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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 46 46
Rank change year-on-year -41 0 -13
Permanent jobs citing Docker 752 939 1,076
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.99% 5.68% 5.17%
As % of the System Software category 39.98% 50.67% 38.69%
Number of salaries quoted 572 303 578
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% - -

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 1,881 1,853 2,781
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.48% 11.21% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,387 975 1,656
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £74,144
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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

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 15 October 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 23 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (2.93%) Apache
3 16 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.46%) nginx
5 7 (0.93%) Jupyter
5 7 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (0.93%) WebLogic
6 5 (0.66%) Camunda
6 5 (0.66%) CMS
6 5 (0.66%) IIS
7 4 (0.53%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.53%) Confluence
7 4 (0.53%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.53%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.40%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.40%) WordPress
9 2 (0.27%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.27%) Hedera
9 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.60%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 441 (58.64%) Azure
2 438 (58.24%) AWS
3 252 (33.51%) GitHub
4 152 (20.21%) GitHub Copilot
5 145 (19.28%) GCP
6 81 (10.77%) GitHub Actions
7 73 (9.71%) Azure AI
8 69 (9.18%) SaaS
9 64 (8.51%) Serverless
10 51 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 37 (4.92%) Amazon S3
13 35 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
13 35 (4.65%) Azure Service Bus
14 31 (4.12%) Azure AKS
15 27 (3.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 27 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
16 25 (3.32%) Azure Monitor
16 25 (3.32%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.66%) Internet
2 16 (2.13%) VPN
3 14 (1.86%) AMQP
4 13 (1.73%) SMS
5 12 (1.60%) Broadband
5 12 (1.60%) Firewall
6 11 (1.46%) Network Security
7 9 (1.20%) DNS
8 7 (0.93%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.53%) SSH
10 3 (0.40%) HTTP
10 3 (0.40%) OpenVPN
11 2 (0.27%) Intranet
11 2 (0.27%) X.509
12 1 (0.13%) Bluetooth
12 1 (0.13%) DHCP
12 1 (0.13%) DSL
12 1 (0.13%) LAN
12 1 (0.13%) SSL
12 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (21.54%) MongoDB
2 143 (19.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 125 (16.62%) PostgreSQL
4 61 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
5 54 (7.18%) Relational Database
6 51 (6.78%) SQL Server
7 48 (6.38%) NoSQL
8 43 (5.72%) MySQL
9 37 (4.92%) Redis
10 25 (3.32%) DynamoDB
11 21 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
13 18 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (1.73%) BigQuery
15 11 (1.46%) Data Lake
16 8 (1.06%) Metadata
17 6 (0.80%) Delta Lake
17 6 (0.80%) Looker
17 6 (0.80%) Power BI
18 5 (0.66%) Flink
Development Applications
1 140 (18.62%) Git
2 72 (9.57%) Jenkins
3 71 (9.44%) GitLab
4 34 (4.52%) JUnit
5 22 (2.93%) Mockito
6 18 (2.39%) Maven
7 17 (2.26%) Selenium
8 16 (2.13%) JIRA
9 15 (1.99%) Claude Code
10 11 (1.46%) Postman
11 10 (1.33%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.06%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.80%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.80%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.80%) Gatling
13 6 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.80%) Storybook
14 5 (0.66%) Poetry
14 5 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
15 4 (0.53%) Vagrant
General
1 188 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 116 (15.43%) Finance
3 62 (8.24%) Public Sector
4 46 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (4.52%) Advertising
7 21 (2.79%) Marketing
8 20 (2.66%) Aerospace
9 17 (2.26%) Law
10 16 (2.13%) Games
11 15 (1.99%) Banking
11 15 (1.99%) Health Technology
11 15 (1.99%) Tech for Good
12 11 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.20%) Retail
14 7 (0.93%) Legal
15 6 (0.80%) Electronics
16 4 (0.53%) Billing
16 4 (0.53%) Police
16 4 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 316 (42.02%) Developer
2 208 (27.66%) Senior
3 144 (19.15%) .NET Developer
4 123 (16.36%) Software Engineer
5 79 (10.51%) Lead
6 73 (9.71%) Senior Developer
7 56 (7.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 52 (6.91%) Java Developer
9 47 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
10 33 (4.39%) Senior Software Engineer
11 31 (4.12%) Senior Java Developer
12 27 (3.59%) Architect
12 27 (3.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 24 (3.19%) Data Engineer
14 23 (3.06%) Azure Engineer
14 23 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
15 22 (2.93%) Cloud Engineer
15 22 (2.93%) Lead Developer
16 20 (2.66%) Technical Leader
17 19 (2.53%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (30.59%) .NET
2 205 (27.26%) Terraform
3 156 (20.74%) .NET Core
4 150 (19.95%) ASP.NET
5 149 (19.81%) React
6 139 (18.48%) Node.js
