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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 32 53
Rank change year-on-year -37 +21 -23
Permanent jobs citing Docker 576 1,055 1,568
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.41% 8.20% 5.08%
As % of the System Software category 41.53% 50.75% 36.36%
Number of salaries quoted 381 738 1,328
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £54,468 £59,431 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £100,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £135,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,360 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.11% +7.66% -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 1,387 2,079 4,312
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.22% 16.16% 13.96%
Number of salaries quoted 993 1,558 3,656
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,467 £83,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,875 £86,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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

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 28 March 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 27 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.47%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.43%) nginx
4 9 (1.56%) CMS
5 8 (1.39%) OpenStack
6 6 (1.04%) Drupal
6 6 (1.04%) WordPress
7 5 (0.87%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.87%) Apache
7 5 (0.87%) Apache Pulsar
8 4 (0.69%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.52%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.52%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.52%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.52%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.35%) Camunda
10 2 (0.35%) Confluence
10 2 (0.35%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.35%) IIS
10 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.69%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.35%) Weka
3 1 (0.17%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 9 (1.56%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.17%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 407 (70.66%) AWS
2 255 (44.27%) Azure
3 184 (31.94%) GCP
4 131 (22.74%) GitHub
5 90 (15.63%) Serverless
6 61 (10.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 59 (10.24%) Amazon S3
8 58 (10.07%) GitHub Actions
9 56 (9.72%) AWS Lambda
10 48 (8.33%) SaaS
11 47 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
12 40 (6.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 37 (6.42%) Amazon ECS
14 32 (5.56%) Pulumi
15 30 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
16 29 (5.03%) OpenShift
17 22 (3.82%) Datadog
17 22 (3.82%) dbt
17 22 (3.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 95 (16.49%) Broadband
2 14 (2.43%) TCP/IP
3 9 (1.56%) Firewall
4 7 (1.22%) Network Security
5 6 (1.04%) DHCP
5 6 (1.04%) DNS
5 6 (1.04%) VPN
6 5 (0.87%) AMQP
7 4 (0.69%) MQTT
8 3 (0.52%) HTTP
8 3 (0.52%) Internet
8 3 (0.52%) RTP
8 3 (0.52%) SCCP
8 3 (0.52%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.52%) VoIP
8 3 (0.52%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.35%) DSL
9 2 (0.35%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.35%) VLAN
10 1 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (14.24%) NoSQL
2 76 (13.19%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (9.03%) MongoDB
4 46 (7.99%) SQL Server
5 42 (7.29%) Relational Database
6 40 (6.94%) Amazon RDS
7 34 (5.90%) Elasticsearch
8 29 (5.03%) MySQL
9 26 (4.51%) Redis
10 19 (3.30%) DynamoDB
10 19 (3.30%) RDBMS
11 16 (2.78%) BigQuery
12 14 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (2.26%) Tableau
14 12 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (1.74%) Delta Lake
15 10 (1.74%) Pinecone
15 10 (1.74%) Weaviate
16 9 (1.56%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 93 (16.15%) Git
2 86 (14.93%) Jenkins
3 59 (10.24%) GitLab
4 27 (4.69%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.30%) Jaeger
6 17 (2.95%) Selenium
7 15 (2.60%) Cucumber
8 13 (2.26%) JMeter
8 13 (2.26%) MLflow
9 12 (2.08%) CircleCI
9 12 (2.08%) SonarQube
10 11 (1.91%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.91%) JUnit
11 9 (1.56%) JIRA
12 8 (1.39%) Maven
13 7 (1.22%) Visual Studio
14 6 (1.04%) Bitbucket
14 6 (1.04%) Locust
15 5 (0.87%) Storybook
15 5 (0.87%) Vite
General
1 132 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 74 (12.85%) Finance
3 39 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 20 (3.47%) Law
7 15 (2.60%) Banking
8 14 (2.43%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (2.08%) Legal
10 10 (1.74%) Retail
11 7 (1.22%) Games
12 6 (1.04%) Advertising
12 6 (1.04%) Front Office
12 6 (1.04%) Marketing
13 5 (0.87%) Aviation
13 5 (0.87%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.87%) Local Government
13 5 (0.87%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.87%) Military
13 5 (0.87%) Police
Job Titles
1 176 (30.56%) Developer
2 172 (29.86%) Senior
3 98 (17.01%) Lead
4 88 (15.28%) Software Engineer
5 58 (10.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 44 (7.64%) Senior Developer
7 42 (7.29%) Scala Engineer
8 39 (6.77%) Full-Stack Developer
9 36 (6.25%) Java Developer
10 30 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
10 30 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
