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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 34 70
Rank change year-on-year -48 +36 -37
Permanent jobs citing Docker 690 1,192 1,129
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.21% 7.26% 3.69%
As % of the System Software category 38.87% 53.99% 30.77%
Number of salaries quoted 520 511 930
10th Percentile £43,750 £48,165 £42,500
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% -9.72%
75th Percentile £76,250 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £91,375 £120,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £74,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -9.40% +9.56% -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 1,775 2,208 3,669
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.26% 13.44% 11.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,345 1,314 2,836
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,823
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +0.32% -12.28%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £69,813
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £51,398 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.15% +2.80% -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 18 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 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.74%) Apache
4 9 (1.30%) nginx
5 6 (0.87%) IIS
5 6 (0.87%) 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
1 435 (63.04%) AWS
2 380 (55.07%) Azure
3 222 (32.17%) GitHub
4 176 (25.51%) GCP
5 150 (21.74%) GitHub Copilot
6 85 (12.32%) Serverless
7 74 (10.72%) Azure AI
8 48 (6.96%) Amazon S3
8 48 (6.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 48 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
9 46 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
10 41 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
10 41 (5.94%) SaaS
11 37 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (4.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 32 (4.64%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (4.20%) Azure AKS
14 29 (4.20%) Azure Service Bus
15 25 (3.62%) Amazon EKS
16 24 (3.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (10.87%) Broadband
2 20 (2.90%) Internet
3 11 (1.59%) DNS
3 11 (1.59%) VPN
4 9 (1.30%) Firewall
5 8 (1.16%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.72%) DHCP
6 5 (0.72%) MQTT
7 4 (0.58%) HTTP
7 4 (0.58%) Network Security
7 4 (0.58%) SSH
8 3 (0.43%) AMQP
9 2 (0.29%) Intranet
9 2 (0.29%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.29%) RTP
9 2 (0.29%) SAN
9 2 (0.29%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.29%) VLAN
9 2 (0.29%) VoIP
9 2 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (26.23%) MongoDB
2 137 (19.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 91 (13.19%) PostgreSQL
4 63 (9.13%) Elasticsearch
5 53 (7.68%) NoSQL
6 47 (6.81%) Relational Database
6 47 (6.81%) SQL Server
7 35 (5.07%) MySQL
8 33 (4.78%) Redis
9 30 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (2.90%) DynamoDB
11 15 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (1.16%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.16%) Delta Lake
13 7 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.01%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.87%) RDBMS
14 6 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 113 (16.38%) Git
2 62 (8.99%) Jenkins
3 55 (7.97%) GitLab
4 18 (2.61%) Cypress.io
5 17 (2.46%) JIRA
5 17 (2.46%) JUnit
5 17 (2.46%) Maven
6 12 (1.74%) CircleCI
7 11 (1.59%) Selenium
8 10 (1.45%) Claude Code
8 10 (1.45%) Mockito
9 8 (1.16%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.01%) Postman
11 6 (0.87%) Jaeger
11 6 (0.87%) JMeter
11 6 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.72%) Locust
12 5 (0.72%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.72%) Subversion
13 4 (0.58%) MLflow
General
1 137 (19.86%) Social Skills
2 86 (12.46%) Finance
3 42 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 42 (6.09%) Public Sector
4 39 (5.65%) Advertising
5 22 (3.19%) Marketing
6 17 (2.46%) Aerospace
7 16 (2.32%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (2.17%) Games
9 12 (1.74%) Banking
10 10 (1.45%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.30%) Law
12 6 (0.87%) Legal
13 5 (0.72%) Retail
13 5 (0.72%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.58%) Electronics
14 4 (0.58%) Military
15 3 (0.43%) Aviation
15 3 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 306 (44.35%) Developer
2 148 (21.45%) Senior
3 140 (20.29%) .NET Developer
4 102 (14.78%) Software Engineer
5 80 (11.59%) Lead
6 52 (7.54%) DevOps Engineer
7 44 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
8 41 (5.94%) Senior Developer
9 39 (5.65%) Java Developer
10 32 (4.64%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (4.35%) Scala Engineer
12 29 (4.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 29 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
13 27 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
13 27 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
