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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 25 63
Rank change year-on-year -57 +38 -35
Permanent jobs citing Docker 601 1,258 1,368
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.13% 8.50% 4.12%
As % of the System Software category 39.83% 56.19% 33.15%
Number of salaries quoted 387 583 1,174
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £74,870 £65,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +13.87% -6.07%
75th Percentile £80,625 £97,528 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -2.10%

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 1,509 2,239 4,127
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.86% 15.13% 12.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,067 1,352 3,301
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% -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 30 May 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 30 (4.99%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (3.49%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.66%) Apache
4 8 (1.33%) nginx
4 8 (1.33%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.16%) CMS
6 5 (0.83%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.67%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.67%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.67%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.50%) Camunda
8 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.33%) Confluence
9 2 (0.33%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.33%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.33%) WordPress
10 1 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.17%) Moodle
10 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.50%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Shopify
2 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 412 (68.55%) AWS
2 261 (43.43%) Azure
3 166 (27.62%) GCP
4 136 (22.63%) GitHub
5 95 (15.81%) Serverless
6 60 (9.98%) GitHub Copilot
7 58 (9.65%) Amazon S3
8 54 (8.99%) AWS Lambda
9 52 (8.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 48 (7.99%) SaaS
11 42 (6.99%) GitHub Actions
12 37 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
14 35 (5.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 35 (5.82%) Azure DevOps
15 30 (4.99%) Azure AI
16 28 (4.66%) Amazon EKS
17 27 (4.49%) Pulumi
18 23 (3.83%) Amazon SQS
19 22 (3.66%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (17.47%) Broadband
2 10 (1.66%) DNS
2 10 (1.66%) Firewall
3 8 (1.33%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.16%) Internet
4 7 (1.16%) Network Security
4 7 (1.16%) VPN
5 6 (1.00%) DHCP
6 4 (0.67%) AMQP
6 4 (0.67%) HTTP
6 4 (0.67%) MQTT
7 3 (0.50%) RTP
7 3 (0.50%) SCCP
7 3 (0.50%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.50%) VLAN
7 3 (0.50%) VoIP
7 3 (0.50%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.33%) DSL
8 2 (0.33%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (17.30%) MongoDB
2 78 (12.98%) PostgreSQL
3 70 (11.65%) NoSQL
4 49 (8.15%) Relational Database
5 48 (7.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 41 (6.82%) SQL Server
7 35 (5.82%) Amazon RDS
8 34 (5.66%) Elasticsearch
9 30 (4.99%) MySQL
10 25 (4.16%) DynamoDB
11 22 (3.66%) Redis
12 18 (3.00%) RDBMS
13 17 (2.83%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (2.83%) BigQuery
14 13 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (1.83%) Pinecone
15 11 (1.83%) Tableau
16 10 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (1.66%) Weaviate
17 9 (1.50%) Looker
Development Applications
1 102 (16.97%) Git
2 76 (12.65%) Jenkins
3 57 (9.48%) GitLab
4 24 (3.99%) TeamCity
5 18 (3.00%) Cypress.io
5 18 (3.00%) Jaeger
6 16 (2.66%) CircleCI
6 16 (2.66%) Maven
7 15 (2.50%) JUnit
8 13 (2.16%) MLflow
9 12 (2.00%) Selenium
10 11 (1.83%) JIRA
11 10 (1.66%) JMeter
12 9 (1.50%) Mockito
13 8 (1.33%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.33%) Postman
14 7 (1.16%) SonarQube
15 6 (1.00%) Visual Studio
16 5 (0.83%) Locust
16 5 (0.83%) Storybook
General
1 109 (18.14%) Social Skills
2 77 (12.81%) Finance
3 47 (7.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (6.16%) Public Sector
5 16 (2.66%) Banking
6 15 (2.50%) Advertising
7 13 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (2.16%) Law
8 11 (1.83%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.66%) Retail
10 9 (1.50%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.50%) Games
11 8 (1.33%) Marketing
12 6 (1.00%) Aviation
12 6 (1.00%) Front Office
12 6 (1.00%) Legal
12 6 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.67%) Military
13 4 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 216 (35.94%) Developer
2 141 (23.46%) Senior
3 99 (16.47%) Lead
4 92 (15.31%) Software Engineer
5 57 (9.48%) .NET Developer
6 53 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 42 (6.99%) Scala Engineer
8 40 (6.66%) Java Developer
9 39 (6.49%) Full-Stack Developer
9 39 (6.49%) Senior Developer
10 30 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (4.83%) AWS Engineer
12 26 (4.33%) Data Engineer
12 26 (4.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 26 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
13 25 (4.16%) Software Developer
14 24 (3.99%) Senior Software Engineer
