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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 39 31
Rank change year-on-year -63 -8 -10
Permanent jobs citing Docker 432 1,182 1,650
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.75% 5.94% 7.59%
As % of the System Software category 33.33% 42.06% 44.92%
Number of salaries quoted 335 590 1,387
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,125 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £99,500 £112,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £71,000 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +1.43% -0.82% -2.65%

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 1,296 2,810 3,673
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.24% 14.12% 16.89%
Number of salaries quoted 995 1,664 3,124
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 14 November 2025.

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 13 (3.01%) Apache Solr
2 11 (2.55%) CMS
3 10 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.31%) nginx
4 8 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.85%) IIS
5 5 (1.16%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.16%) Apache
6 3 (0.69%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.69%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.46%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.46%) Drupal
7 2 (0.46%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.46%) WordPress
8 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.23%) MetaMask
8 1 (0.23%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.23%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (1.16%) Shopify
2 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 262 (60.65%) AWS
2 248 (57.41%) Azure
3 98 (22.69%) GCP
4 93 (21.53%) GitHub
5 66 (15.28%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (10.65%) GitHub Actions
7 41 (9.49%) Serverless
8 39 (9.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 32 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (5.79%) Azure AKS
12 21 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (4.86%) Azure Service Bus
12 21 (4.86%) OpenShift
13 19 (4.40%) SaaS
14 18 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 15 (3.47%) Amazon S3
16 14 (3.24%) Azure Monitor
17 13 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
17 13 (3.01%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.17%) Firewall
2 13 (3.01%) VPN
3 12 (2.78%) TCP/IP
4 11 (2.55%) DNS
5 7 (1.62%) Broadband
6 6 (1.39%) Internet
7 4 (0.93%) Network Security
8 3 (0.69%) AMQP
8 3 (0.69%) WAN
9 2 (0.46%) DHCP
9 2 (0.46%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.46%) LAN
9 2 (0.46%) VLAN
9 2 (0.46%) VSAN
9 2 (0.46%) Wireless
10 1 (0.23%) 5G
10 1 (0.23%) HTTP
10 1 (0.23%) IOS XR
10 1 (0.23%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (12.73%) NoSQL
3 51 (11.81%) SQL Server
4 38 (8.80%) Elasticsearch
5 35 (8.10%) MySQL
6 30 (6.94%) MongoDB
7 21 (4.86%) Redis
7 21 (4.86%) Relational Database
8 17 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (2.31%) Tick Data
11 7 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.62%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.16%) Big Data
12 5 (1.16%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.93%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.93%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.93%) Power BI
14 3 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 87 (20.14%) Git
2 46 (10.65%) GitLab
3 45 (10.42%) Jenkins
4 15 (3.47%) Octopus Deploy
5 12 (2.78%) SonarQube
6 11 (2.55%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (2.31%) JUnit
8 9 (2.08%) Selenium
8 9 (2.08%) TeamCity
9 8 (1.85%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.85%) MSBuild
9 8 (1.85%) Visual Studio
10 7 (1.62%) JIRA
11 6 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (1.16%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.93%) Robot Framework
13 4 (0.93%) webpack
14 3 (0.69%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.69%) TestRail
14 3 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 121 (28.01%) Social Skills
2 51 (11.81%) Finance
3 20 (4.63%) Public Sector
4 19 (4.40%) Marketing
5 16 (3.70%) Retail
5 16 (3.70%) Telecoms
6 15 (3.47%) Law
7 12 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (2.78%) Games
8 10 (2.31%) Legal
9 7 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.39%) Automotive
10 6 (1.39%) Front Office
11 5 (1.16%) Banking
11 5 (1.16%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.93%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.93%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.69%) Electronics
13 3 (0.69%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 122 (28.24%) Developer
2 114 (26.39%) Senior
3 73 (16.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (11.34%) Lead
5 44 (10.19%) Software Engineer
6 39 (9.03%) Architect
7 31 (7.18%) Senior Developer
8 28 (6.48%) Python Developer
9 27 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
10 26 (6.02%) Azure Engineer
11 25 (5.79%) Senior DevOps
12 22 (5.09%) Platform Engineer
13 21 (4.86%) .NET Developer
14 19 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
14 19 (4.40%) Data Engineer
14 19 (4.40%) Python Engineer
