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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 35 72
Rank change year-on-year -46 +37 -41
Permanent jobs citing Docker 729 1,127 944
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.23% 6.84% 3.74%
As % of the System Software category 39.36% 52.27% 32.25%
Number of salaries quoted 549 450 739
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -11.72%
75th Percentile £77,424 £84,688 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £108,200 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.90% +7.41% -9.40%

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 1,852 2,156 2,927
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.22% 13.08% 11.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,392 1,253 2,140
10th Percentile £32,050 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,206
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £86,025
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.91%

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 6 August 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 21 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.19%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.65%) Apache
4 7 (0.96%) nginx
4 7 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.82%) IIS
6 5 (0.69%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.55%) Camunda
7 4 (0.55%) Confluence
8 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.27%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.27%) WordPress
9 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) Drupal
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) Moodle
9 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 452 (62.00%) AWS
2 423 (58.02%) Azure
3 223 (30.59%) GitHub
4 183 (25.10%) GCP
5 152 (20.85%) GitHub Copilot
6 76 (10.43%) Azure AI
6 76 (10.43%) Serverless
7 55 (7.54%) SaaS
8 51 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (6.58%) AWS CloudFormation
9 48 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
10 39 (5.35%) Amazon S3
10 39 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (4.66%) Amazon ECS
11 34 (4.66%) Azure Service Bus
12 32 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
13 31 (4.25%) Azure AKS
14 29 (3.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 23 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
15 23 (3.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 60 (8.23%) Broadband
2 20 (2.74%) Internet
3 10 (1.37%) DNS
3 10 (1.37%) VPN
4 9 (1.23%) Firewall
4 9 (1.23%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.55%) DHCP
5 4 (0.55%) MQTT
5 4 (0.55%) Network Security
5 4 (0.55%) SSH
6 3 (0.41%) AMQP
6 3 (0.41%) SMS
7 2 (0.27%) HTTP
7 2 (0.27%) Intranet
7 2 (0.27%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.27%) SAN
7 2 (0.27%) VLAN
7 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
8 1 (0.14%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (24.42%) MongoDB
2 143 (19.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 100 (13.72%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (8.78%) Elasticsearch
5 58 (7.96%) SQL Server
6 46 (6.31%) NoSQL
7 40 (5.49%) Redis
8 39 (5.35%) Relational Database
9 35 (4.80%) MySQL
10 29 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (2.61%) DynamoDB
12 13 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (1.10%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.10%) Data Lake
14 8 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (0.96%) Big Data
16 6 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
16 6 (0.82%) Delta Lake
16 6 (0.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 137 (18.79%) Git
2 69 (9.47%) Jenkins
3 57 (7.82%) GitLab
4 26 (3.57%) JUnit
5 20 (2.74%) Cypress.io
5 20 (2.74%) Maven
5 20 (2.74%) Selenium
6 17 (2.33%) JIRA
7 14 (1.92%) Mockito
8 12 (1.65%) CircleCI
8 12 (1.65%) Postman
9 11 (1.51%) Claude Code
9 11 (1.51%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.10%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.96%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.96%) Gatling
12 6 (0.82%) JMeter
12 6 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.69%) Locust
General
1 159 (21.81%) Social Skills
2 107 (14.68%) Finance
3 48 (6.58%) Public Sector
4 47 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (5.49%) Advertising
6 22 (3.02%) Marketing
7 19 (2.61%) Aerospace
7 19 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (2.19%) Games
9 14 (1.92%) Banking
10 12 (1.65%) Law
11 10 (1.37%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.23%) Legal
13 6 (0.82%) Electronics
14 5 (0.69%) Military
14 5 (0.69%) Retail
14 5 (0.69%) Tech for Good
15 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.41%) Health Technology
17 2 (0.27%) Billing
Job Titles
1 313 (42.94%) Developer
2 165 (22.63%) Senior
3 147 (20.16%) .NET Developer
4 113 (15.50%) Software Engineer
5 82 (11.25%) Lead
6 52 (7.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 49 (6.72%) Senior Developer
8 43 (5.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 41 (5.62%) Java Developer
10 31 (4.25%) AWS Engineer
10 31 (4.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 29 (3.98%) Platform Engineer
12 28 (3.84%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (3.57%) Data Engineer
