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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 29 44
Rank change year-on-year -55 +15 -14
Permanent jobs citing Docker 532 1,237 1,580
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.24% 8.19% 5.73%
As % of the System Software category 39.47% 50.59% 38.71%
Number of salaries quoted 363 742 1,347
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,125 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £102,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £138,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -3.45%

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 1,348 2,445 4,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.20% 16.19% 14.80%
Number of salaries quoted 950 1,548 3,525
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £31,850
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,875 £115,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,836 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.55% +15.67% -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 26 February 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 21 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.82%) nginx
4 9 (1.69%) CMS
5 6 (1.13%) Apache
5 6 (1.13%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.94%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.94%) Apache Pulsar
6 5 (0.94%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.94%) Drupal
6 5 (0.94%) WordPress
7 4 (0.75%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.75%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.75%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.56%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.38%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.38%) IIS
10 1 (0.19%) Camunda
10 1 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.75%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.38%) Weka
3 1 (0.19%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 9 (1.69%) Shopify
2 1 (0.19%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 359 (67.48%) AWS
2 244 (45.86%) Azure
3 147 (27.63%) GCP
4 126 (23.68%) GitHub
5 80 (15.04%) Serverless
6 64 (12.03%) GitHub Actions
7 62 (11.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 50 (9.40%) AWS Lambda
9 48 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (8.65%) Amazon S3
11 41 (7.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 39 (7.33%) SaaS
13 34 (6.39%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (6.20%) Pulumi
15 23 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (3.95%) OpenShift
17 19 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
17 19 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
18 18 (3.38%) Azure AKS
18 18 (3.38%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 72 (13.53%) Broadband
2 14 (2.63%) Firewall
2 14 (2.63%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.26%) VPN
4 10 (1.88%) DNS
5 7 (1.32%) DHCP
5 7 (1.32%) Network Security
6 5 (0.94%) AMQP
7 4 (0.75%) WAN
8 3 (0.56%) HTTP
8 3 (0.56%) Internet
8 3 (0.56%) MQTT
8 3 (0.56%) RTP
8 3 (0.56%) SCCP
8 3 (0.56%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.56%) VLAN
8 3 (0.56%) VoIP
8 3 (0.56%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.38%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (15.41%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (14.10%) NoSQL
3 45 (8.46%) SQL Server
4 42 (7.89%) Relational Database
5 39 (7.33%) MongoDB
6 33 (6.20%) Amazon RDS
7 32 (6.02%) MySQL
8 28 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (4.51%) Redis
10 19 (3.57%) RDBMS
11 16 (3.01%) DynamoDB
12 15 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (2.82%) BigQuery
13 14 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (2.26%) Tableau
15 11 (2.07%) Delta Lake
16 10 (1.88%) Pinecone
16 10 (1.88%) Weaviate
17 9 (1.69%) Apache Iceberg
17 9 (1.69%) Looker
Development Applications
1 84 (15.79%) Git
2 81 (15.23%) Jenkins
3 57 (10.71%) GitLab
4 27 (5.08%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.57%) Jaeger
6 16 (3.01%) Selenium
7 12 (2.26%) MLflow
7 12 (2.26%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.07%) JUnit
9 10 (1.88%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.50%) JIRA
11 7 (1.32%) JMeter
11 7 (1.32%) Maven
12 6 (1.13%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.94%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.94%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.94%) Robot Framework
13 5 (0.94%) Storybook
13 5 (0.94%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.94%) Vite
General
1 127 (23.87%) Social Skills
2 66 (12.41%) Finance
3 34 (6.39%) Public Sector
4 33 (6.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (4.51%) Law
5 24 (4.51%) Telecoms
6 14 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.07%) Legal
8 10 (1.88%) Games
8 10 (1.88%) Retail
9 7 (1.32%) Banking
9 7 (1.32%) Financial Institution
10 5 (0.94%) Aviation
10 5 (0.94%) Front Office
10 5 (0.94%) Local Government
10 5 (0.94%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.94%) Military
10 5 (0.94%) Police
11 4 (0.75%) Marketing
12 3 (0.56%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 171 (32.14%) Senior
2 160 (30.08%) Developer
3 92 (17.29%) Lead
4 79 (14.85%) Software Engineer
5 54 (10.15%) DevOps Engineer
6 44 (8.27%) Senior Developer
7 38 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
8 34 (6.39%) Cloud Engineer
8 34 (6.39%) Java Developer
9 30 (5.64%) Scala Engineer
10 29 (5.45%) Software Developer
11 28 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
