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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 41 58
Rank change year-on-year -50 +17 -28
Permanent jobs citing Docker 718 987 965
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.92% 6.11% 4.28%
As % of the System Software category 37.97% 50.69% 35.83%
Number of salaries quoted 544 338 605
10th Percentile £45,900 £47,200 £44,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,550 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +2.94% -3.65%

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 1,891 1,947 2,693
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.69% 12.05% 11.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,413 1,061 1,688
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,835
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.82% -0.30%

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 23 September 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 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (2.79%) Apache
3 16 (2.23%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.25%) nginx
5 7 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.84%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.70%) IIS
8 4 (0.56%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.56%) Camunda
8 4 (0.56%) Confluence
8 4 (0.56%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.56%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.56%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.42%) CMS
10 2 (0.28%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.28%) Hedera
11 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.67%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 430 (59.89%) AWS
2 423 (58.91%) Azure
3 237 (33.01%) GitHub
4 151 (21.03%) GitHub Copilot
5 144 (20.06%) GCP
6 72 (10.03%) Azure AI
7 70 (9.75%) GitHub Actions
8 67 (9.33%) Serverless
9 58 (8.08%) SaaS
10 50 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (6.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 36 (5.01%) AWS Lambda
12 36 (5.01%) Azure Service Bus
13 35 (4.87%) Amazon S3
14 30 (4.18%) Amazon ECS
15 29 (4.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 29 (4.04%) Azure AKS
16 27 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (3.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 25 (3.48%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.76%) Broadband
2 20 (2.79%) Internet
3 12 (1.67%) VPN
4 11 (1.53%) Firewall
5 10 (1.39%) AMQP
5 10 (1.39%) SMS
6 9 (1.25%) DNS
6 9 (1.25%) Network Security
7 8 (1.11%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.56%) SSH
9 3 (0.42%) HTTP
10 2 (0.28%) Intranet
10 2 (0.28%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.28%) LAN
10 2 (0.28%) VLAN
10 2 (0.28%) WAN
10 2 (0.28%) WireGuard
10 2 (0.28%) X.509
11 1 (0.14%) MQTT
11 1 (0.14%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (23.54%) MongoDB
2 140 (19.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 116 (16.16%) PostgreSQL
4 58 (8.08%) Elasticsearch
5 53 (7.38%) SQL Server
6 50 (6.96%) NoSQL
6 50 (6.96%) Relational Database
7 39 (5.43%) MySQL
8 33 (4.60%) Redis
9 25 (3.48%) DynamoDB
10 20 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
11 19 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.39%) BigQuery
13 10 (1.39%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.84%) Delta Lake
14 6 (0.84%) Metadata
14 6 (0.84%) Power BI
14 6 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (0.70%) GIS
Development Applications
1 139 (19.36%) Git
2 70 (9.75%) Jenkins
3 63 (8.77%) GitLab
4 27 (3.76%) JUnit
5 19 (2.65%) Maven
5 19 (2.65%) Selenium
6 15 (2.09%) Cypress.io
6 15 (2.09%) JIRA
6 15 (2.09%) Mockito
7 14 (1.95%) Claude Code
8 12 (1.67%) Postman
9 9 (1.25%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.97%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.84%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.84%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.84%) Gatling
11 6 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.84%) Storybook
12 5 (0.70%) Poetry
12 5 (0.70%) Subversion
General
1 172 (23.96%) Social Skills
2 107 (14.90%) Finance
3 56 (7.80%) Public Sector
4 44 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (4.87%) Advertising
6 26 (3.62%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (3.06%) Aerospace
8 21 (2.92%) Marketing
9 15 (2.09%) Games
10 14 (1.95%) Law
11 12 (1.67%) Banking
11 12 (1.67%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.67%) Tech for Good
12 10 (1.39%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.11%) Retail
14 7 (0.97%) Legal
15 6 (0.84%) Electronics
16 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.42%) Local Government
17 3 (0.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 310 (43.18%) Developer
2 178 (24.79%) Senior
3 141 (19.64%) .NET Developer
4 108 (15.04%) Software Engineer
5 76 (10.58%) Lead
6 60 (8.36%) Senior Developer
7 53 (7.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (6.69%) Java Developer
9 44 (6.13%) Full-Stack Developer
10 31 (4.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 28 (3.90%) Senior Java Developer
12 26 (3.62%) Senior Software Engineer
13 25 (3.48%) Data Engineer
14 24 (3.34%) Architect
