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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 33 31
Rank change year-on-year -52 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Docker 453 1,214 1,552
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.01% 7.42% 7.15%
As % of the System Software category 36.80% 47.59% 44.25%
Number of salaries quoted 324 670 1,307
10th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,438 £57,500 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +5.36% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £117,625 £96,250
UK median annual salary £71,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.07% +3.57% -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 1,231 2,551 3,507
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.19% 15.59% 16.15%
Number of salaries quoted 880 1,566 3,004
10th Percentile £28,910 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,798
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £73,813
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -

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 January 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 15 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (3.09%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.87%) nginx
4 7 (1.55%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.10%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.10%) Apache
5 5 (1.10%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.10%) ArcGIS
5 5 (1.10%) Drupal
5 5 (1.10%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.10%) WordPress
6 4 (0.88%) CMS
6 4 (0.88%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.88%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.66%) IIS
7 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.22%) Camunda
8 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.22%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.66%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.66%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.44%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (1.77%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 291 (64.24%) AWS
2 226 (49.89%) Azure
3 108 (23.84%) GitHub
4 105 (23.18%) GCP
5 61 (13.47%) Serverless
6 57 (12.58%) GitHub Actions
7 50 (11.04%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (10.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 41 (9.05%) AWS Lambda
10 34 (7.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 32 (7.06%) SaaS
12 31 (6.84%) Amazon S3
13 28 (6.18%) Amazon ECS
14 22 (4.86%) Pulumi
15 19 (4.19%) Datadog
15 19 (4.19%) OpenShift
16 17 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (3.75%) Azure AKS
17 15 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
17 15 (3.31%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.17%) Broadband
2 17 (3.75%) Firewall
3 15 (3.31%) VPN
4 11 (2.43%) DNS
4 11 (2.43%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.55%) Network Security
6 5 (1.10%) AMQP
7 4 (0.88%) WAN
8 3 (0.66%) DHCP
8 3 (0.66%) Internet
8 3 (0.66%) VLAN
9 2 (0.44%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.44%) LAN
9 2 (0.44%) SCCP
9 2 (0.44%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.44%) VSAN
10 1 (0.22%) 5G
10 1 (0.22%) SAN
10 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (17.44%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (14.35%) NoSQL
3 44 (9.71%) SQL Server
4 35 (7.73%) MySQL
5 32 (7.06%) Relational Database
6 30 (6.62%) MongoDB
7 25 (5.52%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (5.08%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (4.19%) Redis
10 14 (3.09%) DynamoDB
11 13 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (2.87%) RDBMS
12 11 (2.43%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.99%) Data Lake
14 8 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.77%) Tableau
15 7 (1.55%) Delta Lake
15 7 (1.55%) MariaDB
16 6 (1.32%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 69 (15.23%) Jenkins
2 65 (14.35%) Git
3 52 (11.48%) GitLab
4 26 (5.74%) TeamCity
5 13 (2.87%) Jaeger
6 12 (2.65%) JUnit
6 12 (2.65%) Selenium
7 10 (2.21%) SonarQube
8 9 (1.99%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.77%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.77%) MLflow
10 6 (1.32%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.32%) Storybook
11 5 (1.10%) JIRA
11 5 (1.10%) Maven
11 5 (1.10%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.88%) JMeter
12 4 (0.88%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.88%) Vite
13 3 (0.66%) TestRail
General
1 114 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 61 (13.47%) Finance
3 28 (6.18%) Public Sector
4 24 (5.30%) Telecoms
5 22 (4.86%) Law
6 21 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.43%) Marketing
9 10 (2.21%) Retail
10 9 (1.99%) Games
10 9 (1.99%) Legal
11 8 (1.77%) Banking
12 6 (1.32%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.10%) Front Office
13 5 (1.10%) Local Government
13 5 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.10%) Police
14 4 (0.88%) Electronics
15 3 (0.66%) Aviation
15 3 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 143 (31.57%) Senior
2 126 (27.81%) Developer
3 82 (18.10%) Lead
4 61 (13.47%) Software Engineer
5 55 (12.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 36 (7.95%) Senior Developer
7 28 (6.18%) Java Developer
8 26 (5.74%) Architect
