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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 33 76
Rank change year-on-year -46 +43 -43
Permanent jobs citing Docker 697 1,182 1,053
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.23% 7.17% 3.61%
As % of the System Software category 38.92% 53.58% 30.61%
Number of salaries quoted 532 500 867
10th Percentile £43,750 £48,165 £43,450
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -10.34%
75th Percentile £77,424 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £91,250 £115,500 £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 1,791 2,206 3,440
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.29% 13.39% 11.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,362 1,309 2,633
10th Percentile £32,750 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £40,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,645
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +0.65% -12.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -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 21 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 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.72%) Apache
4 9 (1.29%) nginx
5 6 (0.86%) IIS
5 6 (0.86%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.72%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.57%) 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%) JBoss
10 1 (0.14%) Moodle
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 436 (62.55%) AWS
2 388 (55.67%) Azure
3 221 (31.71%) GitHub
4 182 (26.11%) GCP
5 150 (21.52%) GitHub Copilot
6 84 (12.05%) Serverless
7 74 (10.62%) Azure AI
8 48 (6.89%) GitHub Actions
9 47 (6.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 46 (6.60%) Amazon S3
11 45 (6.46%) AWS Lambda
12 43 (6.17%) SaaS
13 42 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (5.16%) Amazon EC2
15 32 (4.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 31 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
17 29 (4.16%) Azure AKS
17 29 (4.16%) Azure Service Bus
18 25 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
19 24 (3.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (9.90%) Broadband
2 20 (2.87%) Internet
3 11 (1.58%) DNS
3 11 (1.58%) VPN
4 9 (1.29%) Firewall
5 8 (1.15%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.72%) DHCP
6 5 (0.72%) MQTT
7 4 (0.57%) HTTP
7 4 (0.57%) Network Security
7 4 (0.57%) SSH
8 3 (0.43%) AMQP
9 2 (0.29%) Intranet
9 2 (0.29%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.29%) SAN
9 2 (0.29%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.29%) VLAN
9 2 (0.29%) WireGuard
9 2 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (25.82%) MongoDB
2 138 (19.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 92 (13.20%) PostgreSQL
4 63 (9.04%) Elasticsearch
5 49 (7.03%) SQL Server
6 47 (6.74%) NoSQL
7 43 (6.17%) Relational Database
8 37 (5.31%) MySQL
9 34 (4.88%) Redis
10 30 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (2.73%) DynamoDB
12 14 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (1.29%) BigQuery
14 9 (1.29%) Delta Lake
15 7 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (1.00%) Data Lake
15 7 (1.00%) Tableau
16 6 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 5 (0.72%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 118 (16.93%) Git
2 63 (9.04%) Jenkins
3 55 (7.89%) GitLab
4 18 (2.58%) Cypress.io
5 17 (2.44%) JIRA
5 17 (2.44%) JUnit
5 17 (2.44%) Maven
6 13 (1.87%) Selenium
7 12 (1.72%) CircleCI
8 10 (1.43%) Claude Code
8 10 (1.43%) Mockito
9 8 (1.15%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.00%) Postman
11 6 (0.86%) JMeter
11 6 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.72%) Locust
12 5 (0.72%) MLflow
12 5 (0.72%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.72%) Subversion
13 4 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 140 (20.09%) Social Skills
2 89 (12.77%) Finance
3 43 (6.17%) Public Sector
4 39 (5.60%) Advertising
5 38 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (3.16%) Marketing
7 17 (2.44%) Aerospace
7 17 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (2.01%) Games
9 13 (1.87%) Banking
10 10 (1.43%) Law
10 10 (1.43%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.86%) Legal
12 5 (0.72%) Electronics
12 5 (0.72%) Retail
13 4 (0.57%) Military
13 4 (0.57%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.43%) Aviation
14 3 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 307 (44.05%) Developer
2 154 (22.09%) Senior
3 141 (20.23%) .NET Developer
4 105 (15.06%) Software Engineer
5 76 (10.90%) Lead
6 52 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
7 44 (6.31%) Full-Stack Developer
8 43 (6.17%) Senior Developer
9 38 (5.45%) Java Developer
10 32 (4.59%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (4.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 30 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
11 30 (4.30%) Scala Engineer
