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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 32 37
Rank change year-on-year -52 +5 -7
Permanent jobs citing Docker 493 1,234 1,708
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.12% 7.69% 6.22%
As % of the System Software category 37.86% 48.49% 40.78%
Number of salaries quoted 344 705 1,457
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £98,474 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £118,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 1,302 2,545 4,188
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.25% 15.85% 15.24%
Number of salaries quoted 922 1,572 3,618
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,125 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -5.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £87,500
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 2 February 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 18 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.25%) nginx
4 8 (1.62%) CMS
5 7 (1.42%) Apache Solr
6 6 (1.22%) Apache
7 5 (1.01%) Anypoint
7 5 (1.01%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (1.01%) ArcGIS
7 5 (1.01%) Drupal
7 5 (1.01%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.01%) WordPress
8 4 (0.81%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.81%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.41%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.41%) IIS
10 2 (0.41%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.20%) Camunda
11 1 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.81%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.81%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.41%) Weka
3 1 (0.20%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 9 (1.83%) Shopify
2 1 (0.20%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 322 (65.31%) AWS
2 227 (46.04%) Azure
3 121 (24.54%) GitHub
4 112 (22.72%) GCP
5 71 (14.40%) Serverless
6 63 (12.78%) GitHub Actions
7 56 (11.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (9.74%) AWS Lambda
10 41 (8.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 41 (8.32%) Amazon S3
11 36 (7.30%) SaaS
12 28 (5.68%) Pulumi
13 27 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
14 21 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (4.06%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (4.06%) Datadog
15 20 (4.06%) OpenShift
16 16 (3.25%) AWS Step Functions
16 16 (3.25%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (10.75%) Broadband
2 17 (3.45%) Firewall
3 15 (3.04%) VPN
4 12 (2.43%) DNS
5 11 (2.23%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.83%) Network Security
7 5 (1.01%) AMQP
8 4 (0.81%) DHCP
8 4 (0.81%) WAN
9 3 (0.61%) Internet
9 3 (0.61%) SCCP
9 3 (0.61%) VLAN
10 2 (0.41%) DSL
10 2 (0.41%) HTTP
10 2 (0.41%) LAN
10 2 (0.41%) RTP
10 2 (0.41%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.41%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.41%) VoIP
10 2 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (15.82%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (14.60%) NoSQL
3 46 (9.33%) SQL Server
4 42 (8.52%) Relational Database
5 39 (7.91%) MySQL
6 36 (7.30%) MongoDB
7 27 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (5.07%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (3.85%) RDBMS
10 18 (3.65%) Redis
11 15 (3.04%) DynamoDB
12 14 (2.84%) BigQuery
12 14 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (2.23%) Tableau
15 10 (2.03%) Delta Lake
16 9 (1.83%) Data Lake
16 9 (1.83%) Pinecone
16 9 (1.83%) Weaviate
17 8 (1.62%) Looker
Development Applications
1 75 (15.21%) Git
1 75 (15.21%) Jenkins
2 51 (10.34%) GitLab
3 27 (5.48%) TeamCity
4 19 (3.85%) Jaeger
5 16 (3.25%) Selenium
6 11 (2.23%) JUnit
6 11 (2.23%) MLflow
6 11 (2.23%) SonarQube
7 10 (2.03%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.62%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.42%) JMeter
10 6 (1.22%) Maven
11 5 (1.01%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.01%) JIRA
11 5 (1.01%) Robot Framework
11 5 (1.01%) Storybook
11 5 (1.01%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.01%) Vite
12 4 (0.81%) Postman
General
1 117 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 66 (13.39%) Finance
3 32 (6.49%) Public Sector
4 27 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (5.07%) Telecoms
6 21 (4.26%) Law
7 15 (3.04%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.03%) Marketing
8 10 (2.03%) Retail
9 8 (1.62%) Games
9 8 (1.62%) Legal
10 7 (1.42%) Banking
11 6 (1.22%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.01%) Aviation
12 5 (1.01%) Front Office
12 5 (1.01%) Local Government
12 5 (1.01%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.01%) Police
13 4 (0.81%) Electronics
14 3 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 154 (31.24%) Senior
2 142 (28.80%) Developer
3 88 (17.85%) Lead
4 67 (13.59%) Software Engineer
5 54 (10.95%) DevOps Engineer
6 38 (7.71%) Senior Developer
7 33 (6.69%) Full-Stack Developer
8 32 (6.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 31 (6.29%) Java Developer
10 27 (5.48%) Software Developer
11 26 (5.27%) Senior Software Engineer
12 25 (5.07%) Lead DevOps
13 23 (4.67%) Architect
14 22 (4.46%) Azure Engineer
14 22 (4.46%) Data Engineer
14 22 (4.46%) Python Developer
15 21 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
