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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 30 33
Rank change year-on-year -55 +3 -6
Permanent jobs citing Docker 476 1,238 1,631
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.09% 7.58% 6.78%
As % of the System Software category 37.87% 47.95% 43.07%
Number of salaries quoted 338 692 1,380
10th Percentile £43,750 £49,181 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £97,528 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £118,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,079 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.56% +7.14% -3.45%

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 1,257 2,582 3,787
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.15% 15.80% 15.75%
Number of salaries quoted 892 1,591 3,252
10th Percentile £28,928 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £73,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £103,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.17% +9.52% -4.55%

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 21 January 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 16 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.15%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.94%) nginx
4 7 (1.47%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.05%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.05%) Apache
5 5 (1.05%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.05%) ArcGIS
5 5 (1.05%) CMS
5 5 (1.05%) Drupal
5 5 (1.05%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.05%) WordPress
6 4 (0.84%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.84%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.63%) IIS
7 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.21%) SAS
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.84%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.42%) Weka
3 1 (0.21%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 9 (1.89%) Shopify
2 1 (0.21%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 308 (64.71%) AWS
2 231 (48.53%) Azure
3 116 (24.37%) GitHub
4 106 (22.27%) GCP
5 62 (13.03%) Serverless
6 59 (12.39%) GitHub Actions
7 54 (11.34%) AWS CloudFormation
8 50 (10.50%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (8.61%) AWS Lambda
10 36 (7.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 35 (7.35%) Amazon S3
12 34 (7.14%) SaaS
13 29 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
14 28 (5.88%) Pulumi
15 20 (4.20%) OpenShift
16 19 (3.99%) Datadog
17 18 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
18 17 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
18 17 (3.57%) Azure AKS
19 16 (3.36%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 44 (9.24%) Broadband
2 18 (3.78%) Firewall
3 16 (3.36%) VPN
4 11 (2.31%) DNS
4 11 (2.31%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.68%) Network Security
6 5 (1.05%) AMQP
7 4 (0.84%) WAN
8 3 (0.63%) DHCP
8 3 (0.63%) Internet
8 3 (0.63%) SCCP
8 3 (0.63%) VLAN
9 2 (0.42%) DSL
9 2 (0.42%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.42%) LAN
9 2 (0.42%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.42%) VSAN
10 1 (0.21%) 5G
10 1 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
10 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (16.39%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (15.34%) NoSQL
3 45 (9.45%) SQL Server
4 37 (7.77%) MySQL
4 37 (7.77%) Relational Database
5 36 (7.56%) MongoDB
6 25 (5.25%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (4.83%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (3.99%) RDBMS
8 19 (3.99%) Redis
9 15 (3.15%) DynamoDB
10 13 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (2.52%) BigQuery
12 11 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.89%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.89%) Tableau
14 8 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.68%) Delta Lake
15 7 (1.47%) MariaDB
15 7 (1.47%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 73 (15.34%) Jenkins
2 69 (14.50%) Git
3 52 (10.92%) GitLab
4 27 (5.67%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.99%) Jaeger
6 16 (3.36%) Selenium
7 12 (2.52%) JUnit
7 12 (2.52%) SonarQube
8 10 (2.10%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.89%) MLflow
10 8 (1.68%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.47%) JMeter
12 6 (1.26%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.26%) Storybook
13 5 (1.05%) JIRA
13 5 (1.05%) Maven
13 5 (1.05%) Robot Framework
13 5 (1.05%) Visual Studio
13 5 (1.05%) Vite
14 4 (0.84%) Bitbucket
General
1 117 (24.58%) Social Skills
2 63 (13.24%) Finance
3 29 (6.09%) Public Sector
4 27 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (5.25%) Telecoms
6 22 (4.62%) Law
7 14 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.31%) Retail
9 10 (2.10%) Games
9 10 (2.10%) Marketing
10 9 (1.89%) Legal
11 8 (1.68%) Banking
12 6 (1.26%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.05%) Front Office
13 5 (1.05%) Local Government
13 5 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.05%) Police
14 4 (0.84%) Aviation
14 4 (0.84%) Electronics
15 3 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 149 (31.30%) Senior
2 131 (27.52%) Developer
3 92 (19.33%) Lead
4 63 (13.24%) Software Engineer
5 57 (11.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 36 (7.56%) Senior Developer
7 29 (6.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 29 (6.09%) Java Developer
7 29 (6.09%) Lead DevOps
8 28 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
9 26 (5.46%) Senior Software Engineer
10 24 (5.04%) Architect
10 24 (5.04%) Software Developer
