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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 29 67
Rank change year-on-year -48 +38 -35
Permanent jobs citing Docker 632 1,231 1,352
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.16% 7.99% 3.90%
As % of the System Software category 40.05% 55.53% 32.42%
Number of salaries quoted 417 555 1,125
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +15.18% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £126,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.29% -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 1,578 2,217 4,170
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.88% 14.39% 12.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,132 1,328 3,257
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.84%
75th Percentile £77,443 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,598 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £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 18 June 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 29 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.74%) Apache
4 8 (1.27%) nginx
5 7 (1.11%) CMS
6 6 (0.95%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.79%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.32%) Camunda
8 2 (0.32%) Confluence
8 2 (0.32%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.32%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.32%) IIS
8 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.32%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.32%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) JBoss
9 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.47%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Shopify
2 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.16%) Magento
3 1 (0.16%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 417 (65.98%) AWS
2 294 (46.52%) Azure
3 165 (26.11%) GitHub
4 160 (25.32%) GCP
5 93 (14.72%) GitHub Copilot
6 87 (13.77%) Serverless
7 53 (8.39%) Amazon S3
8 51 (8.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 49 (7.75%) AWS Lambda
10 46 (7.28%) Azure AI
11 45 (7.12%) SaaS
12 38 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (5.85%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (5.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 35 (5.54%) Amazon ECS
14 35 (5.54%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (4.27%) Pulumi
16 25 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
16 25 (3.96%) Azure AKS
17 22 (3.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 108 (17.09%) Broadband
2 11 (1.74%) Internet
3 10 (1.58%) DNS
4 9 (1.42%) Firewall
5 7 (1.11%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.11%) VPN
6 6 (0.95%) Network Security
7 5 (0.79%) DHCP
8 4 (0.63%) HTTP
8 4 (0.63%) MQTT
9 3 (0.47%) AMQP
9 3 (0.47%) DSL
9 3 (0.47%) RTP
9 3 (0.47%) SCCP
9 3 (0.47%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.47%) VoIP
9 3 (0.47%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.32%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.32%) SAN
10 2 (0.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (20.57%) MongoDB
2 78 (12.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 77 (12.18%) PostgreSQL
4 68 (10.76%) NoSQL
5 52 (8.23%) Relational Database
6 43 (6.80%) Elasticsearch
7 37 (5.85%) SQL Server
8 33 (5.22%) MySQL
9 32 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
10 27 (4.27%) Redis
11 23 (3.64%) DynamoDB
12 18 (2.85%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (2.85%) RDBMS
13 15 (2.37%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (1.90%) Delta Lake
15 11 (1.74%) Tableau
16 10 (1.58%) Pinecone
17 9 (1.42%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 104 (16.46%) Git
2 80 (12.66%) Jenkins
3 60 (9.49%) GitLab
4 24 (3.80%) TeamCity
5 18 (2.85%) Jaeger
6 17 (2.69%) Cypress.io
7 16 (2.53%) JIRA
8 15 (2.37%) JUnit
8 15 (2.37%) Maven
9 14 (2.22%) CircleCI
9 14 (2.22%) Selenium
10 10 (1.58%) JMeter
10 10 (1.58%) MLflow
11 9 (1.42%) Claude Code
11 9 (1.42%) Mockito
11 9 (1.42%) Postman
12 8 (1.27%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.95%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.95%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.79%) Locust
General
1 118 (18.67%) Social Skills
2 75 (11.87%) Finance
3 47 (7.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 40 (6.33%) Public Sector
5 25 (3.96%) Advertising
6 16 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.22%) Marketing
8 12 (1.90%) Banking
9 11 (1.74%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.58%) Games
10 10 (1.58%) Law
10 10 (1.58%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.27%) Retail
12 6 (0.95%) Aviation
12 6 (0.95%) Legal
13 4 (0.63%) Military
13 4 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.63%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.32%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 249 (39.40%) Developer
2 145 (22.94%) Senior
3 94 (14.87%) Software Engineer
4 90 (14.24%) Lead
5 83 (13.13%) .NET Developer
6 49 (7.75%) DevOps Engineer
7 42 (6.65%) Full-Stack Developer
7 42 (6.65%) Scala Engineer
7 42 (6.65%) Senior Developer
8 40 (6.33%) Java Developer
9 31 (4.91%) AWS Engineer
9 31 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
10 29 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
10 29 (4.59%) Senior Software Engineer
