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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 33 71
Rank change year-on-year -43 +38 -38
Permanent jobs citing Docker 694 1,195 1,121
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.22% 7.24% 3.68%
As % of the System Software category 38.95% 53.90% 30.77%
Number of salaries quoted 524 512 923
10th Percentile £43,750 £48,165 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £51,250
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 £119,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £74,685 £68,000
% change year-on-year -9.62% +9.83% -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 1,782 2,217 3,643
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.27% 13.44% 11.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,351 1,321 2,814
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +0.73% -12.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £51,228 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.48% +2.46% -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 19 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 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.73%) Apache
4 9 (1.30%) nginx
5 6 (0.86%) IIS
5 6 (0.86%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.72%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.58%) CMS
8 3 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.29%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.29%) Camunda
9 2 (0.29%) Confluence
9 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.29%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.29%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) Moodle
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 437 (62.97%) AWS
2 383 (55.19%) Azure
3 223 (32.13%) GitHub
4 178 (25.65%) GCP
5 150 (21.61%) GitHub Copilot
6 85 (12.25%) Serverless
7 74 (10.66%) Azure AI
8 49 (7.06%) GitHub Actions
9 48 (6.92%) Amazon S3
9 48 (6.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 46 (6.63%) AWS Lambda
11 42 (6.05%) SaaS
12 41 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
13 37 (5.33%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 32 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
16 29 (4.18%) Azure AKS
16 29 (4.18%) Azure Service Bus
17 25 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
18 24 (3.46%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (10.81%) Broadband
2 20 (2.88%) Internet
3 11 (1.59%) DNS
3 11 (1.59%) VPN
4 9 (1.30%) Firewall
5 8 (1.15%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.72%) DHCP
6 5 (0.72%) MQTT
7 4 (0.58%) HTTP
7 4 (0.58%) Network Security
7 4 (0.58%) SSH
8 3 (0.43%) AMQP
9 2 (0.29%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.29%) RTP
9 2 (0.29%) SAN
9 2 (0.29%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.29%) VLAN
9 2 (0.29%) WireGuard
9 2 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (26.08%) MongoDB
2 137 (19.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 93 (13.40%) PostgreSQL
4 63 (9.08%) Elasticsearch
5 53 (7.64%) NoSQL
6 48 (6.92%) Relational Database
7 47 (6.77%) SQL Server
8 35 (5.04%) MySQL
9 33 (4.76%) Redis
10 30 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (2.88%) DynamoDB
12 15 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (1.15%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.15%) Delta Lake
14 7 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (1.01%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.86%) RDBMS
15 6 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (0.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 115 (16.57%) Git
2 62 (8.93%) Jenkins
3 55 (7.93%) GitLab
4 18 (2.59%) Cypress.io
5 17 (2.45%) JIRA
5 17 (2.45%) JUnit
5 17 (2.45%) Maven
6 12 (1.73%) CircleCI
6 12 (1.73%) Selenium
7 10 (1.44%) Claude Code
7 10 (1.44%) Mockito
8 8 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.01%) Postman
10 6 (0.86%) Jaeger
10 6 (0.86%) JMeter
10 6 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
11 5 (0.72%) Locust
11 5 (0.72%) MLflow
11 5 (0.72%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.72%) Subversion
General
1 137 (19.74%) Social Skills
2 86 (12.39%) Finance
3 42 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 42 (6.05%) Public Sector
4 39 (5.62%) Advertising
5 22 (3.17%) Marketing
6 17 (2.45%) Aerospace
7 16 (2.31%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (2.02%) Games
9 12 (1.73%) Banking
10 10 (1.44%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.30%) Law
12 6 (0.86%) Legal
13 5 (0.72%) Retail
13 5 (0.72%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.58%) Electronics
14 4 (0.58%) Military
15 3 (0.43%) Aviation
15 3 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 306 (44.09%) Developer
2 151 (21.76%) Senior
3 140 (20.17%) .NET Developer
4 104 (14.99%) Software Engineer
5 80 (11.53%) Lead
6 52 (7.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 44 (6.34%) Full-Stack Developer
8 41 (5.91%) Senior Developer
9 39 (5.62%) Java Developer
10 32 (4.61%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (4.32%) Scala Engineer
12 29 (4.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 29 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
13 28 (4.03%) Senior Software Engineer
14 27 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