14 24 (3.34%) Lead Developer
15 21 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
15 21 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
15 21 (2.92%) Platform Engineer
16 20 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
17 19 (2.65%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (30.50%) .NET
2 187 (26.04%) Terraform
3 153 (21.31%) .NET Core
4 150 (20.89%) ASP.NET
5 143 (19.92%) React
6 138 (19.22%) Node.js
7 133 (18.52%) ASP.NET Core
8 107 (14.90%) REST
9 105 (14.62%) CSS
10 102 (14.21%) AngularJS
11 92 (12.81%) Spring
12 90 (12.53%) HTML
13 86 (11.98%) RESTful
14 78 (10.86%) Vue
15 70 (9.75%) ML.NET
16 68 (9.47%) Spring Boot
17 48 (6.69%) Kafka
18 40 (5.57%) Blazor
19 30 (4.18%) OAuth
19 30 (4.18%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 123 (17.13%) Cloud Native
2 70 (9.75%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.87%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (2.65%) Digital TV
5 18 (2.51%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.81%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.81%) Robotics
9 11 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.39%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.25%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.25%) IoT
11 9 (1.25%) Over-the-Top Content
11 9 (1.25%) Video\Live Streaming
12 8 (1.11%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.11%) Blog
13 7 (0.97%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 131 (18.25%) Linux
2 22 (3.06%) Windows
3 18 (2.51%) Ubuntu
4 9 (1.25%) Debian
5 8 (1.11%) Unix
6 7 (0.97%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
7 6 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.70%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.56%) Android
9 4 (0.56%) CentOS
9 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.42%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.28%) Solaris
11 2 (0.28%) VMS
11 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.14%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (65.04%) CI/CD
2 302 (42.06%) Agile
3 251 (34.96%) Full-Stack Development
4 244 (33.98%) DevOps
5 241 (33.57%) AI
6 237 (33.01%) Containerisation
7 228 (31.75%) Microservices
8 213 (29.67%) Software Engineering
9 155 (21.59%) Infrastructure as Code
10 148 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
11 143 (19.92%) Mentoring
12 133 (18.52%) Machine Learning
13 121 (16.85%) Scrum
14 111 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
15 104 (14.48%) TDD
16 96 (13.37%) Test Automation
17 93 (12.95%) Observability
18 84 (11.70%) Clean Code
19 83 (11.56%) Event-Driven
20 63 (8.77%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 285 (39.69%) SQL
2 233 (32.45%) C#
3 232 (32.31%) Python
4 161 (22.42%) TypeScript
5 132 (18.38%) Java
6 130 (18.11%) JavaScript
7 74 (10.31%) Bash
8 39 (5.43%) PowerShell
9 37 (5.15%) Go
10 24 (3.34%) Ruby
11 21 (2.92%) Bicep
12 19 (2.65%) PHP
12 19 (2.65%) Scala
13 17 (2.37%) C++
13 17 (2.37%) Kotlin
14 16 (2.23%) PL/SQL
15 11 (1.53%) Groovy
16 9 (1.25%) Rust
17 8 (1.11%) C
18 5 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 115 (16.02%) Security Cleared
2 94 (13.09%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.96%) Degree
4 22 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.51%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.09%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.09%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.42%) GCFA
10 3 (0.42%) GIAC
10 3 (0.42%) OCP
10 3 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.28%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (9.05%) QA
2 33 (4.60%) Accessibility
3 26 (3.62%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.95%) WCAG
5 8 (1.11%) NIST
6 6 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.84%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.84%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.70%) GDPR
8 3 (0.42%) NCSC
8 3 (0.42%) SLA
9 2 (0.28%) AUTOSAR
9 2 (0.28%) MISRA
9 2 (0.28%) MISRA C
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.42%) iptables
4 2 (0.28%) KVM
4 2 (0.28%) QEMU
4 2 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.14%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 477 (66.43%) Kubernetes
2 56 (7.80%) Ansible
3 46 (6.41%) Grafana
4 40 (5.57%) Prometheus
5 18 (2.51%) Puppet
6 15 (2.09%) Progress Chef
7 13 (1.81%) Argo
8 10 (1.39%) Podman
9 9 (1.25%) Istio
10 5 (0.70%) Packer
11 4 (0.56%) Kibana
11 4 (0.56%) linkerd
12 3 (0.42%) Cilium
12 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.28%) CASB
13 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.28%) Nagios
13 2 (0.28%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 185 (25.77%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.96%) Google
3 26 (3.62%) OpenAI
4 24 (3.34%) Oracle
5 19 (2.65%) Facebook
6 15 (2.09%) Red Hat
7 14 (1.95%) Okta
7 14 (1.95%) Ping Identity
8 12 (1.67%) Databricks
8 12 (1.67%) Informatica
8 12 (1.67%) Splunk
9 10 (1.39%) VMware
10 9 (1.25%) New Relic
10 9 (1.25%) Typelevel
11 6 (0.84%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.70%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.70%) IBM
13 4 (0.56%) ESRI
13 4 (0.56%) ForgeRock
13 4 (0.56%) TIBCO