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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 33 76
Rank change year-on-year -43 +43 -45
Permanent jobs citing Docker 715 1,160 970
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.27% 7.05% 3.64%
As % of the System Software category 39.59% 53.31% 31.00%
Number of salaries quoted 546 479 778
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,132 £42,850
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 £77,424 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £91,875 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +6.62% -6.21%

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 1,806 2,176 3,129
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.25% 13.22% 11.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,370 1,274 2,346
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £85,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% - -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 29 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 22 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.68%) Apache
4 7 (0.98%) nginx
5 6 (0.84%) IIS
5 6 (0.84%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.70%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.42%) Camunda
7 3 (0.42%) Confluence
8 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.28%) WordPress
9 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 447 (62.52%) AWS
2 410 (57.34%) Azure
3 223 (31.19%) GitHub
4 182 (25.45%) GCP
5 151 (21.12%) GitHub Copilot
6 80 (11.19%) Serverless
7 74 (10.35%) Azure AI
8 52 (7.27%) SaaS
9 48 (6.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 47 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
11 41 (5.73%) Amazon S3
11 41 (5.73%) AWS Lambda
12 33 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
14 31 (4.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 31 (4.34%) Azure Service Bus
15 30 (4.20%) Azure AKS
16 24 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
17 23 (3.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (8.39%) Broadband
2 20 (2.80%) Internet
3 11 (1.54%) VPN
4 10 (1.40%) DNS
5 9 (1.26%) Firewall
5 9 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.70%) MQTT
7 4 (0.56%) DHCP
7 4 (0.56%) Network Security
7 4 (0.56%) SSH
8 3 (0.42%) AMQP
8 3 (0.42%) HTTP
8 3 (0.42%) SMS
9 2 (0.28%) Intranet
9 2 (0.28%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.28%) SAN
9 2 (0.28%) VLAN
9 2 (0.28%) WireGuard
10 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (25.03%) MongoDB
2 140 (19.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 97 (13.57%) PostgreSQL
4 63 (8.81%) Elasticsearch
5 54 (7.55%) SQL Server
6 47 (6.57%) NoSQL
7 39 (5.45%) Relational Database
8 37 (5.17%) Redis
9 35 (4.90%) MySQL
10 29 (4.06%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (2.66%) DynamoDB
12 14 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (1.26%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.12%) Data Lake
15 8 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 7 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
16 7 (0.98%) Delta Lake
17 6 (0.84%) Big Data
17 6 (0.84%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 131 (18.32%) Git
2 68 (9.51%) Jenkins
3 58 (8.11%) GitLab
4 22 (3.08%) JUnit
5 19 (2.66%) Cypress.io
6 18 (2.52%) Maven
6 18 (2.52%) Selenium
7 17 (2.38%) JIRA
8 12 (1.68%) CircleCI
8 12 (1.68%) Mockito
9 10 (1.40%) Claude Code
9 10 (1.40%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.40%) Postman
10 7 (0.98%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.84%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.84%) Gatling
11 6 (0.84%) JMeter
11 6 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.70%) Locust
General
1 152 (21.26%) Social Skills
2 98 (13.71%) Finance
3 44 (6.15%) Public Sector
4 42 (5.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (5.45%) Advertising
6 21 (2.94%) Marketing
7 18 (2.52%) Aerospace
7 18 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (2.10%) Games
9 13 (1.82%) Banking
10 11 (1.54%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.40%) Law
12 8 (1.12%) Legal
13 6 (0.84%) Electronics
14 5 (0.70%) Retail
14 5 (0.70%) Tech for Good
15 4 (0.56%) Military
15 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.42%) Health Technology
16 3 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 304 (42.52%) Developer
2 160 (22.38%) Senior
3 143 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 110 (15.38%) Software Engineer
5 79 (11.05%) Lead
6 54 (7.55%) DevOps Engineer
7 45 (6.29%) Senior Developer
8 43 (6.01%) Full-Stack Developer
9 39 (5.45%) Java Developer
10 31 (4.34%) AWS Engineer
10 31 (4.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 30 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
12 28 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (3.64%) Data Engineer
14 24 (3.36%) Scala Engineer
15 23 (3.22%) Azure Engineer
15 23 (3.22%) Cloud Engineer
16 21 (2.94%) Python Engineer
17 20 (2.80%) Lead Developer
