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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 40 62
Rank change year-on-year -49 +22 -33
Permanent jobs citing Docker 703 1,008 969
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.92% 6.20% 4.15%
As % of the System Software category 37.39% 50.99% 34.99%
Number of salaries quoted 538 359 631
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,300 £44,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,050 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +2.94% -5.56%

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 1,880 1,977 2,769
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.80% 12.17% 11.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,420 1,097 1,740
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,900 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.70% -5.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -6.54% -2.73%

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 16 September 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 19 (2.70%) Apache
1 19 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (2.42%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.14%) nginx
4 7 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.85%) IIS
5 6 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.57%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.57%) Confluence
6 4 (0.57%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.57%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.57%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.43%) Camunda
8 2 (0.28%) CMS
8 2 (0.28%) WordPress
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.14%) Moodle
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.71%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 424 (60.31%) AWS
2 418 (59.46%) Azure
3 231 (32.86%) GitHub
4 150 (21.34%) GitHub Copilot
5 143 (20.34%) GCP
6 72 (10.24%) Azure AI
7 67 (9.53%) GitHub Actions
8 64 (9.10%) Serverless
9 53 (7.54%) SaaS
10 49 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 35 (4.98%) Amazon S3
12 35 (4.98%) Azure Service Bus
13 34 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
14 31 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
15 28 (3.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 28 (3.98%) Azure AKS
16 26 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (3.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 24 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.84%) Broadband
2 20 (2.84%) Internet
3 10 (1.42%) Firewall
3 10 (1.42%) VPN
4 9 (1.28%) AMQP
4 9 (1.28%) DNS
4 9 (1.28%) SMS
5 8 (1.14%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.00%) Network Security
7 4 (0.57%) SSH
8 3 (0.43%) HTTP
9 2 (0.28%) DHCP
9 2 (0.28%) Intranet
9 2 (0.28%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.28%) LAN
9 2 (0.28%) VLAN
9 2 (0.28%) WAN
9 2 (0.28%) WireGuard
9 2 (0.28%) X.509
10 1 (0.14%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (23.76%) MongoDB
2 138 (19.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 108 (15.36%) PostgreSQL
4 59 (8.39%) Elasticsearch
5 54 (7.68%) SQL Server
6 50 (7.11%) NoSQL
7 47 (6.69%) Relational Database
8 37 (5.26%) MySQL
9 32 (4.55%) Redis
10 24 (3.41%) DynamoDB
11 19 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (1.28%) Data Lake
15 7 (1.00%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.85%) Delta Lake
16 6 (0.85%) Power BI
16 6 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 5 (0.71%) Big Data
17 5 (0.71%) GIS
Development Applications
1 136 (19.35%) Git
2 69 (9.82%) Jenkins
3 60 (8.53%) GitLab
4 26 (3.70%) JUnit
5 19 (2.70%) Maven
5 19 (2.70%) Selenium
6 15 (2.13%) Cypress.io
6 15 (2.13%) JIRA
7 14 (1.99%) Mockito
8 12 (1.71%) Claude Code
8 12 (1.71%) Postman
9 9 (1.28%) SonarQube
10 7 (1.00%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.00%) Gatling
11 6 (0.85%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.85%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.85%) Storybook
12 5 (0.71%) Subversion
12 5 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 167 (23.76%) Social Skills
2 106 (15.08%) Finance
3 56 (7.97%) Public Sector
4 42 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (4.98%) Advertising
6 23 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (3.13%) Aerospace
8 21 (2.99%) Marketing
9 15 (2.13%) Games
10 14 (1.99%) Law
11 12 (1.71%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.56%) Banking
13 10 (1.42%) Tech for Good
14 9 (1.28%) Health Technology
15 8 (1.14%) Legal
16 7 (1.00%) Retail
17 6 (0.85%) Electronics
18 4 (0.57%) Telecoms
19 3 (0.43%) Local Government
19 3 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 304 (43.24%) Developer
2 175 (24.89%) Senior
3 141 (20.06%) .NET Developer
4 105 (14.94%) Software Engineer
5 76 (10.81%) Lead
6 58 (8.25%) Senior Developer
7 52 (7.40%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (6.83%) Java Developer
9 42 (5.97%) Full-Stack Developer
10 31 (4.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 28 (3.98%) Senior Java Developer
12 26 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
13 24 (3.41%) Data Engineer
13 24 (3.41%) Lead Developer
14 23 (3.27%) Architect
