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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 35 58
Rank change year-on-year -44 +23 -28
Permanent jobs citing Docker 560 846 1,454
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.09% 6.29% 4.47%
As % of the System Software category 39.63% 44.98% 34.17%
Number of salaries quoted 352 692 1,269
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,181 £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 £83,750 £100,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £138,375 £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 1,413 1,881 4,255
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.79% 13.98% 13.08%
Number of salaries quoted 986 1,527 3,497
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,650 £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 £71,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £114,250 £86,550
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 1 May 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 29 (5.18%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.68%) nginx
4 9 (1.61%) CMS
4 9 (1.61%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.07%) Drupal
5 6 (1.07%) WordPress
6 5 (0.89%) Apache
6 5 (0.89%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.89%) GeoServer
6 5 (0.89%) Oracle Spatial
7 4 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.54%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.36%) Camunda
9 2 (0.36%) Confluence
9 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.18%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.71%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 5 (0.89%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Magento
2 1 (0.18%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 395 (70.54%) AWS
2 225 (40.18%) Azure
3 173 (30.89%) GCP
4 109 (19.46%) GitHub
5 95 (16.96%) Serverless
6 58 (10.36%) Amazon S3
6 58 (10.36%) AWS Lambda
7 50 (8.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 50 (8.93%) SaaS
8 44 (7.86%) GitHub Actions
9 40 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (6.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 35 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
12 31 (5.54%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (5.54%) Amazon EKS
13 26 (4.64%) OpenShift
14 24 (4.29%) Pulumi
15 22 (3.93%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (3.93%) PaaS
16 21 (3.75%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 105 (18.75%) Broadband
2 10 (1.79%) DNS
2 10 (1.79%) Firewall
3 8 (1.43%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.25%) Network Security
4 7 (1.25%) VPN
5 6 (1.07%) DHCP
6 5 (0.89%) AMQP
7 4 (0.71%) HTTP
7 4 (0.71%) MQTT
8 3 (0.54%) RTP
8 3 (0.54%) SCCP
8 3 (0.54%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.54%) VLAN
8 3 (0.54%) VoIP
8 3 (0.54%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.36%) DSL
9 2 (0.36%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.36%) SAN
9 2 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (14.46%) NoSQL
2 80 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (11.43%) MongoDB
4 53 (9.46%) SQL Server
5 45 (8.04%) Relational Database
6 36 (6.43%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (5.00%) MySQL
8 23 (4.11%) DynamoDB
9 22 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (3.57%) Redis
11 19 (3.39%) RDBMS
12 17 (3.04%) BigQuery
13 15 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (2.32%) Tableau
15 12 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
15 12 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
16 11 (1.96%) Pinecone
17 10 (1.79%) Weaviate
18 9 (1.61%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 100 (17.86%) Git
2 83 (14.82%) Jenkins
3 57 (10.18%) GitLab
4 24 (4.29%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.39%) Jaeger
5 19 (3.39%) Selenium
6 18 (3.21%) CircleCI
6 18 (3.21%) Cypress.io
7 15 (2.68%) Cucumber
8 13 (2.32%) MLflow
9 12 (2.14%) JMeter
9 12 (2.14%) SonarQube
10 11 (1.96%) JUnit
11 10 (1.79%) JIRA
11 10 (1.79%) Maven
12 6 (1.07%) Locust
12 6 (1.07%) Visual Studio
12 6 (1.07%) Vite
13 5 (0.89%) Postman
13 5 (0.89%) Storybook
General
1 109 (19.46%) Social Skills
2 73 (13.04%) Finance
3 44 (7.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 38 (6.79%) Public Sector
5 17 (3.04%) Telecoms
6 15 (2.68%) Banking
6 15 (2.68%) Law
7 10 (1.79%) Retail
8 8 (1.43%) Legal
9 7 (1.25%) Advertising
9 7 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (1.07%) Aviation
10 6 (1.07%) Front Office
10 6 (1.07%) Marketing
11 5 (0.89%) Games
11 5 (0.89%) Local Government
11 5 (0.89%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.89%) Military
11 5 (0.89%) Police
12 4 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 174 (31.07%) Developer
2 154 (27.50%) Senior
3 99 (17.68%) Lead
4 85 (15.18%) Software Engineer
5 54 (9.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (7.50%) Scala Engineer
6 42 (7.50%) Senior Developer
7 38 (6.79%) Full-Stack Developer
8 34 (6.07%) Java Developer
9 29 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
10 27 (4.82%) Software Developer
11 26 (4.64%) Data Engineer
