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

 6 months to
24 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 29 64
Rank change year-on-year -48 +35 -32
Permanent jobs citing Docker 661 1,232 1,330
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.24% 7.91% 3.88%
As % of the System Software category 40.21% 55.42% 32.41%
Number of salaries quoted 454 556 1,107
10th Percentile £44,481 £48,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +15.18% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £125,000 £95,000
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 1,644 2,223 4,104
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.05% 14.28% 11.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,202 1,334 3,202
10th Percentile £32,050 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £41,036
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.84%
75th Percentile £76,201 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,175 £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

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Docker over the 6 months to 24 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 28 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.87%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.82%) Apache
4 9 (1.36%) nginx
5 7 (1.06%) CMS
6 6 (0.91%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.76%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.45%) IIS
9 2 (0.30%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.30%) Camunda
9 2 (0.30%) Confluence
9 2 (0.30%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.30%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.30%) WordPress
10 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.45%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Shopify
2 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.15%) Magento
3 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 424 (64.15%) AWS
2 323 (48.87%) Azure
3 188 (28.44%) GitHub
4 161 (24.36%) GCP
5 115 (17.40%) GitHub Copilot
6 87 (13.16%) Serverless
7 56 (8.47%) Azure AI
8 52 (7.87%) Amazon S3
9 50 (7.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 48 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
11 45 (6.81%) SaaS
12 40 (6.05%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
14 34 (5.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 34 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
15 26 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (3.93%) Azure AKS
16 22 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
16 22 (3.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 103 (15.58%) Broadband
2 14 (2.12%) Internet
3 11 (1.66%) Firewall
4 10 (1.51%) DNS
5 7 (1.06%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.06%) VPN
6 6 (0.91%) Network Security
7 5 (0.76%) DHCP
8 4 (0.61%) HTTP
8 4 (0.61%) MQTT
9 3 (0.45%) AMQP
9 3 (0.45%) DSL
9 3 (0.45%) RTP
9 3 (0.45%) SCCP
9 3 (0.45%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.45%) VoIP
9 3 (0.45%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.30%) Intranet
10 2 (0.30%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (22.84%) MongoDB
2 99 (14.98%) Azure SQL Database
3 81 (12.25%) PostgreSQL
4 61 (9.23%) NoSQL
5 51 (7.72%) Elasticsearch
6 47 (7.11%) Relational Database
7 40 (6.05%) SQL Server
8 35 (5.30%) MySQL
9 31 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
10 29 (4.39%) Redis
11 22 (3.33%) DynamoDB
12 17 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
13 14 (2.12%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (1.82%) Delta Lake
14 12 (1.82%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (1.51%) Tableau
17 9 (1.36%) Pinecone
18 8 (1.21%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 109 (16.49%) Git
2 84 (12.71%) Jenkins
3 59 (8.93%) GitLab
4 24 (3.63%) TeamCity
5 18 (2.72%) JIRA
6 17 (2.57%) Cypress.io
7 16 (2.42%) JUnit
8 15 (2.27%) Maven
8 15 (2.27%) Selenium
9 14 (2.12%) CircleCI
10 12 (1.82%) Jaeger
11 10 (1.51%) Claude Code
11 10 (1.51%) JMeter
11 10 (1.51%) Postman
12 9 (1.36%) MLflow
12 9 (1.36%) Mockito
13 8 (1.21%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.91%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.91%) Visual Studio
15 5 (0.76%) Locust
General
1 121 (18.31%) Social Skills
2 76 (11.50%) Finance
3 43 (6.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (6.35%) Public Sector
5 29 (4.39%) Advertising
6 17 (2.57%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (2.42%) Marketing
8 13 (1.97%) Aerospace
9 12 (1.82%) Banking
9 12 (1.82%) Games
10 10 (1.51%) Law
10 10 (1.51%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.21%) Retail
12 6 (0.91%) Aviation
12 6 (0.91%) Legal
13 5 (0.76%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.61%) Military
14 4 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 273 (41.30%) Developer
2 150 (22.69%) Senior
3 103 (15.58%) .NET Developer
4 98 (14.83%) Software Engineer
5 85 (12.86%) Lead
6 49 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 45 (6.81%) Full-Stack Developer
8 43 (6.51%) Senior Developer
9 42 (6.35%) Scala Engineer
10 41 (6.20%) Java Developer
11 31 (4.69%) AWS Engineer
12 30 (4.54%) Senior Software Engineer
13 29 (4.39%) Platform Engineer
14 28 (4.24%) Cloud Engineer
