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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 44 56
Rank change year-on-year -43 +12 -26
Permanent jobs citing Docker 723 970 1,004
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.91% 5.86% 4.47%
As % of the System Software category 38.54% 50.63% 35.93%
Number of salaries quoted 551 317 595
10th Percentile £45,750 £46,400 £44,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +2.94% -3.65%

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 1,876 1,916 2,794
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.55% 11.57% 12.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,394 1,019 1,683
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £74,985 £72,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 29 September 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 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (2.90%) Apache
3 16 (2.21%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.38%) nginx
5 7 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.83%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.69%) Camunda
7 5 (0.69%) IIS
8 4 (0.55%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.55%) CMS
8 4 (0.55%) Confluence
8 4 (0.55%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.55%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.28%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.28%) Hedera
11 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) JBoss
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.66%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 430 (59.47%) Azure
2 429 (59.34%) AWS
3 240 (33.20%) GitHub
4 151 (20.89%) GitHub Copilot
5 139 (19.23%) GCP
6 74 (10.24%) GitHub Actions
7 72 (9.96%) Azure AI
8 67 (9.27%) Serverless
9 62 (8.58%) SaaS
10 50 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
11 45 (6.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 36 (4.98%) Azure Service Bus
13 35 (4.84%) Amazon S3
13 35 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
14 30 (4.15%) Azure AKS
15 29 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (3.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 27 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (3.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 25 (3.46%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.77%) Internet
2 18 (2.49%) Broadband
3 14 (1.94%) VPN
4 12 (1.66%) Firewall
5 11 (1.52%) AMQP
5 11 (1.52%) SMS
6 9 (1.24%) DNS
6 9 (1.24%) Network Security
7 8 (1.11%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.55%) SSH
9 3 (0.41%) HTTP
10 2 (0.28%) Intranet
10 2 (0.28%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.28%) LAN
10 2 (0.28%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.28%) VLAN
10 2 (0.28%) WAN
10 2 (0.28%) WireGuard
10 2 (0.28%) X.509
11 1 (0.14%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (23.37%) MongoDB
2 141 (19.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 124 (17.15%) PostgreSQL
4 58 (8.02%) Elasticsearch
5 54 (7.47%) Relational Database
5 54 (7.47%) SQL Server
6 50 (6.92%) NoSQL
7 39 (5.39%) MySQL
8 36 (4.98%) Redis
9 24 (3.32%) DynamoDB
10 20 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
11 17 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (1.52%) BigQuery
12 11 (1.52%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.83%) Delta Lake
13 6 (0.83%) Metadata
13 6 (0.83%) Power BI
13 6 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.69%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 141 (19.50%) Git
2 70 (9.68%) Jenkins
3 66 (9.13%) GitLab
4 28 (3.87%) JUnit
5 19 (2.63%) Selenium
6 18 (2.49%) Maven
7 16 (2.21%) Mockito
8 15 (2.07%) Cypress.io
8 15 (2.07%) JIRA
9 14 (1.94%) Claude Code
10 12 (1.66%) Postman
11 9 (1.24%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.83%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.83%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.83%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.83%) Gatling
12 6 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.83%) Storybook
13 5 (0.69%) Poetry
13 5 (0.69%) Subversion
General
1 176 (24.34%) Social Skills
2 108 (14.94%) Finance
3 58 (8.02%) Public Sector
4 44 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (4.70%) Advertising
6 30 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (3.04%) Aerospace
8 21 (2.90%) Marketing
9 15 (2.07%) Games
9 15 (2.07%) Law
10 13 (1.80%) Tech for Good
11 12 (1.66%) Banking
11 12 (1.66%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.52%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.11%) Retail
14 7 (0.97%) Legal
15 6 (0.83%) Electronics
16 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.41%) Local Government
17 3 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 312 (43.15%) Developer
2 187 (25.86%) Senior
3 142 (19.64%) .NET Developer
4 111 (15.35%) Software Engineer
5 75 (10.37%) Lead
6 64 (8.85%) Senior Developer
7 53 (7.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 49 (6.78%) Java Developer
9 45 (6.22%) Full-Stack Developer
10 32 (4.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 29 (4.01%) Senior Java Developer
12 28 (3.87%) Senior Software Engineer
13 24 (3.32%) Architect
13 24 (3.32%) Lead Developer
14 23 (3.18%) Data Engineer