11 26 (4.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 24 (4.29%) Lead DevOps
13 23 (4.11%) Scala Software Engineer
13 23 (4.11%) Senior Software Engineer
14 22 (3.93%) .NET Developer
15 21 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
15 21 (3.75%) Python Developer
15 21 (3.75%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (18.57%) React
2 87 (15.54%) Node.js
3 75 (13.39%) .NET
4 70 (12.50%) Spring
5 66 (11.79%) Kafka
6 61 (10.89%) Spring Boot
7 60 (10.71%) gRPC
8 54 (9.64%) REST
9 53 (9.46%) RESTful
10 47 (8.39%) AngularJS
11 43 (7.68%) Django
12 42 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
13 38 (6.79%) .NET Core
14 28 (5.00%) CSS
14 28 (5.00%) HTML
14 28 (5.00%) Vue
15 25 (4.46%) Flask
16 24 (4.29%) Akka
16 24 (4.29%) RabbitMQ
17 23 (4.11%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 98 (17.50%) Cloud Native
2 81 (14.46%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (11.96%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (11.96%) Video\Live Streaming
4 52 (9.29%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.68%) AI Agents
7 14 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.61%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.25%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.25%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.25%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.25%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.89%) Cyberattack
12 5 (0.89%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 104 (18.57%) Linux
2 33 (5.89%) Unix
3 16 (2.86%) Android
4 14 (2.50%) Windows
5 13 (2.32%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.25%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.25%) CentOS
8 4 (0.71%) VMS
9 3 (0.54%) Debian
9 3 (0.54%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (65.00%) CI/CD
2 289 (51.61%) Containerisation
3 272 (48.57%) DevOps
4 220 (39.29%) Agile
5 185 (33.04%) Microservices
6 169 (30.18%) Software Engineering
7 155 (27.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 138 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
9 109 (19.46%) Mentoring
10 108 (19.29%) Full-Stack Development
11 103 (18.39%) AI
12 102 (18.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 94 (16.79%) Machine Learning
14 92 (16.43%) Clean Code
15 84 (15.00%) Coaching
16 78 (13.93%) TDD
17 76 (13.57%) Test Automation
18 74 (13.21%) Scrum
19 71 (12.68%) Continuous Delivery
19 71 (12.68%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 273 (48.75%) Python
2 143 (25.54%) Java
3 130 (23.21%) JavaScript
4 114 (20.36%) SQL
5 108 (19.29%) Go
6 88 (15.71%) Scala
7 70 (12.50%) C#
8 68 (12.14%) TypeScript
9 66 (11.79%) Bash
10 25 (4.46%) PHP
11 21 (3.75%) PowerShell
12 15 (2.68%) Bicep
12 15 (2.68%) C++
13 11 (1.96%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.43%) Delphi
14 8 (1.43%) Rust
15 7 (1.25%) C
15 7 (1.25%) Ruby
16 6 (1.07%) Groovy
17 4 (0.71%) Perl
Qualifications
1 73 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 69 (12.32%) Degree
3 57 (10.18%) SC Cleared
4 30 (5.36%) AWS Certification
5 29 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (3.93%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.14%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.89%) CISSP
9 5 (0.89%) GIAC
9 5 (0.89%) ISACA
9 5 (0.89%) SANS
10 3 (0.54%) LPIC
11 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.36%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.46%) QA
2 25 (4.46%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.14%) NIST
5 11 (1.96%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.79%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.43%) ISO 9001
8 7 (1.25%) WCAG
9 5 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.89%) GDPR
10 3 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.89%) Firmware
4 3 (0.54%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.36%) vSphere
6 1 (0.18%) KVM
6 1 (0.18%) QEMU
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 338 (60.36%) Kubernetes
2 196 (35.00%) Terraform
3 86 (15.36%) Ansible
4 57 (10.18%) Grafana
5 55 (9.82%) Prometheus
6 38 (6.79%) Argo
7 19 (3.39%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.68%) Podman
9 12 (2.14%) Puppet
10 8 (1.43%) Istio
11 5 (0.89%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.89%) HP Fortify
11 5 (0.89%) Packer
11 5 (0.89%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.71%) Kibana
13 3 (0.54%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.36%) MIIS
14 2 (0.36%) Nagios
14 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (10.54%) Google
2 48 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 45 (8.04%) Typelevel
4 22 (3.93%) Databricks
5 20 (3.57%) Oracle
6 15 (2.68%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.61%) Palantir
7 9 (1.61%) Splunk
8 8 (1.43%) Confluent
9 7 (1.25%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.07%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.07%) VMware
11 5 (0.89%) ESRI
11 5 (0.89%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.89%) Okta
11 5 (0.89%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.71%) Dell
12 4 (0.71%) Ericsson
12 4 (0.71%) Nokia
12 4 (0.71%) SAP