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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 39 19
Rank change year-on-year -41 -20 +1
Permanent jobs citing Docker 3,199 6,747 18,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.20% 6.78% 11.25%
As % of the System Software category 26.69% 43.59% 61.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,518 3,892 7,362
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,025 £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 £90,450 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £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 11,984 15,477 29,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.99% 15.56% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,447 10,129 15,665
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
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 20 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 20 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 -42 2,840 £70,000 -3.73% 921
UK excluding London -40 2,059 £62,500 -3.85% 558
Work from Home -27 1,477 £67,500 -3.57% 544
London -30 1,023 £82,500 +2.62% 500
South East -7 673 £67,500 - 180
North of England -42 435 £60,000 -7.69% 132
South West -39 337 £60,000 -11.11% 87
North West -45 248 £65,000 -6.40% 80
Midlands -48 247 £60,000 - 59
Scotland -96 161 £67,000 -0.94% 35
West Midlands -21 150 £60,000 -7.69% 28
Yorkshire -34 149 £55,000 -12.00% 46
East of England -53 111 £62,500 -3.85% 42
East Midlands -66 97 £57,500 +9.52% 31
Wales -5 67 £47,500 -21.81% 20
North East -36 38 £60,000 -7.69% 8
Northern Ireland -36 26 £70,000 +16.67% 9
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 (5.00%) Apache
2 114 (3.56%) nginx
3 67 (2.09%) OpenStack
4 66 (2.06%) Apache Spark
5 45 (1.41%) Confluence
6 41 (1.28%) CMS
7 37 (1.16%) Camunda
8 31 (0.97%) Jupyter
9 30 (0.94%) Drupal
10 24 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
11 22 (0.69%) JBoss
12 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
12 16 (0.50%) Tomcat
13 13 (0.41%) WordPress
14 12 (0.38%) IIS
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 (0.094%) 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 1,695 (52.99%) AWS
2 1,221 (38.17%) Azure
3 404 (12.63%) GCP
4 350 (10.94%) GitHub
5 343 (10.72%) Serverless
6 333 (10.41%) Azure DevOps
7 289 (9.03%) SaaS
8 238 (7.44%) Amazon S3
9 203 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
10 201 (6.28%) OpenShift
11 194 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
12 152 (4.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 141 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
14 129 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
15 113 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
16 100 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
17 92 (2.88%) IBM Cloud
18 88 (2.75%) PaaS
19 78 (2.44%) Datadog
20 72 (2.25%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 154 (4.81%) Firewall
2 104 (3.25%) DNS
3 102 (3.19%) VPN
4 85 (2.66%) TCP/IP
5 82 (2.56%) Internet
6 63 (1.97%) SNMP
7 62 (1.94%) HTTP
8 59 (1.84%) DHCP
9 58 (1.81%) IPsec
10 45 (1.41%) WAN
11 38 (1.19%) 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
1 364 (11.38%) PostgreSQL
2 307 (9.60%) NoSQL
3 286 (8.94%) MySQL
4 263 (8.22%) MongoDB
5 230 (7.19%) SQL Server
6 199 (6.22%) Relational Database
7 173 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
8 142 (4.44%) Redis
9 124 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
10 86 (2.69%) Big Data
11 52 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
12 43 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
12 43 (1.34%) Oracle Database
13 42 (1.31%) RDBMS
14 39 (1.22%) Hadoop
15 38 (1.19%) DynamoDB
16 29 (0.91%) BigQuery
17 27 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
18 25 (0.78%) Data Lake
19 23 (0.72%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 772 (24.13%) Git
2 672 (21.01%) Jenkins
3 238 (7.44%) GitLab
4 195 (6.10%) JIRA
5 148 (4.63%) Selenium
6 91 (2.84%) TeamCity
7 87 (2.72%) Cypress.io
8 78 (2.44%) JUnit
9 61 (1.91%) Bitbucket
10 54 (1.69%) CircleCI
10 54 (1.69%) Maven
11 51 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
12 46 (1.44%) Cucumber
13 42 (1.31%) SonarQube
14 40 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
15 38 (1.19%) Artifactory
16 35 (1.09%) Gradle
17 28 (0.88%) Mockito
18 27 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
18 27 (0.84%) Visual Studio
General
1 659 (20.60%) Finance
2 606 (18.94%) Social Skills
3 298 (9.32%) Public Sector
4 182 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 142 (4.44%) Banking
6 139 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 103 (3.22%) Law
7 103 (3.22%) Retail
8 92 (2.88%) Marketing
9 76 (2.38%) Aerospace
10 67 (2.09%) Games
11 65 (2.03%) Telecoms
12 49 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
13 43 (1.34%) Financial Institution
14 41 (1.28%) Front Office
15 34 (1.06%) Automotive
16 33 (1.03%) Retail Banking
17 32 (1.00%) Manufacturing
18 25 (0.78%) Legal
18 25 (0.78%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,158 (36.20%) Developer
2 822 (25.70%) Senior
3 469 (14.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 409 (12.79%) Lead
5 374 (11.69%) Software Engineer
6 342 (10.69%) Senior Developer
7 270 (8.44%) Java Developer
8 215 (6.72%) Software Developer
9 189 (5.91%) Architect
10 185 (5.78%) AWS Engineer
11 184 (5.75%) Full Stack Developer
12 139 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 126 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
14 125 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
15 122 (3.81%) .NET Developer
16 107 (3.34%) AWS DevOps
17 106 (3.31%) Full Stack Engineer
18 105 (3.28%) Lead Developer
19 104 (3.25%) Platform Engineer
