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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 35 31
Rank change year-on-year -61 -4 -7
Permanent jobs citing Docker 428 1,208 1,505
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.81% 7.06% 7.33%
As % of the System Software category 34.88% 46.37% 43.85%
Number of salaries quoted 324 660 1,268
10th Percentile £42,875 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,991 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.77% +2.84% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,375 £115,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -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 1,227 2,605 3,432
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.07% 15.23% 16.72%
Number of salaries quoted 913 1,613 2,948
10th Percentile £28,786 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,000 £88,825
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -0.90%

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 29 December 2025.

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 15 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (3.27%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.04%) nginx
4 10 (2.34%) Apache Solr
5 8 (1.87%) CMS
6 5 (1.17%) Anypoint
6 5 (1.17%) Apache
6 5 (1.17%) Apache Pulsar
6 5 (1.17%) ArcGIS
6 5 (1.17%) Drupal
6 5 (1.17%) IIS
6 5 (1.17%) WordPress
7 4 (0.93%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.93%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.93%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.23%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.47%) Photoshop
1 2 (0.47%) Weka
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (1.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 283 (66.12%) AWS
2 234 (54.67%) Azure
3 106 (24.77%) GitHub
4 103 (24.07%) GCP
5 60 (14.02%) GitHub Actions
6 58 (13.55%) Serverless
7 55 (12.85%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (10.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 38 (8.88%) AWS Lambda
10 33 (7.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 29 (6.78%) Amazon S3
12 28 (6.54%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (6.31%) SaaS
14 20 (4.67%) OpenShift
15 19 (4.44%) Azure AKS
15 19 (4.44%) Datadog
16 18 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
17 16 (3.74%) Pulumi
18 15 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
19 13 (3.04%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.74%) Firewall
2 15 (3.50%) VPN
3 12 (2.80%) Broadband
4 11 (2.57%) DNS
4 11 (2.57%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.40%) Network Security
6 4 (0.93%) AMQP
6 4 (0.93%) Internet
6 4 (0.93%) WAN
7 3 (0.70%) DHCP
7 3 (0.70%) VLAN
8 2 (0.47%) InfiniBand
8 2 (0.47%) LAN
8 2 (0.47%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.47%) VSAN
9 1 (0.23%) 5G
9 1 (0.23%) MIMO
9 1 (0.23%) NAS
9 1 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.23%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (18.22%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (14.49%) NoSQL
3 47 (10.98%) SQL Server
4 37 (8.64%) MySQL
5 29 (6.78%) MongoDB
6 27 (6.31%) Relational Database
7 25 (5.84%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (5.37%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (4.44%) Redis
10 14 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (3.04%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (1.87%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.64%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.64%) MariaDB
13 7 (1.64%) RDBMS
14 6 (1.40%) Power BI
14 6 (1.40%) Tableau
15 5 (1.17%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 68 (15.89%) Git
2 51 (11.92%) GitLab
3 48 (11.21%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.80%) JUnit
4 12 (2.80%) Selenium
4 12 (2.80%) SonarQube
5 9 (2.10%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.87%) TeamCity
7 7 (1.64%) Jaeger
7 7 (1.64%) MLflow
8 6 (1.40%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.40%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.40%) Storybook
9 5 (1.17%) Maven
9 5 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.93%) JIRA
10 4 (0.93%) JMeter
10 4 (0.93%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.70%) git-flow
11 3 (0.70%) TestRail
General
1 119 (27.80%) Social Skills
2 60 (14.02%) Finance
3 26 (6.07%) Public Sector
4 24 (5.61%) Telecoms
5 20 (4.67%) Law
6 14 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.04%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (3.04%) Marketing
8 12 (2.80%) Retail
9 9 (2.10%) Games
9 9 (2.10%) Legal
10 8 (1.87%) Banking
11 6 (1.40%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.17%) Front Office
12 5 (1.17%) Local Government
12 5 (1.17%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.17%) Police
13 4 (0.93%) Electronics
13 4 (0.93%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.47%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 122 (28.50%) Senior
2 118 (27.57%) Developer
3 74 (17.29%) Lead
4 60 (14.02%) DevOps Engineer
5 47 (10.98%) Software Engineer
6 31 (7.24%) Senior Developer
7 30 (7.01%) Architect
8 26 (6.07%) Full-Stack Developer
9 25 (5.84%) Java Developer
10 24 (5.61%) Lead DevOps
11 22 (5.14%) Azure Engineer
11 22 (5.14%) Python Developer
12 21 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
12 21 (4.91%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 19 (4.44%) Data Engineer
