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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 29 66
Rank change year-on-year -49 +37 -33
Permanent jobs citing Docker 617 1,239 1,361
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.12% 8.13% 3.96%
As % of the System Software category 39.83% 55.89% 32.64%
Number of salaries quoted 402 565 1,139
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,813 £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 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £126,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.29% -5.56%

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 1,549 2,217 4,170
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.84% 14.55% 12.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,106 1,334 3,269
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,563 £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 £95,000 £101,175 £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 13 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 29 (4.70%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.24%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.78%) Apache
4 8 (1.30%) nginx
5 7 (1.13%) CMS
6 6 (0.97%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.81%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.32%) Camunda
8 2 (0.32%) Confluence
8 2 (0.32%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.32%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.32%) IIS
8 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.32%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.32%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) JBoss
9 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.49%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Shopify
2 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.16%) Magento
3 1 (0.16%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 412 (66.77%) AWS
2 283 (45.87%) Azure
3 159 (25.77%) GCP
4 156 (25.28%) GitHub
5 88 (14.26%) Serverless
6 84 (13.61%) GitHub Copilot
7 55 (8.91%) Amazon S3
8 51 (8.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 50 (8.10%) AWS Lambda
10 45 (7.29%) SaaS
11 40 (6.48%) Azure AI
12 38 (6.16%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (5.83%) Amazon EC2
15 34 (5.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 34 (5.51%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (4.38%) Pulumi
17 25 (4.05%) Azure AKS
18 23 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
19 22 (3.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 106 (17.18%) Broadband
2 9 (1.46%) DNS
2 9 (1.46%) Firewall
2 9 (1.46%) Internet
3 7 (1.13%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.97%) Network Security
4 6 (0.97%) VPN
5 5 (0.81%) DHCP
6 4 (0.65%) HTTP
6 4 (0.65%) MQTT
7 3 (0.49%) AMQP
7 3 (0.49%) DSL
7 3 (0.49%) RTP
7 3 (0.49%) SCCP
7 3 (0.49%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.49%) VoIP
7 3 (0.49%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.32%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.32%) SAN
8 2 (0.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (19.94%) MongoDB
2 76 (12.32%) PostgreSQL
3 70 (11.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 68 (11.02%) NoSQL
5 53 (8.59%) Relational Database
6 42 (6.81%) Elasticsearch
7 36 (5.83%) SQL Server
8 32 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
9 31 (5.02%) MySQL
10 24 (3.89%) DynamoDB
10 24 (3.89%) Redis
11 18 (2.92%) RDBMS
12 17 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (2.43%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (1.78%) Tableau
16 10 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (1.62%) Delta Lake
16 10 (1.62%) Pinecone
17 9 (1.46%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 101 (16.37%) Git
2 76 (12.32%) Jenkins
3 58 (9.40%) GitLab
4 24 (3.89%) TeamCity
5 18 (2.92%) Cypress.io
5 18 (2.92%) Jaeger
6 16 (2.59%) Maven
7 15 (2.43%) JUnit
8 14 (2.27%) CircleCI
8 14 (2.27%) JIRA
9 13 (2.11%) Selenium
10 10 (1.62%) JMeter
10 10 (1.62%) MLflow
11 9 (1.46%) Mockito
12 8 (1.30%) Claude Code
12 8 (1.30%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.30%) Postman
13 7 (1.13%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.97%) Visual Studio
15 5 (0.81%) Locust
General
1 116 (18.80%) Social Skills
2 71 (11.51%) Finance
3 47 (7.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 40 (6.48%) Public Sector
5 21 (3.40%) Advertising
6 14 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (1.94%) Banking
7 12 (1.94%) Marketing
8 11 (1.78%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.62%) Games
9 10 (1.62%) Law
9 10 (1.62%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.46%) Retail
11 6 (0.97%) Aviation
11 6 (0.97%) Legal
12 4 (0.65%) Military
12 4 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.32%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 238 (38.57%) Developer
2 139 (22.53%) Senior
3 93 (15.07%) Lead
4 92 (14.91%) Software Engineer
5 76 (12.32%) .NET Developer
6 51 (8.27%) DevOps Engineer
7 42 (6.81%) Scala Engineer
8 40 (6.48%) Full-Stack Developer
9 39 (6.32%) Java Developer
10 38 (6.16%) Senior Developer
11 31 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
12 29 (4.70%) AWS Engineer
13 27 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
13 27 (4.38%) Senior Software Engineer
14 26 (4.21%) Data Engineer
15 25 (4.05%) Software Developer
