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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 28 68
Rank change year-on-year -48 +40 -35
Permanent jobs citing Docker 609 1,241 1,356
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.09% 8.20% 3.95%
As % of the System Software category 39.49% 56.03% 32.60%
Number of salaries quoted 394 567 1,138
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £54,117 £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 £78,709 £93,778 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,875 £126,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.29% -5.56%

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 1,542 2,215 4,159
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.83% 14.64% 12.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,094 1,331 3,270
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,000 £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 12 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 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (3.12%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.81%) Apache
4 7 (1.15%) CMS
4 7 (1.15%) nginx
5 6 (0.99%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.82%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.49%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.49%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.49%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.33%) Camunda
8 2 (0.33%) Confluence
8 2 (0.33%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.33%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.33%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.49%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Shopify
2 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.16%) Magento
3 1 (0.16%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 411 (67.49%) AWS
2 277 (45.48%) Azure
3 158 (25.94%) GCP
4 155 (25.45%) GitHub
5 88 (14.45%) Serverless
6 81 (13.30%) GitHub Copilot
7 55 (9.03%) Amazon S3
8 51 (8.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 50 (8.21%) AWS Lambda
10 44 (7.22%) SaaS
11 40 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
12 38 (6.24%) Azure AI
13 36 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (5.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 34 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
15 33 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
16 27 (4.43%) Pulumi
17 24 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
18 23 (3.78%) Azure AKS
19 22 (3.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (17.24%) Broadband
2 9 (1.48%) DNS
2 9 (1.48%) Firewall
2 9 (1.48%) Internet
3 7 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.99%) Network Security
4 6 (0.99%) VPN
5 5 (0.82%) DHCP
6 4 (0.66%) HTTP
6 4 (0.66%) MQTT
7 3 (0.49%) AMQP
7 3 (0.49%) DSL
7 3 (0.49%) RTP
7 3 (0.49%) SCCP
7 3 (0.49%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.49%) VoIP
7 3 (0.49%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.33%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.33%) SAN
8 2 (0.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (19.87%) MongoDB
2 76 (12.48%) PostgreSQL
3 66 (10.84%) NoSQL
4 65 (10.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 53 (8.70%) Relational Database
6 40 (6.57%) Elasticsearch
7 35 (5.75%) SQL Server
8 32 (5.25%) Amazon RDS
9 29 (4.76%) MySQL
10 24 (3.94%) DynamoDB
10 24 (3.94%) Redis
11 18 (2.96%) RDBMS
12 17 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (2.46%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (1.64%) Tableau
16 9 (1.48%) Looker
16 9 (1.48%) Pinecone
17 8 (1.31%) Apache Iceberg
17 8 (1.31%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 95 (15.60%) Git
2 76 (12.48%) Jenkins
3 57 (9.36%) GitLab
4 24 (3.94%) TeamCity
5 18 (2.96%) Cypress.io
5 18 (2.96%) Jaeger
6 16 (2.63%) Maven
7 14 (2.30%) CircleCI
7 14 (2.30%) JUnit
8 13 (2.13%) JIRA
8 13 (2.13%) Selenium
9 10 (1.64%) JMeter
9 10 (1.64%) MLflow
10 9 (1.48%) Mockito
11 8 (1.31%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.31%) Postman
12 7 (1.15%) Claude Code
12 7 (1.15%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.99%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.82%) Locust
General
1 114 (18.72%) Social Skills
2 72 (11.82%) Finance
3 46 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (6.08%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.28%) Advertising
6 13 (2.13%) Banking
7 12 (1.97%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (1.81%) Aerospace
8 11 (1.81%) Marketing
9 10 (1.64%) Games
9 10 (1.64%) Law
9 10 (1.64%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.48%) Retail
11 6 (0.99%) Aviation
11 6 (0.99%) Legal
12 4 (0.66%) Front Office
12 4 (0.66%) Military
12 4 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.66%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 230 (37.77%) Developer
2 137 (22.50%) Senior
3 94 (15.44%) Lead
4 89 (14.61%) Software Engineer
5 72 (11.82%) .NET Developer
6 52 (8.54%) DevOps Engineer
7 42 (6.90%) Scala Engineer
8 39 (6.40%) Full-Stack Developer
9 37 (6.08%) Java Developer
9 37 (6.08%) Senior Developer
10 31 (5.09%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
12 27 (4.43%) Platform Engineer
13 25 (4.11%) Data Engineer
13 25 (4.11%) Software Developer
