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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 33 31
Rank change year-on-year -57 -2 -5
Permanent jobs citing Docker 435 1,216 1,561
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.91% 7.40% 7.17%
As % of the System Software category 36.04% 47.54% 44.31%
Number of salaries quoted 315 672 1,317
10th Percentile £43,000 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £83,125 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £117,250 £96,250
UK median annual salary £71,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.07% +3.57% -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 1,207 2,558 3,523
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.07% 15.57% 16.19%
Number of salaries quoted 867 1,573 3,020
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,875 £81,250 £74,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -0.12%

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 12 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 15 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (3.22%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.99%) nginx
4 7 (1.61%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.15%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.15%) Apache
5 5 (1.15%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.15%) ArcGIS
5 5 (1.15%) Drupal
5 5 (1.15%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.15%) WordPress
6 4 (0.92%) CMS
6 4 (0.92%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.92%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.69%) IIS
7 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.23%) Camunda
8 1 (0.23%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.69%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.46%) Weka
3 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.84%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 284 (65.29%) AWS
2 222 (51.03%) Azure
3 107 (24.60%) GitHub
4 100 (22.99%) GCP
5 59 (13.56%) Serverless
6 57 (13.10%) GitHub Actions
7 50 (11.49%) Azure DevOps
8 48 (11.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 40 (9.20%) AWS Lambda
10 33 (7.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 30 (6.90%) Amazon S3
11 30 (6.90%) SaaS
12 26 (5.98%) Amazon ECS
13 22 (5.06%) Pulumi
14 19 (4.37%) Datadog
14 19 (4.37%) OpenShift
15 17 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (3.91%) Azure AKS
16 15 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (3.22%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.44%) Broadband
2 17 (3.91%) Firewall
3 15 (3.45%) VPN
4 11 (2.53%) DNS
4 11 (2.53%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.61%) Network Security
6 5 (1.15%) AMQP
7 4 (0.92%) WAN
8 3 (0.69%) DHCP
8 3 (0.69%) Internet
8 3 (0.69%) VLAN
9 2 (0.46%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.46%) LAN
9 2 (0.46%) SCCP
9 2 (0.46%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.46%) VSAN
10 1 (0.23%) 5G
10 1 (0.23%) SAN
10 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (17.47%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (14.71%) NoSQL
3 44 (10.11%) SQL Server
4 35 (8.05%) MySQL
5 32 (7.36%) Relational Database
6 29 (6.67%) MongoDB
7 25 (5.75%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (5.29%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (4.37%) Redis
10 13 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (2.99%) DynamoDB
10 13 (2.99%) RDBMS
11 9 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (2.07%) BigQuery
11 9 (2.07%) Data Lake
12 8 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (1.84%) Tableau
13 7 (1.61%) Delta Lake
13 7 (1.61%) MariaDB
14 6 (1.38%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 64 (14.71%) Git
2 59 (13.56%) Jenkins
3 52 (11.95%) GitLab
4 17 (3.91%) TeamCity
5 13 (2.99%) Jaeger
6 12 (2.76%) JUnit
6 12 (2.76%) Selenium
7 10 (2.30%) SonarQube
8 9 (2.07%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.61%) MLflow
10 6 (1.38%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.38%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.38%) Storybook
11 5 (1.15%) JIRA
11 5 (1.15%) Maven
11 5 (1.15%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.92%) JMeter
12 4 (0.92%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.69%) REST Assured
General
1 113 (25.98%) Social Skills
2 61 (14.02%) Finance
3 28 (6.44%) Public Sector
4 24 (5.52%) Telecoms
5 21 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.60%) Law
7 13 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.53%) Marketing
9 10 (2.30%) Retail
10 9 (2.07%) Games
10 9 (2.07%) Legal
11 8 (1.84%) Banking
12 6 (1.38%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.15%) Front Office
13 5 (1.15%) Local Government
13 5 (1.15%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.15%) Police
14 4 (0.92%) Electronics
15 3 (0.69%) Aviation
15 3 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 132 (30.34%) Senior
2 122 (28.05%) Developer
3 82 (18.85%) Lead
4 55 (12.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 54 (12.41%) Software Engineer
6 33 (7.59%) Senior Developer
7 27 (6.21%) Java Developer
8 25 (5.75%) Architect
8 25 (5.75%) Full-Stack Developer
8 25 (5.75%) Lead DevOps
9 24 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
10 22 (5.06%) Software Developer
