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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 38 66
Rank change year-on-year -43 +28 -35
Permanent jobs citing Docker 729 1,038 954
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.12% 6.33% 3.93%
As % of the System Software category 38.53% 50.96% 33.51%
Number of salaries quoted 556 388 685
10th Percentile £45,750 £47,500 £43,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £99,389
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.26% +4.44% -6.90%

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 1,892 2,037 2,847
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.10% 12.43% 11.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,429 1,173 1,943
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -10.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £48,875 £51,750
% change year-on-year +12.53% -5.56% -6.76%

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

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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 2 September 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 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.47%) Apache
2 18 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.10%) nginx
4 7 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.82%) IIS
5 6 (0.82%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.55%) Camunda
7 4 (0.55%) Confluence
8 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.41%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.41%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.27%) CMS
9 2 (0.27%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) Drupal
10 1 (0.14%) JBoss
10 1 (0.14%) Moodle
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.65%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 446 (61.18%) AWS
2 430 (58.98%) Azure
3 237 (32.51%) GitHub
4 169 (23.18%) GCP
5 154 (21.12%) GitHub Copilot
6 76 (10.43%) Azure AI
7 65 (8.92%) Serverless
8 63 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
10 52 (7.13%) SaaS
11 46 (6.31%) AWS CloudFormation
12 36 (4.94%) Amazon S3
13 35 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
13 35 (4.80%) Azure Service Bus
14 31 (4.25%) Azure AKS
15 29 (3.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 29 (3.98%) Amazon ECS
16 28 (3.84%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (3.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 24 (3.29%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.76%) Broadband
2 20 (2.74%) Internet
3 10 (1.37%) VPN
4 9 (1.23%) DNS
4 9 (1.23%) Firewall
5 7 (0.96%) AMQP
5 7 (0.96%) SMS
6 6 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.55%) Network Security
7 4 (0.55%) SSH
8 3 (0.41%) HTTP
9 2 (0.27%) DHCP
9 2 (0.27%) Intranet
9 2 (0.27%) VLAN
9 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
9 2 (0.27%) X.509
10 1 (0.14%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.14%) MQTT
10 1 (0.14%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (24.55%) MongoDB
2 144 (19.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 103 (14.13%) PostgreSQL
4 62 (8.50%) Elasticsearch
5 58 (7.96%) SQL Server
6 57 (7.82%) NoSQL
7 45 (6.17%) Relational Database
8 36 (4.94%) MySQL
9 32 (4.39%) Redis
10 23 (3.16%) DynamoDB
11 18 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (1.37%) Data Lake
15 8 (1.10%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 7 (0.96%) Big Data
17 6 (0.82%) Delta Lake
17 6 (0.82%) Power BI
18 5 (0.69%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 141 (19.34%) Git
2 70 (9.60%) Jenkins
3 60 (8.23%) GitLab
4 26 (3.57%) JUnit
5 21 (2.88%) Cypress.io
6 20 (2.74%) Selenium
7 19 (2.61%) Maven
8 16 (2.19%) JIRA
9 14 (1.92%) Mockito
10 12 (1.65%) CircleCI
10 12 (1.65%) Postman
11 11 (1.51%) Claude Code
12 9 (1.23%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.10%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.96%) Gatling
15 6 (0.82%) Bitbucket
15 6 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
15 6 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
16 5 (0.69%) Subversion
16 5 (0.69%) TeamCity
General
1 166 (22.77%) Social Skills
2 108 (14.81%) Finance
3 57 (7.82%) Public Sector
4 41 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (5.21%) Advertising
6 22 (3.02%) Marketing
7 21 (2.88%) Aerospace
7 21 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (2.19%) Banking
8 16 (2.19%) Games
9 12 (1.65%) Law
9 12 (1.65%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.23%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.10%) Legal
12 7 (0.96%) Health Technology
13 6 (0.82%) Electronics
14 5 (0.69%) Retail
15 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.41%) Local Government
16 3 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 313 (42.94%) Developer
2 172 (23.59%) Senior
3 147 (20.16%) .NET Developer
4 110 (15.09%) Software Engineer
5 80 (10.97%) Lead
6 58 (7.96%) DevOps Engineer
7 51 (7.00%) Senior Developer
8 45 (6.17%) Java Developer
9 44 (6.04%) Full-Stack Developer
10 34 (4.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 30 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (3.84%) Senior Software Engineer
13 25 (3.43%) Data Engineer
13 25 (3.43%) Platform Engineer
13 25 (3.43%) Senior Java Developer
14 24 (3.29%) Lead Developer
