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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 30 42
Rank change year-on-year -53 +12 -12
Permanent jobs citing Docker 518 1,247 1,606
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.16% 8.13% 5.78%
As % of the System Software category 38.74% 50.55% 38.99%
Number of salaries quoted 360 744 1,375
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,438 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £82,813 £102,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,625 £138,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 1,337 2,467 4,119
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.16% 16.09% 14.83%
Number of salaries quoted 950 1,553 3,562
10th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,875 £113,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,836 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.55% +15.67% -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 22 February 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 21 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (3.67%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.09%) nginx
4 9 (1.74%) CMS
5 6 (1.16%) Apache
5 6 (1.16%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.97%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.97%) Apache Pulsar
6 5 (0.97%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.97%) Drupal
6 5 (0.97%) WordPress
7 4 (0.77%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.77%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.77%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.58%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.39%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.39%) IIS
10 1 (0.19%) Camunda
10 1 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.77%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.77%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.39%) Weka
3 1 (0.19%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 9 (1.74%) Shopify
2 1 (0.19%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 346 (66.80%) AWS
2 241 (46.53%) Azure
3 135 (26.06%) GCP
4 124 (23.94%) GitHub
5 74 (14.29%) Serverless
6 63 (12.16%) GitHub Actions
7 62 (11.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 48 (9.27%) AWS Lambda
8 48 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
9 46 (8.88%) Amazon S3
10 42 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 39 (7.53%) SaaS
12 33 (6.37%) Amazon ECS
12 33 (6.37%) Pulumi
13 23 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (4.05%) OpenShift
15 19 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (3.67%) AWS Step Functions
16 18 (3.47%) Datadog
17 17 (3.28%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 62 (11.97%) Broadband
2 14 (2.70%) Firewall
2 14 (2.70%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.32%) VPN
4 10 (1.93%) DNS
5 7 (1.35%) DHCP
5 7 (1.35%) Network Security
6 5 (0.97%) AMQP
7 4 (0.77%) WAN
8 3 (0.58%) HTTP
8 3 (0.58%) Internet
8 3 (0.58%) MQTT
8 3 (0.58%) RTP
8 3 (0.58%) SCCP
8 3 (0.58%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.58%) VLAN
8 3 (0.58%) VoIP
8 3 (0.58%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.39%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.39%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (15.64%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 46 (8.88%) SQL Server
4 42 (8.11%) Relational Database
5 37 (7.14%) MongoDB
6 34 (6.56%) MySQL
7 32 (6.18%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (4.44%) Redis
10 19 (3.67%) RDBMS
11 16 (3.09%) DynamoDB
12 15 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (2.90%) BigQuery
13 14 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (2.32%) Tableau
15 11 (2.12%) Delta Lake
16 10 (1.93%) Pinecone
16 10 (1.93%) Weaviate
17 9 (1.74%) Apache Iceberg
17 9 (1.74%) Looker
Development Applications
1 84 (16.22%) Git
2 80 (15.44%) Jenkins
3 56 (10.81%) GitLab
4 27 (5.21%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.67%) Jaeger
6 16 (3.09%) Selenium
7 12 (2.32%) MLflow
7 12 (2.32%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.12%) JUnit
9 10 (1.93%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.54%) JIRA
11 7 (1.35%) JMeter
11 7 (1.35%) Maven
12 6 (1.16%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.97%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.97%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.97%) Robot Framework
13 5 (0.97%) Storybook
13 5 (0.97%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.97%) Vite
General
1 124 (23.94%) Social Skills
2 66 (12.74%) Finance
3 32 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 32 (6.18%) Public Sector
4 24 (4.63%) Law
4 24 (4.63%) Telecoms
5 15 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.12%) Legal
7 10 (1.93%) Games
7 10 (1.93%) Retail
8 7 (1.35%) Banking
8 7 (1.35%) Financial Institution
9 5 (0.97%) Aviation
9 5 (0.97%) Front Office
9 5 (0.97%) Local Government
9 5 (0.97%) Manufacturing
9 5 (0.97%) Military
9 5 (0.97%) Police
10 4 (0.77%) Marketing
11 3 (0.58%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 167 (32.24%) Senior
2 155 (29.92%) Developer
3 90 (17.37%) Lead
4 73 (14.09%) Software Engineer
5 55 (10.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 41 (7.92%) Senior Developer
7 39 (7.53%) Full-Stack Developer
8 33 (6.37%) Cloud Engineer
8 33 (6.37%) Java Developer
9 28 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
10 27 (5.21%) Software Developer
11 25 (4.83%) Lead DevOps
11 25 (4.83%) Senior Software Engineer
