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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 25 61
Rank change year-on-year -50 +36 -33
Permanent jobs citing Docker 588 1,270 1,386
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.11% 8.70% 4.24%
As % of the System Software category 40.08% 56.47% 33.42%
Number of salaries quoted 376 599 1,201
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,950 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £81,250 £98,474 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -2.44%

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 1,467 2,249 4,147
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.75% 15.41% 12.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,024 1,365 3,340
10th Percentile £32,575 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,250 £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 £78,538 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £99,250 £108,750 £86,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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

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 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 28 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.40%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.87%) nginx
4 9 (1.53%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.36%) Apache
6 7 (1.19%) CMS
7 4 (0.68%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.68%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.68%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.51%) Drupal
8 3 (0.51%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.51%) WordPress
9 2 (0.34%) Camunda
9 2 (0.34%) Confluence
9 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.34%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.51%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Shopify
2 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 403 (68.54%) AWS
2 254 (43.20%) Azure
3 163 (27.72%) GCP
4 130 (22.11%) GitHub
5 99 (16.84%) Serverless
6 62 (10.54%) Amazon S3
7 58 (9.86%) AWS Lambda
8 54 (9.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 51 (8.67%) GitHub Copilot
10 46 (7.82%) SaaS
11 44 (7.48%) GitHub Actions
12 39 (6.63%) Amazon ECS
13 38 (6.46%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
15 34 (5.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 29 (4.93%) Amazon EKS
17 27 (4.59%) Pulumi
18 26 (4.42%) Azure AI
19 22 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
20 21 (3.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (17.86%) Broadband
2 10 (1.70%) DNS
3 9 (1.53%) Firewall
4 8 (1.36%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.19%) Network Security
5 7 (1.19%) VPN
6 6 (1.02%) DHCP
6 6 (1.02%) Internet
7 4 (0.68%) AMQP
7 4 (0.68%) HTTP
7 4 (0.68%) MQTT
8 3 (0.51%) RTP
8 3 (0.51%) SCCP
8 3 (0.51%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.51%) VLAN
8 3 (0.51%) VoIP
8 3 (0.51%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.34%) DSL
9 2 (0.34%) SAN
9 2 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (16.33%) MongoDB
2 74 (12.59%) PostgreSQL
3 73 (12.41%) NoSQL
4 46 (7.82%) Relational Database
5 43 (7.31%) SQL Server
6 42 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 38 (6.46%) Amazon RDS
8 33 (5.61%) Elasticsearch
9 29 (4.93%) MySQL
10 26 (4.42%) DynamoDB
11 22 (3.74%) Redis
12 18 (3.06%) RDBMS
13 17 (2.89%) BigQuery
14 15 (2.55%) Amazon Athena
15 13 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (2.04%) Tableau
17 11 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
17 11 (1.87%) Pinecone
18 10 (1.70%) Weaviate
19 9 (1.53%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 95 (16.16%) Git
2 78 (13.27%) Jenkins
3 56 (9.52%) GitLab
4 24 (4.08%) TeamCity
5 20 (3.40%) Cypress.io
6 18 (3.06%) Jaeger
7 17 (2.89%) Maven
8 16 (2.72%) CircleCI
9 13 (2.21%) MLflow
10 11 (1.87%) JMeter
10 11 (1.87%) JUnit
10 11 (1.87%) Selenium
11 10 (1.70%) SonarQube
12 9 (1.53%) JIRA
13 8 (1.36%) Mockito
14 7 (1.19%) Cucumber
15 6 (1.02%) Locust
15 6 (1.02%) Visual Studio
16 5 (0.85%) Postman
16 5 (0.85%) Storybook
General
1 101 (17.18%) Social Skills
2 77 (13.10%) Finance
3 46 (7.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (6.29%) Public Sector
5 15 (2.55%) Banking
6 12 (2.04%) Advertising
6 12 (2.04%) Law
7 11 (1.87%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (1.70%) Retail
9 8 (1.36%) Games
9 8 (1.36%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.19%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.19%) Marketing
10 7 (1.19%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.02%) Aviation
11 6 (1.02%) Front Office
11 6 (1.02%) Legal
12 4 (0.68%) Military
12 4 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 207 (35.20%) Developer
2 142 (24.15%) Senior
3 101 (17.18%) Lead
4 87 (14.80%) Software Engineer
5 53 (9.01%) DevOps Engineer
6 51 (8.67%) .NET Developer
7 42 (7.14%) Scala Engineer
8 40 (6.80%) Java Developer
9 39 (6.63%) Full-Stack Developer
10 38 (6.46%) Senior Developer
11 30 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
12 28 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
13 25 (4.25%) Data Engineer
13 25 (4.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 25 (4.25%) Platform Engineer
