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

 6 months to
19 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 35 56
Rank change year-on-year -38 +21 -26
Permanent jobs citing Docker 585 941 1,531
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.29% 7.09% 4.71%
As % of the System Software category 40.88% 47.55% 35.12%
Number of salaries quoted 374 715 1,306
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £100,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £132,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -2.78%

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 1,431 1,979 4,359
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.05% 14.90% 13.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,008 1,554 3,567
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 £80,000 £82,751 £72,433
90th Percentile £103,400 £113,375 £87,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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

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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 19 April 2026.

Docker salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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 28 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.42%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.39%) nginx
4 9 (1.54%) CMS
4 9 (1.54%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.03%) Drupal
5 6 (1.03%) WordPress
6 5 (0.85%) Apache
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%) Anypoint
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 7 (1.20%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.17%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 419 (71.62%) AWS
2 246 (42.05%) Azure
3 186 (31.79%) GCP
4 125 (21.37%) GitHub
5 99 (16.92%) Serverless
6 60 (10.26%) Amazon S3
6 60 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 60 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
7 53 (9.06%) GitHub Actions
8 47 (8.03%) SaaS
9 46 (7.86%) Azure DevOps
10 40 (6.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 40 (6.84%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (5.64%) Amazon EKS
12 32 (5.47%) Amazon EC2
13 30 (5.13%) Pulumi
14 28 (4.79%) OpenShift
15 24 (4.10%) Datadog
16 22 (3.76%) PaaS
17 21 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 101 (17.26%) Broadband
2 13 (2.22%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.71%) Firewall
4 8 (1.37%) DNS
4 8 (1.37%) VPN
5 7 (1.20%) Network Security
6 6 (1.03%) DHCP
7 5 (0.85%) AMQP
8 4 (0.68%) MQTT
9 3 (0.51%) HTTP
9 3 (0.51%) Internet
9 3 (0.51%) RTP
9 3 (0.51%) SCCP
9 3 (0.51%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.51%) VLAN
9 3 (0.51%) VoIP
9 3 (0.51%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.34%) DSL
10 2 (0.34%) SAN
10 2 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (14.87%) NoSQL
2 86 (14.70%) PostgreSQL
3 62 (10.60%) MongoDB
4 52 (8.89%) SQL Server
5 42 (7.18%) Relational Database
6 41 (7.01%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
8 26 (4.44%) Redis
9 24 (4.10%) MySQL
10 22 (3.76%) DynamoDB
11 19 (3.25%) RDBMS
12 16 (2.74%) BigQuery
13 14 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (2.22%) Tableau
15 12 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
16 10 (1.71%) Pinecone
16 10 (1.71%) Weaviate
17 9 (1.54%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 99 (16.92%) Git
2 88 (15.04%) Jenkins
3 57 (9.74%) GitLab
4 25 (4.27%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.25%) Jaeger
5 19 (3.25%) Selenium
6 18 (3.08%) CircleCI
7 17 (2.91%) Cypress.io
8 15 (2.56%) Cucumber
9 13 (2.22%) JMeter
9 13 (2.22%) MLflow
9 13 (2.22%) SonarQube
10 11 (1.88%) JUnit
11 10 (1.71%) JIRA
12 9 (1.54%) Maven
13 6 (1.03%) Bitbucket
13 6 (1.03%) Locust
13 6 (1.03%) Robot Framework
13 6 (1.03%) Visual Studio
13 6 (1.03%) Vite
General
1 126 (21.54%) Social Skills
2 74 (12.65%) Finance
3 44 (7.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 39 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 22 (3.76%) Telecoms
6 18 (3.08%) Law
7 14 (2.39%) Banking
8 11 (1.88%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (1.71%) Legal
10 9 (1.54%) Retail
11 7 (1.20%) Aviation
12 6 (1.03%) Advertising
12 6 (1.03%) Front Office
12 6 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.03%) Marketing
13 5 (0.85%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.85%) Games
13 5 (0.85%) Local Government
13 5 (0.85%) Military
13 5 (0.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 178 (30.43%) Developer
2 170 (29.06%) Senior
3 104 (17.78%) Lead
4 89 (15.21%) Software Engineer
5 58 (9.91%) DevOps Engineer
6 44 (7.52%) Senior Developer
7 42 (7.18%) Scala Engineer
8 35 (5.98%) Full-Stack Developer
9 33 (5.64%) Java Developer
10 29 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
10 29 (4.96%) Software Developer
11 28 (4.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 28 (4.79%) Python Developer
12 27 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
13 25 (4.27%) Lead DevOps
13 25 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
14 24 (4.10%) .NET Developer
14 24 (4.10%) Data Engineer
14 24 (4.10%) Python Engineer
