Docker Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Docker
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 59 32
Rank change year-on-year +20 -27 -15
Permanent jobs citing Docker 851 1,540 3,310
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.69% 4.55% 7.74%
As % of the System Software category 45.10% 35.25% 51.93%
Number of salaries quoted 697 1,269 2,209
10th Percentile £49,497 £43,750 £46,330
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £101,250 £82,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +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 1,887 4,369 6,374
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.62% 12.91% 14.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,533 3,497 4,708
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £86,550 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -2.35%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Docker trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Docker.

Docker salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Docker over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Docker salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 90 (10.58%) Apache Airflow
2 82 (9.64%) Apache
3 78 (9.17%) Apache Spark
4 39 (4.58%) Confluence
5 26 (3.06%) Jupyter
6 15 (1.76%) CMS
7 7 (0.82%) nginx
8 6 (0.71%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.47%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.24%) Drupal
10 2 (0.24%) IIS
10 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Mendix
11 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.24%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 482 (56.64%) AWS
2 380 (44.65%) Azure
3 213 (25.03%) GCP
4 158 (18.57%) Serverless
5 132 (15.51%) AWS Lambda
6 122 (14.34%) Amazon ECS
7 115 (13.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 89 (10.46%) dbt
9 88 (10.34%) OpenShift
10 83 (9.75%) Azure DevOps
11 77 (9.05%) GitHub
12 75 (8.81%) SaaS
13 64 (7.52%) Amazon EKS
14 49 (5.76%) Amazon S3
15 46 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
16 40 (4.70%) GitHub Actions
17 33 (3.88%) Azure Service Bus
18 28 (3.29%) Amazon SQS
18 28 (3.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 25 (2.94%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.23%) TCP/IP
2 17 (2.00%) Firewall
3 15 (1.76%) Internet
3 15 (1.76%) Network Security
4 11 (1.29%) DNS
5 6 (0.71%) Broadband
5 6 (0.71%) DHCP
5 6 (0.71%) HTTP
6 5 (0.59%) 5G
6 5 (0.59%) VLAN
7 2 (0.24%) MQTT
7 2 (0.24%) SSH
7 2 (0.24%) VPN
7 2 (0.24%) WAN
8 1 (0.12%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.12%) GSM
8 1 (0.12%) IPsec
8 1 (0.12%) LAN
8 1 (0.12%) SAN
8 1 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (12.22%) PostgreSQL
2 102 (11.99%) Elasticsearch
3 89 (10.46%) NoSQL
4 73 (8.58%) Amazon Athena
5 71 (8.34%) Apache Arrow
5 71 (8.34%) Apache Iceberg
5 71 (8.34%) Apache Ignite
5 71 (8.34%) Dremio
6 60 (7.05%) MySQL
7 43 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
8 40 (4.70%) SQL Server
9 39 (4.58%) MongoDB
10 38 (4.47%) Redis
11 37 (4.35%) Big Data
12 35 (4.11%) Relational Database
13 31 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
14 17 (2.00%) Power BI
15 15 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
16 14 (1.65%) Tableau
17 12 (1.41%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 184 (21.62%) Git
2 80 (9.40%) Jenkins
3 74 (8.70%) Artifactory
4 60 (7.05%) SonarQube
5 55 (6.46%) JIRA
6 43 (5.05%) GitLab
6 43 (5.05%) JUnit
7 41 (4.82%) Sonatype Nexus
8 32 (3.76%) Maven
9 27 (3.17%) Mockito
10 26 (3.06%) Octopus Deploy
10 26 (3.06%) Visual Studio
11 25 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
11 25 (2.94%) webpack
12 24 (2.82%) MSBuild
13 23 (2.70%) Jasmine
13 23 (2.70%) Karma Test Runner
13 23 (2.70%) Protractor
14 22 (2.59%) Eclipse
14 22 (2.59%) IntelliJ
General
1 301 (35.37%) Finance
2 184 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 173 (20.33%) Banking
4 117 (13.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 108 (12.69%) Front Office
6 68 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
7 43 (5.05%) Retail
8 35 (4.11%) Public Sector
9 15 (1.76%) Games
10 13 (1.53%) Marketing
11 10 (1.18%) Automotive
11 10 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.82%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.71%) Back Office
14 6 (0.71%) Legal
15 5 (0.59%) Advertising
15 5 (0.59%) Law
15 5 (0.59%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 266 (31.26%) Developer
2 209 (24.56%) Senior
3 184 (21.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 136 (15.98%) Python Engineer
5 126 (14.81%) Software Engineer
6 122 (14.34%) AWS DevOps
7 119 (13.98%) AWS Engineer
8 116 (13.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 95 (11.16%) Data Engineer
10 83 (9.75%) Lead
11 65 (7.64%) Software Developer
12 64 (7.52%) Architect
13 61 (7.17%) Java Developer
14 58 (6.82%) Senior Developer
15 50 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
16 40 (4.70%) Java Engineer
17 34 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
18 32 (3.76%) Data Scientist
19 29 (3.41%) Backend Developer
20 28 (3.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (19.98%) .NET
