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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 31 52
Rank change year-on-year -45 +21 -23
Permanent jobs citing Docker 556 1,124 1,568
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.30% 8.24% 5.23%
As % of the System Software category 41.65% 50.07% 36.69%
Number of salaries quoted 370 742 1,328
10th Percentile £44,259 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £102,410 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £134,250 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 1,335 2,245 4,274
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.92% 16.45% 14.24%
Number of salaries quoted 943 1,578 3,664
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 16 March 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 (5.04%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (3.78%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.34%) nginx
4 9 (1.62%) CMS
5 6 (1.08%) Apache
5 6 (1.08%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.90%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.90%) Apache Pulsar
6 5 (0.90%) Drupal
6 5 (0.90%) WordPress
7 4 (0.72%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.72%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.72%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.72%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.54%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.36%) Camunda
9 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.18%) SAS
10 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.72%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.72%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.36%) Weka
3 1 (0.18%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 9 (1.62%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 387 (69.60%) AWS
2 246 (44.24%) Azure
3 165 (29.68%) GCP
4 130 (23.38%) GitHub
5 87 (15.65%) Serverless
6 60 (10.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 58 (10.43%) GitHub Actions
8 56 (10.07%) Amazon S3
9 55 (9.89%) AWS Lambda
10 48 (8.63%) SaaS
11 46 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
12 39 (7.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (6.29%) Amazon ECS
14 32 (5.76%) Pulumi
15 28 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
16 23 (4.14%) OpenShift
17 22 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
18 21 (3.78%) dbt
18 21 (3.78%) PaaS
19 20 (3.60%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 86 (15.47%) Broadband
2 14 (2.52%) TCP/IP
3 9 (1.62%) Firewall
4 7 (1.26%) Network Security
4 7 (1.26%) VPN
5 5 (0.90%) AMQP
5 5 (0.90%) DHCP
5 5 (0.90%) DNS
6 4 (0.72%) MQTT
7 3 (0.54%) HTTP
7 3 (0.54%) Internet
7 3 (0.54%) RTP
7 3 (0.54%) SCCP
7 3 (0.54%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.54%) VLAN
7 3 (0.54%) VoIP
7 3 (0.54%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.36%) DSL
8 2 (0.36%) SAN
8 2 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (14.57%) NoSQL
2 79 (14.21%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (9.35%) MongoDB
4 45 (8.09%) SQL Server
5 42 (7.55%) Relational Database
6 38 (6.83%) Amazon RDS
7 33 (5.94%) Elasticsearch
8 29 (5.22%) MySQL
9 27 (4.86%) Redis
10 19 (3.42%) RDBMS
11 17 (3.06%) DynamoDB
12 16 (2.88%) BigQuery
13 15 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
15 13 (2.34%) Tableau
16 11 (1.98%) Delta Lake
17 10 (1.80%) Pinecone
17 10 (1.80%) Weaviate
18 9 (1.62%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 89 (16.01%) Git
2 82 (14.75%) Jenkins
3 60 (10.79%) GitLab
4 27 (4.86%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.42%) Jaeger
6 16 (2.88%) Selenium
7 14 (2.52%) Cucumber
8 13 (2.34%) MLflow
9 12 (2.16%) CircleCI
9 12 (2.16%) SonarQube
10 11 (1.98%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.98%) JMeter
10 11 (1.98%) JUnit
11 9 (1.62%) JIRA
12 7 (1.26%) Maven
13 6 (1.08%) Bitbucket
13 6 (1.08%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.90%) Locust
14 5 (0.90%) Robot Framework
14 5 (0.90%) Storybook
General
1 132 (23.74%) Social Skills
2 66 (11.87%) Finance
3 38 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (6.47%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.32%) Telecoms
6 19 (3.42%) Law
7 14 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (1.98%) Legal
9 10 (1.80%) Retail
10 9 (1.62%) Banking
11 8 (1.44%) Games
12 6 (1.08%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.08%) Marketing
13 5 (0.90%) Advertising
13 5 (0.90%) Aviation
13 5 (0.90%) Front Office
13 5 (0.90%) Local Government
13 5 (0.90%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.90%) Military
13 5 (0.90%) Police
Job Titles
1 174 (31.29%) Developer
2 167 (30.04%) Senior
3 98 (17.63%) Lead
4 84 (15.11%) Software Engineer
5 51 (9.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 44 (7.91%) Senior Developer
7 39 (7.01%) Full-Stack Developer
8 36 (6.47%) Java Developer
8 36 (6.47%) Scala Engineer
9 30 (5.40%) Cloud Engineer
9 30 (5.40%) Platform Engineer
10 27 (4.86%) Python Developer
10 27 (4.86%) Senior Software Engineer
10 27 (4.86%) Software Developer
11 26 (4.68%) Lead DevOps
12 25 (4.50%) Data Engineer
13 24 (4.32%) .NET Developer
14 20 (3.60%) Architect
14 20 (3.60%) Scala Software Engineer
