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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 32 71
Rank change year-on-year -45 +39 -37
Permanent jobs citing Docker 689 1,221 1,178
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.23% 7.38% 3.69%
As % of the System Software category 39.48% 54.10% 30.85%
Number of salaries quoted 516 537 973
10th Percentile £43,852 £48,165 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £51,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +15.18% -9.72%
75th Percentile £77,424 £90,000 £84,919
90th Percentile £91,875 £120,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.29% -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 1,745 2,257 3,819
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.17% 13.65% 11.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,327 1,359 2,963
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,556
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +0.81% -11.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -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

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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 13 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 24 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.32%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.74%) Apache
4 10 (1.45%) nginx
5 6 (0.87%) IIS
5 6 (0.87%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.73%) CMS
6 5 (0.73%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.29%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.29%) Camunda
7 2 (0.29%) Confluence
7 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.29%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.29%) WordPress
8 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
1 1 (0.15%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 432 (62.70%) AWS
2 376 (54.57%) Azure
3 224 (32.51%) GitHub
4 171 (24.82%) GCP
5 151 (21.92%) GitHub Copilot
6 84 (12.19%) Serverless
7 74 (10.74%) Azure AI
8 51 (7.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 50 (7.26%) Amazon S3
10 45 (6.53%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (6.39%) AWS Lambda
12 41 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
12 41 (5.95%) SaaS
13 37 (5.37%) Amazon EC2
14 32 (4.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 31 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
16 30 (4.35%) Azure AKS
17 28 (4.06%) Azure Service Bus
18 26 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
19 25 (3.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (11.03%) Broadband
2 20 (2.90%) Internet
3 11 (1.60%) DNS
3 11 (1.60%) VPN
4 10 (1.45%) Firewall
5 8 (1.16%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.73%) DHCP
6 5 (0.73%) HTTP
6 5 (0.73%) MQTT
7 4 (0.58%) Network Security
8 3 (0.44%) DSL
8 3 (0.44%) RTP
8 3 (0.44%) SSH
8 3 (0.44%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.44%) VoIP
8 3 (0.44%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.29%) Intranet
9 2 (0.29%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.29%) SAN
9 2 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (26.85%) MongoDB
2 137 (19.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 87 (12.63%) PostgreSQL
4 63 (9.14%) Elasticsearch
5 54 (7.84%) NoSQL
6 46 (6.68%) Relational Database
6 46 (6.68%) SQL Server
7 37 (5.37%) MySQL
8 33 (4.79%) Redis
9 28 (4.06%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (2.90%) DynamoDB
11 15 (2.18%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (1.31%) BigQuery
12 9 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.31%) Delta Lake
13 8 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (1.02%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.02%) Tableau
15 6 (0.87%) Pinecone
15 6 (0.87%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 110 (15.97%) Git
2 64 (9.29%) Jenkins
3 54 (7.84%) GitLab
4 17 (2.47%) JIRA
5 16 (2.32%) Cypress.io
5 16 (2.32%) Maven
6 15 (2.18%) JUnit
7 14 (2.03%) Selenium
8 12 (1.74%) CircleCI
9 10 (1.45%) Claude Code
10 9 (1.31%) JMeter
10 9 (1.31%) Mockito
11 8 (1.16%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.16%) Postman
12 7 (1.02%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.87%) Jaeger
13 6 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.73%) Locust
14 5 (0.73%) MLflow
14 5 (0.73%) Subversion
General
1 133 (19.30%) Social Skills
2 84 (12.19%) Finance
3 41 (5.95%) Public Sector
4 40 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (5.66%) Advertising
6 22 (3.19%) Marketing
7 17 (2.47%) Aerospace
8 16 (2.32%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (2.18%) Games
10 12 (1.74%) Banking
11 10 (1.45%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.31%) Law
13 6 (0.87%) Legal
13 6 (0.87%) Retail
14 5 (0.73%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.58%) Aviation
15 4 (0.58%) Electronics
15 4 (0.58%) Military
16 3 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 300 (43.54%) Developer
2 146 (21.19%) Senior
3 139 (20.17%) .NET Developer
4 99 (14.37%) Software Engineer
5 82 (11.90%) Lead
6 54 (7.84%) DevOps Engineer
7 44 (6.39%) Full-Stack Developer
8 38 (5.52%) Senior Developer
9 37 (5.37%) Java Developer
10 32 (4.64%) AWS Engineer
11 31 (4.50%) Scala Engineer
12 30 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
13 28 (4.06%) Cloud Engineer