14 24 (3.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 24 (3.94%) Senior Software Engineer
15 23 (3.78%) Scala Software Engineer
16 21 (3.45%) Scala Developer
17 20 (3.28%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (20.36%) .NET
2 109 (17.90%) React
3 98 (16.09%) Node.js
4 88 (14.45%) .NET Core
5 75 (12.32%) ASP.NET
6 73 (11.99%) AngularJS
7 70 (11.49%) ASP.NET Core
7 70 (11.49%) Spring
8 67 (11.00%) REST
9 61 (10.02%) CSS
10 60 (9.85%) RESTful
11 56 (9.20%) HTML
12 55 (9.03%) Spring Boot
13 54 (8.87%) Kafka
14 51 (8.37%) Vue
15 50 (8.21%) gRPC
16 35 (5.75%) ML.NET
17 33 (5.42%) Django
18 26 (4.27%) OpenTelemetry
18 26 (4.27%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 109 (17.90%) Cloud Native
2 80 (13.14%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (11.00%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (11.00%) Video\Live Streaming
4 44 (7.22%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (1.81%) Digital TV
6 11 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.64%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.31%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.31%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.15%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.15%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.15%) Management Information System
10 6 (0.99%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.82%) Cyberattack
11 5 (0.82%) Life Science
11 5 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 115 (18.88%) Linux
2 30 (4.93%) Unix
3 12 (1.97%) Ubuntu
4 11 (1.81%) Windows
5 8 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.15%) Android
7 5 (0.82%) CentOS
7 5 (0.82%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.66%) Debian
9 3 (0.49%) VMS
9 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (65.68%) CI/CD
2 287 (47.13%) Containerisation
3 264 (43.35%) Agile
4 253 (41.54%) DevOps
5 205 (33.66%) Microservices
6 180 (29.56%) Software Engineering
7 173 (28.41%) Full-Stack Development
8 171 (28.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 152 (24.96%) AI
10 133 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
11 126 (20.69%) Mentoring
12 121 (19.87%) Machine Learning
13 113 (18.56%) Continuous Improvement
14 109 (17.90%) Scrum
15 105 (17.24%) TDD
16 103 (16.91%) Clean Code
17 86 (14.12%) Coaching
18 74 (12.15%) Test Automation
19 73 (11.99%) Observability
20 69 (11.33%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 265 (43.51%) Python
2 162 (26.60%) SQL
3 135 (22.17%) Java
4 129 (21.18%) C#
5 125 (20.53%) JavaScript
6 110 (18.06%) TypeScript
7 100 (16.42%) Go
8 85 (13.96%) Scala
9 78 (12.81%) Bash
10 25 (4.11%) PowerShell
11 23 (3.78%) PHP
12 16 (2.63%) Bicep
13 13 (2.13%) Ruby
14 12 (1.97%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.64%) C++
15 10 (1.64%) PL/SQL
16 9 (1.48%) Groovy
17 8 (1.31%) Rust
18 7 (1.15%) C
19 3 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 77 (12.64%) Security Cleared
2 64 (10.51%) SC Cleared
3 55 (9.03%) Degree
4 31 (5.09%) AWS Certification
5 20 (3.28%) Azure Certification
6 19 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.48%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.82%) CISSP
8 5 (0.82%) GIAC
8 5 (0.82%) ISACA
8 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.82%) SANS
9 3 (0.49%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.49%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.33%) Linux+ Certification
10 2 (0.33%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.37%) QA
2 28 (4.60%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.97%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.97%) NIST
4 11 (1.81%) WCAG
5 10 (1.64%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.82%) GDPR
7 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.49%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.16%) NCSC
8 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.66%) Firmware
4 3 (0.49%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.33%) 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
1 379 (62.23%) Kubernetes
2 186 (30.54%) Terraform
3 72 (11.82%) Ansible
4 50 (8.21%) Prometheus
5 39 (6.40%) Grafana
6 35 (5.75%) Argo
7 18 (2.96%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.46%) Podman
9 13 (2.13%) Puppet
10 12 (1.97%) Istio
11 10 (1.64%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.99%) Packer
13 5 (0.82%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.82%) Kibana
14 3 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.49%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.49%) Nagios
14 3 (0.49%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.33%) MIIS
15 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 116 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 64 (10.51%) Google
3 45 (7.39%) Typelevel
4 19 (3.12%) Oracle
5 18 (2.96%) Databricks
6 10 (1.64%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.48%) Facebook
8 8 (1.31%) Confluent
8 8 (1.31%) Palantir
9 7 (1.15%) Splunk
9 7 (1.15%) VMware
10 6 (0.99%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.82%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.82%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.82%) Okta
11 5 (0.82%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.66%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.49%) Commvault
13 3 (0.49%) Dell
13 3 (0.49%) Fortinet