14 24 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
15 23 (3.91%) Scala Software Engineer
15 23 (3.91%) Software Developer
16 21 (3.57%) Scala Developer
17 20 (3.40%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (18.88%) React
2 104 (17.69%) .NET
3 96 (16.33%) Node.js
4 74 (12.59%) Spring
5 69 (11.73%) .NET Core
6 61 (10.37%) REST
7 60 (10.20%) AngularJS
8 59 (10.03%) Spring Boot
9 57 (9.69%) RESTful
10 56 (9.52%) Kafka
11 53 (9.01%) ASP.NET
12 52 (8.84%) gRPC
13 48 (8.16%) ASP.NET Core
13 48 (8.16%) CSS
14 43 (7.31%) HTML
15 39 (6.63%) Vue
16 33 (5.61%) Django
17 29 (4.93%) Elastic Stack
18 24 (4.08%) OpenTelemetry
19 23 (3.91%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 101 (17.18%) Cloud Native
2 78 (13.27%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (11.39%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (11.39%) Video\Live Streaming
4 48 (8.16%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (1.87%) AI Agents
6 11 (1.87%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.53%) Digital TV
8 9 (1.53%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.19%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.19%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.19%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.19%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.85%) Cyberattack
11 5 (0.85%) IoT
11 5 (0.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 109 (18.54%) Linux
2 29 (4.93%) Unix
3 12 (2.04%) Ubuntu
4 11 (1.87%) Android
4 11 (1.87%) Windows
5 8 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.85%) CentOS
8 4 (0.68%) VMS
8 4 (0.68%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.51%) Debian
10 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (65.99%) CI/CD
2 289 (49.15%) Containerisation
3 261 (44.39%) DevOps
4 244 (41.50%) Agile
5 191 (32.48%) Microservices
6 173 (29.42%) Software Engineering
7 169 (28.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 147 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 134 (22.79%) Problem-Solving
10 131 (22.28%) AI
11 119 (20.24%) Mentoring
12 113 (19.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 108 (18.37%) Machine Learning
14 99 (16.84%) Clean Code
14 99 (16.84%) Scrum
15 93 (15.82%) TDD
16 83 (14.12%) Coaching
17 73 (12.41%) Test Automation
18 72 (12.24%) Observability
19 70 (11.90%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 270 (45.92%) Python
2 145 (24.66%) SQL
3 141 (23.98%) Java
4 129 (21.94%) JavaScript
5 102 (17.35%) C#
6 100 (17.01%) Go
7 90 (15.31%) TypeScript
8 87 (14.80%) Scala
9 77 (13.10%) Bash
10 25 (4.25%) PowerShell
11 20 (3.40%) PHP
12 15 (2.55%) Bicep
13 12 (2.04%) C++
14 11 (1.87%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.70%) Ruby
16 9 (1.53%) Groovy
16 9 (1.53%) PL/SQL
17 8 (1.36%) Rust
18 7 (1.19%) C
19 4 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 76 (12.93%) Security Cleared
2 63 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 61 (10.37%) Degree
4 30 (5.10%) AWS Certification
5 23 (3.91%) Azure Certification
6 22 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.36%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.85%) CISSP
9 5 (0.85%) GIAC
9 5 (0.85%) ISACA
9 5 (0.85%) SANS
10 3 (0.51%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.51%) LPIC
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.34%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (9.18%) QA
2 25 (4.25%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.04%) Data Quality
4 12 (2.04%) NIST
5 10 (1.70%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.53%) WCAG
7 5 (0.85%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.68%) GDPR
9 3 (0.51%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.17%) NCSC
11 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.85%) Firmware
4 3 (0.51%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.34%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.34%) vSphere
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) QEMU
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 357 (60.71%) Kubernetes
2 197 (33.50%) Terraform
3 77 (13.10%) Ansible
4 53 (9.01%) Prometheus
5 45 (7.65%) Grafana
6 39 (6.63%) Argo
7 18 (3.06%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.55%) Podman
9 12 (2.04%) Puppet
10 10 (1.70%) Istio
11 9 (1.53%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.85%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.85%) HP Fortify
12 5 (0.85%) Packer
13 4 (0.68%) Kibana
14 3 (0.51%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.34%) MIIS
15 2 (0.34%) Nagios
15 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (14.80%) Microsoft
2 62 (10.54%) Google
3 45 (7.65%) Typelevel
4 21 (3.57%) Databricks
5 19 (3.23%) Oracle
6 11 (1.87%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.53%) Palantir
8 8 (1.36%) Confluent
9 7 (1.19%) VMware
10 6 (1.02%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.85%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.85%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.85%) Okta
11 5 (0.85%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.85%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.85%) Splunk
12 4 (0.68%) ESRI
12 4 (0.68%) Facebook
12 4 (0.68%) Fortinet
13 3 (0.51%) Dell