7 134 (17.82%) ASP.NET Core
8 123 (16.36%) REST
9 107 (14.23%) CSS
10 104 (13.83%) Spring
11 96 (12.77%) AngularJS
12 91 (12.10%) HTML
13 87 (11.57%) RESTful
14 81 (10.77%) Spring Boot
15 77 (10.24%) Vue
16 71 (9.44%) ML.NET
17 54 (7.18%) Kafka
18 41 (5.45%) Blazor
19 33 (4.39%) OAuth
20 31 (4.12%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 138 (18.35%) Cloud Native
2 74 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.39%) Greenfield Project
4 21 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (2.53%) Digital TV
6 17 (2.26%) Product Ownership
7 16 (2.13%) AI Agents
7 16 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.99%) Robotics
9 14 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.46%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.33%) IoT
11 10 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (1.20%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.06%) Blog
13 8 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
13 8 (1.06%) Onboarding
14 7 (0.93%) Hackathon
14 7 (0.93%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.80%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 132 (17.55%) Linux
2 23 (3.06%) Windows
3 16 (2.13%) Ubuntu
4 10 (1.33%) Unix
5 8 (1.06%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.93%) Debian
7 6 (0.80%) Embedded Linux
8 5 (0.66%) macOS
9 4 (0.53%) Android
9 4 (0.53%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.40%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.27%) CentOS
12 1 (0.13%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.13%) Solaris
12 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 491 (65.29%) CI/CD
2 310 (41.22%) Agile
3 266 (35.37%) AI
4 261 (34.71%) DevOps
5 253 (33.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 240 (31.91%) Microservices
7 235 (31.25%) Containerisation
7 235 (31.25%) Software Engineering
8 168 (22.34%) Mentoring
9 165 (21.94%) Infrastructure as Code
10 154 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
11 130 (17.29%) Machine Learning
12 122 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 118 (15.69%) Scrum
14 117 (15.56%) Test Automation
15 107 (14.23%) TDD
16 106 (14.10%) Observability
17 86 (11.44%) Event-Driven
18 82 (10.90%) Technical Leadership
19 81 (10.77%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 308 (40.96%) SQL
2 243 (32.31%) C#
3 242 (32.18%) Python
4 179 (23.80%) TypeScript
5 151 (20.08%) Java
6 139 (18.48%) JavaScript
7 75 (9.97%) Bash
8 40 (5.32%) PowerShell
9 29 (3.86%) Go
10 26 (3.46%) PHP
11 23 (3.06%) Bicep
11 23 (3.06%) Ruby
12 16 (2.13%) C++
12 16 (2.13%) Kotlin
13 15 (1.99%) PL/SQL
14 12 (1.60%) Scala
15 10 (1.33%) Groovy
16 8 (1.06%) C
16 8 (1.06%) Rust
17 6 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 124 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 103 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.91%) Degree
4 22 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.53%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.99%) AWS Certification
6 15 (1.99%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.80%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.53%) GCFA
10 4 (0.53%) GIAC
10 4 (0.53%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.53%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.40%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.40%) OCP
11 3 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (9.44%) QA
2 38 (5.05%) Accessibility
3 28 (3.72%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.46%) WCAG
5 9 (1.20%) NIST
6 7 (0.93%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.80%) GDPR
8 5 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.66%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.40%) NCSC
9 3 (0.40%) SLA
10 2 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
10 2 (0.27%) MISRA
10 2 (0.27%) MISRA C
11 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) PSD2
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 12 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.40%) iptables
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.13%) KVM
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.13%) QEMU
5 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 499 (66.36%) Kubernetes
2 55 (7.31%) Ansible
3 52 (6.91%) Grafana
4 38 (5.05%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.86%) Argo
5 14 (1.86%) Progress Chef
5 14 (1.86%) Puppet
6 9 (1.20%) Istio
7 6 (0.80%) Packer
8 4 (0.53%) Kibana
8 4 (0.53%) linkerd
8 4 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.40%) Cilium
10 2 (0.27%) CASB
10 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.27%) Podman
11 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.13%) Consul
11 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 196 (26.06%) Microsoft
2 58 (7.71%) Google
3 30 (3.99%) Oracle
4 29 (3.86%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.53%) Facebook
6 14 (1.86%) Okta
6 14 (1.86%) Ping Identity
6 14 (1.86%) Splunk
7 12 (1.60%) Databricks
7 12 (1.60%) Informatica
8 11 (1.46%) New Relic
9 10 (1.33%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.06%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.06%) VMware
11 5 (0.66%) IBM
12 4 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.53%) ESRI
12 4 (0.53%) ForgeRock
12 4 (0.53%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.53%) TIBCO