15 21 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
15 21 (3.03%) Data Engineer
16 20 (2.88%) Software Developer
17 19 (2.74%) AWS DevOps
17 19 (2.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (29.11%) .NET
2 150 (21.61%) .NET Core
3 149 (21.47%) ASP.NET
4 135 (19.45%) ASP.NET Core
5 117 (16.86%) React
6 113 (16.28%) Node.js
7 103 (14.84%) AngularJS
8 101 (14.55%) CSS
9 95 (13.69%) HTML
10 86 (12.39%) REST
11 79 (11.38%) Vue
12 78 (11.24%) RESTful
13 76 (10.95%) Spring
14 73 (10.52%) ML.NET
15 61 (8.79%) Spring Boot
16 52 (7.49%) gRPC
17 48 (6.92%) Kafka
18 32 (4.61%) Django
19 29 (4.18%) Blazor
20 26 (3.75%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 121 (17.44%) Cloud Native
2 91 (13.11%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.48%) Over-the-Top Content
3 45 (6.48%) Video\Live Streaming
4 33 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 30 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.88%) Digital TV
7 14 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (1.44%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.01%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.01%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.01%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.01%) IoT
10 7 (1.01%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.01%) Robotics
11 6 (0.86%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.86%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 132 (19.02%) Linux
2 17 (2.45%) Unix
3 14 (2.02%) Ubuntu
3 14 (2.02%) Windows
4 7 (1.01%) Debian
4 7 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.72%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.58%) CentOS
7 3 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.43%) VMS
7 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.29%) Android
8 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (67.58%) CI/CD
2 292 (42.07%) Containerisation
3 283 (40.78%) Agile
4 256 (36.89%) DevOps
5 251 (36.17%) Full-Stack Development
6 250 (36.02%) Microservices
7 211 (30.40%) Software Engineering
8 192 (27.67%) AI
9 161 (23.20%) Infrastructure as Code
10 159 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
11 152 (21.90%) Machine Learning
12 129 (18.59%) Mentoring
13 117 (16.86%) Scrum
14 111 (15.99%) Continuous Improvement
14 111 (15.99%) TDD
15 109 (15.71%) Clean Code
16 84 (12.10%) Coaching
17 79 (11.38%) Test Automation
18 77 (11.10%) Observability
19 71 (10.23%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 269 (38.76%) Python
2 237 (34.15%) SQL
3 213 (30.69%) C#
4 143 (20.61%) TypeScript
5 120 (17.29%) JavaScript
6 117 (16.86%) Java
7 77 (11.10%) Go
8 64 (9.22%) Bash
9 61 (8.79%) Scala
10 34 (4.90%) PowerShell
11 21 (3.03%) Bicep
11 21 (3.03%) PHP
11 21 (3.03%) Ruby
12 14 (2.02%) C++
13 12 (1.73%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.59%) PL/SQL
15 10 (1.44%) Groovy
16 9 (1.30%) Rust
17 7 (1.01%) C
18 3 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (11.38%) Security Cleared
2 65 (9.37%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.21%) Degree
4 22 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.74%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.59%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.72%) CISSP
8 5 (0.72%) GIAC
8 5 (0.72%) ISACA
8 5 (0.72%) SANS
9 4 (0.58%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.14%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.14%) LPIC
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.36%) QA
2 26 (3.75%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.16%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.16%) WCAG
4 12 (1.73%) NIST
5 9 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.43%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.43%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.29%) GDPR
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.58%) Firmware
3 4 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.43%) iptables
4 3 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.29%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.29%) KVM
6 1 (0.14%) QEMU
6 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 449 (64.70%) Kubernetes
2 176 (25.36%) Terraform
3 56 (8.07%) Ansible
4 47 (6.77%) Grafana
5 46 (6.63%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.03%) Argo
7 18 (2.59%) Puppet
8 16 (2.31%) Podman
9 15 (2.16%) Istio
10 13 (1.87%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.86%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.72%) Kibana
13 4 (0.58%) Packer
14 3 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.43%) linkerd
14 3 (0.43%) Nagios
14 3 (0.43%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.29%) MIIS
15 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 192 (27.67%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.49%) Google
3 45 (6.48%) Typelevel
4 20 (2.88%) Facebook
5 17 (2.45%) Oracle
6 15 (2.16%) Databricks
7 14 (2.02%) Okta
8 9 (1.30%) Ping Identity
8 9 (1.30%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.15%) Confluent
9 8 (1.15%) ForgeRock
9 8 (1.15%) VMware
10 7 (1.01%) Informatica
10 7 (1.01%) Splunk
11 5 (0.72%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.72%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.72%) New Relic
11 5 (0.72%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.58%) IBM
13 3 (0.43%) Commvault