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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 32 37
Rank change year-on-year -53 +5 -8
Permanent jobs citing Docker 497 1,233 1,687
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.14% 7.61% 6.41%
As % of the System Software category 38.03% 48.18% 41.78%
Number of salaries quoted 347 701 1,437
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £98,474 £83,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £118,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 1,307 2,559 4,038
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.27% 15.79% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 925 1,581 3,477
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.54% -6.14%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £108,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +10.58% -5.45%

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 31 January 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 18 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.42%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.22%) nginx
4 8 (1.61%) CMS
5 7 (1.41%) Apache Solr
6 6 (1.21%) Apache
7 5 (1.01%) Anypoint
7 5 (1.01%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (1.01%) ArcGIS
7 5 (1.01%) Drupal
7 5 (1.01%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.01%) WordPress
8 4 (0.80%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.80%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.40%) IIS
10 2 (0.40%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.20%) Camunda
11 1 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.80%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.40%) Weka
3 1 (0.20%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 9 (1.81%) Shopify
2 1 (0.20%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 325 (65.39%) AWS
2 231 (46.48%) Azure
3 121 (24.35%) GitHub
4 116 (23.34%) GCP
5 70 (14.08%) Serverless
6 63 (12.68%) GitHub Actions
7 56 (11.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (9.46%) AWS Lambda
10 40 (8.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 40 (8.05%) Amazon S3
11 36 (7.24%) SaaS
12 28 (5.63%) Pulumi
13 27 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
14 21 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (4.02%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (4.02%) Datadog
15 20 (4.02%) OpenShift
16 16 (3.22%) AWS Step Functions
16 16 (3.22%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (10.66%) Broadband
2 17 (3.42%) Firewall
3 15 (3.02%) VPN
4 12 (2.41%) DNS
5 11 (2.21%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.61%) Network Security
7 5 (1.01%) AMQP
8 4 (0.80%) DHCP
8 4 (0.80%) WAN
9 3 (0.60%) Internet
9 3 (0.60%) SCCP
9 3 (0.60%) VLAN
10 2 (0.40%) DSL
10 2 (0.40%) HTTP
10 2 (0.40%) LAN
10 2 (0.40%) RTP
10 2 (0.40%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.40%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.40%) VoIP
10 2 (0.40%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (15.90%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (14.89%) NoSQL
3 46 (9.26%) SQL Server
4 43 (8.65%) Relational Database
5 40 (8.05%) MySQL
6 38 (7.65%) MongoDB
7 27 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (5.03%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (3.82%) RDBMS
10 18 (3.62%) Redis
11 15 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (3.02%) DynamoDB
12 14 (2.82%) BigQuery
13 13 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (2.21%) Tableau
15 10 (2.01%) Delta Lake
16 9 (1.81%) Data Lake
16 9 (1.81%) Pinecone
16 9 (1.81%) Weaviate
17 8 (1.61%) Looker
Development Applications
1 76 (15.29%) Git
1 76 (15.29%) Jenkins
2 54 (10.87%) GitLab
3 27 (5.43%) TeamCity
4 19 (3.82%) Jaeger
5 16 (3.22%) Selenium
6 12 (2.41%) JUnit
7 11 (2.21%) MLflow
7 11 (2.21%) SonarQube
8 10 (2.01%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.61%) CircleCI
10 7 (1.41%) JMeter
11 6 (1.21%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.21%) Maven
12 5 (1.01%) JIRA
12 5 (1.01%) Robot Framework
12 5 (1.01%) Storybook
12 5 (1.01%) Visual Studio
12 5 (1.01%) Vite
13 4 (0.80%) Postman
General
1 118 (23.74%) Social Skills
2 66 (13.28%) Finance
3 32 (6.44%) Public Sector
4 27 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (5.03%) Telecoms
6 21 (4.23%) Law
7 15 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.21%) Marketing
9 10 (2.01%) Retail
10 8 (1.61%) Games
10 8 (1.61%) Legal
11 7 (1.41%) Banking
12 6 (1.21%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.01%) Aviation
13 5 (1.01%) Front Office
13 5 (1.01%) Local Government
13 5 (1.01%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.01%) Police
14 4 (0.80%) Electronics
15 3 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 154 (30.99%) Senior
2 144 (28.97%) Developer
3 90 (18.11%) Lead
4 68 (13.68%) Software Engineer
5 56 (11.27%) DevOps Engineer
6 38 (7.65%) Senior Developer
7 33 (6.64%) Full-Stack Developer
8 32 (6.44%) Java Developer
9 31 (6.24%) Cloud Engineer
10 27 (5.43%) Lead DevOps
10 27 (5.43%) Software Developer
11 26 (5.23%) Senior Software Engineer
12 23 (4.63%) Architect
12 23 (4.63%) Python Developer
13 22 (4.43%) Azure Engineer
13 22 (4.43%) Data Engineer
14 21 (4.23%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 21 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