11 21 (4.83%) Azure Engineer
11 21 (4.83%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 21 (4.83%) Senior Software Engineer
12 20 (4.60%) Python Developer
13 19 (4.37%) Data Engineer
13 19 (4.37%) Development Engineer
14 18 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
15 16 (3.68%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (18.62%) React
2 76 (17.47%) .NET
3 53 (12.18%) RESTful
4 51 (11.72%) Node.js
5 49 (11.26%) Spring
6 47 (10.80%) Spring Boot
7 45 (10.34%) Kafka
8 43 (9.89%) Elastic Stack
9 42 (9.66%) REST
10 39 (8.97%) Django
11 32 (7.36%) .NET Core
11 32 (7.36%) AngularJS
12 30 (6.90%) Flask
13 29 (6.67%) CSS
13 29 (6.67%) HTML
14 25 (5.75%) Vue
15 21 (4.83%) FastAPI
16 17 (3.91%) gRPC
17 16 (3.68%) RabbitMQ
18 15 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 95 (21.84%) Cloud Native
2 38 (8.74%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (7.13%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.14%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (2.99%) Over-the-Top Content
5 13 (2.99%) Video\Live Streaming
6 11 (2.53%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.30%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.61%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.38%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.38%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.38%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.15%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.92%) PKI
12 3 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 94 (21.61%) Linux
2 35 (8.05%) Unix
3 33 (7.59%) Windows
4 14 (3.22%) Android
4 14 (3.22%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.61%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.61%) VMS
6 5 (1.15%) CentOS
7 4 (0.92%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.23%) Fedora
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (64.83%) CI/CD
2 243 (55.86%) DevOps
3 213 (48.97%) Containerisation
4 166 (38.16%) Agile
5 150 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 114 (26.21%) Problem-Solving
7 108 (24.83%) Microservices
8 94 (21.61%) Software Engineering
9 88 (20.23%) AI
10 80 (18.39%) Mentoring
11 70 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 67 (15.40%) Observability
13 60 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
14 53 (12.18%) Event-Driven
14 53 (12.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 49 (11.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 49 (11.26%) Machine Learning
16 47 (10.80%) Test Automation
17 44 (10.11%) TDD
18 43 (9.89%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 199 (45.75%) Python
2 115 (26.44%) JavaScript
3 114 (26.21%) SQL
4 105 (24.14%) Java
5 61 (14.02%) C#
6 55 (12.64%) Bash
7 48 (11.03%) Go
8 43 (9.89%) TypeScript
9 26 (5.98%) Bicep
10 25 (5.75%) PHP
10 25 (5.75%) PowerShell
11 21 (4.83%) Scala
12 11 (2.53%) C++
13 8 (1.84%) Delphi
14 5 (1.15%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.92%) Ruby
16 3 (0.69%) Groovy
16 3 (0.69%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.69%) Perl
17 2 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 59 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 52 (11.95%) Degree
3 43 (9.89%) SC Cleared
4 35 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (7.13%) AWS Certification
6 19 (4.37%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.22%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.46%) CISA
9 2 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.46%) CISM
9 2 (0.46%) CISSP
9 2 (0.46%) CRISC
9 2 (0.46%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.46%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.44%) QA
2 15 (3.45%) GDPR
3 12 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.53%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (1.15%) ISO 9001
5 5 (1.15%) NIST
6 4 (0.92%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.46%) ECSS
7 2 (0.46%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.23%) SEPA
8 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (1.38%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.15%) vSphere
3 4 (0.92%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.46%) Ceph
5 2 (0.46%) Lustre
5 2 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.23%) Firmware
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.23%) vCloud
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 296 (68.05%) Kubernetes
2 194 (44.60%) Terraform
3 82 (18.85%) Ansible
4 68 (15.63%) Grafana
5 60 (13.79%) Prometheus
6 27 (6.21%) Argo
7 13 (2.99%) Kustomize
8 5 (1.15%) Puppet
9 4 (0.92%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.69%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.23%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.23%) Rancher
11 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 38 (8.74%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.28%) Google
3 24 (5.52%) Oracle
4 17 (3.91%) Databricks
5 11 (2.53%) Splunk
6 10 (2.30%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.07%) SAP
8 7 (1.61%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.38%) Mercator
9 6 (1.38%) VMware
10 5 (1.15%) Dell
10 5 (1.15%) Epicor
10 5 (1.15%) Ericsson
10 5 (1.15%) IBM
10 5 (1.15%) Infor
10 5 (1.15%) Informatica
10 5 (1.15%) Nokia
10 5 (1.15%) Software AG
10 5 (1.15%) Talend
10 5 (1.15%) TIBCO