18 19 (2.66%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (29.65%) .NET
2 154 (21.54%) .NET Core
3 151 (21.12%) ASP.NET
4 136 (19.02%) ASP.NET Core
5 124 (17.34%) React
6 113 (15.80%) Node.js
7 104 (14.55%) AngularJS
8 103 (14.41%) CSS
9 97 (13.57%) REST
10 94 (13.15%) HTML
11 78 (10.91%) RESTful
12 77 (10.77%) Spring
12 77 (10.77%) Vue
13 73 (10.21%) ML.NET
14 59 (8.25%) Spring Boot
15 50 (6.99%) Kafka
16 44 (6.15%) gRPC
17 35 (4.90%) Blazor
18 30 (4.20%) Django
18 30 (4.20%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 124 (17.34%) Cloud Native
2 88 (12.31%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (5.03%) Over-the-Top Content
3 36 (5.03%) Video\Live Streaming
4 32 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
5 31 (4.34%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.80%) Digital TV
7 16 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.54%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.40%) IoT
13 9 (1.26%) Robotics
14 8 (1.12%) Algorithms
14 8 (1.12%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.12%) Virtual Team
15 7 (0.98%) Data Centre
15 7 (0.98%) Data Structures
15 7 (0.98%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 132 (18.46%) Linux
2 15 (2.10%) Windows
3 14 (1.96%) Ubuntu
4 11 (1.54%) Unix
5 7 (0.98%) Debian
5 7 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.84%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.56%) CentOS
9 3 (0.42%) Android
9 3 (0.42%) VMS
9 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (67.41%) CI/CD
2 293 (40.98%) Agile
3 285 (39.86%) Containerisation
4 257 (35.94%) DevOps
4 257 (35.94%) Full-Stack Development
5 249 (34.83%) Microservices
6 213 (29.79%) Software Engineering
7 212 (29.65%) AI
8 163 (22.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 156 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
10 150 (20.98%) Machine Learning
11 131 (18.32%) Mentoring
12 122 (17.06%) Scrum
13 115 (16.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 115 (16.08%) TDD
14 106 (14.83%) Clean Code
15 87 (12.17%) Test Automation
16 83 (11.61%) Observability
17 76 (10.63%) Event-Driven
18 74 (10.35%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 265 (37.06%) Python
2 246 (34.41%) SQL
3 223 (31.19%) C#
4 143 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 122 (17.06%) JavaScript
6 113 (15.80%) Java
7 63 (8.81%) Go
8 61 (8.53%) Bash
9 50 (6.99%) Scala
10 36 (5.03%) PowerShell
11 23 (3.22%) Ruby
12 21 (2.94%) Bicep
12 21 (2.94%) PHP
13 14 (1.96%) C++
14 13 (1.82%) PL/SQL
15 12 (1.68%) Kotlin
16 10 (1.40%) Groovy
17 8 (1.12%) Rust
18 6 (0.84%) C
19 4 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (12.59%) Security Cleared
2 76 (10.63%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.83%) Degree
4 20 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.66%) Azure Certification
6 14 (1.96%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.70%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.56%) CISSP
9 4 (0.56%) GIAC
9 4 (0.56%) ISACA
9 4 (0.56%) SANS
10 3 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.14%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.95%) QA
2 34 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 17 (2.38%) WCAG
5 12 (1.68%) NIST
6 9 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.12%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.84%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.42%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.28%) GDPR
10 2 (0.28%) NCSC
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
11 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.56%) Firmware
3 4 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.42%) iptables
4 3 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.28%) KVM
6 1 (0.14%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.14%) QEMU
6 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 468 (65.45%) Kubernetes
2 187 (26.15%) Terraform
3 54 (7.55%) Ansible
4 50 (6.99%) Grafana
5 43 (6.01%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.80%) Puppet
7 16 (2.24%) Istio
7 16 (2.24%) Podman
8 14 (1.96%) Argo
8 14 (1.96%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.70%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.70%) Kibana
10 4 (0.56%) linkerd
10 4 (0.56%) Packer
11 3 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.42%) Nagios
11 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.28%) MIIS
12 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 195 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.13%) Google
3 36 (5.03%) Typelevel
4 20 (2.80%) Facebook
5 18 (2.52%) Oracle
6 17 (2.38%) Okta
7 16 (2.24%) Databricks
8 13 (1.82%) Ping Identity
9 10 (1.40%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.26%) Informatica
10 9 (1.26%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.12%) Confluent
11 8 (1.12%) ForgeRock
11 8 (1.12%) VMware
12 7 (0.98%) Splunk
13 5 (0.70%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.70%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.70%) IBM
13 5 (0.70%) New Relic
14 4 (0.56%) TIBCO