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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 43 53
Rank change year-on-year -47 +10 -23
Permanent jobs citing Docker 725 959 1,043
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.92% 5.71% 4.70%
As % of the System Software category 38.71% 50.50% 37.01%
Number of salaries quoted 553 309 597
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £91,000 £95,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +2.94% -2.86%

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 1,873 1,899 2,818
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.54% 11.30% 12.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,392 1,001 1,686
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 £74,988 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £88,750
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 5 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 22 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (2.90%) Apache
3 16 (2.21%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.38%) nginx
5 7 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.83%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.69%) Camunda
7 5 (0.69%) CMS
7 5 (0.69%) IIS
8 4 (0.55%) Confluence
9 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.41%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.41%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.41%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.28%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.28%) Hedera
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.66%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 432 (59.59%) Azure
2 425 (58.62%) AWS
3 241 (33.24%) GitHub
4 151 (20.83%) GitHub Copilot
5 141 (19.45%) GCP
6 75 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
7 72 (9.93%) Azure AI
8 65 (8.97%) Serverless
9 61 (8.41%) SaaS
10 49 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (6.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 36 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
13 35 (4.83%) Azure Service Bus
14 34 (4.69%) Amazon S3
15 30 (4.14%) Azure AKS
16 27 (3.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 27 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
18 25 (3.45%) Datadog
19 24 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.62%) Internet
2 18 (2.48%) Broadband
3 16 (2.21%) VPN
4 13 (1.79%) Firewall
5 11 (1.52%) AMQP
5 11 (1.52%) SMS
6 9 (1.24%) DNS
6 9 (1.24%) Network Security
7 7 (0.97%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.55%) SSH
9 3 (0.41%) HTTP
10 2 (0.28%) Intranet
10 2 (0.28%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.28%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.28%) VLAN
10 2 (0.28%) WireGuard
10 2 (0.28%) X.509
11 1 (0.14%) FCoE
11 1 (0.14%) MQTT
11 1 (0.14%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (23.17%) MongoDB
2 141 (19.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 120 (16.55%) PostgreSQL
4 58 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
5 53 (7.31%) Relational Database
6 52 (7.17%) SQL Server
7 51 (7.03%) NoSQL
8 38 (5.24%) MySQL
9 35 (4.83%) Redis
10 24 (3.31%) DynamoDB
11 21 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
13 17 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (1.66%) BigQuery
15 11 (1.52%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.83%) Delta Lake
16 6 (0.83%) Metadata
16 6 (0.83%) Power BI
17 5 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
17 5 (0.69%) Looker
Development Applications
1 134 (18.48%) Git
2 68 (9.38%) Jenkins
3 67 (9.24%) GitLab
4 30 (4.14%) JUnit
5 18 (2.48%) Maven
5 18 (2.48%) Mockito
5 18 (2.48%) Selenium
6 16 (2.21%) Cypress.io
7 15 (2.07%) JIRA
8 14 (1.93%) Claude Code
9 12 (1.66%) Postman
10 8 (1.10%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.83%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.83%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.83%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.83%) Gatling
11 6 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.83%) Storybook
12 5 (0.69%) Poetry
13 4 (0.55%) Subversion
General
1 177 (24.41%) Social Skills
2 111 (15.31%) Finance
3 57 (7.86%) Public Sector
4 44 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (4.69%) Advertising
6 30 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (2.90%) Aerospace
7 21 (2.90%) Marketing
8 15 (2.07%) Games
8 15 (2.07%) Law
9 13 (1.79%) Banking
9 13 (1.79%) Tech for Good
10 11 (1.52%) Health Technology
10 11 (1.52%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.97%) Legal
11 7 (0.97%) Retail
12 6 (0.83%) Electronics
13 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.41%) Local Government
14 3 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 309 (42.62%) Developer
2 193 (26.62%) Senior
3 142 (19.59%) .NET Developer
4 115 (15.86%) Software Engineer
5 76 (10.48%) Lead
6 66 (9.10%) Senior Developer
7 53 (7.31%) DevOps Engineer
8 50 (6.90%) Java Developer
9 45 (6.21%) Full-Stack Developer
10 30 (4.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 29 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
11 29 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
12 24 (3.31%) Architect
13 23 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
13 23 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
13 23 (3.17%) Data Engineer
