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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 36 54
Rank change year-on-year -32 +18 -24
Permanent jobs citing Docker 588 974 1,558
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.41% 7.53% 4.91%
As % of the System Software category 41.21% 48.68% 36.13%
Number of salaries quoted 383 731 1,321
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £101,830 £83,750
90th Percentile £104,750 £135,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,360 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.11% +7.66% -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 1,427 2,001 4,312
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.28% 15.48% 13.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,016 1,556 3,632
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £79,795 £83,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £51,375 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.59% +10.00% -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 9 April 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 (4.93%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.38%) nginx
4 9 (1.53%) CMS
4 9 (1.53%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.02%) Apache
5 6 (1.02%) Drupal
5 6 (1.02%) WordPress
6 5 (0.85%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.85%) Apache Pulsar
7 4 (0.68%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.68%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.68%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.51%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.34%) Camunda
9 2 (0.34%) Confluence
9 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.17%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.68%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.34%) Weka
3 1 (0.17%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 9 (1.53%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.17%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 419 (71.26%) AWS
2 255 (43.37%) Azure
3 188 (31.97%) GCP
4 130 (22.11%) GitHub
5 96 (16.33%) Serverless
6 63 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 60 (10.20%) Amazon S3
8 58 (9.86%) AWS Lambda
8 58 (9.86%) GitHub Actions
9 48 (8.16%) SaaS
10 47 (7.99%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (6.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 39 (6.63%) Amazon ECS
13 33 (5.61%) Amazon EKS
14 32 (5.44%) Amazon EC2
14 32 (5.44%) Pulumi
15 29 (4.93%) OpenShift
16 24 (4.08%) Datadog
17 22 (3.74%) dbt
17 22 (3.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (16.50%) Broadband
2 15 (2.55%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.70%) Firewall
4 7 (1.19%) Network Security
4 7 (1.19%) VPN
5 6 (1.02%) DHCP
5 6 (1.02%) DNS
6 5 (0.85%) AMQP
7 4 (0.68%) MQTT
8 3 (0.51%) HTTP
8 3 (0.51%) Internet
8 3 (0.51%) RTP
8 3 (0.51%) SCCP
8 3 (0.51%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.51%) VoIP
8 3 (0.51%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.34%) DSL
9 2 (0.34%) SAN
9 2 (0.34%) VLAN
9 2 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (14.63%) NoSQL
2 85 (14.46%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (9.52%) MongoDB
4 49 (8.33%) SQL Server
5 44 (7.48%) Relational Database
6 41 (6.97%) Amazon RDS
7 30 (5.10%) Elasticsearch
8 28 (4.76%) Redis
9 26 (4.42%) MySQL
10 20 (3.40%) DynamoDB
11 19 (3.23%) RDBMS
12 16 (2.72%) BigQuery
13 14 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (2.21%) Tableau
15 12 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (1.70%) Delta Lake
16 10 (1.70%) Pinecone
16 10 (1.70%) Weaviate
17 9 (1.53%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 97 (16.50%) Git
2 89 (15.14%) Jenkins
3 61 (10.37%) GitLab
4 26 (4.42%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.23%) Jaeger
5 19 (3.23%) Selenium
6 15 (2.55%) Cucumber
7 14 (2.38%) CircleCI
8 13 (2.21%) Cypress.io
8 13 (2.21%) JMeter
8 13 (2.21%) MLflow
8 13 (2.21%) SonarQube
9 11 (1.87%) JUnit
10 9 (1.53%) JIRA
11 8 (1.36%) Maven
12 6 (1.02%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.02%) Locust
12 6 (1.02%) Visual Studio
12 6 (1.02%) Vite
13 5 (0.85%) Storybook
General
1 134 (22.79%) Social Skills
2 75 (12.76%) Finance
3 42 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 40 (6.80%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.08%) Telecoms
6 20 (3.40%) Law
7 15 (2.55%) Banking
8 13 (2.21%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (2.04%) Legal
10 10 (1.70%) Retail
11 7 (1.19%) Aviation
12 6 (1.02%) Advertising
12 6 (1.02%) Front Office
12 6 (1.02%) Games
12 6 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.02%) Marketing
13 5 (0.85%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.85%) Local Government
13 5 (0.85%) Military
13 5 (0.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 178 (30.27%) Developer
2 175 (29.76%) Senior
3 102 (17.35%) Lead
4 88 (14.97%) Software Engineer
5 58 (9.86%) DevOps Engineer
6 45 (7.65%) Senior Developer
7 42 (7.14%) Scala Engineer
8 37 (6.29%) Full-Stack Developer
9 35 (5.95%) Java Developer
10 30 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
10 30 (5.10%) Software Developer
11 29 (4.93%) Platform Engineer
12 28 (4.76%) Python Developer
13 27 (4.59%) Senior Software Engineer
14 26 (4.42%) Lead DevOps
15 25 (4.25%) Data Engineer
16 24 (4.08%) .NET Developer
16 24 (4.08%) Python Engineer
