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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 34 71
Rank change year-on-year -43 +37 -38
Permanent jobs citing Docker 695 1,195 1,102
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.23% 7.23% 3.66%
As % of the System Software category 39.00% 53.88% 30.70%
Number of salaries quoted 525 512 908
10th Percentile £43,750 £48,165 £42,850
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -10.34%
75th Percentile £76,250 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £91,250 £119,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £74,870 £68,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +10.10% -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 1,782 2,218 3,589
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.28% 13.42% 11.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,354 1,321 2,767
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £40,962
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £51,058 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.82% +2.12% -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

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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

Docker
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Docker over the 6 months to 20 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 23 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.73%) Apache
4 9 (1.29%) nginx
5 6 (0.86%) IIS
5 6 (0.86%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.72%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.58%) CMS
8 3 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.29%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.29%) Camunda
9 2 (0.29%) Confluence
9 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.29%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.29%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 438 (63.02%) AWS
2 384 (55.25%) Azure
3 222 (31.94%) GitHub
4 178 (25.61%) GCP
5 150 (21.58%) GitHub Copilot
6 85 (12.23%) Serverless
7 74 (10.65%) Azure AI
8 49 (7.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 48 (6.91%) GitHub Actions
10 47 (6.76%) Amazon S3
11 46 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
12 43 (6.19%) SaaS
13 41 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (5.18%) Amazon EC2
15 33 (4.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 32 (4.60%) Amazon ECS
17 29 (4.17%) Azure AKS
17 29 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
18 25 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
18 25 (3.60%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (10.65%) Broadband
2 20 (2.88%) Internet
3 12 (1.73%) VPN
4 11 (1.58%) DNS
5 9 (1.29%) Firewall
6 8 (1.15%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.72%) DHCP
7 5 (0.72%) MQTT
8 4 (0.58%) HTTP
8 4 (0.58%) Network Security
8 4 (0.58%) SSH
9 3 (0.43%) AMQP
10 2 (0.29%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.29%) RTP
10 2 (0.29%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.29%) VLAN
10 2 (0.29%) VoIP
10 2 (0.29%) WireGuard
10 2 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (25.90%) MongoDB
2 137 (19.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 92 (13.24%) PostgreSQL
4 63 (9.06%) Elasticsearch
5 52 (7.48%) NoSQL
6 48 (6.91%) SQL Server
7 47 (6.76%) Relational Database
8 37 (5.32%) MySQL
9 34 (4.89%) Redis
10 30 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (2.88%) DynamoDB
12 15 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (1.29%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (1.15%) Delta Lake
15 7 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (1.01%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 6 (0.86%) Tableau
17 5 (0.72%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 117 (16.83%) Git
2 63 (9.06%) Jenkins
3 55 (7.91%) GitLab
4 18 (2.59%) Cypress.io
5 17 (2.45%) JIRA
5 17 (2.45%) JUnit
5 17 (2.45%) Maven
6 13 (1.87%) Selenium
7 12 (1.73%) CircleCI
8 10 (1.44%) Claude Code
8 10 (1.44%) Mockito
9 8 (1.15%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.01%) Postman
11 6 (0.86%) JMeter
11 6 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.72%) Jaeger
12 5 (0.72%) Locust
12 5 (0.72%) MLflow
12 5 (0.72%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.72%) Subversion
General
1 138 (19.86%) Social Skills
2 87 (12.52%) Finance
3 42 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 42 (6.04%) Public Sector
4 39 (5.61%) Advertising
5 22 (3.17%) Marketing
6 17 (2.45%) Aerospace
6 17 (2.45%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.01%) Games
8 12 (1.73%) Banking
9 10 (1.44%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.29%) Law
11 6 (0.86%) Legal
12 5 (0.72%) Retail
13 4 (0.58%) Electronics
13 4 (0.58%) Military
13 4 (0.58%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.43%) Aviation
14 3 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 307 (44.17%) Developer
2 150 (21.58%) Senior
3 140 (20.14%) .NET Developer
4 103 (14.82%) Software Engineer
5 80 (11.51%) Lead
6 52 (7.48%) DevOps Engineer
7 44 (6.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 42 (6.04%) Senior Developer
9 39 (5.61%) Java Developer
10 32 (4.60%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (4.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 30 (4.32%) Platform Engineer
11 30 (4.32%) Scala Engineer
