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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 25 65
Rank change year-on-year -58 +40 -32
Permanent jobs citing Docker 592 1,255 1,371
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.10% 8.43% 4.09%
As % of the System Software category 39.52% 56.30% 33.10%
Number of salaries quoted 381 579 1,173
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £74,870 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +12.59% -5.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -2.10%

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 1,498 2,229 4,142
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.83% 14.97% 12.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,061 1,343 3,299
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,199
90th Percentile £97,500 £104,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,941
% change year-on-year - +5.13% -9.20%

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 2 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 (4.90%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (3.55%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.69%) Apache
4 8 (1.35%) nginx
4 8 (1.35%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.18%) CMS
6 5 (0.84%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.51%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.51%) Camunda
7 3 (0.51%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.51%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.34%) Confluence
8 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.34%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.34%) WordPress
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.51%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.17%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Shopify
2 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 405 (68.41%) AWS
2 257 (43.41%) Azure
3 162 (27.36%) GCP
4 136 (22.97%) GitHub
5 94 (15.88%) Serverless
6 60 (10.14%) GitHub Copilot
7 57 (9.63%) Amazon S3
8 53 (8.95%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (8.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 47 (7.94%) SaaS
11 42 (7.09%) GitHub Actions
12 36 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
12 36 (6.08%) Amazon ECS
13 35 (5.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
14 29 (4.90%) Azure AI
15 28 (4.73%) Amazon EKS
16 27 (4.56%) Pulumi
17 22 (3.72%) Amazon SQS
17 22 (3.72%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (17.74%) Broadband
2 10 (1.69%) DNS
2 10 (1.69%) Firewall
3 8 (1.35%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.18%) Internet
4 7 (1.18%) VPN
5 6 (1.01%) DHCP
5 6 (1.01%) Network Security
6 4 (0.68%) AMQP
6 4 (0.68%) HTTP
6 4 (0.68%) MQTT
7 3 (0.51%) RTP
7 3 (0.51%) SCCP
7 3 (0.51%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.51%) VLAN
7 3 (0.51%) VoIP
7 3 (0.51%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.34%) DSL
8 2 (0.34%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.34%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (17.57%) MongoDB
2 76 (12.84%) PostgreSQL
3 69 (11.66%) NoSQL
4 49 (8.28%) Relational Database
5 48 (8.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 40 (6.76%) SQL Server
7 34 (5.74%) Amazon RDS
8 33 (5.57%) Elasticsearch
9 30 (5.07%) MySQL
10 25 (4.22%) DynamoDB
11 22 (3.72%) Redis
12 18 (3.04%) RDBMS
13 17 (2.87%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (2.87%) BigQuery
14 13 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (1.86%) Tableau
16 10 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (1.69%) Pinecone
17 9 (1.52%) Apache Iceberg
17 9 (1.52%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 100 (16.89%) Git
2 76 (12.84%) Jenkins
3 57 (9.63%) GitLab
4 24 (4.05%) TeamCity
5 18 (3.04%) Cypress.io
5 18 (3.04%) Jaeger
6 16 (2.70%) CircleCI
6 16 (2.70%) Maven
7 14 (2.36%) JUnit
8 12 (2.03%) Selenium
9 11 (1.86%) JIRA
9 11 (1.86%) MLflow
10 10 (1.69%) JMeter
11 9 (1.52%) Mockito
12 8 (1.35%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.35%) Postman
13 7 (1.18%) SonarQube
14 6 (1.01%) Visual Studio
15 5 (0.84%) Locust
15 5 (0.84%) Storybook
General
1 107 (18.07%) Social Skills
2 75 (12.67%) Finance
3 45 (7.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 15 (2.53%) Advertising
5 15 (2.53%) Banking
6 13 (2.20%) Law
7 12 (2.03%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (1.86%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.69%) Retail
10 9 (1.52%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.52%) Games
11 8 (1.35%) Marketing
12 6 (1.01%) Aviation
12 6 (1.01%) Front Office
12 6 (1.01%) Legal
13 5 (0.84%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.68%) Military
14 4 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 213 (35.98%) Developer
2 139 (23.48%) Senior
3 99 (16.72%) Lead
4 91 (15.37%) Software Engineer
5 57 (9.63%) .NET Developer
6 53 (8.95%) DevOps Engineer
7 42 (7.09%) Scala Engineer
8 39 (6.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 39 (6.59%) Senior Developer
9 38 (6.42%) Java Developer
10 30 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
12 26 (4.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 25 (4.22%) Platform Engineer
13 25 (4.22%) Software Developer
