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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 33 76
Rank change year-on-year -44 +43 -45
Permanent jobs citing Docker 722 1,160 970
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.28% 7.05% 3.64%
As % of the System Software category 39.63% 53.31% 31.00%
Number of salaries quoted 550 479 778
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,132 £42,850
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +10.76% -10.34%
75th Percentile £77,424 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +6.62% -6.21%

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 1,822 2,176 3,129
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.27% 13.22% 11.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,379 1,274 2,346
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £85,000
UK median annual salary £53,688 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% - -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 30 July 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 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (2.35%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.66%) Apache
4 7 (0.97%) nginx
5 6 (0.83%) IIS
5 6 (0.83%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.69%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.55%) Confluence
8 3 (0.42%) Camunda
9 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.28%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Drupal
10 1 (0.14%) JBoss
10 1 (0.14%) Moodle
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 451 (62.47%) AWS
2 413 (57.20%) Azure
3 224 (31.02%) GitHub
4 183 (25.35%) GCP
5 151 (20.91%) GitHub Copilot
6 80 (11.08%) Serverless
7 74 (10.25%) Azure AI
8 53 (7.34%) SaaS
9 48 (6.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 48 (6.65%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (6.65%) GitHub Actions
10 41 (5.68%) Amazon S3
10 41 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
11 33 (4.57%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (4.57%) Amazon ECS
12 32 (4.43%) Azure Service Bus
13 31 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (4.16%) Azure AKS
15 24 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
16 23 (3.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (8.31%) Broadband
2 20 (2.77%) Internet
3 11 (1.52%) VPN
4 10 (1.39%) DNS
5 9 (1.25%) Firewall
5 9 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.69%) MQTT
7 4 (0.55%) DHCP
7 4 (0.55%) Network Security
7 4 (0.55%) SSH
8 3 (0.42%) AMQP
8 3 (0.42%) HTTP
8 3 (0.42%) SMS
9 2 (0.28%) Intranet
9 2 (0.28%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.28%) SAN
9 2 (0.28%) VLAN
9 2 (0.28%) WireGuard
10 1 (0.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (24.79%) MongoDB
2 140 (19.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 99 (13.71%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (8.86%) Elasticsearch
5 55 (7.62%) SQL Server
6 47 (6.51%) NoSQL
7 39 (5.40%) Relational Database
8 38 (5.26%) Redis
9 35 (4.85%) MySQL
10 29 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (2.63%) DynamoDB
12 14 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (1.25%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.11%) Data Lake
15 8 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 7 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
16 7 (0.97%) Delta Lake
17 6 (0.83%) Big Data
17 6 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 134 (18.56%) Git
2 69 (9.56%) Jenkins
3 58 (8.03%) GitLab
4 22 (3.05%) JUnit
5 19 (2.63%) Cypress.io
6 18 (2.49%) JIRA
6 18 (2.49%) Maven
6 18 (2.49%) Selenium
7 12 (1.66%) CircleCI
7 12 (1.66%) Mockito
8 10 (1.39%) Claude Code
8 10 (1.39%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.39%) Postman
9 7 (0.97%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.83%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.83%) Gatling
10 6 (0.83%) JMeter
10 6 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.69%) Subversion
General
1 156 (21.61%) Social Skills
2 100 (13.85%) Finance
3 45 (6.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 45 (6.23%) Public Sector
4 39 (5.40%) Advertising
5 21 (2.91%) Marketing
6 18 (2.49%) Aerospace
6 18 (2.49%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (2.08%) Games
8 13 (1.80%) Banking
9 11 (1.52%) Law
9 11 (1.52%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.11%) Legal
11 6 (0.83%) Electronics
12 5 (0.69%) Retail
12 5 (0.69%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.55%) Military
13 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.42%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 306 (42.38%) Developer
2 161 (22.30%) Senior
3 144 (19.94%) .NET Developer
4 111 (15.37%) Software Engineer
5 80 (11.08%) Lead
6 54 (7.48%) DevOps Engineer
7 45 (6.23%) Senior Developer
8 43 (5.96%) Full-Stack Developer
9 39 (5.40%) Java Developer
10 32 (4.43%) AWS Engineer
11 31 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 31 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
12 28 (3.88%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (3.60%) Data Engineer
14 24 (3.32%) Cloud Engineer
14 24 (3.32%) Scala Engineer
15 23 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
16 21 (2.91%) Lead Developer
16 21 (2.91%) Python Engineer
