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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 32 40
Rank change year-on-year -50 +8 -10
Permanent jobs citing Docker 494 1,243 1,670
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.09% 7.88% 6.03%
As % of the System Software category 37.91% 49.19% 40.19%
Number of salaries quoted 344 726 1,432
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £102,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,375 £122,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -3.45%

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 1,303 2,527 4,155
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.15% 16.02% 15.01%
Number of salaries quoted 919 1,573 3,587
10th Percentile £29,100 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 9 February 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 (4.25%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.24%) nginx
4 9 (1.82%) CMS
5 7 (1.42%) Apache Solr
6 6 (1.21%) Apache
6 6 (1.21%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.01%) Anypoint
7 5 (1.01%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (1.01%) ArcGIS
7 5 (1.01%) Drupal
7 5 (1.01%) WordPress
8 4 (0.81%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.81%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.40%) IIS
10 2 (0.40%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.20%) Camunda
11 1 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.81%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.81%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.40%) Weka
3 1 (0.20%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 9 (1.82%) Shopify
2 1 (0.20%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 325 (65.79%) AWS
2 229 (46.36%) Azure
3 123 (24.90%) GitHub
4 115 (23.28%) GCP
5 70 (14.17%) Serverless
6 61 (12.35%) GitHub Actions
7 57 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 47 (9.51%) AWS Lambda
8 47 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (8.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 40 (8.10%) Amazon S3
10 35 (7.09%) SaaS
11 28 (5.67%) Pulumi
12 26 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
13 20 (4.05%) Datadog
13 20 (4.05%) OpenShift
14 19 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (3.44%) AWS Step Functions
17 15 (3.04%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 53 (10.73%) Broadband
2 17 (3.44%) Firewall
3 14 (2.83%) VPN
4 10 (2.02%) DNS
5 9 (1.82%) Network Security
5 9 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.01%) AMQP
7 4 (0.81%) DHCP
7 4 (0.81%) WAN
8 3 (0.61%) HTTP
8 3 (0.61%) Internet
8 3 (0.61%) RTP
8 3 (0.61%) SCCP
8 3 (0.61%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.61%) VLAN
8 3 (0.61%) VoIP
8 3 (0.61%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.40%) DSL
9 2 (0.40%) LAN
9 2 (0.40%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (14.37%) NoSQL
3 45 (9.11%) SQL Server
4 42 (8.50%) Relational Database
5 39 (7.89%) MySQL
6 37 (7.49%) MongoDB
7 25 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
7 25 (5.06%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (3.85%) RDBMS
9 18 (3.64%) Redis
10 15 (3.04%) BigQuery
11 14 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
11 14 (2.83%) DynamoDB
12 12 (2.43%) Tableau
13 11 (2.23%) Delta Lake
14 10 (2.02%) Pinecone
14 10 (2.02%) Weaviate
15 9 (1.82%) Apache Iceberg
15 9 (1.82%) Looker
Development Applications
1 79 (15.99%) Git
2 74 (14.98%) Jenkins
3 54 (10.93%) GitLab
4 27 (5.47%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.85%) Jaeger
6 16 (3.24%) Selenium
7 12 (2.43%) MLflow
7 12 (2.43%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.23%) JUnit
9 10 (2.02%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.62%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.42%) JMeter
12 6 (1.21%) JIRA
12 6 (1.21%) Maven
13 5 (1.01%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.01%) Robot Framework
13 5 (1.01%) Storybook
13 5 (1.01%) Visual Studio
13 5 (1.01%) Vite
14 4 (0.81%) Postman
General
1 115 (23.28%) Social Skills
2 67 (13.56%) Finance
3 32 (6.48%) Public Sector
4 28 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (4.86%) Telecoms
6 21 (4.25%) Law
7 15 (3.04%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.02%) Retail
9 8 (1.62%) Games
9 8 (1.62%) Legal
10 7 (1.42%) Banking
10 7 (1.42%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.21%) Marketing
12 5 (1.01%) Aviation
12 5 (1.01%) Front Office
12 5 (1.01%) Local Government
12 5 (1.01%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.01%) Police
13 3 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 156 (31.58%) Senior
2 146 (29.55%) Developer
3 88 (17.81%) Lead
4 66 (13.36%) Software Engineer
5 52 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 39 (7.89%) Senior Developer
7 35 (7.09%) Full-Stack Developer
8 33 (6.68%) Cloud Engineer
9 32 (6.48%) Java Developer
10 27 (5.47%) Software Developer
11 25 (5.06%) Lead DevOps
11 25 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
12 23 (4.66%) Python Developer
13 22 (4.45%) Architect
13 22 (4.45%) Data Engineer
13 22 (4.45%) Platform Engineer
14 21 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
15 19 (3.85%) Lead DevOps Engineer
