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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 39 19
Rank change year-on-year -47 -20 +1
Permanent jobs citing Docker 3,193 5,993 19,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.04% 6.33% 11.59%
As % of the System Software category 26.54% 41.21% 62.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,466 3,669 7,325
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% +2.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.92% - +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 12,030 14,544 31,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.46% 15.37% 18.47%
Number of salaries quoted 9,345 9,733 15,551
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,625 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -0.90% +0.91%
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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -40 2,837 £70,000 -3.45% 809
UK excluding London -38 2,060 £60,500 -6.92% 409
Work from Home -33 1,460 £66,500 -5.00% 448
London -31 1,016 £82,500 +2.75% 430
South East -12 667 £67,500 - 77
North of England -44 439 £60,000 -7.69% 112
South West -39 332 £60,000 -11.11% 94
Midlands -43 259 £60,000 - 51
North West -46 244 £65,000 -7.14% 73
Yorkshire -23 159 £55,000 -8.33% 34
Scotland -91 157 £66,500 -4.24% 21
West Midlands -30 149 £60,000 -7.69% 22
East Midlands -50 110 £57,500 +9.52% 29
East of England -39 109 £62,500 -3.85% 33
Wales -5 69 £47,500 -15.56% 14
North East -34 36 £60,000 -7.69% 7
Northern Ireland -28 26 £61,250 +2.08% 13
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
2 112 (3.51%) nginx
3 66 (2.07%) Apache Spark
4 61 (1.91%) OpenStack
5 45 (1.41%) Confluence
6 40 (1.25%) CMS
7 36 (1.13%) Camunda
8 30 (0.94%) Drupal
9 29 (0.91%) Jupyter
10 23 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
11 22 (0.69%) JBoss
12 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
13 15 (0.47%) Tomcat
14 12 (0.38%) IIS
14 12 (0.38%) WordPress
15 10 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
16 8 (0.25%) WildFly
17 7 (0.22%) Umbraco
17 7 (0.22%) WebLogic
17 7 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.22%) GNU Octave
4 7 (0.22%) Simulink
5 6 (0.19%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.094%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.031%) Blender
7 1 (0.031%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.031%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 11 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.25%) 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%) Ripple
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 1,715 (53.71%) AWS
2 1,237 (38.74%) Azure
3 421 (13.19%) GCP
4 345 (10.80%) GitHub
5 340 (10.65%) Azure DevOps
6 335 (10.49%) Serverless
7 280 (8.77%) SaaS
8 224 (7.02%) Amazon S3
9 193 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
10 192 (6.01%) OpenShift
11 180 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
12 157 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
13 134 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
14 122 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
15 118 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
16 110 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
17 90 (2.82%) IBM Cloud
18 81 (2.54%) PaaS
19 77 (2.41%) Datadog
20 74 (2.32%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 154 (4.82%) Firewall
2 103 (3.23%) DNS
3 99 (3.10%) VPN
4 85 (2.66%) TCP/IP
5 80 (2.51%) Internet
6 63 (1.97%) HTTP
7 62 (1.94%) DHCP
7 62 (1.94%) SNMP
8 57 (1.79%) IPsec
9 45 (1.41%) WAN
10 39 (1.22%) Network Security
11 34 (1.06%) SD-WAN
12 19 (0.60%) BGP
13 16 (0.50%) SSL
14 13 (0.41%) MQTT
15 12 (0.38%) 5G
15 12 (0.38%) AMQP
16 11 (0.34%) Ethernet VPN
16 11 (0.34%) LAN
16 11 (0.34%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 355 (11.12%) PostgreSQL
2 293 (9.18%) NoSQL
3 280 (8.77%) MySQL
4 255 (7.99%) MongoDB
5 232 (7.27%) SQL Server
6 198 (6.20%) Relational Database
7 164 (5.14%) Elasticsearch
8 138 (4.32%) Redis
9 116 (3.63%) Amazon RDS
10 82 (2.57%) Big Data