13 19 (4.44%) Development Engineer
13 19 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
13 19 (4.44%) Software Developer
14 18 (4.21%) Senior DevOps
15 17 (3.97%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (18.93%) .NET
1 81 (18.93%) React
2 55 (12.85%) RESTful
3 48 (11.21%) Kafka
3 48 (11.21%) Node.js
4 45 (10.51%) Spring
5 44 (10.28%) Spring Boot
6 42 (9.81%) REST
7 41 (9.58%) Django
8 37 (8.64%) Elastic Stack
9 33 (7.71%) AngularJS
9 33 (7.71%) Flask
10 32 (7.48%) .NET Core
11 29 (6.78%) CSS
11 29 (6.78%) HTML
12 24 (5.61%) FastAPI
12 24 (5.61%) Vue
13 20 (4.67%) gRPC
14 19 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
15 17 (3.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 102 (23.83%) Cloud Native
2 39 (9.11%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (7.01%) Product Ownership
4 20 (4.67%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.57%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.34%) Data Structures
7 10 (2.34%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.87%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.87%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.40%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.17%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.17%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.17%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.93%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.93%) PKI
12 3 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.70%) IoT
12 3 (0.70%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 91 (21.26%) Linux
2 38 (8.88%) Windows
3 29 (6.78%) Unix
4 18 (4.21%) Windows Server
5 14 (3.27%) Android
6 7 (1.64%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.64%) VMS
7 5 (1.17%) CentOS
8 4 (0.93%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.23%) Fedora
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (67.06%) CI/CD
2 247 (57.71%) DevOps
3 218 (50.93%) Containerisation
4 158 (36.92%) Agile
5 142 (33.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 114 (26.64%) Problem-Solving
7 111 (25.93%) Microservices
8 95 (22.20%) Software Engineering
9 92 (21.50%) AI
10 76 (17.76%) Mentoring
11 71 (16.59%) Observability
12 69 (16.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 60 (14.02%) Full-Stack Development
14 55 (12.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 54 (12.62%) Event-Driven
16 51 (11.92%) Machine Learning
17 49 (11.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 46 (10.75%) Test Automation
19 40 (9.35%) Computer Science
19 40 (9.35%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 206 (48.13%) Python
2 118 (27.57%) SQL
3 112 (26.17%) JavaScript
4 95 (22.20%) Java
5 66 (15.42%) C#
6 51 (11.92%) Bash
7 44 (10.28%) TypeScript
8 41 (9.58%) Go
9 29 (6.78%) PowerShell
10 24 (5.61%) Bicep
10 24 (5.61%) PHP
11 11 (2.57%) C++
12 8 (1.87%) Delphi
12 8 (1.87%) Scala
13 5 (1.17%) Ruby
13 5 (1.17%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.93%) Groovy
15 3 (0.70%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.47%) R
16 2 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 58 (13.55%) Security Cleared
2 48 (11.21%) Degree
3 42 (9.81%) SC Cleared
4 35 (8.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (6.31%) AWS Certification
6 18 (4.21%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.27%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.47%) CISA
10 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.47%) CISM
10 2 (0.47%) CISSP
10 2 (0.47%) CRISC
11 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.01%) QA
2 17 (3.97%) GDPR
3 11 (2.57%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.57%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.40%) NIST
6 5 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.17%) ISO 9001
7 4 (0.93%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.47%) ECSS
10 1 (0.23%) SEPA
10 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (1.64%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.17%) vSphere
3 4 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.93%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.47%) Ceph
5 2 (0.47%) Lustre
5 2 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.23%) Firmware
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.23%) vCloud
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 285 (66.59%) Kubernetes
2 187 (43.69%) Terraform
3 75 (17.52%) Ansible
4 70 (16.36%) Grafana
5 56 (13.08%) Prometheus
6 21 (4.91%) Argo
7 7 (1.64%) Kustomize
8 4 (0.93%) HP Fortify
8 4 (0.93%) Puppet
9 3 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.70%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.47%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.23%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.23%) Rancher
11 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 43 (10.05%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.48%) Google
3 24 (5.61%) Oracle
4 17 (3.97%) Databricks
5 11 (2.57%) Splunk
6 10 (2.34%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.10%) SAP
8 7 (1.64%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.64%) VMware
9 6 (1.40%) Mercator
10 5 (1.17%) Dell
10 5 (1.17%) Epicor
10 5 (1.17%) Ericsson
10 5 (1.17%) IBM
10 5 (1.17%) Infor
10 5 (1.17%) Informatica
10 5 (1.17%) Nokia
10 5 (1.17%) Software AG
10 5 (1.17%) Talend
10 5 (1.17%) TIBCO