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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 33 71
Rank change year-on-year -44 +38 -38
Permanent jobs citing Docker 703 1,219 1,190
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.30% 7.40% 3.71%
As % of the System Software category 39.92% 54.23% 31.01%
Number of salaries quoted 520 535 982
10th Percentile £43,933 £48,399 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £51,783
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +15.18% -9.09%
75th Percentile £77,443 £90,000 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £120,000 £97,500
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 1,761 2,248 3,837
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.26% 13.65% 11.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,332 1,351 2,973
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,556
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +0.81% -10.56%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £48,925
% change year-on-year - +7.31% -11.05%

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 11 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 24 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.28%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.71%) Apache
4 10 (1.42%) nginx
5 6 (0.85%) IIS
5 6 (0.85%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.71%) CMS
6 5 (0.71%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.28%) Camunda
7 2 (0.28%) Confluence
7 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.28%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.28%) WordPress
8 1 (0.14%) Drupal
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.14%) EngageOne
1 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
2 1 (0.14%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 436 (62.02%) AWS
2 378 (53.77%) Azure
3 225 (32.01%) GitHub
4 173 (24.61%) GCP
5 151 (21.48%) GitHub Copilot
6 86 (12.23%) Serverless
7 75 (10.67%) Azure AI
8 52 (7.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 51 (7.25%) Amazon S3
10 45 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
10 45 (6.40%) GitHub Actions
11 43 (6.12%) SaaS
12 42 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
13 37 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
15 30 (4.27%) Azure AKS
16 28 (3.98%) Azure Service Bus
17 26 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
18 25 (3.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 85 (12.09%) Broadband
2 20 (2.84%) Internet
3 11 (1.56%) DNS
3 11 (1.56%) VPN
4 10 (1.42%) Firewall
5 8 (1.14%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.71%) DHCP
6 5 (0.71%) HTTP
6 5 (0.71%) MQTT
7 4 (0.57%) Network Security
8 3 (0.43%) DSL
8 3 (0.43%) RTP
8 3 (0.43%) SSH
8 3 (0.43%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.43%) VoIP
8 3 (0.43%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.28%) Intranet
9 2 (0.28%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.28%) SAN
9 2 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (26.46%) MongoDB
2 137 (19.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 90 (12.80%) PostgreSQL
4 63 (8.96%) Elasticsearch
5 55 (7.82%) NoSQL
6 46 (6.54%) Relational Database
6 46 (6.54%) SQL Server
7 37 (5.26%) MySQL
8 33 (4.69%) Redis
9 28 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
10 21 (2.99%) DynamoDB
11 16 (2.28%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (1.56%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (1.28%) Delta Lake
14 8 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (1.00%) Data Lake
15 7 (1.00%) Tableau
16 6 (0.85%) Pinecone
16 6 (0.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 111 (15.79%) Git
2 74 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 54 (7.68%) GitLab
4 17 (2.42%) JIRA
5 16 (2.28%) Cypress.io
5 16 (2.28%) Maven
6 15 (2.13%) JUnit
7 14 (1.99%) CircleCI
7 14 (1.99%) Selenium
8 12 (1.71%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.42%) Claude Code
10 9 (1.28%) JMeter
10 9 (1.28%) Mockito
11 8 (1.14%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.14%) Postman
12 7 (1.00%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.85%) Jaeger
13 6 (0.85%) MLflow
13 6 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.71%) Locust
General
1 134 (19.06%) Social Skills
2 84 (11.95%) Finance
3 41 (5.83%) Public Sector
4 40 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (5.55%) Advertising
6 22 (3.13%) Marketing
7 17 (2.42%) Aerospace
7 17 (2.42%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (2.13%) Games
9 12 (1.71%) Banking
10 11 (1.56%) Law
11 10 (1.42%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.85%) Legal
12 6 (0.85%) Retail
13 5 (0.71%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.57%) Aviation
14 4 (0.57%) Military
15 3 (0.43%) Electronics
15 3 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 304 (43.24%) Developer
2 154 (21.91%) Senior
3 139 (19.77%) .NET Developer
4 104 (14.79%) Software Engineer
5 82 (11.66%) Lead
6 54 (7.68%) DevOps Engineer
7 45 (6.40%) Full-Stack Developer
8 41 (5.83%) Senior Developer
9 38 (5.41%) Java Developer
10 36 (5.12%) Scala Engineer
11 32 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
12 30 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
13 29 (4.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 29 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