12 26 (4.89%) Senior Software Engineer
13 25 (4.70%) Data Engineer
13 25 (4.70%) Lead DevOps
14 23 (4.32%) Python Developer
15 20 (3.76%) .NET Developer
15 20 (3.76%) Architect
15 20 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
16 19 (3.57%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (18.05%) React
2 83 (15.60%) .NET
3 68 (12.78%) Spring
4 63 (11.84%) Node.js
5 61 (11.47%) Spring Boot
6 54 (10.15%) Kafka
7 53 (9.96%) RESTful
8 50 (9.40%) REST
9 48 (9.02%) Django
10 47 (8.83%) Elastic Stack
11 44 (8.27%) gRPC
12 41 (7.71%) AngularJS
13 40 (7.52%) .NET Core
14 32 (6.02%) CSS
14 32 (6.02%) HTML
14 32 (6.02%) Vue
15 31 (5.83%) Flask
16 25 (4.70%) Akka
17 21 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
18 20 (3.76%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 103 (19.36%) Cloud Native
2 70 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (9.40%) Over-the-Top Content
3 50 (9.40%) Video\Live Streaming
4 45 (8.46%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.38%) Onboarding
6 17 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.26%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.88%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (1.50%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.13%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.13%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.13%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.13%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.94%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.94%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 115 (21.62%) Linux
2 51 (9.59%) Unix
3 27 (5.08%) Windows
4 17 (3.20%) Android
5 11 (2.07%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.88%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.32%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.13%) CentOS
9 5 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.94%) VMS
10 1 (0.19%) Fedora
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (65.04%) CI/CD
2 282 (53.01%) DevOps
3 274 (51.50%) Containerisation
4 205 (38.53%) Agile
5 176 (33.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 153 (28.76%) Microservices
7 147 (27.63%) Problem-Solving
8 140 (26.32%) Software Engineering
9 102 (19.17%) Mentoring
10 99 (18.61%) AI
11 92 (17.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 81 (15.23%) Full-Stack Development
13 75 (14.10%) Machine Learning
14 71 (13.35%) Observability
15 70 (13.16%) Clean Code
16 68 (12.78%) Coaching
16 68 (12.78%) TDD
17 63 (11.84%) Event-Driven
18 62 (11.65%) Test Automation
19 57 (10.71%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 252 (47.37%) Python
2 144 (27.07%) Java
3 134 (25.19%) JavaScript
4 127 (23.87%) SQL
5 87 (16.35%) Go
6 70 (13.16%) C#
7 68 (12.78%) Bash
8 64 (12.03%) Scala
9 57 (10.71%) TypeScript
10 26 (4.89%) PHP
11 25 (4.70%) PowerShell
12 24 (4.51%) Bicep
13 13 (2.44%) C++
14 9 (1.69%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.50%) Delphi
16 5 (0.94%) Rust
16 5 (0.94%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.75%) C
17 4 (0.75%) Perl
18 3 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 79 (14.85%) Security Cleared
2 71 (13.35%) Degree
3 61 (11.47%) SC Cleared
4 40 (7.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (6.39%) AWS Certification
6 22 (4.14%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.26%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.75%) CISSP
9 4 (0.75%) GIAC
9 4 (0.75%) ISACA
9 4 (0.75%) SANS
10 3 (0.56%) LPIC
11 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.38%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.38%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.39%) QA
2 16 (3.01%) Accessibility
2 16 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.26%) GDPR
4 11 (2.07%) NIST
5 10 (1.88%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.88%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.94%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.38%) ECSS
7 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (2.07%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.13%) vSphere
3 5 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.94%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.56%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.38%) Ceph
5 2 (0.38%) Lustre
5 2 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.19%) vCloud
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 339 (63.72%) Kubernetes
2 211 (39.66%) Terraform
3 95 (17.86%) Ansible
4 65 (12.22%) Grafana
4 65 (12.22%) Prometheus
5 37 (6.95%) Argo
6 19 (3.57%) Kustomize
7 6 (1.13%) Puppet
8 5 (0.94%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (0.75%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.75%) Packer
10 3 (0.56%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.38%) Kibana
12 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.19%) Rancher
12 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 52 (9.77%) Google
2 44 (8.27%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.26%) Oracle
4 27 (5.08%) Typelevel
5 19 (3.57%) Databricks
6 14 (2.63%) Splunk
7 10 (1.88%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.69%) Palantir
9 8 (1.50%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.50%) SAP
10 7 (1.32%) VMware
11 6 (1.13%) Dell
11 6 (1.13%) Mercator
11 6 (1.13%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.13%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.94%) IFS
12 5 (0.94%) Jitterbit
12 5 (0.94%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.94%) SnapLogic
12 5 (0.94%) Workday