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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 33 78
Rank change year-on-year -45 +45 -46
Permanent jobs citing Docker 728 1,168 982
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.32% 7.10% 3.63%
As % of the System Software category 39.93% 53.33% 30.98%
Number of salaries quoted 551 485 802
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,165 £43,075
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +10.76% -10.34%
75th Percentile £76,837 £86,250 £84,919
90th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +6.62% -8.72%

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 1,823 2,190 3,170
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.32% 13.31% 11.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,381 1,286 2,396
10th Percentile £32,750 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,565 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 28 July 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 Spark
3 12 (1.65%) Apache
4 9 (1.24%) nginx
5 6 (0.82%) IIS
5 6 (0.82%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.69%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.55%) CMS
8 3 (0.41%) Camunda
8 3 (0.41%) Confluence
9 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.27%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.27%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.27%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) Drupal
10 1 (0.14%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 457 (62.77%) AWS
2 410 (56.32%) Azure
3 224 (30.77%) GitHub
4 189 (25.96%) GCP
5 151 (20.74%) GitHub Copilot
6 83 (11.40%) Serverless
7 74 (10.16%) Azure AI
8 50 (6.87%) SaaS
9 48 (6.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 47 (6.46%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (6.46%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
12 43 (5.91%) Amazon S3
13 35 (4.81%) Amazon EC2
14 32 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
15 31 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 31 (4.26%) Azure Service Bus
16 30 (4.12%) Azure AKS
17 24 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
18 23 (3.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (9.34%) Broadband
2 20 (2.75%) Internet
3 11 (1.51%) VPN
4 10 (1.37%) DNS
5 9 (1.24%) Firewall
5 9 (1.24%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.69%) MQTT
7 4 (0.55%) DHCP
7 4 (0.55%) Network Security
7 4 (0.55%) SSH
8 3 (0.41%) AMQP
8 3 (0.41%) HTTP
9 2 (0.27%) Intranet
9 2 (0.27%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.27%) SAN
9 2 (0.27%) SMS
9 2 (0.27%) VLAN
9 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
10 1 (0.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (24.86%) MongoDB
2 140 (19.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 96 (13.19%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (8.79%) Elasticsearch
5 54 (7.42%) SQL Server
6 51 (7.01%) NoSQL
7 41 (5.63%) Relational Database
8 38 (5.22%) MySQL
9 37 (5.08%) Redis
10 31 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (2.61%) DynamoDB
12 14 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (1.24%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.10%) Data Lake
15 8 (1.10%) Delta Lake
15 8 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 7 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
17 6 (0.82%) Power BI
17 6 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 132 (18.13%) Git
2 67 (9.20%) Jenkins
3 58 (7.97%) GitLab
4 22 (3.02%) JUnit
5 19 (2.61%) Cypress.io
6 18 (2.47%) Maven
7 17 (2.34%) JIRA
7 17 (2.34%) Selenium
8 12 (1.65%) CircleCI
8 12 (1.65%) Mockito
9 10 (1.37%) Claude Code
9 10 (1.37%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.37%) Postman
10 7 (0.96%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.82%) Gatling
11 6 (0.82%) JMeter
11 6 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.69%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.69%) Subversion
12 5 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 151 (20.74%) Social Skills
2 98 (13.46%) Finance
3 46 (6.32%) Public Sector
4 41 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (5.36%) Advertising
6 22 (3.02%) Marketing
7 18 (2.47%) Aerospace
7 18 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (2.06%) Games
9 13 (1.79%) Banking
10 10 (1.37%) Law
10 10 (1.37%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.10%) Legal
12 6 (0.82%) Electronics
13 5 (0.69%) Military
13 5 (0.69%) Retail
14 4 (0.55%) Tech for Good
14 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 313 (42.99%) Developer
2 162 (22.25%) Senior
3 143 (19.64%) .NET Developer
4 111 (15.25%) Software Engineer
5 80 (10.99%) Lead
6 54 (7.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 47 (6.46%) Full-Stack Developer
8 46 (6.32%) Senior Developer
9 40 (5.49%) Java Developer
10 31 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (4.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 30 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
11 30 (4.12%) Scala Engineer
12 28 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
13 27 (3.71%) Data Engineer
14 24 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
