Hybrid/Remote Docker Job Trends

Docker
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 46 49
Rank change year-on-year -44 +3 -17
Permanent jobs citing Docker 736 938 1,066
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.95% 5.68% 4.96%
As % of the System Software category 39.51% 50.62% 38.11%
Number of salaries quoted 556 293 571
10th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £44,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% - -

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

Docker falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,863 1,853 2,797
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.47% 11.21% 13.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,371 967 1,645
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Docker and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Docker job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Docker
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Docker over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

Docker salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 23 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (2.99%) Apache
3 16 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.49%) nginx
5 7 (0.95%) Jupyter
5 7 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.82%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.68%) Camunda
7 5 (0.68%) CMS
7 5 (0.68%) IIS
8 4 (0.54%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.54%) Confluence
8 4 (0.54%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.54%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.41%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.27%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.27%) Hedera
10 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.14%) Moodle
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 12 (1.63%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 436 (59.24%) Azure
2 431 (58.56%) AWS
3 247 (33.56%) GitHub
4 151 (20.52%) GitHub Copilot
5 146 (19.84%) GCP
6 79 (10.73%) GitHub Actions
7 72 (9.78%) Azure AI
8 67 (9.10%) SaaS
9 63 (8.56%) Serverless
10 49 (6.66%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (6.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 36 (4.89%) Amazon S3
13 35 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
14 34 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
15 31 (4.21%) Azure AKS
16 27 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 27 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (3.40%) Amazon ECS
17 25 (3.40%) Azure Monitor
17 25 (3.40%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.58%) Internet
2 16 (2.17%) Broadband
2 16 (2.17%) VPN
3 13 (1.77%) AMQP
4 12 (1.63%) Firewall
4 12 (1.63%) SMS
5 11 (1.49%) Network Security
6 9 (1.22%) DNS
7 7 (0.95%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.54%) SSH
9 3 (0.41%) HTTP
9 3 (0.41%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.27%) Intranet
10 2 (0.27%) X.509
11 1 (0.14%) DSL
11 1 (0.14%) FCoE
11 1 (0.14%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.14%) SSL
11 1 (0.14%) TETRA
11 1 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (22.28%) MongoDB
2 142 (19.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 121 (16.44%) PostgreSQL
4 60 (8.15%) Elasticsearch
5 52 (7.07%) Relational Database
5 52 (7.07%) SQL Server
6 50 (6.79%) NoSQL
7 39 (5.30%) MySQL
8 36 (4.89%) Redis
9 24 (3.26%) DynamoDB
10 21 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (2.45%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (1.77%) BigQuery
14 11 (1.49%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.95%) Metadata
16 6 (0.82%) Delta Lake
16 6 (0.82%) Looker
16 6 (0.82%) Power BI
17 5 (0.68%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 136 (18.48%) Git
2 71 (9.65%) Jenkins
3 70 (9.51%) GitLab
4 33 (4.48%) JUnit
5 21 (2.85%) Mockito
6 18 (2.45%) Maven
7 17 (2.31%) Selenium
8 15 (2.04%) Claude Code
8 15 (2.04%) JIRA
9 14 (1.90%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.49%) Postman
11 8 (1.09%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.82%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.82%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.82%) Gatling
12 6 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.82%) Storybook
13 5 (0.68%) Poetry
13 5 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
14 4 (0.54%) Appium
General
1 181 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 112 (15.22%) Finance
3 60 (8.15%) Public Sector
4 44 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (4.62%) Advertising
6 33 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (2.85%) Marketing
8 20 (2.72%) Aerospace
9 17 (2.31%) Law
10 15 (2.04%) Banking
10 15 (2.04%) Games
11 14 (1.90%) Tech for Good
12 13 (1.77%) Health Technology
13 11 (1.49%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.22%) Retail
15 7 (0.95%) Legal
16 6 (0.82%) Electronics
17 4 (0.54%) Police
17 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
18 3 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 311 (42.26%) Developer
2 200 (27.17%) Senior
3 143 (19.43%) .NET Developer
4 121 (16.44%) Software Engineer
5 76 (10.33%) Lead
6 69 (9.38%) Senior Developer
7 55 (7.47%) DevOps Engineer
8 51 (6.93%) Java Developer
9 45 (6.11%) Full-Stack Developer
10 33 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
11 30 (4.08%) Senior Java Developer