14 28 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
15 23 (3.27%) Data Engineer
16 22 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
16 22 (3.13%) Software Developer
17 20 (2.84%) Python Engineer
18 19 (2.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (29.02%) .NET
2 153 (21.76%) .NET Core
3 148 (21.05%) ASP.NET
4 135 (19.20%) ASP.NET Core
5 117 (16.64%) Node.js
6 115 (16.36%) React
7 106 (15.08%) AngularJS
8 101 (14.37%) CSS
9 96 (13.66%) HTML
10 81 (11.52%) REST
10 81 (11.52%) Vue
11 75 (10.67%) Spring
12 73 (10.38%) ML.NET
13 72 (10.24%) RESTful
14 60 (8.53%) Spring Boot
15 52 (7.40%) gRPC
16 49 (6.97%) Kafka
17 33 (4.69%) Django
18 27 (3.84%) Blazor
19 23 (3.27%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 122 (17.35%) Cloud Native
2 89 (12.66%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (7.82%) Over-the-Top Content
3 55 (7.82%) Video\Live Streaming
4 38 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 28 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.84%) Digital TV
7 15 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (1.42%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.00%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.00%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.00%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.00%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.00%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.00%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.00%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (0.85%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 132 (18.78%) Linux
2 21 (2.99%) Unix
3 16 (2.28%) Ubuntu
3 16 (2.28%) Windows
4 8 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.85%) Debian
6 5 (0.71%) Android
6 5 (0.71%) CentOS
6 5 (0.71%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.57%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.43%) VMS
8 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (66.71%) CI/CD
2 298 (42.39%) Agile
3 290 (41.25%) Containerisation
4 259 (36.84%) DevOps
5 253 (35.99%) Full-Stack Development
6 249 (35.42%) Microservices
7 208 (29.59%) Software Engineering
8 192 (27.31%) AI
9 166 (23.61%) Infrastructure as Code
10 153 (21.76%) Machine Learning
10 153 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
11 129 (18.35%) Mentoring
12 125 (17.78%) Scrum
13 121 (17.21%) TDD
14 118 (16.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 111 (15.79%) Clean Code
16 85 (12.09%) Coaching
17 82 (11.66%) Test Automation
18 78 (11.10%) Observability
19 74 (10.53%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 271 (38.55%) Python
2 239 (34.00%) SQL
3 213 (30.30%) C#
4 147 (20.91%) TypeScript
5 124 (17.64%) Java
6 121 (17.21%) JavaScript
7 80 (11.38%) Go
8 71 (10.10%) Scala
9 63 (8.96%) Bash
10 35 (4.98%) PowerShell
11 22 (3.13%) Bicep
11 22 (3.13%) PHP
12 20 (2.84%) Ruby
13 13 (1.85%) C++
13 13 (1.85%) Kotlin
14 10 (1.42%) Groovy
14 10 (1.42%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.14%) Rust
16 7 (1.00%) C
17 3 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (11.66%) Security Cleared
2 66 (9.39%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.39%) Degree
4 23 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.84%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.70%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.42%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.71%) CISSP
8 5 (0.71%) GIAC
8 5 (0.71%) ISACA
8 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.71%) SANS
9 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (8.39%) QA
2 26 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.99%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.85%) NIST
5 12 (1.71%) WCAG
6 11 (1.56%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.43%) GDPR
8 3 (0.43%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.43%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.57%) Firmware
3 4 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.43%) iptables
4 3 (0.43%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.14%) KVM
6 1 (0.14%) QEMU
6 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.14%) vSphere
6 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 461 (65.58%) Kubernetes
2 179 (25.46%) Terraform
3 60 (8.53%) Ansible
4 45 (6.40%) Grafana
5 44 (6.26%) Prometheus
6 24 (3.41%) Argo
7 18 (2.56%) Puppet
8 15 (2.13%) Istio
8 15 (2.13%) Podman
9 13 (1.85%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.85%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.85%) Packer
11 5 (0.71%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.71%) Kibana
12 3 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.43%) linkerd
12 3 (0.43%) Nagios
12 3 (0.43%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.28%) MIIS
13 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 193 (27.45%) Microsoft
2 53 (7.54%) Google
3 45 (6.40%) Typelevel
4 20 (2.84%) Facebook
5 19 (2.70%) Oracle
6 17 (2.42%) Databricks
7 11 (1.56%) Okta
8 9 (1.28%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.28%) Splunk
9 8 (1.14%) Confluent
9 8 (1.14%) ForgeRock
9 8 (1.14%) VMware
10 6 (0.85%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.85%) Ping Identity
11 5 (0.71%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.71%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.71%) Informatica
12 4 (0.57%) New Relic
12 4 (0.57%) Palantir
13 3 (0.43%) AppDynamics