15 23 (3.83%) Scala Software Engineer
16 21 (3.49%) Scala Developer
17 20 (3.33%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (19.30%) React
2 109 (18.14%) .NET
3 98 (16.31%) Node.js
4 75 (12.48%) .NET Core
5 74 (12.31%) Spring
6 67 (11.15%) REST
7 62 (10.32%) AngularJS
7 62 (10.32%) RESTful
8 59 (9.82%) ASP.NET
9 57 (9.48%) Kafka
9 57 (9.48%) Spring Boot
10 54 (8.99%) ASP.NET Core
11 53 (8.82%) CSS
12 51 (8.49%) gRPC
13 48 (7.99%) HTML
14 42 (6.99%) Vue
15 34 (5.66%) Django
16 27 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
17 26 (4.33%) ML.NET
18 24 (3.99%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 103 (17.14%) Cloud Native
2 80 (13.31%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (11.15%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (11.15%) Video\Live Streaming
4 46 (7.65%) Product Ownership
5 17 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (1.83%) AI Agents
6 11 (1.83%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.50%) Digital TV
8 9 (1.50%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.33%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.16%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.16%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.16%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.83%) IoT
11 5 (0.83%) Life Science
11 5 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 111 (18.47%) Linux
2 29 (4.83%) Unix
3 13 (2.16%) Ubuntu
4 11 (1.83%) Windows
5 10 (1.66%) Android
6 8 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.00%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.83%) CentOS
9 4 (0.67%) Debian
9 4 (0.67%) VMS
9 4 (0.67%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (66.22%) CI/CD
2 289 (48.09%) Containerisation
3 261 (43.43%) DevOps
4 253 (42.10%) Agile
5 200 (33.28%) Microservices
6 181 (30.12%) Software Engineering
7 173 (28.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 158 (26.29%) Full-Stack Development
9 145 (24.13%) AI
10 134 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
11 128 (21.30%) Mentoring
12 115 (19.13%) Machine Learning
13 110 (18.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 104 (17.30%) Scrum
15 101 (16.81%) Clean Code
16 100 (16.64%) TDD
17 84 (13.98%) Coaching
18 77 (12.81%) Test Automation
19 70 (11.65%) Data Science
19 70 (11.65%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 267 (44.43%) Python
2 153 (25.46%) SQL
3 139 (23.13%) Java
4 131 (21.80%) JavaScript
5 110 (18.30%) C#
6 102 (16.97%) Go
7 98 (16.31%) TypeScript
8 87 (14.48%) Scala
9 78 (12.98%) Bash
10 26 (4.33%) PowerShell
11 22 (3.66%) PHP
12 16 (2.66%) Bicep
13 12 (2.00%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.83%) C++
14 11 (1.83%) Ruby
15 10 (1.66%) PL/SQL
16 8 (1.33%) Groovy
16 8 (1.33%) Rust
17 7 (1.16%) C
18 3 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (13.48%) Security Cleared
2 68 (11.31%) SC Cleared
3 60 (9.98%) Degree
4 29 (4.83%) AWS Certification
5 23 (3.83%) Azure Certification
6 21 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.50%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.83%) CISSP
9 5 (0.83%) GIAC
9 5 (0.83%) ISACA
9 5 (0.83%) SANS
10 3 (0.50%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.33%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.33%) LPIC
11 2 (0.33%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (8.82%) QA
2 29 (4.83%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.00%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.00%) NIST
4 11 (1.83%) WCAG
5 10 (1.66%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.83%) GDPR
7 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.50%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.17%) NCSC
8 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.83%) Firmware
4 3 (0.50%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.33%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.33%) vSphere
6 1 (0.17%) iptables
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) QEMU
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 367 (61.06%) Kubernetes
2 195 (32.45%) Terraform
3 75 (12.48%) Ansible
4 49 (8.15%) Prometheus
5 40 (6.66%) Grafana
6 38 (6.32%) Argo
7 18 (3.00%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.50%) Podman
9 12 (2.00%) Puppet
10 11 (1.83%) Istio
11 9 (1.50%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.83%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.83%) Packer
13 4 (0.67%) Kibana
14 3 (0.50%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.50%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.33%) MIIS
15 2 (0.33%) Nagios
15 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 95 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 64 (10.65%) Google
3 45 (7.49%) Typelevel
4 20 (3.33%) Databricks
4 20 (3.33%) Oracle
5 11 (1.83%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.50%) Palantir
7 8 (1.33%) Confluent
8 7 (1.16%) VMware
9 6 (1.00%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.00%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.00%) Splunk
10 5 (0.83%) Facebook
10 5 (0.83%) ForgeRock
10 5 (0.83%) HubSpot
10 5 (0.83%) Okta
10 5 (0.83%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.67%) ESRI
11 4 (0.67%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.50%) Mitel