11 23 (4.83%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 22 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
13 21 (4.41%) Python Developer
14 20 (4.20%) Data Engineer
15 19 (3.99%) Development Engineer
15 19 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
16 17 (3.57%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (18.49%) React
2 79 (16.60%) .NET
3 59 (12.39%) Node.js
4 53 (11.13%) RESTful
5 51 (10.71%) Spring
6 50 (10.50%) Elastic Stack
7 48 (10.08%) Spring Boot
8 46 (9.66%) Kafka
9 45 (9.45%) REST
10 42 (8.82%) Django
11 37 (7.77%) AngularJS
12 35 (7.35%) .NET Core
13 32 (6.72%) Flask
14 31 (6.51%) CSS
14 31 (6.51%) HTML
15 28 (5.88%) Vue
16 24 (5.04%) Akka
17 22 (4.62%) FastAPI
18 19 (3.99%) OpenTelemetry
19 17 (3.57%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 96 (20.17%) Cloud Native
2 40 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (7.56%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.83%) Over-the-Top Content
4 23 (4.83%) Video\Live Streaming
5 18 (3.78%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.52%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.10%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.68%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.26%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.26%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.26%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.05%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.05%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.84%) PKI
13 4 (0.84%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 109 (22.90%) Linux
2 46 (9.66%) Unix
3 35 (7.35%) Windows
4 17 (3.57%) Android
5 14 (2.94%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.89%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.47%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.47%) VMS
8 6 (1.26%) CentOS
9 4 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.21%) Fedora
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (62.39%) CI/CD
2 262 (55.04%) DevOps
3 227 (47.69%) Containerisation
4 192 (40.34%) Agile
5 162 (34.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 117 (24.58%) Problem-Solving
7 112 (23.53%) Microservices
8 106 (22.27%) Software Engineering
9 93 (19.54%) AI
10 92 (19.33%) Mentoring
11 80 (16.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 68 (14.29%) Observability
13 65 (13.66%) Full-Stack Development
14 59 (12.39%) TDD
15 57 (11.97%) Event-Driven
16 54 (11.34%) Test Automation
17 51 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 51 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 50 (10.50%) Machine Learning
18 50 (10.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 214 (44.96%) Python
2 129 (27.10%) JavaScript
3 122 (25.63%) Java
4 121 (25.42%) SQL
5 63 (13.24%) Bash
6 62 (13.03%) C#
7 57 (11.97%) Go
8 51 (10.71%) TypeScript
9 33 (6.93%) Scala
10 27 (5.67%) Bicep
11 26 (5.46%) PowerShell
12 25 (5.25%) PHP
13 13 (2.73%) C++
14 8 (1.68%) Delphi
15 5 (1.05%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.05%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.84%) C
16 4 (0.84%) Ruby
17 3 (0.63%) Groovy
17 3 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 66 (13.87%) Security Cleared
2 56 (11.76%) Degree
3 48 (10.08%) SC Cleared
4 38 (7.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (7.56%) AWS Certification
6 19 (3.99%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.15%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.42%) CISA
10 2 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.42%) CISM
10 2 (0.42%) CISSP
10 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.42%) LPIC
10 2 (0.42%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.51%) QA
2 15 (3.15%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.15%) GDPR
3 13 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.31%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.47%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.26%) NIST
7 5 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.05%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.42%) ECSS
9 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.21%) SEPA
9 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (1.26%) Active Directory
1 6 (1.26%) vSphere
2 5 (1.05%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.42%) Ceph
5 2 (0.42%) Lustre
5 2 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.21%) Firmware
6 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.21%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.21%) vCloud
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 325 (68.28%) Kubernetes
2 209 (43.91%) Terraform
3 93 (19.54%) Ansible
4 67 (14.08%) Grafana
5 65 (13.66%) Prometheus
6 36 (7.56%) Argo
7 19 (3.99%) Kustomize
8 5 (1.05%) Puppet
9 4 (0.84%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.63%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.42%) Packer
12 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.21%) Rancher
12 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (8.82%) Google
2 39 (8.19%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.67%) Oracle
4 18 (3.78%) Databricks
5 13 (2.73%) Splunk
6 10 (2.10%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.89%) SAP
8 8 (1.68%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.47%) VMware
10 6 (1.26%) Mercator
10 6 (1.26%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.26%) Palantir
10 6 (1.26%) TIBCO
11 5 (1.05%) IFS
11 5 (1.05%) Jitterbit
11 5 (1.05%) Mavenir
11 5 (1.05%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.05%) SnapLogic
11 5 (1.05%) Talend
11 5 (1.05%) Workday