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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 39 73
Rank change year-on-year -39 +34 -42
Permanent jobs citing Docker 731 1,100 935
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.22% 6.62% 3.77%
As % of the System Software category 38.92% 51.94% 32.32%
Number of salaries quoted 551 427 718
10th Percentile £45,750 £47,500 £42,850
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £77,424 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £101,714 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.90% +7.41% -9.70%

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 1,878 2,118 2,893
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.27% 12.75% 11.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,404 1,233 2,087
10th Percentile £31,663 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,200
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -11.50%

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 14 August 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 21 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.05%) Apache
4 8 (1.09%) nginx
5 7 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.82%) IIS
6 6 (0.82%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.55%) Camunda
8 4 (0.55%) Confluence
9 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.41%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.41%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.27%) WordPress
11 1 (0.14%) Drupal
11 1 (0.14%) Moodle
11 1 (0.14%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 452 (61.83%) AWS
2 429 (58.69%) Azure
3 228 (31.19%) GitHub
4 177 (24.21%) GCP
5 153 (20.93%) GitHub Copilot
6 76 (10.40%) Azure AI
7 74 (10.12%) Serverless
8 55 (7.52%) SaaS
9 53 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (6.29%) AWS CloudFormation
12 39 (5.34%) Amazon S3
12 39 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
13 35 (4.79%) Azure Service Bus
14 31 (4.24%) Azure AKS
15 30 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 30 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
15 30 (4.10%) Amazon ECS
16 25 (3.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 24 (3.28%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 52 (7.11%) Broadband
2 20 (2.74%) Internet
3 10 (1.37%) VPN
4 9 (1.23%) DNS
4 9 (1.23%) Firewall
5 5 (0.68%) AMQP
5 5 (0.68%) SMS
6 4 (0.55%) Network Security
6 4 (0.55%) SSH
6 4 (0.55%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.41%) DHCP
7 3 (0.41%) HTTP
7 3 (0.41%) MQTT
8 2 (0.27%) Intranet
8 2 (0.27%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.27%) SAN
8 2 (0.27%) VLAN
8 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
9 1 (0.14%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (24.49%) MongoDB
2 144 (19.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 101 (13.82%) PostgreSQL
4 62 (8.48%) Elasticsearch
5 61 (8.34%) SQL Server
6 51 (6.98%) NoSQL
7 43 (5.88%) Relational Database
8 36 (4.92%) MySQL
9 35 (4.79%) Redis
10 22 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
10 22 (3.01%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (1.37%) Data Lake
13 8 (1.09%) Big Data
13 8 (1.09%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.96%) Power BI
15 6 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (0.82%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 143 (19.56%) Git
2 71 (9.71%) Jenkins
3 57 (7.80%) GitLab
4 26 (3.56%) JUnit
5 21 (2.87%) Cypress.io
6 20 (2.74%) Selenium
7 19 (2.60%) Maven
8 17 (2.33%) JIRA
9 14 (1.92%) Mockito
10 12 (1.64%) CircleCI
10 12 (1.64%) Postman
11 11 (1.50%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.50%) Cucumber
12 9 (1.23%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.96%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.96%) Gatling
14 6 (0.82%) JMeter
14 6 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.68%) Locust
General
1 165 (22.57%) Social Skills
2 108 (14.77%) Finance
3 55 (7.52%) Public Sector
4 45 (6.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (5.34%) Advertising
6 22 (3.01%) Marketing
7 21 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (2.74%) Aerospace
9 15 (2.05%) Banking
9 15 (2.05%) Games
10 14 (1.92%) Law
11 11 (1.50%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.37%) Legal
13 7 (0.96%) Tech for Good
14 6 (0.82%) Electronics
15 5 (0.68%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.68%) Retail
16 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.41%) Local Government
17 3 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 314 (42.95%) Developer
2 166 (22.71%) Senior
3 148 (20.25%) .NET Developer
4 113 (15.46%) Software Engineer
5 82 (11.22%) Lead
6 53 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 50 (6.84%) Senior Developer
8 45 (6.16%) Java Developer
9 41 (5.61%) Full-Stack Developer
10 32 (4.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 31 (4.24%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (3.97%) Senior Software Engineer
13 25 (3.42%) Data Engineer
13 25 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
14 23 (3.15%) Architect
14 23 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
14 23 (3.15%) Lead Developer
