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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 35 57
Rank change year-on-year -42 +22 -27
Permanent jobs citing Docker 566 1,059 1,439
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.08% 7.43% 4.42%
As % of the System Software category 40.03% 50.79% 34.03%
Number of salaries quoted 355 690 1,254
10th Percentile £45,500 £48,975 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £100,000 £83,075
90th Percentile £105,000 £138,750 £97,125
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -2.78%

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 1,414 2,085 4,229
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.70% 14.63% 12.99%
Number of salaries quoted 982 1,518 3,472
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £79,932 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,125 £86,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -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 7 May 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 28 (4.95%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.47%) nginx
4 9 (1.59%) CMS
4 9 (1.59%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.88%) Apache
5 5 (0.88%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.88%) Drupal
5 5 (0.88%) GeoServer
5 5 (0.88%) Oracle Spatial
5 5 (0.88%) WordPress
6 4 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.53%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.35%) Camunda
8 2 (0.35%) Confluence
8 2 (0.35%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.18%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.71%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Magento
2 1 (0.18%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 393 (69.43%) AWS
2 238 (42.05%) Azure
3 173 (30.57%) GCP
4 115 (20.32%) GitHub
5 95 (16.78%) Serverless
6 58 (10.25%) Amazon S3
6 58 (10.25%) AWS Lambda
7 52 (9.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 51 (9.01%) SaaS
9 45 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
10 39 (6.89%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (6.18%) Amazon ECS
12 33 (5.83%) Amazon EC2
13 31 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
14 30 (5.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 27 (4.77%) GitHub Copilot
16 24 (4.24%) Pulumi
17 22 (3.89%) Amazon SQS
17 22 (3.89%) PaaS
18 21 (3.71%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 104 (18.37%) Broadband
2 10 (1.77%) DNS
2 10 (1.77%) Firewall
3 8 (1.41%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.24%) Network Security
4 7 (1.24%) VPN
5 6 (1.06%) DHCP
6 5 (0.88%) AMQP
7 4 (0.71%) HTTP
7 4 (0.71%) MQTT
8 3 (0.53%) RTP
8 3 (0.53%) SCCP
8 3 (0.53%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.53%) VLAN
8 3 (0.53%) VoIP
8 3 (0.53%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.35%) DSL
9 2 (0.35%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.35%) SAN
9 2 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (13.96%) NoSQL
2 76 (13.43%) PostgreSQL
3 73 (12.90%) MongoDB
4 47 (8.30%) SQL Server
5 45 (7.95%) Relational Database
6 36 (6.36%) Amazon RDS
7 29 (5.12%) MySQL
8 25 (4.42%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (4.06%) DynamoDB
10 22 (3.89%) Azure SQL Database
11 21 (3.71%) Redis
12 19 (3.36%) RDBMS
13 17 (3.00%) BigQuery
14 14 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (2.30%) Tableau
16 12 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
17 11 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
17 11 (1.94%) Pinecone
18 10 (1.77%) Weaviate
19 9 (1.59%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 96 (16.96%) Git
2 79 (13.96%) Jenkins
3 51 (9.01%) GitLab
4 24 (4.24%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.36%) Jaeger
6 18 (3.18%) CircleCI
6 18 (3.18%) Cypress.io
7 13 (2.30%) MLflow
7 13 (2.30%) Selenium
8 12 (2.12%) JMeter
8 12 (2.12%) Maven
8 12 (2.12%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.77%) JIRA
10 9 (1.59%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.24%) JUnit
12 6 (1.06%) Locust
12 6 (1.06%) Visual Studio
12 6 (1.06%) Vite
13 5 (0.88%) Postman
13 5 (0.88%) Storybook
General
1 103 (18.20%) Social Skills
2 74 (13.07%) Finance
3 43 (7.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (6.54%) Public Sector
5 17 (3.00%) Telecoms
6 15 (2.65%) Banking
7 14 (2.47%) Law
8 10 (1.77%) Retail
9 9 (1.59%) Advertising
10 7 (1.24%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (1.24%) Marketing
11 6 (1.06%) Aviation
11 6 (1.06%) Front Office
11 6 (1.06%) Games
11 6 (1.06%) Legal
11 6 (1.06%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.88%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.88%) Military
13 4 (0.71%) Local Government
13 4 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 178 (31.45%) Developer
2 147 (25.97%) Senior
3 101 (17.84%) Lead
4 86 (15.19%) Software Engineer
5 55 (9.72%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (7.42%) Scala Engineer
7 39 (6.89%) Full-Stack Developer
8 35 (6.18%) Senior Developer
9 34 (6.01%) Java Developer
10 32 (5.65%) .NET Developer
11 29 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
