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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 29 65
Rank change year-on-year -49 +36 -32
Permanent jobs citing Docker 625 1,238 1,355
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.15% 8.09% 3.93%
As % of the System Software category 40.12% 55.64% 32.42%
Number of salaries quoted 411 561 1,128
10th Percentile £44,259 £48,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +15.18% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £83,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £127,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.29% -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 1,558 2,225 4,179
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.84% 14.53% 12.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,115 1,334 3,259
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,813 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,062 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 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 29 (4.64%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.20%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.76%) Apache
4 8 (1.28%) nginx
5 7 (1.12%) CMS
6 6 (0.96%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.80%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.32%) Camunda
8 2 (0.32%) Confluence
8 2 (0.32%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.32%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.32%) IIS
8 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.32%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.32%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) JBoss
9 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.48%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Shopify
2 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.16%) Magento
3 1 (0.16%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 415 (66.40%) AWS
2 291 (46.56%) Azure
3 162 (25.92%) GitHub
4 161 (25.76%) GCP
5 90 (14.40%) GitHub Copilot
6 88 (14.08%) Serverless
7 54 (8.64%) Amazon S3
8 51 (8.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 50 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
10 45 (7.20%) Azure AI
10 45 (7.20%) SaaS
11 39 (6.24%) GitHub Actions
12 37 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
13 36 (5.76%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (5.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 34 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
15 27 (4.32%) Pulumi
16 25 (4.00%) Azure AKS
17 23 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
18 22 (3.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 106 (16.96%) Broadband
2 11 (1.76%) Internet
3 9 (1.44%) DNS
3 9 (1.44%) Firewall
4 7 (1.12%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.96%) Network Security
5 6 (0.96%) VPN
6 5 (0.80%) DHCP
7 4 (0.64%) HTTP
7 4 (0.64%) MQTT
8 3 (0.48%) AMQP
8 3 (0.48%) DSL
8 3 (0.48%) RTP
8 3 (0.48%) SCCP
8 3 (0.48%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.48%) VoIP
8 3 (0.48%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.32%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.32%) SAN
9 2 (0.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (20.32%) MongoDB
2 76 (12.16%) PostgreSQL
3 75 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 68 (10.88%) NoSQL
5 52 (8.32%) Relational Database
6 42 (6.72%) Elasticsearch
7 37 (5.92%) SQL Server
8 32 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
9 31 (4.96%) MySQL
10 25 (4.00%) Redis
11 24 (3.84%) DynamoDB
12 18 (2.88%) RDBMS
13 17 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
14 15 (2.40%) BigQuery
15 12 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (1.76%) Tableau
17 10 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
17 10 (1.60%) Delta Lake
17 10 (1.60%) Pinecone
18 9 (1.44%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 103 (16.48%) Git
2 79 (12.64%) Jenkins
3 59 (9.44%) GitLab
4 24 (3.84%) TeamCity
5 18 (2.88%) Cypress.io
5 18 (2.88%) Jaeger
6 16 (2.56%) Maven
7 15 (2.40%) JUnit
8 14 (2.24%) CircleCI
8 14 (2.24%) JIRA
8 14 (2.24%) Selenium
9 10 (1.60%) JMeter
9 10 (1.60%) MLflow
10 9 (1.44%) Mockito
10 9 (1.44%) Postman
11 8 (1.28%) Claude Code
11 8 (1.28%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.12%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.96%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.80%) Locust
General
1 116 (18.56%) Social Skills
2 70 (11.20%) Finance
3 47 (7.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 40 (6.40%) Public Sector
5 23 (3.68%) Advertising
6 14 (2.24%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (1.92%) Banking
7 12 (1.92%) Marketing
8 11 (1.76%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.60%) Games
9 10 (1.60%) Law
9 10 (1.60%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.44%) Retail
11 6 (0.96%) Aviation
11 6 (0.96%) Legal
12 4 (0.64%) Military
12 4 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.32%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 245 (39.20%) Developer
2 141 (22.56%) Senior
3 93 (14.88%) Lead
4 92 (14.72%) Software Engineer
5 81 (12.96%) .NET Developer
6 51 (8.16%) DevOps Engineer
7 42 (6.72%) Scala Engineer
8 41 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
9 40 (6.40%) Java Developer
9 40 (6.40%) Senior Developer
10 31 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (4.64%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
