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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 29 66
Rank change year-on-year -44 +37 -34
Permanent jobs citing Docker 664 1,233 1,348
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.27% 7.93% 3.88%
As % of the System Software category 40.86% 55.59% 32.61%
Number of salaries quoted 451 556 1,121
10th Percentile £44,259 £48,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +15.18% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £94,083 £83,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £125,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.29% -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 1,625 2,218 4,134
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.01% 14.26% 11.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,182 1,329 3,225
10th Percentile £32,050 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £41,036
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.84%
75th Percentile £76,238 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,410 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year - +6.06% -10.00%

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 22 June 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 (4.22%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.81%) Apache
4 9 (1.36%) nginx
5 7 (1.05%) CMS
6 6 (0.90%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.75%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.45%) IIS
9 2 (0.30%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.30%) Camunda
9 2 (0.30%) Confluence
9 2 (0.30%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.30%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.30%) WordPress
10 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.45%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Shopify
2 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.15%) Magento
3 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 430 (64.76%) AWS
2 322 (48.49%) Azure
3 186 (28.01%) GitHub
4 162 (24.40%) GCP
5 112 (16.87%) GitHub Copilot
6 88 (13.25%) Serverless
7 55 (8.28%) Azure AI
8 53 (7.98%) Amazon S3
9 51 (7.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 49 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
11 46 (6.93%) SaaS
12 39 (5.87%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (5.57%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
14 35 (5.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 35 (5.27%) Amazon ECS
15 27 (4.07%) Pulumi
16 26 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
16 26 (3.92%) Azure AKS
17 22 (3.31%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 109 (16.42%) Broadband
2 14 (2.11%) Internet
3 11 (1.66%) Firewall
4 10 (1.51%) DNS
5 7 (1.05%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.05%) VPN
6 6 (0.90%) Network Security
7 5 (0.75%) DHCP
8 4 (0.60%) HTTP
8 4 (0.60%) MQTT
9 3 (0.45%) AMQP
9 3 (0.45%) DSL
9 3 (0.45%) RTP
9 3 (0.45%) SCCP
9 3 (0.45%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.45%) VoIP
9 3 (0.45%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.30%) Intranet
10 2 (0.30%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (22.44%) MongoDB
2 98 (14.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 79 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
4 68 (10.24%) NoSQL
5 53 (7.98%) Relational Database
6 51 (7.68%) Elasticsearch
7 40 (6.02%) SQL Server
8 34 (5.12%) MySQL
9 32 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
10 28 (4.22%) Redis
11 23 (3.46%) DynamoDB
12 18 (2.71%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (2.71%) RDBMS
13 14 (2.11%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (1.81%) Delta Lake
15 11 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (1.51%) Tableau
17 9 (1.36%) Pinecone
18 8 (1.20%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 110 (16.57%) Git
2 84 (12.65%) Jenkins
3 61 (9.19%) GitLab
4 24 (3.61%) TeamCity
5 18 (2.71%) Jaeger
5 18 (2.71%) JIRA
6 17 (2.56%) Cypress.io
7 16 (2.41%) JUnit
8 15 (2.26%) Maven
9 14 (2.11%) CircleCI
9 14 (2.11%) Selenium
10 10 (1.51%) JMeter
11 9 (1.36%) Claude Code
11 9 (1.36%) MLflow
11 9 (1.36%) Mockito
11 9 (1.36%) Postman
12 8 (1.20%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.90%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.90%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.75%) Locust
General
1 119 (17.92%) Social Skills
2 76 (11.45%) Finance
3 49 (7.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 40 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 29 (4.37%) Advertising
6 17 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (2.41%) Marketing
8 13 (1.96%) Aerospace
9 12 (1.81%) Banking
9 12 (1.81%) Games
10 10 (1.51%) Law
10 10 (1.51%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.20%) Retail
12 6 (0.90%) Aviation
12 6 (0.90%) Legal
13 5 (0.75%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.60%) Military
14 4 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 271 (40.81%) Developer
2 147 (22.14%) Senior
3 102 (15.36%) .NET Developer
4 98 (14.76%) Software Engineer
5 93 (14.01%) Lead
6 51 (7.68%) DevOps Engineer
7 44 (6.63%) Full-Stack Developer
8 42 (6.33%) Scala Engineer
8 42 (6.33%) Senior Developer
9 41 (6.17%) Java Developer
10 31 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
10 31 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
