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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 30 50
Rank change year-on-year -50 +20 -22
Permanent jobs citing Docker 545 1,149 1,580
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.25% 8.27% 5.28%
As % of the System Software category 41.23% 50.28% 37.04%
Number of salaries quoted 368 738 1,335
10th Percentile £43,892 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,813 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £102,410 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £126,250 £97,000
UK median annual salary £70,079 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.56% +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 1,322 2,285 4,266
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.88% 16.45% 14.27%
Number of salaries quoted 939 1,563 3,652
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £44,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £87,450
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 March 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 24 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.67%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.39%) nginx
4 9 (1.65%) CMS
5 6 (1.10%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.92%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.92%) Apache
6 5 (0.92%) Apache Pulsar
6 5 (0.92%) Drupal
6 5 (0.92%) WordPress
7 4 (0.73%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.73%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.73%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.73%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.55%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.37%) Camunda
9 2 (0.37%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.18%) Confluence
10 1 (0.18%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.73%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.37%) Weka
3 1 (0.18%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 9 (1.65%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 377 (69.17%) AWS
2 247 (45.32%) Azure
3 158 (28.99%) GCP
4 129 (23.67%) GitHub
5 86 (15.78%) Serverless
6 59 (10.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 58 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
8 54 (9.91%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (9.72%) Amazon S3
10 49 (8.99%) SaaS
11 46 (8.44%) Azure DevOps
12 38 (6.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 34 (6.24%) Amazon ECS
14 32 (5.87%) Pulumi
15 27 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (4.40%) OpenShift
17 21 (3.85%) dbt
17 21 (3.85%) PaaS
18 20 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
18 20 (3.67%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 79 (14.50%) Broadband
2 14 (2.57%) TCP/IP
3 9 (1.65%) Firewall
4 7 (1.28%) Network Security
4 7 (1.28%) VPN
5 5 (0.92%) AMQP
5 5 (0.92%) DHCP
5 5 (0.92%) DNS
6 4 (0.73%) MQTT
7 3 (0.55%) HTTP
7 3 (0.55%) Internet
7 3 (0.55%) RTP
7 3 (0.55%) SCCP
7 3 (0.55%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.55%) VLAN
7 3 (0.55%) VoIP
7 3 (0.55%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.37%) DSL
8 2 (0.37%) SAN
8 2 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (14.68%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (14.13%) NoSQL
3 46 (8.44%) MongoDB
4 45 (8.26%) SQL Server
5 42 (7.71%) Relational Database
6 37 (6.79%) Amazon RDS
7 32 (5.87%) Elasticsearch
8 30 (5.50%) MySQL
9 26 (4.77%) Redis
10 19 (3.49%) RDBMS
11 17 (3.12%) DynamoDB
12 16 (2.94%) BigQuery
13 15 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (2.39%) Tableau
15 11 (2.02%) Delta Lake
16 10 (1.83%) Pinecone
16 10 (1.83%) Weaviate
17 9 (1.65%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 85 (15.60%) Git
2 81 (14.86%) Jenkins
3 59 (10.83%) GitLab
4 27 (4.95%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.49%) Jaeger
6 16 (2.94%) Selenium
7 14 (2.57%) Cucumber
8 12 (2.20%) MLflow
8 12 (2.20%) SonarQube
9 11 (2.02%) JMeter
9 11 (2.02%) JUnit
10 9 (1.65%) JIRA
11 7 (1.28%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.28%) Maven
12 6 (1.10%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.10%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.10%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.92%) Locust
13 5 (0.92%) Robot Framework
13 5 (0.92%) Storybook
General
1 127 (23.30%) Social Skills
2 66 (12.11%) Finance
3 38 (6.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 35 (6.42%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.40%) Telecoms
6 19 (3.49%) Law
7 14 (2.57%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.02%) Legal
9 10 (1.83%) Retail
10 9 (1.65%) Banking
11 8 (1.47%) Games
12 6 (1.10%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.10%) Marketing
13 5 (0.92%) Advertising
13 5 (0.92%) Aviation
13 5 (0.92%) Front Office
13 5 (0.92%) Local Government
13 5 (0.92%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.92%) Military
13 5 (0.92%) Police
Job Titles
1 168 (30.83%) Developer
2 167 (30.64%) Senior
3 97 (17.80%) Lead
4 83 (15.23%) Software Engineer
5 51 (9.36%) DevOps Engineer
6 44 (8.07%) Senior Developer
7 38 (6.97%) Full-Stack Developer
8 36 (6.61%) Java Developer
9 34 (6.24%) Scala Engineer
10 30 (5.50%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (5.32%) Platform Engineer
12 28 (5.14%) Senior Software Engineer
13 27 (4.95%) Software Developer
