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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 30 67
Rank change year-on-year -47 +37 -35
Permanent jobs citing Docker 676 1,225 1,288
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.25% 7.67% 3.85%
As % of the System Software category 39.95% 54.88% 32.03%
Number of salaries quoted 482 548 1,071
10th Percentile £44,259 £48,750 £43,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £74,935 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.26% +15.28% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £123,250 £96,250
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 1,692 2,232 4,021
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.13% 13.98% 12.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,259 1,345 3,135
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,625 £37,750 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +4.55% -9.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £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

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 2 July 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 27 (3.99%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.66%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.78%) Apache
4 9 (1.33%) nginx
5 6 (0.89%) CMS
5 6 (0.89%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.74%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.59%) IIS
8 2 (0.30%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.30%) Camunda
8 2 (0.30%) Confluence
8 2 (0.30%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.30%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.30%) WordPress
9 1 (0.15%) Moodle
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.30%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.30%) Shopify
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 428 (63.31%) AWS
2 348 (51.48%) Azure
3 208 (30.77%) GitHub
4 162 (23.96%) GCP
5 136 (20.12%) GitHub Copilot
6 85 (12.57%) Serverless
7 67 (9.91%) Azure AI
8 52 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 50 (7.40%) Amazon S3
10 45 (6.66%) AWS Lambda
11 43 (6.36%) SaaS
12 42 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
13 39 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
14 37 (5.47%) Amazon EC2
15 33 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 33 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
16 28 (4.14%) Azure AKS
17 26 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
18 25 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
19 24 (3.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 92 (13.61%) Broadband
2 17 (2.51%) Internet
3 11 (1.63%) DNS
3 11 (1.63%) Firewall
4 10 (1.48%) VPN
5 8 (1.18%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.74%) DHCP
6 5 (0.74%) HTTP
6 5 (0.74%) MQTT
6 5 (0.74%) Network Security
7 3 (0.44%) DSL
7 3 (0.44%) RTP
7 3 (0.44%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.44%) VoIP
7 3 (0.44%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.30%) Intranet
8 2 (0.30%) SAN
8 2 (0.30%) SCCP
8 2 (0.30%) SSH
8 2 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (25.15%) MongoDB
2 120 (17.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 83 (12.28%) PostgreSQL
4 60 (8.88%) NoSQL
5 58 (8.58%) Elasticsearch
6 48 (7.10%) Relational Database
7 43 (6.36%) SQL Server
8 35 (5.18%) MySQL
9 31 (4.59%) Redis
10 29 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
11 21 (3.11%) DynamoDB
12 16 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (1.92%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.78%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (1.63%) Delta Lake
16 10 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
17 9 (1.33%) Tableau
18 8 (1.18%) Data Lake
18 8 (1.18%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 107 (15.83%) Git
2 73 (10.80%) Jenkins
3 55 (8.14%) GitLab
4 18 (2.66%) JIRA
5 16 (2.37%) Cypress.io
6 15 (2.22%) JUnit
6 15 (2.22%) Maven
7 14 (2.07%) CircleCI
7 14 (2.07%) Selenium
8 13 (1.92%) TeamCity
9 12 (1.78%) Jaeger
10 10 (1.48%) Claude Code
11 9 (1.33%) JMeter
11 9 (1.33%) Mockito
11 9 (1.33%) Postman
12 8 (1.18%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.18%) MLflow
13 6 (0.89%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.74%) Locust
14 5 (0.74%) Subversion
General
1 125 (18.49%) Social Skills
2 81 (11.98%) Finance
3 45 (6.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 40 (5.92%) Public Sector
5 34 (5.03%) Advertising
6 19 (2.81%) Marketing
7 17 (2.51%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (2.22%) Aerospace
9 14 (2.07%) Games
10 12 (1.78%) Banking
11 11 (1.63%) Law
12 10 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.04%) Retail
14 6 (0.89%) Legal
15 5 (0.74%) Aviation
15 5 (0.74%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.59%) Military
16 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.44%) Electronics
17 3 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 288 (42.60%) Developer
2 147 (21.75%) Senior
3 124 (18.34%) .NET Developer
4 96 (14.20%) Software Engineer
5 85 (12.57%) Lead
6 51 (7.54%) DevOps Engineer
7 45 (6.66%) Full-Stack Developer
8 40 (5.92%) Senior Developer
9 38 (5.62%) Java Developer
10 36 (5.33%) Scala Engineer
11 32 (4.73%) AWS Engineer
12 30 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