13 28 (4.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 26 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
15 22 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
15 22 (3.19%) Data Engineer
16 20 (2.90%) Software Developer
17 19 (2.76%) AWS DevOps
17 19 (2.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (29.32%) .NET
2 151 (21.92%) .NET Core
3 148 (21.48%) ASP.NET
4 135 (19.59%) ASP.NET Core
5 114 (16.55%) Node.js
6 113 (16.40%) React
7 105 (15.24%) AngularJS
8 100 (14.51%) CSS
9 95 (13.79%) HTML
10 81 (11.76%) REST
10 81 (11.76%) Vue
11 75 (10.89%) Spring
12 73 (10.60%) ML.NET
13 72 (10.45%) RESTful
14 60 (8.71%) Spring Boot
15 52 (7.55%) gRPC
16 49 (7.11%) Kafka
17 32 (4.64%) Django
18 27 (3.92%) Blazor
19 23 (3.34%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 120 (17.42%) Cloud Native
2 88 (12.77%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (6.68%) Over-the-Top Content
3 46 (6.68%) Video\Live Streaming
4 38 (5.52%) Product Ownership
5 28 (4.06%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.90%) Digital TV
7 15 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.31%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.02%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.02%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.02%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.02%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.02%) Onboarding
12 6 (0.87%) IoT
12 6 (0.87%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.87%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.73%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 134 (19.45%) Linux
2 21 (3.05%) Unix
3 16 (2.32%) Ubuntu
3 16 (2.32%) Windows
4 8 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.87%) Debian
6 5 (0.73%) CentOS
6 5 (0.73%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.44%) Android
7 3 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.44%) VMS
7 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (67.49%) CI/CD
2 290 (42.09%) Containerisation
3 286 (41.51%) Agile
4 256 (37.16%) DevOps
5 251 (36.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 243 (35.27%) Microservices
7 201 (29.17%) Software Engineering
8 190 (27.58%) AI
9 164 (23.80%) Infrastructure as Code
10 153 (22.21%) Problem-Solving
11 152 (22.06%) Machine Learning
12 126 (18.29%) Mentoring
13 116 (16.84%) Scrum
14 115 (16.69%) Continuous Improvement
15 108 (15.67%) TDD
16 107 (15.53%) Clean Code
17 85 (12.34%) Coaching
18 79 (11.47%) Test Automation
19 77 (11.18%) Observability
20 74 (10.74%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 271 (39.33%) Python
2 239 (34.69%) SQL
3 211 (30.62%) C#
4 144 (20.90%) TypeScript
5 121 (17.56%) Java
6 118 (17.13%) JavaScript
7 80 (11.61%) Go
8 64 (9.29%) Bash
9 62 (9.00%) Scala
10 35 (5.08%) PowerShell
11 22 (3.19%) PHP
12 21 (3.05%) Bicep
13 20 (2.90%) Ruby
14 14 (2.03%) C++
15 12 (1.74%) Kotlin
16 10 (1.45%) Groovy
16 10 (1.45%) PL/SQL
17 8 (1.16%) Rust
18 7 (1.02%) C
19 3 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 66 (9.58%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.42%) Degree
4 22 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.76%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.61%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.45%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.73%) CISSP
8 5 (0.73%) GIAC
8 5 (0.73%) ISACA
8 5 (0.73%) SANS
9 4 (0.58%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.15%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.15%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (8.56%) QA
2 26 (3.77%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.03%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.89%) NIST
5 12 (1.74%) WCAG
6 11 (1.60%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.44%) GDPR
8 3 (0.44%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.44%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.15%) NCSC
9 1 (0.15%) PSD2
9 1 (0.15%) SEPA
9 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.58%) Firmware
3 4 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.44%) iptables
4 3 (0.44%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.15%) KVM
6 1 (0.15%) QEMU
6 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
6 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 447 (64.88%) Kubernetes
2 178 (25.83%) Terraform
3 61 (8.85%) Ansible
4 45 (6.53%) Grafana
5 44 (6.39%) Prometheus
6 22 (3.19%) Argo
7 18 (2.61%) Puppet
8 15 (2.18%) Istio
8 15 (2.18%) Podman
9 13 (1.89%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.87%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.87%) Packer
11 5 (0.73%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.73%) Kibana
12 3 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.44%) linkerd
12 3 (0.44%) Nagios
12 3 (0.44%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.29%) MIIS
13 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 192 (27.87%) Microsoft
2 53 (7.69%) Google
3 45 (6.53%) Typelevel
4 20 (2.90%) Facebook
5 19 (2.76%) Oracle
6 16 (2.32%) Databricks
7 12 (1.74%) Okta
8 9 (1.31%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.31%) Splunk
9 8 (1.16%) Confluent
9 8 (1.16%) ForgeRock
9 8 (1.16%) VMware
10 7 (1.02%) Ping Identity
11 6 (0.87%) Informatica
11 6 (0.87%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.73%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.73%) HubSpot
13 4 (0.58%) New Relic
13 4 (0.58%) Palantir
14 3 (0.44%) Fortinet