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

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 39 19
Rank change year-on-year -44 -20 +1
Permanent jobs citing Docker 3,195 6,581 18,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.14% 6.73% 11.36%
As % of the System Software category 26.67% 43.20% 61.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,493 3,788 7,309
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,175 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,300 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,206 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.84% - +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 11,979 15,234 30,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.78% 15.57% 18.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9,404 9,928 15,521
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,000
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 £86,000 £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 25 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 25 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 -44 2,835 £70,000 -4.76% 1,050
UK excluding London -41 2,055 £61,206 -5.84% 691
Work from Home -33 1,465 £67,500 -3.57% 566
London -31 1,022 £82,500 +2.48% 635
South East -11 668 £67,500 - 321
North of England -44 434 £60,000 -7.69% 138
South West -39 335 £60,000 -11.11% 85
Midlands -46 249 £60,000 - 50
North West -47 243 £65,000 -7.14% 85
Scotland -98 162 £66,500 -1.58% 29
Yorkshire -29 154 £55,000 -8.33% 45
West Midlands -22 147 £60,000 -7.69% 27
East of England -43 111 £62,500 -3.85% 46
East Midlands -59 102 £57,500 +9.52% 21
Wales -5 68 £47,500 -20.83% 20
North East -41 37 £58,750 -9.62% 12
Northern Ireland -40 26 £61,250 +2.08% 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
1 160 (5.01%) Apache
2 112 (3.51%) nginx
3 66 (2.07%) OpenStack
4 65 (2.03%) Apache Spark
5 45 (1.41%) Confluence
6 41 (1.28%) CMS
7 36 (1.13%) Camunda
8 30 (0.94%) Drupal
8 30 (0.94%) Jupyter
9 25 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
10 22 (0.69%) JBoss
11 17 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
12 14 (0.44%) Tomcat
13 12 (0.38%) IIS
13 12 (0.38%) WordPress
14 10 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
15 8 (0.25%) WildFly
16 7 (0.22%) Umbraco
16 7 (0.22%) WebLogic
16 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
6 1 (0.031%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.031%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.031%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.031%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,703 (53.30%) AWS
2 1,236 (38.69%) Azure
3 421 (13.18%) GCP
4 346 (10.83%) GitHub
5 340 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
6 337 (10.55%) Serverless
7 286 (8.95%) SaaS
8 230 (7.20%) Amazon S3
9 195 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
10 194 (6.07%) OpenShift
11 188 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
12 158 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 139 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
14 125 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
15 113 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
16 111 (3.47%) Cloud Computing
17 91 (2.85%) IBM Cloud
18 89 (2.79%) PaaS
19 78 (2.44%) Datadog
20 74 (2.32%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 154 (4.82%) Firewall
2 107 (3.35%) DNS
3 100 (3.13%) VPN
4 86 (2.69%) TCP/IP
5 81 (2.54%) Internet
6 63 (1.97%) HTTP
6 63 (1.97%) SNMP
7 61 (1.91%) DHCP
8 58 (1.82%) IPsec
9 45 (1.41%) WAN
10 39 (1.22%) Network Security
11 34 (1.06%) SD-WAN
12 20 (0.63%) BGP
13 16 (0.50%) SSL
14 12 (0.38%) 5G
14 12 (0.38%) AMQP
14 12 (0.38%) MQTT
15 11 (0.34%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.34%) LAN
15 11 (0.34%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 360 (11.27%) PostgreSQL
2 298 (9.33%) NoSQL
3 277 (8.67%) MySQL
4 256 (8.01%) MongoDB
5 232 (7.26%) SQL Server
6 198 (6.20%) Relational Database
