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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 38 74
Rank change year-on-year -36 +36 -43
Permanent jobs citing Docker 735 1,099 932
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.23% 6.61% 3.74%
As % of the System Software category 39.03% 51.89% 32.18%
Number of salaries quoted 554 428 718
10th Percentile £45,750 £47,500 £43,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +8.53% -11.03%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £102,410 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.90% +7.41% -10.00%

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 1,883 2,118 2,896
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.28% 12.75% 11.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,408 1,236 2,091
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -11.50%

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 13 August 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 20 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.45%) Apache Spark
3 14 (1.90%) Apache
4 8 (1.09%) nginx
5 7 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.82%) IIS
7 5 (0.68%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.54%) Camunda
8 4 (0.54%) Confluence
9 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.41%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.41%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.27%) WordPress
11 1 (0.14%) Drupal
11 1 (0.14%) Moodle
11 1 (0.14%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 457 (62.18%) AWS
2 434 (59.05%) Azure
3 229 (31.16%) GitHub
4 184 (25.03%) GCP
5 153 (20.82%) GitHub Copilot
6 76 (10.34%) Azure AI
7 75 (10.20%) Serverless
8 54 (7.35%) SaaS
9 53 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
10 52 (7.07%) GitHub Actions
11 51 (6.94%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
13 39 (5.31%) Amazon S3
14 35 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
14 35 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
15 30 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
15 30 (4.08%) Azure AKS
16 29 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 25 (3.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 24 (3.27%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 52 (7.07%) Broadband
2 20 (2.72%) Internet
3 10 (1.36%) DNS
3 10 (1.36%) VPN
4 9 (1.22%) Firewall
4 9 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.54%) AMQP
5 4 (0.54%) DHCP
5 4 (0.54%) Network Security
5 4 (0.54%) SMS
5 4 (0.54%) SSH
6 3 (0.41%) HTTP
6 3 (0.41%) MQTT
7 2 (0.27%) Intranet
7 2 (0.27%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.27%) SAN
7 2 (0.27%) VLAN
7 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
8 1 (0.14%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (24.22%) MongoDB
2 144 (19.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 104 (14.15%) PostgreSQL
4 66 (8.98%) Elasticsearch
5 61 (8.30%) SQL Server
6 51 (6.94%) NoSQL
7 42 (5.71%) Relational Database
8 40 (5.44%) Redis
9 36 (4.90%) MySQL
10 28 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
11 21 (2.86%) DynamoDB
12 14 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
14 9 (1.22%) Data Lake
15 8 (1.09%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 7 (0.95%) Big Data
16 7 (0.95%) Power BI
17 6 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
17 6 (0.82%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 144 (19.59%) Git
2 72 (9.80%) Jenkins
3 56 (7.62%) GitLab
4 26 (3.54%) JUnit
5 20 (2.72%) Cypress.io
5 20 (2.72%) Selenium
6 19 (2.59%) Maven
7 17 (2.31%) JIRA
8 14 (1.90%) Mockito
9 12 (1.63%) CircleCI
9 12 (1.63%) Postman
10 11 (1.50%) Claude Code
10 11 (1.50%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.22%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.95%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.95%) Gatling
13 6 (0.82%) JMeter
13 6 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
14 5 (0.68%) Locust
General
1 164 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 109 (14.83%) Finance
3 54 (7.35%) Public Sector
4 50 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (5.31%) Advertising
6 22 (2.99%) Marketing
7 20 (2.72%) Aerospace
7 20 (2.72%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (2.18%) Games
9 15 (2.04%) Banking
9 15 (2.04%) Law
10 11 (1.50%) Legal
10 11 (1.50%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.82%) Electronics
11 6 (0.82%) Tech for Good
12 5 (0.68%) Retail
13 4 (0.54%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.54%) Military
13 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 313 (42.59%) Developer
2 171 (23.27%) Senior
3 149 (20.27%) .NET Developer
4 112 (15.24%) Software Engineer
5 82 (11.16%) Lead
6 53 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
7 49 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 44 (5.99%) Java Developer
9 41 (5.58%) Full-Stack Developer
10 32 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 31 (4.22%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
12 29 (3.95%) Senior Software Engineer
13 25 (3.40%) Data Engineer
14 23 (3.13%) Architect
14 23 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
