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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 33 71
Rank change year-on-year -46 +38 -38
Permanent jobs citing Docker 689 1,208 1,178
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.23% 7.33% 3.69%
As % of the System Software category 39.21% 54.05% 30.85%
Number of salaries quoted 516 527 973
10th Percentile £43,750 £48,165 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £51,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +15.18% -9.09%
75th Percentile £76,544 £88,750 £84,919
90th Percentile £91,875 £120,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £74,870 £68,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +10.10% -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 1,757 2,235 3,819
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.23% 13.55% 11.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,326 1,344 2,966
10th Percentile £32,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,528
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +0.87% -11.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,600 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.91%

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 15 July 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 24 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.32%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.74%) Apache
4 9 (1.31%) nginx
5 6 (0.87%) IIS
5 6 (0.87%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.73%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.58%) CMS
8 2 (0.29%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.29%) Camunda
8 2 (0.29%) Confluence
8 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.29%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.29%) WordPress
9 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 432 (62.70%) AWS
2 378 (54.86%) Azure
3 223 (32.37%) GitHub
4 174 (25.25%) GCP
5 150 (21.77%) GitHub Copilot
6 84 (12.19%) Serverless
7 74 (10.74%) Azure AI
8 50 (7.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 48 (6.97%) Amazon S3
10 47 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (6.53%) AWS Lambda
12 42 (6.10%) SaaS
13 41 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (5.22%) Amazon EC2
15 33 (4.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 32 (4.64%) Amazon ECS
17 30 (4.35%) Azure AKS
18 29 (4.21%) Azure Service Bus
19 26 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
20 25 (3.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (11.03%) Broadband
2 20 (2.90%) Internet
3 11 (1.60%) DNS
3 11 (1.60%) VPN
4 9 (1.31%) Firewall
5 8 (1.16%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.73%) DHCP
6 5 (0.73%) HTTP
6 5 (0.73%) MQTT
7 4 (0.58%) Network Security
7 4 (0.58%) SSH
8 3 (0.44%) AMQP
8 3 (0.44%) RTP
8 3 (0.44%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.44%) VoIP
8 3 (0.44%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.29%) Intranet
9 2 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.29%) SAN
9 2 (0.29%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (26.56%) MongoDB
2 137 (19.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 89 (12.92%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (9.29%) Elasticsearch
5 53 (7.69%) NoSQL
6 46 (6.68%) Relational Database
6 46 (6.68%) SQL Server
7 36 (5.22%) MySQL
8 33 (4.79%) Redis
9 29 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (2.90%) DynamoDB
11 15 (2.18%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (1.31%) BigQuery
12 9 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.31%) Delta Lake
13 8 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (1.02%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.02%) Tableau
15 6 (0.87%) Pinecone
15 6 (0.87%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 111 (16.11%) Git
2 65 (9.43%) Jenkins
3 55 (7.98%) GitLab
4 17 (2.47%) Cypress.io
4 17 (2.47%) JIRA
5 16 (2.32%) Maven
6 15 (2.18%) JUnit
7 12 (1.74%) CircleCI
7 12 (1.74%) Selenium
8 10 (1.45%) Claude Code
9 9 (1.31%) Mockito
10 8 (1.16%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.16%) JMeter
11 7 (1.02%) Postman
11 7 (1.02%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.87%) Jaeger
12 6 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.73%) Locust
13 5 (0.73%) MLflow
13 5 (0.73%) Subversion
General
1 136 (19.74%) Social Skills
2 84 (12.19%) Finance
3 42 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 41 (5.95%) Public Sector
5 39 (5.66%) Advertising
6 22 (3.19%) Marketing
7 17 (2.47%) Aerospace
8 16 (2.32%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (2.18%) Games
10 12 (1.74%) Banking
11 10 (1.45%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.31%) Law
13 6 (0.87%) Legal
14 5 (0.73%) Retail
14 5 (0.73%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.58%) Electronics
15 4 (0.58%) Military
16 3 (0.44%) Aviation
16 3 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 303 (43.98%) Developer
2 145 (21.04%) Senior
3 140 (20.32%) .NET Developer
4 100 (14.51%) Software Engineer
5 79 (11.47%) Lead
6 54 (7.84%) DevOps Engineer
7 43 (6.24%) Full-Stack Developer
8 39 (5.66%) Senior Developer
9 38 (5.52%) Java Developer
10 32 (4.64%) AWS Engineer
11 31 (4.50%) Scala Engineer
12 29 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
13 28 (4.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 27 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
15 26 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
