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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 36 30
Rank change year-on-year -55 -6 -7
Permanent jobs citing Docker 433 1,236 1,595
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.83% 6.29% 7.62%
As % of the System Software category 34.47% 43.61% 45.24%
Number of salaries quoted 340 654 1,338
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,125 £115,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £71,000 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +1.43% -0.82% -2.65%

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 1,256 2,834 3,526
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.22% 14.42% 16.84%
Number of salaries quoted 964 1,742 3,041
10th Percentile £28,803 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 29 November 2025.

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 15 (3.46%) nginx
2 13 (3.00%) Apache Solr
2 13 (3.00%) CMS
3 12 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.31%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.85%) IIS
6 5 (1.15%) Anypoint
6 5 (1.15%) Apache
6 5 (1.15%) Drupal
6 5 (1.15%) WordPress
7 4 (0.92%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.69%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.46%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.46%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.46%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.23%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.23%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Weka
2 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 265 (61.20%) AWS
2 249 (57.51%) Azure
3 103 (23.79%) GitHub
4 93 (21.48%) GCP
5 65 (15.01%) Azure DevOps
6 53 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
7 49 (11.32%) Serverless
8 41 (9.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 34 (7.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 29 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (6.47%) Amazon ECS
12 24 (5.54%) Azure AKS
13 23 (5.31%) SaaS
14 22 (5.08%) Amazon S3
14 22 (5.08%) OpenShift
15 19 (4.39%) Azure Service Bus
16 17 (3.93%) Datadog
17 15 (3.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 13 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
18 13 (3.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.70%) Firewall
2 13 (3.00%) VPN
3 10 (2.31%) DNS
3 10 (2.31%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.39%) Broadband
5 5 (1.15%) Internet
6 4 (0.92%) Network Security
7 3 (0.69%) AMQP
7 3 (0.69%) WAN
8 2 (0.46%) DHCP
8 2 (0.46%) InfiniBand
8 2 (0.46%) LAN
8 2 (0.46%) VLAN
8 2 (0.46%) VSAN
9 1 (0.23%) 5G
9 1 (0.23%) MIMO
9 1 (0.23%) NAS
9 1 (0.23%) NGN
9 1 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.23%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (17.32%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (13.39%) NoSQL
3 50 (11.55%) SQL Server
4 39 (9.01%) MySQL
5 32 (7.39%) Elasticsearch
6 29 (6.70%) MongoDB
7 22 (5.08%) Redis
8 21 (4.85%) Relational Database
9 20 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (2.31%) DynamoDB
12 9 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (1.85%) Tick Data
14 7 (1.62%) MariaDB
15 6 (1.39%) Data Lake
15 6 (1.39%) Power BI
16 5 (1.15%) Big Data
17 4 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
17 4 (0.92%) Tableau
18 3 (0.69%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 79 (18.24%) Git
2 49 (11.32%) GitLab
3 47 (10.85%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.00%) SonarQube
5 11 (2.54%) Octopus Deploy
5 11 (2.54%) Selenium
6 10 (2.31%) JUnit
7 9 (2.08%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.85%) JIRA
8 8 (1.85%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (1.85%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.15%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.15%) MSBuild
9 5 (1.15%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.92%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.92%) Maven
10 4 (0.92%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.69%) git-flow
11 3 (0.69%) TestRail
General
1 125 (28.87%) Social Skills
2 57 (13.16%) Finance
3 23 (5.31%) Public Sector
4 19 (4.39%) Telecoms
5 17 (3.93%) Law
5 17 (3.93%) Marketing
6 15 (3.46%) Retail
7 12 (2.77%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.31%) Games
9 9 (2.08%) Legal
10 6 (1.39%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.15%) Banking
11 5 (1.15%) Local Government
11 5 (1.15%) Police
11 5 (1.15%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.92%) Automotive
12 4 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.69%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 124 (28.64%) Developer
2 120 (27.71%) Senior
3 67 (15.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 59 (13.63%) Lead
5 44 (10.16%) Software Engineer
6 34 (7.85%) Architect
7 33 (7.62%) Senior Developer
8 30 (6.93%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (6.24%) Azure Engineer
10 26 (6.00%) Python Developer
11 22 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
11 22 (5.08%) Senior DevOps
12 21 (4.85%) .NET Developer
13 19 (4.39%) Data Engineer
13 19 (4.39%) Java Developer
13 19 (4.39%) Software Developer