15 23 (3.16%) Architect
16 22 (3.02%) Azure Engineer
17 21 (2.88%) Cloud Engineer
18 20 (2.74%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (30.59%) .NET
2 189 (25.93%) Terraform
3 157 (21.54%) .NET Core
3 157 (21.54%) ASP.NET
4 138 (18.93%) ASP.NET Core
4 138 (18.93%) Node.js
5 135 (18.52%) React
6 112 (15.36%) REST
7 107 (14.68%) CSS
8 103 (14.13%) AngularJS
9 93 (12.76%) HTML
10 82 (11.25%) RESTful
11 81 (11.11%) Spring
12 77 (10.56%) Vue
13 74 (10.15%) ML.NET
14 59 (8.09%) Spring Boot
15 51 (7.00%) Kafka
16 42 (5.76%) Blazor
17 31 (4.25%) gRPC
17 31 (4.25%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 117 (16.05%) Cloud Native
2 74 (10.15%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.66%) Greenfield Project
4 22 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.74%) Digital TV
5 20 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (2.47%) Over-the-Top Content
6 18 (2.47%) Video\Live Streaming
7 15 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.78%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.65%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.65%) Robotics
11 10 (1.37%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.37%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.23%) IoT
13 8 (1.10%) Blog
14 7 (0.96%) Onboarding
14 7 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 131 (17.97%) Linux
2 18 (2.47%) Windows
3 16 (2.19%) Ubuntu
4 9 (1.23%) Debian
5 7 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
6 6 (0.82%) Unix
7 5 (0.69%) CentOS
7 5 (0.69%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.55%) Android
8 4 (0.55%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.41%) VMS
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.27%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.27%) Solaris
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.14%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (65.43%) CI/CD
2 299 (41.02%) Agile
3 263 (36.08%) Containerisation
3 263 (36.08%) Full-Stack Development
4 252 (34.57%) DevOps
5 233 (31.96%) Microservices
6 232 (31.82%) AI
7 215 (29.49%) Software Engineering
8 156 (21.40%) Infrastructure as Code
9 144 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
10 142 (19.48%) Machine Learning
11 139 (19.07%) Mentoring
12 124 (17.01%) Scrum
13 110 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 104 (14.27%) TDD
15 100 (13.72%) Test Automation
16 88 (12.07%) Clean Code
17 84 (11.52%) Observability
18 81 (11.11%) Event-Driven
19 67 (9.19%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 273 (37.45%) SQL
2 248 (34.02%) Python
3 232 (31.82%) C#
4 158 (21.67%) TypeScript
5 135 (18.52%) JavaScript
6 119 (16.32%) Java
7 69 (9.47%) Bash
8 48 (6.58%) Go
9 37 (5.08%) PowerShell
10 29 (3.98%) Scala
11 25 (3.43%) Ruby
12 22 (3.02%) Bicep
13 18 (2.47%) C++
13 18 (2.47%) PHP
14 16 (2.19%) Kotlin
14 16 (2.19%) PL/SQL
15 10 (1.37%) Groovy
16 9 (1.23%) Rust
17 8 (1.10%) C
18 4 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 111 (15.23%) Security Cleared
2 89 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.13%) Degree
4 19 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.33%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.19%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.06%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.82%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.41%) OCP
11 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.14%) SANS
13 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.92%) QA
2 35 (4.80%) Accessibility
3 22 (3.02%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.06%) WCAG
5 9 (1.23%) NIST
6 7 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.96%) SOC 2
7 6 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.55%) NCSC
9 3 (0.41%) GDPR
9 3 (0.41%) SLA
10 2 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
10 2 (0.27%) MISRA
10 2 (0.27%) MISRA C
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 21 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.69%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.41%) iptables
4 3 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.27%) Firmware
5 2 (0.27%) KVM
5 2 (0.27%) QEMU
6 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 478 (65.57%) Kubernetes
2 54 (7.41%) Ansible
3 46 (6.31%) Grafana
4 38 (5.21%) Prometheus
5 20 (2.74%) Puppet
6 17 (2.33%) Istio
7 16 (2.19%) Podman
8 13 (1.78%) Argo
9 12 (1.65%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.55%) linkerd
11 3 (0.41%) Cilium
11 3 (0.41%) Kibana
11 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.27%) CASB
12 2 (0.27%) Consul
12 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.27%) Nagios
12 2 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 191 (26.20%) Microsoft
2 53 (7.27%) Google
3 24 (3.29%) OpenAI
4 23 (3.16%) Oracle
5 21 (2.88%) Facebook
6 18 (2.47%) Typelevel
7 15 (2.06%) Databricks
7 15 (2.06%) Okta
8 14 (1.92%) Ping Identity
8 14 (1.92%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.65%) Informatica
10 9 (1.23%) VMware
11 8 (1.10%) Confluent
12 7 (0.96%) Splunk
13 6 (0.82%) New Relic
14 5 (0.69%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.69%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.69%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.69%) IBM
15 4 (0.55%) TIBCO