11 48 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 43 (1.35%) RDBMS
13 40 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
13 40 (1.25%) Oracle Database
14 38 (1.19%) Hadoop
15 37 (1.16%) DynamoDB
16 30 (0.94%) BigQuery
17 28 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
18 25 (0.78%) Data Lake
19 23 (0.72%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 746 (23.36%) Git
2 652 (20.42%) Jenkins
3 250 (7.83%) GitLab
4 207 (6.48%) JIRA
5 135 (4.23%) Selenium
6 88 (2.76%) TeamCity
7 79 (2.47%) JUnit
8 77 (2.41%) Cypress.io
9 60 (1.88%) Bitbucket
9 60 (1.88%) CircleCI
10 55 (1.72%) SonarQube
11 51 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
12 49 (1.53%) Maven
13 39 (1.22%) Cucumber
14 36 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
15 35 (1.10%) Gradle
16 33 (1.03%) Artifactory
17 29 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
18 27 (0.85%) Mockito
18 27 (0.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 645 (20.20%) Finance
2 632 (19.79%) Social Skills
3 302 (9.46%) Public Sector
4 182 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 143 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
6 132 (4.13%) Banking
7 103 (3.23%) Retail
8 98 (3.07%) Law
9 90 (2.82%) Marketing
10 85 (2.66%) Aerospace
11 70 (2.19%) Games
12 63 (1.97%) Telecoms
13 53 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
14 43 (1.35%) Financial Institution
15 37 (1.16%) Automotive
15 37 (1.16%) Front Office
15 37 (1.16%) Retail Banking
16 34 (1.06%) Manufacturing
17 26 (0.81%) Legal
18 25 (0.78%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,136 (35.58%) Developer
2 813 (25.46%) Senior
3 484 (15.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 416 (13.03%) Lead
5 378 (11.84%) Software Engineer
6 335 (10.49%) Senior Developer
7 260 (8.14%) Java Developer
8 204 (6.39%) Software Developer
9 189 (5.92%) Architect
10 178 (5.57%) Full Stack Developer
11 173 (5.42%) AWS Engineer
12 146 (4.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 128 (4.01%) Senior Software Engineer
14 124 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
15 119 (3.73%) .NET Developer
16 105 (3.29%) AWS DevOps
16 105 (3.29%) Lead Developer
17 102 (3.19%) Full Stack Engineer
18 101 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
19 100 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 706 (22.11%) React
2 569 (17.82%) .NET
3 356 (11.15%) Node.js
4 344 (10.77%) Kafka
5 341 (10.68%) REST
6 328 (10.27%) Spring
7 324 (10.15%) AngularJS
8 309 (9.68%) Spring Boot
9 249 (7.80%) HTML
10 239 (7.49%) CSS
11 216 (6.76%) RabbitMQ
12 210 (6.58%) RESTful
13 178 (5.57%) Web Services
14 153 (4.79%) Vue
15 140 (4.38%) .NET Core
16 125 (3.91%) ASP.NET
17 115 (3.60%) JSON
17 115 (3.60%) YAML
18 112 (3.51%) Laravel
19 110 (3.45%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 202 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
2 135 (4.23%) Product Ownership
3 129 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
4 127 (3.98%) Cloud Native
5 119 (3.73%) Public Cloud
6 118 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 115 (3.60%) Data Centre
8 107 (3.35%) Blockchain
9 105 (3.29%) Management Information System
10 73 (2.29%) Algorithms
11 67 (2.10%) Data Structures
12 61 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
13 58 (1.82%) Mobile App
14 52 (1.63%) e-Learning
15 51 (1.60%) Client/Server
16 49 (1.53%) Private Cloud
17 46 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
18 44 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
19 37 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
20 36 (1.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 775 (24.27%) Linux
2 307 (9.61%) Windows
3 104 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 82 (2.57%) CentOS
5 72 (2.25%) Windows Server
6 56 (1.75%) Unix
7 54 (1.69%) Data ONTAP
8 48 (1.50%) Alpine Linux
8 48 (1.50%) Debian
9 24 (0.75%) Android
10 23 (0.72%) Apple iOS
10 23 (0.72%) Ubuntu
11 16 (0.50%) VMS
12 15 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
13 12 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
13 12 (0.38%) Solaris
14 11 (0.34%) Windows 10