15 19 (3.82%) Development Engineer
16 18 (3.62%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (18.51%) React
2 80 (16.10%) .NET
3 64 (12.88%) Node.js
4 55 (11.07%) Spring
5 52 (10.46%) RESTful
6 51 (10.26%) Spring Boot
7 49 (9.86%) Elastic Stack
8 48 (9.66%) REST
9 46 (9.26%) Kafka
10 42 (8.45%) Django
11 36 (7.24%) .NET Core
11 36 (7.24%) AngularJS
12 32 (6.44%) CSS
12 32 (6.44%) HTML
13 31 (6.24%) Flask
13 31 (6.24%) Vue
14 26 (5.23%) gRPC
15 24 (4.83%) Akka
16 21 (4.23%) FastAPI
17 19 (3.82%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 96 (19.32%) Cloud Native
2 47 (9.46%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (8.05%) Product Ownership
4 32 (6.44%) Over-the-Top Content
4 32 (6.44%) Video\Live Streaming
5 18 (3.62%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.41%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.01%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.61%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.21%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.21%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.21%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.21%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.01%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.80%) PKI
13 4 (0.80%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 111 (22.33%) Linux
2 46 (9.26%) Unix
3 35 (7.04%) Windows
4 17 (3.42%) Android
5 14 (2.82%) Windows Server
6 10 (2.01%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.41%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.41%) VMS
8 6 (1.21%) CentOS
9 4 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.20%) Fedora
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (63.18%) CI/CD
2 264 (53.12%) DevOps
3 241 (48.49%) Containerisation
4 191 (38.43%) Agile
5 165 (33.20%) Infrastructure as Code
6 134 (26.96%) Problem-Solving
7 124 (24.95%) Microservices
8 123 (24.75%) Software Engineering
9 96 (19.32%) AI
9 96 (19.32%) Mentoring
10 82 (16.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 71 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
12 66 (13.28%) Observability
13 60 (12.07%) Machine Learning
13 60 (12.07%) Test Automation
14 59 (11.87%) TDD
15 57 (11.47%) Event-Driven
16 54 (10.87%) Scrum
17 52 (10.46%) Computer Science
18 51 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 232 (46.68%) Python
2 132 (26.56%) JavaScript
3 127 (25.55%) Java
4 124 (24.95%) SQL
5 67 (13.48%) Bash
5 67 (13.48%) Go
6 61 (12.27%) C#
7 57 (11.47%) TypeScript
8 44 (8.85%) Scala
9 27 (5.43%) PHP
10 26 (5.23%) Bicep
10 26 (5.23%) PowerShell
11 14 (2.82%) C++
12 8 (1.61%) Delphi
13 5 (1.01%) C
13 5 (1.01%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.01%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.80%) Ruby
14 4 (0.80%) Rust
15 3 (0.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 67 (13.48%) Security Cleared
2 62 (12.47%) Degree
3 50 (10.06%) SC Cleared
4 39 (7.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (7.65%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.62%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.62%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.60%) CISSP
11 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.40%) CISA
11 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.40%) CISM
11 2 (0.40%) CRISC
11 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.40%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.44%) QA
2 15 (3.02%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.02%) GDPR
3 14 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.21%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.61%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.41%) NIST
7 5 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.01%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.40%) ECSS
9 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.20%) SEPA
9 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.21%) vSphere
3 5 (1.01%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.40%) Ceph
6 2 (0.40%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.40%) Lustre
6 2 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.20%) Firmware
7 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.20%) vCloud
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 330 (66.40%) Kubernetes
2 212 (42.66%) Terraform
3 93 (18.71%) Ansible
4 67 (13.48%) Grafana
5 65 (13.08%) Prometheus
6 35 (7.04%) Argo
7 19 (3.82%) Kustomize
8 5 (1.01%) Puppet
9 4 (0.80%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.80%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.60%) Packer
11 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.20%) Rancher
11 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 43 (8.65%) Google
2 40 (8.05%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.63%) Oracle
4 20 (4.02%) Databricks
5 13 (2.62%) Splunk
6 10 (2.01%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.81%) SAP
7 9 (1.81%) Typelevel
8 8 (1.61%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.61%) Palantir
9 7 (1.41%) VMware
10 6 (1.21%) Mercator
10 6 (1.21%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.21%) TIBCO
11 5 (1.01%) IFS
11 5 (1.01%) Jitterbit
11 5 (1.01%) Mavenir
11 5 (1.01%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.01%) SnapLogic
11 5 (1.01%) Workday