16 18 (3.64%) Development Engineer
16 18 (3.64%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (18.22%) React
2 81 (16.40%) .NET
3 64 (12.96%) Node.js
4 58 (11.74%) Spring
5 53 (10.73%) Spring Boot
6 51 (10.32%) RESTful
7 50 (10.12%) Kafka
8 47 (9.51%) REST
9 46 (9.31%) Elastic Stack
10 41 (8.30%) Django
11 37 (7.49%) .NET Core
11 37 (7.49%) AngularJS
12 31 (6.28%) CSS
12 31 (6.28%) HTML
12 31 (6.28%) Vue
13 30 (6.07%) Flask
14 26 (5.26%) gRPC
15 25 (5.06%) Akka
16 19 (3.85%) FastAPI
16 19 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 92 (18.62%) Cloud Native
2 50 (10.12%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 32 (6.48%) Over-the-Top Content
4 32 (6.48%) Video\Live Streaming
5 18 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.43%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.02%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.62%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.62%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.21%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.21%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.01%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.81%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.81%) PKI
13 4 (0.81%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 115 (23.28%) Linux
2 46 (9.31%) Unix
3 33 (6.68%) Windows
4 17 (3.44%) Android
5 14 (2.83%) Windows Server
6 11 (2.23%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.42%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.42%) VMS
8 6 (1.21%) CentOS
9 4 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.20%) Fedora
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (62.96%) CI/CD
2 259 (52.43%) DevOps
3 241 (48.79%) Containerisation
4 187 (37.85%) Agile
5 160 (32.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 129 (26.11%) Problem-Solving
7 127 (25.71%) Microservices
8 121 (24.49%) Software Engineering
9 97 (19.64%) AI
10 93 (18.83%) Mentoring
11 83 (16.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 71 (14.37%) Full-Stack Development
13 63 (12.75%) Observability
14 61 (12.35%) Test Automation
15 60 (12.15%) Machine Learning
16 58 (11.74%) Event-Driven
16 58 (11.74%) TDD
17 54 (10.93%) Computer Science
18 52 (10.53%) Roadmaps
18 52 (10.53%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 229 (46.36%) Python
2 132 (26.72%) JavaScript
3 130 (26.32%) Java
4 120 (24.29%) SQL
5 68 (13.77%) Go
6 65 (13.16%) Bash
7 62 (12.55%) C#
8 56 (11.34%) TypeScript
9 45 (9.11%) Scala
10 30 (6.07%) PHP
11 25 (5.06%) Bicep
12 24 (4.86%) PowerShell
13 15 (3.04%) C++
14 8 (1.62%) Delphi
15 6 (1.21%) C
15 6 (1.21%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.21%) Rust
16 5 (1.01%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.81%) Perl
17 4 (0.81%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 68 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 66 (13.36%) Degree
3 52 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 40 (8.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (7.29%) AWS Certification
6 17 (3.44%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.23%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.61%) CISSP
9 3 (0.61%) LPIC
10 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.40%) Linux+ Certification
10 2 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.48%) QA
2 15 (3.04%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (2.63%) GDPR
4 10 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.02%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.62%) NIST
6 5 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.01%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.40%) ECSS
8 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.20%) SEPA
8 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.21%) vSphere
3 5 (1.01%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.61%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.40%) Ceph
5 2 (0.40%) Lustre
5 2 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.20%) Firmware
6 1 (0.20%) vCloud
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 328 (66.40%) Kubernetes
2 207 (41.90%) Terraform
3 92 (18.62%) Ansible
4 65 (13.16%) Grafana
5 64 (12.96%) Prometheus
6 36 (7.29%) Argo
7 19 (3.85%) Kustomize
8 7 (1.42%) Puppet
9 4 (0.81%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.81%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.61%) Packer
11 2 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.20%) Kibana
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.20%) Nagios
12 1 (0.20%) Rancher
12 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 44 (8.91%) Google
2 42 (8.50%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.67%) Oracle
4 19 (3.85%) Databricks
5 14 (2.83%) Splunk
6 9 (1.82%) Palantir
6 9 (1.82%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.82%) Typelevel
7 8 (1.62%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.62%) SAP
8 7 (1.42%) VMware
9 6 (1.21%) Mercator
9 6 (1.21%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.21%) TIBCO
10 5 (1.01%) IFS
10 5 (1.01%) Jitterbit
10 5 (1.01%) Mavenir
10 5 (1.01%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.01%) SnapLogic
10 5 (1.01%) Workday