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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 46 48
Rank change year-on-year -39 +2 -16
Permanent jobs citing Docker 734 942 1,073
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.95% 5.67% 4.97%
As % of the System Software category 39.42% 50.43% 38.24%
Number of salaries quoted 558 296 578
10th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £44,775
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% - -

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 1,862 1,868 2,806
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.48% 11.24% 13.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,376 980 1,654
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 £73,750 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £89,625
UK median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -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

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 11 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 23 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (3.00%) Apache
3 16 (2.18%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.36%) nginx
5 7 (0.95%) Jupyter
5 7 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.82%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.68%) Camunda
7 5 (0.68%) CMS
7 5 (0.68%) IIS
8 4 (0.54%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.54%) Confluence
8 4 (0.54%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.54%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.41%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.27%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.27%) Hedera
10 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.14%) Moodle
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 12 (1.63%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 437 (59.54%) Azure
2 429 (58.45%) AWS
3 247 (33.65%) GitHub
4 151 (20.57%) GitHub Copilot
5 145 (19.75%) GCP
6 79 (10.76%) GitHub Actions
7 72 (9.81%) Azure AI
8 66 (8.99%) SaaS
9 64 (8.72%) Serverless
10 49 (6.68%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
12 36 (4.90%) Azure Service Bus
13 35 (4.77%) Amazon S3
14 34 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
15 32 (4.36%) Azure AKS
16 27 (3.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 26 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
18 25 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
18 25 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
18 25 (3.41%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.59%) Internet
2 16 (2.18%) Broadband
2 16 (2.18%) VPN
3 13 (1.77%) Firewall
4 12 (1.63%) AMQP
4 12 (1.63%) SMS
5 11 (1.50%) Network Security
6 10 (1.36%) DNS
7 7 (0.95%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.54%) SSH
9 3 (0.41%) HTTP
10 2 (0.27%) Intranet
10 2 (0.27%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.27%) VLAN
10 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
10 2 (0.27%) X.509
11 1 (0.14%) DSL
11 1 (0.14%) FCoE
11 1 (0.14%) SSL
11 1 (0.14%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (22.34%) MongoDB
2 142 (19.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 119 (16.21%) PostgreSQL
4 60 (8.17%) Elasticsearch
5 53 (7.22%) SQL Server
6 52 (7.08%) Relational Database
7 48 (6.54%) NoSQL
8 39 (5.31%) MySQL
9 35 (4.77%) Redis
10 24 (3.27%) DynamoDB
11 20 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (2.45%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (1.77%) BigQuery
14 11 (1.50%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.95%) Metadata
16 6 (0.82%) Delta Lake
16 6 (0.82%) Looker
16 6 (0.82%) Power BI
17 5 (0.68%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 136 (18.53%) Git
2 69 (9.40%) GitLab
3 68 (9.26%) Jenkins
4 33 (4.50%) JUnit
5 21 (2.86%) Mockito
6 18 (2.45%) Maven
7 17 (2.32%) Selenium
8 15 (2.04%) Claude Code
8 15 (2.04%) JIRA
9 14 (1.91%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.50%) Postman
11 8 (1.09%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.82%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.82%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.82%) Gatling
12 6 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.82%) Storybook
13 5 (0.68%) Poetry
14 4 (0.54%) Appium
14 4 (0.54%) Snyk
General
1 181 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 111 (15.12%) Finance
3 60 (8.17%) Public Sector
4 43 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (4.63%) Advertising
6 32 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (2.86%) Marketing
8 20 (2.72%) Aerospace
9 16 (2.18%) Law
10 15 (2.04%) Games
11 14 (1.91%) Banking
11 14 (1.91%) Tech for Good
12 13 (1.77%) Health Technology
13 11 (1.50%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.36%) Retail
15 7 (0.95%) Legal
16 6 (0.82%) Electronics
17 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
18 3 (0.41%) Local Government
18 3 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 312 (42.51%) Developer
2 199 (27.11%) Senior
3 143 (19.48%) .NET Developer
4 119 (16.21%) Software Engineer
5 77 (10.49%) Lead
6 69 (9.40%) Senior Developer
7 54 (7.36%) DevOps Engineer
8 51 (6.95%) Java Developer
9 45 (6.13%) Full-Stack Developer
10 32 (4.36%) Senior Software Engineer
11 30 (4.09%) Senior Java Developer
12 27 (3.68%) Architect