13 28 (4.14%) Senior Software Engineer
14 25 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 24 (3.55%) Data Engineer
16 22 (3.25%) Software Developer
17 19 (2.81%) AWS DevOps
17 19 (2.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 19 (2.81%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (27.81%) .NET
2 140 (20.71%) .NET Core
3 132 (19.53%) ASP.NET
4 120 (17.75%) ASP.NET Core
5 109 (16.12%) React
6 108 (15.98%) Node.js
7 97 (14.35%) AngularJS
8 92 (13.61%) CSS
9 87 (12.87%) HTML
10 74 (10.95%) Vue
11 73 (10.80%) REST
11 73 (10.80%) Spring
12 68 (10.06%) RESTful
13 65 (9.62%) ML.NET
14 58 (8.58%) Spring Boot
15 51 (7.54%) gRPC
16 50 (7.40%) Kafka
17 32 (4.73%) Django
18 23 (3.40%) Blazor
18 23 (3.40%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 119 (17.60%) Cloud Native
2 88 (13.02%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (8.28%) Over-the-Top Content
3 56 (8.28%) Video\Live Streaming
4 39 (5.77%) Product Ownership
5 26 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.96%) Digital TV
7 15 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.33%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.18%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.04%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.04%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.04%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.04%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.04%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.74%) Life Science
13 5 (0.74%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 132 (19.53%) Linux
2 26 (3.85%) Unix
3 14 (2.07%) Ubuntu
3 14 (2.07%) Windows
4 8 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.89%) Debian
6 5 (0.74%) Android
6 5 (0.74%) CentOS
6 5 (0.74%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.59%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.44%) VMS
8 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (66.12%) CI/CD
2 289 (42.75%) Agile
3 288 (42.60%) Containerisation
4 254 (37.57%) DevOps
5 236 (34.91%) Microservices
6 233 (34.47%) Full-Stack Development
7 197 (29.14%) Software Engineering
8 185 (27.37%) AI
9 165 (24.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 146 (21.60%) Machine Learning
11 144 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
12 132 (19.53%) Mentoring
13 116 (17.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 115 (17.01%) Scrum
15 112 (16.57%) TDD
16 109 (16.12%) Clean Code
17 87 (12.87%) Coaching
18 76 (11.24%) Test Automation
19 75 (11.09%) Observability
20 72 (10.65%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 271 (40.09%) Python
2 221 (32.69%) SQL
3 197 (29.14%) C#
4 134 (19.82%) TypeScript
5 126 (18.64%) Java
6 123 (18.20%) JavaScript
7 88 (13.02%) Go
8 74 (10.95%) Scala
9 72 (10.65%) Bash
10 31 (4.59%) PowerShell
11 23 (3.40%) PHP
12 21 (3.11%) Bicep
13 17 (2.51%) Ruby
14 13 (1.92%) Kotlin
15 12 (1.78%) C++
16 10 (1.48%) Groovy
16 10 (1.48%) PL/SQL
17 8 (1.18%) Rust
18 7 (1.04%) C
19 3 (0.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 80 (11.83%) Security Cleared
2 64 (9.47%) SC Cleared
3 61 (9.02%) Degree
4 25 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 22 (3.25%) Azure Certification
6 21 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.33%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.74%) CISSP
8 5 (0.74%) GIAC
8 5 (0.74%) ISACA
8 5 (0.74%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.74%) SANS
9 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.30%) Linux+ Certification
9 2 (0.30%) LPIC
10 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.15%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.28%) QA
2 26 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 13 (1.92%) NIST
4 12 (1.78%) WCAG
5 11 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.63%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.59%) GDPR
7 3 (0.44%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.44%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.59%) Firmware
3 4 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.44%) iptables
4 3 (0.44%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.44%) 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
1 437 (64.64%) Kubernetes
2 177 (26.18%) Terraform
3 67 (9.91%) Ansible
4 47 (6.95%) Prometheus
5 42 (6.21%) Grafana
6 29 (4.29%) Argo
7 18 (2.66%) Puppet
8 15 (2.22%) Istio
8 15 (2.22%) Podman
9 13 (1.92%) Progress Chef
10 12 (1.78%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.89%) Packer
12 5 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.74%) Kibana
13 3 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.44%) linkerd
13 3 (0.44%) Nagios
13 3 (0.44%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.30%) MIIS
14 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 176 (26.04%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.73%) Google
3 45 (6.66%) Typelevel
4 19 (2.81%) Databricks
4 19 (2.81%) Oracle
5 17 (2.51%) Facebook
6 9 (1.33%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.33%) Splunk
7 8 (1.18%) Confluent
7 8 (1.18%) VMware
8 7 (1.04%) Okta
9 6 (0.89%) ForgeRock
9 6 (0.89%) OpenAI
9 6 (0.89%) Palantir
10 5 (0.74%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.74%) HubSpot
11 3 (0.44%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.44%) BT
11 3 (0.44%) Mitel
11 3 (0.44%) New Relic