Docker Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Docker
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 66 34
Rank change year-on-year +32 -32 -18
Permanent jobs citing Docker 1,440 1,340 2,518
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.00% 3.93% 6.98%
As % of the System Software category 52.33% 32.88% 48.69%
Number of salaries quoted 547 1,040 1,946
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.18% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £93,778 £83,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £125,000 £97,500 £101,185
UK median annual salary £75,000 £68,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +10.29% -6.21% +3.57%

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 2,752 4,076 5,171
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.37% 11.95% 14.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,355 3,087 4,155
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,750 £40,416 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £85,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% -10.00% -

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Docker trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Docker.

Docker salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Docker over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Docker salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 182 (12.64%) Confluence
2 53 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (3.33%) Apache
4 42 (2.92%) Apache Spark
5 24 (1.67%) Jupyter
6 12 (0.83%) CMS
7 11 (0.76%) nginx
8 7 (0.49%) Apache Solr
8 7 (0.49%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.28%) IIS
11 3 (0.21%) Drupal
11 3 (0.21%) WordPress
12 2 (0.14%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.069%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.069%) Mendix
13 1 (0.069%) MetaMask
13 1 (0.069%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.14%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.069%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.069%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 862 (59.86%) AWS
2 592 (41.11%) Azure
3 343 (23.82%) GCP
4 227 (15.76%) Pulumi
5 90 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 81 (5.63%) Serverless
7 72 (5.00%) GitHub
8 71 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
9 70 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
10 69 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
10 69 (4.79%) Amazon EKS
11 57 (3.96%) OpenShift
12 56 (3.89%) dbt
12 56 (3.89%) SaaS
13 37 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
15 29 (2.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 22 (1.53%) SonarCloud
17 20 (1.39%) Amazon S3
17 20 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 263 (18.26%) VPN
2 262 (18.19%) Cisco IOS
3 224 (15.56%) Broadband
4 21 (1.46%) TCP/IP
5 16 (1.11%) Internet
6 15 (1.04%) Firewall
7 13 (0.90%) Network Security
8 7 (0.49%) DNS
9 5 (0.35%) 5G
10 4 (0.28%) DHCP
10 4 (0.28%) VLAN
11 3 (0.21%) HTTP
12 2 (0.14%) BGP
12 2 (0.14%) IOS XR
12 2 (0.14%) MQTT
12 2 (0.14%) SSL
12 2 (0.14%) WAN
13 1 (0.069%) Diameter Protocol
13 1 (0.069%) SAN
13 1 (0.069%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 284 (19.72%) NoSQL
3 246 (17.08%) Relational Database
4 216 (15.00%) RDBMS
5 104 (7.22%) Elasticsearch
6 75 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
7 45 (3.13%) MySQL
8 41 (2.85%) Amazon Athena
9 39 (2.71%) Apache Arrow
9 39 (2.71%) Apache Iceberg
9 39 (2.71%) Apache Ignite
9 39 (2.71%) Dremio
10 36 (2.50%) Big Data
11 35 (2.43%) Redis
12 32 (2.22%) MongoDB
13 20 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
13 20 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
14 14 (0.97%) Tick Data
15 11 (0.76%) BigQuery
16 10 (0.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 300 (20.83%) SonarQube
2 289 (20.07%) Sonatype Nexus
3 287 (19.93%) GitLab
3 287 (19.93%) JIRA
4 274 (19.03%) Maven
5 259 (17.99%) Cucumber
6 255 (17.71%) Selenium
7 250 (17.36%) Bitbucket
8 215 (14.93%) Jaeger
9 159 (11.04%) Git
10 71 (4.93%) Jenkins
11 45 (3.13%) Artifactory
12 30 (2.08%) Octopus Deploy
13 27 (1.88%) JUnit
14 26 (1.81%) Team Foundation Server
15 24 (1.67%) Visual Studio
16 23 (1.60%) MSBuild
17 18 (1.25%) Cypress.io
18 16 (1.11%) webpack
19 15 (1.04%) Mockito
General
1 838 (58.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 455 (31.60%) Finance
3 351 (24.38%) Banking
4 330 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
5 142 (9.86%) Social Skills
6 127 (8.82%) Retail
7 90 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
7 90 (6.25%) Investment Banking
8 52 (3.61%) Front Office
9 25 (1.74%) Public Sector
10 23 (1.60%) Marketing
11 13 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (0.83%) Games
13 9 (0.63%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.56%) Automotive
15 5 (0.35%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.28%) Advertising
16 4 (0.28%) Back Office
16 4 (0.28%) Electronics
16 4 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 354 (24.58%) Software Engineer
2 292 (20.28%) Lead
3 266 (18.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 220 (15.28%) Developer
5 218 (15.14%) Team Leader
6 175 (12.15%) Senior
7 137 (9.51%) DevOps Engineer
8 83 (5.76%) AWS DevOps
9 81 (5.63%) Python Engineer
10 71 (4.93%) AWS Engineer
11 70 (4.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 68 (4.72%) Architect
13 59 (4.10%) Data Engineer
13 59 (4.10%) Software Developer
14 44 (3.06%) Java Developer
14 44 (3.06%) Senior Developer
