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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 32 54
Rank change year-on-year -46 +22 -23
Permanent jobs citing Docker 567 1,063 1,561
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.34% 8.15% 5.10%
As % of the System Software category 41.91% 50.24% 36.21%
Number of salaries quoted 378 730 1,325
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £54,601 £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 £135,375 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,079 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.56% +7.14% -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 1,353 2,116 4,311
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.96% 16.22% 14.09%
Number of salaries quoted 959 1,552 3,658
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,688 £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 £77,500 £83,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £86,475
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 24 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 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.47%) nginx
4 9 (1.59%) CMS
5 7 (1.23%) OpenStack
6 6 (1.06%) Drupal
6 6 (1.06%) WordPress
7 5 (0.88%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.88%) Apache
7 5 (0.88%) Apache Pulsar
8 4 (0.71%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.71%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.71%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.71%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.53%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.35%) Camunda
10 2 (0.35%) Confluence
10 2 (0.35%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.35%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.71%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.35%) Weka
3 1 (0.18%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 9 (1.59%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Magento
2 1 (0.18%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 397 (70.02%) AWS
2 258 (45.50%) Azure
3 176 (31.04%) GCP
4 129 (22.75%) GitHub
5 88 (15.52%) Serverless
6 59 (10.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 57 (10.05%) Amazon S3
7 57 (10.05%) GitHub Actions
8 54 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
9 48 (8.47%) SaaS
10 47 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
11 38 (6.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 35 (6.17%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (5.64%) Pulumi
14 29 (5.11%) Amazon EC2
14 29 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (5.11%) OpenShift
15 21 (3.70%) dbt
15 21 (3.70%) PaaS
16 20 (3.53%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 86 (15.17%) Broadband
2 14 (2.47%) TCP/IP
3 9 (1.59%) Firewall
4 7 (1.23%) Network Security
4 7 (1.23%) VPN
5 6 (1.06%) DHCP
5 6 (1.06%) DNS
6 5 (0.88%) AMQP
7 4 (0.71%) MQTT
8 3 (0.53%) HTTP
8 3 (0.53%) Internet
8 3 (0.53%) RTP
8 3 (0.53%) SCCP
8 3 (0.53%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.53%) VLAN
8 3 (0.53%) VoIP
8 3 (0.53%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.35%) DSL
9 2 (0.35%) SAN
9 2 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 78 (13.76%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (9.17%) MongoDB
4 48 (8.47%) SQL Server
5 42 (7.41%) Relational Database
6 39 (6.88%) Amazon RDS
7 34 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
8 29 (5.11%) MySQL
9 26 (4.59%) Redis
10 19 (3.35%) RDBMS
11 17 (3.00%) DynamoDB
12 16 (2.82%) BigQuery
13 14 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (2.29%) Tableau
15 12 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (1.76%) Delta Lake
16 10 (1.76%) Pinecone
16 10 (1.76%) Weaviate
17 9 (1.59%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 92 (16.23%) Git
2 83 (14.64%) Jenkins
3 59 (10.41%) GitLab
4 27 (4.76%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.35%) Jaeger
6 17 (3.00%) Selenium
7 14 (2.47%) Cucumber
8 13 (2.29%) MLflow
9 12 (2.12%) CircleCI
9 12 (2.12%) JMeter
9 12 (2.12%) SonarQube
10 11 (1.94%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.94%) JUnit
11 10 (1.76%) JIRA
12 7 (1.23%) Maven
12 7 (1.23%) Visual Studio
13 6 (1.06%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.88%) Locust
14 5 (0.88%) Robot Framework
14 5 (0.88%) Storybook
General
1 133 (23.46%) Social Skills
2 73 (12.87%) Finance
3 38 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (6.53%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.23%) Telecoms
6 20 (3.53%) Law
7 15 (2.65%) Banking
8 14 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (2.12%) Legal
10 10 (1.76%) Retail
11 7 (1.23%) Games
12 6 (1.06%) Front Office
12 6 (1.06%) Marketing
13 5 (0.88%) Advertising
13 5 (0.88%) Aviation
13 5 (0.88%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.88%) Local Government
13 5 (0.88%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.88%) Military
13 5 (0.88%) Police
Job Titles
1 174 (30.69%) Developer
1 174 (30.69%) Senior
2 99 (17.46%) Lead
3 87 (15.34%) Software Engineer
4 56 (9.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 46 (8.11%) Senior Developer
6 38 (6.70%) Full-Stack Developer
7 36 (6.35%) Java Developer
7 36 (6.35%) Scala Engineer
8 30 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
8 30 (5.29%) Platform Engineer
