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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 36 58
Rank change year-on-year -41 +22 -28
Permanent jobs citing Docker 566 895 1,482
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.13% 6.63% 4.55%
As % of the System Software category 40.11% 46.18% 34.49%
Number of salaries quoted 357 704 1,279
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,035 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £99,063 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £135,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -2.78%

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 1,411 1,938 4,297
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.81% 14.36% 13.20%
Number of salaries quoted 990 1,544 3,522
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £102,575 £113,375 £86,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -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 26 April 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 28 (4.95%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.65%) nginx
4 9 (1.59%) CMS
4 9 (1.59%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.06%) Apache
5 6 (1.06%) Drupal
5 6 (1.06%) WordPress
6 5 (0.88%) Apache Pulsar
6 5 (0.88%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.88%) GeoServer
6 5 (0.88%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.53%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.35%) Camunda
8 2 (0.35%) Confluence
8 2 (0.35%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.18%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.71%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 5 (0.88%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Magento
2 1 (0.18%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 404 (71.38%) AWS
2 234 (41.34%) Azure
3 177 (31.27%) GCP
4 121 (21.38%) GitHub
5 97 (17.14%) Serverless
6 60 (10.60%) Amazon S3
6 60 (10.60%) AWS Lambda
7 52 (9.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 51 (9.01%) GitHub Actions
9 48 (8.48%) SaaS
10 44 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
11 38 (6.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (6.01%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (5.65%) Amazon EKS
14 31 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
15 26 (4.59%) OpenShift
16 24 (4.24%) Pulumi
17 22 (3.89%) Amazon SQS
17 22 (3.89%) Datadog
17 22 (3.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 101 (17.84%) Broadband
2 11 (1.94%) Firewall
3 10 (1.77%) DNS
4 8 (1.41%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.24%) Network Security
5 7 (1.24%) VPN
6 6 (1.06%) DHCP
7 5 (0.88%) AMQP
8 4 (0.71%) HTTP
8 4 (0.71%) MQTT
9 3 (0.53%) Internet
9 3 (0.53%) RTP
9 3 (0.53%) SCCP
9 3 (0.53%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.53%) VLAN
9 3 (0.53%) VoIP
9 3 (0.53%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.35%) DSL
10 2 (0.35%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (15.02%) NoSQL
2 82 (14.49%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (10.60%) MongoDB
4 54 (9.54%) SQL Server
5 40 (7.07%) Relational Database
6 35 (6.18%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (4.24%) DynamoDB
8 23 (4.06%) MySQL
9 22 (3.89%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (3.53%) Redis
11 19 (3.36%) RDBMS
12 16 (2.83%) BigQuery
13 15 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (2.30%) Tableau
15 12 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
15 12 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
16 11 (1.94%) Pinecone
17 10 (1.77%) Weaviate
18 9 (1.59%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 100 (17.67%) Git
2 85 (15.02%) Jenkins
3 55 (9.72%) GitLab
4 25 (4.42%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.36%) Jaeger
5 19 (3.36%) Selenium
6 18 (3.18%) CircleCI
6 18 (3.18%) Cypress.io
7 15 (2.65%) Cucumber
8 13 (2.30%) MLflow
9 12 (2.12%) JMeter
9 12 (2.12%) SonarQube
10 11 (1.94%) JUnit
11 10 (1.77%) JIRA
11 10 (1.77%) Maven
12 6 (1.06%) Locust
12 6 (1.06%) Visual Studio
12 6 (1.06%) Vite
13 5 (0.88%) Postman
13 5 (0.88%) Storybook
General
1 114 (20.14%) Social Skills
2 74 (13.07%) Finance
3 44 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 38 (6.71%) Public Sector
5 21 (3.71%) Telecoms
6 16 (2.83%) Law
7 15 (2.65%) Banking
8 10 (1.77%) Retail
9 9 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (1.41%) Legal
11 7 (1.24%) Advertising
11 7 (1.24%) Aviation
12 6 (1.06%) Front Office
12 6 (1.06%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.06%) Marketing
13 5 (0.88%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.88%) Games
13 5 (0.88%) Local Government
13 5 (0.88%) Military
13 5 (0.88%) Police
Job Titles
1 175 (30.92%) Developer
2 158 (27.92%) Senior
3 100 (17.67%) Lead
4 90 (15.90%) Software Engineer
5 54 (9.54%) DevOps Engineer
6 43 (7.60%) Senior Developer
7 42 (7.42%) Scala Engineer
8 38 (6.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 32 (5.65%) Java Developer
10 29 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