12 24 (4.63%) Data Engineer
12 24 (4.63%) Scala Engineer
13 23 (4.44%) Python Developer
14 21 (4.05%) .NET Developer
15 20 (3.86%) Architect
16 19 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
16 19 (3.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (18.53%) React
2 84 (16.22%) .NET
3 63 (12.16%) Spring
4 61 (11.78%) Node.js
5 56 (10.81%) Spring Boot
6 52 (10.04%) Kafka
7 51 (9.85%) REST
7 51 (9.85%) RESTful
8 47 (9.07%) Django
8 47 (9.07%) Elastic Stack
9 42 (8.11%) AngularJS
10 40 (7.72%) .NET Core
11 35 (6.76%) gRPC
12 32 (6.18%) CSS
12 32 (6.18%) HTML
12 32 (6.18%) Vue
13 31 (5.98%) Flask
14 25 (4.83%) Akka
15 19 (3.67%) FastAPI
15 19 (3.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 99 (19.11%) Cloud Native
2 61 (11.78%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (8.69%) Product Ownership
4 41 (7.92%) Over-the-Top Content
4 41 (7.92%) Video\Live Streaming
5 17 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (3.09%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.32%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.93%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (1.54%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.16%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.16%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.16%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.16%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.97%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.97%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.77%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 117 (22.59%) Linux
2 51 (9.85%) Unix
3 27 (5.21%) Windows
4 17 (3.28%) Android
5 11 (2.12%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.93%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.35%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.16%) CentOS
9 5 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.97%) VMS
10 1 (0.19%) Fedora
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (63.51%) CI/CD
2 276 (53.28%) DevOps
3 261 (50.39%) Containerisation
4 203 (39.19%) Agile
5 169 (32.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 139 (26.83%) Microservices
7 137 (26.45%) Problem-Solving
8 129 (24.90%) Software Engineering
9 97 (18.73%) Mentoring
10 96 (18.53%) AI
11 87 (16.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 78 (15.06%) Full-Stack Development
13 69 (13.32%) Observability
14 65 (12.55%) Machine Learning
15 64 (12.36%) TDD
16 61 (11.78%) Clean Code
17 59 (11.39%) Coaching
18 58 (11.20%) Event-Driven
18 58 (11.20%) Test Automation
19 57 (11.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 241 (46.53%) Python
2 140 (27.03%) Java
3 132 (25.48%) JavaScript
4 126 (24.32%) SQL
5 78 (15.06%) Go
6 69 (13.32%) C#
7 68 (13.13%) Bash
8 57 (11.00%) TypeScript
9 55 (10.62%) Scala
10 27 (5.21%) PHP
11 25 (4.83%) PowerShell
12 24 (4.63%) Bicep
13 13 (2.51%) C++
14 8 (1.54%) Delphi
14 8 (1.54%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.97%) Rust
15 5 (0.97%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.77%) C
16 4 (0.77%) Perl
17 3 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 78 (15.06%) Security Cleared
2 71 (13.71%) Degree
3 59 (11.39%) SC Cleared
4 40 (7.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (6.56%) AWS Certification
6 20 (3.86%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.32%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.77%) CISSP
9 4 (0.77%) GIAC
9 4 (0.77%) ISACA
9 4 (0.77%) SANS
10 3 (0.58%) LPIC
11 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.39%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.39%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.98%) QA
2 16 (3.09%) Accessibility
2 16 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.32%) GDPR
4 11 (2.12%) NIST
5 10 (1.93%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.93%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.97%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.39%) ECSS
7 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (2.12%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.16%) vSphere
3 5 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.97%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.58%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.39%) Ceph
5 2 (0.39%) Lustre
5 2 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.19%) vCloud
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 337 (65.06%) Kubernetes
2 210 (40.54%) Terraform
3 95 (18.34%) Ansible
4 65 (12.55%) Grafana
4 65 (12.55%) Prometheus
5 37 (7.14%) Argo
6 19 (3.67%) Kustomize
7 6 (1.16%) Puppet
8 5 (0.97%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (0.77%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.77%) Packer
10 3 (0.58%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.39%) Kibana
12 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.19%) Rancher
12 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 52 (10.04%) Google
2 45 (8.69%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.41%) Oracle
4 19 (3.67%) Databricks
5 18 (3.47%) Typelevel
6 14 (2.70%) Splunk
7 10 (1.93%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.74%) Palantir
9 8 (1.54%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.54%) SAP
10 7 (1.35%) VMware
11 6 (1.16%) Dell
11 6 (1.16%) Mercator
11 6 (1.16%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.16%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.97%) IFS
12 5 (0.97%) Jitterbit
12 5 (0.97%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.97%) SnapLogic
12 5 (0.97%) Workday