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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 45 59
Rank change year-on-year -44 +14 -29
Permanent jobs citing Docker 730 962 1,012
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.93% 5.72% 4.53%
As % of the System Software category 38.77% 50.26% 36.13%
Number of salaries quoted 557 312 601
10th Percentile £46,050 £46,275 £44,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +2.94% -3.65%

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 1,914 2,801
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.57% 11.37% 12.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,397 1,015 1,689
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £74,985 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £89,250 £85,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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

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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 3 October 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 23 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (2.88%) Apache
3 16 (2.19%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.37%) nginx
5 7 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.82%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.68%) Camunda
7 5 (0.68%) IIS
8 4 (0.55%) CMS
8 4 (0.55%) Confluence
9 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.41%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.41%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.27%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.27%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.27%) Hedera
11 1 (0.14%) JBoss
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.64%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 433 (59.32%) Azure
2 428 (58.63%) AWS
3 241 (33.01%) GitHub
4 151 (20.68%) GitHub Copilot
5 141 (19.32%) GCP
6 75 (10.27%) GitHub Actions
7 72 (9.86%) Azure AI
8 65 (8.90%) Serverless
9 61 (8.36%) SaaS
10 49 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (6.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 36 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
12 36 (4.93%) Azure Service Bus
13 35 (4.79%) Amazon S3
14 31 (4.25%) Azure AKS
15 27 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 27 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
16 25 (3.42%) Datadog
17 24 (3.29%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.74%) Internet
2 18 (2.47%) Broadband
3 16 (2.19%) VPN
4 13 (1.78%) Firewall
5 11 (1.51%) AMQP
5 11 (1.51%) SMS
6 9 (1.23%) DNS
6 9 (1.23%) Network Security
7 8 (1.10%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.55%) SSH
9 3 (0.41%) HTTP
10 2 (0.27%) Intranet
10 2 (0.27%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.27%) LAN
10 2 (0.27%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.27%) VLAN
10 2 (0.27%) WAN
10 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
10 2 (0.27%) X.509
11 1 (0.14%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (23.01%) MongoDB
2 141 (19.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 121 (16.58%) PostgreSQL
4 58 (7.95%) Elasticsearch
5 53 (7.26%) Relational Database
5 53 (7.26%) SQL Server
6 51 (6.99%) NoSQL
7 39 (5.34%) MySQL
8 35 (4.79%) Redis
9 24 (3.29%) DynamoDB
10 22 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
12 17 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (1.64%) BigQuery
14 11 (1.51%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.82%) Delta Lake
15 6 (0.82%) Metadata
15 6 (0.82%) Power BI
15 6 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 5 (0.68%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 137 (18.77%) Git
2 68 (9.32%) Jenkins
3 67 (9.18%) GitLab
4 30 (4.11%) JUnit
5 18 (2.47%) Maven
5 18 (2.47%) Mockito
5 18 (2.47%) Selenium
6 16 (2.19%) Cypress.io
7 15 (2.05%) JIRA
8 14 (1.92%) Claude Code
9 12 (1.64%) Postman
10 8 (1.10%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.82%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.82%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.82%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.82%) Gatling
11 6 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.82%) Storybook
12 5 (0.68%) Poetry
12 5 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 177 (24.25%) Social Skills
2 111 (15.21%) Finance
3 57 (7.81%) Public Sector
4 44 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (4.66%) Advertising
6 30 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (2.88%) Aerospace
7 21 (2.88%) Marketing
8 15 (2.05%) Games
8 15 (2.05%) Law
9 13 (1.78%) Tech for Good
10 12 (1.64%) Banking
10 12 (1.64%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.51%) Health Technology
12 8 (1.10%) Retail
13 7 (0.96%) Legal
14 6 (0.82%) Electronics
15 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.41%) Local Government
16 3 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 314 (43.01%) Developer
2 192 (26.30%) Senior
3 142 (19.45%) .NET Developer
4 113 (15.48%) Software Engineer
5 77 (10.55%) Lead
6 66 (9.04%) Senior Developer
7 53 (7.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 50 (6.85%) Java Developer
9 45 (6.16%) Full-Stack Developer
10 31 (4.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 29 (3.97%) Senior Java Developer
12 28 (3.84%) Senior Software Engineer
13 24 (3.29%) Architect