14 19 (4.40%) Software Developer
15 17 (3.94%) C# Developer
15 17 (3.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 17 (3.94%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (22.45%) .NET
2 64 (14.81%) React
3 61 (14.12%) REST
4 51 (11.81%) RESTful
5 42 (9.72%) CSS
5 42 (9.72%) HTML
6 38 (8.80%) Spring
7 37 (8.56%) Django
8 36 (8.33%) Spring Boot
9 34 (7.87%) Flask
9 34 (7.87%) Kafka
10 33 (7.64%) .NET Core
11 32 (7.41%) AngularJS
12 31 (7.18%) Elastic Stack
13 30 (6.94%) Node.js
14 27 (6.25%) FastAPI
15 24 (5.56%) Web Services
16 22 (5.09%) RabbitMQ
17 20 (4.63%) Vue
18 19 (4.40%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 100 (23.15%) Cloud Native
2 35 (8.10%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (4.63%) Management Information System
4 18 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (3.47%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.78%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.55%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.62%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.62%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.62%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.39%) BYOD
10 6 (1.39%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.16%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.93%) IoT
12 4 (0.93%) PKI
12 4 (0.93%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 94 (21.76%) Linux
2 48 (11.11%) Windows
3 23 (5.32%) Unix
4 22 (5.09%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.62%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.39%) CentOS
6 6 (1.39%) VMS
7 5 (1.16%) Android
8 3 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.23%) Fedora
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (64.58%) CI/CD
2 263 (60.88%) DevOps
3 218 (50.46%) Containerisation
4 159 (36.81%) Agile
5 131 (30.32%) Infrastructure as Code
6 127 (29.40%) Microservices
7 115 (26.62%) Problem-Solving
8 94 (21.76%) Software Engineering
9 73 (16.90%) Mentoring
10 72 (16.67%) AI
11 61 (14.12%) Observability
12 56 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 54 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
14 47 (10.88%) Event-Driven
15 46 (10.65%) Test Automation
16 45 (10.42%) Machine Learning
17 43 (9.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 40 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 37 (8.56%) Clean Code
19 37 (8.56%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 212 (49.07%) Python
2 132 (30.56%) SQL
3 103 (23.84%) JavaScript
4 94 (21.76%) C#
5 80 (18.52%) Java
6 52 (12.04%) Bash
7 43 (9.95%) PowerShell
8 41 (9.49%) TypeScript
9 29 (6.71%) Bicep
10 23 (5.32%) Go
11 20 (4.63%) PHP
12 9 (2.08%) C++
13 8 (1.85%) Delphi
14 6 (1.39%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.93%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.69%) C
16 3 (0.69%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.69%) Ruby
16 3 (0.69%) Scala
17 2 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 57 (13.19%) Security Cleared
2 39 (9.03%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.80%) Degree
4 29 (6.71%) AWS Certification
5 23 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (4.40%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.70%) DV Cleared
8 14 (3.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.16%) CISM
9 5 (1.16%) CISSP
10 3 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (0.69%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.46%) CISA
11 2 (0.46%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.18%) GDPR
2 30 (6.94%) QA
3 11 (2.55%) HIPAA
4 9 (2.08%) NIST
5 8 (1.85%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.46%) ECSS
7 2 (0.46%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.46%) SLA
8 1 (0.23%) SEPA
8 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (1.62%) Active Directory
1 7 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.93%) vSphere
4 3 (0.69%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.46%) Ceph
5 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.46%) Lustre
5 2 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.23%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.23%) KVM
6 1 (0.23%) Postfix
6 1 (0.23%) vCloud
6 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 289 (66.90%) Kubernetes
2 161 (37.27%) Terraform
3 67 (15.51%) Ansible
4 62 (14.35%) Grafana
5 45 (10.42%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.16%) Argo
6 5 (1.16%) Puppet
7 4 (0.93%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.46%) Kibana
9 2 (0.46%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.23%) logstash
10 1 (0.23%) Nagios
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.23%) Rancher
10 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 52 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.94%) Google
3 24 (5.56%) Oracle
4 17 (3.94%) Databricks
5 12 (2.78%) Splunk
6 10 (2.31%) VMware
7 9 (2.08%) SAP
8 8 (1.85%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.39%) Dell
9 6 (1.39%) Trayport
10 5 (1.16%) Epicor
10 5 (1.16%) IBM
10 5 (1.16%) Infor
10 5 (1.16%) Informatica
10 5 (1.16%) Mercator
10 5 (1.16%) SnapLogic
10 5 (1.16%) Software AG
10 5 (1.16%) Talend
10 5 (1.16%) TIBCO
10 5 (1.16%) Workday