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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 40 31
Rank change year-on-year -21 -9 -10
Permanent jobs citing Docker 716 1,154 1,677
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.47% 5.78% 7.63%
As % of the System Software category 44.31% 41.62% 45.42%
Number of salaries quoted 325 563 1,409
10th Percentile £44,250 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,308 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £95,850 £110,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,542 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +0.77% -0.82% -2.65%

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 1,616 2,773 3,692
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.09% 13.90% 16.80%
Number of salaries quoted 998 1,630 3,145
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,150 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £49,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.45% - -

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 7 November 2025.

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 13 (1.82%) Apache Solr
2 11 (1.54%) CMS
3 9 (1.26%) nginx
4 8 (1.12%) IIS
5 7 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.84%) Apache
6 6 (0.84%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.70%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.28%) Drupal
9 2 (0.28%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) Confluence
10 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.14%) MetaMask
10 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.70%) Shopify
2 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 287 (40.08%) AWS
2 269 (37.57%) Azure
3 90 (12.57%) GCP
4 89 (12.43%) GitHub
5 64 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
6 48 (6.70%) GitHub Actions
7 41 (5.73%) Serverless
8 38 (5.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (4.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 28 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
11 23 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (3.21%) Azure AKS
12 19 (2.65%) Azure Service Bus
12 19 (2.65%) SaaS
13 17 (2.37%) Amazon S3
13 17 (2.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 14 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (1.96%) OpenShift
15 13 (1.82%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 275 (38.41%) VPN
2 262 (36.59%) Cisco IOS
3 19 (2.65%) Firewall
4 12 (1.68%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.54%) DNS
6 10 (1.40%) Broadband
7 6 (0.84%) Internet
8 4 (0.56%) Network Security
9 3 (0.42%) WAN
10 2 (0.28%) AMQP
10 2 (0.28%) DHCP
10 2 (0.28%) InfiniBand
10 2 (0.28%) LAN
10 2 (0.28%) VLAN
10 2 (0.28%) VSAN
10 2 (0.28%) Wireless
11 1 (0.14%) 5G
11 1 (0.14%) IOS XR
11 1 (0.14%) NAS
11 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (11.87%) SQL Server
2 65 (9.08%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (7.68%) NoSQL
4 38 (5.31%) Elasticsearch
5 36 (5.03%) MySQL
6 31 (4.33%) MongoDB
7 22 (3.07%) Redis
8 21 (2.93%) Relational Database
9 18 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (1.40%) Tick Data
12 7 (0.98%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.70%) Big Data
14 5 (0.70%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.56%) Neo4j
16 3 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
16 3 (0.42%) Hadoop
16 3 (0.42%) MariaDB
16 3 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 83 (11.59%) Git
2 78 (10.89%) GitLab
3 46 (6.42%) SonarQube
4 44 (6.15%) JIRA
5 43 (6.01%) Selenium
6 42 (5.87%) Cucumber
6 42 (5.87%) Jenkins
6 42 (5.87%) Sonatype Nexus
7 38 (5.31%) Bitbucket
8 37 (5.17%) Maven
9 17 (2.37%) Octopus Deploy
10 11 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
10 11 (1.54%) TeamCity
11 8 (1.12%) JUnit
11 8 (1.12%) MSBuild
11 8 (1.12%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.84%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.56%) webpack
14 3 (0.42%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 306 (42.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 275 (38.41%) Analytical Skills
3 115 (16.06%) Social Skills
4 85 (11.87%) Finance
5 52 (7.26%) Retail
6 41 (5.73%) Banking
7 36 (5.03%) Corporate Banking
7 36 (5.03%) Investment Banking
8 18 (2.51%) Marketing
9 15 (2.09%) Public Sector
10 14 (1.96%) Law
11 12 (1.68%) Games
12 9 (1.26%) Legal
12 9 (1.26%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.84%) Automotive
13 6 (0.84%) Front Office
14 5 (0.70%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.70%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.42%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 273 (38.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 120 (16.76%) Developer
3 108 (15.08%) Senior
4 81 (11.31%) Software Engineer
5 76 (10.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 46 (6.42%) Lead
7 35 (4.89%) Architect
8 31 (4.33%) Senior Developer
9 27 (3.77%) Python Developer
10 26 (3.63%) Azure Engineer
10 26 (3.63%) Senior DevOps
11 25 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
12 23 (3.21%) AWS DevOps
