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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 29 67
Rank change year-on-year -45 +38 -35
Permanent jobs citing Docker 651 1,232 1,348
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.23% 7.96% 3.88%
As % of the System Software category 40.56% 55.52% 32.58%
Number of salaries quoted 438 556 1,123
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £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 £94,083 £83,500
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 1,605 2,219 4,138
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.97% 14.34% 11.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,163 1,329 3,230
10th Percentile £32,100 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £41,206
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.84%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,410 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,881
% change year-on-year - +5.25% -9.31%

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 20 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 28 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.92%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.84%) Apache
4 9 (1.38%) nginx
5 7 (1.08%) CMS
6 6 (0.92%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.77%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.46%) IIS
9 2 (0.31%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.31%) Camunda
9 2 (0.31%) Confluence
9 2 (0.31%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.31%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.31%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.31%) WordPress
10 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.46%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Shopify
2 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.15%) Magento
3 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 424 (65.13%) AWS
2 309 (47.47%) Azure
3 177 (27.19%) GitHub
4 160 (24.58%) GCP
5 104 (15.98%) GitHub Copilot
6 88 (13.52%) Serverless
7 53 (8.14%) Amazon S3
8 51 (7.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 50 (7.68%) Azure AI
10 49 (7.53%) AWS Lambda
11 46 (7.07%) SaaS
12 38 (5.84%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
14 35 (5.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 35 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
15 27 (4.15%) Pulumi
16 26 (3.99%) Amazon EKS
16 26 (3.99%) Azure AKS
17 22 (3.38%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 109 (16.74%) Broadband
2 13 (2.00%) Internet
3 10 (1.54%) DNS
3 10 (1.54%) Firewall
4 7 (1.08%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.08%) VPN
5 6 (0.92%) Network Security
6 5 (0.77%) DHCP
7 4 (0.61%) HTTP
7 4 (0.61%) MQTT
8 3 (0.46%) AMQP
8 3 (0.46%) DSL
8 3 (0.46%) RTP
8 3 (0.46%) SCCP
8 3 (0.46%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.46%) VoIP
8 3 (0.46%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.31%) Intranet
9 2 (0.31%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.31%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (21.81%) MongoDB
2 90 (13.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 79 (12.14%) PostgreSQL
4 68 (10.45%) NoSQL
5 53 (8.14%) Relational Database
6 49 (7.53%) Elasticsearch
7 39 (5.99%) SQL Server
8 34 (5.22%) MySQL
9 32 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
10 27 (4.15%) Redis
11 23 (3.53%) DynamoDB
12 18 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (2.76%) RDBMS
13 14 (2.15%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (1.84%) Delta Lake
15 11 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (1.54%) Tableau
17 9 (1.38%) Pinecone
18 8 (1.23%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 108 (16.59%) Git
2 82 (12.60%) Jenkins
3 61 (9.37%) GitLab
4 24 (3.69%) TeamCity
5 18 (2.76%) Jaeger
5 18 (2.76%) JIRA
6 17 (2.61%) Cypress.io
7 15 (2.30%) JUnit
7 15 (2.30%) Maven
8 14 (2.15%) CircleCI
8 14 (2.15%) Selenium
9 10 (1.54%) JMeter
10 9 (1.38%) Claude Code
10 9 (1.38%) MLflow
10 9 (1.38%) Mockito
10 9 (1.38%) Postman
11 8 (1.23%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.92%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.92%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.77%) Locust
General
1 119 (18.28%) Social Skills
2 75 (11.52%) Finance
3 49 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 40 (6.14%) Public Sector
5 27 (4.15%) Advertising
6 17 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (2.30%) Marketing
8 12 (1.84%) Aerospace
8 12 (1.84%) Banking
8 12 (1.84%) Games
9 10 (1.54%) Law
9 10 (1.54%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.23%) Retail
11 6 (0.92%) Aviation
11 6 (0.92%) Legal
12 5 (0.77%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.61%) Military
13 4 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.31%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 261 (40.09%) Developer
2 146 (22.43%) Senior
3 98 (15.05%) Software Engineer
4 94 (14.44%) .NET Developer
5 93 (14.29%) Lead
6 50 (7.68%) DevOps Engineer
7 42 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 42 (6.45%) Scala Engineer
7 42 (6.45%) Senior Developer
8 40 (6.14%) Java Developer
9 31 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
