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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 39 20
Rank change year-on-year -43 -19 0
Permanent jobs citing Docker 3,212 6,761 17,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.24% 6.69% 11.15%
As % of the System Software category 26.65% 43.65% 60.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,540 3,948 7,344
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 £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £109,125 £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 12,052 15,490 28,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.15% 15.33% 18.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,552 10,272 15,625
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 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%
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 10 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 10 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 -39 2,853 £70,000 -6.04% 727
UK excluding London -39 2,065 £62,500 -3.85% 405
Work from Home -29 1,497 £67,500 -3.57% 491
London -28 1,030 £82,500 - 360
South East -7 677 £70,000 +3.70% 82
North of England -46 433 £60,000 -7.69% 109
South West -31 336 £60,000 -11.11% 73
Midlands -47 247 £59,500 -0.83% 53
North West -44 246 £65,000 -6.40% 65
Scotland -95 164 £67,000 -0.94% 38
West Midlands -22 151 £60,000 -7.69% 23
Yorkshire -29 149 £55,000 -12.00% 39
East of England -45 114 £63,750 -1.92% 34
East Midlands -64 97 £57,500 +9.52% 30
Wales -1 68 £47,500 -20.83% 14
North East -41 38 £60,000 -7.69% 6
Northern Ireland -40 26 £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
1 158 (4.92%) Apache
2 112 (3.49%) nginx
3 67 (2.09%) OpenStack
4 66 (2.05%) Apache Spark
5 43 (1.34%) Confluence
6 42 (1.31%) CMS
7 37 (1.15%) Camunda
8 31 (0.97%) Drupal
9 30 (0.93%) Jupyter
10 27 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
11 21 (0.65%) JBoss
12 17 (0.53%) Tomcat
13 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
14 13 (0.40%) IIS
14 13 (0.40%) WordPress
15 11 (0.34%) 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 7 (0.22%) GNU Octave
3 7 (0.22%) Simulink
4 6 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.19%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.093%) 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 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.093%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.062%) Magento
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 1,701 (52.96%) AWS
2 1,219 (37.95%) Azure
3 399 (12.42%) GCP
4 352 (10.96%) Serverless
5 340 (10.59%) GitHub
6 334 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
7 283 (8.81%) SaaS
8 241 (7.50%) Amazon S3
9 211 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
10 203 (6.32%) OpenShift
11 199 (6.20%) Amazon ECS
12 153 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 143 (4.45%) Amazon EKS
14 131 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
15 108 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
16 105 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
17 93 (2.90%) IBM Cloud
18 85 (2.65%) PaaS
19 78 (2.43%) Datadog
20 75 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 153 (4.76%) Firewall
2 104 (3.24%) DNS
3 103 (3.21%) VPN
4 84 (2.62%) TCP/IP
5 83 (2.58%) Internet
6 64 (1.99%) SNMP
7 59 (1.84%) HTTP
8 58 (1.81%) DHCP
8 58 (1.81%) IPsec
9 45 (1.40%) WAN
10 39 (1.21%) Network Security
11 35 (1.09%) SD-WAN
12 21 (0.65%) BGP
13 14 (0.44%) SSL
14 12 (0.37%) 5G
14 12 (0.37%) AMQP
14 12 (0.37%) MQTT
15 11 (0.34%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.34%) LAN
15 11 (0.34%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 368 (11.46%) PostgreSQL
2 317 (9.87%) NoSQL
3 286 (8.90%) MySQL
4 265 (8.25%) MongoDB
5 228 (7.10%) SQL Server
6 200 (6.23%) Relational Database
7 181 (5.64%) Elasticsearch
8 144 (4.48%) Redis
9 126 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
10 92 (2.86%) Big Data
11 54 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