14 23 (3.15%) Senior Java Developer
15 22 (3.01%) Cloud Engineer
16 21 (2.87%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (30.78%) .NET
2 159 (21.75%) .NET Core
3 157 (21.48%) ASP.NET
4 138 (18.88%) ASP.NET Core
5 129 (17.65%) React
6 123 (16.83%) Node.js
7 109 (14.91%) REST
8 105 (14.36%) CSS
9 104 (14.23%) AngularJS
10 95 (13.00%) HTML
11 83 (11.35%) RESTful
12 79 (10.81%) Spring
13 77 (10.53%) Vue
14 74 (10.12%) ML.NET
15 57 (7.80%) Spring Boot
16 51 (6.98%) Kafka
17 40 (5.47%) Blazor
18 39 (5.34%) gRPC
19 32 (4.38%) OAuth
20 30 (4.10%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 124 (16.96%) Cloud Native
2 77 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
4 27 (3.69%) Over-the-Top Content
4 27 (3.69%) Video\Live Streaming
5 26 (3.56%) Product Ownership
6 21 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.74%) Digital TV
8 14 (1.92%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.50%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.50%) IoT
9 11 (1.50%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.23%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.23%) Robotics
11 8 (1.09%) Blog
11 8 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (1.09%) Onboarding
12 7 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 129 (17.65%) Linux
2 16 (2.19%) Windows
3 14 (1.92%) Ubuntu
4 8 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.96%) Debian
6 6 (0.82%) Unix
7 5 (0.68%) Android
7 5 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (0.68%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.55%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.55%) CentOS
9 3 (0.41%) VMS
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.27%) Solaris
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (66.07%) CI/CD
2 302 (41.31%) Agile
3 281 (38.44%) Containerisation
4 258 (35.29%) DevOps
4 258 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 244 (33.38%) Microservices
6 224 (30.64%) AI
7 219 (29.96%) Software Engineering
8 161 (22.02%) Infrastructure as Code
9 149 (20.38%) Machine Learning
9 149 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
10 137 (18.74%) Mentoring
11 129 (17.65%) Scrum
12 117 (16.01%) Continuous Improvement
13 112 (15.32%) TDD
14 98 (13.41%) Test Automation
15 96 (13.13%) Clean Code
16 82 (11.22%) Observability
17 80 (10.94%) Event-Driven
18 70 (9.58%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 263 (35.98%) SQL
2 255 (34.88%) Python
3 235 (32.15%) C#
4 151 (20.66%) TypeScript
5 133 (18.19%) JavaScript
6 117 (16.01%) Java
7 64 (8.76%) Bash
8 55 (7.52%) Go
9 40 (5.47%) Scala
10 35 (4.79%) PowerShell
11 25 (3.42%) Ruby
12 21 (2.87%) PHP
13 19 (2.60%) Bicep
14 17 (2.33%) C++
15 16 (2.19%) PL/SQL
16 15 (2.05%) Kotlin
17 10 (1.37%) Groovy
18 7 (0.96%) C
18 7 (0.96%) Rust
19 4 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (14.50%) Security Cleared
2 88 (12.04%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.66%) Degree
4 19 (2.60%) Azure Certification
5 18 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.19%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.78%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.82%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.41%) CISSP
11 3 (0.41%) GIAC
11 3 (0.41%) ISACA
11 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.41%) OCP
11 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.41%) SANS
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (9.58%) QA
2 35 (4.79%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.46%) WCAG
5 11 (1.50%) NIST
6 7 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.55%) NCSC
10 3 (0.41%) GDPR
10 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
11 2 (0.27%) MISRA
11 2 (0.27%) MISRA C
11 2 (0.27%) SLA
12 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.14%) PSD2
12 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 22 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.55%) Firmware
5 3 (0.41%) iptables
5 3 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.27%) KVM
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.14%) QEMU
7 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 474 (64.84%) Kubernetes
2 186 (25.44%) Terraform
3 56 (7.66%) Ansible
4 51 (6.98%) Grafana
5 40 (5.47%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.74%) Puppet
7 17 (2.33%) Istio
8 16 (2.19%) Podman
9 13 (1.78%) Argo
10 12 (1.64%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.55%) linkerd
12 3 (0.41%) Cilium
12 3 (0.41%) Kibana
12 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.27%) CASB
13 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.27%) MIIS
13 2 (0.27%) Nagios
13 2 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 194 (26.54%) Microsoft
2 55 (7.52%) Google
3 27 (3.69%) Typelevel
4 23 (3.15%) Oracle
5 21 (2.87%) Facebook
6 17 (2.33%) Okta
7 15 (2.05%) Databricks
7 15 (2.05%) OpenAI
8 14 (1.92%) Ping Identity
8 14 (1.92%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.64%) Informatica
10 8 (1.09%) Confluent
10 8 (1.09%) VMware
11 7 (0.96%) ForgeRock
12 6 (0.82%) Splunk
13 5 (0.68%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.68%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.68%) IBM
13 5 (0.68%) New Relic
14 4 (0.55%) TIBCO