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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 36 32
Rank change year-on-year -56 -4 -10
Permanent jobs citing Docker 429 1,230 1,619
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.82% 6.07% 7.58%
As % of the System Software category 34.16% 42.98% 45.10%
Number of salaries quoted 335 641 1,359
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,125 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
75th Percentile £83,750 £91,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,039 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +0.06% -0.82% -2.65%

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 1,256 2,862 3,590
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.26% 14.13% 16.81%
Number of salaries quoted 967 1,752 3,087
10th Percentile £28,971 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £42,798
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,175 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 23 November 2025.

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 13 (3.03%) Apache Solr
1 13 (3.03%) CMS
2 12 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.80%) nginx
3 9 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.86%) IIS
5 5 (1.17%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.17%) Apache
6 4 (0.93%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.70%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.70%) Drupal
7 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.70%) WordPress
8 2 (0.47%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.47%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.23%) MetaMask
9 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.23%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Weka
2 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 259 (60.37%) AWS
2 246 (57.34%) Azure
3 98 (22.84%) GitHub
4 95 (22.14%) GCP
5 64 (14.92%) Azure DevOps
6 49 (11.42%) GitHub Actions
7 43 (10.02%) Serverless
8 39 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 25 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
10 25 (5.83%) Azure AKS
11 23 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (5.13%) OpenShift
12 22 (5.13%) SaaS
13 20 (4.66%) Azure Service Bus
14 16 (3.73%) Amazon S3
14 16 (3.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 15 (3.50%) Datadog
16 14 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
17 13 (3.03%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.96%) Firewall
2 13 (3.03%) VPN
3 11 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.33%) DNS
5 6 (1.40%) Broadband
6 5 (1.17%) Internet
7 4 (0.93%) Network Security
8 3 (0.70%) AMQP
8 3 (0.70%) WAN
9 2 (0.47%) DHCP
9 2 (0.47%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.47%) LAN
9 2 (0.47%) VLAN
9 2 (0.47%) VSAN
10 1 (0.23%) 5G
10 1 (0.23%) MIMO
10 1 (0.23%) NAS
10 1 (0.23%) NGN
10 1 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
10 1 (0.23%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (17.72%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (13.52%) NoSQL
3 48 (11.19%) SQL Server
4 38 (8.86%) MySQL
5 35 (8.16%) Elasticsearch
6 30 (6.99%) MongoDB
7 23 (5.36%) Relational Database
8 22 (5.13%) Redis
9 17 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (2.10%) Tick Data
12 8 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (1.86%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.40%) Data Lake
14 5 (1.17%) Big Data
14 5 (1.17%) MariaDB
14 5 (1.17%) Power BI
15 4 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.93%) Neo4j
16 3 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 85 (19.81%) Git
2 45 (10.49%) GitLab
3 43 (10.02%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.80%) Octopus Deploy
5 11 (2.56%) SonarQube
6 10 (2.33%) JUnit
7 9 (2.10%) Selenium
7 9 (2.10%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (1.86%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.86%) JIRA
8 8 (1.86%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.40%) MSBuild
9 6 (1.40%) Visual Studio
10 5 (1.17%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.93%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.93%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.93%) webpack
12 3 (0.70%) git-flow
12 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 125 (29.14%) Social Skills
2 54 (12.59%) Finance
3 21 (4.90%) Public Sector
4 18 (4.20%) Marketing
4 18 (4.20%) Telecoms
5 17 (3.96%) Law
6 15 (3.50%) Retail
7 12 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.56%) Games
9 10 (2.33%) Legal
10 6 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.17%) Automotive
11 5 (1.17%) Banking
11 5 (1.17%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.17%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.93%) Front Office
12 4 (0.93%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.70%) Electronics
13 3 (0.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 126 (29.37%) Developer
2 117 (27.27%) Senior
3 67 (15.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 51 (11.89%) Lead
5 45 (10.49%) Software Engineer
6 35 (8.16%) Architect
7 34 (7.93%) Senior Developer
8 30 (6.99%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (6.29%) Python Developer
10 26 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
11 23 (5.36%) Senior DevOps
12 22 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
13 21 (4.90%) .NET Developer