12 43 (1.34%) Oracle Database
13 42 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
13 42 (1.31%) RDBMS
14 40 (1.25%) Hadoop
15 39 (1.21%) DynamoDB
16 29 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
17 27 (0.84%) BigQuery
17 27 (0.84%) Data Lake
18 21 (0.65%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 772 (24.03%) Git
2 674 (20.98%) Jenkins
3 233 (7.25%) GitLab
4 194 (6.04%) JIRA
5 147 (4.58%) Selenium
6 94 (2.93%) TeamCity
7 88 (2.74%) Cypress.io
8 82 (2.55%) JUnit
9 59 (1.84%) Bitbucket
10 57 (1.77%) Maven
11 51 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
12 50 (1.56%) CircleCI
12 50 (1.56%) Cucumber
13 40 (1.25%) Artifactory
13 40 (1.25%) SonarQube
13 40 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
14 36 (1.12%) Gradle
15 30 (0.93%) Mockito
16 27 (0.84%) Subversion
16 27 (0.84%) Visual Studio
General
1 656 (20.42%) Finance
2 600 (18.68%) Social Skills
3 293 (9.12%) Public Sector
4 184 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 140 (4.36%) Banking
6 139 (4.33%) Analytical Skills
7 109 (3.39%) Retail
8 104 (3.24%) Law
9 92 (2.86%) Marketing
10 70 (2.18%) Aerospace
11 67 (2.09%) Telecoms
12 65 (2.02%) Games
13 46 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
14 44 (1.37%) Front Office
15 43 (1.34%) Financial Institution
16 34 (1.06%) Automotive
17 32 (1.00%) Manufacturing
17 32 (1.00%) Retail Banking
18 26 (0.81%) Tech for Good
19 25 (0.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1,172 (36.49%) Developer
2 815 (25.37%) Senior
3 474 (14.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 408 (12.70%) Lead
5 368 (11.46%) Software Engineer
6 344 (10.71%) Senior Developer
7 277 (8.62%) Java Developer
8 218 (6.79%) Software Developer
9 189 (5.88%) Architect
9 189 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
10 184 (5.73%) Full Stack Developer
11 134 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 128 (3.99%) Cloud Engineer
13 124 (3.86%) .NET Developer
14 117 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
15 110 (3.42%) AWS DevOps
16 108 (3.36%) Lead Developer
17 107 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
18 105 (3.27%) Platform Engineer
19 104 (3.24%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 733 (22.82%) React
2 586 (18.24%) .NET
3 360 (11.21%) Kafka
4 347 (10.80%) Spring
5 344 (10.71%) Node.js
6 334 (10.40%) REST
7 332 (10.34%) AngularJS
8 322 (10.02%) Spring Boot
9 254 (7.91%) HTML
10 250 (7.78%) CSS
11 219 (6.82%) RabbitMQ
12 211 (6.57%) RESTful
13 186 (5.79%) Web Services
14 156 (4.86%) Vue
15 143 (4.45%) .NET Core
16 137 (4.27%) ASP.NET
17 134 (4.17%) JSON
18 118 (3.67%) Elastic Stack
18 118 (3.67%) Laravel
19 117 (3.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 198 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
2 130 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
3 125 (3.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 123 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 118 (3.67%) Public Cloud
6 115 (3.58%) Data Centre
7 112 (3.49%) Blockchain
7 112 (3.49%) Cloud Native
8 104 (3.24%) Management Information System
9 76 (2.37%) Algorithms
10 70 (2.18%) Data Structures
11 64 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
12 58 (1.81%) Mobile App
12 58 (1.81%) Private Cloud
13 51 (1.59%) Client/Server
14 49 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
15 48 (1.49%) e-Learning
16 37 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
17 35 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 35 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 771 (24.00%) Linux
2 296 (9.22%) Windows
3 96 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 83 (2.58%) CentOS
5 65 (2.02%) Windows Server
6 57 (1.77%) Unix
7 54 (1.68%) Data ONTAP
8 46 (1.43%) Alpine Linux
9 45 (1.40%) Debian
10 29 (0.90%) Android
11 28 (0.87%) Apple iOS
12 22 (0.68%) Ubuntu
13 18 (0.56%) VMS
14 15 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
15 12 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
15 12 (0.37%) Solaris
16 11 (0.34%) Windows 10