15 22 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
15 22 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
16 21 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
16 21 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
17 19 (2.70%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (30.87%) .NET
2 182 (25.89%) Terraform
3 150 (21.34%) .NET Core
3 150 (21.34%) ASP.NET
4 136 (19.35%) Node.js
5 135 (19.20%) React
6 132 (18.78%) ASP.NET Core
7 106 (15.08%) REST
8 103 (14.65%) CSS
9 102 (14.51%) AngularJS
10 88 (12.52%) HTML
10 88 (12.52%) Spring
11 82 (11.66%) RESTful
12 76 (10.81%) Vue
13 70 (9.96%) ML.NET
14 65 (9.25%) Spring Boot
15 46 (6.54%) Kafka
16 40 (5.69%) Blazor
17 30 (4.27%) OAuth
18 29 (4.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 118 (16.79%) Cloud Native
2 66 (9.39%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.84%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (2.70%) Digital TV
4 19 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 17 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.85%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.85%) Robotics
9 11 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.42%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.28%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.28%) IoT
11 9 (1.28%) Over-the-Top Content
11 9 (1.28%) Video\Live Streaming
12 8 (1.14%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.14%) Blog
13 7 (1.00%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 131 (18.63%) Linux
2 21 (2.99%) Windows
3 18 (2.56%) Ubuntu
4 9 (1.28%) Debian
5 7 (1.00%) Unix
6 6 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
6 6 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.71%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.57%) Android
8 4 (0.57%) CentOS
8 4 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.43%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.28%) Solaris
10 2 (0.28%) VMS
10 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.14%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (65.29%) CI/CD
2 295 (41.96%) Agile
3 248 (35.28%) Full-Stack Development
4 241 (34.28%) DevOps
5 232 (33.00%) AI
5 232 (33.00%) Containerisation
6 221 (31.44%) Microservices
7 203 (28.88%) Software Engineering
8 152 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
9 143 (20.34%) Mentoring
9 143 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
10 130 (18.49%) Machine Learning
11 120 (17.07%) Scrum
12 106 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 103 (14.65%) TDD
14 95 (13.51%) Test Automation
15 87 (12.38%) Observability
16 80 (11.38%) Clean Code
16 80 (11.38%) Event-Driven
17 61 (8.68%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 276 (39.26%) SQL
2 230 (32.72%) C#
3 223 (31.72%) Python
4 157 (22.33%) TypeScript
5 127 (18.07%) JavaScript
6 126 (17.92%) Java
7 71 (10.10%) Bash
8 38 (5.41%) PowerShell
9 35 (4.98%) Go
10 24 (3.41%) Ruby
11 21 (2.99%) Bicep
12 19 (2.70%) PHP
13 18 (2.56%) Scala
14 17 (2.42%) C++
14 17 (2.42%) Kotlin
15 16 (2.28%) PL/SQL
16 10 (1.42%) Groovy
17 9 (1.28%) Rust
18 8 (1.14%) C
19 4 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 114 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 91 (12.94%) SC Cleared
3 50 (7.11%) Degree
4 21 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.28%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.13%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.43%) GIAC
11 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.43%) OCP
11 3 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.28%) GCFA
12 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (9.25%) QA
2 33 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.27%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.99%) WCAG
5 9 (1.28%) NIST
6 6 (0.85%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.85%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.57%) NCSC
9 3 (0.43%) GDPR
9 3 (0.43%) SLA
10 2 (0.28%) AUTOSAR
10 2 (0.28%) MISRA
10 2 (0.28%) MISRA C
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.43%) iptables
5 2 (0.28%) KVM
5 2 (0.28%) QEMU
5 2 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 468 (66.57%) Kubernetes
2 57 (8.11%) Ansible
3 44 (6.26%) Grafana
4 39 (5.55%) Prometheus
5 19 (2.70%) Puppet
6 14 (1.99%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.71%) Argo
8 10 (1.42%) Podman
9 9 (1.28%) Istio
10 4 (0.57%) linkerd
10 4 (0.57%) Packer
11 3 (0.43%) Cilium
11 3 (0.43%) Kibana
11 3 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.28%) CASB
12 2 (0.28%) Consul
12 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.28%) Nagios
12 2 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 183 (26.03%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.83%) Google
3 24 (3.41%) OpenAI
3 24 (3.41%) Oracle
4 19 (2.70%) Facebook
5 15 (2.13%) Okta
5 15 (2.13%) Red Hat
6 14 (1.99%) Ping Identity
7 12 (1.71%) Databricks
7 12 (1.71%) Informatica
8 10 (1.42%) VMware
9 9 (1.28%) Splunk
9 9 (1.28%) Typelevel
10 7 (1.00%) New Relic
11 5 (0.71%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.71%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.71%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.71%) IBM
12 4 (0.57%) ESRI
12 4 (0.57%) TIBCO