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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 63 30
Rank change year-on-year +23 -33 -11
Permanent jobs citing Docker 1,007 958 1,860
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.22% 4.12% 7.41%
As % of the System Software category 51.17% 34.85% 46.99%
Number of salaries quoted 358 622 1,595
10th Percentile £47,200 £44,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,075 £102,500 £97,290
UK median annual salary £70,000 £68,000 £72,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% +2.86%

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 1,968 2,749 3,958
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.15% 11.81% 15.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,088 1,724 3,412
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,750 £56,525 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.14% -5.79% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -

Docker
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

Docker
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Docker over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Docker salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Docker
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
1 160 (15.89%) Confluence
2 15 (1.49%) CMS
3 12 (1.19%) Apache Solr
4 9 (0.89%) nginx
5 8 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.70%) IIS
7 5 (0.50%) Apache
7 5 (0.50%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.20%) Drupal
8 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.099%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.099%) Mendix
9 1 (0.099%) MetaMask
9 1 (0.099%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.099%) Strapi
9 1 (0.099%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.099%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.099%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.099%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 546 (54.22%) AWS
2 517 (51.34%) Azure
3 267 (26.51%) GCP
4 77 (7.65%) AWS CloudFormation
5 66 (6.55%) Amazon EKS
6 61 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (5.26%) GitHub
8 35 (3.48%) Serverless
9 31 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
10 29 (2.88%) SaaS
11 24 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
12 22 (2.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 21 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
13 21 (2.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 19 (1.89%) Azure AKS
15 17 (1.69%) Amazon S3
15 17 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (1.69%) Cloudflare
16 14 (1.39%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 273 (27.11%) VPN
2 262 (26.02%) Cisco IOS
3 18 (1.79%) Firewall
4 11 (1.09%) DNS
5 8 (0.79%) Broadband
5 8 (0.79%) Network Security
6 4 (0.40%) Internet
6 4 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.40%) WAN
7 2 (0.20%) AMQP
7 2 (0.20%) DHCP
7 2 (0.20%) HTTP
7 2 (0.20%) LAN
7 2 (0.20%) MQTT
8 1 (0.099%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.099%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.099%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.099%) GSM
8 1 (0.099%) IOS XR
8 1 (0.099%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 293 (29.10%) SQL Server
2 90 (8.94%) Elasticsearch
3 61 (6.06%) NoSQL
4 53 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 44 (4.37%) MySQL
6 36 (3.57%) MongoDB
7 25 (2.48%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (1.59%) Redis
9 14 (1.39%) Tick Data
10 9 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.89%) Big Data
11 5 (0.50%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.50%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.40%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.40%) Power BI
12 4 (0.40%) Tableau
13 3 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.30%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 286 (28.40%) GitLab
2 271 (26.91%) SonarQube
3 267 (26.51%) Sonatype Nexus
4 262 (26.02%) JIRA
5 259 (25.72%) Maven
6 250 (24.83%) Selenium
7 248 (24.63%) Bitbucket
7 248 (24.63%) Cucumber
8 105 (10.43%) Git
9 47 (4.67%) Jenkins
10 24 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
11 19 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
12 15 (1.49%) JUnit
12 15 (1.49%) MSBuild
13 14 (1.39%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.70%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.70%) TeamCity
15 6 (0.60%) Mockito
16 5 (0.50%) Artifactory
16 5 (0.50%) webpack
General
1 585 (58.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 321 (31.88%) Analytical Skills
3 315 (31.28%) Finance
4 272 (27.01%) Banking
5 115 (11.42%) Retail
6 90 (8.94%) Corporate Banking
6 90 (8.94%) Investment Banking
7 83 (8.24%) Social Skills
8 25 (2.48%) Marketing
9 18 (1.79%) Public Sector
10 11 (1.09%) Games
11 8 (0.79%) Law
12 7 (0.70%) Front Office
12 7 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.60%) Advertising
13 6 (0.60%) Automotive
14 5 (0.50%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.50%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.30%) Legal
15 3 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 322 (31.98%) Software Engineer
2 270 (26.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 170 (16.88%) Developer
4 113 (11.22%) Senior
5 86 (8.54%) DevOps Engineer
6 60 (5.96%) Software Developer
7 47 (4.67%) Architect
8 45 (4.47%) Lead
9 38 (3.77%) AWS DevOps
10 33 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
