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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 45 48
Rank change year-on-year -43 +3 -15
Permanent jobs citing Docker 743 929 1,057
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.97% 5.63% 4.96%
As % of the System Software category 39.63% 50.41% 38.04%
Number of salaries quoted 561 293 561
10th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £44,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -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 1,875 1,843 2,779
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.50% 11.17% 13.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,382 966 1,630
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £73,852
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -

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

Docker
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 13 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 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (2.96%) Apache
3 16 (2.15%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.48%) nginx
5 7 (0.94%) Jupyter
5 7 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.81%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.67%) Camunda
7 5 (0.67%) CMS
7 5 (0.67%) IIS
8 4 (0.54%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.54%) Confluence
8 4 (0.54%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.54%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.40%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.27%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.27%) Hedera
10 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.13%) Moodle
11 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.62%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 439 (59.08%) Azure
2 435 (58.55%) AWS
3 249 (33.51%) GitHub
4 152 (20.46%) GitHub Copilot
5 148 (19.92%) GCP
6 80 (10.77%) GitHub Actions
7 73 (9.83%) Azure AI
8 67 (9.02%) SaaS
9 63 (8.48%) Serverless
10 50 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 37 (4.98%) Amazon S3
13 35 (4.71%) Azure Service Bus
14 34 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
15 31 (4.17%) Azure AKS
16 27 (3.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 27 (3.63%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
17 25 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
17 25 (3.36%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.69%) Internet
2 16 (2.15%) Broadband
2 16 (2.15%) VPN
3 13 (1.75%) AMQP
4 12 (1.62%) Firewall
4 12 (1.62%) SMS
5 11 (1.48%) Network Security
6 9 (1.21%) DNS
7 7 (0.94%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.54%) SSH
9 3 (0.40%) HTTP
9 3 (0.40%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.27%) Intranet
10 2 (0.27%) X.509
11 1 (0.13%) DSL
11 1 (0.13%) FCoE
11 1 (0.13%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.13%) SSL
11 1 (0.13%) TETRA
11 1 (0.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (22.34%) MongoDB
2 143 (19.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 122 (16.42%) PostgreSQL
4 60 (8.08%) Elasticsearch
5 52 (7.00%) Relational Database
5 52 (7.00%) SQL Server
6 51 (6.86%) NoSQL
7 39 (5.25%) MySQL
8 37 (4.98%) Redis
9 25 (3.36%) DynamoDB
10 21 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (1.75%) BigQuery
14 11 (1.48%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.94%) Metadata
16 6 (0.81%) Delta Lake
16 6 (0.81%) Looker
16 6 (0.81%) Power BI
17 5 (0.67%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 137 (18.44%) Git
2 71 (9.56%) Jenkins
3 70 (9.42%) GitLab
4 33 (4.44%) JUnit
5 21 (2.83%) Mockito
6 18 (2.42%) Maven
7 17 (2.29%) Selenium
8 15 (2.02%) Claude Code
8 15 (2.02%) JIRA
9 14 (1.88%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.48%) Postman
11 8 (1.08%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.81%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.81%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.81%) Gatling
12 6 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.81%) Storybook
13 5 (0.67%) Poetry
13 5 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
14 4 (0.54%) Appium
General
1 184 (24.76%) Social Skills
2 113 (15.21%) Finance
3 62 (8.34%) Public Sector
4 45 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (4.58%) Advertising
5 34 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.83%) Marketing
7 20 (2.69%) Aerospace
8 17 (2.29%) Law
9 16 (2.15%) Games
10 15 (2.02%) Banking
11 14 (1.88%) Health Technology
11 14 (1.88%) Tech for Good
12 11 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.21%) Retail
14 7 (0.94%) Legal
15 6 (0.81%) Electronics
16 4 (0.54%) Police
16 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 313 (42.13%) Developer
2 202 (27.19%) Senior
3 144 (19.38%) .NET Developer
4 123 (16.55%) Software Engineer
5 77 (10.36%) Lead
6 69 (9.29%) Senior Developer
7 56 (7.54%) DevOps Engineer
8 51 (6.86%) Java Developer
9 45 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
10 33 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
11 30 (4.04%) Senior Java Developer
12 28 (3.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 27 (3.63%) Architect
14 24 (3.23%) Data Engineer
15 23 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
16 22 (2.96%) Cloud Engineer