14 18 (4.16%) Senior Software Engineer
15 17 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
16 16 (3.70%) Development Engineer
16 16 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (21.71%) .NET
2 71 (16.40%) React
3 53 (12.24%) RESTful
4 50 (11.55%) REST
5 41 (9.47%) Spring Boot
6 40 (9.24%) Spring
7 39 (9.01%) HTML
8 38 (8.78%) CSS
8 38 (8.78%) Kafka
9 37 (8.55%) Django
9 37 (8.55%) Node.js
10 36 (8.31%) AngularJS
11 34 (7.85%) .NET Core
12 33 (7.62%) Flask
13 32 (7.39%) Elastic Stack
14 25 (5.77%) FastAPI
15 24 (5.54%) Vue
16 21 (4.85%) RabbitMQ
17 20 (4.62%) Web Services
18 19 (4.39%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 107 (24.71%) Cloud Native
2 37 (8.55%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.39%) Onboarding
5 16 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.77%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.31%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.62%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.39%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.39%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.15%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.15%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.92%) PKI
13 3 (0.69%) BYOD
13 3 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.69%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 92 (21.25%) Linux
2 46 (10.62%) Windows
3 24 (5.54%) Unix
4 21 (4.85%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.08%) Android
6 6 (1.39%) CentOS
6 6 (1.39%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.39%) VMS
7 3 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.46%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.23%) Fedora
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (66.51%) CI/CD
2 253 (58.43%) DevOps
3 219 (50.58%) Containerisation
4 161 (37.18%) Agile
5 132 (30.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 121 (27.94%) Microservices
7 119 (27.48%) Problem-Solving
8 92 (21.25%) Software Engineering
9 76 (17.55%) AI
9 76 (17.55%) Mentoring
10 69 (15.94%) Observability
11 64 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 60 (13.86%) Full-Stack Development
13 49 (11.32%) Event-Driven
14 48 (11.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 46 (10.62%) Test Automation
16 43 (9.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 42 (9.70%) Machine Learning
18 38 (8.78%) Clean Code
19 37 (8.55%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 212 (48.96%) Python
2 127 (29.33%) SQL
3 109 (25.17%) JavaScript
4 85 (19.63%) C#
5 81 (18.71%) Java
6 53 (12.24%) Bash
7 44 (10.16%) PowerShell
7 44 (10.16%) TypeScript
8 28 (6.47%) Bicep
9 26 (6.00%) Go
10 23 (5.31%) PHP
11 9 (2.08%) C++
12 8 (1.85%) Delphi
13 6 (1.39%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.15%) Ruby
15 4 (0.92%) Scala
16 3 (0.69%) C
16 3 (0.69%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.69%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 57 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 41 (9.47%) Degree
3 39 (9.01%) SC Cleared
4 28 (6.47%) AWS Certification
4 28 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.16%) Azure Certification
6 14 (3.23%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.15%) CISM
8 5 (1.15%) CISSP
9 3 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.46%) CISA
10 2 (0.46%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.08%) QA
2 26 (6.00%) GDPR
3 10 (2.31%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.08%) HIPAA
4 9 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.62%) NIST
6 5 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.15%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.46%) ECSS
8 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) SEPA
8 1 (0.23%) SLA
8 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (1.62%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.92%) vSphere
5 3 (0.69%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.46%) Ceph
6 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.46%) Lustre
6 2 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.23%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.23%) Postfix
7 1 (0.23%) vCloud
7 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 288 (66.51%) Kubernetes
2 168 (38.80%) Terraform
3 70 (16.17%) Grafana
4 65 (15.01%) Ansible
5 51 (11.78%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.08%) Argo
7 5 (1.15%) Puppet
8 4 (0.92%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.46%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.46%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.23%) Rancher
11 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (11.78%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.00%) Google
3 23 (5.31%) Oracle
4 15 (3.46%) Databricks
5 11 (2.54%) Splunk
6 9 (2.08%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.85%) SAP
8 7 (1.62%) VMware
9 6 (1.39%) Mercator
10 5 (1.15%) Dell
10 5 (1.15%) Epicor
10 5 (1.15%) IBM
10 5 (1.15%) Infor
10 5 (1.15%) Informatica
10 5 (1.15%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.15%) SnapLogic
10 5 (1.15%) Software AG
10 5 (1.15%) Talend
10 5 (1.15%) TIBCO
10 5 (1.15%) Workday