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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 25 63
Rank change year-on-year -54 +38 -35
Permanent jobs citing Docker 596 1,258 1,373
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.13% 8.67% 4.18%
As % of the System Software category 39.92% 56.29% 33.20%
Number of salaries quoted 383 587 1,188
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +12.78% -5.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £98,474 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £67,750 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.67% +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 1,493 2,235 4,135
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.83% 15.40% 12.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,050 1,352 3,328
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,000 £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 £77,500 £77,500 £70,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,950 £85,000
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 27 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 (4.70%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.51%) nginx
4 8 (1.34%) Apache
4 8 (1.34%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.17%) CMS
6 4 (0.67%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.67%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.67%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.50%) Camunda
7 3 (0.50%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.50%) WordPress
8 2 (0.34%) Confluence
8 2 (0.34%) Drupal
8 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.34%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.50%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Shopify
2 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 408 (68.46%) AWS
2 257 (43.12%) Azure
3 166 (27.85%) GCP
4 136 (22.82%) GitHub
5 98 (16.44%) Serverless
6 60 (10.07%) Amazon S3
7 57 (9.56%) AWS Lambda
8 56 (9.40%) GitHub Copilot
9 52 (8.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 48 (8.05%) SaaS
11 45 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
12 38 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (6.21%) Amazon ECS
14 35 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
15 34 (5.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 29 (4.87%) Amazon EKS
17 28 (4.70%) Azure AI
18 27 (4.53%) Pulumi
19 23 (3.86%) Amazon SQS
20 22 (3.69%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (17.62%) Broadband
2 10 (1.68%) DNS
3 9 (1.51%) Firewall
4 8 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.17%) Network Security
5 7 (1.17%) VPN
6 6 (1.01%) DHCP
6 6 (1.01%) Internet
7 4 (0.67%) AMQP
7 4 (0.67%) HTTP
7 4 (0.67%) MQTT
8 3 (0.50%) RTP
8 3 (0.50%) SCCP
8 3 (0.50%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.50%) VLAN
8 3 (0.50%) VoIP
8 3 (0.50%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.34%) DSL
9 2 (0.34%) SAN
9 2 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (16.78%) MongoDB
2 78 (13.09%) PostgreSQL
3 71 (11.91%) NoSQL
4 49 (8.22%) Relational Database
5 45 (7.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 41 (6.88%) SQL Server
7 38 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
8 34 (5.70%) Elasticsearch
9 29 (4.87%) MySQL
10 24 (4.03%) DynamoDB
11 22 (3.69%) Redis
12 18 (3.02%) RDBMS
13 17 (2.85%) BigQuery
14 15 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
15 13 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (1.85%) Pinecone
16 11 (1.85%) Tableau
17 10 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
17 10 (1.68%) Weaviate
18 9 (1.51%) Looker
Development Applications
1 98 (16.44%) Git
2 77 (12.92%) Jenkins
3 54 (9.06%) GitLab
4 24 (4.03%) TeamCity
5 18 (3.02%) Cypress.io
5 18 (3.02%) Jaeger
6 16 (2.68%) CircleCI
6 16 (2.68%) Maven
7 13 (2.18%) JUnit
7 13 (2.18%) MLflow
8 11 (1.85%) JIRA
8 11 (1.85%) JMeter
8 11 (1.85%) Selenium
9 9 (1.51%) Mockito
10 8 (1.34%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.01%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.01%) Locust
11 6 (1.01%) Postman
11 6 (1.01%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.84%) Storybook
General
1 107 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 77 (12.92%) Finance
3 47 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (6.21%) Public Sector
5 16 (2.68%) Banking
6 14 (2.35%) Advertising
7 13 (2.18%) Law
8 11 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (1.68%) Retail
10 9 (1.51%) Games
10 9 (1.51%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.34%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.34%) Marketing
12 6 (1.01%) Aviation
12 6 (1.01%) Front Office
12 6 (1.01%) Legal
12 6 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.67%) Military
13 4 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 212 (35.57%) Developer
2 142 (23.83%) Senior
3 99 (16.61%) Lead
4 92 (15.44%) Software Engineer
5 54 (9.06%) .NET Developer
6 53 (8.89%) DevOps Engineer
7 42 (7.05%) Java Developer
7 42 (7.05%) Scala Engineer
8 39 (6.54%) Senior Developer
9 38 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
10 31 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
11 28 (4.70%) AWS Engineer