7 165 (5.16%) Elasticsearch
8 142 (4.44%) Redis
9 119 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
10 82 (2.57%) Big Data
11 51 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
12 44 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
13 42 (1.31%) RDBMS
14 41 (1.28%) Oracle Database
15 38 (1.19%) Hadoop
16 37 (1.16%) DynamoDB
17 29 (0.91%) BigQuery
18 27 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
19 25 (0.78%) Data Lake
20 24 (0.75%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 761 (23.82%) Git
2 667 (20.88%) Jenkins
3 243 (7.61%) GitLab
4 206 (6.45%) JIRA
5 134 (4.19%) Selenium
6 91 (2.85%) TeamCity
7 78 (2.44%) Cypress.io
8 75 (2.35%) JUnit
9 59 (1.85%) Bitbucket
10 56 (1.75%) CircleCI
11 53 (1.66%) SonarQube
12 52 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
13 50 (1.56%) Maven
14 38 (1.19%) Cucumber
15 37 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
16 35 (1.10%) Artifactory
17 34 (1.06%) Gradle
18 29 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
19 27 (0.85%) Visual Studio
20 26 (0.81%) Mockito
General
1 657 (20.56%) Finance
2 628 (19.66%) Social Skills
3 298 (9.33%) Public Sector
4 181 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 141 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
6 140 (4.38%) Banking
7 102 (3.19%) Retail
8 100 (3.13%) Law
9 92 (2.88%) Marketing
10 81 (2.54%) Aerospace
11 68 (2.13%) Games
12 65 (2.03%) Telecoms
13 51 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
14 41 (1.28%) Financial Institution
15 39 (1.22%) Front Office
16 36 (1.13%) Retail Banking
17 35 (1.10%) Automotive
18 32 (1.00%) Manufacturing
19 24 (0.75%) Legal
19 24 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,139 (35.65%) Developer
2 819 (25.63%) Senior
3 481 (15.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 410 (12.83%) Lead
5 370 (11.58%) Software Engineer
6 336 (10.52%) Senior Developer
7 260 (8.14%) Java Developer
8 212 (6.64%) Software Developer
9 190 (5.95%) Architect
10 180 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
11 177 (5.54%) Full Stack Developer
12 142 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 126 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
14 125 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
15 121 (3.79%) .NET Developer
16 107 (3.35%) AWS DevOps
16 107 (3.35%) Full Stack Engineer
17 104 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
17 104 (3.26%) Lead Developer
18 102 (3.19%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 711 (22.25%) React
2 575 (18.00%) .NET
3 358 (11.21%) Node.js
4 346 (10.83%) Kafka
5 344 (10.77%) REST
6 332 (10.39%) Spring
7 329 (10.30%) AngularJS
8 312 (9.77%) Spring Boot
9 251 (7.86%) HTML
10 244 (7.64%) CSS
11 219 (6.85%) RabbitMQ
12 210 (6.57%) RESTful
13 186 (5.82%) Web Services
14 153 (4.79%) Vue
15 141 (4.41%) .NET Core
16 131 (4.10%) ASP.NET
17 129 (4.04%) JSON
18 117 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
19 116 (3.63%) YAML
20 113 (3.54%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 202 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
2 139 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 128 (4.01%) Cloud Native
3 128 (4.01%) Greenfield Project
4 123 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 121 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 115 (3.60%) Data Centre
7 107 (3.35%) Blockchain
8 104 (3.26%) Management Information System
9 74 (2.32%) Algorithms
10 68 (2.13%) Data Structures
11 61 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
12 58 (1.82%) Mobile App
13 56 (1.75%) Private Cloud
14 51 (1.60%) Client/Server
14 51 (1.60%) e-Learning
15 45 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
16 44 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
17 38 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
18 35 (1.10%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 770 (24.10%) Linux
2 302 (9.45%) Windows
3 103 (3.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 81 (2.54%) CentOS
5 69 (2.16%) Windows Server