15 25 (3.78%) Data Engineer
15 25 (3.78%) Software Developer
16 24 (3.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 23 (3.48%) Scala Software Engineer
18 21 (3.18%) Scala Developer
19 19 (2.87%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (25.11%) .NET
2 121 (18.31%) .NET Core
3 111 (16.79%) ASP.NET
4 110 (16.64%) React
5 104 (15.73%) Node.js
6 100 (15.13%) ASP.NET Core
7 88 (13.31%) AngularJS
8 83 (12.56%) CSS
9 78 (11.80%) HTML
10 76 (11.50%) Spring
11 71 (10.74%) REST
12 69 (10.44%) RESTful
13 66 (9.98%) Vue
14 61 (9.23%) Spring Boot
15 54 (8.17%) ML.NET
16 51 (7.72%) Kafka
17 49 (7.41%) gRPC
18 32 (4.84%) Django
19 26 (3.93%) Playwright
20 23 (3.48%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 116 (17.55%) Cloud Native
2 87 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (10.14%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (10.14%) Video\Live Streaming
4 41 (6.20%) Product Ownership
5 24 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (2.57%) Digital TV
7 14 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.21%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.21%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.06%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.06%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.06%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.06%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.06%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.76%) Cyberattack
11 5 (0.76%) Life Science
11 5 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 126 (19.06%) Linux
2 25 (3.78%) Unix
3 14 (2.12%) Ubuntu
4 13 (1.97%) Windows
5 8 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.91%) Debian
7 5 (0.76%) Android
7 5 (0.76%) CentOS
7 5 (0.76%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.45%) VMS
9 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (65.66%) CI/CD
2 291 (44.02%) Agile
3 287 (43.42%) Containerisation
4 254 (38.43%) DevOps
5 231 (34.95%) Microservices
6 213 (32.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 199 (30.11%) Software Engineering
8 176 (26.63%) AI
9 163 (24.66%) Infrastructure as Code
10 139 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
11 135 (20.42%) Machine Learning
12 132 (19.97%) Mentoring
13 120 (18.15%) Scrum
14 117 (17.70%) TDD
15 116 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
16 108 (16.34%) Clean Code
17 88 (13.31%) Coaching
18 78 (11.80%) Test Automation
19 75 (11.35%) Kanban
20 74 (11.20%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 264 (39.94%) Python
2 201 (30.41%) SQL
3 175 (26.48%) C#
4 134 (20.27%) Java
5 126 (19.06%) TypeScript
6 121 (18.31%) JavaScript
7 89 (13.46%) Go
8 86 (13.01%) Scala
9 72 (10.89%) Bash
10 28 (4.24%) PowerShell
11 24 (3.63%) PHP
12 19 (2.87%) Bicep
13 16 (2.42%) Ruby
14 14 (2.12%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.51%) C++
15 10 (1.51%) PL/SQL
16 9 (1.36%) Groovy
17 8 (1.21%) Rust
18 7 (1.06%) C
19 3 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 80 (12.10%) Security Cleared
2 65 (9.83%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.77%) Degree
4 25 (3.78%) AWS Certification
5 23 (3.48%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.36%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.76%) CISSP
9 5 (0.76%) GIAC
9 5 (0.76%) ISACA
9 5 (0.76%) SANS
10 4 (0.61%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.45%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.30%) Linux+ Certification
12 2 (0.30%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.32%) QA
2 28 (4.24%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.82%) NIST
4 11 (1.66%) WCAG
5 10 (1.51%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.76%) GDPR
7 3 (0.45%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.61%) Firmware
3 4 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.45%) iptables
4 3 (0.45%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.45%) 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
1 424 (64.15%) Kubernetes
2 175 (26.48%) Terraform
3 67 (10.14%) Ansible
4 46 (6.96%) Prometheus
5 41 (6.20%) Grafana
6 29 (4.39%) Argo
7 17 (2.57%) Puppet
8 15 (2.27%) Podman
9 14 (2.12%) Istio
10 12 (1.82%) Kustomize
10 12 (1.82%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.91%) Packer
12 5 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.76%) Kibana
13 3 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.45%) linkerd
13 3 (0.45%) Nagios
13 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.30%) MIIS
14 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 153 (23.15%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.93%) Google
3 45 (6.81%) Typelevel
4 20 (3.03%) Databricks
5 19 (2.87%) Oracle
6 14 (2.12%) Facebook
7 9 (1.36%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.36%) Splunk
8 8 (1.21%) Confluent
8 8 (1.21%) VMware
9 7 (1.06%) Palantir
10 6 (0.91%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.76%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.76%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.76%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.76%) Okta
12 4 (0.61%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.45%) BT
13 3 (0.45%) Commvault
13 3 (0.45%) Dell
252 hybrid/remote Docker jobs