12 28 (3.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 27 (3.67%) Architect
14 24 (3.26%) Data Engineer
15 22 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
15 22 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
15 22 (2.99%) Lead Developer
16 21 (2.85%) Platform Engineer
17 20 (2.72%) Technical Leader
18 19 (2.58%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (31.25%) .NET
2 200 (27.17%) Terraform
3 155 (21.06%) .NET Core
4 150 (20.38%) ASP.NET
5 149 (20.24%) React
6 140 (19.02%) Node.js
7 134 (18.21%) ASP.NET Core
8 120 (16.30%) REST
9 106 (14.40%) CSS
10 101 (13.72%) Spring
11 97 (13.18%) AngularJS
12 90 (12.23%) HTML
13 85 (11.55%) RESTful
14 78 (10.60%) Spring Boot
14 78 (10.60%) Vue
15 70 (9.51%) ML.NET
16 52 (7.07%) Kafka
17 41 (5.57%) Blazor
18 31 (4.21%) OAuth
19 30 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 134 (18.21%) Cloud Native
2 73 (9.92%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (2.58%) Digital TV
4 19 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.04%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.04%) Robotics
7 14 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.49%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.36%) IoT
9 10 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.09%) Blog
10 8 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
10 8 (1.09%) Data Structures
11 7 (0.95%) Hackathon
11 7 (0.95%) Onboarding
11 7 (0.95%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 128 (17.39%) Linux
2 23 (3.13%) Windows
3 16 (2.17%) Ubuntu
4 8 (1.09%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.09%) Unix
5 7 (0.95%) Debian
6 6 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (0.68%) macOS
8 4 (0.54%) Android
8 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.41%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.27%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.14%) Solaris
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (65.08%) CI/CD
2 308 (41.85%) Agile
3 262 (35.60%) AI
4 252 (34.24%) DevOps
5 251 (34.10%) Full-Stack Development
6 236 (32.07%) Microservices
7 235 (31.93%) Containerisation
8 229 (31.11%) Software Engineering
9 162 (22.01%) Mentoring
10 160 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
11 148 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
12 129 (17.53%) Machine Learning
13 121 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 121 (16.44%) Scrum
14 108 (14.67%) Test Automation
15 105 (14.27%) TDD
16 102 (13.86%) Observability
17 83 (11.28%) Event-Driven
18 80 (10.87%) Clean Code
19 78 (10.60%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 297 (40.35%) SQL
2 243 (33.02%) C#
3 237 (32.20%) Python
4 171 (23.23%) TypeScript
5 148 (20.11%) Java
6 137 (18.61%) JavaScript
7 74 (10.05%) Bash
8 40 (5.43%) PowerShell
9 28 (3.80%) Go
10 23 (3.13%) Bicep
10 23 (3.13%) Ruby
11 22 (2.99%) PHP
12 16 (2.17%) C++
12 16 (2.17%) Kotlin
13 15 (2.04%) PL/SQL
14 12 (1.63%) Scala
15 10 (1.36%) Groovy
16 8 (1.09%) C
16 8 (1.09%) Rust
17 6 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 121 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 100 (13.59%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.07%) Degree
4 22 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.45%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.04%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.82%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.54%) GCFA
10 4 (0.54%) GIAC
10 4 (0.54%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.41%) OCP
11 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.83%) QA
2 35 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 28 (3.80%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.49%) WCAG
5 9 (1.22%) NIST
6 7 (0.95%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.82%) GDPR
8 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.41%) NCSC
9 3 (0.41%) SLA
10 2 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
10 2 (0.27%) MISRA
10 2 (0.27%) MISRA C
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 12 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.41%) iptables
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) KVM
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.14%) QEMU
5 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 491 (66.71%) Kubernetes
2 54 (7.34%) Ansible
3 51 (6.93%) Grafana
4 38 (5.16%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.90%) Progress Chef
5 14 (1.90%) Puppet
6 13 (1.77%) Argo
7 9 (1.22%) Istio
8 6 (0.82%) Packer
8 6 (0.82%) Podman
9 4 (0.54%) Kibana
9 4 (0.54%) linkerd
10 3 (0.41%) Cilium
10 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.27%) CASB
11 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.14%) Consul
12 1 (0.14%) logstash
12 1 (0.14%) Nagios
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 194 (26.36%) Microsoft
2 60 (8.15%) Google
3 29 (3.94%) OpenAI
3 29 (3.94%) Oracle
4 19 (2.58%) Facebook
5 14 (1.90%) Okta
5 14 (1.90%) Ping Identity
5 14 (1.90%) Splunk
6 12 (1.63%) Informatica
7 11 (1.49%) Databricks
7 11 (1.49%) New Relic
8 10 (1.36%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.09%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.09%) VMware
10 4 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (0.54%) ESRI
10 4 (0.54%) ForgeRock
10 4 (0.54%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.54%) IBM
10 4 (0.54%) TIBCO