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

 6 months to
28 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 29 68
Rank change year-on-year -44 +39 -37
Permanent jobs citing Docker 677 1,228 1,291
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.29% 7.80% 3.85%
As % of the System Software category 40.76% 55.17% 32.00%
Number of salaries quoted 473 552 1,075
10th Percentile £44,407 £48,750 £43,300
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £74,935 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.26% +15.28% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £125,000 £95,750
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 1,661 2,226 4,034
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.08% 14.14% 12.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,230 1,341 3,148
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,438 £38,250 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -10.10%
75th Percentile £76,201 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year - +6.06% -10.00%

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 28 June 2026.

Docker salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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 27 (3.99%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.66%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.77%) Apache
4 9 (1.33%) nginx
5 6 (0.89%) CMS
5 6 (0.89%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.74%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.59%) IIS
8 2 (0.30%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.30%) Camunda
8 2 (0.30%) Confluence
8 2 (0.30%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.30%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.30%) WordPress
9 1 (0.15%) Moodle
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.30%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.30%) Shopify
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 427 (63.07%) AWS
2 339 (50.07%) Azure
3 203 (29.99%) GitHub
4 159 (23.49%) GCP
5 130 (19.20%) GitHub Copilot
6 88 (13.00%) Serverless
7 63 (9.31%) Azure AI
8 52 (7.68%) Amazon S3
9 51 (7.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 48 (7.09%) AWS Lambda
11 45 (6.65%) SaaS
12 41 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
13 39 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
14 38 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
15 34 (5.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 34 (5.02%) Amazon ECS
16 28 (4.14%) Azure AKS
17 26 (3.84%) Amazon EKS
18 25 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
19 23 (3.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 103 (15.21%) Broadband
2 15 (2.22%) Internet
3 11 (1.62%) DNS
3 11 (1.62%) Firewall
4 9 (1.33%) VPN
5 7 (1.03%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.74%) DHCP
6 5 (0.74%) Network Security
7 4 (0.59%) HTTP
7 4 (0.59%) MQTT
8 3 (0.44%) AMQP
8 3 (0.44%) DSL
8 3 (0.44%) RTP
8 3 (0.44%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.44%) VoIP
8 3 (0.44%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.30%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.30%) SCCP
9 2 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (24.37%) MongoDB
2 114 (16.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 81 (11.96%) PostgreSQL
4 62 (9.16%) NoSQL
5 57 (8.42%) Elasticsearch
6 47 (6.94%) Relational Database
7 43 (6.35%) SQL Server
8 34 (5.02%) MySQL
9 31 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (4.43%) Redis
11 22 (3.25%) DynamoDB
12 17 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (1.92%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.77%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (1.62%) Delta Lake
16 10 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
17 9 (1.33%) Tableau
18 8 (1.18%) Data Lake
18 8 (1.18%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 110 (16.25%) Git
2 85 (12.56%) Jenkins
3 58 (8.57%) GitLab
4 24 (3.55%) TeamCity
5 18 (2.66%) JIRA
6 16 (2.36%) Cypress.io
7 15 (2.22%) JUnit
7 15 (2.22%) Maven
8 14 (2.07%) CircleCI
8 14 (2.07%) Selenium
9 12 (1.77%) Jaeger
10 10 (1.48%) Claude Code
11 9 (1.33%) JMeter
11 9 (1.33%) Mockito
11 9 (1.33%) Postman
12 8 (1.18%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.18%) MLflow
13 6 (0.89%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.74%) Locust
14 5 (0.74%) Subversion
General
1 125 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 80 (11.82%) Finance
3 45 (6.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (6.20%) Public Sector
5 33 (4.87%) Advertising
6 19 (2.81%) Marketing
7 17 (2.51%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (2.07%) Aerospace
9 13 (1.92%) Games
10 12 (1.77%) Banking
11 11 (1.62%) Law
12 10 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.03%) Retail
14 6 (0.89%) Legal
15 5 (0.74%) Aviation
15 5 (0.74%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.59%) Military
16 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
18 2 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 288 (42.54%) Developer
2 150 (22.16%) Senior
3 118 (17.43%) .NET Developer
4 98 (14.48%) Software Engineer
5 84 (12.41%) Lead
6 51 (7.53%) DevOps Engineer
7 46 (6.79%) Full-Stack Developer
8 43 (6.35%) Senior Developer
9 42 (6.20%) Scala Engineer
10 41 (6.06%) Java Developer
11 32 (4.73%) AWS Engineer
12 30 (4.43%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (4.43%) Platform Engineer
13 29 (4.28%) Senior Software Engineer
14 25 (3.69%) Data Engineer
