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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 37 31
Rank change year-on-year -54 -6 -10
Permanent jobs citing Docker 433 1,183 1,645
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.85% 6.05% 7.59%
As % of the System Software category 33.88% 42.42% 44.95%
Number of salaries quoted 338 593 1,386
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,813 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £71,000 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +1.43% -0.82% -2.65%

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 1,278 2,789 3,660
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.42% 14.26% 16.88%
Number of salaries quoted 982 1,645 3,125
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £42,819
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,125 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -1.46% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £91,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 18 November 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 13 (3.00%) Apache Solr
1 13 (3.00%) CMS
2 12 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.77%) nginx
3 9 (2.08%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.85%) IIS
5 5 (1.15%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.15%) Apache
6 4 (0.92%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.69%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.69%) Drupal
7 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.69%) WordPress
8 2 (0.46%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.46%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.23%) MetaMask
9 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.23%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Weka
2 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.39%) Shopify
2 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 260 (60.05%) AWS
2 248 (57.27%) Azure
3 96 (22.17%) GCP
4 95 (21.94%) GitHub
5 66 (15.24%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (10.62%) GitHub Actions
7 41 (9.47%) Serverless
8 38 (8.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (7.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (6.00%) Azure AKS
11 25 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
12 22 (5.08%) OpenShift
12 22 (5.08%) SaaS
13 21 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (4.85%) Azure Service Bus
14 17 (3.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 15 (3.46%) Amazon S3
16 14 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
17 13 (3.00%) Cloudflare
17 13 (3.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.93%) Firewall
2 13 (3.00%) VPN
3 12 (2.77%) TCP/IP
4 11 (2.54%) DNS
5 7 (1.62%) Broadband
6 6 (1.39%) Internet
7 4 (0.92%) Network Security
8 3 (0.69%) AMQP
8 3 (0.69%) WAN
9 2 (0.46%) DHCP
9 2 (0.46%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.46%) LAN
9 2 (0.46%) VLAN
9 2 (0.46%) VSAN
10 1 (0.23%) 5G
10 1 (0.23%) IOS XR
10 1 (0.23%) MIMO
10 1 (0.23%) NAS
10 1 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
10 1 (0.23%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (17.32%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (12.70%) NoSQL
3 51 (11.78%) SQL Server
4 37 (8.55%) Elasticsearch
4 37 (8.55%) MySQL
5 30 (6.93%) MongoDB
6 22 (5.08%) Relational Database
7 21 (4.85%) Redis
8 17 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (2.08%) Tick Data
11 8 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.62%) DynamoDB
13 5 (1.15%) Big Data
13 5 (1.15%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.15%) MariaDB
13 5 (1.15%) Power BI
14 4 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.92%) Neo4j
15 3 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 86 (19.86%) Git
2 45 (10.39%) GitLab
3 43 (9.93%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.23%) Octopus Deploy
5 11 (2.54%) SonarQube
6 10 (2.31%) JUnit
6 10 (2.31%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (2.08%) Selenium
7 9 (2.08%) TeamCity
8 8 (1.85%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.62%) JIRA
9 7 (1.62%) MSBuild
9 7 (1.62%) Visual Studio
10 5 (1.15%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.92%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.92%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.92%) webpack
12 3 (0.69%) TestRail
12 3 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 123 (28.41%) Social Skills
2 52 (12.01%) Finance
3 20 (4.62%) Public Sector
4 18 (4.16%) Marketing
4 18 (4.16%) Telecoms
5 17 (3.93%) Law
6 15 (3.46%) Retail
7 12 (2.77%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.54%) Games
9 10 (2.31%) Legal
10 7 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.39%) Front Office
12 5 (1.15%) Automotive
12 5 (1.15%) Banking
12 5 (1.15%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.15%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.92%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.69%) Electronics
14 3 (0.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 124 (28.64%) Developer
2 116 (26.79%) Senior
3 70 (16.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (11.55%) Lead
5 45 (10.39%) Software Engineer
6 36 (8.31%) Architect
7 32 (7.39%) Senior Developer
8 28 (6.47%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (6.24%) Python Developer
10 26 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
11 23 (5.31%) Senior DevOps
12 22 (5.08%) .NET Developer
13 21 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