12 28 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
13 27 (3.88%) Senior Software Engineer
14 22 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
14 22 (3.17%) Data Engineer
15 20 (2.88%) Software Developer
16 19 (2.73%) AWS DevOps
16 19 (2.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (29.21%) .NET
2 150 (21.58%) .NET Core
3 149 (21.44%) ASP.NET
4 135 (19.42%) ASP.NET Core
5 116 (16.69%) React
6 113 (16.26%) Node.js
7 103 (14.82%) AngularJS
8 102 (14.68%) CSS
9 96 (13.81%) HTML
10 87 (12.52%) REST
11 79 (11.37%) Vue
12 77 (11.08%) RESTful
13 76 (10.94%) Spring
14 73 (10.50%) ML.NET
15 61 (8.78%) Spring Boot
16 52 (7.48%) gRPC
17 48 (6.91%) Kafka
18 30 (4.32%) Blazor
18 30 (4.32%) Django
19 26 (3.74%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 122 (17.55%) Cloud Native
2 91 (13.09%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.47%) Over-the-Top Content
3 45 (6.47%) Video\Live Streaming
4 34 (4.89%) Product Ownership
5 30 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.88%) Digital TV
7 14 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.44%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.15%) IoT
12 7 (1.01%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.01%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.01%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.01%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.01%) Robotics
13 6 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.86%) Management Information System
13 6 (0.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 131 (18.85%) Linux
2 16 (2.30%) Unix
3 15 (2.16%) Ubuntu
4 14 (2.01%) Windows
5 7 (1.01%) Debian
5 7 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.58%) CentOS
8 3 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.43%) VMS
8 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (67.63%) CI/CD
2 291 (41.87%) Containerisation
3 284 (40.86%) Agile
4 255 (36.69%) DevOps
5 253 (36.40%) Full-Stack Development
6 251 (36.12%) Microservices
7 210 (30.22%) Software Engineering
8 194 (27.91%) AI
9 162 (23.31%) Problem-Solving
10 160 (23.02%) Infrastructure as Code
11 152 (21.87%) Machine Learning
12 128 (18.42%) Mentoring
13 118 (16.98%) Scrum
14 111 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
15 110 (15.83%) Clean Code
15 110 (15.83%) TDD
16 84 (12.09%) Coaching
17 80 (11.51%) Test Automation
18 76 (10.94%) Observability
19 71 (10.22%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 267 (38.42%) Python
2 237 (34.10%) SQL
3 214 (30.79%) C#
4 144 (20.72%) TypeScript
5 120 (17.27%) JavaScript
6 116 (16.69%) Java
7 76 (10.94%) Go
8 63 (9.06%) Bash
9 60 (8.63%) Scala
10 35 (5.04%) PowerShell
11 22 (3.17%) Bicep
11 22 (3.17%) PHP
11 22 (3.17%) Ruby
12 13 (1.87%) C++
13 12 (1.73%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.58%) PL/SQL
15 10 (1.44%) Groovy
16 9 (1.29%) Rust
17 6 (0.86%) C
18 3 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (11.37%) Security Cleared
2 65 (9.35%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.20%) Degree
4 22 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.59%) AWS Certification
5 18 (2.59%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.29%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.72%) CISSP
7 5 (0.72%) GIAC
7 5 (0.72%) ISACA
7 5 (0.72%) SANS
8 4 (0.58%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.14%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.14%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.14%) LPIC
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.35%) QA
2 27 (3.88%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.16%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.16%) WCAG
4 13 (1.87%) NIST
5 10 (1.44%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.43%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.43%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.29%) GDPR
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.58%) Firmware
3 4 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.43%) iptables
4 3 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.29%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.29%) KVM
6 1 (0.14%) QEMU
6 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 449 (64.60%) Kubernetes
2 176 (25.32%) Terraform
3 55 (7.91%) Ansible
4 47 (6.76%) Grafana
5 45 (6.47%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.88%) Argo
7 18 (2.59%) Puppet
8 16 (2.30%) Podman
9 15 (2.16%) Istio
10 13 (1.87%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.72%) Kibana
11 5 (0.72%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.58%) Packer
13 3 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.43%) linkerd
13 3 (0.43%) Nagios
13 3 (0.43%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.29%) MIIS
14 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 193 (27.77%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.48%) Google
3 45 (6.47%) Typelevel
4 20 (2.88%) Facebook
5 17 (2.45%) Oracle
6 15 (2.16%) Databricks
7 14 (2.01%) Okta
8 9 (1.29%) Ping Identity
8 9 (1.29%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.15%) Confluent
9 8 (1.15%) ForgeRock
9 8 (1.15%) VMware
10 7 (1.01%) Informatica
10 7 (1.01%) Splunk
11 6 (0.86%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.72%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.72%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.72%) New Relic
13 4 (0.58%) IBM
14 3 (0.43%) Commvault