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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 26 65
Rank change year-on-year -54 +39 -34
Permanent jobs citing Docker 592 1,255 1,360
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.07% 8.44% 4.05%
As % of the System Software category 39.49% 56.43% 32.95%
Number of salaries quoted 378 577 1,159
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,990 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.52% +15.18% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,977 £95,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -1.75%

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 1,499 2,224 4,127
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.77% 14.96% 12.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,061 1,339 3,279
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £104,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 5 June 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 30 (5.07%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (3.55%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.69%) Apache
4 8 (1.35%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.18%) CMS
5 7 (1.18%) nginx
6 5 (0.84%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.51%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.51%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.51%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.34%) Camunda
8 2 (0.34%) Confluence
8 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.34%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.34%) WordPress
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.51%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.17%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Shopify
2 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 407 (68.75%) AWS
2 257 (43.41%) Azure
3 160 (27.03%) GCP
4 136 (22.97%) GitHub
5 93 (15.71%) Serverless
6 61 (10.30%) GitHub Copilot
7 56 (9.46%) Amazon S3
8 52 (8.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 52 (8.78%) AWS Lambda
9 47 (7.94%) SaaS
10 40 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
11 36 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
11 36 (6.08%) Amazon ECS
12 35 (5.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 34 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
14 29 (4.90%) Azure AI
15 27 (4.56%) Pulumi
16 26 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
17 22 (3.72%) Azure AKS
17 22 (3.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (17.74%) Broadband
2 10 (1.69%) DNS
2 10 (1.69%) Firewall
3 8 (1.35%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.18%) Internet
4 7 (1.18%) VPN
5 6 (1.01%) DHCP
5 6 (1.01%) Network Security
6 4 (0.68%) HTTP
6 4 (0.68%) MQTT
7 3 (0.51%) AMQP
7 3 (0.51%) DSL
7 3 (0.51%) RTP
7 3 (0.51%) SCCP
7 3 (0.51%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.51%) VLAN
7 3 (0.51%) VoIP
7 3 (0.51%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.34%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.34%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (17.23%) MongoDB
2 79 (13.34%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (11.32%) NoSQL
4 51 (8.61%) Relational Database
5 48 (8.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 36 (6.08%) SQL Server
7 33 (5.57%) Amazon RDS
7 33 (5.57%) Elasticsearch
8 30 (5.07%) MySQL
9 25 (4.22%) DynamoDB
10 22 (3.72%) Redis
11 18 (3.04%) RDBMS
12 17 (2.87%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (2.87%) BigQuery
13 13 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (1.86%) Tableau
15 10 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (1.69%) Pinecone
16 9 (1.52%) Apache Iceberg
16 9 (1.52%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 99 (16.72%) Git
2 77 (13.01%) Jenkins
3 56 (9.46%) GitLab
4 24 (4.05%) TeamCity
5 18 (3.04%) Cypress.io
5 18 (3.04%) Jaeger
6 16 (2.70%) CircleCI
6 16 (2.70%) Maven
7 14 (2.36%) JUnit
8 13 (2.20%) Selenium
9 11 (1.86%) JIRA
9 11 (1.86%) MLflow
10 10 (1.69%) JMeter
11 9 (1.52%) Mockito
12 8 (1.35%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.35%) Postman
13 7 (1.18%) SonarQube
14 6 (1.01%) Claude Code
14 6 (1.01%) Visual Studio
15 5 (0.84%) Locust
General
1 111 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 71 (11.99%) Finance
3 46 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 38 (6.42%) Public Sector
5 15 (2.53%) Advertising
6 13 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.20%) Banking
6 13 (2.20%) Law
7 11 (1.86%) Manufacturing
8 10 (1.69%) Retail
9 9 (1.52%) Aerospace
9 9 (1.52%) Games
10 8 (1.35%) Marketing
11 6 (1.01%) Aviation
11 6 (1.01%) Legal
12 5 (0.84%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.68%) Front Office
13 4 (0.68%) Military
13 4 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 215 (36.32%) Developer
2 138 (23.31%) Senior
3 95 (16.05%) Lead
4 90 (15.20%) Software Engineer
5 56 (9.46%) .NET Developer
6 51 (8.61%) DevOps Engineer
7 42 (7.09%) Scala Engineer
8 40 (6.76%) Full-Stack Developer
9 38 (6.42%) Java Developer
9 38 (6.42%) Senior Developer
10 31 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
12 26 (4.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 26 (4.39%) Platform Engineer
13 25 (4.22%) Software Developer