8 26 (5.74%) Full-Stack Developer
9 25 (5.52%) Lead DevOps
9 25 (5.52%) Senior Software Engineer
10 24 (5.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 24 (5.30%) Software Developer
11 21 (4.64%) Azure Engineer
11 21 (4.64%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 20 (4.42%) Data Engineer
12 20 (4.42%) Python Developer
13 19 (4.19%) Development Engineer
14 18 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
15 16 (3.53%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (18.54%) React
2 77 (17.00%) .NET
3 54 (11.92%) Node.js
4 53 (11.70%) RESTful
5 49 (10.82%) Spring
6 47 (10.38%) Spring Boot
7 45 (9.93%) Kafka
8 43 (9.49%) Elastic Stack
8 43 (9.49%) REST
9 40 (8.83%) Django
10 33 (7.28%) .NET Core
10 33 (7.28%) AngularJS
11 30 (6.62%) CSS
11 30 (6.62%) Flask
11 30 (6.62%) HTML
12 25 (5.52%) Vue
13 23 (5.08%) Akka
14 22 (4.86%) FastAPI
15 17 (3.75%) gRPC
16 16 (3.53%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 97 (21.41%) Cloud Native
2 40 (8.83%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (6.84%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.86%) Over-the-Top Content
4 22 (4.86%) Video\Live Streaming
5 18 (3.97%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.65%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.21%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.77%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.32%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.32%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.32%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.32%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.10%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.88%) PKI
14 3 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 94 (20.75%) Linux
2 35 (7.73%) Unix
3 33 (7.28%) Windows
4 16 (3.53%) Android
5 14 (3.09%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.55%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.55%) VMS
7 6 (1.32%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.10%) CentOS
9 3 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.22%) Fedora
10 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (63.36%) CI/CD
2 245 (54.08%) DevOps
3 215 (47.46%) Containerisation
4 178 (39.29%) Agile
5 151 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 115 (25.39%) Problem-Solving
7 113 (24.94%) Microservices
8 103 (22.74%) Software Engineering
9 90 (19.87%) AI
10 82 (18.10%) Mentoring
11 72 (15.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 68 (15.01%) Observability
13 62 (13.69%) Full-Stack Development
14 57 (12.58%) TDD
15 56 (12.36%) Event-Driven
16 55 (12.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 50 (11.04%) Machine Learning
17 50 (11.04%) Test Automation
18 49 (10.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 46 (10.15%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 201 (44.37%) Python
2 118 (26.05%) JavaScript
3 115 (25.39%) SQL
4 108 (23.84%) Java
5 62 (13.69%) C#
6 55 (12.14%) Bash
7 48 (10.60%) Go
8 46 (10.15%) TypeScript
9 30 (6.62%) Scala
10 26 (5.74%) Bicep
11 25 (5.52%) PHP
11 25 (5.52%) PowerShell
12 11 (2.43%) C++
13 8 (1.77%) Delphi
14 5 (1.10%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.88%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.88%) Ruby
16 3 (0.66%) Groovy
16 3 (0.66%) Perl
17 2 (0.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 59 (13.02%) Security Cleared
2 53 (11.70%) Degree
3 43 (9.49%) SC Cleared
4 36 (7.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (6.84%) AWS Certification
6 20 (4.42%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.09%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.44%) CISA
9 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.44%) CISM
9 2 (0.44%) CISSP
9 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.44%) LPIC
9 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.18%) QA
2 15 (3.31%) GDPR
3 12 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.43%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (1.10%) ISO 9001
5 5 (1.10%) NIST
6 4 (0.88%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.44%) ECSS
7 2 (0.44%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.22%) SEPA
8 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (1.32%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.10%) vSphere
3 4 (0.88%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.44%) Ceph
5 2 (0.44%) Lustre
5 2 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.22%) Firmware
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.22%) vCloud
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 312 (68.87%) Kubernetes
2 197 (43.49%) Terraform
3 82 (18.10%) Ansible
4 68 (15.01%) Grafana
5 60 (13.25%) Prometheus
6 29 (6.40%) Argo
7 13 (2.87%) Kustomize
8 5 (1.10%) Puppet
9 4 (0.88%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.22%) Rancher
11 1 (0.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 38 (8.39%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.95%) Google
3 24 (5.30%) Oracle
4 18 (3.97%) Databricks
5 11 (2.43%) Splunk
6 10 (2.21%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.99%) SAP
8 7 (1.55%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.32%) Mercator
9 6 (1.32%) VMware
10 5 (1.10%) Dell
10 5 (1.10%) Epicor
10 5 (1.10%) Ericsson
10 5 (1.10%) IBM
10 5 (1.10%) Infor
10 5 (1.10%) Informatica
10 5 (1.10%) Nokia
10 5 (1.10%) Software AG
10 5 (1.10%) Talend
10 5 (1.10%) TIBCO