11 25 (3.96%) Data Engineer
11 25 (3.96%) Software Developer
12 24 (3.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 23 (3.64%) Scala Software Engineer
14 21 (3.32%) Scala Developer
15 19 (3.01%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (22.31%) .NET
2 108 (17.09%) React
3 100 (15.82%) .NET Core
4 98 (15.51%) Node.js
5 89 (14.08%) ASP.NET
6 80 (12.66%) ASP.NET Core
7 77 (12.18%) AngularJS
8 72 (11.39%) Spring
9 71 (11.23%) CSS
10 67 (10.60%) REST
11 66 (10.44%) HTML
12 63 (9.97%) RESTful
13 57 (9.02%) Spring Boot
14 54 (8.54%) Vue
15 50 (7.91%) Kafka
16 48 (7.59%) gRPC
17 44 (6.96%) ML.NET
18 32 (5.06%) Django
19 26 (4.11%) OpenTelemetry
19 26 (4.11%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 114 (18.04%) Cloud Native
2 82 (12.97%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (10.60%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (10.60%) Video\Live Streaming
4 42 (6.65%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.06%) Digital TV
8 10 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.27%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.27%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.27%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.11%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.11%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.11%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.95%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.79%) Cyberattack
12 5 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 123 (19.46%) Linux
2 30 (4.75%) Unix
3 12 (1.90%) Ubuntu
3 12 (1.90%) Windows
4 8 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.79%) Android
5 5 (0.79%) CentOS
5 5 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.63%) Debian
7 3 (0.47%) VMS
7 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (65.82%) CI/CD
2 287 (45.41%) Containerisation
3 280 (44.30%) Agile
4 253 (40.03%) DevOps
5 212 (33.54%) Microservices
6 191 (30.22%) Software Engineering
7 188 (29.75%) Full-Stack Development
8 171 (27.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 163 (25.79%) AI
10 138 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
11 132 (20.89%) Mentoring
12 125 (19.78%) Machine Learning
13 116 (18.35%) Continuous Improvement
14 112 (17.72%) Scrum
15 110 (17.41%) TDD
16 106 (16.77%) Clean Code
17 88 (13.92%) Coaching
18 76 (12.03%) Test Automation
19 75 (11.87%) Observability
20 70 (11.08%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 266 (42.09%) Python
2 179 (28.32%) SQL
3 149 (23.58%) C#
4 138 (21.84%) Java
5 125 (19.78%) JavaScript
6 114 (18.04%) TypeScript
7 95 (15.03%) Go
8 86 (13.61%) Scala
9 78 (12.34%) Bash
10 27 (4.27%) PowerShell
11 23 (3.64%) PHP
12 18 (2.85%) Bicep
13 15 (2.37%) Ruby
14 14 (2.22%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.58%) PL/SQL
16 9 (1.42%) Groovy
17 8 (1.27%) C++
17 8 (1.27%) Rust
18 7 (1.11%) C
19 3 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 79 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 64 (10.13%) SC Cleared
3 55 (8.70%) Degree
4 31 (4.91%) AWS Certification
5 23 (3.64%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.42%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.79%) CISSP
9 5 (0.79%) GIAC
9 5 (0.79%) ISACA
9 5 (0.79%) SANS
10 3 (0.47%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.47%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.32%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.32%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (8.39%) QA
2 29 (4.59%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.90%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.90%) NIST
4 11 (1.74%) WCAG
5 10 (1.58%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.79%) GDPR
7 3 (0.47%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.47%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.16%) NCSC
8 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.63%) Firmware
4 3 (0.47%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.16%) iptables
6 1 (0.16%) KVM
6 1 (0.16%) QEMU
6 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.16%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 399 (63.13%) Kubernetes
2 184 (29.11%) Terraform
3 72 (11.39%) Ansible
4 52 (8.23%) Prometheus
5 41 (6.49%) Grafana
6 34 (5.38%) Argo
7 18 (2.85%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.37%) Podman
8 15 (2.37%) Puppet
9 14 (2.22%) Istio
10 12 (1.90%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.95%) Packer
12 5 (0.79%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.79%) Kibana
13 3 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.47%) linkerd
13 3 (0.47%) Nagios
13 3 (0.47%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.32%) MIIS
14 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 129 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 64 (10.13%) Google
3 45 (7.12%) Typelevel
4 20 (3.16%) Databricks
5 19 (3.01%) Oracle
6 12 (1.90%) Facebook
7 9 (1.42%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.27%) Confluent
8 8 (1.27%) Palantir
8 8 (1.27%) Splunk
9 7 (1.11%) VMware
10 5 (0.79%) ForgeRock
10 5 (0.79%) HubSpot
10 5 (0.79%) Okta
10 5 (0.79%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.63%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.63%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.47%) BT
12 3 (0.47%) Commvault
12 3 (0.47%) Dell