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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 39 20
Rank change year-on-year -41 -19 -1
Permanent jobs citing Docker 3,275 6,979 17,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.32% 6.72% 10.99%
As % of the System Software category 26.80% 43.94% 60.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,592 4,027 7,407
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.69% +11.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,410 £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 12,221 15,884 28,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.39% 15.31% 18.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,686 10,479 15,796
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,954 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £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 3 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 3 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 -33 2,905 £70,000 -6.67% 735
UK excluding London -38 2,100 £62,500 -3.85% 404
Work from Home -26 1,524 £67,500 -3.57% 489
London -27 1,048 £82,500 - 366
South East -2 687 £70,000 +3.70% 81
North of England -41 444 £60,000 -7.69% 108
South West -33 340 £60,000 -9.06% 75
Midlands -34 253 £60,000 -3.23% 59
North West -38 253 £65,000 -3.70% 66
Scotland -94 166 £70,000 +3.50% 34
West Midlands -16 155 £60,000 -7.69% 28
Yorkshire -36 151 £55,000 -12.00% 36
East of England -48 115 £65,000 - 30
East Midlands -57 101 £57,500 +4.55% 30
Wales -2 70 £47,500 -9.52% 15
North East -39 40 £60,000 -7.69% 7
Northern Ireland -35 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 (4.85%) Apache
2 112 (3.42%) nginx
3 67 (2.05%) OpenStack
4 64 (1.95%) Apache Spark
5 44 (1.34%) CMS
5 44 (1.34%) Confluence
6 37 (1.13%) Camunda
7 33 (1.01%) Drupal
8 29 (0.89%) Jupyter
9 27 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
10 20 (0.61%) JBoss
11 17 (0.52%) Tomcat
12 16 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
13 15 (0.46%) WordPress
14 13 (0.40%) IIS
15 10 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
16 8 (0.24%) WildFly
17 7 (0.21%) SharePoint
17 7 (0.21%) Umbraco
17 7 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.21%) GNU Octave
3 7 (0.21%) 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 (0.27%) Shopify
3 7 (0.21%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.12%) Magento
5 3 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.092%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.061%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.031%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,744 (53.25%) AWS
2 1,247 (38.08%) Azure
3 401 (12.24%) GCP
4 365 (11.15%) Serverless
5 351 (10.72%) Azure DevOps
6 340 (10.38%) GitHub
7 285 (8.70%) SaaS
8 245 (7.48%) Amazon S3
9 217 (6.63%) AWS Lambda
10 206 (6.29%) OpenShift
11 201 (6.14%) Amazon ECS
12 172 (5.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 145 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
14 139 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
15 109 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
15 109 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
16 92 (2.81%) IBM Cloud
17 82 (2.50%) PaaS
18 79 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
19 77 (2.35%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 153 (4.67%) Firewall
2 107 (3.27%) DNS
3 105 (3.21%) VPN
4 86 (2.63%) TCP/IP
5 83 (2.53%) Internet
6 64 (1.95%) SNMP
7 62 (1.89%) HTTP
8 60 (1.83%) DHCP
9 59 (1.80%) IPsec
10 45 (1.37%) WAN
11 37 (1.13%) Network Security
12 36 (1.10%) SD-WAN
13 23 (0.70%) BGP
14 13 (0.40%) 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
1 375 (11.45%) PostgreSQL
2 328 (10.02%) NoSQL
3 291 (8.89%) MySQL
4 264 (8.06%) MongoDB
5 227 (6.93%) SQL Server
6 204 (6.23%) Relational Database
7 186 (5.68%) Elasticsearch
8 147 (4.49%) Redis
9 130 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
10 96 (2.93%) Big Data
11 59 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
12 43 (1.31%) Oracle Database
