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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 36 58
Rank change year-on-year -40 +22 -28
Permanent jobs citing Docker 561 851 1,454
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.10% 6.32% 4.47%
As % of the System Software category 39.59% 45.12% 34.18%
Number of salaries quoted 356 697 1,269
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,900 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,938 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £84,063 £100,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £136,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -3.45%

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 1,417 1,886 4,254
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.82% 14.01% 13.08%
Number of salaries quoted 990 1,530 3,497
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,975 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £113,875 £86,550
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 30 April 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 29 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.67%) nginx
4 9 (1.60%) CMS
4 9 (1.60%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.07%) Drupal
5 6 (1.07%) WordPress
6 5 (0.89%) Apache
6 5 (0.89%) Apache Pulsar
6 5 (0.89%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.89%) GeoServer
6 5 (0.89%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.53%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.36%) Camunda
8 2 (0.36%) Confluence
8 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.18%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.71%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 5 (0.89%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Magento
2 1 (0.18%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 399 (71.12%) AWS
2 228 (40.64%) Azure
3 176 (31.37%) GCP
4 111 (19.79%) GitHub
5 97 (17.29%) Serverless
6 59 (10.52%) AWS Lambda
7 58 (10.34%) Amazon S3
8 52 (9.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 50 (8.91%) SaaS
10 45 (8.02%) GitHub Actions
11 40 (7.13%) Azure DevOps
12 38 (6.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (6.24%) Amazon ECS
14 32 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
15 31 (5.53%) Amazon EC2
16 26 (4.63%) OpenShift
17 24 (4.28%) Pulumi
18 22 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
18 22 (3.92%) Datadog
18 22 (3.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 101 (18.00%) Broadband
2 11 (1.96%) Firewall
3 10 (1.78%) DNS
4 8 (1.43%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.25%) Network Security
5 7 (1.25%) VPN
6 6 (1.07%) DHCP
7 5 (0.89%) AMQP
8 4 (0.71%) HTTP
8 4 (0.71%) MQTT
9 3 (0.53%) RTP
9 3 (0.53%) SCCP
9 3 (0.53%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.53%) VLAN
9 3 (0.53%) VoIP
9 3 (0.53%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.36%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.36%) SAN
10 2 (0.36%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (14.62%) NoSQL
2 80 (14.26%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (10.52%) MongoDB
4 53 (9.45%) SQL Server
5 40 (7.13%) Relational Database
6 36 (6.42%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (4.10%) DynamoDB
7 23 (4.10%) MySQL
8 22 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (3.57%) Redis
10 19 (3.39%) RDBMS
11 17 (3.03%) BigQuery
12 15 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (2.32%) Tableau
14 12 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
15 11 (1.96%) Pinecone
16 10 (1.78%) Weaviate
17 9 (1.60%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 95 (16.93%) Git
2 85 (15.15%) Jenkins
3 53 (9.45%) GitLab
4 25 (4.46%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.39%) Jaeger
5 19 (3.39%) Selenium
6 18 (3.21%) CircleCI
6 18 (3.21%) Cypress.io
7 15 (2.67%) Cucumber
8 13 (2.32%) MLflow
9 12 (2.14%) JMeter
9 12 (2.14%) SonarQube
10 11 (1.96%) JUnit
11 10 (1.78%) JIRA
11 10 (1.78%) Maven
12 6 (1.07%) Locust
12 6 (1.07%) Visual Studio
12 6 (1.07%) Vite
13 5 (0.89%) Postman
13 5 (0.89%) Storybook
General
1 111 (19.79%) Social Skills
2 73 (13.01%) Finance
3 44 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 38 (6.77%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.57%) Telecoms
6 15 (2.67%) Banking
6 15 (2.67%) Law
7 10 (1.78%) Retail
8 9 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (1.43%) Legal
10 7 (1.25%) Advertising
11 6 (1.07%) Aviation
11 6 (1.07%) Front Office
11 6 (1.07%) Marketing
12 5 (0.89%) Games
12 5 (0.89%) Local Government
12 5 (0.89%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.89%) Military
12 5 (0.89%) Police
13 4 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 176 (31.37%) Developer
2 157 (27.99%) Senior
3 99 (17.65%) Lead
4 85 (15.15%) Software Engineer
5 55 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 43 (7.66%) Senior Developer
7 42 (7.49%) Scala Engineer
8 38 (6.77%) Full-Stack Developer
9 34 (6.06%) Java Developer
10 29 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 27 (4.81%) Software Developer