11 28 (4.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 27 (4.77%) Software Developer
13 26 (4.59%) Senior Software Engineer
14 25 (4.42%) Data Engineer
14 25 (4.42%) Python Developer
15 24 (4.24%) .NET Developer
15 24 (4.24%) Lead DevOps
16 23 (4.06%) Scala Software Engineer
17 22 (3.89%) Python Engineer
17 22 (3.89%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (19.43%) React
2 88 (15.55%) Node.js
3 80 (14.13%) .NET
4 69 (12.19%) Spring
5 66 (11.66%) Kafka
6 62 (10.95%) gRPC
7 59 (10.42%) Spring Boot
8 56 (9.89%) RESTful
9 55 (9.72%) REST
10 47 (8.30%) AngularJS
11 45 (7.95%) Django
12 44 (7.77%) Elastic Stack
13 40 (7.07%) .NET Core
14 31 (5.48%) Vue
15 30 (5.30%) CSS
15 30 (5.30%) HTML
16 28 (4.95%) Flask
17 25 (4.42%) Akka
17 25 (4.42%) ASP.NET
17 25 (4.42%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 97 (17.14%) Cloud Native
2 81 (14.31%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (12.01%) Over-the-Top Content
3 68 (12.01%) Video\Live Streaming
4 48 (8.48%) Product Ownership
5 17 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.83%) AI Agents
7 15 (2.65%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.41%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.24%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.24%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.24%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.88%) Cyberattack
12 5 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 107 (18.90%) Linux
2 35 (6.18%) Unix
3 17 (3.00%) Android
4 15 (2.65%) Windows
5 13 (2.30%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.24%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.24%) CentOS
8 4 (0.71%) VMS
9 3 (0.53%) Debian
9 3 (0.53%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.35%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (65.19%) CI/CD
2 299 (52.83%) Containerisation
3 276 (48.76%) DevOps
4 225 (39.75%) Agile
5 183 (32.33%) Microservices
6 170 (30.04%) Software Engineering
7 156 (27.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 144 (25.44%) Problem-Solving
9 110 (19.43%) Full-Stack Development
10 106 (18.73%) AI
11 104 (18.37%) Mentoring
12 102 (18.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 96 (16.96%) Machine Learning
14 91 (16.08%) Clean Code
15 85 (15.02%) Coaching
16 79 (13.96%) TDD
16 79 (13.96%) Test Automation
17 75 (13.25%) Scrum
18 72 (12.72%) Event-Driven
19 70 (12.37%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 282 (49.82%) Python
2 145 (25.62%) Java
3 133 (23.50%) JavaScript
4 120 (21.20%) SQL
5 111 (19.61%) Go
6 89 (15.72%) Scala
7 71 (12.54%) C#
8 67 (11.84%) TypeScript
9 66 (11.66%) Bash
10 26 (4.59%) PHP
11 20 (3.53%) PowerShell
12 17 (3.00%) Bicep
12 17 (3.00%) C++
13 11 (1.94%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.41%) Delphi
14 8 (1.41%) Rust
15 7 (1.24%) C
16 6 (1.06%) Groovy
17 5 (0.88%) Ruby
18 4 (0.71%) Perl
Qualifications
1 76 (13.43%) Degree
2 74 (13.07%) Security Cleared
3 57 (10.07%) SC Cleared
4 35 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (5.30%) AWS Certification
6 20 (3.53%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.88%) CISSP
9 5 (0.88%) GIAC
9 5 (0.88%) ISACA
9 5 (0.88%) SANS
10 3 (0.53%) LPIC
11 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.35%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (8.66%) QA
2 24 (4.24%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.12%) NIST
5 10 (1.77%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.77%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.41%) ISO 9001
7 7 (1.24%) WCAG
8 5 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.88%) GDPR
9 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.35%) ECSS
11 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.88%) Firmware
4 3 (0.53%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.35%) vSphere
6 1 (0.18%) KVM
6 1 (0.18%) QEMU
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 342 (60.42%) Kubernetes
2 197 (34.81%) Terraform
3 88 (15.55%) Ansible
4 60 (10.60%) Grafana
5 57 (10.07%) Prometheus
6 38 (6.71%) Argo
7 19 (3.36%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.65%) Podman
9 12 (2.12%) Puppet
10 8 (1.41%) Istio
11 5 (0.88%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.88%) HP Fortify
11 5 (0.88%) Packer
11 5 (0.88%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.71%) Kibana
13 3 (0.53%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.35%) MIIS
14 2 (0.35%) Nagios
14 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (10.42%) Google
2 50 (8.83%) Microsoft
3 45 (7.95%) Typelevel
4 22 (3.89%) Databricks
5 20 (3.53%) Oracle
6 15 (2.65%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.77%) Splunk
8 9 (1.59%) Palantir
9 8 (1.41%) Confluent
10 7 (1.24%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.06%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.06%) VMware
12 5 (0.88%) Ericsson
12 5 (0.88%) ESRI
12 5 (0.88%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.88%) Mavenir
12 5 (0.88%) Nokia
12 5 (0.88%) Okta
12 5 (0.88%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.71%) Dell