16 22 (2.96%) Lead Developer
16 22 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
17 20 (2.69%) Technical Leader
18 19 (2.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (31.09%) .NET
2 202 (27.19%) Terraform
3 156 (21.00%) .NET Core
4 151 (20.32%) ASP.NET
5 150 (20.19%) React
6 142 (19.11%) Node.js
7 135 (18.17%) ASP.NET Core
8 121 (16.29%) REST
9 107 (14.40%) CSS
10 102 (13.73%) Spring
11 97 (13.06%) AngularJS
12 91 (12.25%) HTML
13 86 (11.57%) RESTful
14 79 (10.63%) Spring Boot
15 78 (10.50%) Vue
16 71 (9.56%) ML.NET
17 53 (7.13%) Kafka
18 41 (5.52%) Blazor
19 32 (4.31%) OAuth
20 30 (4.04%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 136 (18.30%) Cloud Native
2 73 (9.83%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
4 20 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (2.56%) Digital TV
6 17 (2.29%) Product Ownership
7 16 (2.15%) AI Agents
7 16 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (2.02%) Robotics
9 14 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.48%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.35%) IoT
11 10 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (1.21%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.08%) Blog
13 8 (1.08%) Cyber Defence
14 7 (0.94%) Hackathon
14 7 (0.94%) Onboarding
14 7 (0.94%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.81%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 128 (17.23%) Linux
2 23 (3.10%) Windows
3 16 (2.15%) Ubuntu
4 8 (1.08%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.08%) Unix
5 7 (0.94%) Debian
6 6 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (0.67%) macOS
8 4 (0.54%) Android
8 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.40%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.27%) CentOS
11 1 (0.13%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.13%) Solaris
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (65.28%) CI/CD
2 310 (41.72%) Agile
3 264 (35.53%) AI
4 255 (34.32%) DevOps
5 253 (34.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 238 (32.03%) Containerisation
6 238 (32.03%) Microservices
7 232 (31.22%) Software Engineering
8 164 (22.07%) Mentoring
9 162 (21.80%) Infrastructure as Code
10 149 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
11 130 (17.50%) Machine Learning
12 124 (16.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 121 (16.29%) Scrum
14 109 (14.67%) Test Automation
15 106 (14.27%) TDD
16 104 (14.00%) Observability
17 85 (11.44%) Event-Driven
18 80 (10.77%) Clean Code
18 80 (10.77%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 301 (40.51%) SQL
2 244 (32.84%) C#
3 239 (32.17%) Python
4 173 (23.28%) TypeScript
5 149 (20.05%) Java
6 138 (18.57%) JavaScript
7 75 (10.09%) Bash
8 40 (5.38%) PowerShell
9 28 (3.77%) Go
10 23 (3.10%) Bicep
10 23 (3.10%) Ruby
11 22 (2.96%) PHP
12 16 (2.15%) C++
12 16 (2.15%) Kotlin
13 15 (2.02%) PL/SQL
14 12 (1.62%) Scala
15 10 (1.35%) Groovy
16 8 (1.08%) C
16 8 (1.08%) Rust
17 6 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 123 (16.55%) Security Cleared
2 102 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.00%) Degree
4 22 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.02%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.54%) GCFA
10 4 (0.54%) GIAC
10 4 (0.54%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.40%) OCP
11 3 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.75%) QA
2 36 (4.85%) Accessibility
3 28 (3.77%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.48%) WCAG
5 9 (1.21%) NIST
6 7 (0.94%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.81%) GDPR
8 5 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.67%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.40%) NCSC
9 3 (0.40%) SLA
10 2 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
10 2 (0.27%) MISRA
10 2 (0.27%) MISRA C
11 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) PSD2
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 12 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.40%) iptables
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.13%) KVM
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.13%) QEMU
5 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 496 (66.76%) Kubernetes
2 54 (7.27%) Ansible
3 52 (7.00%) Grafana
4 38 (5.11%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.88%) Argo
5 14 (1.88%) Progress Chef
5 14 (1.88%) Puppet
6 9 (1.21%) Istio
7 6 (0.81%) Packer
7 6 (0.81%) Podman
8 4 (0.54%) Kibana
8 4 (0.54%) linkerd
9 3 (0.40%) Cilium
9 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.27%) CASB
10 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.13%) Consul
11 1 (0.13%) logstash
11 1 (0.13%) Nagios
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 195 (26.24%) Microsoft
2 61 (8.21%) Google
3 29 (3.90%) OpenAI
3 29 (3.90%) Oracle
4 19 (2.56%) Facebook
5 14 (1.88%) Okta
5 14 (1.88%) Ping Identity
5 14 (1.88%) Splunk
6 12 (1.62%) Informatica
7 11 (1.48%) Databricks
7 11 (1.48%) New Relic
8 10 (1.35%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.08%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.08%) VMware
10 4 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (0.54%) ESRI
10 4 (0.54%) ForgeRock
10 4 (0.54%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.54%) IBM
10 4 (0.54%) TIBCO