14 20 (4.62%) Data Engineer
15 19 (4.39%) Software Developer
16 18 (4.16%) Python Engineer
17 17 (3.93%) C# Developer
17 17 (3.93%) Java Developer
17 17 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
18 16 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (22.63%) .NET
2 67 (15.47%) React
3 59 (13.63%) REST
4 53 (12.24%) RESTful
5 43 (9.93%) CSS
5 43 (9.93%) HTML
6 37 (8.55%) Django
6 37 (8.55%) Spring
7 36 (8.31%) Kafka
7 36 (8.31%) Spring Boot
8 34 (7.85%) Flask
8 34 (7.85%) Node.js
9 33 (7.62%) .NET Core
9 33 (7.62%) AngularJS
10 31 (7.16%) Elastic Stack
11 27 (6.24%) FastAPI
12 24 (5.54%) Web Services
13 22 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
13 22 (5.08%) Vue
14 20 (4.62%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 102 (23.56%) Cloud Native
2 36 (8.31%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.85%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.16%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.77%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.54%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.62%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.39%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.39%) BYOD
11 6 (1.39%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.39%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.39%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.92%) IoT
12 4 (0.92%) PKI
12 4 (0.92%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 92 (21.25%) Linux
2 47 (10.85%) Windows
3 23 (5.31%) Unix
4 22 (5.08%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.85%) Android
6 7 (1.62%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.39%) CentOS
7 6 (1.39%) VMS
8 3 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.46%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.23%) Fedora
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (64.90%) CI/CD
2 258 (59.58%) DevOps
3 217 (50.12%) Containerisation
4 160 (36.95%) Agile
5 129 (29.79%) Microservices
6 128 (29.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 117 (27.02%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (21.48%) Software Engineering
9 75 (17.32%) AI
10 72 (16.63%) Mentoring
11 62 (14.32%) Observability
12 57 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 57 (13.16%) Full-Stack Development
13 48 (11.09%) Event-Driven
14 47 (10.85%) Test Automation
15 46 (10.62%) Machine Learning
16 44 (10.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 40 (9.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 37 (8.55%) Clean Code
18 37 (8.55%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 210 (48.50%) Python
2 131 (30.25%) SQL
3 108 (24.94%) JavaScript
4 93 (21.48%) C#
5 77 (17.78%) Java
6 52 (12.01%) Bash
7 43 (9.93%) PowerShell
7 43 (9.93%) TypeScript
8 29 (6.70%) Bicep
9 26 (6.00%) Go
10 22 (5.08%) PHP
11 9 (2.08%) C++
12 8 (1.85%) Delphi
13 6 (1.39%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.15%) Ruby
15 4 (0.92%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.69%) C
16 3 (0.69%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.69%) Scala
17 2 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 58 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 40 (9.24%) SC Cleared
3 39 (9.01%) Degree
4 27 (6.24%) AWS Certification
5 25 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.16%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.46%) DV Cleared
8 13 (3.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.15%) CISM
9 5 (1.15%) CISSP
10 3 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.46%) CISA
11 2 (0.46%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.16%) QA
2 29 (6.70%) GDPR
3 10 (2.31%) HIPAA
4 9 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.85%) NIST
6 6 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.15%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.69%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.46%) ECSS
9 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.46%) SLA
10 1 (0.23%) SEPA
10 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (1.62%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.92%) vSphere
4 3 (0.69%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.46%) Ceph
5 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.46%) Lustre
5 2 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.23%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.23%) Postfix
6 1 (0.23%) vCloud
6 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 289 (66.74%) Kubernetes
2 161 (37.18%) Terraform
3 64 (14.78%) Ansible
4 62 (14.32%) Grafana
5 45 (10.39%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.85%) Argo
7 4 (0.92%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.92%) Puppet
8 3 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.46%) Kibana
9 2 (0.46%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.23%) logstash
10 1 (0.23%) Nagios
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.23%) Rancher
10 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (11.78%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.70%) Google
3 24 (5.54%) Oracle
4 16 (3.70%) Databricks
5 12 (2.77%) Splunk
6 9 (2.08%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.08%) VMware
7 8 (1.85%) SAP
8 6 (1.39%) Trayport
9 5 (1.15%) Dell
9 5 (1.15%) Epicor
9 5 (1.15%) IBM
9 5 (1.15%) Infor
9 5 (1.15%) Informatica
9 5 (1.15%) Mercator
9 5 (1.15%) Nokia
9 5 (1.15%) Software AG
9 5 (1.15%) Talend
9 5 (1.15%) TIBCO
9 5 (1.15%) Workday