14 25 (4.59%) Data Engineer
14 25 (4.59%) Lead DevOps
15 23 (4.22%) .NET Developer
15 23 (4.22%) Python Developer
16 20 (3.67%) Architect
17 19 (3.49%) Scala Developer
17 19 (3.49%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (17.25%) React
2 82 (15.05%) .NET
3 69 (12.66%) Node.js
3 69 (12.66%) Spring
4 61 (11.19%) Spring Boot
5 58 (10.64%) Kafka
6 54 (9.91%) RESTful
7 53 (9.72%) Django
8 51 (9.36%) gRPC
8 51 (9.36%) REST
9 46 (8.44%) .NET Core
9 46 (8.44%) Elastic Stack
10 42 (7.71%) AngularJS
11 35 (6.42%) CSS
11 35 (6.42%) HTML
12 34 (6.24%) Flask
12 34 (6.24%) Vue
13 25 (4.59%) Akka
14 23 (4.22%) FastAPI
15 22 (4.04%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 101 (18.53%) Cloud Native
2 77 (14.13%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (10.46%) Over-the-Top Content
3 57 (10.46%) Video\Live Streaming
4 46 (8.44%) Product Ownership
5 17 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.57%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.02%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.65%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.10%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.10%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.10%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.10%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.92%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 112 (20.55%) Linux
2 50 (9.17%) Unix
3 24 (4.40%) Windows
4 18 (3.30%) Android
5 11 (2.02%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.65%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.28%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.10%) CentOS
9 5 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.55%) VMS
11 1 (0.18%) Fedora
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (64.77%) CI/CD
2 284 (52.11%) Containerisation
3 275 (50.46%) DevOps
4 216 (39.63%) Agile
5 170 (31.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 164 (30.09%) Microservices
7 150 (27.52%) Software Engineering
8 145 (26.61%) Problem-Solving
9 105 (19.27%) Mentoring
10 100 (18.35%) AI
11 97 (17.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 91 (16.70%) Full-Stack Development
13 86 (15.78%) Machine Learning
14 76 (13.94%) Clean Code
15 72 (13.21%) TDD
16 69 (12.66%) Observability
17 67 (12.29%) Test Automation
18 66 (12.11%) Coaching
18 66 (12.11%) Event-Driven
19 62 (11.38%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 269 (49.36%) Python
2 148 (27.16%) Java
3 135 (24.77%) JavaScript
4 129 (23.67%) SQL
5 93 (17.06%) Go
6 73 (13.39%) Scala
7 72 (13.21%) C#
8 68 (12.48%) Bash
9 59 (10.83%) TypeScript
10 28 (5.14%) PHP
11 23 (4.22%) PowerShell
12 21 (3.85%) Bicep
13 14 (2.57%) C++
14 10 (1.83%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.47%) Delphi
16 6 (1.10%) Rust
17 5 (0.92%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.73%) C
18 4 (0.73%) Perl
19 3 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 73 (13.39%) Degree
1 73 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 57 (10.46%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 31 (5.69%) AWS Certification
5 23 (4.22%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.39%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.73%) CISSP
8 4 (0.73%) GIAC
8 4 (0.73%) ISACA
8 4 (0.73%) SANS
9 3 (0.55%) LPIC
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.37%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.37%) Linux+ Certification
10 2 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.52%) QA
2 20 (3.67%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.02%) GDPR
4 11 (2.02%) NIST
5 10 (1.83%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.83%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.47%) ISO 9001
7 5 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.73%) WCAG
9 2 (0.37%) ECSS
9 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 9 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.10%) vSphere
4 5 (0.92%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.73%) Firmware
6 3 (0.55%) Kamailio
6 3 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.37%) Ceph
7 2 (0.37%) Lustre
7 2 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.18%) vCloud
8 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 338 (62.02%) Kubernetes
2 206 (37.80%) Terraform
3 91 (16.70%) Ansible
4 63 (11.56%) Grafana
5 62 (11.38%) Prometheus
6 36 (6.61%) Argo
7 19 (3.49%) Kustomize
8 5 (0.92%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (0.92%) Puppet
9 4 (0.73%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.73%) Packer
10 2 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.37%) Istio
10 2 (0.37%) Kibana
10 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.18%) Podman
11 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (10.09%) Google
2 50 (9.17%) Microsoft
3 34 (6.24%) Typelevel
4 25 (4.59%) Oracle
5 20 (3.67%) Databricks
6 14 (2.57%) Splunk
7 10 (1.83%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.65%) Palantir
9 8 (1.47%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.47%) SAP
10 7 (1.28%) VMware
11 6 (1.10%) Dell
11 6 (1.10%) Mercator
11 6 (1.10%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.10%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.92%) IFS
12 5 (0.92%) Jitterbit
12 5 (0.92%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.92%) SnapLogic
12 5 (0.92%) Workday