12 26 (4.63%) Data Engineer
12 26 (4.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 24 (4.28%) Lead DevOps
14 23 (4.10%) Scala Software Engineer
14 23 (4.10%) Senior Software Engineer
15 22 (3.92%) .NET Developer
15 22 (3.92%) Python Developer
15 22 (3.92%) Scala Developer
16 21 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (18.72%) React
2 88 (15.69%) Node.js
3 75 (13.37%) .NET
4 70 (12.48%) Spring
5 68 (12.12%) Kafka
6 62 (11.05%) gRPC
7 61 (10.87%) Spring Boot
8 55 (9.80%) REST
8 55 (9.80%) RESTful
9 47 (8.38%) AngularJS
10 44 (7.84%) Django
10 44 (7.84%) Elastic Stack
11 38 (6.77%) .NET Core
12 29 (5.17%) CSS
12 29 (5.17%) HTML
12 29 (5.17%) Vue
13 26 (4.63%) Flask
14 25 (4.46%) Akka
15 24 (4.28%) RabbitMQ
16 23 (4.10%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 94 (16.76%) Cloud Native
2 83 (14.80%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (12.12%) Over-the-Top Content
3 68 (12.12%) Video\Live Streaming
4 47 (8.38%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.85%) AI Agents
5 16 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.60%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.43%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (1.25%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.25%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.25%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.89%) Cyberattack
11 5 (0.89%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 106 (18.89%) Linux
2 35 (6.24%) Unix
3 17 (3.03%) Android
4 15 (2.67%) Windows
5 13 (2.32%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.25%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.25%) CentOS
8 4 (0.71%) VMS
9 3 (0.53%) Debian
9 3 (0.53%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 292 (52.05%) Containerisation
3 271 (48.31%) DevOps
4 222 (39.57%) Agile
5 182 (32.44%) Microservices
6 165 (29.41%) Software Engineering
7 158 (28.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 141 (25.13%) Problem-Solving
9 110 (19.61%) Mentoring
10 108 (19.25%) Full-Stack Development
11 105 (18.72%) AI
12 103 (18.36%) Continuous Improvement
13 96 (17.11%) Machine Learning
14 92 (16.40%) Clean Code
15 84 (14.97%) Coaching
16 79 (14.08%) TDD
17 76 (13.55%) Test Automation
18 75 (13.37%) Scrum
19 72 (12.83%) Event-Driven
20 69 (12.30%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 277 (49.38%) Python
2 143 (25.49%) Java
3 132 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 116 (20.68%) SQL
5 111 (19.79%) Go
6 89 (15.86%) Scala
7 70 (12.48%) C#
8 68 (12.12%) Bash
8 68 (12.12%) TypeScript
9 25 (4.46%) PHP
10 22 (3.92%) PowerShell
11 15 (2.67%) Bicep
11 15 (2.67%) C++
12 11 (1.96%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.43%) Delphi
13 8 (1.43%) Rust
14 7 (1.25%) C
14 7 (1.25%) Ruby
15 6 (1.07%) Groovy
16 4 (0.71%) Perl
Qualifications
1 74 (13.19%) Security Cleared
2 72 (12.83%) Degree
3 57 (10.16%) SC Cleared
4 32 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (5.35%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.92%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.14%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.89%) CISSP
9 5 (0.89%) GIAC
9 5 (0.89%) ISACA
9 5 (0.89%) SANS
10 3 (0.53%) LPIC
11 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.36%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (8.56%) QA
2 25 (4.46%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.14%) NIST
5 11 (1.96%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.78%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.43%) ISO 9001
8 7 (1.25%) WCAG
9 5 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.89%) GDPR
10 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.89%) Firmware
4 3 (0.53%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.36%) vSphere
6 1 (0.18%) KVM
6 1 (0.18%) QEMU
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 338 (60.25%) Kubernetes
2 199 (35.47%) Terraform
3 88 (15.69%) Ansible
4 59 (10.52%) Grafana
5 56 (9.98%) Prometheus
6 38 (6.77%) Argo
7 19 (3.39%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.67%) Podman
9 12 (2.14%) Puppet
10 8 (1.43%) Istio
11 5 (0.89%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.89%) HP Fortify
11 5 (0.89%) Packer
11 5 (0.89%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.71%) Kibana
13 3 (0.53%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.36%) MIIS
14 2 (0.36%) Nagios
14 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (10.52%) Google
2 48 (8.56%) Microsoft
3 45 (8.02%) Typelevel
4 22 (3.92%) Databricks
5 20 (3.57%) Oracle
6 15 (2.67%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.78%) Splunk
8 9 (1.60%) Palantir
9 8 (1.43%) Confluent
10 7 (1.25%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.07%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.07%) VMware
12 5 (0.89%) Ericsson
12 5 (0.89%) ESRI
12 5 (0.89%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.89%) Mavenir
12 5 (0.89%) Nokia
12 5 (0.89%) Okta
12 5 (0.89%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.71%) SAP