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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 29 68
Rank change year-on-year -50 +39 -35
Permanent jobs citing Docker 628 1,238 1,347
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.15% 8.08% 3.90%
As % of the System Software category 40.05% 55.62% 32.35%
Number of salaries quoted 414 562 1,119
10th Percentile £44,481 £48,787 £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 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £127,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.29% -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 1,568 2,226 4,164
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.88% 14.52% 12.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,122 1,335 3,246
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.84%
75th Percentile £77,349 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,410 £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 16 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 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.18%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.75%) Apache
4 8 (1.27%) nginx
5 7 (1.11%) 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 (66.08%) AWS
2 292 (46.50%) Azure
3 163 (25.96%) GitHub
4 160 (25.48%) GCP
5 90 (14.33%) GitHub Copilot
6 89 (14.17%) Serverless
7 55 (8.76%) Amazon S3
8 52 (8.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 51 (8.12%) AWS Lambda
10 45 (7.17%) Azure AI
11 44 (7.01%) SaaS
12 39 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (5.89%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (5.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 36 (5.73%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
15 27 (4.30%) Pulumi
16 25 (3.98%) Azure AKS
17 24 (3.82%) Amazon EKS
18 22 (3.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 107 (17.04%) Broadband
2 11 (1.75%) Internet
3 9 (1.43%) DNS
3 9 (1.43%) Firewall
4 7 (1.11%) 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 (20.22%) MongoDB
2 76 (12.10%) PostgreSQL
3 75 (11.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 69 (10.99%) NoSQL
5 52 (8.28%) Relational Database
6 42 (6.69%) Elasticsearch
7 37 (5.89%) SQL Server
8 32 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
8 32 (5.10%) MySQL
9 25 (3.98%) DynamoDB
9 25 (3.98%) Redis
10 18 (2.87%) Amazon Athena
10 18 (2.87%) RDBMS
11 15 (2.39%) BigQuery
12 12 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.75%) Delta Lake
13 11 (1.75%) Tableau
14 10 (1.59%) Pinecone
15 9 (1.43%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 104 (16.56%) Git
2 80 (12.74%) Jenkins
3 60 (9.55%) GitLab
4 24 (3.82%) TeamCity
5 18 (2.87%) Cypress.io
5 18 (2.87%) Jaeger
6 16 (2.55%) Maven
7 15 (2.39%) JIRA
7 15 (2.39%) JUnit
8 14 (2.23%) CircleCI
8 14 (2.23%) Selenium
9 10 (1.59%) JMeter
9 10 (1.59%) MLflow
10 9 (1.43%) Claude Code
10 9 (1.43%) Mockito
10 9 (1.43%) Postman
11 8 (1.27%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.11%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.96%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.80%) Locust
General
1 115 (18.31%) Social Skills
2 72 (11.46%) Finance
3 47 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 40 (6.37%) Public Sector
5 23 (3.66%) Advertising
6 15 (2.39%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (1.91%) Banking
7 12 (1.91%) Marketing
8 11 (1.75%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.59%) Games
9 10 (1.59%) Law
9 10 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.27%) 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
13 3 (0.48%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.32%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 247 (39.33%) Developer
2 142 (22.61%) Senior
3 93 (14.81%) Software Engineer
4 92 (14.65%) Lead
5 81 (12.90%) .NET Developer
6 50 (7.96%) DevOps Engineer
7 42 (6.69%) Scala Engineer
8 41 (6.53%) Full-Stack Developer
8 41 (6.53%) Java Developer
8 41 (6.53%) Senior Developer
9 31 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
10 30 (4.78%) AWS Engineer
11 28 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
11 28 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
12 25 (3.98%) Data Engineer
12 25 (3.98%) Software Developer