2 167 (19.62%) Kafka
3 141 (16.57%) React
4 106 (12.46%) Node.js
4 106 (12.46%) REST
5 82 (9.64%) Spring
6 78 (9.17%) AngularJS
6 78 (9.17%) RESTful
7 76 (8.93%) PySpark
8 73 (8.58%) J2EE
9 70 (8.23%) Spring Boot
10 69 (8.11%) HTML
11 57 (6.70%) CSS
12 56 (6.58%) Pandas
13 51 (5.99%) ASP.NET
14 46 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
15 45 (5.29%) Elastic Stack
16 40 (4.70%) Hibernate
17 39 (4.58%) .NET Core
18 38 (4.47%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 72 (8.46%) Cyberattack
2 68 (7.99%) Algorithms
3 63 (7.40%) Cloud Native
4 41 (4.82%) Management Information System
4 41 (4.82%) Product Ownership
5 33 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (2.23%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.23%) Private Cloud
7 17 (2.00%) Mobile App
8 16 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.65%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.65%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.18%) Legacy Code
12 9 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (1.06%) IoT
12 9 (1.06%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
13 8 (0.94%) Online Banking
14 7 (0.82%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 193 (22.68%) Linux
2 61 (7.17%) Android
3 35 (4.11%) Unix
4 32 (3.76%) Windows
5 9 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.59%) CentOS
8 4 (0.47%) Debian
9 2 (0.24%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.24%) VMS
9 2 (0.24%) zOS
10 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) Solaris
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 487 (57.23%) DevOps
2 453 (53.23%) CI/CD
3 428 (50.29%) Agile
4 393 (46.18%) Software Engineering
5 343 (40.31%) Containerisation
6 307 (36.08%) Microservices
7 167 (19.62%) Mentoring
8 157 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
9 131 (15.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 123 (14.45%) Design Patterns
11 112 (13.16%) Test Automation
12 111 (13.04%) Event-Driven
13 109 (12.81%) Infrastructure as Code
14 101 (11.87%) Asset Management
15 98 (11.52%) Data Engineering
16 96 (11.28%) Open Source
17 94 (11.05%) TDD
18 92 (10.81%) Collaborative Working
19 80 (9.40%) Full-Stack Development
19 80 (9.40%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 446 (52.41%) Python
2 363 (42.66%) Java
3 258 (30.32%) JavaScript
4 204 (23.97%) SQL
5 170 (19.98%) Go
6 110 (12.93%) C#
7 91 (10.69%) TypeScript
8 69 (8.11%) C++
9 61 (7.17%) Rust
10 51 (5.99%) Bash
11 35 (4.11%) PHP
12 29 (3.41%) PowerShell
13 17 (2.00%) C
14 11 (1.29%) Kotlin
15 9 (1.06%) Bicep
15 9 (1.06%) Ruby
15 9 (1.06%) Scala
15 9 (1.06%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.94%) Perl
17 7 (0.82%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 151 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 94 (11.05%) Degree
3 86 (10.11%) DV Cleared
4 66 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (6.11%) SC Cleared
6 35 (4.11%) AWS Certification
7 26 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (2.12%) Azure Certification
9 17 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (2.00%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.47%) PhD
11 3 (0.35%) Linux+ Certification
11 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.35%) OCP
11 3 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.35%) RHCE
12 2 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (5.76%) GDPR
2 34 (4.00%) QA
3 22 (2.59%) HIPAA
4 8 (0.94%) NCSC
5 7 (0.82%) NIST
6 6 (0.71%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.71%) CDISC
6 6 (0.71%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.35%) SLA
8 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.12%) Basel III
9 1 (0.12%) ECSS
9 1 (0.12%) GMP
9 1 (0.12%) IFRS
9 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.12%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (1.88%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.06%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.35%) Dovecot
5 3 (0.35%) Postfix
6 1 (0.12%) LXC
6 1 (0.12%) Samba
Systems Management
1 593 (69.68%) Kubernetes
2 355 (41.72%) Terraform
3 110 (12.93%) Ansible
4 46 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 37 (4.35%) Grafana
6 22 (2.59%) Istio
7 11 (1.29%) AWS Copilot
8 10 (1.18%) Argo
9 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.71%) Puppet
11 5 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.59%) Nagios
12 4 (0.47%) Kibana
13 3 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.35%) Rundeck
14 2 (0.24%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.24%) logstash
14 2 (0.24%) Packer
14 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (9.40%) Google
2 53 (6.23%) Microsoft
3 30 (3.53%) IBM
4 25 (2.94%) Databricks
5 18 (2.12%) Oracle
6 12 (1.41%) Splunk
6 12 (1.41%) VMware
7 9 (1.06%) Red Hat
8 8 (0.94%) New Relic
9 6 (0.71%) Confluent
9 6 (0.71%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.59%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.47%) IBM Sterling
11 4 (0.47%) Okta
12 3 (0.35%) Ping Identity
13 2 (0.24%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.24%) CA Agile Central
13 2 (0.24%) F5
13 2 (0.24%) Rapid7
13 2 (0.24%) Teradata