17 20 (2.77%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (29.64%) .NET
2 156 (21.61%) .NET Core
3 153 (21.19%) ASP.NET
4 137 (18.98%) ASP.NET Core
5 125 (17.31%) React
6 113 (15.65%) Node.js
7 104 (14.40%) AngularJS
8 103 (14.27%) CSS
9 99 (13.71%) REST
10 94 (13.02%) HTML
11 79 (10.94%) RESTful
12 78 (10.80%) Spring
13 77 (10.66%) Vue
14 73 (10.11%) ML.NET
15 59 (8.17%) Spring Boot
16 50 (6.93%) Kafka
17 45 (6.23%) gRPC
18 36 (4.99%) Blazor
19 30 (4.16%) Django
19 30 (4.16%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 124 (17.17%) Cloud Native
2 88 (12.19%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (4.99%) Over-the-Top Content
3 36 (4.99%) Video\Live Streaming
4 32 (4.43%) Greenfield Project
5 31 (4.29%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.77%) Digital TV
7 16 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.52%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.52%) IoT
12 9 (1.25%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.25%) Robotics
13 8 (1.11%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.11%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.97%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.97%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.97%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 134 (18.56%) Linux
2 16 (2.22%) Windows
3 14 (1.94%) Ubuntu
4 11 (1.52%) Unix
5 7 (0.97%) Debian
5 7 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.83%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.55%) Android
8 4 (0.55%) CentOS
9 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.42%) VMS
9 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (67.04%) CI/CD
2 295 (40.86%) Agile
3 288 (39.89%) Containerisation
4 259 (35.87%) DevOps
5 257 (35.60%) Full-Stack Development
6 251 (34.76%) Microservices
7 217 (30.06%) Software Engineering
8 214 (29.64%) AI
9 164 (22.71%) Infrastructure as Code
10 156 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
11 152 (21.05%) Machine Learning
12 132 (18.28%) Mentoring
13 123 (17.04%) Scrum
14 117 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 115 (15.93%) TDD
16 107 (14.82%) Clean Code
17 88 (12.19%) Test Automation
18 85 (11.77%) Observability
19 77 (10.66%) Event-Driven
20 74 (10.25%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 266 (36.84%) Python
2 246 (34.07%) SQL
3 226 (31.30%) C#
4 144 (19.94%) TypeScript
5 123 (17.04%) JavaScript
6 114 (15.79%) Java
7 63 (8.73%) Go
8 61 (8.45%) Bash
9 50 (6.93%) Scala
10 36 (4.99%) PowerShell
11 24 (3.32%) Ruby
12 22 (3.05%) PHP
13 21 (2.91%) Bicep
14 15 (2.08%) C++
15 13 (1.80%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.80%) PL/SQL
16 10 (1.39%) Groovy
17 8 (1.11%) Rust
18 7 (0.97%) C
19 4 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 92 (12.74%) Security Cleared
2 78 (10.80%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.89%) Degree
4 20 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 14 (1.94%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.66%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.69%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.55%) CISSP
9 4 (0.55%) GIAC
9 4 (0.55%) ISACA
9 4 (0.55%) SANS
10 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (9.00%) QA
2 34 (4.71%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.49%) Data Quality
4 17 (2.35%) WCAG
5 12 (1.66%) NIST
6 9 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.11%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.83%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.42%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.28%) GDPR
10 2 (0.28%) NCSC
11 1 (0.14%) AUTOSAR
11 1 (0.14%) MISRA
11 1 (0.14%) MISRA C
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
11 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.55%) Firmware
3 4 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.42%) iptables
4 3 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.28%) KVM
6 1 (0.14%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.14%) QEMU
6 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 471 (65.24%) Kubernetes
2 188 (26.04%) Terraform
3 55 (7.62%) Ansible
4 51 (7.06%) Grafana
5 43 (5.96%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.77%) Puppet
7 16 (2.22%) Istio
7 16 (2.22%) Podman
8 14 (1.94%) Argo
8 14 (1.94%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.69%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.69%) Kibana
10 4 (0.55%) linkerd
10 4 (0.55%) Packer
11 3 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.42%) Nagios
11 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.28%) CASB
12 2 (0.28%) MIIS
12 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 195 (27.01%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.20%) Google
3 36 (4.99%) Typelevel
4 20 (2.77%) Facebook
5 18 (2.49%) Oracle
6 17 (2.35%) Okta
7 16 (2.22%) Databricks
8 13 (1.80%) Ping Identity
9 10 (1.39%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.25%) Informatica
10 9 (1.25%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.11%) Confluent
11 8 (1.11%) ForgeRock
11 8 (1.11%) VMware
12 7 (0.97%) Splunk
13 5 (0.69%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.69%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.69%) IBM
13 5 (0.69%) New Relic
14 4 (0.55%) TIBCO