6 57 (1.78%) Unix
7 54 (1.69%) Data ONTAP
8 48 (1.50%) Alpine Linux
8 48 (1.50%) Debian
9 26 (0.81%) Android
10 25 (0.78%) Apple iOS
11 23 (0.72%) Ubuntu
12 17 (0.53%) VMS
13 15 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
14 12 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
14 12 (0.38%) Solaris
15 11 (0.34%) Windows 10
16 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
17 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
18 6 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,402 (43.88%) DevOps
2 1,337 (41.85%) Agile
3 1,272 (39.81%) CI/CD
4 841 (26.32%) Software Engineering
5 836 (26.17%) Containerisation
6 712 (22.28%) Microservices
7 635 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
8 492 (15.40%) Infrastructure as Code
9 487 (15.24%) Full Stack Development
10 438 (13.71%) Computer Science
11 407 (12.74%) Mentoring
12 392 (12.27%) TDD
13 374 (11.71%) Artificial Intelligence
14 360 (11.27%) Continuous Integration
15 339 (10.61%) Scrum
16 331 (10.36%) SDLC
17 293 (9.17%) Test Automation
18 231 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
19 220 (6.89%) Roadmaps
20 209 (6.54%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,084 (33.93%) Python
2 991 (31.02%) Java
3 808 (25.29%) JavaScript
4 604 (18.90%) C#
5 586 (18.34%) SQL
6 439 (13.74%) TypeScript
7 295 (9.23%) Bash
8 253 (7.92%) PHP
9 251 (7.86%) Go
10 225 (7.04%) PowerShell
11 82 (2.57%) C++
12 78 (2.44%) Shell Script
13 75 (2.35%) Ruby
14 64 (2.00%) C
15 58 (1.82%) Kotlin
16 46 (1.44%) Perl
17 36 (1.13%) Bicep
17 36 (1.13%) Groovy
17 36 (1.13%) Lua
18 34 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 516 (16.15%) Degree
2 439 (13.74%) Security Cleared
3 306 (9.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 265 (8.29%) SC Cleared
5 173 (5.41%) AWS Certification
6 149 (4.66%) DV Cleared
7 144 (4.51%) Azure Certification
8 95 (2.97%) Master's Degree
9 69 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 50 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 40 (1.25%) MCSA
11 40 (1.25%) MCSE
12 37 (1.16%) 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 44 (1.38%) NIST
3 33 (1.03%) WCAG
4 31 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 18 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (0.44%) NCSC
8 11 (0.34%) GDPR
9 7 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.19%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.19%) SLA
11 5 (0.16%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.13%) SEPA
12 4 (0.13%) SOC 2
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
System Software
1 153 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 117 (3.66%) Hyper-V
3 79 (2.47%) Active Directory
4 54 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.85%) 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%) Ceph
12 6 (0.19%) VirtualBox
13 5 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
13 5 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.13%) XenApp
14 4 (0.13%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.094%) Gluster
15 3 (0.094%) oVirt
15 3 (0.094%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 2,188 (68.48%) Kubernetes
2 936 (29.30%) Terraform
3 595 (18.62%) Ansible
4 194 (6.07%) Prometheus
5 182 (5.70%) Puppet
6 165 (5.16%) Grafana
7 89 (2.79%) 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 33 (1.03%) Nagios
13 30 (0.94%) HAProxy
14 28 (0.88%) ZABBIX
15 21 (0.66%) Packer
16 20 (0.63%) Consul
17 16 (0.50%) SCCM
18 15 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 15 (0.47%) Podman
19 14 (0.44%) Argo
Vendors
1 313 (9.80%) Microsoft
2 242 (7.57%) Google
3 224 (7.01%) Red Hat
4 191 (5.98%) Oracle
5 186 (5.82%) VMware
6 101 (3.16%) IBM
7 78 (2.44%) Splunk
8 58 (1.82%) NetApp
8 58 (1.82%) Palo Alto
9 54 (1.69%) SolidFire
10 43 (1.35%) Dynatrace
11 41 (1.28%) WSO2
12 32 (1.00%) Cisco
13 30 (0.94%) Atlassian
14 26 (0.81%) Facebook
15 25 (0.78%) ServiceNow
16 23 (0.72%) ForgeRock
16 23 (0.72%) Veeam
17 19 (0.59%) Juniper
17 19 (0.59%) New Relic