15 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
16 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
17 6 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,397 (43.75%) DevOps
2 1,333 (41.75%) Agile
3 1,278 (40.03%) CI/CD
4 845 (26.46%) Software Engineering
5 838 (26.24%) Containerisation
6 715 (22.39%) Microservices
7 644 (20.17%) Problem-Solving
8 494 (15.47%) Full Stack Development
9 480 (15.03%) Infrastructure as Code
10 429 (13.44%) Computer Science
11 415 (13.00%) Mentoring
12 386 (12.09%) TDD
13 368 (11.53%) Artificial Intelligence
14 359 (11.24%) Continuous Integration
15 336 (10.52%) SDLC
16 330 (10.34%) Scrum
17 298 (9.33%) Test Automation
18 221 (6.92%) Continuous Improvement
19 217 (6.80%) Roadmaps
20 213 (6.67%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,081 (33.86%) Python
2 988 (30.94%) Java
3 798 (24.99%) JavaScript
4 598 (18.73%) C#
5 581 (18.20%) SQL
6 428 (13.40%) TypeScript
7 299 (9.36%) Bash
8 254 (7.95%) PHP
9 250 (7.83%) Go
10 229 (7.17%) PowerShell
11 83 (2.60%) C++
12 78 (2.44%) Ruby
13 76 (2.38%) Shell Script
14 66 (2.07%) C
15 57 (1.79%) Kotlin
16 46 (1.44%) Perl
17 38 (1.19%) Scala
18 36 (1.13%) Bicep
18 36 (1.13%) Groovy
18 36 (1.13%) Lua
Qualifications
1 504 (15.78%) Degree
2 440 (13.78%) Security Cleared
3 297 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 265 (8.30%) SC Cleared
5 173 (5.42%) AWS Certification
6 152 (4.76%) DV Cleared
7 144 (4.51%) Azure Certification
8 93 (2.91%) Master's Degree
9 68 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 51 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 40 (1.25%) MCSA
11 40 (1.25%) MCSE
12 36 (1.13%) 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
16 31 (0.97%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (4.01%) QA
2 45 (1.41%) NIST
3 31 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (0.97%) WCAG
4 27 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 18 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 15 (0.47%) NCSC
7 12 (0.38%) GDPR
8 8 (0.25%) Data Quality
9 7 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.19%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.19%) SLA
11 5 (0.16%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.094%) SEPA
13 2 (0.063%) WAI
14 1 (0.031%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.031%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.031%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.031%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 156 (4.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 112 (3.51%) Hyper-V
3 76 (2.38%) Active Directory
4 56 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (0.47%) NFS
7 14 (0.44%) Firmware
8 13 (0.41%) pfSense
9 10 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (0.28%) KVM
11 7 (0.22%) vSphere
12 6 (0.19%) VirtualBox
12 6 (0.19%) XenApp
12 6 (0.19%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.16%) Ceph
13 5 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
13 5 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.094%) HDFS
14 3 (0.094%) oVirt
14 3 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2,181 (68.31%) Kubernetes
2 934 (29.25%) Terraform
3 594 (18.60%) Ansible
4 195 (6.11%) Prometheus
5 181 (5.67%) Puppet
6 161 (5.04%) Grafana
7 86 (2.69%) Progress Chef
8 75 (2.35%) vCenter Server
9 62 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
10 40 (1.25%) Kibana
11 36 (1.13%) Docker Swarm
12 34 (1.06%) Nagios
13 28 (0.88%) HAProxy
13 28 (0.88%) ZABBIX
14 21 (0.66%) Packer
15 19 (0.60%) Consul
16 16 (0.50%) SCCM
17 15 (0.47%) Podman
18 13 (0.41%) Argo
19 12 (0.38%) Rancher
Vendors
1 306 (9.58%) Microsoft
2 233 (7.30%) Google
3 228 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 190 (5.95%) VMware
5 189 (5.92%) Oracle
6 99 (3.10%) IBM
7 84 (2.63%) Splunk
8 58 (1.82%) NetApp
8 58 (1.82%) Palo Alto
9 54 (1.69%) SolidFire
10 44 (1.38%) Dynatrace
11 36 (1.13%) WSO2
12 31 (0.97%) Cisco
13 29 (0.91%) Atlassian
14 27 (0.85%) Facebook
15 25 (0.78%) ServiceNow
16 24 (0.75%) Veeam
17 23 (0.72%) ForgeRock
18 21 (0.66%) New Relic
19 18 (0.56%) Juniper