13 42 (1.28%) DynamoDB
14 41 (1.25%) RDBMS
15 40 (1.22%) Hadoop
16 38 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
17 29 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
18 27 (0.82%) BigQuery
18 27 (0.82%) Data Lake
19 24 (0.73%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 775 (23.66%) Git
2 697 (21.28%) Jenkins
3 250 (7.63%) GitLab
4 196 (5.98%) JIRA
5 149 (4.55%) Selenium
6 94 (2.87%) TeamCity
7 91 (2.78%) Cypress.io
8 86 (2.63%) JUnit
9 59 (1.80%) Maven
10 56 (1.71%) Bitbucket
11 53 (1.62%) Cucumber
11 53 (1.62%) SonarQube
12 51 (1.56%) CircleCI
13 47 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
14 43 (1.31%) Artifactory
14 43 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
15 38 (1.16%) Gradle
16 36 (1.10%) Mockito
17 31 (0.95%) IntelliJ
18 28 (0.85%) Subversion
General
1 665 (20.31%) Finance
2 604 (18.44%) Social Skills
3 294 (8.98%) Public Sector
4 179 (5.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 153 (4.67%) Banking
6 141 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
7 111 (3.39%) Retail
8 102 (3.11%) Law
9 93 (2.84%) Marketing
10 67 (2.05%) Aerospace
10 67 (2.05%) Telecoms
11 66 (2.02%) Games
12 49 (1.50%) Front Office
13 44 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
14 43 (1.31%) Financial Institution
15 38 (1.16%) Retail Banking
16 33 (1.01%) Automotive
17 32 (0.98%) Manufacturing
18 27 (0.82%) Legal
19 25 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,195 (36.49%) Developer
2 844 (25.77%) Senior
3 495 (15.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 403 (12.31%) Lead
5 370 (11.30%) Software Engineer
6 358 (10.93%) Senior Developer
7 286 (8.73%) Java Developer
8 225 (6.87%) Software Developer
9 194 (5.92%) Architect
10 193 (5.89%) Full Stack Developer
11 191 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
12 135 (4.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 129 (3.94%) .NET Developer
14 128 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
15 120 (3.66%) Senior Software Engineer
16 116 (3.54%) Azure Engineer
17 110 (3.36%) AWS DevOps
17 110 (3.36%) Lead Developer
18 107 (3.27%) Java Engineer
19 106 (3.24%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 744 (22.72%) React
2 587 (17.92%) .NET
3 375 (11.45%) Kafka
4 354 (10.81%) Spring
5 349 (10.66%) Node.js
6 340 (10.38%) AngularJS
7 339 (10.35%) REST
8 333 (10.17%) Spring Boot
9 255 (7.79%) HTML
10 254 (7.76%) CSS
11 221 (6.75%) RabbitMQ
12 215 (6.56%) RESTful
13 188 (5.74%) Web Services
14 156 (4.76%) Vue
15 145 (4.43%) .NET Core
16 142 (4.34%) ASP.NET
17 137 (4.18%) JSON
18 127 (3.88%) Elastic Stack
19 122 (3.73%) Laravel
20 117 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 209 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
2 129 (3.94%) Greenfield Project
3 127 (3.88%) Public Cloud
4 126 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 124 (3.79%) Product Ownership
6 117 (3.57%) Blockchain
7 116 (3.54%) Data Centre
8 114 (3.48%) Cloud Native
9 105 (3.21%) Management Information System
10 77 (2.35%) Algorithms
11 70 (2.14%) Data Structures
12 65 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
13 57 (1.74%) Mobile App
13 57 (1.74%) Private Cloud
14 51 (1.56%) Client/Server
15 49 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
16 47 (1.44%) e-Learning
17 39 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
18 35 (1.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
19 34 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 793 (24.21%) Linux
2 316 (9.65%) Windows
3 97 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 83 (2.53%) CentOS
5 66 (2.02%) Windows Server
6 64 (1.95%) Unix
7 54 (1.65%) Data ONTAP
8 46 (1.40%) Alpine Linux
8 46 (1.40%) Debian
9 29 (0.89%) Android
10 28 (0.85%) Apple iOS
11 22 (0.67%) Ubuntu
12 19 (0.58%) VMS
13 15 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
14 11 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
14 11 (0.34%) Solaris
14 11 (0.34%) Windows 10
15 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
16 8 (0.24%) Mac OS