15 24 (3.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 24 (3.55%) Software Developer
16 23 (3.40%) Scala Software Engineer
17 21 (3.10%) Scala Developer
18 19 (2.81%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (26.88%) .NET
2 134 (19.79%) .NET Core
3 126 (18.61%) ASP.NET
4 114 (16.84%) ASP.NET Core
5 110 (16.25%) Node.js
5 110 (16.25%) React
6 95 (14.03%) AngularJS
7 89 (13.15%) CSS
8 84 (12.41%) HTML
9 76 (11.23%) Spring
10 72 (10.64%) REST
10 72 (10.64%) Vue
11 68 (10.04%) RESTful
12 61 (9.01%) ML.NET
12 61 (9.01%) Spring Boot
13 51 (7.53%) Kafka
14 50 (7.39%) gRPC
15 32 (4.73%) Django
16 24 (3.55%) Playwright
17 23 (3.40%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 119 (17.58%) Cloud Native
2 87 (12.85%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (9.90%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (9.90%) Video\Live Streaming
4 39 (5.76%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.69%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (2.81%) Digital TV
7 15 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.33%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.18%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.03%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.03%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.03%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.03%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.03%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.74%) IoT
13 5 (0.74%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 128 (18.91%) Linux
2 25 (3.69%) Unix
3 14 (2.07%) Ubuntu
3 14 (2.07%) Windows
4 8 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.89%) Debian
6 5 (0.74%) Android
6 5 (0.74%) CentOS
6 5 (0.74%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.59%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.44%) VMS
8 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (65.58%) CI/CD
2 299 (44.17%) Agile
3 286 (42.25%) Containerisation
4 256 (37.81%) DevOps
5 238 (35.16%) Microservices
6 229 (33.83%) Full-Stack Development
7 199 (29.39%) Software Engineering
8 184 (27.18%) AI
9 164 (24.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 142 (20.97%) Machine Learning
11 140 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
12 132 (19.50%) Mentoring
13 125 (18.46%) Scrum
14 122 (18.02%) TDD
15 116 (17.13%) Continuous Improvement
16 108 (15.95%) Clean Code
17 87 (12.85%) Coaching
18 80 (11.82%) Kanban
19 77 (11.37%) Test Automation
20 75 (11.08%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 266 (39.29%) Python
2 216 (31.91%) SQL
3 191 (28.21%) C#
4 134 (19.79%) TypeScript
5 131 (19.35%) Java
6 122 (18.02%) JavaScript
7 88 (13.00%) Go
8 85 (12.56%) Scala
9 70 (10.34%) Bash
10 30 (4.43%) PowerShell
11 23 (3.40%) PHP
12 20 (2.95%) Bicep
13 16 (2.36%) Ruby
14 14 (2.07%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.48%) C++
15 10 (1.48%) Groovy
15 10 (1.48%) PL/SQL
16 8 (1.18%) Rust
17 7 (1.03%) C
18 3 (0.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 81 (11.96%) Security Cleared
2 65 (9.60%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.71%) Degree
4 25 (3.69%) AWS Certification
5 22 (3.25%) Azure Certification
6 20 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.33%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.74%) CISSP
8 5 (0.74%) GIAC
8 5 (0.74%) ISACA
8 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.74%) SANS
9 4 (0.59%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.30%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.30%) Linux+ Certification
10 2 (0.30%) LPIC
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (8.42%) QA
2 27 (3.99%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.77%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.77%) NIST
3 12 (1.77%) WCAG
4 11 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.48%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.59%) GDPR
7 3 (0.44%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.44%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.59%) Firmware
3 4 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.44%) iptables
4 3 (0.44%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.15%) KVM
6 1 (0.15%) QEMU
6 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
6 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 442 (65.29%) Kubernetes
2 173 (25.55%) Terraform
3 67 (9.90%) Ansible
4 47 (6.94%) Prometheus
5 42 (6.20%) Grafana
6 29 (4.28%) Argo
7 18 (2.66%) Puppet
8 15 (2.22%) Istio
8 15 (2.22%) Podman
9 13 (1.92%) Progress Chef
10 12 (1.77%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.89%) Packer
12 5 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.74%) Kibana
13 3 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.44%) linkerd
13 3 (0.44%) Nagios
13 3 (0.44%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.30%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.30%) MIIS
Vendors
1 168 (24.82%) Microsoft
2 58 (8.57%) Google
3 45 (6.65%) Typelevel
4 19 (2.81%) Databricks
4 19 (2.81%) Oracle
5 17 (2.51%) Facebook
6 9 (1.33%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.33%) Splunk
7 8 (1.18%) Confluent
7 8 (1.18%) VMware
8 6 (0.89%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.89%) Palantir
9 5 (0.74%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.74%) ForgeRock
9 5 (0.74%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.74%) Okta
10 3 (0.44%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.44%) BT
10 3 (0.44%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.44%) Mitel
260 hybrid/remote Docker jobs