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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 29 68
Rank change year-on-year -47 +39 -36
Permanent jobs citing Docker 673 1,228 1,283
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.25% 7.77% 3.84%
As % of the System Software category 40.52% 55.14% 31.97%
Number of salaries quoted 480 552 1,068
10th Percentile £44,228 £48,750 £43,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,261
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £74,935 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.26% +15.28% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £125,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.29% -6.21%

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 1,661 2,227 4,013
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.03% 14.10% 12.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,242 1,341 3,128
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,250 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,033 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +4.55% -10.10%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year - +6.06% -10.00%

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 30 June 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 27 (4.01%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.67%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.78%) Apache
4 9 (1.34%) nginx
5 6 (0.89%) CMS
5 6 (0.89%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.74%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.59%) IIS
8 2 (0.30%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.30%) Camunda
8 2 (0.30%) Confluence
8 2 (0.30%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.30%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.30%) WordPress
9 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.30%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.30%) Shopify
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 428 (63.60%) AWS
2 347 (51.56%) Azure
3 210 (31.20%) GitHub
4 161 (23.92%) GCP
5 136 (20.21%) GitHub Copilot
6 87 (12.93%) Serverless
7 67 (9.96%) Azure AI
8 51 (7.58%) Amazon S3
8 51 (7.58%) AWS CloudFormation
9 47 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
10 44 (6.54%) SaaS
11 42 (6.24%) GitHub Actions
12 39 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
13 37 (5.50%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 34 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
15 28 (4.16%) Azure AKS
16 26 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
17 25 (3.71%) Azure Service Bus
18 23 (3.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 92 (13.67%) Broadband
2 17 (2.53%) Internet
3 11 (1.63%) DNS
3 11 (1.63%) Firewall
4 9 (1.34%) VPN
5 7 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.74%) DHCP
6 5 (0.74%) Network Security
7 4 (0.59%) HTTP
7 4 (0.59%) MQTT
8 3 (0.45%) DSL
8 3 (0.45%) RTP
8 3 (0.45%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.45%) VoIP
8 3 (0.45%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.30%) AMQP
9 2 (0.30%) Intranet
9 2 (0.30%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.30%) SCCP
9 2 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (25.41%) MongoDB
2 120 (17.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 81 (12.04%) PostgreSQL
4 62 (9.21%) NoSQL
5 58 (8.62%) Elasticsearch
6 47 (6.98%) Relational Database
7 42 (6.24%) SQL Server
8 34 (5.05%) MySQL
9 30 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
9 30 (4.46%) Redis
10 22 (3.27%) DynamoDB
11 17 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.93%) BigQuery
13 12 (1.78%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (1.63%) Delta Lake
15 10 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (1.34%) Tableau
17 8 (1.19%) Data Lake
17 8 (1.19%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 110 (16.34%) Git
2 75 (11.14%) Jenkins
3 58 (8.62%) GitLab
4 18 (2.67%) JIRA
5 16 (2.38%) Cypress.io
6 15 (2.23%) JUnit
6 15 (2.23%) Maven
7 14 (2.08%) CircleCI
7 14 (2.08%) Selenium
8 13 (1.93%) TeamCity
9 12 (1.78%) Jaeger
10 10 (1.49%) Claude Code
11 9 (1.34%) JMeter
11 9 (1.34%) Mockito
11 9 (1.34%) Postman
12 8 (1.19%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.19%) MLflow
13 6 (0.89%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.74%) Locust
14 5 (0.74%) Subversion
General
1 125 (18.57%) Social Skills
2 80 (11.89%) Finance
3 45 (6.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (6.24%) Public Sector
5 34 (5.05%) Advertising
6 19 (2.82%) Marketing
7 17 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (2.23%) Aerospace
9 14 (2.08%) Games
10 12 (1.78%) Banking
11 11 (1.63%) Law
12 10 (1.49%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.04%) Retail
14 6 (0.89%) Legal
15 5 (0.74%) Aviation
15 5 (0.74%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.59%) Military
16 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
18 2 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 290 (43.09%) Developer
2 142 (21.10%) Senior
3 124 (18.42%) .NET Developer
4 94 (13.97%) Software Engineer
5 84 (12.48%) Lead
6 52 (7.73%) DevOps Engineer
7 46 (6.84%) Full-Stack Developer
8 40 (5.94%) Java Developer
8 40 (5.94%) Senior Developer
9 36 (5.35%) Scala Engineer
10 32 (4.75%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (4.46%) Cloud Engineer
11 30 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
12 27 (4.01%) Senior Software Engineer
13 24 (3.57%) Data Engineer