15 19 (3.42%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (17.63%) React
2 82 (14.75%) .NET
3 75 (13.49%) Node.js
4 69 (12.41%) Spring
5 60 (10.79%) Spring Boot
6 57 (10.25%) Kafka
7 55 (9.89%) RESTful
8 53 (9.53%) Django
8 53 (9.53%) gRPC
9 51 (9.17%) REST
10 47 (8.45%) Elastic Stack
11 46 (8.27%) .NET Core
12 42 (7.55%) AngularJS
13 35 (6.29%) CSS
13 35 (6.29%) HTML
14 34 (6.12%) Flask
14 34 (6.12%) Vue
15 25 (4.50%) Akka
16 23 (4.14%) FastAPI
17 22 (3.96%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 100 (17.99%) Cloud Native
2 79 (14.21%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (10.61%) Over-the-Top Content
3 59 (10.61%) Video\Live Streaming
4 45 (8.09%) Product Ownership
5 17 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.88%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.52%) AI Agents
8 11 (1.98%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.62%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.44%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.08%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.08%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.08%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.08%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.90%) IoT
13 5 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.90%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 115 (20.68%) Linux
2 50 (8.99%) Unix
3 24 (4.32%) Windows
4 18 (3.24%) Android
5 11 (1.98%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.62%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.26%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.08%) CentOS
9 5 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.54%) VMS
11 1 (0.18%) Fedora
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (64.93%) CI/CD
2 291 (52.34%) Containerisation
3 276 (49.64%) DevOps
4 221 (39.75%) Agile
5 172 (30.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 166 (29.86%) Microservices
7 156 (28.06%) Software Engineering
8 147 (26.44%) Problem-Solving
9 104 (18.71%) Mentoring
10 102 (18.35%) AI
11 101 (18.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 96 (17.27%) Full-Stack Development
13 90 (16.19%) Machine Learning
14 79 (14.21%) Clean Code
15 72 (12.95%) Observability
16 71 (12.77%) TDD
17 68 (12.23%) Coaching
18 67 (12.05%) Event-Driven
18 67 (12.05%) Test Automation
19 65 (11.69%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 276 (49.64%) Python
2 147 (26.44%) Java
3 138 (24.82%) JavaScript
4 130 (23.38%) SQL
5 95 (17.09%) Go
6 76 (13.67%) Scala
7 72 (12.95%) C#
8 69 (12.41%) Bash
9 58 (10.43%) TypeScript
10 27 (4.86%) PHP
11 23 (4.14%) PowerShell
12 20 (3.60%) Bicep
13 14 (2.52%) C++
14 10 (1.80%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.44%) Delphi
16 6 (1.08%) Rust
17 5 (0.90%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.72%) C
18 4 (0.72%) Perl
18 4 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 76 (13.67%) Degree
2 73 (13.13%) Security Cleared
3 57 (10.25%) SC Cleared
4 39 (7.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (5.58%) AWS Certification
6 23 (4.14%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.34%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.72%) CISSP
9 4 (0.72%) GIAC
9 4 (0.72%) ISACA
9 4 (0.72%) SANS
10 3 (0.54%) LPIC
11 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.36%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.37%) QA
2 21 (3.78%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.98%) GDPR
4 11 (1.98%) NIST
5 10 (1.80%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.80%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.44%) ISO 9001
7 5 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.72%) WCAG
9 3 (0.54%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.36%) ECSS
11 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 9 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.08%) vSphere
4 5 (0.90%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.72%) Firmware
6 3 (0.54%) Kamailio
6 3 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.36%) Ceph
7 2 (0.36%) Lustre
7 2 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.18%) vCloud
8 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 340 (61.15%) Kubernetes
2 209 (37.59%) Terraform
3 91 (16.37%) Ansible
4 64 (11.51%) Grafana
5 62 (11.15%) Prometheus
6 37 (6.65%) Argo
7 19 (3.42%) Kustomize
8 6 (1.08%) Podman
9 5 (0.90%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.90%) Puppet
10 4 (0.72%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.72%) Packer
11 2 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.36%) Istio
11 2 (0.36%) Kibana
11 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.18%) MIIS
12 1 (0.18%) Nagios
Vendors
1 60 (10.79%) Google
2 50 (8.99%) Microsoft
3 36 (6.47%) Typelevel
4 25 (4.50%) Oracle
5 23 (4.14%) Databricks
6 14 (2.52%) Splunk
7 10 (1.80%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.62%) Palantir
9 8 (1.44%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.44%) SAP
10 7 (1.26%) VMware
11 6 (1.08%) Dell
11 6 (1.08%) Mercator
11 6 (1.08%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.90%) Epicor
12 5 (0.90%) Ericsson
12 5 (0.90%) IBM
12 5 (0.90%) Informatica
12 5 (0.90%) Nokia
12 5 (0.90%) Software AG