16 19 (3.85%) Development Engineer
16 19 (3.85%) Lead DevOps Engineer
17 18 (3.65%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (18.26%) React
2 80 (16.23%) .NET
3 64 (12.98%) Node.js
4 54 (10.95%) Spring
5 50 (10.14%) RESTful
5 50 (10.14%) Spring Boot
6 49 (9.94%) Elastic Stack
7 47 (9.53%) REST
8 46 (9.33%) Kafka
9 41 (8.32%) Django
10 36 (7.30%) .NET Core
11 35 (7.10%) AngularJS
12 31 (6.29%) CSS
12 31 (6.29%) HTML
13 30 (6.09%) Flask
14 29 (5.88%) Vue
15 26 (5.27%) gRPC
16 24 (4.87%) Akka
17 20 (4.06%) FastAPI
18 19 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 94 (19.07%) Cloud Native
2 47 (9.53%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (8.32%) Product Ownership
4 32 (6.49%) Over-the-Top Content
4 32 (6.49%) Video\Live Streaming
5 18 (3.65%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.43%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.03%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.62%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.22%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.22%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.22%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.01%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.01%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.81%) PKI
13 4 (0.81%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 111 (22.52%) Linux
2 46 (9.33%) Unix
3 35 (7.10%) Windows
4 17 (3.45%) Android
5 14 (2.84%) Windows Server
6 10 (2.03%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.42%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.42%) VMS
8 6 (1.22%) CentOS
9 4 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.20%) Fedora
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (63.08%) CI/CD
2 260 (52.74%) DevOps
3 239 (48.48%) Containerisation
4 188 (38.13%) Agile
5 164 (33.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 133 (26.98%) Problem-Solving
7 123 (24.95%) Microservices
7 123 (24.95%) Software Engineering
8 96 (19.47%) AI
8 96 (19.47%) Mentoring
9 81 (16.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 70 (14.20%) Full-Stack Development
11 64 (12.98%) Observability
12 61 (12.37%) Test Automation
13 60 (12.17%) Machine Learning
14 58 (11.76%) TDD
15 57 (11.56%) Event-Driven
16 54 (10.95%) Scrum
17 51 (10.34%) Computer Science
18 50 (10.14%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 231 (46.86%) Python
2 131 (26.57%) JavaScript
3 126 (25.56%) Java
4 123 (24.95%) SQL
5 68 (13.79%) Bash
6 67 (13.59%) Go
7 61 (12.37%) C#
8 57 (11.56%) TypeScript
9 44 (8.92%) Scala
10 27 (5.48%) PHP
11 26 (5.27%) Bicep
11 26 (5.27%) PowerShell
12 14 (2.84%) C++
13 8 (1.62%) Delphi
14 5 (1.01%) C
14 5 (1.01%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.01%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.81%) Ruby
15 4 (0.81%) Rust
16 3 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 67 (13.59%) Security Cleared
2 61 (12.37%) Degree
3 50 (10.14%) SC Cleared
4 38 (7.71%) AWS Certification
4 38 (7.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.65%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.64%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.61%) CISSP
10 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.41%) CISA
10 2 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.41%) CISM
10 2 (0.41%) CRISC
10 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.41%) LPIC
10 2 (0.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.49%) QA
2 15 (3.04%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.04%) GDPR
3 14 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.23%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.62%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.42%) NIST
7 5 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.01%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.41%) ECSS
9 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.20%) SEPA
9 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.22%) vSphere
3 5 (1.01%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.41%) Ceph
6 2 (0.41%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.41%) Lustre
6 2 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.20%) Firmware
7 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.20%) vCloud
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 326 (66.13%) Kubernetes
2 211 (42.80%) Terraform
3 91 (18.46%) Ansible
4 65 (13.18%) Grafana
5 63 (12.78%) Prometheus
6 35 (7.10%) Argo
7 19 (3.85%) Kustomize
8 5 (1.01%) Puppet
9 4 (0.81%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.81%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.61%) Packer
11 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.20%) Rancher
11 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 43 (8.72%) Google
2 40 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.68%) Oracle
4 19 (3.85%) Databricks
5 13 (2.64%) Splunk
6 10 (2.03%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.83%) SAP
7 9 (1.83%) Typelevel
8 8 (1.62%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.62%) Palantir
9 7 (1.42%) VMware
10 6 (1.22%) Mercator
10 6 (1.22%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.22%) TIBCO
11 5 (1.01%) IFS
11 5 (1.01%) Jitterbit
11 5 (1.01%) Mavenir
11 5 (1.01%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.01%) SnapLogic
11 5 (1.01%) Workday