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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 33 74
Rank change year-on-year -45 +41 -41
Permanent jobs citing Docker 713 1,184 1,045
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.29% 7.18% 3.64%
As % of the System Software category 39.66% 53.82% 30.73%
Number of salaries quoted 544 502 859
10th Percentile £43,750 £48,165 £43,600
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,022
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -9.72%
75th Percentile £76,250 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £91,250 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £73,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -8.16% +8.09% -6.21%

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 1,798 2,200 3,401
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.30% 13.34% 11.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,363 1,302 2,604
10th Percentile £32,750 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -9.09%

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 23 July 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 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.68%) Apache
4 9 (1.26%) nginx
5 6 (0.84%) IIS
5 6 (0.84%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.70%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.56%) CMS
8 3 (0.42%) Confluence
8 3 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.28%) Camunda
9 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.28%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.28%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) Drupal
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 443 (62.13%) AWS
2 393 (55.12%) Azure
3 224 (31.42%) GitHub
4 184 (25.81%) GCP
5 150 (21.04%) GitHub Copilot
6 85 (11.92%) Serverless
7 74 (10.38%) Azure AI
8 50 (7.01%) GitHub Actions
9 47 (6.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 47 (6.59%) SaaS
10 46 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
11 45 (6.31%) Amazon S3
12 44 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
13 36 (5.05%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (4.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 32 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
16 31 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
17 29 (4.07%) Azure AKS
18 25 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
19 24 (3.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (9.68%) Broadband
2 20 (2.81%) Internet
3 11 (1.54%) VPN
4 10 (1.40%) DNS
5 9 (1.26%) Firewall
6 8 (1.12%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.70%) MQTT
7 5 (0.70%) Network Security
8 4 (0.56%) DHCP
8 4 (0.56%) HTTP
8 4 (0.56%) SSH
9 3 (0.42%) AMQP
10 2 (0.28%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.28%) RTP
10 2 (0.28%) SMS
10 2 (0.28%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.28%) VLAN
10 2 (0.28%) VoIP
10 2 (0.28%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (25.39%) MongoDB
2 138 (19.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 97 (13.60%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (8.98%) Elasticsearch
5 50 (7.01%) NoSQL
5 50 (7.01%) SQL Server
6 42 (5.89%) Relational Database
7 37 (5.19%) MySQL
8 35 (4.91%) Redis
9 31 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
10 19 (2.66%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (1.26%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.12%) Delta Lake
15 7 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.98%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.84%) Big Data
16 6 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 6 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 127 (17.81%) Git
2 66 (9.26%) Jenkins
3 59 (8.27%) GitLab
4 18 (2.52%) Cypress.io
4 18 (2.52%) JIRA
4 18 (2.52%) JUnit
5 16 (2.24%) Maven
6 14 (1.96%) Selenium
7 12 (1.68%) CircleCI
8 10 (1.40%) Claude Code
8 10 (1.40%) Mockito
9 9 (1.26%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.12%) Postman
11 6 (0.84%) JMeter
11 6 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.70%) Gatling
12 5 (0.70%) Locust
12 5 (0.70%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.70%) Subversion
12 5 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 146 (20.48%) Social Skills
2 93 (13.04%) Finance
3 42 (5.89%) Public Sector
4 41 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (5.47%) Advertising
6 22 (3.09%) Marketing
7 18 (2.52%) Aerospace
7 18 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (2.10%) Games
9 13 (1.82%) Banking
10 10 (1.40%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.26%) Law
12 5 (0.70%) Electronics
12 5 (0.70%) Legal
12 5 (0.70%) Retail
13 4 (0.56%) Military
13 4 (0.56%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.42%) Aviation
14 3 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 312 (43.76%) Developer
2 155 (21.74%) Senior
3 142 (19.92%) .NET Developer
4 106 (14.87%) Software Engineer
5 78 (10.94%) Lead
6 54 (7.57%) DevOps Engineer
7 45 (6.31%) Full-Stack Developer
8 44 (6.17%) Senior Developer
9 38 (5.33%) Java Developer
10 32 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
11 31 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
12 30 (4.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 30 (4.21%) Scala Engineer
13 27 (3.79%) Senior Software Engineer