15 23 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
16 21 (2.88%) Python Engineer
17 20 (2.75%) Lead Developer
17 20 (2.75%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (29.26%) .NET
2 155 (21.29%) .NET Core
3 152 (20.88%) ASP.NET
4 136 (18.68%) ASP.NET Core
5 124 (17.03%) React
6 117 (16.07%) Node.js
7 105 (14.42%) AngularJS
8 103 (14.15%) CSS
9 98 (13.46%) REST
10 95 (13.05%) HTML
11 80 (10.99%) RESTful
11 80 (10.99%) Vue
12 79 (10.85%) Spring
13 73 (10.03%) ML.NET
14 61 (8.38%) Spring Boot
15 52 (7.14%) gRPC
16 51 (7.01%) Kafka
17 34 (4.67%) Blazor
18 31 (4.26%) Django
19 28 (3.85%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 126 (17.31%) Cloud Native
2 96 (13.19%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (6.04%) Over-the-Top Content
3 44 (6.04%) Video\Live Streaming
4 32 (4.40%) Greenfield Project
5 31 (4.26%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.75%) Digital TV
7 15 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (1.51%) AI Agents
9 11 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.24%) IoT
10 9 (1.24%) Robotics
11 8 (1.10%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.10%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.10%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.96%) Data Centre
12 7 (0.96%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.96%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 134 (18.41%) Linux
2 15 (2.06%) Windows
3 14 (1.92%) Ubuntu
4 11 (1.51%) Unix
5 7 (0.96%) Debian
5 7 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.55%) CentOS
9 3 (0.41%) Android
9 3 (0.41%) VMS
9 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 495 (67.99%) CI/CD
2 296 (40.66%) Agile
2 296 (40.66%) Containerisation
3 260 (35.71%) DevOps
3 260 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
4 259 (35.58%) Microservices
5 222 (30.49%) Software Engineering
6 212 (29.12%) AI
7 168 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 163 (22.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 159 (21.84%) Machine Learning
10 134 (18.41%) Mentoring
11 123 (16.90%) Scrum
12 117 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 116 (15.93%) TDD
14 113 (15.52%) Clean Code
15 88 (12.09%) Test Automation
16 83 (11.40%) Coaching
16 83 (11.40%) Observability
17 76 (10.44%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 276 (37.91%) Python
2 247 (33.93%) SQL
3 223 (30.63%) C#
4 145 (19.92%) TypeScript
5 126 (17.31%) JavaScript
6 115 (15.80%) Java
7 72 (9.89%) Go
8 62 (8.52%) Bash
9 59 (8.10%) Scala
10 36 (4.95%) PowerShell
11 24 (3.30%) PHP
12 23 (3.16%) Ruby
13 21 (2.88%) Bicep
14 14 (1.92%) C++
15 13 (1.79%) PL/SQL
16 12 (1.65%) Kotlin
17 10 (1.37%) Groovy
18 8 (1.10%) Rust
19 6 (0.82%) C
20 4 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 77 (10.58%) SC Cleared
3 58 (7.97%) Degree
4 21 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.61%) Azure Certification
6 14 (1.92%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.51%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.69%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.55%) CISSP
9 4 (0.55%) GIAC
9 4 (0.55%) ISACA
9 4 (0.55%) SANS
10 3 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.14%) OCP
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.65%) QA
2 33 (4.53%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.47%) Data Quality
4 17 (2.34%) WCAG
5 12 (1.65%) NIST
6 9 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.10%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.82%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.27%) GDPR
10 2 (0.27%) NCSC
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
11 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.55%) Firmware
3 4 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.41%) iptables
4 3 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.27%) KVM
6 1 (0.14%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.14%) QEMU
6 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 468 (64.29%) Kubernetes
2 185 (25.41%) Terraform
3 53 (7.28%) Ansible
4 50 (6.87%) Grafana
5 43 (5.91%) Prometheus
6 19 (2.61%) Puppet
7 16 (2.20%) Istio
7 16 (2.20%) Podman
8 14 (1.92%) Argo
8 14 (1.92%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.69%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.69%) Kibana
10 4 (0.55%) linkerd
10 4 (0.55%) Packer
11 3 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.41%) Nagios
11 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.27%) CASB
12 2 (0.27%) MIIS
12 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 195 (26.79%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.01%) Google
3 44 (6.04%) Typelevel
4 20 (2.75%) Facebook
5 19 (2.61%) Oracle
6 17 (2.34%) Databricks
7 16 (2.20%) Okta
8 12 (1.65%) Ping Identity
9 10 (1.37%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.24%) Informatica
10 9 (1.24%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.10%) Confluent
11 8 (1.10%) ForgeRock
11 8 (1.10%) VMware
12 7 (0.96%) Splunk
13 5 (0.69%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.69%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.69%) IBM
13 5 (0.69%) New Relic
14 4 (0.55%) TIBCO