11 29 (5.03%) Software Developer
12 27 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (4.51%) Lead DevOps
13 26 (4.51%) Python Developer
14 25 (4.34%) Data Engineer
15 24 (4.17%) .NET Developer
16 23 (3.99%) Scala Software Engineer
17 22 (3.82%) Scala Developer
18 20 (3.47%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (17.19%) React
2 81 (14.06%) .NET
3 76 (13.19%) Node.js
4 71 (12.33%) Spring
5 62 (10.76%) gRPC
5 62 (10.76%) Kafka
5 62 (10.76%) Spring Boot
6 55 (9.55%) RESTful
7 54 (9.38%) Django
7 54 (9.38%) REST
8 47 (8.16%) Elastic Stack
9 45 (7.81%) .NET Core
10 41 (7.12%) AngularJS
11 34 (5.90%) CSS
11 34 (5.90%) HTML
11 34 (5.90%) Vue
12 33 (5.73%) Flask
13 25 (4.34%) Akka
14 23 (3.99%) ASP.NET
14 23 (3.99%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 94 (16.32%) Cloud Native
2 88 (15.28%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (11.81%) Over-the-Top Content
3 68 (11.81%) Video\Live Streaming
4 47 (8.16%) Product Ownership
5 17 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.43%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.56%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.39%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
10 8 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.04%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.87%) Client/Server
12 5 (0.87%) Cyberattack
12 5 (0.87%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.87%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 122 (21.18%) Linux
2 51 (8.85%) Unix
3 25 (4.34%) Windows
4 17 (2.95%) Android
5 10 (1.74%) Ubuntu
5 10 (1.74%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.39%) CentOS
8 7 (1.22%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.87%) VMS
10 2 (0.35%) Debian
10 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (65.28%) CI/CD
2 307 (53.30%) Containerisation
3 287 (49.83%) DevOps
4 227 (39.41%) Agile
5 178 (30.90%) Microservices
6 173 (30.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 166 (28.82%) Software Engineering
8 156 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
9 107 (18.58%) Mentoring
10 104 (18.06%) AI
11 103 (17.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 100 (17.36%) Machine Learning
13 97 (16.84%) Full-Stack Development
14 89 (15.45%) Clean Code
15 80 (13.89%) Coaching
16 75 (13.02%) TDD
17 73 (12.67%) Data Science
18 72 (12.50%) Observability
18 72 (12.50%) Test Automation
19 67 (11.63%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 292 (50.69%) Python
2 148 (25.69%) Java
3 139 (24.13%) JavaScript
4 125 (21.70%) SQL
5 111 (19.27%) Go
6 86 (14.93%) Scala
7 71 (12.33%) C#
8 70 (12.15%) Bash
9 59 (10.24%) TypeScript
10 28 (4.86%) PHP
11 22 (3.82%) PowerShell
12 20 (3.47%) Bicep
13 14 (2.43%) C++
14 11 (1.91%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.39%) Delphi
16 6 (1.04%) Rust
17 5 (0.87%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.69%) C
18 4 (0.69%) Perl
18 4 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 78 (13.54%) Security Cleared
2 76 (13.19%) Degree
3 59 (10.24%) SC Cleared
4 39 (6.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (5.21%) AWS Certification
6 23 (3.99%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.43%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.87%) CISSP
9 5 (0.87%) GIAC
9 5 (0.87%) ISACA
9 5 (0.87%) SANS
10 3 (0.52%) LPIC
11 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.35%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.64%) QA
2 22 (3.82%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.08%) NIST
5 11 (1.91%) GDPR
6 10 (1.74%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.39%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.39%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.87%) WCAG
9 3 (0.52%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.35%) ECSS
11 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.87%) Firmware
3 5 (0.87%) VMware NSX
3 5 (0.87%) vSphere
4 4 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 3 (0.52%) Kamailio
5 3 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.35%) Ceph
6 2 (0.35%) Lustre
7 1 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.17%) vCloud
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 348 (60.42%) Kubernetes
2 217 (37.67%) Terraform
3 95 (16.49%) Ansible
4 66 (11.46%) Grafana
5 63 (10.94%) Prometheus
6 37 (6.42%) Argo
7 19 (3.30%) Kustomize
8 9 (1.56%) Puppet
9 8 (1.39%) Istio
10 7 (1.22%) Podman
11 5 (0.87%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.87%) Packer
12 4 (0.69%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.69%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.52%) Kibana
14 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.35%) MIIS
14 2 (0.35%) Nagios
14 2 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (10.76%) Google
2 53 (9.20%) Microsoft
3 45 (7.81%) Typelevel
4 24 (4.17%) Oracle
5 22 (3.82%) Databricks
6 15 (2.60%) Splunk
7 11 (1.91%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.56%) Palantir
9 8 (1.39%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.39%) Confluent
9 8 (1.39%) SAP
9 8 (1.39%) VMware
10 7 (1.22%) Dell
11 6 (1.04%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.87%) Epicor
12 5 (0.87%) Ericsson
12 5 (0.87%) Informatica
12 5 (0.87%) Mercator
12 5 (0.87%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.87%) Software AG