16 24 (3.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 23 (3.73%) Scala Software Engineer
18 21 (3.40%) Scala Developer
19 20 (3.24%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (20.75%) .NET
2 107 (17.34%) React
3 99 (16.05%) Node.js
4 92 (14.91%) .NET Core
5 80 (12.97%) ASP.NET
6 74 (11.99%) AngularJS
7 73 (11.83%) ASP.NET Core
8 71 (11.51%) Spring
9 67 (10.86%) REST
10 64 (10.37%) CSS
11 59 (9.56%) HTML
11 59 (9.56%) RESTful
12 56 (9.08%) Spring Boot
13 52 (8.43%) Vue
14 51 (8.27%) Kafka
15 48 (7.78%) gRPC
16 37 (6.00%) ML.NET
17 32 (5.19%) Django
18 26 (4.21%) OpenTelemetry
18 26 (4.21%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 111 (17.99%) Cloud Native
2 78 (12.64%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (10.86%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (10.86%) Video\Live Streaming
4 43 (6.97%) Product Ownership
5 21 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.94%) Digital TV
8 10 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.46%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.30%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.13%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.13%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.13%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.13%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.97%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.81%) Cyberattack
13 5 (0.81%) Life Science
13 5 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 119 (19.29%) Linux
2 30 (4.86%) Unix
3 12 (1.94%) Ubuntu
3 12 (1.94%) Windows
4 8 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.81%) Android
5 5 (0.81%) CentOS
5 5 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.65%) Debian
7 3 (0.49%) VMS
7 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (65.48%) CI/CD
2 285 (46.19%) Containerisation
3 270 (43.76%) Agile
4 254 (41.17%) DevOps
5 207 (33.55%) Microservices
6 185 (29.98%) Software Engineering
7 178 (28.85%) Full-Stack Development
8 172 (27.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 153 (24.80%) AI
10 135 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
11 130 (21.07%) Mentoring
12 120 (19.45%) Machine Learning
13 113 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
14 110 (17.83%) Scrum
15 107 (17.34%) TDD
16 103 (16.69%) Clean Code
17 88 (14.26%) Coaching
18 76 (12.32%) Test Automation
19 74 (11.99%) Observability
20 70 (11.35%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 265 (42.95%) Python
2 169 (27.39%) SQL
3 137 (22.20%) Java
4 135 (21.88%) C#
5 126 (20.42%) JavaScript
6 113 (18.31%) TypeScript
7 95 (15.40%) Go
8 85 (13.78%) Scala
9 79 (12.80%) Bash
10 27 (4.38%) PowerShell
11 23 (3.73%) PHP
12 18 (2.92%) Bicep
13 14 (2.27%) Ruby
14 12 (1.94%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.62%) PL/SQL
16 9 (1.46%) Groovy
17 8 (1.30%) C++
17 8 (1.30%) Rust
18 7 (1.13%) C
19 3 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 77 (12.48%) Security Cleared
2 64 (10.37%) SC Cleared
3 54 (8.75%) Degree
4 31 (5.02%) AWS Certification
5 22 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.81%) CISSP
9 5 (0.81%) GIAC
9 5 (0.81%) ISACA
9 5 (0.81%) SANS
10 3 (0.49%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.49%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.32%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.32%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (8.59%) QA
2 30 (4.86%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.11%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.94%) NIST
5 11 (1.78%) WCAG
6 10 (1.62%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.81%) GDPR
8 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.49%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.16%) NCSC
9 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.65%) Firmware
4 3 (0.49%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.16%) iptables
6 1 (0.16%) KVM
6 1 (0.16%) QEMU
6 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.16%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 386 (62.56%) Kubernetes
2 185 (29.98%) Terraform
3 71 (11.51%) Ansible
4 51 (8.27%) Prometheus
5 40 (6.48%) Grafana
6 34 (5.51%) Argo
7 18 (2.92%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.43%) Podman
9 13 (2.11%) Istio
9 13 (2.11%) Puppet
10 10 (1.62%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.97%) Packer
12 5 (0.81%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.81%) Kibana
13 3 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.49%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.49%) Nagios
13 3 (0.49%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.32%) MIIS
14 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 121 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 64 (10.37%) Google
3 45 (7.29%) Typelevel
4 20 (3.24%) Databricks
5 19 (3.08%) Oracle
6 10 (1.62%) Facebook
7 9 (1.46%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.30%) Confluent
8 8 (1.30%) Palantir
9 7 (1.13%) Splunk
9 7 (1.13%) VMware
10 6 (0.97%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.81%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.81%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.81%) Okta
11 5 (0.81%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.65%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.49%) Commvault
13 3 (0.49%) Dell
13 3 (0.49%) Fortinet