20 102 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 729 (22.79%) React
2 583 (18.22%) .NET
3 348 (10.88%) Kafka
4 346 (10.82%) Node.js
5 341 (10.66%) REST
5 341 (10.66%) Spring
6 334 (10.44%) AngularJS
7 315 (9.85%) Spring Boot
8 254 (7.94%) HTML
9 248 (7.75%) CSS
10 221 (6.91%) RabbitMQ
11 212 (6.63%) RESTful
12 185 (5.78%) Web Services
13 157 (4.91%) Vue
14 143 (4.47%) .NET Core
15 134 (4.19%) ASP.NET
16 130 (4.06%) JSON
17 120 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
18 117 (3.66%) YAML
19 115 (3.59%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 203 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
2 130 (4.06%) Greenfield Project
3 126 (3.94%) Product Ownership
4 123 (3.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 122 (3.81%) Public Cloud
6 116 (3.63%) Data Centre
7 113 (3.53%) Cloud Native
8 108 (3.38%) Blockchain
9 105 (3.28%) Management Information System
10 74 (2.31%) Algorithms
11 68 (2.13%) Data Structures
12 64 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
13 58 (1.81%) Private Cloud
14 56 (1.75%) Mobile App
15 51 (1.59%) Client/Server
16 49 (1.53%) e-Learning
17 45 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
18 41 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
19 39 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
20 36 (1.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 771 (24.10%) Linux
2 297 (9.28%) Windows
3 98 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 82 (2.56%) CentOS
5 66 (2.06%) 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 16 (0.50%) VMS
14 15 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
15 12 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
15 12 (0.38%) Solaris
15 12 (0.38%) Windows 10
16 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
17 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
18 6 (0.19%) Mesosphere
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,394 (43.58%) DevOps
2 1,329 (41.54%) Agile
3 1,254 (39.20%) CI/CD
4 849 (26.54%) Software Engineering
5 838 (26.20%) Containerisation
6 724 (22.63%) Microservices
7 630 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
8 489 (15.29%) Full Stack Development
9 482 (15.07%) Infrastructure as Code
10 443 (13.85%) Computer Science
11 394 (12.32%) Mentoring
12 389 (12.16%) TDD
13 378 (11.82%) Artificial Intelligence
14 366 (11.44%) Continuous Integration
15 328 (10.25%) SDLC
16 327 (10.22%) Scrum
17 281 (8.78%) Test Automation
18 221 (6.91%) Roadmaps
19 217 (6.78%) Fintech
20 216 (6.75%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,073 (33.54%) Python
2 1,008 (31.51%) Java
3 814 (25.45%) JavaScript
4 617 (19.29%) C#
5 597 (18.66%) SQL
6 452 (14.13%) TypeScript
7 294 (9.19%) Bash
8 258 (8.07%) PHP
9 255 (7.97%) Go
10 218 (6.81%) PowerShell
11 89 (2.78%) C++
12 81 (2.53%) Shell Script
13 70 (2.19%) Ruby
14 66 (2.06%) C
15 55 (1.72%) Kotlin
16 44 (1.38%) Perl
17 37 (1.16%) Bicep
18 36 (1.13%) Groovy
18 36 (1.13%) Lua
19 31 (0.97%) Scala
Qualifications
1 523 (16.35%) Degree
2 427 (13.35%) Security Cleared
3 307 (9.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 252 (7.88%) SC Cleared
5 157 (4.91%) AWS Certification
6 146 (4.56%) DV Cleared
7 129 (4.03%) Azure Certification
8 95 (2.97%) Master's Degree
9 68 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 48 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 40 (1.25%) MCSA
11 40 (1.25%) MCSE
12 38 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 35 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
14 34 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 34 (1.06%) CCSK
14 34 (1.06%) CCSP
14 34 (1.06%) CISSP
15 33 (1.03%) CISM
15 33 (1.03%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (4.10%) QA
2 42 (1.31%) NIST
3 35 (1.09%) WCAG
4 31 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 17 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (0.47%) NCSC
8 10 (0.31%) GDPR
9 6 (0.19%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.16%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.16%) SEPA
10 5 (0.16%) SLA
11 4 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.094%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.094%) WAI
13 1 (0.031%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.031%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.031%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 147 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 115 (3.59%) Hyper-V
3 80 (2.50%) Active Directory
4 52 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.44%) NFS
7 13 (0.41%) Firmware
8 12 (0.38%) pfSense
9 9 (0.28%) KVM
10 8 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.19%) Ceph
11 6 (0.19%) VirtualBox
11 6 (0.19%) vSphere
12 5 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
12 5 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.094%) Gluster
13 3 (0.094%) oVirt
13 3 (0.094%) QEMU
13 3 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.094%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2,186 (68.33%) Kubernetes
2 918 (28.70%) Terraform
3 585 (18.29%) Ansible
4 197 (6.16%) Prometheus
5 183 (5.72%) Puppet
6 167 (5.22%) Grafana
7 93 (2.91%) Progress Chef
8 75 (2.34%) vCenter Server
9 61 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
10 43 (1.34%) Kibana
11 36 (1.13%) Docker Swarm
12 32 (1.00%) Nagios
13 31 (0.97%) 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
1 309 (9.66%) Microsoft
2 246 (7.69%) Google
3 219 (6.85%) Red Hat
4 196 (6.13%) Oracle
5 180 (5.63%) VMware
6 103 (3.22%) IBM
7 77 (2.41%) Splunk
8 58 (1.81%) Palo Alto
9 57 (1.78%) NetApp
10 54 (1.69%) SolidFire
11 45 (1.41%) Dynatrace
12 42 (1.31%) WSO2
13 31 (0.97%) Atlassian
13 31 (0.97%) Cisco
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