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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 45 57
Rank change year-on-year -46 +12 -27
Permanent jobs citing Docker 730 973 1,008
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.93% 5.78% 4.49%
As % of the System Software category 38.75% 50.76% 36.08%
Number of salaries quoted 555 320 599
10th Percentile £45,950 £45,000 £44,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +2.94% -3.65%

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 1,884 1,917 2,794
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.55% 11.39% 12.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,397 1,019 1,684
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,813
90th Percentile £90,400 £85,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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

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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 1 October 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 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (2.88%) Apache
3 16 (2.19%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.37%) nginx
5 7 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.82%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.68%) Camunda
7 5 (0.68%) IIS
8 4 (0.55%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.55%) CMS
8 4 (0.55%) Confluence
8 4 (0.55%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.55%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.27%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.27%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.27%) Hedera
11 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.64%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 435 (59.59%) Azure
2 431 (59.04%) AWS
3 242 (33.15%) GitHub
4 151 (20.68%) GitHub Copilot
5 143 (19.59%) GCP
6 76 (10.41%) GitHub Actions
7 72 (9.86%) Azure AI
8 69 (9.45%) Serverless
9 62 (8.49%) SaaS
10 50 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
11 45 (6.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 37 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
13 36 (4.93%) Amazon S3
13 36 (4.93%) Azure Service Bus
14 31 (4.25%) Azure AKS
15 29 (3.97%) Amazon ECS
16 28 (3.84%) Amazon EC2
17 27 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 25 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
18 25 (3.42%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.74%) Internet
2 18 (2.47%) Broadband
3 14 (1.92%) VPN
4 12 (1.64%) Firewall
5 11 (1.51%) AMQP
5 11 (1.51%) SMS
6 9 (1.23%) DNS
6 9 (1.23%) Network Security
7 8 (1.10%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.55%) SSH
9 3 (0.41%) HTTP
10 2 (0.27%) Intranet
10 2 (0.27%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.27%) LAN
10 2 (0.27%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.27%) VLAN
10 2 (0.27%) WAN
10 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
10 2 (0.27%) X.509
11 1 (0.14%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (23.29%) MongoDB
2 141 (19.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 124 (16.99%) PostgreSQL
4 58 (7.95%) Elasticsearch
5 55 (7.53%) SQL Server
6 53 (7.26%) Relational Database
7 52 (7.12%) NoSQL
8 39 (5.34%) MySQL
9 36 (4.93%) Redis
10 24 (3.29%) DynamoDB
11 22 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
13 17 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (1.64%) BigQuery
15 11 (1.51%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.82%) Delta Lake
16 6 (0.82%) Metadata
16 6 (0.82%) Power BI
16 6 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 5 (0.68%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 140 (19.18%) Git
2 70 (9.59%) Jenkins
3 68 (9.32%) GitLab
4 28 (3.84%) JUnit
5 18 (2.47%) Maven
5 18 (2.47%) Selenium
6 16 (2.19%) Cypress.io
6 16 (2.19%) Mockito
7 15 (2.05%) JIRA
8 14 (1.92%) Claude Code
9 12 (1.64%) Postman
10 9 (1.23%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.82%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.82%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.82%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.82%) Gatling
11 6 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.82%) Storybook
12 5 (0.68%) Poetry
12 5 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 177 (24.25%) Social Skills
2 109 (14.93%) Finance
3 60 (8.22%) Public Sector
4 44 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (4.66%) Advertising
6 30 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (2.88%) Aerospace
7 21 (2.88%) Marketing
8 15 (2.05%) Games
8 15 (2.05%) Law
9 13 (1.78%) Tech for Good
10 12 (1.64%) Banking
10 12 (1.64%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.51%) Health Technology
12 8 (1.10%) Retail
13 7 (0.96%) Legal
14 6 (0.82%) Electronics
15 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.41%) Local Government
16 3 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 316 (43.29%) Developer
2 190 (26.03%) Senior
3 142 (19.45%) .NET Developer
4 113 (15.48%) Software Engineer
5 75 (10.27%) Lead
6 66 (9.04%) Senior Developer
7 53 (7.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 51 (6.99%) Java Developer
9 45 (6.16%) Full-Stack Developer
10 32 (4.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 29 (3.97%) Senior Java Developer
12 28 (3.84%) Senior Software Engineer
13 24 (3.29%) Architect