17 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
18 8 (0.25%) Mac OS
19 6 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,402 (43.65%) DevOps
2 1,321 (41.13%) Agile
3 1,247 (38.82%) CI/CD
4 850 (26.46%) Software Engineering
5 828 (25.78%) Containerisation
6 729 (22.70%) Microservices
7 630 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
8 479 (14.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 477 (14.85%) Full Stack Development
10 445 (13.85%) Computer Science
11 389 (12.11%) Mentoring
12 388 (12.08%) TDD
13 380 (11.83%) Artificial Intelligence
14 364 (11.33%) Continuous Integration
15 329 (10.24%) Scrum
16 328 (10.21%) SDLC
17 280 (8.72%) Test Automation
18 225 (7.00%) Fintech
19 216 (6.72%) Roadmaps
20 215 (6.69%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,090 (33.94%) Python
2 1,020 (31.76%) Java
3 816 (25.40%) JavaScript
4 626 (19.49%) C#
5 611 (19.02%) SQL
6 458 (14.26%) TypeScript
7 291 (9.06%) Bash
8 258 (8.03%) PHP
9 257 (8.00%) Go
10 216 (6.72%) PowerShell
11 89 (2.77%) C++
12 81 (2.52%) Shell Script
13 73 (2.27%) Ruby
14 66 (2.05%) C
15 54 (1.68%) Kotlin
16 45 (1.40%) Perl
17 39 (1.21%) Bicep
18 37 (1.15%) Groovy
19 36 (1.12%) Lua
20 28 (0.87%) Rust
Qualifications
1 527 (16.41%) Degree
2 428 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 311 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 253 (7.88%) SC Cleared
5 152 (4.73%) AWS Certification
6 143 (4.45%) DV Cleared
7 128 (3.99%) Azure Certification
8 97 (3.02%) Master's Degree
9 68 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 48 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 40 (1.25%) MCSA
11 40 (1.25%) MCSE
12 37 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 35 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
14 34 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 34 (1.06%) CCSK
14 34 (1.06%) CCSP
14 34 (1.06%) CISSP
14 34 (1.06%) PhD
15 33 (1.03%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (4.17%) QA
2 40 (1.25%) NIST
3 35 (1.09%) WCAG
4 30 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (0.44%) NCSC
8 10 (0.31%) GDPR
9 6 (0.19%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.16%) SEPA
10 5 (0.16%) SLA
11 4 (0.12%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.093%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.093%) WAI
13 2 (0.062%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.031%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.031%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 145 (4.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 115 (3.58%) Hyper-V
3 81 (2.52%) Active Directory
4 54 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.44%) 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 (0.19%) Ceph
11 6 (0.19%) VirtualBox
12 5 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
12 5 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.093%) Gluster
13 3 (0.093%) oVirt
13 3 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.062%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.062%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2,197 (68.40%) Kubernetes
2 919 (28.61%) Terraform
3 577 (17.96%) Ansible
4 197 (6.13%) Prometheus
5 182 (5.67%) Puppet
6 168 (5.23%) Grafana
7 91 (2.83%) Progress Chef
8 76 (2.37%) vCenter Server
9 58 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
10 43 (1.34%) Kibana
11 35 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
12 32 (1.00%) Nagios
13 31 (0.97%) HAProxy
14 28 (0.87%) ZABBIX
15 23 (0.72%) Consul
16 22 (0.68%) Packer
17 20 (0.62%) Salt
18 15 (0.47%) Podman
18 15 (0.47%) SCCM
19 14 (0.44%) Rancher
Vendors
1 310 (9.65%) Microsoft
2 241 (7.50%) Google
3 214 (6.66%) Red Hat
4 194 (6.04%) Oracle
5 180 (5.60%) VMware
6 104 (3.24%) IBM
7 75 (2.33%) Splunk
8 57 (1.77%) NetApp
8 57 (1.77%) Palo Alto
9 54 (1.68%) SolidFire
10 45 (1.40%) Dynatrace
11 42 (1.31%) WSO2
12 30 (0.93%) Cisco
13 29 (0.90%) Atlassian
14 26 (0.81%) Facebook
15 23 (0.72%) Veeam
16 22 (0.68%) ForgeRock
17 19 (0.59%) Juniper
18 18 (0.56%) Apple
19 17 (0.53%) New Relic