13 24 (3.29%) Lead Developer
14 23 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
14 23 (3.15%) Cloud Engineer
14 23 (3.15%) Data Engineer
15 21 (2.88%) Platform Engineer
16 20 (2.74%) Software Developer
17 19 (2.60%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (30.96%) .NET
2 193 (26.44%) Terraform
3 154 (21.10%) .NET Core
4 150 (20.55%) ASP.NET
5 149 (20.41%) React
6 140 (19.18%) Node.js
7 134 (18.36%) ASP.NET Core
8 115 (15.75%) REST
9 105 (14.38%) CSS
10 98 (13.42%) AngularJS
11 97 (13.29%) Spring
12 89 (12.19%) HTML
12 89 (12.19%) RESTful
13 78 (10.68%) Vue
14 74 (10.14%) Spring Boot
15 70 (9.59%) ML.NET
16 49 (6.71%) Kafka
17 40 (5.48%) Blazor
18 30 (4.11%) OAuth
19 29 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 129 (17.67%) Cloud Native
2 68 (9.32%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (4.93%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (2.60%) Digital TV
5 18 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (2.47%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.92%) AI Agents
7 14 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (1.92%) Robotics
8 10 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
8 10 (1.37%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.23%) IoT
10 8 (1.10%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.10%) Blog
10 8 (1.10%) Data Structures
11 7 (0.96%) Onboarding
11 7 (0.96%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.68%) Cyber Defence
12 5 (0.68%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 128 (17.53%) Linux
2 23 (3.15%) Windows
3 17 (2.33%) Ubuntu
4 8 (1.10%) Debian
5 7 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.96%) Unix
6 6 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (0.68%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.55%) Android
8 4 (0.55%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.41%) CentOS
9 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.41%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.14%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
10 1 (0.14%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (64.79%) CI/CD
2 305 (41.78%) Agile
3 256 (35.07%) AI
4 254 (34.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 245 (33.56%) DevOps
6 233 (31.92%) Containerisation
7 227 (31.10%) Microservices
8 218 (29.86%) Software Engineering
9 157 (21.51%) Infrastructure as Code
10 154 (21.10%) Mentoring
11 146 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
12 128 (17.53%) Machine Learning
13 121 (16.58%) Scrum
14 120 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 106 (14.52%) TDD
16 100 (13.70%) Observability
16 100 (13.70%) Test Automation
17 82 (11.23%) Event-Driven
18 79 (10.82%) Clean Code
19 71 (9.73%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 292 (40.00%) SQL
2 240 (32.88%) C#
3 232 (31.78%) Python
4 164 (22.47%) TypeScript
5 139 (19.04%) Java
6 137 (18.77%) JavaScript
7 74 (10.14%) Bash
8 42 (5.75%) PowerShell
9 27 (3.70%) Go
10 24 (3.29%) Ruby
11 23 (3.15%) Bicep
12 21 (2.88%) PHP
13 17 (2.33%) C++
14 16 (2.19%) Kotlin
15 15 (2.05%) PL/SQL
16 11 (1.51%) Scala
17 10 (1.37%) Groovy
18 9 (1.23%) C
18 9 (1.23%) Rust
19 5 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 115 (15.75%) Security Cleared
2 94 (12.88%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.26%) Degree
4 24 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.33%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.05%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.82%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.55%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.41%) GCFA
11 3 (0.41%) GIAC
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
12 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.77%) QA
2 32 (4.38%) Accessibility
3 27 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.64%) WCAG
5 10 (1.37%) NIST
6 8 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.68%) GDPR
7 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.68%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.41%) NCSC
8 3 (0.41%) SLA
9 2 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
9 2 (0.27%) MISRA
9 2 (0.27%) MISRA C
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.55%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.41%) iptables
5 2 (0.27%) KVM
5 2 (0.27%) QEMU
5 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 488 (66.85%) Kubernetes
2 53 (7.26%) Ansible
3 50 (6.85%) Grafana
4 39 (5.34%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.19%) Puppet
6 14 (1.92%) Progress Chef
7 13 (1.78%) Argo
8 9 (1.23%) Istio
8 9 (1.23%) Podman
9 5 (0.68%) Packer
10 4 (0.55%) linkerd
11 3 (0.41%) Cilium
11 3 (0.41%) Kibana
11 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.27%) CASB
12 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.14%) Consul
13 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 191 (26.16%) Microsoft
2 55 (7.53%) Google
3 29 (3.97%) OpenAI
4 25 (3.42%) Oracle
5 19 (2.60%) Facebook
6 14 (1.92%) Okta
6 14 (1.92%) Ping Identity
7 12 (1.64%) Databricks
7 12 (1.64%) Informatica
7 12 (1.64%) Splunk
8 11 (1.51%) Red Hat
9 10 (1.37%) New Relic
10 9 (1.23%) VMware
11 7 (0.96%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.68%) HubSpot
13 4 (0.55%) ForgeRock
13 4 (0.55%) IBM
13 4 (0.55%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.41%) ESRI
14 3 (0.41%) Perforce