14 21 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
14 21 (3.04%) Data Engineer
15 20 (2.90%) Software Developer
16 19 (2.75%) AWS DevOps
16 19 (2.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (29.28%) .NET
2 151 (21.88%) .NET Core
3 149 (21.59%) ASP.NET
4 135 (19.57%) ASP.NET Core
5 117 (16.96%) React
6 112 (16.23%) Node.js
7 103 (14.93%) AngularJS
8 101 (14.64%) CSS
9 95 (13.77%) HTML
10 84 (12.17%) REST
11 79 (11.45%) Vue
12 77 (11.16%) RESTful
13 76 (11.01%) Spring
14 73 (10.58%) ML.NET
15 61 (8.84%) Spring Boot
16 52 (7.54%) gRPC
17 48 (6.96%) Kafka
18 32 (4.64%) Django
19 28 (4.06%) Blazor
20 25 (3.62%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 120 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 91 (13.19%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.52%) Over-the-Top Content
3 45 (6.52%) Video\Live Streaming
4 32 (4.64%) Product Ownership
5 30 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.90%) Digital TV
7 14 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.30%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.01%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.01%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.01%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.01%) Onboarding
12 6 (0.87%) IoT
12 6 (0.87%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.87%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.87%) Robotics
13 5 (0.72%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 131 (18.99%) Linux
2 17 (2.46%) Unix
3 14 (2.03%) Ubuntu
3 14 (2.03%) Windows
4 7 (1.01%) Debian
4 7 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.72%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.58%) CentOS
7 3 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.43%) VMS
7 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.29%) Android
8 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (67.68%) CI/CD
2 292 (42.32%) Containerisation
3 282 (40.87%) Agile
4 255 (36.96%) DevOps
5 251 (36.38%) Full-Stack Development
6 249 (36.09%) Microservices
7 208 (30.14%) Software Engineering
8 190 (27.54%) AI
9 161 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 159 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
11 151 (21.88%) Machine Learning
12 129 (18.70%) Mentoring
13 117 (16.96%) Scrum
14 111 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 110 (15.94%) TDD
16 107 (15.51%) Clean Code
17 84 (12.17%) Coaching
18 78 (11.30%) Test Automation
19 77 (11.16%) Observability
20 71 (10.29%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 268 (38.84%) Python
2 237 (34.35%) SQL
3 213 (30.87%) C#
4 142 (20.58%) TypeScript
5 121 (17.54%) JavaScript
6 116 (16.81%) Java
7 77 (11.16%) Go
8 64 (9.28%) Bash
9 61 (8.84%) Scala
10 34 (4.93%) PowerShell
11 21 (3.04%) Bicep
11 21 (3.04%) PHP
11 21 (3.04%) Ruby
12 13 (1.88%) C++
13 12 (1.74%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.59%) PL/SQL
15 10 (1.45%) Groovy
16 9 (1.30%) Rust
17 7 (1.01%) C
18 3 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (11.45%) Security Cleared
2 65 (9.42%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.26%) Degree
4 22 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.75%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.61%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.72%) CISSP
8 5 (0.72%) GIAC
8 5 (0.72%) ISACA
8 5 (0.72%) SANS
9 4 (0.58%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.14%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.14%) LPIC
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.41%) QA
2 26 (3.77%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.17%) WCAG
4 12 (1.74%) NIST
5 9 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.16%) 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 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.45%) 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
1 445 (64.49%) Kubernetes
2 174 (25.22%) Terraform
3 56 (8.12%) Ansible
4 47 (6.81%) Grafana
5 46 (6.67%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.04%) Argo
7 18 (2.61%) Puppet
8 16 (2.32%) Podman
9 15 (2.17%) Istio
10 13 (1.88%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.87%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.72%) Kibana
13 4 (0.58%) Packer
14 3 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.43%) linkerd
14 3 (0.43%) Nagios
14 3 (0.43%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.29%) MIIS
15 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 192 (27.83%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.54%) Google
3 45 (6.52%) Typelevel
4 20 (2.90%) Facebook
5 17 (2.46%) Oracle
6 15 (2.17%) Databricks
7 13 (1.88%) Okta
8 9 (1.30%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.16%) Confluent
9 8 (1.16%) ForgeRock
9 8 (1.16%) Ping Identity
9 8 (1.16%) VMware
10 7 (1.01%) Informatica
10 7 (1.01%) Splunk
11 5 (0.72%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.72%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.72%) New Relic
11 5 (0.72%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.58%) IBM
13 3 (0.43%) Dell