15 41 (2.85%) Java Engineer
16 38 (2.64%) Senior Software Engineer
17 31 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
18 29 (2.01%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 506 (35.14%) Elastic Stack
2 364 (25.28%) Kafka
3 356 (24.72%) React
4 317 (22.01%) Spring
5 307 (21.32%) HTML
6 306 (21.25%) Spring Boot
7 305 (21.18%) CSS
8 263 (18.26%) JPA
9 253 (17.57%) Redux
10 215 (14.93%) OpenTelemetry
11 209 (14.51%) REST
12 182 (12.64%) Hibernate
13 173 (12.01%) .NET
14 165 (11.46%) RESTful
15 114 (7.92%) Jest
16 103 (7.15%) CSS3
17 99 (6.88%) HTML5
18 98 (6.81%) Node.js
19 92 (6.39%) Sass
20 56 (3.89%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 334 (23.19%) Cyberattack
2 288 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 247 (17.15%) Enterprise Software
4 75 (5.21%) Cloud Native
5 48 (3.33%) Algorithms
6 45 (3.13%) Management Information System
7 38 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (1.18%) Mobile App
9 15 (1.04%) Private Cloud
9 15 (1.04%) Public Cloud
10 14 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (0.97%) Onboarding
11 13 (0.90%) Data Structures
12 10 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (0.69%) IoT
12 10 (0.69%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.63%) Cloud Security Posture
13 9 (0.63%) Security Posture
14 8 (0.56%) Online Banking
14 8 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 645 (44.79%) Linux
2 320 (22.22%) Android
3 295 (20.49%) Windows
4 246 (17.08%) Unix
5 10 (0.69%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.49%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.28%) CentOS
8 3 (0.21%) Debian
9 2 (0.14%) VMS
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.069%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.069%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.069%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,137 (78.96%) DevOps
2 779 (54.10%) Agile
3 778 (54.03%) Containerisation
4 640 (44.44%) CI/CD
5 539 (37.43%) Software Engineering
6 521 (36.18%) Microservices
7 497 (34.51%) Performance Optimisation
8 478 (33.19%) Task Automation
9 446 (30.97%) Mentoring
10 399 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
11 339 (23.54%) Mathematics
12 330 (22.92%) Test Automation
13 326 (22.64%) Full-Stack Development
14 325 (22.57%) Line Management
15 316 (21.94%) Infrastructure as Code
16 304 (21.11%) Platform Engineering
17 290 (20.14%) SDLC
18 286 (19.86%) Front End Development
19 276 (19.17%) Roadmaps
20 269 (18.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 857 (59.51%) Python
2 755 (52.43%) Java
3 682 (47.36%) JavaScript
4 529 (36.74%) Bash
5 418 (29.03%) SQL
6 338 (23.47%) Go
7 300 (20.83%) PowerShell
8 166 (11.53%) TypeScript
9 115 (7.99%) C#
10 63 (4.38%) C++
11 52 (3.61%) Rust
12 25 (1.74%) PHP
13 12 (0.83%) C
14 11 (0.76%) Bicep
15 10 (0.69%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.56%) Groovy
17 7 (0.49%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.42%) Shell Script
19 5 (0.35%) PL/SQL
20 3 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 257 (17.85%) AWS Certification
2 143 (9.93%) Security Cleared
3 83 (5.76%) DV Cleared
4 78 (5.42%) Degree
5 53 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (3.47%) SC Cleared
7 27 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 21 (1.46%) Azure Certification
9 14 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.35%) CISM
11 5 (0.35%) CISSP
11 5 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.35%) Linux+ Certification
11 5 (0.35%) PhD
12 4 (0.28%) RHCE
13 3 (0.21%) OCP
13 3 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (19.93%) QA
2 94 (6.53%) Accessibility
3 56 (3.89%) GDPR
4 29 (2.01%) HIPAA
5 14 (0.97%) NIST
6 6 (0.42%) CDISC
6 6 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.42%) SLA
7 5 (0.35%) NCSC
8 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.069%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.069%) ECSS
9 1 (0.069%) GMP
9 1 (0.069%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.069%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.069%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.069%) PMO
9 1 (0.069%) SOC 2
System Software
1 267 (18.54%) Hyper-V
2 262 (18.19%) VMware NSX
2 262 (18.19%) vSphere
3 15 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.49%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.28%) Dovecot
6 4 (0.28%) Postfix
7 1 (0.069%) KVM
Systems Management
1 953 (66.18%) Kubernetes
2 753 (52.29%) Terraform
3 585 (40.63%) Ansible
4 266 (18.47%) Prometheus
5 221 (15.35%) Argo
6 216 (15.00%) Kustomize
7 50 (3.47%) Grafana
8 20 (1.39%) Istio
9 11 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
10 7 (0.49%) Kibana
10 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.35%) Puppet
12 4 (0.28%) logstash
12 4 (0.28%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.21%) Nagios
14 2 (0.14%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.14%) Packer
15 1 (0.069%) Marathon
15 1 (0.069%) Rancher
Vendors
1 292 (20.28%) Google
2 271 (18.82%) Splunk
3 265 (18.40%) Cisco
4 263 (18.26%) Juniper
5 262 (18.19%) 3PAR
6 247 (17.15%) Solace
7 39 (2.71%) Microsoft
8 27 (1.88%) Databricks
9 17 (1.18%) IBM
9 17 (1.18%) Oracle
10 12 (0.83%) VMware
11 7 (0.49%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.42%) Confluent
12 6 (0.42%) Trayport
13 5 (0.35%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.35%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.35%) Okta
14 4 (0.28%) IBM Sterling
14 4 (0.28%) Ping Identity
15 3 (0.21%) New Relic