14 19 (4.43%) Data Engineer
14 19 (4.43%) Software Developer
15 18 (4.20%) Java Developer
16 17 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
16 17 (3.96%) Python Engineer
16 17 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
17 16 (3.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (22.14%) .NET
2 70 (16.32%) React
3 55 (12.82%) REST
4 54 (12.59%) RESTful
5 42 (9.79%) CSS
5 42 (9.79%) HTML
6 37 (8.62%) Django
6 37 (8.62%) Spring
6 37 (8.62%) Spring Boot
7 36 (8.39%) Kafka
8 35 (8.16%) Node.js
9 34 (7.93%) .NET Core
9 34 (7.93%) AngularJS
10 33 (7.69%) Flask
11 31 (7.23%) Elastic Stack
12 26 (6.06%) FastAPI
13 23 (5.36%) RabbitMQ
13 23 (5.36%) Vue
14 22 (5.13%) Web Services
15 19 (4.43%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 103 (24.01%) Cloud Native
2 36 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.20%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.96%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.80%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.56%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.63%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.40%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.40%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.17%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.17%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.93%) BYOD
13 4 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.93%) PKI
13 4 (0.93%) Wiki
14 3 (0.70%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 91 (21.21%) Linux
2 47 (10.96%) Windows
3 24 (5.59%) Unix
4 21 (4.90%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.86%) Android
6 6 (1.40%) CentOS
6 6 (1.40%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.40%) VMS
7 3 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.47%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.23%) Fedora
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (65.27%) CI/CD
2 252 (58.74%) DevOps
3 217 (50.58%) Containerisation
4 160 (37.30%) Agile
5 129 (30.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 127 (29.60%) Microservices
7 117 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (21.68%) Software Engineering
9 76 (17.72%) AI
10 73 (17.02%) Mentoring
11 63 (14.69%) Observability
12 59 (13.75%) Full-Stack Development
13 57 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 48 (11.19%) Event-Driven
15 46 (10.72%) Test Automation
16 45 (10.49%) Machine Learning
16 45 (10.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 40 (9.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 37 (8.62%) Clean Code
19 36 (8.39%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 209 (48.72%) Python
2 131 (30.54%) SQL
3 109 (25.41%) JavaScript
4 90 (20.98%) C#
5 78 (18.18%) Java
6 51 (11.89%) Bash
7 44 (10.26%) PowerShell
7 44 (10.26%) TypeScript
8 28 (6.53%) Bicep
9 25 (5.83%) Go
10 23 (5.36%) PHP
11 9 (2.10%) C++
12 8 (1.86%) Delphi
13 6 (1.40%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.17%) Ruby
15 4 (0.93%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.70%) C
16 3 (0.70%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.70%) R
16 3 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 57 (13.29%) Security Cleared
2 40 (9.32%) Degree
3 38 (8.86%) SC Cleared
4 28 (6.53%) AWS Certification
5 26 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.20%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.26%) DV Cleared
8 13 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.17%) CISM
9 5 (1.17%) CISSP
10 3 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.47%) CISA
11 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.46%) QA
2 28 (6.53%) GDPR
3 10 (2.33%) HIPAA
4 9 (2.10%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.86%) NIST
6 6 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.17%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.70%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.47%) ECSS
9 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.47%) SLA
10 1 (0.23%) SEPA
10 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (1.63%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.93%) vSphere
5 3 (0.70%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.47%) Ceph
6 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.47%) Lustre
6 2 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.23%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.23%) Postfix
7 1 (0.23%) vCloud
7 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 284 (66.20%) Kubernetes
2 162 (37.76%) Terraform
3 64 (14.92%) Grafana
4 63 (14.69%) Ansible
5 46 (10.72%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.86%) Argo
7 4 (0.93%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.93%) Puppet
8 3 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.47%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.23%) Rancher
10 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 50 (11.66%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.53%) Google
3 24 (5.59%) Oracle
4 15 (3.50%) Databricks
5 12 (2.80%) Splunk
6 9 (2.10%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.86%) SAP
8 7 (1.63%) VMware
9 5 (1.17%) Dell
9 5 (1.17%) Epicor
9 5 (1.17%) IBM
9 5 (1.17%) Infor
9 5 (1.17%) Informatica
9 5 (1.17%) Mercator
9 5 (1.17%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.17%) SnapLogic
9 5 (1.17%) Software AG
9 5 (1.17%) Talend
9 5 (1.17%) TIBCO
9 5 (1.17%) Workday