11 31 (3.08%) Java Engineer
12 29 (2.88%) Senior DevOps
13 27 (2.68%) AWS Engineer
13 27 (2.68%) Java Software Engineer
13 27 (2.68%) Senior Developer
14 26 (2.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 26 (2.58%) Java Developer
15 25 (2.48%) Python Developer
15 25 (2.48%) Python Engineer
16 24 (2.38%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (32.08%) React
2 299 (29.69%) Kafka
3 298 (29.59%) HTML
4 296 (29.39%) Spring
5 293 (29.10%) CSS
6 286 (28.40%) Spring Boot
7 285 (28.30%) Elastic Stack
8 251 (24.93%) Redux
9 250 (24.83%) JPA
10 177 (17.58%) REST
11 170 (16.88%) Hibernate
12 152 (15.09%) .NET
13 137 (13.60%) RESTful
14 102 (10.13%) CSS3
14 102 (10.13%) Jest
15 98 (9.73%) HTML5
16 91 (9.04%) Sass
17 80 (7.94%) Node.js
18 52 (5.16%) Pandas
19 34 (3.38%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 311 (30.88%) Cyberattack
2 265 (26.32%) Product Ownership
3 247 (24.53%) Enterprise Software
4 76 (7.55%) Cloud Native
5 33 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 23 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (1.79%) Algorithms
8 11 (1.09%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.09%) Onboarding
9 9 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (0.79%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.60%) BYOD
11 6 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.50%) Cloud Security Posture
12 5 (0.50%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.50%) IoT
12 5 (0.50%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.40%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.40%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 403 (40.02%) Linux
2 311 (30.88%) Android
3 298 (29.59%) Windows
4 19 (1.89%) Unix
5 18 (1.79%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.50%) VMS
7 3 (0.30%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.20%) Debian
9 1 (0.099%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.099%) CentOS
9 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 782 (77.66%) DevOps
2 555 (55.11%) CI/CD
3 489 (48.56%) Containerisation
4 455 (45.18%) Agile
5 419 (41.61%) Software Engineering
6 404 (40.12%) Microservices
7 364 (36.15%) Problem-Solving
8 322 (31.98%) Line Management
9 314 (31.18%) Mathematics
10 303 (30.09%) Full-Stack Development
11 294 (29.20%) Test Automation
12 289 (28.70%) Platform Engineering
13 288 (28.60%) Performance Optimisation
14 284 (28.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 278 (27.61%) SDLC
16 270 (26.81%) Front End Development
17 269 (26.71%) Risk Management
18 264 (26.22%) Storage Management
18 264 (26.22%) Task Automation
19 210 (20.85%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 543 (53.92%) Python
2 417 (41.41%) JavaScript
3 412 (40.91%) Java
4 378 (37.54%) SQL
5 313 (31.08%) Bash
6 300 (29.79%) PowerShell
7 153 (15.19%) TypeScript
8 88 (8.74%) C#
9 81 (8.04%) Go
10 64 (6.36%) C++
11 52 (5.16%) Rust
12 21 (2.09%) PHP
13 20 (1.99%) Bicep
14 14 (1.39%) C
15 5 (0.50%) Groovy
16 4 (0.40%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.40%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.30%) Scala
18 2 (0.20%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 101 (10.03%) Security Cleared
2 61 (6.06%) DV Cleared
3 39 (3.87%) AWS Certification
4 36 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 28 (2.78%) Degree
6 22 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (0.79%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.70%) CISM
10 7 (0.70%) CISSP
11 6 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (0.40%) PhD
14 3 (0.30%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.20%) CISA
15 2 (0.20%) CRISC
15 2 (0.20%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (28.40%) QA
2 91 (9.04%) Accessibility
3 40 (3.97%) GDPR
4 19 (1.89%) HIPAA
5 12 (1.19%) NIST
6 6 (0.60%) SLA
7 5 (0.50%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.30%) CDISC
8 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.099%) ECSS
9 1 (0.099%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.099%) PMO
9 1 (0.099%) SEPA
9 1 (0.099%) SOC 2
System Software
1 264 (26.22%) Hyper-V
2 262 (26.02%) VMware NSX
2 262 (26.02%) vSphere
3 10 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.70%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.099%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.099%) KVM
7 1 (0.099%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 593 (58.89%) Kubernetes
2 470 (46.67%) Terraform
3 360 (35.75%) Ansible
4 55 (5.46%) Grafana
5 49 (4.87%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.29%) Istio
7 5 (0.50%) Argo
7 5 (0.50%) Kibana
8 4 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.40%) Puppet
9 3 (0.30%) logstash
10 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.20%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.20%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.20%) Nagios
11 1 (0.099%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.099%) Marathon
11 1 (0.099%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.099%) Packer
Vendors
1 268 (26.61%) Splunk
2 264 (26.22%) Cisco
3 263 (26.12%) Juniper
4 262 (26.02%) 3PAR
5 247 (24.53%) Solace
6 44 (4.37%) Microsoft
7 28 (2.78%) Google
8 21 (2.09%) Databricks
9 13 (1.29%) Oracle
10 7 (0.70%) VMware
11 6 (0.60%) Trayport
12 4 (0.40%) Confluent
13 3 (0.30%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.30%) SAP
14 2 (0.20%) Commvault
14 2 (0.20%) Dynatrace
14 2 (0.20%) Foundry
14 2 (0.20%) Pega
14 2 (0.20%) Solarflare
15 1 (0.099%) CA Agile Central