12 27 (3.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 24 (3.27%) Data Engineer
14 23 (3.13%) Lead Developer
15 22 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
15 22 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
16 21 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
16 21 (2.86%) Technical Leader
17 19 (2.59%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (31.34%) .NET
2 200 (27.25%) Terraform
3 155 (21.12%) .NET Core
4 150 (20.44%) ASP.NET
5 148 (20.16%) React
6 139 (18.94%) Node.js
7 134 (18.26%) ASP.NET Core
8 120 (16.35%) REST
9 106 (14.44%) CSS
10 101 (13.76%) Spring
11 97 (13.22%) AngularJS
12 90 (12.26%) HTML
13 86 (11.72%) RESTful
14 78 (10.63%) Spring Boot
15 77 (10.49%) Vue
16 70 (9.54%) ML.NET
17 51 (6.95%) Kafka
18 41 (5.59%) Blazor
19 31 (4.22%) OAuth
20 30 (4.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 135 (18.39%) Cloud Native
2 73 (9.95%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (2.59%) Digital TV
4 19 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (2.32%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (2.04%) Robotics
8 14 (1.91%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.50%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.36%) IoT
10 10 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.23%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.09%) Blog
12 8 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
13 7 (0.95%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.95%) Hackathon
13 7 (0.95%) Onboarding
13 7 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 128 (17.44%) Linux
2 23 (3.13%) Windows
3 17 (2.32%) Ubuntu
4 8 (1.09%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.09%) Unix
5 7 (0.95%) Debian
6 6 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
6 6 (0.82%) macOS
7 4 (0.54%) Android
7 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.41%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.27%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (65.26%) CI/CD
2 308 (41.96%) Agile
3 261 (35.56%) AI
4 251 (34.20%) DevOps
5 250 (34.06%) Full-Stack Development
6 234 (31.88%) Microservices
7 233 (31.74%) Containerisation
8 226 (30.79%) Software Engineering
9 161 (21.93%) Mentoring
10 160 (21.80%) Infrastructure as Code
11 147 (20.03%) Problem-Solving
12 129 (17.57%) Machine Learning
13 121 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 121 (16.49%) Scrum
14 109 (14.85%) Test Automation
15 106 (14.44%) TDD
16 102 (13.90%) Observability
17 83 (11.31%) Event-Driven
18 80 (10.90%) Clean Code
19 77 (10.49%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 295 (40.19%) SQL
2 243 (33.11%) C#
3 235 (32.02%) Python
4 168 (22.89%) TypeScript
5 146 (19.89%) Java
6 136 (18.53%) JavaScript
7 74 (10.08%) Bash
8 40 (5.45%) PowerShell
9 28 (3.81%) Go
10 23 (3.13%) Bicep
10 23 (3.13%) Ruby
11 22 (3.00%) PHP
12 17 (2.32%) C++
13 16 (2.18%) Kotlin
14 15 (2.04%) PL/SQL
15 12 (1.63%) Scala
16 10 (1.36%) Groovy
17 9 (1.23%) C
17 9 (1.23%) Rust
18 6 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 120 (16.35%) Security Cleared
2 99 (13.49%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.08%) Degree
4 22 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.45%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.04%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.82%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.54%) GCFA
10 4 (0.54%) GIAC
10 4 (0.54%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.41%) OCP
11 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.86%) QA
2 35 (4.77%) Accessibility
3 29 (3.95%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.50%) WCAG
5 9 (1.23%) NIST
6 7 (0.95%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.82%) GDPR
8 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.41%) NCSC
9 3 (0.41%) SLA
10 2 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
10 2 (0.27%) MISRA
10 2 (0.27%) MISRA C
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 12 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.41%) iptables
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) KVM
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.14%) QEMU
5 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 493 (67.17%) Kubernetes
2 54 (7.36%) Ansible
3 51 (6.95%) Grafana
4 38 (5.18%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.91%) Progress Chef
5 14 (1.91%) Puppet
6 13 (1.77%) Argo
7 9 (1.23%) Istio
8 7 (0.95%) Podman
9 6 (0.82%) Packer
10 4 (0.54%) linkerd
11 3 (0.41%) Cilium
11 3 (0.41%) Kibana
11 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.27%) CASB
12 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.14%) Consul
13 1 (0.14%) logstash
13 1 (0.14%) Nagios
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 194 (26.43%) Microsoft
2 60 (8.17%) Google
3 29 (3.95%) OpenAI
3 29 (3.95%) Oracle
4 19 (2.59%) Facebook
5 14 (1.91%) Okta
5 14 (1.91%) Ping Identity
5 14 (1.91%) Splunk
6 12 (1.63%) Informatica
7 11 (1.50%) Databricks
7 11 (1.50%) New Relic
8 10 (1.36%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.09%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.09%) VMware
10 4 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (0.54%) ESRI
10 4 (0.54%) ForgeRock
10 4 (0.54%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.54%) IBM
10 4 (0.54%) TIBCO