13 27 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
14 25 (4.00%) Data Engineer
14 25 (4.00%) Software Developer
15 24 (3.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 23 (3.68%) Scala Software Engineer
17 21 (3.36%) Scala Developer
18 19 (3.04%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (21.44%) .NET
2 107 (17.12%) React
3 99 (15.84%) Node.js
4 98 (15.68%) .NET Core
5 85 (13.60%) ASP.NET
6 78 (12.48%) ASP.NET Core
7 74 (11.84%) AngularJS
8 72 (11.52%) Spring
9 69 (11.04%) CSS
10 68 (10.88%) REST
11 64 (10.24%) HTML
12 60 (9.60%) RESTful
13 57 (9.12%) Spring Boot
14 52 (8.32%) Kafka
14 52 (8.32%) Vue
15 48 (7.68%) gRPC
16 42 (6.72%) ML.NET
17 32 (5.12%) Django
18 26 (4.16%) OpenTelemetry
18 26 (4.16%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 112 (17.92%) Cloud Native
2 79 (12.64%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (10.72%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (10.72%) Video\Live Streaming
4 43 (6.88%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.08%) Digital TV
6 13 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.44%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.28%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.28%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.12%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.12%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.12%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.96%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.80%) Cyberattack
12 5 (0.80%) Life Science
12 5 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 119 (19.04%) Linux
2 30 (4.80%) Unix
3 12 (1.92%) Ubuntu
3 12 (1.92%) Windows
4 8 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.80%) Android
5 5 (0.80%) CentOS
5 5 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.64%) Debian
7 3 (0.48%) VMS
7 3 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (65.92%) CI/CD
2 286 (45.76%) Containerisation
3 273 (43.68%) Agile
4 255 (40.80%) DevOps
5 208 (33.28%) Microservices
6 186 (29.76%) Software Engineering
7 185 (29.60%) Full-Stack Development
8 173 (27.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 161 (25.76%) AI
10 135 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
11 130 (20.80%) Mentoring
12 126 (20.16%) Machine Learning
13 113 (18.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 110 (17.60%) Scrum
15 109 (17.44%) TDD
16 104 (16.64%) Clean Code
17 88 (14.08%) Coaching
18 76 (12.16%) Test Automation
19 75 (12.00%) Observability
20 70 (11.20%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 266 (42.56%) Python
2 173 (27.68%) SQL
3 140 (22.40%) C#
4 138 (22.08%) Java
5 126 (20.16%) JavaScript
6 113 (18.08%) TypeScript
7 96 (15.36%) Go
8 86 (13.76%) Scala
9 80 (12.80%) Bash
10 27 (4.32%) PowerShell
11 23 (3.68%) PHP
12 18 (2.88%) Bicep
13 14 (2.24%) Ruby
14 13 (2.08%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.60%) PL/SQL
16 9 (1.44%) Groovy
17 8 (1.28%) C++
17 8 (1.28%) Rust
18 7 (1.12%) C
19 3 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 77 (12.32%) Security Cleared
2 64 (10.24%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.48%) Degree
4 31 (4.96%) AWS Certification
5 22 (3.52%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.80%) CISSP
9 5 (0.80%) GIAC
9 5 (0.80%) ISACA
9 5 (0.80%) SANS
10 3 (0.48%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.48%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.32%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.32%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (8.48%) QA
2 30 (4.80%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.92%) NIST
4 11 (1.76%) WCAG
5 10 (1.60%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.80%) GDPR
7 3 (0.48%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.48%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.16%) NCSC
8 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.64%) Firmware
4 3 (0.48%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.16%) iptables
6 1 (0.16%) KVM
6 1 (0.16%) QEMU
6 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.16%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 392 (62.72%) Kubernetes
2 187 (29.92%) Terraform
3 72 (11.52%) Ansible
4 52 (8.32%) Prometheus
5 41 (6.56%) Grafana
6 34 (5.44%) Argo
7 18 (2.88%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.40%) Podman
9 14 (2.24%) Istio
9 14 (2.24%) Puppet
10 11 (1.76%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.96%) Packer
12 5 (0.80%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.80%) Kibana
13 3 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.48%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.48%) linkerd
13 3 (0.48%) Nagios
13 3 (0.48%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.32%) MIIS
Vendors
1 127 (20.32%) Microsoft
2 65 (10.40%) Google
3 45 (7.20%) Typelevel
4 19 (3.04%) Databricks
4 19 (3.04%) Oracle
5 10 (1.60%) Facebook
6 9 (1.44%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.28%) Confluent
7 8 (1.28%) Palantir
7 8 (1.28%) Splunk
8 7 (1.12%) VMware
9 6 (0.96%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.80%) ForgeRock
10 5 (0.80%) HubSpot
10 5 (0.80%) Okta
10 5 (0.80%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.64%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.64%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.48%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.48%) Fortinet