12 27 (4.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 25 (4.42%) Data Engineer
14 24 (4.24%) Lead DevOps
15 23 (4.06%) AWS Engineer
15 23 (4.06%) Scala Software Engineer
16 22 (3.89%) Senior Software Engineer
17 21 (3.71%) Platform Engineer
17 21 (3.71%) Python Developer
17 21 (3.71%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (19.08%) React
2 90 (15.90%) Node.js
3 86 (15.19%) .NET
4 65 (11.48%) Kafka
4 65 (11.48%) Spring
5 60 (10.60%) gRPC
6 56 (9.89%) REST
6 56 (9.89%) RESTful
7 54 (9.54%) Spring Boot
8 51 (9.01%) AngularJS
9 48 (8.48%) .NET Core
10 37 (6.54%) Django
11 36 (6.36%) Elastic Stack
12 35 (6.18%) CSS
13 34 (6.01%) HTML
14 33 (5.83%) ASP.NET
15 32 (5.65%) Vue
16 27 (4.77%) ASP.NET Core
17 23 (4.06%) OpenTelemetry
17 23 (4.06%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 97 (17.14%) Cloud Native
2 80 (14.13%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (11.84%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (11.84%) Video\Live Streaming
4 52 (9.19%) Product Ownership
5 15 (2.65%) AI Agents
6 13 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.59%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (1.24%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.24%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.24%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.24%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.88%) Cyberattack
11 5 (0.88%) Digital TV
11 5 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 107 (18.90%) Linux
2 32 (5.65%) Unix
3 16 (2.83%) Android
4 14 (2.47%) Windows
5 13 (2.30%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.24%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.24%) CentOS
8 4 (0.71%) VMS
9 3 (0.53%) Debian
9 3 (0.53%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.35%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (64.84%) CI/CD
2 286 (50.53%) Containerisation
3 266 (47.00%) DevOps
4 228 (40.28%) Agile
5 185 (32.69%) Microservices
6 165 (29.15%) Software Engineering
7 159 (28.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 133 (23.50%) Problem-Solving
9 122 (21.55%) Full-Stack Development
10 112 (19.79%) AI
11 105 (18.55%) Mentoring
12 103 (18.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 99 (17.49%) Machine Learning
14 94 (16.61%) Clean Code
15 84 (14.84%) Coaching
16 79 (13.96%) Scrum
17 77 (13.60%) TDD
18 71 (12.54%) Continuous Delivery
19 70 (12.37%) Data Science
19 70 (12.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 268 (47.35%) Python
2 134 (23.67%) Java
3 133 (23.50%) JavaScript
4 123 (21.73%) SQL
5 108 (19.08%) Go
6 88 (15.55%) Scala
7 79 (13.96%) C#
8 76 (13.43%) TypeScript
9 69 (12.19%) Bash
10 25 (4.42%) PHP
11 23 (4.06%) PowerShell
12 15 (2.65%) C++
13 14 (2.47%) Bicep
14 11 (1.94%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.41%) Groovy
15 8 (1.41%) Ruby
15 8 (1.41%) Rust
16 7 (1.24%) C
17 4 (0.71%) Perl
18 3 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 69 (12.19%) Degree
3 59 (10.42%) SC Cleared
4 29 (5.12%) AWS Certification
4 29 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.89%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.12%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.88%) CISSP
8 5 (0.88%) GIAC
8 5 (0.88%) ISACA
8 5 (0.88%) SANS
9 3 (0.53%) LPIC
10 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.35%) Linux+ Certification
10 2 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.36%) QA
2 25 (4.42%) Accessibility
3 18 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.12%) NIST
5 11 (1.94%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.77%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.24%) ISO 9001
7 7 (1.24%) WCAG
8 4 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.71%) GDPR
9 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.88%) Firmware
4 3 (0.53%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.35%) vSphere
6 1 (0.18%) KVM
6 1 (0.18%) QEMU
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 342 (60.42%) Kubernetes
2 199 (35.16%) Terraform
3 87 (15.37%) Ansible
4 55 (9.72%) Prometheus
5 50 (8.83%) Grafana
6 38 (6.71%) Argo
7 19 (3.36%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.65%) Podman
9 12 (2.12%) Puppet
10 8 (1.41%) Istio
11 7 (1.24%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.88%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.88%) HP Fortify
12 5 (0.88%) Packer
13 4 (0.71%) Kibana
14 3 (0.53%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.35%) MIIS
15 2 (0.35%) Nagios
15 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (10.60%) Google
1 60 (10.60%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.95%) Typelevel
3 22 (3.89%) Databricks
4 15 (2.65%) Oracle
4 15 (2.65%) Red Hat
5 9 (1.59%) Palantir
5 9 (1.59%) Splunk
6 8 (1.41%) Confluent
7 7 (1.24%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.06%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.06%) VMware
9 5 (0.88%) ESRI
9 5 (0.88%) ForgeRock
9 5 (0.88%) Okta
9 5 (0.88%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.71%) Ericsson
10 4 (0.71%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.71%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.71%) Nokia