14 24 (4.05%) Data Engineer
14 24 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
15 23 (3.89%) Scala Software Engineer
16 21 (3.55%) Scala Developer
17 20 (3.38%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (19.59%) React
2 109 (18.41%) .NET
3 97 (16.39%) Node.js
4 75 (12.67%) .NET Core
5 73 (12.33%) Spring
6 66 (11.15%) REST
7 63 (10.64%) AngularJS
8 59 (9.97%) ASP.NET
8 59 (9.97%) RESTful
9 56 (9.46%) Spring Boot
10 54 (9.12%) ASP.NET Core
10 54 (9.12%) Kafka
11 53 (8.95%) CSS
12 50 (8.45%) gRPC
13 48 (8.11%) HTML
14 42 (7.09%) Vue
15 33 (5.57%) Django
16 27 (4.56%) Elastic Stack
17 26 (4.39%) ML.NET
18 24 (4.05%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 103 (17.40%) Cloud Native
2 79 (13.34%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (11.32%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (11.32%) Video\Live Streaming
4 46 (7.77%) Product Ownership
5 17 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (1.86%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.52%) Digital TV
8 9 (1.52%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.35%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.35%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.18%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.18%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.18%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.84%) Cyberattack
11 5 (0.84%) Life Science
11 5 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 108 (18.24%) Linux
2 29 (4.90%) Unix
3 12 (2.03%) Ubuntu
4 10 (1.69%) Windows
5 9 (1.52%) Android
6 8 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.01%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.84%) CentOS
9 4 (0.68%) Debian
9 4 (0.68%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.51%) VMS
11 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (66.22%) CI/CD
2 286 (48.31%) Containerisation
3 259 (43.75%) DevOps
4 252 (42.57%) Agile
5 197 (33.28%) Microservices
6 181 (30.57%) Software Engineering
7 171 (28.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 158 (26.69%) Full-Stack Development
9 139 (23.48%) AI
10 132 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
11 128 (21.62%) Mentoring
12 110 (18.58%) Machine Learning
13 109 (18.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 103 (17.40%) Scrum
15 101 (17.06%) Clean Code
16 100 (16.89%) TDD
17 84 (14.19%) Coaching
18 76 (12.84%) Test Automation
19 70 (11.82%) Observability
20 69 (11.66%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 262 (44.26%) Python
2 149 (25.17%) SQL
3 137 (23.14%) Java
4 129 (21.79%) JavaScript
5 111 (18.75%) C#
6 101 (17.06%) Go
7 98 (16.55%) TypeScript
8 87 (14.70%) Scala
9 77 (13.01%) Bash
10 26 (4.39%) PowerShell
11 22 (3.72%) PHP
12 16 (2.70%) Bicep
13 12 (2.03%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.86%) Ruby
15 10 (1.69%) C++
15 10 (1.69%) PL/SQL
16 8 (1.35%) Groovy
16 8 (1.35%) Rust
17 7 (1.18%) C
18 3 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 78 (13.18%) Security Cleared
2 65 (10.98%) SC Cleared
3 55 (9.29%) Degree
4 29 (4.90%) AWS Certification
5 22 (3.72%) Azure Certification
6 18 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.84%) CISSP
9 5 (0.84%) GIAC
9 5 (0.84%) ISACA
9 5 (0.84%) SANS
10 3 (0.51%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.34%) LPIC
12 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (8.95%) QA
2 29 (4.90%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.03%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.03%) NIST
4 11 (1.86%) WCAG
5 10 (1.69%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.84%) GDPR
7 3 (0.51%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.17%) NCSC
8 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.84%) Firmware
4 3 (0.51%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.17%) iptables
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) QEMU
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.17%) vSphere
6 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 361 (60.98%) Kubernetes
2 192 (32.43%) Terraform
3 73 (12.33%) Ansible
4 49 (8.28%) Prometheus
5 40 (6.76%) Grafana
6 38 (6.42%) Argo
7 18 (3.04%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.53%) Podman
9 12 (2.03%) Puppet
10 11 (1.86%) Istio
11 9 (1.52%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.84%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.84%) Packer
13 4 (0.68%) Kibana
14 3 (0.51%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.51%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.34%) MIIS
15 2 (0.34%) Nagios
15 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 95 (16.05%) Microsoft
2 64 (10.81%) Google
3 45 (7.60%) Typelevel
4 19 (3.21%) Databricks
4 19 (3.21%) Oracle
5 10 (1.69%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.52%) Palantir
7 8 (1.35%) Confluent
8 6 (1.01%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.01%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.01%) Splunk
8 6 (1.01%) VMware
9 5 (0.84%) Facebook
9 5 (0.84%) ForgeRock
9 5 (0.84%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.84%) Okta
9 5 (0.84%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.68%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.51%) Dell
11 3 (0.51%) ESRI