16 22 (3.19%) Data Engineer
17 21 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
18 20 (2.90%) Software Developer
19 19 (2.76%) AWS DevOps
19 19 (2.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (29.32%) .NET
2 151 (21.92%) .NET Core
3 149 (21.63%) ASP.NET
4 135 (19.59%) ASP.NET Core
5 115 (16.69%) React
6 113 (16.40%) Node.js
7 103 (14.95%) AngularJS
8 100 (14.51%) CSS
9 94 (13.64%) HTML
10 82 (11.90%) REST
11 80 (11.61%) Vue
12 75 (10.89%) RESTful
12 75 (10.89%) Spring
13 73 (10.60%) ML.NET
14 60 (8.71%) Spring Boot
15 53 (7.69%) gRPC
16 50 (7.26%) Kafka
17 32 (4.64%) Django
18 28 (4.06%) Blazor
19 25 (3.63%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 119 (17.27%) Cloud Native
2 89 (12.92%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (6.68%) Over-the-Top Content
3 46 (6.68%) Video\Live Streaming
4 35 (5.08%) Product Ownership
5 28 (4.06%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.90%) Digital TV
7 15 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.31%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.02%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.02%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.02%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.02%) Onboarding
12 6 (0.87%) IoT
12 6 (0.87%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.87%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.87%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.73%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 132 (19.16%) Linux
2 19 (2.76%) Unix
3 16 (2.32%) Ubuntu
4 15 (2.18%) Windows
5 8 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.02%) Debian
7 5 (0.73%) CentOS
7 5 (0.73%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.44%) Android
8 3 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.44%) VMS
8 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 462 (67.05%) CI/CD
2 291 (42.24%) Containerisation
3 282 (40.93%) Agile
4 253 (36.72%) DevOps
5 249 (36.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 244 (35.41%) Microservices
7 202 (29.32%) Software Engineering
8 191 (27.72%) AI
9 162 (23.51%) Infrastructure as Code
10 156 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
11 152 (22.06%) Machine Learning
12 125 (18.14%) Mentoring
13 116 (16.84%) Scrum
14 112 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
15 108 (15.67%) Clean Code
15 108 (15.67%) TDD
16 84 (12.19%) Coaching
17 78 (11.32%) Observability
18 77 (11.18%) Test Automation
19 72 (10.45%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 269 (39.04%) Python
2 237 (34.40%) SQL
3 212 (30.77%) C#
4 142 (20.61%) TypeScript
5 118 (17.13%) Java
6 117 (16.98%) JavaScript
7 79 (11.47%) Go
8 64 (9.29%) Bash
9 62 (9.00%) Scala
10 35 (5.08%) PowerShell
11 21 (3.05%) Bicep
11 21 (3.05%) PHP
11 21 (3.05%) Ruby
12 14 (2.03%) C++
13 12 (1.74%) Kotlin
14 10 (1.45%) Groovy
14 10 (1.45%) PL/SQL
15 9 (1.31%) Rust
16 8 (1.16%) C
17 3 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (11.61%) Security Cleared
2 65 (9.43%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.42%) Degree
4 22 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.76%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.61%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.45%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.73%) CISSP
8 5 (0.73%) GIAC
8 5 (0.73%) ISACA
8 5 (0.73%) SANS
9 4 (0.58%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.15%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.15%) LPIC
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (8.56%) QA
2 26 (3.77%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.03%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.89%) WCAG
5 12 (1.74%) NIST
6 10 (1.45%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.44%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.44%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.29%) GDPR
10 1 (0.15%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) PSD2
10 1 (0.15%) SEPA
10 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.58%) Firmware
3 4 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.44%) iptables
4 3 (0.44%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.29%) KVM
6 1 (0.15%) QEMU
6 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 443 (64.30%) Kubernetes
2 176 (25.54%) Terraform
3 58 (8.42%) Ansible
4 47 (6.82%) Grafana
5 46 (6.68%) Prometheus
6 22 (3.19%) Argo
7 18 (2.61%) Puppet
8 16 (2.32%) Podman
9 15 (2.18%) Istio
10 13 (1.89%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.87%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.73%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.73%) Kibana
12 5 (0.73%) Packer
13 3 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.44%) linkerd
13 3 (0.44%) Nagios
13 3 (0.44%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 192 (27.87%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.55%) Google
3 45 (6.53%) Typelevel
4 20 (2.90%) Facebook
5 18 (2.61%) Oracle
6 16 (2.32%) Databricks
7 13 (1.89%) Okta
8 9 (1.31%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.31%) Splunk
9 8 (1.16%) Confluent
9 8 (1.16%) ForgeRock
9 8 (1.16%) Ping Identity
9 8 (1.16%) VMware
10 6 (0.87%) Informatica
11 5 (0.73%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.73%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.73%) New Relic
11 5 (0.73%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.58%) Palantir
13 3 (0.44%) Fortinet