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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 27 67
Rank change year-on-year -54 +40 -35
Permanent jobs citing Docker 596 1,250 1,355
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.06% 8.28% 3.98%
As % of the System Software category 39.34% 55.98% 32.67%
Number of salaries quoted 381 575 1,143
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,481 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.87% +15.18% -7.14%
75th Percentile £79,040 £95,750 £82,875
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% -2.78%

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 1,515 2,233 4,148
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.78% 14.79% 12.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,073 1,346 3,264
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,063 £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 £103,125 £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 9 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 (5.03%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (3.52%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.68%) Apache
4 8 (1.34%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.17%) CMS
5 7 (1.17%) nginx
6 5 (0.84%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.50%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.50%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.50%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.34%) Camunda
8 2 (0.34%) Confluence
8 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
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 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.50%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.17%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Shopify
2 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 410 (68.79%) AWS
2 262 (43.96%) Azure
3 161 (27.01%) GCP
4 140 (23.49%) GitHub
5 92 (15.44%) Serverless
6 64 (10.74%) GitHub Copilot
7 55 (9.23%) Amazon S3
8 51 (8.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 51 (8.56%) AWS Lambda
9 47 (7.89%) SaaS
10 41 (6.88%) GitHub Actions
11 36 (6.04%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (5.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 35 (5.87%) Amazon ECS
13 34 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
14 31 (5.20%) Azure AI
15 27 (4.53%) Pulumi
16 26 (4.36%) Amazon EKS
17 23 (3.86%) Azure AKS
18 22 (3.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (17.62%) Broadband
2 9 (1.51%) DNS
2 9 (1.51%) Firewall
3 7 (1.17%) Internet
3 7 (1.17%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.01%) Network Security
4 6 (1.01%) VPN
5 5 (0.84%) DHCP
6 4 (0.67%) HTTP
6 4 (0.67%) MQTT
7 3 (0.50%) AMQP
7 3 (0.50%) DSL
7 3 (0.50%) RTP
7 3 (0.50%) SCCP
7 3 (0.50%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.50%) VoIP
7 3 (0.50%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.34%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.34%) SAN
8 2 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (17.62%) MongoDB
2 79 (13.26%) PostgreSQL
3 68 (11.41%) NoSQL
4 51 (8.56%) Relational Database
5 50 (8.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 35 (5.87%) SQL Server
7 34 (5.70%) Elasticsearch
8 33 (5.54%) Amazon RDS
9 30 (5.03%) MySQL
10 24 (4.03%) DynamoDB
11 22 (3.69%) Redis
12 18 (3.02%) BigQuery
12 18 (3.02%) RDBMS
13 17 (2.85%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (2.01%) Tableau
16 10 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (1.68%) Looker
16 10 (1.68%) Pinecone
17 9 (1.51%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 99 (16.61%) Git
2 77 (12.92%) Jenkins
3 56 (9.40%) GitLab
4 24 (4.03%) TeamCity
5 18 (3.02%) Jaeger
6 17 (2.85%) Cypress.io
7 16 (2.68%) CircleCI
8 15 (2.52%) Maven
9 14 (2.35%) JUnit
10 13 (2.18%) Selenium
11 12 (2.01%) JIRA
12 11 (1.85%) MLflow
13 10 (1.68%) JMeter
14 9 (1.51%) Mockito
15 8 (1.34%) Cucumber
15 8 (1.34%) Postman
16 6 (1.01%) Claude Code
16 6 (1.01%) SonarQube
16 6 (1.01%) Visual Studio
17 5 (0.84%) Locust
General
1 112 (18.79%) Social Skills
2 70 (11.74%) Finance
3 46 (7.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (6.21%) Public Sector
5 17 (2.85%) Advertising
6 13 (2.18%) Banking
6 13 (2.18%) Law
7 12 (2.01%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (1.68%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.51%) Aerospace
9 9 (1.51%) Games
9 9 (1.51%) Retail
10 8 (1.34%) Marketing
11 6 (1.01%) Aviation
11 6 (1.01%) Legal
12 4 (0.67%) Front Office
12 4 (0.67%) Military
12 4 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.67%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 217 (36.41%) Developer
2 136 (22.82%) Senior
3 94 (15.77%) Lead
4 90 (15.10%) Software Engineer
5 59 (9.90%) .NET Developer
6 52 (8.72%) DevOps Engineer
7 42 (7.05%) Scala Engineer
8 40 (6.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 38 (6.38%) Java Developer
10 37 (6.21%) Senior Developer
11 31 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
12 29 (4.87%) AWS Engineer
13 27 (4.53%) Platform Engineer
14 26 (4.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 25 (4.19%) Data Engineer
15 25 (4.19%) Software Developer
16 24 (4.03%) Senior Software Engineer
17 23 (3.86%) Scala Software Engineer