12 28 (4.02%) Senior Software Engineer
13 24 (3.44%) Cloud Engineer
14 23 (3.30%) Data Engineer
15 21 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
16 20 (2.87%) Architect
16 20 (2.87%) Software Developer
17 19 (2.73%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (29.56%) .NET
2 151 (21.66%) .NET Core
3 150 (21.52%) ASP.NET
4 136 (19.51%) ASP.NET Core
5 117 (16.79%) React
6 112 (16.07%) Node.js
7 103 (14.78%) AngularJS
8 102 (14.63%) CSS
9 96 (13.77%) HTML
10 88 (12.63%) REST
11 79 (11.33%) Vue
12 77 (11.05%) RESTful
12 77 (11.05%) Spring
13 73 (10.47%) ML.NET
14 61 (8.75%) Spring Boot
15 52 (7.46%) gRPC
16 49 (7.03%) Kafka
17 31 (4.45%) Blazor
17 31 (4.45%) Django
18 27 (3.87%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 122 (17.50%) Cloud Native
2 93 (13.34%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.46%) Over-the-Top Content
3 45 (6.46%) Video\Live Streaming
4 34 (4.88%) Product Ownership
5 31 (4.45%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.87%) Digital TV
7 14 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.43%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.29%) Robotics
12 8 (1.15%) IoT
13 7 (1.00%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.00%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.00%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.00%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.00%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 129 (18.51%) Linux
2 15 (2.15%) Ubuntu
3 14 (2.01%) Windows
4 11 (1.58%) Unix
5 7 (1.00%) Debian
5 7 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.57%) CentOS
7 4 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.43%) VMS
8 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (67.86%) CI/CD
2 291 (41.75%) Containerisation
3 281 (40.32%) Agile
4 253 (36.30%) Full-Stack Development
4 253 (36.30%) Microservices
5 250 (35.87%) DevOps
6 212 (30.42%) Software Engineering
7 194 (27.83%) AI
8 164 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
9 155 (22.24%) Infrastructure as Code
10 152 (21.81%) Machine Learning
11 124 (17.79%) Mentoring
12 118 (16.93%) Scrum
13 112 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 110 (15.78%) Clean Code
14 110 (15.78%) TDD
15 84 (12.05%) Coaching
16 80 (11.48%) Test Automation
17 78 (11.19%) Observability
18 71 (10.19%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 265 (38.02%) Python
2 238 (34.15%) SQL
3 217 (31.13%) C#
4 144 (20.66%) TypeScript
5 116 (16.64%) JavaScript
6 110 (15.78%) Java
7 71 (10.19%) Go
8 61 (8.75%) Scala
9 59 (8.46%) Bash
10 34 (4.88%) PowerShell
11 22 (3.16%) PHP
11 22 (3.16%) Ruby
12 21 (3.01%) Bicep
13 14 (2.01%) C++
14 11 (1.58%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.58%) PL/SQL
15 10 (1.43%) Groovy
16 9 (1.29%) Rust
17 6 (0.86%) C
18 3 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (11.62%) Security Cleared
2 67 (9.61%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.18%) Degree
4 21 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.73%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.87%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.29%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.72%) CISSP
8 5 (0.72%) GIAC
8 5 (0.72%) ISACA
8 5 (0.72%) SANS
9 4 (0.57%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.14%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.32%) QA
2 27 (3.87%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.30%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.15%) WCAG
5 12 (1.72%) NIST
6 9 (1.29%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.43%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.43%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.29%) GDPR
10 1 (0.14%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.57%) Firmware
3 4 (0.57%) 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
1 449 (64.42%) Kubernetes
2 173 (24.82%) Terraform
3 51 (7.32%) Ansible
4 47 (6.74%) Grafana
5 40 (5.74%) Prometheus
6 18 (2.58%) Puppet
7 16 (2.30%) Podman
8 15 (2.15%) Argo
8 15 (2.15%) Istio
9 13 (1.87%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.72%) Kibana
11 4 (0.57%) Packer
12 3 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.43%) linkerd
12 3 (0.43%) Nagios
12 3 (0.43%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.29%) CASB
13 2 (0.29%) MIIS
13 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 193 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.89%) Google
3 45 (6.46%) Typelevel
4 20 (2.87%) Facebook
5 17 (2.44%) Oracle
6 16 (2.30%) Databricks
7 15 (2.15%) Okta
8 10 (1.43%) Ping Identity
9 9 (1.29%) ForgeRock
9 9 (1.29%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.15%) Confluent
10 8 (1.15%) Informatica
10 8 (1.15%) VMware
11 7 (1.00%) Splunk
12 6 (0.86%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.72%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.72%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.72%) New Relic
14 4 (0.57%) IBM
15 3 (0.43%) Commvault