13 24 (3.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 23 (3.66%) Scala Software Engineer
15 21 (3.34%) Scala Developer
16 19 (3.03%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (21.66%) .NET
2 108 (17.20%) React
3 98 (15.61%) .NET Core
3 98 (15.61%) Node.js
4 86 (13.69%) ASP.NET
5 78 (12.42%) ASP.NET Core
6 76 (12.10%) AngularJS
7 73 (11.62%) Spring
8 69 (10.99%) CSS
9 68 (10.83%) REST
10 64 (10.19%) HTML
11 61 (9.71%) RESTful
12 58 (9.24%) Spring Boot
13 52 (8.28%) Vue
14 51 (8.12%) Kafka
15 48 (7.64%) gRPC
16 42 (6.69%) ML.NET
17 31 (4.94%) Django
18 26 (4.14%) OpenTelemetry
18 26 (4.14%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 112 (17.83%) Cloud Native
2 80 (12.74%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (10.67%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (10.67%) Video\Live Streaming
4 43 (6.85%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.07%) Digital TV
6 13 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.43%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.27%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.27%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.11%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.11%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.11%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.96%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.80%) Life Science
12 5 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
12 5 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 119 (18.95%) Linux
2 30 (4.78%) Unix
3 12 (1.91%) Ubuntu
3 12 (1.91%) Windows
4 8 (1.27%) 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
1 413 (65.76%) CI/CD
2 288 (45.86%) Containerisation
3 276 (43.95%) Agile
4 256 (40.76%) DevOps
5 209 (33.28%) Microservices
6 189 (30.10%) Software Engineering
7 185 (29.46%) Full-Stack Development
8 173 (27.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 161 (25.64%) AI
10 137 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
11 133 (21.18%) Mentoring
12 124 (19.75%) Machine Learning
13 114 (18.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 110 (17.52%) Scrum
15 109 (17.36%) TDD
16 105 (16.72%) Clean Code
17 88 (14.01%) Coaching
18 76 (12.10%) Test Automation
19 74 (11.78%) Observability
20 70 (11.15%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 265 (42.20%) Python
2 177 (28.18%) SQL
3 144 (22.93%) C#
4 139 (22.13%) Java
5 125 (19.90%) JavaScript
6 112 (17.83%) TypeScript
7 96 (15.29%) Go
8 86 (13.69%) Scala
9 79 (12.58%) Bash
10 27 (4.30%) PowerShell
11 23 (3.66%) PHP
12 18 (2.87%) Bicep
13 14 (2.23%) Kotlin
13 14 (2.23%) Ruby
14 10 (1.59%) PL/SQL
15 9 (1.43%) Groovy
16 8 (1.27%) C++
16 8 (1.27%) Rust
17 7 (1.11%) C
18 3 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 77 (12.26%) Security Cleared
2 64 (10.19%) SC Cleared
3 54 (8.60%) Degree
4 31 (4.94%) AWS Certification
5 24 (3.82%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.43%) 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 (8.44%) QA
2 30 (4.78%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.91%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.91%) NIST
4 11 (1.75%) WCAG
5 10 (1.59%) 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 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.59%) 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
1 393 (62.58%) Kubernetes
2 185 (29.46%) Terraform
3 71 (11.31%) Ansible
4 52 (8.28%) Prometheus
5 41 (6.53%) Grafana
6 34 (5.41%) Argo
7 18 (2.87%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.39%) Podman
9 14 (2.23%) Istio
9 14 (2.23%) Puppet
10 11 (1.75%) 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 (20.22%) Microsoft
2 65 (10.35%) Google
3 45 (7.17%) Typelevel
4 20 (3.18%) Databricks
5 19 (3.03%) Oracle
6 10 (1.59%) Facebook
7 9 (1.43%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.27%) Confluent
8 8 (1.27%) Palantir
8 8 (1.27%) Splunk
9 7 (1.11%) VMware
10 6 (0.96%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.80%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.80%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.80%) Okta
11 5 (0.80%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.64%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.64%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.48%) AppDynamics
13 3 (0.48%) Fortinet