17 23 (3.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 23 (3.91%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (18.20%) React
2 83 (14.12%) .NET
3 76 (12.93%) Node.js
4 72 (12.24%) Spring
5 64 (10.88%) Kafka
6 62 (10.54%) gRPC
6 62 (10.54%) Spring Boot
7 59 (10.03%) REST
7 59 (10.03%) RESTful
8 57 (9.69%) Django
9 49 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
10 44 (7.48%) .NET Core
10 44 (7.48%) AngularJS
11 35 (5.95%) Vue
12 34 (5.78%) CSS
12 34 (5.78%) Flask
12 34 (5.78%) HTML
13 25 (4.25%) Akka
13 25 (4.25%) FastAPI
14 24 (4.08%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 96 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 89 (15.14%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (11.56%) Over-the-Top Content
3 68 (11.56%) Video\Live Streaming
4 48 (8.16%) Product Ownership
5 17 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.72%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.55%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.70%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.53%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.53%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
10 8 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.02%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.02%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.85%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.85%) Cyberattack
12 5 (0.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 124 (21.09%) Linux
2 51 (8.67%) Unix
3 20 (3.40%) Windows
4 17 (2.89%) Android
5 12 (2.04%) Ubuntu
6 11 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.53%) CentOS
8 7 (1.19%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.85%) VMS
9 5 (0.85%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.51%) Debian
11 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (65.14%) CI/CD
2 308 (52.38%) Containerisation
3 297 (50.51%) DevOps
4 232 (39.46%) Agile
5 183 (31.12%) Microservices
6 175 (29.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 166 (28.23%) Software Engineering
8 158 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
9 108 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 108 (18.37%) Mentoring
10 103 (17.52%) AI
11 101 (17.18%) Full-Stack Development
12 96 (16.33%) Machine Learning
13 92 (15.65%) Clean Code
14 83 (14.12%) Coaching
15 81 (13.78%) TDD
16 77 (13.10%) Observability
17 74 (12.59%) Data Science
17 74 (12.59%) Test Automation
18 69 (11.73%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 298 (50.68%) Python
2 147 (25.00%) Java
3 139 (23.64%) JavaScript
4 131 (22.28%) SQL
5 112 (19.05%) Go
6 86 (14.63%) Scala
7 73 (12.41%) C#
8 72 (12.24%) Bash
9 62 (10.54%) TypeScript
10 25 (4.25%) PHP
11 24 (4.08%) PowerShell
12 19 (3.23%) Bicep
13 14 (2.38%) C++
14 11 (1.87%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.36%) Delphi
16 6 (1.02%) Rust
16 6 (1.02%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.85%) Groovy
17 5 (0.85%) Ruby
18 4 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 83 (14.12%) Degree
2 82 (13.95%) Security Cleared
3 64 (10.88%) SC Cleared
4 41 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (4.93%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.57%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.21%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.85%) CISSP
9 5 (0.85%) GIAC
9 5 (0.85%) ISACA
9 5 (0.85%) SANS
10 3 (0.51%) LPIC
11 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.99%) QA
2 24 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.21%) NIST
5 11 (1.87%) GDPR
5 11 (1.87%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.53%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.36%) ISO 9001
8 7 (1.19%) WCAG
9 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.68%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.34%) ECSS
12 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.85%) Firmware
3 5 (0.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 4 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.68%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.68%) vSphere
5 3 (0.51%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.34%) Ceph
6 2 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.34%) Lustre
7 1 (0.17%) KVM
7 1 (0.17%) QEMU
7 1 (0.17%) vCloud
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 355 (60.37%) Kubernetes
2 219 (37.24%) Terraform
3 94 (15.99%) Ansible
4 68 (11.56%) Grafana
5 64 (10.88%) Prometheus
6 38 (6.46%) Argo
7 19 (3.23%) Kustomize
8 11 (1.87%) Puppet
9 9 (1.53%) Podman
10 8 (1.36%) Istio
11 5 (0.85%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.85%) Packer
12 4 (0.68%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.68%) Kibana
12 4 (0.68%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.51%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.34%) MIIS
14 2 (0.34%) Nagios
Vendors
1 64 (10.88%) Google
2 50 (8.50%) Microsoft
3 45 (7.65%) Typelevel
4 26 (4.42%) Oracle
5 23 (3.91%) Databricks
6 15 (2.55%) Splunk
7 14 (2.38%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.53%) Palantir
9 8 (1.36%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.36%) Confluent
9 8 (1.36%) Dell
9 8 (1.36%) SAP
9 8 (1.36%) VMware
10 6 (1.02%) IBM
10 6 (1.02%) TIBCO
11 5 (0.85%) Epicor
11 5 (0.85%) Ericsson
11 5 (0.85%) Informatica
11 5 (0.85%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.85%) Software AG