14 23 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
14 23 (3.13%) Lead Developer
15 22 (2.99%) Senior Java Developer
16 20 (2.72%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (30.75%) .NET
2 160 (21.77%) .NET Core
3 157 (21.36%) ASP.NET
4 138 (18.78%) ASP.NET Core
5 128 (17.41%) React
6 122 (16.60%) Node.js
7 109 (14.83%) REST
8 105 (14.29%) CSS
9 104 (14.15%) AngularJS
10 95 (12.93%) HTML
11 83 (11.29%) RESTful
12 78 (10.61%) Spring
13 77 (10.48%) Vue
14 74 (10.07%) ML.NET
15 56 (7.62%) Spring Boot
16 51 (6.94%) Kafka
17 40 (5.44%) Blazor
18 39 (5.31%) gRPC
19 32 (4.35%) OAuth
20 30 (4.08%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 123 (16.73%) Cloud Native
2 77 (10.48%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 27 (3.67%) Over-the-Top Content
4 27 (3.67%) Video\Live Streaming
5 26 (3.54%) Product Ownership
6 21 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.72%) Digital TV
8 14 (1.90%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
10 11 (1.50%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.50%) IoT
10 11 (1.50%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.22%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.22%) Robotics
12 8 (1.09%) Blog
12 8 (1.09%) Onboarding
13 7 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 134 (18.23%) Linux
2 16 (2.18%) Windows
3 14 (1.90%) Ubuntu
4 11 (1.50%) Unix
5 8 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.95%) Debian
7 5 (0.68%) Android
7 5 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (0.68%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.54%) CentOS
9 3 (0.41%) VMS
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.27%) Solaris
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 487 (66.26%) CI/CD
2 308 (41.90%) Agile
3 286 (38.91%) Containerisation
4 264 (35.92%) DevOps
5 257 (34.97%) Full-Stack Development
6 245 (33.33%) Microservices
7 224 (30.48%) AI
8 218 (29.66%) Software Engineering
9 164 (22.31%) Infrastructure as Code
10 150 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
11 149 (20.27%) Machine Learning
12 136 (18.50%) Mentoring
13 129 (17.55%) Scrum
14 117 (15.92%) TDD
15 114 (15.51%) Continuous Improvement
16 100 (13.61%) Clean Code
17 96 (13.06%) Test Automation
18 86 (11.70%) Observability
19 81 (11.02%) Event-Driven
20 70 (9.52%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 261 (35.51%) SQL
2 257 (34.97%) Python
3 236 (32.11%) C#
4 149 (20.27%) TypeScript
5 132 (17.96%) JavaScript
6 119 (16.19%) Java
7 62 (8.44%) Bash
8 55 (7.48%) Go
9 40 (5.44%) Scala
10 35 (4.76%) PowerShell
11 25 (3.40%) Ruby
12 21 (2.86%) PHP
13 19 (2.59%) Bicep
14 17 (2.31%) C++
15 16 (2.18%) PL/SQL
16 15 (2.04%) Kotlin
17 10 (1.36%) Groovy
18 7 (0.95%) C
18 7 (0.95%) Rust
19 4 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 110 (14.97%) Security Cleared
2 91 (12.38%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.76%) Degree
4 19 (2.59%) Azure Certification
5 18 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.18%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.77%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.82%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.54%) CISSP
10 4 (0.54%) GIAC
10 4 (0.54%) ISACA
10 4 (0.54%) SANS
11 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.41%) OCP
11 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (9.25%) QA
2 35 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.59%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.45%) WCAG
5 12 (1.63%) NIST
6 7 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.54%) NCSC
10 3 (0.41%) GDPR
10 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
11 2 (0.27%) MISRA
11 2 (0.27%) MISRA C
11 2 (0.27%) SLA
12 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.14%) PSD2
12 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 22 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.54%) Firmware
5 3 (0.41%) iptables
5 3 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.27%) KVM
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.14%) QEMU
7 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 474 (64.49%) Kubernetes
2 188 (25.58%) Terraform
3 56 (7.62%) Ansible
4 50 (6.80%) Grafana
5 39 (5.31%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.72%) Puppet
7 16 (2.18%) Istio
7 16 (2.18%) Podman
8 12 (1.63%) Argo
8 12 (1.63%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.54%) linkerd
11 3 (0.41%) Kibana
11 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.27%) CASB
12 2 (0.27%) Cilium
12 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.27%) MIIS
12 2 (0.27%) Nagios
12 2 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 194 (26.39%) Microsoft
2 61 (8.30%) Google
3 27 (3.67%) Typelevel
4 23 (3.13%) Oracle
5 21 (2.86%) Facebook
6 18 (2.45%) Okta
7 15 (2.04%) Databricks
7 15 (2.04%) OpenAI
8 14 (1.90%) Ping Identity
8 14 (1.90%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.63%) Informatica
10 8 (1.09%) Confluent
10 8 (1.09%) ForgeRock
10 8 (1.09%) VMware
11 6 (0.82%) Splunk
12 5 (0.68%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.68%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.68%) IBM
12 5 (0.68%) New Relic
13 4 (0.54%) TIBCO