15 23 (3.93%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (18.46%) React
2 87 (14.87%) Node.js
3 81 (13.85%) .NET
4 70 (11.97%) Spring
5 66 (11.28%) Kafka
6 62 (10.60%) gRPC
7 59 (10.09%) Spring Boot
8 57 (9.74%) REST
8 57 (9.74%) RESTful
9 54 (9.23%) Django
10 47 (8.03%) Elastic Stack
11 44 (7.52%) AngularJS
12 41 (7.01%) .NET Core
13 33 (5.64%) CSS
13 33 (5.64%) HTML
13 33 (5.64%) Vue
14 32 (5.47%) Flask
15 26 (4.44%) FastAPI
16 25 (4.27%) Akka
16 25 (4.27%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 98 (16.75%) Cloud Native
2 89 (15.21%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (11.62%) Over-the-Top Content
3 68 (11.62%) Video\Live Streaming
4 48 (8.21%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.56%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.71%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.54%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.54%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
10 8 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.03%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.03%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.85%) Cyberattack
12 5 (0.85%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (0.68%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 120 (20.51%) Linux
2 44 (7.52%) Unix
3 20 (3.42%) Windows
4 17 (2.91%) Android
5 13 (2.22%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.54%) CentOS
8 7 (1.20%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.85%) VMS
10 4 (0.68%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.51%) Debian
12 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (64.96%) CI/CD
2 310 (52.99%) Containerisation
3 288 (49.23%) DevOps
4 232 (39.66%) Agile
5 183 (31.28%) Microservices
6 169 (28.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 168 (28.72%) Software Engineering
8 151 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
9 110 (18.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 109 (18.63%) Mentoring
11 106 (18.12%) Full-Stack Development
12 105 (17.95%) AI
13 97 (16.58%) Machine Learning
14 95 (16.24%) Clean Code
15 85 (14.53%) Coaching
16 80 (13.68%) TDD
17 78 (13.33%) Test Automation
18 77 (13.16%) Observability
19 75 (12.82%) Scrum
20 74 (12.65%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 296 (50.60%) Python
2 145 (24.79%) Java
3 138 (23.59%) JavaScript
4 122 (20.85%) SQL
5 111 (18.97%) Go
6 88 (15.04%) Scala
7 70 (11.97%) Bash
7 70 (11.97%) C#
8 62 (10.60%) TypeScript
9 24 (4.10%) PHP
10 23 (3.93%) PowerShell
11 18 (3.08%) Bicep
12 15 (2.56%) C++
13 11 (1.88%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.37%) Delphi
15 7 (1.20%) Rust
16 5 (0.85%) C
16 5 (0.85%) Groovy
16 5 (0.85%) Ruby
17 4 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 81 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 78 (13.33%) Degree
3 62 (10.60%) SC Cleared
4 38 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (4.96%) AWS Certification
6 20 (3.42%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.39%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.03%) 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%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.51%) LPIC
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 49 (8.38%) QA
2 24 (4.10%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.22%) NIST
5 11 (1.88%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.54%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.37%) ISO 9001
8 7 (1.20%) GDPR
8 7 (1.20%) WCAG
9 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.51%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.34%) ECSS
12 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.85%) Firmware
3 5 (0.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.51%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.51%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.51%) vSphere
5 2 (0.34%) Ceph
5 2 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.34%) Lustre
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) QEMU
6 1 (0.17%) vCloud
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 351 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 214 (36.58%) Terraform
3 93 (15.90%) Ansible
4 66 (11.28%) Grafana
5 62 (10.60%) Prometheus
6 38 (6.50%) Argo
7 19 (3.25%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.56%) Podman
9 12 (2.05%) Puppet
10 8 (1.37%) Istio
11 5 (0.85%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.85%) Packer
11 5 (0.85%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.68%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.68%) Kibana
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 66 (11.28%) Google
2 51 (8.72%) Microsoft
3 45 (7.69%) Typelevel
4 22 (3.76%) Databricks
4 22 (3.76%) Oracle
5 15 (2.56%) Red Hat
6 14 (2.39%) Splunk
7 9 (1.54%) Palantir
8 8 (1.37%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.37%) Confluent
9 7 (1.20%) VMware
10 6 (1.03%) Dell
10 6 (1.03%) SAP
11 5 (0.85%) Ericsson
11 5 (0.85%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.85%) Mavenir
11 5 (0.85%) Nokia
11 5 (0.85%) Okta
11 5 (0.85%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.68%) OpenAI
328 hybrid/remote Docker jobs