13 24 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 22 (3.27%) Software Developer
15 19 (2.82%) AWS DevOps
15 19 (2.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 19 (2.82%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (27.93%) .NET
2 140 (20.80%) .NET Core
3 132 (19.61%) ASP.NET
4 120 (17.83%) ASP.NET Core
5 110 (16.34%) Node.js
5 110 (16.34%) React
6 98 (14.56%) AngularJS
7 93 (13.82%) CSS
8 88 (13.08%) HTML
9 75 (11.14%) Spring
10 74 (11.00%) Vue
11 71 (10.55%) REST
12 68 (10.10%) RESTful
13 65 (9.66%) ML.NET
14 60 (8.92%) Spring Boot
15 51 (7.58%) Kafka
16 50 (7.43%) gRPC
17 32 (4.75%) Django
18 24 (3.57%) Playwright
19 23 (3.42%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 119 (17.68%) Cloud Native
2 86 (12.78%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (8.32%) Over-the-Top Content
3 56 (8.32%) Video\Live Streaming
4 39 (5.79%) Product Ownership
5 26 (3.86%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.97%) Digital TV
7 15 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.34%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.19%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.04%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.04%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.04%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.04%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.04%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.74%) Cyberattack
13 5 (0.74%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 129 (19.17%) Linux
2 26 (3.86%) Unix
3 14 (2.08%) Ubuntu
3 14 (2.08%) Windows
4 8 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.89%) Debian
6 5 (0.74%) Android
6 5 (0.74%) CentOS
6 5 (0.74%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.59%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.45%) VMS
8 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (66.57%) CI/CD
2 290 (43.09%) Agile
3 287 (42.64%) Containerisation
4 256 (38.04%) DevOps
5 240 (35.66%) Microservices
6 235 (34.92%) Full-Stack Development
7 195 (28.97%) Software Engineering
8 188 (27.93%) AI
9 165 (24.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 146 (21.69%) Machine Learning
11 141 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
12 132 (19.61%) Mentoring
13 116 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 114 (16.94%) Scrum
15 112 (16.64%) TDD
16 108 (16.05%) Clean Code
17 87 (12.93%) Coaching
18 77 (11.44%) Test Automation
19 76 (11.29%) Observability
20 72 (10.70%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 267 (39.67%) Python
2 221 (32.84%) SQL
3 197 (29.27%) C#
4 136 (20.21%) TypeScript
5 130 (19.32%) Java
6 123 (18.28%) JavaScript
7 88 (13.08%) Go
8 74 (11.00%) Scala
9 71 (10.55%) Bash
10 30 (4.46%) PowerShell
11 23 (3.42%) PHP
12 20 (2.97%) Bicep
13 16 (2.38%) Ruby
14 14 (2.08%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.49%) C++
15 10 (1.49%) Groovy
15 10 (1.49%) PL/SQL
16 8 (1.19%) Rust
17 7 (1.04%) C
18 3 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 81 (12.04%) Security Cleared
2 65 (9.66%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.77%) Degree
4 25 (3.71%) AWS Certification
5 22 (3.27%) Azure Certification
6 20 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.34%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.74%) CISSP
8 5 (0.74%) GIAC
8 5 (0.74%) ISACA
8 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.74%) SANS
9 4 (0.59%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.30%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.30%) Linux+ Certification
10 2 (0.30%) LPIC
11 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (8.47%) QA
2 27 (4.01%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.78%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.78%) NIST
3 12 (1.78%) WCAG
4 11 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.49%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.59%) GDPR
7 3 (0.45%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.59%) Firmware
3 4 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.45%) iptables
4 3 (0.45%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.15%) KVM
6 1 (0.15%) QEMU
6 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
6 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 437 (64.93%) Kubernetes
2 174 (25.85%) Terraform
3 67 (9.96%) Ansible
4 48 (7.13%) Prometheus
5 43 (6.39%) Grafana
6 29 (4.31%) Argo
7 18 (2.67%) Puppet
8 15 (2.23%) Istio
8 15 (2.23%) Podman
9 13 (1.93%) Progress Chef
10 12 (1.78%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.89%) Packer
12 5 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.74%) Kibana
13 3 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.45%) linkerd
13 3 (0.45%) Nagios
13 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.30%) MIIS
14 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 174 (25.85%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.77%) Google
3 45 (6.69%) Typelevel
4 19 (2.82%) Databricks
4 19 (2.82%) Oracle
5 17 (2.53%) Facebook
6 9 (1.34%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.34%) Splunk
7 8 (1.19%) Confluent
7 8 (1.19%) VMware
8 6 (0.89%) ForgeRock
8 6 (0.89%) Okta
8 6 (0.89%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.89%) Palantir
9 5 (0.74%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.74%) HubSpot
10 3 (0.45%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.45%) BT
10 3 (0.45%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.45%) New Relic