15 21 (2.90%) Azure Engineer
15 21 (2.90%) Cloud Engineer
15 21 (2.90%) Platform Engineer
15 21 (2.90%) Python Engineer
15 21 (2.90%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (31.26%) .NET
2 192 (26.56%) Terraform
3 155 (21.44%) .NET Core
4 151 (20.89%) ASP.NET
5 149 (20.61%) React
6 138 (19.09%) Node.js
7 134 (18.53%) ASP.NET Core
8 114 (15.77%) REST
9 104 (14.38%) CSS
10 101 (13.97%) AngularJS
11 95 (13.14%) Spring
12 89 (12.31%) HTML
12 89 (12.31%) RESTful
13 79 (10.93%) Vue
14 71 (9.82%) Spring Boot
15 70 (9.68%) ML.NET
16 48 (6.64%) Kafka
17 40 (5.53%) Blazor
18 31 (4.29%) OAuth
18 31 (4.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 126 (17.43%) Cloud Native
2 65 (8.99%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (4.98%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (2.63%) Digital TV
5 18 (2.49%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.80%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.80%) Robotics
9 10 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (1.38%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.24%) IoT
11 8 (1.11%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.11%) Blog
11 8 (1.11%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.97%) Onboarding
12 7 (0.97%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.69%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 129 (17.84%) Linux
2 23 (3.18%) Windows
3 18 (2.49%) Ubuntu
4 8 (1.11%) Debian
5 7 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.97%) Unix
6 6 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (0.69%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.55%) Android
8 4 (0.55%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.41%) CentOS
9 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.41%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.14%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
10 1 (0.14%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (64.32%) CI/CD
2 303 (41.91%) Agile
3 254 (35.13%) Full-Stack Development
4 250 (34.58%) AI
5 244 (33.75%) DevOps
6 228 (31.54%) Containerisation
7 227 (31.40%) Microservices
8 215 (29.74%) Software Engineering
9 158 (21.85%) Infrastructure as Code
10 148 (20.47%) Mentoring
11 141 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
12 126 (17.43%) Machine Learning
13 123 (17.01%) Scrum
14 116 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 106 (14.66%) TDD
16 101 (13.97%) Test Automation
17 99 (13.69%) Observability
18 83 (11.48%) Event-Driven
19 79 (10.93%) Clean Code
20 69 (9.54%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 290 (40.11%) SQL
2 239 (33.06%) C#
3 227 (31.40%) Python
4 163 (22.54%) TypeScript
5 136 (18.81%) Java
6 133 (18.40%) JavaScript
7 74 (10.24%) Bash
8 40 (5.53%) PowerShell
9 27 (3.73%) Go
10 24 (3.32%) Ruby
11 21 (2.90%) Bicep
11 21 (2.90%) PHP
12 17 (2.35%) C++
13 16 (2.21%) Kotlin
13 16 (2.21%) PL/SQL
14 11 (1.52%) Groovy
14 11 (1.52%) Scala
15 9 (1.24%) C
15 9 (1.24%) Rust
16 6 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 116 (16.04%) Security Cleared
2 95 (13.14%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.92%) Degree
4 22 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.35%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.07%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.07%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.83%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.55%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.41%) GCFA
11 3 (0.41%) GIAC
11 3 (0.41%) OCP
11 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.99%) QA
2 33 (4.56%) Accessibility
3 27 (3.73%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.80%) WCAG
5 8 (1.11%) NIST
6 6 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.83%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.69%) GDPR
8 3 (0.41%) NCSC
8 3 (0.41%) SLA
9 2 (0.28%) AUTOSAR
9 2 (0.28%) MISRA
9 2 (0.28%) MISRA C
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.55%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.41%) iptables
5 2 (0.28%) KVM
5 2 (0.28%) QEMU
5 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 482 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 56 (7.75%) Ansible
3 48 (6.64%) Grafana
4 39 (5.39%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.21%) Puppet
6 14 (1.94%) Argo
6 14 (1.94%) Progress Chef
7 9 (1.24%) Istio
7 9 (1.24%) Podman
8 5 (0.69%) Packer
9 4 (0.55%) Kibana
9 4 (0.55%) linkerd
10 3 (0.41%) Cilium
10 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.28%) CASB
11 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.14%) Consul
12 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 188 (26.00%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.19%) Google
3 27 (3.73%) OpenAI
4 25 (3.46%) Oracle
5 19 (2.63%) Facebook
6 14 (1.94%) Okta
6 14 (1.94%) Ping Identity
7 12 (1.66%) Databricks
7 12 (1.66%) Informatica
7 12 (1.66%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.66%) Splunk
8 10 (1.38%) New Relic
9 9 (1.24%) VMware
10 7 (0.97%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.69%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.69%) IBM
12 4 (0.55%) ESRI
12 4 (0.55%) ForgeRock
12 4 (0.55%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.41%) AppDynamics