.91%) Marketing
10 76 (2.38%) Aerospace
11 67 (2.10%) Games
12 65 (2.04%) Telecoms
13 47 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
14 43 (1.35%) Financial Institution
15 41 (1.28%) Front Office
16 34 (1.06%) Automotive
17 33 (1.03%) Manufacturing
17 33 (1.03%) Retail Banking
18 25 (0.78%) Tech for Good
19 24 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,159 (36.29%) Developer
2 816 (25.55%) Senior
3 469 (14.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 407 (12.74%) Lead
5 370 (11.58%) Software Engineer
6 340 (10.64%) Senior Developer
7 271 (8.48%) Java Developer
8 214 (6.70%) Software Developer
9 188 (5.89%) Architect
10 185 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
11 184 (5.76%) Full Stack Developer
12 139 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 127 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
14 123 (3.85%) .NET Developer
15 121 (3.79%) Senior Software Engineer
16 108 (3.38%) AWS DevOps
17 107 (3.35%) Lead Developer
18 105 (3.29%) Full Stack Engineer
19 104 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
20 103 (3.22%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 727 (22.76%) React
2 581 (18.19%) .NET
3 349 (10.93%) Kafka
4 346 (10.83%) Node.js
5 342 (10.71%) Spring
6 338 (10.58%) REST
7 333 (10.43%) AngularJS
8 314 (9.83%) Spring Boot
9 251 (7.86%) HTML
10 245 (7.67%) CSS
11 220 (6.89%) RabbitMQ
12 210 (6.57%) RESTful
13 183 (5.73%) Web Services
14 157 (4.92%) Vue
15 143 (4.48%) .NET Core
16 134 (4.20%) ASP.NET
17 130 (4.07%) JSON
18 118 (3.69%) Elastic Stack
19 116 (3.63%) YAML
20 115 (3.60%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 198 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
2 131 (4.10%) Greenfield Project
3 124 (3.88%) Product Ownership
4 122 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 121 (3.79%) Public Cloud
6 116 (3.63%) Data Centre
7 114 (3.57%) Cloud Native
8 109 (3.41%) Blockchain
9 104 (3.26%) Management Information System
10 75 (2.35%) Algorithms
11 69 (2.16%) Data Structures
12 63 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
13 58 (1.82%) Mobile App
13 58 (1.82%) Private Cloud
14 51 (1.60%) Client/Server
15 49 (1.53%) e-Learning
16 45 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
17 39 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
18 38 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
19 35 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 769 (24.08%) Linux
2 300 (9.39%) Windows
3 98 (3.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 82 (2.57%) CentOS
5 67 (2.10%) Windows Server
6 56 (1.75%) Unix
7 54 (1.69%) Data ONTAP
8 47 (1.47%) Alpine Linux
9 46 (1.44%) Debian
10 25 (0.78%) Android
11 24 (0.75%) Apple iOS
12 22 (0.69%) Ubuntu
13 18 (0.56%) VMS
14 15 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
15 12 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
15 12 (0.38%) Solaris
16 11 (0.34%) Windows 10
17 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
18 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
19 6 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,394 (43.64%) DevOps
2 1,320 (41.33%) Agile
3 1,249 (39.10%) CI/CD
4 847 (26.52%) Software Engineering
5 833 (26.08%) Containerisation
6 722 (22.60%) Microservices
7 630 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
8 484 (15.15%) Full Stack Development
9 481 (15.06%) Infrastructure as Code
10 442 (13.84%) Computer Science
11 394 (12.34%) Mentoring
12 392 (12.27%) TDD
13 374 (11.71%) Artificial Intelligence
14 364 (11.40%) Continuous Integration
15 329 (10.30%) SDLC
16 327 (10.24%) Scrum
17 276 (8.64%) Test Automation
18 220 (6.89%) Roadmaps
19 219 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
20 217 (6.79%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,074 (33.63%) Python
2 1,007 (31.53%) Java
3 811 (25.39%) JavaScript
4 615 (19.25%) C#
5 601 (18.82%) SQL
6 448 (14.03%) TypeScript
7 295 (9.24%) Bash
8 256 (8.02%) Go
8 256 (8.02%) PHP
9 220 (6.89%) PowerShell
10 89 (2.79%) C++
11 80 (2.50%) Shell Script
12 72 (2.25%) Ruby
13 66 (2.07%) C
14 54 (1.69%) Kotlin
15 44 (1.38%) Perl
16 38 (1.19%) Bicep
17 36 (1.13%) Groovy
17 36 (1.13%) Lua
18 29 (0.91%) Rust
Qualifications
1 521 (16.31%) Degree
2 428 (13.40%) Security Cleared
3 308 (9.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 255 (7.98%) SC Cleared
5 156 (4.88%) AWS Certification
6 145 (4.54%) DV Cleared
7 129 (4.04%) Azure Certification
8 96 (3.01%) Master's Degree
9 69 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 47 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 40 (1.25%) MCSA
11 40 (1.25%) MCSE
12 38 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 35 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
14 34 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 34 (1.06%) CCSK
14 34 (1.06%) CCSP
14 34 (1.06%) CISSP
15 33 (1.03%) CISM
15 33 (1.03%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (4.10%) QA
2 41 (1.28%) NIST
3 33 (1.03%) WCAG
4 30 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (0.44%) NCSC
8 10 (0.31%) GDPR
9 5 (0.16%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.16%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.16%) SEPA
9 5 (0.16%) SLA
10 4 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.094%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.094%) WAI
12 2 (0.063%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.031%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.031%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 147 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 115 (3.60%) Hyper-V
3 81 (2.54%) Active Directory
4 54 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.44%) NFS
7 13 (0.41%) Firmware
8 12 (0.38%) pfSense
9 8 (0.25%) KVM
9 8 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.19%) Ceph
10 6 (0.19%) VirtualBox
10 6 (0.19%) vSphere
11 5 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
11 5 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.094%) Gluster
12 3 (0.094%) oVirt
12 3 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.063%) Varnish
13 2 (0.063%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2,180 (68.25%) Kubernetes
2 922 (28.87%) Terraform
3 579 (18.13%) Ansible
4 196 (6.14%) Prometheus
5 184 (5.76%) Puppet
6 166 (5.20%) Grafana
7 93 (2.91%) Progress Chef
8 75 (2.35%) vCenter Server
9 61 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
10 43 (1.35%) Kibana
11 35 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
12 32 (1.00%) Nagios
13 30 (0.94%) HAProxy
14 28 (0.88%) ZABBIX
15 22 (0.69%) Consul
15 22 (0.69%) Packer
16 17 (0.53%) Salt
17 15 (0.47%) Argo
17 15 (0.47%) Podman
17 15 (0.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 310 (9.71%) Microsoft
2 245 (7.67%) Google
3 218 (6.83%) Red Hat
4 197 (6.17%) Oracle
5 180 (5.64%) VMware
6 105 (3.29%) IBM
7 77 (2.41%) Splunk
8 57 (1.78%) NetApp
8 57 (1.78%) Palo Alto
9 54 (1.69%) SolidFire
10 45 (1.41%) Dynatrace
11 41 (1.28%) WSO2
12 31 (0.97%) Cisco
13 30 (0.94%) Atlassian
14 26 (0.81%) Facebook
15 23 (0.72%) ForgeRock
15 23 (0.72%) Veeam
16 19 (0.59%) Juniper
17 18 (0.56%) Apple
17 18 (0.56%) New Relic