11 30 (4.52%) Senior Software Engineer
12 29 (4.37%) Platform Engineer
13 25 (3.77%) Data Engineer
13 25 (3.77%) Software Developer
14 24 (3.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 23 (3.46%) Scala Software Engineer
16 21 (3.16%) Scala Developer
17 19 (2.86%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (24.70%) .NET
2 120 (18.07%) .NET Core
3 110 (16.57%) ASP.NET
4 109 (16.42%) React
5 106 (15.96%) Node.js
6 99 (14.91%) ASP.NET Core
7 88 (13.25%) AngularJS
8 82 (12.35%) CSS
9 77 (11.60%) HTML
10 74 (11.14%) Spring
11 71 (10.69%) REST
12 67 (10.09%) RESTful
13 66 (9.94%) Vue
14 59 (8.89%) Spring Boot
15 53 (7.98%) ML.NET
16 51 (7.68%) Kafka
17 49 (7.38%) gRPC
18 32 (4.82%) Django
19 27 (4.07%) OpenTelemetry
20 26 (3.92%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 115 (17.32%) Cloud Native
2 86 (12.95%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (10.09%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (10.09%) Video\Live Streaming
4 41 (6.17%) Product Ownership
5 24 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (2.41%) Digital TV
7 14 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.20%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.05%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.05%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.05%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.05%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.05%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.75%) Cyberattack
11 5 (0.75%) Life Science
11 5 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 132 (19.88%) Linux
2 31 (4.67%) Unix
3 14 (2.11%) Ubuntu
4 13 (1.96%) Windows
5 8 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.90%) Debian
7 5 (0.75%) Android
7 5 (0.75%) CentOS
7 5 (0.75%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.60%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.45%) VMS
9 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (65.21%) CI/CD
2 297 (44.73%) Agile
3 289 (43.52%) Containerisation
4 262 (39.46%) DevOps
5 230 (34.64%) Microservices
6 211 (31.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 197 (29.67%) Software Engineering
8 174 (26.20%) AI
9 171 (25.75%) Infrastructure as Code
10 138 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
11 135 (20.33%) Mentoring
12 134 (20.18%) Machine Learning
13 118 (17.77%) Scrum
14 117 (17.62%) TDD
15 116 (17.47%) Continuous Improvement
16 106 (15.96%) Clean Code
17 86 (12.95%) Coaching
18 78 (11.75%) Test Automation
19 76 (11.45%) Observability
20 74 (11.14%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 270 (40.66%) Python
2 201 (30.27%) SQL
3 173 (26.05%) C#
4 140 (21.08%) Java
5 128 (19.28%) JavaScript
6 125 (18.83%) TypeScript
7 95 (14.31%) Go
8 85 (12.80%) Scala
9 78 (11.75%) Bash
10 28 (4.22%) PowerShell
11 24 (3.61%) PHP
12 19 (2.86%) Bicep
13 15 (2.26%) Ruby
14 14 (2.11%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.51%) C++
15 10 (1.51%) PL/SQL
16 9 (1.36%) Groovy
17 8 (1.20%) Rust
18 7 (1.05%) C
19 3 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 80 (12.05%) Security Cleared
2 65 (9.79%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.73%) Degree
4 31 (4.67%) AWS Certification
5 23 (3.46%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.36%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.75%) CISSP
9 5 (0.75%) GIAC
9 5 (0.75%) ISACA
9 5 (0.75%) SANS
10 4 (0.60%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.45%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.30%) Linux+ Certification
12 2 (0.30%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.28%) QA
2 28 (4.22%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.81%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.81%) NIST
4 11 (1.66%) WCAG
5 10 (1.51%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.75%) GDPR
7 3 (0.45%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.60%) Firmware
3 4 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.45%) iptables
4 3 (0.45%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.15%) KVM
6 1 (0.15%) QEMU
6 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
6 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 427 (64.31%) Kubernetes
2 183 (27.56%) Terraform
3 75 (11.30%) Ansible
4 54 (8.13%) Prometheus
5 43 (6.48%) Grafana
6 35 (5.27%) Argo
7 18 (2.71%) Kustomize
8 17 (2.56%) Puppet
9 15 (2.26%) Podman
10 14 (2.11%) Istio
11 12 (1.81%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.90%) Packer
13 5 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.75%) Kibana
14 3 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.45%) linkerd
14 3 (0.45%) Nagios
14 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.30%) MIIS
15 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 151 (22.74%) Microsoft
2 65 (9.79%) Google
3 45 (6.78%) Typelevel
4 20 (3.01%) Databricks
5 19 (2.86%) Oracle
6 14 (2.11%) Facebook
7 9 (1.36%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.20%) Confluent
8 8 (1.20%) Splunk
8 8 (1.20%) VMware
9 7 (1.05%) Palantir
10 6 (0.90%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.75%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.75%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.75%) Okta
12 4 (0.60%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.60%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.45%) BT
13 3 (0.45%) Commvault
13 3 (0.45%) Dell