9 29 (5.11%) Software Developer
10 27 (4.76%) Python Developer
10 27 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
11 26 (4.59%) Lead DevOps
12 24 (4.23%) .NET Developer
13 23 (4.06%) Data Engineer
14 20 (3.53%) Python Engineer
14 20 (3.53%) Scala Software Engineer
14 20 (3.53%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (17.46%) React
2 85 (14.99%) .NET
3 76 (13.40%) Node.js
4 71 (12.52%) Spring
5 62 (10.93%) Kafka
5 62 (10.93%) Spring Boot
6 55 (9.70%) Django
6 55 (9.70%) RESTful
7 54 (9.52%) REST
8 53 (9.35%) gRPC
9 47 (8.29%) Elastic Stack
10 46 (8.11%) .NET Core
11 41 (7.23%) AngularJS
12 34 (6.00%) CSS
12 34 (6.00%) HTML
13 33 (5.82%) Flask
13 33 (5.82%) Vue
14 25 (4.41%) Akka
15 23 (4.06%) ASP.NET
15 23 (4.06%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 96 (16.93%) Cloud Native
2 79 (13.93%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (10.41%) Over-the-Top Content
3 59 (10.41%) Video\Live Streaming
4 47 (8.29%) Product Ownership
5 17 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.47%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.76%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
10 8 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.23%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.06%) Low-Code
13 5 (0.88%) Cyberattack
13 5 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.88%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.88%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 120 (21.16%) Linux
2 50 (8.82%) Unix
3 25 (4.41%) Windows
4 17 (3.00%) Android
5 11 (1.94%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.76%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.23%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.23%) CentOS
8 6 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.71%) VMS
10 1 (0.18%) Debian
10 1 (0.18%) Fedora
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (64.37%) CI/CD
2 300 (52.91%) Containerisation
3 285 (50.26%) DevOps
4 224 (39.51%) Agile
5 172 (30.34%) Infrastructure as Code
6 171 (30.16%) Microservices
7 160 (28.22%) Software Engineering
8 146 (25.75%) Problem-Solving
9 107 (18.87%) Mentoring
10 104 (18.34%) AI
11 101 (17.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 98 (17.28%) Full-Stack Development
13 91 (16.05%) Machine Learning
14 80 (14.11%) Clean Code
15 74 (13.05%) TDD
16 72 (12.70%) Test Automation
17 71 (12.52%) Observability
18 70 (12.35%) Coaching
19 67 (11.82%) Event-Driven
20 64 (11.29%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 283 (49.91%) Python
2 148 (26.10%) Java
3 139 (24.51%) JavaScript
4 126 (22.22%) SQL
5 101 (17.81%) Go
6 77 (13.58%) Scala
7 73 (12.87%) C#
8 68 (11.99%) Bash
9 59 (10.41%) TypeScript
10 28 (4.94%) PHP
11 23 (4.06%) PowerShell
12 20 (3.53%) Bicep
13 14 (2.47%) C++
14 10 (1.76%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.41%) Delphi
16 6 (1.06%) Rust
17 5 (0.88%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.71%) C
18 4 (0.71%) Perl
18 4 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 77 (13.58%) Degree
2 75 (13.23%) Security Cleared
3 56 (9.88%) SC Cleared
4 39 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (5.47%) AWS Certification
6 24 (4.23%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.29%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.88%) CISSP
9 5 (0.88%) GIAC
9 5 (0.88%) ISACA
9 5 (0.88%) SANS
10 3 (0.53%) LPIC
11 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
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%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.76%) QA
2 21 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.12%) NIST
5 11 (1.94%) GDPR
6 10 (1.76%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.41%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.41%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.71%) WCAG
10 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.35%) ECSS
12 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.06%) vSphere
4 5 (0.88%) Firmware
4 5 (0.88%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.53%) Kamailio
5 3 (0.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.35%) Ceph
6 2 (0.35%) Lustre
7 1 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.18%) vCloud
7 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 350 (61.73%) Kubernetes
2 216 (38.10%) Terraform
3 94 (16.58%) Ansible
4 64 (11.29%) Grafana
5 62 (10.93%) Prometheus
6 37 (6.53%) Argo
7 19 (3.35%) Kustomize
8 8 (1.41%) Istio
8 8 (1.41%) Puppet
9 6 (1.06%) Podman
10 5 (0.88%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.88%) Packer
11 4 (0.71%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.53%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.35%) Kibana
13 2 (0.35%) MIIS
14 1 (0.18%) Rancher
14 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 62 (10.93%) Google
2 53 (9.35%) Microsoft
3 36 (6.35%) Typelevel
4 25 (4.41%) Oracle
5 22 (3.88%) Databricks
6 14 (2.47%) Splunk
7 11 (1.94%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.59%) Palantir
9 8 (1.41%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.41%) Confluent
9 8 (1.41%) SAP
10 7 (1.23%) Dell
10 7 (1.23%) VMware
11 6 (1.06%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.88%) Fortinet
12 5 (0.88%) IBM
12 5 (0.88%) Infor
12 5 (0.88%) Mercator
12 5 (0.88%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.88%) Talend