9 31 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 30 (4.61%) Senior Software Engineer
11 29 (4.45%) Platform Engineer
12 25 (3.84%) Data Engineer
12 25 (3.84%) Software Developer
13 24 (3.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 23 (3.53%) Scala Software Engineer
15 21 (3.23%) Scala Developer
16 19 (2.92%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (23.81%) .NET
2 111 (17.05%) .NET Core
3 109 (16.74%) React
4 104 (15.98%) Node.js
5 102 (15.67%) ASP.NET
6 91 (13.98%) ASP.NET Core
7 85 (13.06%) AngularJS
8 77 (11.83%) CSS
9 74 (11.37%) Spring
10 72 (11.06%) HTML
11 69 (10.60%) REST
12 66 (10.14%) RESTful
13 63 (9.68%) Vue
14 59 (9.06%) Spring Boot
15 51 (7.83%) Kafka
16 49 (7.53%) gRPC
17 48 (7.37%) ML.NET
18 32 (4.92%) Django
19 26 (3.99%) OpenTelemetry
19 26 (3.99%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 114 (17.51%) Cloud Native
2 84 (12.90%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (10.29%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (10.29%) Video\Live Streaming
4 41 (6.30%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (2.15%) Digital TV
6 14 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.23%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.23%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.08%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.08%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.08%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.08%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.08%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (0.77%) Life Science
10 5 (0.77%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 129 (19.82%) Linux
2 30 (4.61%) Unix
3 13 (2.00%) Ubuntu
3 13 (2.00%) Windows
4 8 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.77%) Android
5 5 (0.77%) CentOS
5 5 (0.77%) Debian
5 5 (0.77%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.46%) VMS
7 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (65.44%) CI/CD
2 291 (44.70%) Agile
3 288 (44.24%) Containerisation
4 260 (39.94%) DevOps
5 226 (34.72%) Microservices
6 200 (30.72%) Full-Stack Development
7 195 (29.95%) Software Engineering
8 171 (26.27%) Infrastructure as Code
9 168 (25.81%) AI
10 137 (21.04%) Problem-Solving
11 134 (20.58%) Mentoring
12 129 (19.82%) Machine Learning
13 116 (17.82%) Scrum
14 115 (17.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 114 (17.51%) TDD
16 106 (16.28%) Clean Code
17 86 (13.21%) Coaching
18 78 (11.98%) Test Automation
19 75 (11.52%) Observability
20 72 (11.06%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 268 (41.17%) Python
2 193 (29.65%) SQL
3 165 (25.35%) C#
4 139 (21.35%) Java
5 127 (19.51%) JavaScript
6 122 (18.74%) TypeScript
7 94 (14.44%) Go
8 85 (13.06%) Scala
9 77 (11.83%) Bash
10 28 (4.30%) PowerShell
11 24 (3.69%) PHP
12 19 (2.92%) Bicep
13 15 (2.30%) Ruby
14 14 (2.15%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.54%) C++
15 10 (1.54%) PL/SQL
16 9 (1.38%) Groovy
17 8 (1.23%) Rust
18 7 (1.08%) C
19 3 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 80 (12.29%) Security Cleared
2 65 (9.98%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.76%) Degree
4 31 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 23 (3.53%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.77%) CISSP
9 5 (0.77%) GIAC
9 5 (0.77%) ISACA
9 5 (0.77%) SANS
10 4 (0.61%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.46%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.31%) Linux+ Certification
12 2 (0.31%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.45%) QA
2 28 (4.30%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.84%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.84%) NIST
4 11 (1.69%) WCAG
5 10 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.77%) GDPR
7 3 (0.46%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.46%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.61%) Firmware
4 3 (0.46%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.31%) iptables
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
1 416 (63.90%) Kubernetes
2 183 (28.11%) Terraform
3 73 (11.21%) Ansible
4 52 (7.99%) Prometheus
5 41 (6.30%) Grafana
6 34 (5.22%) Argo
7 18 (2.76%) Kustomize
8 16 (2.46%) Puppet
9 15 (2.30%) Podman
10 14 (2.15%) Istio
11 12 (1.84%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.92%) Packer
13 5 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.77%) Kibana
14 3 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.46%) linkerd
14 3 (0.46%) Nagios
14 3 (0.46%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.31%) MIIS
15 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 141 (21.66%) Microsoft
2 65 (9.98%) Google
3 45 (6.91%) Typelevel
4 20 (3.07%) Databricks
5 19 (2.92%) Oracle
6 13 (2.00%) Facebook
7 9 (1.38%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.23%) Confluent
8 8 (1.23%) Splunk
9 7 (1.08%) Palantir
9 7 (1.08%) VMware
10 6 (0.92%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.77%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.77%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.77%) Okta
12 4 (0.61%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.61%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.46%) BT
13 3 (0.46%) Commvault
13 3 (0.46%) Dell