14 26 (3.65%) Data Engineer
15 24 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
16 21 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
17 20 (2.81%) Lead Developer
17 20 (2.81%) Python Engineer
17 20 (2.81%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (29.03%) .NET
2 153 (21.46%) .NET Core
3 152 (21.32%) ASP.NET
4 136 (19.07%) ASP.NET Core
5 119 (16.69%) React
6 114 (15.99%) Node.js
7 103 (14.45%) AngularJS
7 103 (14.45%) CSS
8 95 (13.32%) HTML
9 91 (12.76%) REST
10 79 (11.08%) RESTful
10 79 (11.08%) Vue
11 76 (10.66%) Spring
12 73 (10.24%) ML.NET
13 61 (8.56%) Spring Boot
14 54 (7.57%) gRPC
15 50 (7.01%) Kafka
16 33 (4.63%) Blazor
17 31 (4.35%) Django
18 28 (3.93%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 123 (17.25%) Cloud Native
2 93 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.31%) Over-the-Top Content
3 45 (6.31%) Video\Live Streaming
4 32 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
4 32 (4.49%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.81%) Digital TV
6 14 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
7 12 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.40%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.26%) Robotics
10 8 (1.12%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.12%) IoT
10 8 (1.12%) Mobile App
11 7 (0.98%) Data Centre
11 7 (0.98%) Data Structures
11 7 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (0.98%) Onboarding
12 6 (0.84%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 129 (18.09%) Linux
2 15 (2.10%) Ubuntu
3 14 (1.96%) Windows
4 11 (1.54%) Unix
5 7 (0.98%) Debian
5 7 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.70%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.56%) CentOS
7 4 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.42%) Android
8 3 (0.42%) VMS
8 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (67.88%) CI/CD
2 294 (41.23%) Containerisation
3 285 (39.97%) Agile
4 254 (35.62%) Full-Stack Development
5 253 (35.48%) Microservices
6 252 (35.34%) DevOps
7 215 (30.15%) Software Engineering
8 203 (28.47%) AI
9 168 (23.56%) Problem-Solving
10 159 (22.30%) Infrastructure as Code
11 157 (22.02%) Machine Learning
12 126 (17.67%) Mentoring
13 119 (16.69%) Scrum
14 115 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
15 112 (15.71%) Clean Code
16 111 (15.57%) TDD
17 84 (11.78%) Test Automation
18 83 (11.64%) Coaching
18 83 (11.64%) Observability
19 72 (10.10%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 273 (38.29%) Python
2 242 (33.94%) SQL
3 219 (30.72%) C#
4 146 (20.48%) TypeScript
5 117 (16.41%) JavaScript
6 109 (15.29%) Java
7 71 (9.96%) Go
8 60 (8.42%) Bash
8 60 (8.42%) Scala
9 34 (4.77%) PowerShell
10 23 (3.23%) PHP
10 23 (3.23%) Ruby
11 21 (2.95%) Bicep
12 14 (1.96%) C++
13 12 (1.68%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.54%) PL/SQL
15 10 (1.40%) Groovy
16 9 (1.26%) Rust
17 6 (0.84%) C
18 3 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (11.50%) Security Cleared
2 69 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.99%) Degree
4 21 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.66%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.40%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.70%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.56%) CISSP
9 4 (0.56%) GIAC
9 4 (0.56%) ISACA
9 4 (0.56%) SANS
10 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.14%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.70%) QA
2 32 (4.49%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.24%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.24%) WCAG
4 11 (1.54%) NIST
5 10 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.26%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.70%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.42%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.28%) GDPR
10 1 (0.14%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.56%) Firmware
3 4 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.42%) iptables
4 3 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.28%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.28%) KVM
6 1 (0.14%) QEMU
6 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 455 (63.81%) Kubernetes
2 180 (25.25%) Terraform
3 51 (7.15%) Ansible
3 51 (7.15%) Grafana
4 43 (6.03%) Prometheus
5 19 (2.66%) Puppet
6 16 (2.24%) Istio
6 16 (2.24%) Podman
7 15 (2.10%) Argo
8 14 (1.96%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.70%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.70%) Kibana
10 4 (0.56%) linkerd
10 4 (0.56%) Packer
11 3 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.42%) Nagios
11 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.28%) MIIS
12 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 192 (26.93%) Microsoft
2 49 (6.87%) Google
3 45 (6.31%) Typelevel
4 20 (2.81%) Facebook
5 17 (2.38%) Oracle
6 16 (2.24%) Databricks
7 15 (2.10%) Okta
8 11 (1.54%) Ping Identity
9 9 (1.26%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.12%) Confluent
10 8 (1.12%) ForgeRock
10 8 (1.12%) Informatica
10 8 (1.12%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.12%) VMware
11 7 (0.98%) Splunk
12 5 (0.70%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.70%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.70%) New Relic
13 4 (0.56%) IBM
14 3 (0.42%) Commvault