13 22 (3.07%) Platform Engineer
14 21 (2.93%) .NET Developer
15 19 (2.65%) Software Developer
16 18 (2.51%) Data Engineer
16 18 (2.51%) Python Engineer
16 18 (2.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 17 (2.37%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 291 (40.64%) Elastic Stack
2 97 (13.55%) .NET
2 97 (13.55%) React
3 95 (13.27%) REST
4 84 (11.73%) RESTful
5 76 (10.61%) CSS
5 76 (10.61%) HTML
6 72 (10.06%) Spring
7 71 (9.92%) Spring Boot
8 64 (8.94%) Kafka
9 47 (6.56%) CSS3
10 43 (6.01%) HTML5
11 42 (5.87%) Jest
12 39 (5.45%) Redux
13 37 (5.17%) JPA
13 37 (5.17%) Sass
14 33 (4.61%) Django
15 32 (4.47%) .NET Core
16 31 (4.33%) Flask
17 29 (4.05%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 262 (36.59%) Cyberattack
2 93 (12.99%) Cloud Native
3 52 (7.26%) Product Ownership
4 36 (5.03%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (2.79%) Management Information System
7 13 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.82%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.54%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.54%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (0.98%) Algorithms
10 7 (0.98%) Data Centre
10 7 (0.98%) Low-Code
11 6 (0.84%) BYOD
11 6 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.70%) Client/Server
13 4 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.56%) PKI
13 4 (0.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 356 (49.72%) Linux
2 307 (42.88%) Windows
3 264 (36.87%) Android
4 25 (3.49%) Unix
5 22 (3.07%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.84%) VMS
7 5 (0.70%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.56%) CentOS
9 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Fedora
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (77.51%) DevOps
2 375 (52.37%) Problem-Solving
3 308 (43.02%) CI/CD
4 300 (41.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 295 (41.20%) Platform Engineering
6 271 (37.85%) Line Management
7 269 (37.57%) Task Automation
8 268 (37.43%) Risk Management
8 268 (37.43%) Storage Management
9 264 (36.87%) Mathematics
10 242 (33.80%) Containerisation
11 187 (26.12%) Agile
12 158 (22.07%) Microservices
13 132 (18.44%) Software Engineering
14 129 (18.02%) Infrastructure as Code
15 110 (15.36%) Mentoring
16 87 (12.15%) Full-Stack Development
17 83 (11.59%) Test Automation
18 70 (9.78%) Performance Optimisation
19 65 (9.08%) AI
Programming Languages
1 470 (65.64%) Python
2 316 (44.13%) Bash
3 303 (42.32%) PowerShell
4 167 (23.32%) SQL
5 139 (19.41%) JavaScript
6 115 (16.06%) Java
7 94 (13.13%) C#
8 75 (10.47%) TypeScript
9 28 (3.91%) Bicep
10 21 (2.93%) PHP
11 20 (2.79%) Go
12 7 (0.98%) C++
13 6 (0.84%) Delphi
13 6 (0.84%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.56%) C
14 4 (0.56%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.42%) Groovy
16 2 (0.28%) R
16 2 (0.28%) Scala
16 2 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 49 (6.84%) Security Cleared
2 34 (4.75%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.19%) Degree
4 29 (4.05%) AWS Certification
5 18 (2.51%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.68%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.70%) CISM
9 5 (0.70%) CISSP
10 3 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (0.42%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.28%) CISA
11 2 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (9.36%) QA
2 37 (5.17%) Accessibility
3 31 (4.33%) GDPR
4 11 (1.54%) HIPAA
5 9 (1.26%) NIST
6 7 (0.98%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.28%) ECSS
8 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.28%) SLA
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
9 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 266 (37.15%) vSphere
2 265 (37.01%) VMware NSX
3 264 (36.87%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.98%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) Ceph
6 2 (0.28%) Lustre
6 2 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.14%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.14%) Postfix
7 1 (0.14%) vCloud
7 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 421 (58.80%) Terraform
2 326 (45.53%) Ansible
3 315 (43.99%) Kubernetes
4 62 (8.66%) Grafana
5 48 (6.70%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.70%) Argo
7 4 (0.56%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.56%) Puppet
8 2 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.28%) Kibana
8 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.28%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.14%) logstash
9 1 (0.14%) Nagios
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 271 (37.85%) Splunk
2 265 (37.01%) Cisco
3 263 (36.73%) Juniper
4 262 (36.59%) 3PAR
5 52 (7.26%) Microsoft
6 36 (5.03%) Solace
7 28 (3.91%) Google
8 22 (3.07%) Oracle
9 16 (2.23%) Databricks
10 10 (1.40%) VMware
11 7 (0.98%) SAP
12 6 (0.84%) Dell
12 6 (0.84%) Trayport
13 5 (0.70%) Epicor
13 5 (0.70%) IBM
13 5 (0.70%) Infor
13 5 (0.70%) Informatica
13 5 (0.70%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.70%) Software AG
13 5 (0.70%) Talend