14 24 (3.29%) Scala Engineer
15 23 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
15 23 (3.16%) Cloud Engineer
16 22 (3.02%) Lead Developer
17 20 (2.74%) Python Engineer
17 20 (2.74%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (30.32%) .NET
2 158 (21.67%) .NET Core
3 153 (20.99%) ASP.NET
4 136 (18.66%) ASP.NET Core
5 128 (17.56%) React
6 114 (15.64%) Node.js
7 105 (14.40%) AngularJS
7 105 (14.40%) REST
8 104 (14.27%) CSS
9 95 (13.03%) HTML
10 81 (11.11%) RESTful
11 77 (10.56%) Spring
11 77 (10.56%) Vue
12 74 (10.15%) ML.NET
13 56 (7.68%) Spring Boot
14 49 (6.72%) Kafka
15 46 (6.31%) gRPC
16 38 (5.21%) Blazor
17 30 (4.12%) OAuth
18 29 (3.98%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 125 (17.15%) Cloud Native
2 86 (11.80%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (4.94%) Over-the-Top Content
3 36 (4.94%) Video\Live Streaming
4 32 (4.39%) Greenfield Project
5 28 (3.84%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.74%) Digital TV
6 20 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.92%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
10 11 (1.51%) IoT
11 10 (1.37%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.37%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.23%) Robotics
13 8 (1.10%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.10%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.96%) Onboarding
15 6 (0.82%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 129 (17.70%) Linux
2 16 (2.19%) Windows
3 13 (1.78%) Ubuntu
4 11 (1.51%) Unix
5 7 (0.96%) Debian
5 7 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.69%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.55%) Android
7 4 (0.55%) CentOS
8 3 (0.41%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.41%) VMS
9 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (67.22%) CI/CD
2 304 (41.70%) Agile
3 291 (39.92%) Containerisation
4 260 (35.67%) DevOps
5 259 (35.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 252 (34.57%) Microservices
7 222 (30.45%) AI
7 222 (30.45%) Software Engineering
8 164 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 156 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
10 154 (21.12%) Machine Learning
11 136 (18.66%) Mentoring
12 126 (17.28%) Scrum
13 117 (16.05%) TDD
14 116 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 109 (14.95%) Clean Code
16 91 (12.48%) Test Automation
17 85 (11.66%) Observability
18 79 (10.84%) Event-Driven
19 72 (9.88%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 261 (35.80%) Python
2 254 (34.84%) SQL
3 233 (31.96%) C#
4 146 (20.03%) TypeScript
5 128 (17.56%) JavaScript
6 117 (16.05%) Java
7 63 (8.64%) Go
8 60 (8.23%) Bash
9 49 (6.72%) Scala
10 36 (4.94%) PowerShell
11 25 (3.43%) Ruby
12 20 (2.74%) Bicep
12 20 (2.74%) PHP
13 16 (2.19%) C++
14 15 (2.06%) PL/SQL
15 13 (1.78%) Kotlin
16 10 (1.37%) Groovy
17 7 (0.96%) C
17 7 (0.96%) Rust
18 4 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (13.58%) Security Cleared
2 82 (11.25%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.54%) Degree
4 20 (2.74%) Azure Certification
5 18 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.92%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.82%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.55%) CISSP
9 4 (0.55%) GIAC
9 4 (0.55%) ISACA
9 4 (0.55%) SANS
10 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.27%) OCP
11 2 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.92%) QA
2 36 (4.94%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.47%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.47%) WCAG
4 12 (1.65%) NIST
5 8 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.82%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.82%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.41%) NCSC
8 2 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
8 2 (0.27%) GDPR
8 2 (0.27%) MISRA
8 2 (0.27%) MISRA C
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.55%) Firmware
3 4 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.41%) iptables
4 3 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.27%) KVM
6 1 (0.14%) QEMU
6 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 469 (64.33%) Kubernetes
2 186 (25.51%) Terraform
3 53 (7.27%) Ansible
4 50 (6.86%) Grafana
5 41 (5.62%) Prometheus
6 18 (2.47%) Puppet
7 16 (2.19%) Istio
7 16 (2.19%) Podman
8 13 (1.78%) Argo
8 13 (1.78%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.69%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.55%) Kibana
10 4 (0.55%) linkerd
11 3 (0.41%) Packer
11 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.27%) CASB
12 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.27%) MIIS
12 2 (0.27%) Nagios
Vendors
1 194 (26.61%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.68%) Google
3 36 (4.94%) Typelevel
4 21 (2.88%) Facebook
5 20 (2.74%) Oracle
6 17 (2.33%) Okta
7 15 (2.06%) Databricks
8 13 (1.78%) Ping Identity
9 12 (1.65%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.51%) Informatica
10 11 (1.51%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.10%) Confluent
11 8 (1.10%) ForgeRock
12 7 (0.96%) VMware
13 6 (0.82%) Splunk
14 5 (0.69%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.69%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.69%) IBM
14 5 (0.69%) New Relic
15 4 (0.55%) TIBCO