18 21 (3.52%) Scala Developer
19 20 (3.36%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (19.13%) React
2 110 (18.46%) .NET
3 97 (16.28%) Node.js
4 76 (12.75%) .NET Core
5 72 (12.08%) Spring
6 68 (11.41%) REST
7 63 (10.57%) AngularJS
8 61 (10.23%) ASP.NET
9 59 (9.90%) RESTful
10 56 (9.40%) ASP.NET Core
10 56 (9.40%) Kafka
11 55 (9.23%) Spring Boot
12 54 (9.06%) CSS
13 50 (8.39%) gRPC
14 49 (8.22%) HTML
15 43 (7.21%) Vue
16 33 (5.54%) Django
17 28 (4.70%) ML.NET
18 27 (4.53%) Elastic Stack
19 26 (4.36%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 106 (17.79%) Cloud Native
2 81 (13.59%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (11.24%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (11.24%) Video\Live Streaming
4 45 (7.55%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (1.68%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.51%) Digital TV
7 9 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.34%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.34%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.34%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.34%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.17%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.17%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.84%) Cyberattack
10 5 (0.84%) Life Science
10 5 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 113 (18.96%) Linux
2 30 (5.03%) Unix
3 12 (2.01%) Ubuntu
4 11 (1.85%) Windows
5 9 (1.51%) Android
6 8 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.01%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.84%) CentOS
8 5 (0.84%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.67%) Debian
10 3 (0.50%) VMS
10 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (66.28%) CI/CD
2 288 (48.32%) Containerisation
3 256 (42.95%) Agile
4 255 (42.79%) DevOps
5 200 (33.56%) Microservices
6 180 (30.20%) Software Engineering
7 174 (29.19%) Infrastructure as Code
8 159 (26.68%) Full-Stack Development
9 145 (24.33%) AI
10 133 (22.32%) Problem-Solving
11 127 (21.31%) Mentoring
12 114 (19.13%) Machine Learning
13 111 (18.62%) Continuous Improvement
14 105 (17.62%) Scrum
15 102 (17.11%) Clean Code
15 102 (17.11%) TDD
16 85 (14.26%) Coaching
17 74 (12.42%) Test Automation
18 72 (12.08%) Observability
19 69 (11.58%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 266 (44.63%) Python
2 148 (24.83%) SQL
3 135 (22.65%) Java
4 129 (21.64%) JavaScript
5 114 (19.13%) C#
6 101 (16.95%) Go
7 100 (16.78%) TypeScript
8 87 (14.60%) Scala
9 78 (13.09%) Bash
10 25 (4.19%) PowerShell
11 22 (3.69%) PHP
12 16 (2.68%) Bicep
13 12 (2.01%) Kotlin
13 12 (2.01%) Ruby
14 10 (1.68%) C++
14 10 (1.68%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.34%) Groovy
15 8 (1.34%) Rust
16 7 (1.17%) C
17 3 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 79 (13.26%) Security Cleared
2 66 (11.07%) SC Cleared
3 56 (9.40%) Degree
4 30 (5.03%) AWS Certification
5 21 (3.52%) Azure Certification
6 19 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.51%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.84%) CISSP
8 5 (0.84%) GIAC
8 5 (0.84%) ISACA
8 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.84%) SANS
9 3 (0.50%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
10 2 (0.34%) LPIC
10 2 (0.34%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.56%) QA
2 28 (4.70%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.18%) Data Quality
4 12 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.01%) NIST
5 11 (1.85%) WCAG
6 10 (1.68%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.84%) GDPR
8 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.50%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.17%) NCSC
9 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.67%) Firmware
4 3 (0.50%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.50%) 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%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.17%) vSphere
6 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 365 (61.24%) Kubernetes
2 191 (32.05%) Terraform
3 73 (12.25%) Ansible
4 50 (8.39%) Prometheus
5 39 (6.54%) Grafana
6 37 (6.21%) Argo
7 18 (3.02%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.52%) Podman
9 12 (2.01%) Istio
9 12 (2.01%) Puppet
10 10 (1.68%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.01%) Packer
12 5 (0.84%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.84%) Kibana
13 3 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.50%) Nagios
13 3 (0.50%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.34%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.34%) MIIS
14 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 100 (16.78%) Microsoft
2 63 (10.57%) Google
3 45 (7.55%) Typelevel
4 20 (3.36%) Databricks
5 19 (3.19%) Oracle
6 10 (1.68%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.51%) Palantir
8 8 (1.34%) Confluent
9 7 (1.17%) Splunk
9 7 (1.17%) VMware
10 6 (1.01%) Facebook
10 6 (1.01%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.84%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.84%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.84%) Okta
11 5 (0.84%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.50%) Commvault
12 3 (0.50%) Dell
12 3 (0.50%) ESRI