13 23 (3.17%) Lead Developer
14 21 (2.90%) Platform Engineer
15 19 (2.62%) Python Engineer
15 19 (2.62%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (31.17%) .NET
2 193 (26.62%) Terraform
3 155 (21.38%) .NET Core
4 150 (20.69%) ASP.NET
5 148 (20.41%) React
6 140 (19.31%) Node.js
7 134 (18.48%) ASP.NET Core
8 114 (15.72%) REST
9 105 (14.48%) CSS
10 97 (13.38%) AngularJS
10 97 (13.38%) Spring
11 89 (12.28%) HTML
12 87 (12.00%) RESTful
13 78 (10.76%) Vue
14 74 (10.21%) Spring Boot
15 70 (9.66%) ML.NET
16 48 (6.62%) Kafka
17 40 (5.52%) Blazor
18 30 (4.14%) OAuth
19 28 (3.86%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 128 (17.66%) Cloud Native
2 68 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.83%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (2.62%) Digital TV
5 18 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.34%) Product Ownership
7 16 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.93%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.93%) Robotics
9 10 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (1.38%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.24%) IoT
11 8 (1.10%) Blog
11 8 (1.10%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.97%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.97%) Onboarding
12 7 (0.97%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.69%) Cyber Defence
13 5 (0.69%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 125 (17.24%) Linux
2 22 (3.03%) Windows
3 16 (2.21%) Ubuntu
4 8 (1.10%) Debian
5 7 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.97%) Unix
6 6 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (0.69%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.55%) Android
8 4 (0.55%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.41%) CentOS
9 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.41%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.14%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
10 1 (0.14%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (64.83%) CI/CD
2 303 (41.79%) Agile
3 255 (35.17%) AI
4 252 (34.76%) Full-Stack Development
5 242 (33.38%) DevOps
6 230 (31.72%) Containerisation
7 227 (31.31%) Microservices
8 218 (30.07%) Software Engineering
9 158 (21.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 153 (21.10%) Mentoring
11 144 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
12 128 (17.66%) Machine Learning
13 121 (16.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 120 (16.55%) Scrum
15 104 (14.34%) TDD
16 101 (13.93%) Test Automation
17 100 (13.79%) Observability
18 80 (11.03%) Event-Driven
19 79 (10.90%) Clean Code
20 71 (9.79%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 289 (39.86%) SQL
2 240 (33.10%) C#
3 231 (31.86%) Python
4 165 (22.76%) TypeScript
5 139 (19.17%) Java
6 135 (18.62%) JavaScript
7 74 (10.21%) Bash
8 42 (5.79%) PowerShell
9 26 (3.59%) Go
10 24 (3.31%) Ruby
11 23 (3.17%) Bicep
12 20 (2.76%) PHP
13 17 (2.34%) C++
14 16 (2.21%) Kotlin
15 15 (2.07%) PL/SQL
16 11 (1.52%) Scala
17 10 (1.38%) Groovy
18 9 (1.24%) C
18 9 (1.24%) Rust
19 5 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 115 (15.86%) Security Cleared
2 94 (12.97%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.17%) Degree
4 24 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.34%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.07%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.07%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.83%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.55%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.41%) GCFA
11 3 (0.41%) GIAC
11 3 (0.41%) OCP
11 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.83%) QA
2 32 (4.41%) Accessibility
3 26 (3.59%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.66%) WCAG
5 10 (1.38%) NIST
6 8 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.69%) GDPR
7 5 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.69%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.41%) NCSC
8 3 (0.41%) SLA
9 2 (0.28%) AUTOSAR
9 2 (0.28%) MISRA
9 2 (0.28%) MISRA C
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.55%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.41%) iptables
5 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) KVM
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.14%) QEMU
6 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 484 (66.76%) Kubernetes
2 52 (7.17%) Ansible
3 50 (6.90%) Grafana
4 39 (5.38%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.07%) Puppet
6 14 (1.93%) Progress Chef
7 13 (1.79%) Argo
8 9 (1.24%) Istio
8 9 (1.24%) Podman
9 5 (0.69%) Packer
10 4 (0.55%) linkerd
11 3 (0.41%) Cilium
11 3 (0.41%) Kibana
11 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.28%) CASB
12 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.14%) Consul
13 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 192 (26.48%) Microsoft
2 55 (7.59%) Google
3 29 (4.00%) OpenAI
4 25 (3.45%) Oracle
5 19 (2.62%) Facebook
6 14 (1.93%) Okta
6 14 (1.93%) Ping Identity
7 12 (1.66%) Informatica
7 12 (1.66%) Splunk
8 11 (1.52%) Databricks
9 10 (1.38%) New Relic
9 10 (1.38%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.10%) VMware
11 7 (0.97%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.69%) HubSpot
13 4 (0.55%) ForgeRock
13 4 (0.55%) IBM
13 4 (0.55%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.41%) ESRI
14 3 (0.41%) Perforce