14 24 (4.05%) Data Engineer
14 24 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
15 23 (3.89%) Scala Software Engineer
16 21 (3.55%) Scala Developer
17 20 (3.38%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (19.09%) React
2 106 (17.91%) .NET
3 96 (16.22%) Node.js
4 73 (12.33%) .NET Core
4 73 (12.33%) Spring
5 68 (11.49%) REST
6 62 (10.47%) AngularJS
7 59 (9.97%) RESTful
8 58 (9.80%) ASP.NET
9 56 (9.46%) Spring Boot
10 55 (9.29%) Kafka
11 53 (8.95%) ASP.NET Core
12 52 (8.78%) CSS
13 50 (8.45%) gRPC
14 47 (7.94%) HTML
15 42 (7.09%) Vue
16 33 (5.57%) Django
17 27 (4.56%) Elastic Stack
18 26 (4.39%) ML.NET
19 25 (4.22%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 104 (17.57%) Cloud Native
2 80 (13.51%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (11.32%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (11.32%) Video\Live Streaming
4 45 (7.60%) Product Ownership
5 17 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (1.69%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.52%) Digital TV
7 9 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.35%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.35%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.35%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.18%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.18%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.18%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.84%) Cyberattack
10 5 (0.84%) Life Science
10 5 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 110 (18.58%) Linux
2 30 (5.07%) Unix
3 12 (2.03%) Ubuntu
4 10 (1.69%) Windows
5 9 (1.52%) Android
6 8 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.01%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.84%) CentOS
9 4 (0.68%) Debian
9 4 (0.68%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.51%) VMS
11 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (65.71%) CI/CD
2 288 (48.65%) Containerisation
3 254 (42.91%) DevOps
4 253 (42.74%) Agile
5 198 (33.45%) Microservices
6 179 (30.24%) Software Engineering
7 172 (29.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 157 (26.52%) Full-Stack Development
9 141 (23.82%) AI
10 132 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
11 126 (21.28%) Mentoring
12 111 (18.75%) Machine Learning
13 110 (18.58%) Continuous Improvement
14 104 (17.57%) Scrum
15 101 (17.06%) Clean Code
16 100 (16.89%) TDD
17 85 (14.36%) Coaching
18 75 (12.67%) Test Automation
19 70 (11.82%) Observability
20 69 (11.66%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 264 (44.59%) Python
2 146 (24.66%) SQL
3 136 (22.97%) Java
4 129 (21.79%) JavaScript
5 110 (18.58%) C#
6 100 (16.89%) Go
6 100 (16.89%) TypeScript
7 87 (14.70%) Scala
8 77 (13.01%) Bash
9 26 (4.39%) PowerShell
10 22 (3.72%) PHP
11 16 (2.70%) Bicep
12 12 (2.03%) Kotlin
12 12 (2.03%) Ruby
13 10 (1.69%) C++
13 10 (1.69%) PL/SQL
14 9 (1.52%) Groovy
15 8 (1.35%) Rust
16 7 (1.18%) C
17 3 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 79 (13.34%) Security Cleared
2 66 (11.15%) SC Cleared
3 55 (9.29%) Degree
4 29 (4.90%) AWS Certification
5 22 (3.72%) Azure Certification
6 18 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.35%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.84%) CISSP
9 5 (0.84%) GIAC
9 5 (0.84%) ISACA
9 5 (0.84%) SANS
10 3 (0.51%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.34%) LPIC
12 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.61%) QA
2 28 (4.73%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.03%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.03%) NIST
4 11 (1.86%) WCAG
5 10 (1.69%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.84%) GDPR
7 3 (0.51%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.17%) NCSC
8 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.84%) Firmware
4 3 (0.51%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.17%) iptables
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) QEMU
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.17%) vSphere
6 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 360 (60.81%) Kubernetes
2 189 (31.93%) Terraform
3 73 (12.33%) Ansible
4 48 (8.11%) Prometheus
5 38 (6.42%) Grafana
6 36 (6.08%) Argo
7 18 (3.04%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.53%) Podman
9 12 (2.03%) Puppet
10 11 (1.86%) Istio
11 10 (1.69%) Progress Chef
12 6 (1.01%) Packer
13 5 (0.84%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.68%) Kibana
15 3 (0.51%) HP Fortify
15 3 (0.51%) ZABBIX
16 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 2 (0.34%) MIIS
16 2 (0.34%) Nagios
16 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 96 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 63 (10.64%) Google
3 45 (7.60%) Typelevel
4 20 (3.38%) Databricks
5 19 (3.21%) Oracle
6 10 (1.69%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.52%) Palantir
8 8 (1.35%) Confluent
9 6 (1.01%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.01%) Splunk
9 6 (1.01%) VMware
10 5 (0.84%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.84%) Facebook
10 5 (0.84%) ForgeRock
10 5 (0.84%) HubSpot
10 5 (0.84%) Okta
10 5 (0.84%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.68%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.51%) Dell
12 3 (0.51%) ESRI