12 26 (4.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 26 (4.36%) Platform Engineer
13 25 (4.19%) Data Engineer
13 25 (4.19%) Senior Software Engineer
14 24 (4.03%) Software Developer
15 23 (3.86%) Scala Software Engineer
16 21 (3.52%) Scala Developer
17 20 (3.36%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (19.13%) React
2 107 (17.95%) .NET
3 98 (16.44%) Node.js
4 76 (12.75%) Spring
5 71 (11.91%) .NET Core
6 64 (10.74%) REST
7 61 (10.23%) AngularJS
7 61 (10.23%) RESTful
8 59 (9.90%) Spring Boot
9 57 (9.56%) Kafka
10 56 (9.40%) ASP.NET
11 51 (8.56%) ASP.NET Core
11 51 (8.56%) CSS
11 51 (8.56%) gRPC
12 46 (7.72%) HTML
13 41 (6.88%) Vue
14 34 (5.70%) Django
15 29 (4.87%) Elastic Stack
16 24 (4.03%) ML.NET
16 24 (4.03%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 102 (17.11%) Cloud Native
2 79 (13.26%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (11.24%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (11.24%) Video\Live Streaming
4 48 (8.05%) Product Ownership
5 15 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.18%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.85%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.51%) Digital TV
9 9 (1.51%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.17%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.17%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.17%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.17%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.84%) Cyberattack
12 5 (0.84%) IoT
12 5 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 109 (18.29%) Linux
2 29 (4.87%) Unix
3 12 (2.01%) Ubuntu
4 11 (1.85%) Windows
5 10 (1.68%) Android
6 8 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.01%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.84%) CentOS
9 4 (0.67%) VMS
9 4 (0.67%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.50%) Debian
11 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (66.44%) CI/CD
2 290 (48.66%) Containerisation
3 260 (43.62%) DevOps
4 248 (41.61%) Agile
5 197 (33.05%) Microservices
6 178 (29.87%) Software Engineering
7 171 (28.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 151 (25.34%) Full-Stack Development
9 141 (23.66%) AI
10 133 (22.32%) Problem-Solving
11 126 (21.14%) Mentoring
12 112 (18.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 112 (18.79%) Machine Learning
13 103 (17.28%) Scrum
14 101 (16.95%) Clean Code
15 96 (16.11%) TDD
16 83 (13.93%) Coaching
17 75 (12.58%) Test Automation
18 74 (12.42%) Observability
19 70 (11.74%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 271 (45.47%) Python
2 147 (24.66%) SQL
3 142 (23.83%) Java
4 133 (22.32%) JavaScript
5 106 (17.79%) C#
6 100 (16.78%) Go
7 95 (15.94%) TypeScript
8 87 (14.60%) Scala
9 77 (12.92%) Bash
10 26 (4.36%) PowerShell
11 22 (3.69%) PHP
12 16 (2.68%) Bicep
13 12 (2.01%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.85%) C++
14 11 (1.85%) Ruby
15 10 (1.68%) PL/SQL
16 8 (1.34%) Groovy
16 8 (1.34%) Rust
17 7 (1.17%) C
18 3 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 77 (12.92%) Security Cleared
2 64 (10.74%) SC Cleared
3 59 (9.90%) Degree
4 29 (4.87%) AWS Certification
5 22 (3.69%) Azure Certification
6 20 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.51%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.84%) CISSP
9 5 (0.84%) GIAC
9 5 (0.84%) ISACA
9 5 (0.84%) SANS
10 3 (0.50%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.34%) LPIC
11 2 (0.34%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (9.23%) QA
2 27 (4.53%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.01%) NIST
5 11 (1.85%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.68%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.51%) WCAG
8 5 (0.84%) GDPR
9 4 (0.67%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.50%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.17%) NCSC
11 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.84%) Firmware
4 3 (0.50%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.50%) 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
1 365 (61.24%) Kubernetes
2 197 (33.05%) Terraform
3 75 (12.58%) Ansible
4 53 (8.89%) Prometheus
5 44 (7.38%) Grafana
6 39 (6.54%) Argo
7 18 (3.02%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.52%) Podman
9 11 (1.85%) Istio
9 11 (1.85%) Puppet
10 9 (1.51%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.84%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.84%) Packer
12 4 (0.67%) Kibana
13 3 (0.50%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.50%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.34%) MIIS
14 2 (0.34%) Nagios
14 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (15.44%) Microsoft
2 64 (10.74%) Google
3 45 (7.55%) Typelevel
4 20 (3.36%) Databricks
4 20 (3.36%) Oracle
5 11 (1.85%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.51%) Palantir
7 8 (1.34%) Confluent
8 7 (1.17%) VMware
9 6 (1.01%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.01%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.01%) Splunk
10 5 (0.84%) Facebook
10 5 (0.84%) ForgeRock
10 5 (0.84%) HubSpot
10 5 (0.84%) Okta
10 5 (0.84%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.67%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.67%) ESRI
11 4 (0.67%) Fortinet