17 7 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,437 (43.88%) DevOps
2 1,350 (41.22%) Agile
3 1,273 (38.87%) CI/CD
4 875 (26.72%) Software Engineering
5 857 (26.17%) Containerisation
6 757 (23.11%) Microservices
7 643 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
8 493 (15.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 489 (14.93%) Full Stack Development
10 457 (13.95%) Computer Science
11 398 (12.15%) Mentoring
12 393 (12.00%) TDD
13 386 (11.79%) Artificial Intelligence
14 382 (11.66%) Continuous Integration
15 352 (10.75%) Scrum
16 339 (10.35%) SDLC
17 289 (8.82%) Test Automation
18 230 (7.02%) Fintech
19 218 (6.66%) Roadmaps
20 215 (6.56%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,111 (33.92%) Python
2 1,047 (31.97%) Java
3 829 (25.31%) JavaScript
4 637 (19.45%) C#
5 616 (18.81%) SQL
6 469 (14.32%) TypeScript
7 300 (9.16%) Bash
8 266 (8.12%) PHP
9 262 (8.00%) Go
10 229 (6.99%) PowerShell
11 91 (2.78%) C++
12 81 (2.47%) Shell Script
13 75 (2.29%) Ruby
14 68 (2.08%) C
15 55 (1.68%) Kotlin
16 46 (1.40%) Perl
17 39 (1.19%) Bicep
18 36 (1.10%) Lua
19 35 (1.07%) Groovy
20 29 (0.89%) Rust
Qualifications
1 543 (16.58%) Degree
2 431 (13.16%) Security Cleared
3 321 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 254 (7.76%) SC Cleared
5 152 (4.64%) AWS Certification
6 144 (4.40%) DV Cleared
7 127 (3.88%) Azure Certification
8 102 (3.11%) Master's Degree
9 67 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 49 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 40 (1.22%) MCSA
11 40 (1.22%) MCSE
12 37 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 35 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
13 35 (1.07%) PhD
14 34 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 34 (1.04%) CCSK
14 34 (1.04%) CCSP
14 34 (1.04%) CISSP
15 33 (1.01%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (4.34%) QA
2 39 (1.19%) NIST
3 37 (1.13%) WCAG
4 32 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (0.70%) Accessibility
6 17 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (0.46%) NCSC
8 10 (0.31%) GDPR
9 6 (0.18%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.18%) SEPA
10 5 (0.15%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.12%) SLA
11 4 (0.12%) WAI
12 3 (0.092%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.061%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.061%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.031%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 147 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 119 (3.63%) Hyper-V
3 82 (2.50%) Active Directory
4 56 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (0.40%) Firmware
6 13 (0.40%) NFS
7 12 (0.37%) pfSense
8 8 (0.24%) KVM
9 7 (0.21%) vSphere
10 6 (0.18%) Ceph
10 6 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.18%) VirtualBox
11 5 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.092%) Gluster
13 3 (0.092%) oVirt
13 3 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.061%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.061%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2,247 (68.61%) Kubernetes
2 935 (28.55%) Terraform
3 589 (17.98%) Ansible
4 207 (6.32%) Prometheus
5 187 (5.71%) Puppet
6 181 (5.53%) Grafana
7 92 (2.81%) Progress Chef
8 76 (2.32%) vCenter Server
9 57 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
10 43 (1.31%) Kibana
11 34 (1.04%) Docker Swarm
12 31 (0.95%) HAProxy
12 31 (0.95%) Nagios
13 29 (0.89%) ZABBIX
14 24 (0.73%) Consul
15 23 (0.70%) Packer
16 21 (0.64%) Salt
17 15 (0.46%) Podman
17 15 (0.46%) SCCM
18 14 (0.43%) Argo
Vendors
1 317 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 261 (7.97%) Google
3 214 (6.53%) Red Hat
4 189 (5.77%) Oracle
5 181 (5.53%) VMware
6 106 (3.24%) IBM
7 73 (2.23%) Splunk
8 58 (1.77%) Palo Alto
9 57 (1.74%) NetApp
10 54 (1.65%) SolidFire
11 44 (1.34%) Dynatrace
12 42 (1.28%) WSO2
13 32 (0.98%) Cisco
14 29 (0.89%) Atlassian
15 26 (0.79%) Facebook
16 23 (0.70%) Veeam
17 21 (0.64%) ForgeRock
18 20 (0.61%) Juniper
19 18 (0.55%) Apple
20 17 (0.52%) McAfee