13 24 (3.29%) Lead Developer
14 23 (3.15%) Data Engineer
15 21 (2.88%) Azure Engineer
15 21 (2.88%) Cloud Engineer
15 21 (2.88%) Python Engineer
15 21 (2.88%) Software Developer
16 20 (2.74%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (31.23%) .NET
2 193 (26.44%) Terraform
3 155 (21.23%) .NET Core
4 153 (20.96%) React
5 151 (20.68%) ASP.NET
6 140 (19.18%) Node.js
7 134 (18.36%) ASP.NET Core
8 116 (15.89%) REST
9 105 (14.38%) CSS
10 101 (13.84%) AngularJS
11 97 (13.29%) Spring
12 90 (12.33%) RESTful
13 89 (12.19%) HTML
14 79 (10.82%) Vue
15 73 (10.00%) Spring Boot
16 70 (9.59%) ML.NET
17 48 (6.58%) Kafka
18 40 (5.48%) Blazor
19 31 (4.25%) OAuth
19 31 (4.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 128 (17.53%) Cloud Native
2 68 (9.32%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (4.93%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (2.60%) Digital TV
5 18 (2.47%) Product Ownership
6 17 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.92%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.78%) Robotics
10 10 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.37%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.23%) IoT
12 8 (1.10%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.10%) Blog
12 8 (1.10%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.96%) Onboarding
13 7 (0.96%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.68%) Cyber Defence
14 5 (0.68%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 129 (17.67%) Linux
2 23 (3.15%) Windows
3 18 (2.47%) Ubuntu
4 8 (1.10%) Debian
5 7 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.96%) Unix
6 6 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (0.68%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.55%) Android
8 4 (0.55%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.41%) CentOS
9 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.41%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.14%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
10 1 (0.14%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (64.38%) CI/CD
2 305 (41.78%) Agile
3 256 (35.07%) AI
4 255 (34.93%) Full-Stack Development
5 245 (33.56%) DevOps
6 232 (31.78%) Containerisation
7 227 (31.10%) Microservices
8 220 (30.14%) Software Engineering
9 157 (21.51%) Infrastructure as Code
10 151 (20.68%) Mentoring
11 144 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
12 128 (17.53%) Machine Learning
13 123 (16.85%) Scrum
14 118 (16.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 107 (14.66%) TDD
16 102 (13.97%) Test Automation
17 100 (13.70%) Observability
18 83 (11.37%) Event-Driven
19 80 (10.96%) Clean Code
20 72 (9.86%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 295 (40.41%) SQL
2 241 (33.01%) C#
3 233 (31.92%) Python
4 166 (22.74%) TypeScript
5 138 (18.90%) Java
5 138 (18.90%) JavaScript
6 74 (10.14%) Bash
7 40 (5.48%) PowerShell
8 27 (3.70%) Go
9 24 (3.29%) Ruby
10 21 (2.88%) Bicep
10 21 (2.88%) PHP
11 17 (2.33%) C++
12 16 (2.19%) Kotlin
12 16 (2.19%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.51%) Groovy
13 11 (1.51%) Scala
14 9 (1.23%) C
14 9 (1.23%) Rust
15 6 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 115 (15.75%) Security Cleared
2 94 (12.88%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.12%) Degree
4 22 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.33%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.05%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.82%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.55%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.41%) GCFA
11 3 (0.41%) GIAC
11 3 (0.41%) OCP
11 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.77%) QA
2 32 (4.38%) Accessibility
3 27 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.64%) WCAG
5 8 (1.10%) NIST
6 6 (0.82%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.68%) GDPR
7 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.68%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.41%) NCSC
8 3 (0.41%) SLA
9 2 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
9 2 (0.27%) MISRA
9 2 (0.27%) MISRA C
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.55%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.41%) iptables
5 2 (0.27%) KVM
5 2 (0.27%) QEMU
5 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 487 (66.71%) Kubernetes
2 56 (7.67%) Ansible
3 50 (6.85%) Grafana
4 39 (5.34%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.19%) Puppet
6 14 (1.92%) Progress Chef
7 13 (1.78%) Argo
8 9 (1.23%) Istio
8 9 (1.23%) Podman
9 5 (0.68%) Packer
10 4 (0.55%) Kibana
10 4 (0.55%) linkerd
11 3 (0.41%) Cilium
11 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.27%) CASB
12 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.14%) logstash
13 1 (0.14%) Nagios
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 190 (26.03%) Microsoft
2 55 (7.53%) Google
3 29 (3.97%) OpenAI
4 25 (3.42%) Oracle
5 19 (2.60%) Facebook
6 14 (1.92%) Okta
6 14 (1.92%) Ping Identity
7 12 (1.64%) Databricks
7 12 (1.64%) Informatica
7 12 (1.64%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.64%) Splunk
8 10 (1.37%) New Relic
9 9 (1.23%) VMware
10 7 (0.96%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.68%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.68%) IBM
12 4 (0.55%) ESRI
12 4 (0.55%) ForgeRock
12 4 (0.55%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.41%) AppDynamics