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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 38 32
Rank change year-on-year -53 -6 -10
Permanent jobs citing Docker 431 1,220 1,594
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.84% 6.14% 7.52%
As % of the System Software category 34.45% 43.22% 44.96%
Number of salaries quoted 335 633 1,337
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,261 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,125 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
75th Percentile £84,375 £91,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,750 £112,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,079 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +0.11% -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 1,251 2,823 3,545
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.24% 14.20% 16.73%
Number of salaries quoted 962 1,722 3,049
10th Percentile £28,935 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £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 25 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 (3.02%) Apache Solr
1 13 (3.02%) CMS
2 12 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.78%) nginx
3 10 (2.32%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.86%) IIS
5 5 (1.16%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.16%) 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 (0.46%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.23%) MetaMask
9 1 (0.23%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.23%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Weka
2 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 260 (60.32%) AWS
2 247 (57.31%) Azure
3 98 (22.74%) GitHub
4 96 (22.27%) GCP
5 65 (15.08%) Azure DevOps
6 49 (11.37%) GitHub Actions
7 44 (10.21%) Serverless
8 39 (9.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (7.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
11 24 (5.57%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (5.57%) Azure AKS
12 22 (5.10%) OpenShift
12 22 (5.10%) SaaS
13 20 (4.64%) Azure Service Bus
14 17 (3.94%) Amazon S3
15 16 (3.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 15 (3.48%) Datadog
17 14 (3.25%) Azure Monitor
18 13 (3.02%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.71%) Firewall
2 13 (3.02%) VPN
3 11 (2.55%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.32%) DNS
5 6 (1.39%) Broadband
6 5 (1.16%) Internet
7 4 (0.93%) Network Security
8 3 (0.70%) AMQP
8 3 (0.70%) WAN
9 2 (0.46%) DHCP
9 2 (0.46%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.46%) LAN
9 2 (0.46%) VLAN
9 2 (0.46%) 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 (17.63%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (13.46%) NoSQL
3 48 (11.14%) SQL Server
4 39 (9.05%) MySQL
5 35 (8.12%) Elasticsearch
6 30 (6.96%) MongoDB
7 23 (5.34%) Relational Database
8 22 (5.10%) Redis
9 17 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (2.09%) DynamoDB
11 9 (2.09%) Tick Data
12 6 (1.39%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.39%) Power BI
13 5 (1.16%) Big Data
13 5 (1.16%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.93%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 86 (19.95%) Git
2 46 (10.67%) GitLab
3 45 (10.44%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
4 12 (2.78%) SonarQube
5 10 (2.32%) JUnit
5 10 (2.32%) Selenium
6 9 (2.09%) Cucumber
6 9 (2.09%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (1.86%) JIRA
7 8 (1.86%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.39%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.39%) MSBuild
8 6 (1.39%) Visual Studio
9 5 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.93%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.93%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.93%) webpack
11 3 (0.70%) git-flow
11 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 124 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 54 (12.53%) Finance
3 21 (4.87%) Public Sector
4 19 (4.41%) Telecoms
5 18 (4.18%) Marketing
6 17 (3.94%) Law
7 15 (3.48%) Retail
8 12 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (2.55%) Games
10 10 (2.32%) Legal
11 6 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.16%) Automotive
12 5 (1.16%) Banking
12 5 (1.16%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.16%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.93%) Front Office
13 4 (0.93%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.70%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 127 (29.47%) Developer
2 118 (27.38%) Senior
3 67 (15.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 52 (12.06%) Lead
5 45 (10.44%) Software Engineer
6 35 (8.12%) Architect
7 34 (7.89%) Senior Developer
8 30 (6.96%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (6.26%) Python Developer
10 26 (6.03%) Azure Engineer
11 23 (5.34%) Senior DevOps
12 22 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
13 21 (4.87%) .NET Developer
14 19 (4.41%) Data Engineer
14 19 (4.41%) Software Developer
15 18 (4.18%) Java Developer
16 17 (3.94%) Python Engineer
16 17 (3.94%) Senior Software Engineer
17 16 (3.71%) Cloud Engineer
17 16 (3.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (22.04%) .NET
2 70 (16.24%) React
3 56 (12.99%) REST
4 55 (12.76%) RESTful
5 42 (9.74%) CSS
5 42 (9.74%) HTML
6 38 (8.82%) Kafka
6 38 (8.82%) Spring
6 38 (8.82%) Spring Boot
7 37 (8.58%) Django
8 36 (8.35%) Node.js
9 35 (8.12%) AngularJS
10 34 (7.89%) .NET Core
11 33 (7.66%) Flask
12 31 (7.19%) Elastic Stack
13 26 (6.03%) FastAPI
14 23 (5.34%) RabbitMQ
14 23 (5.34%) Vue
15 22 (5.10%) Web Services
16 20 (4.64%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 104 (24.13%) Cloud Native
2 37 (8.58%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (5.34%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.18%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.94%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.78%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.32%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.62%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.62%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.39%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.16%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.16%) 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%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 90 (20.88%) Linux
2 46 (10.67%) Windows
3 24 (5.57%) Unix
4 21 (4.87%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.09%) Android
6 6 (1.39%) CentOS
6 6 (1.39%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.39%) VMS
7 3 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.46%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.23%) Fedora
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (65.20%) CI/CD
2 254 (58.93%) DevOps
3 217 (50.35%) Containerisation
4 161 (37.35%) Agile
5 129 (29.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 128 (29.70%) Microservices
7 118 (27.38%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (21.58%) Software Engineering
9 77 (17.87%) AI
10 74 (17.17%) Mentoring
11 63 (14.62%) Observability
12 59 (13.69%) Full-Stack Development
13 57 (13.23%) Continuous Improvement
14 49 (11.37%) Event-Driven
15 46 (10.67%) Machine Learning
15 46 (10.67%) Test Automation
16 45 (10.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 40 (9.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 37 (8.58%) Clean Code
19 36 (8.35%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 209 (48.49%) Python
2 132 (30.63%) SQL
3 109 (25.29%) JavaScript
4 90 (20.88%) C#
5 79 (18.33%) Java
6 51 (11.83%) Bash
7 45 (10.44%) TypeScript
8 44 (10.21%) PowerShell
9 28 (6.50%) Bicep
10 26 (6.03%) Go
11 23 (5.34%) PHP
12 10 (2.32%) C++
13 8 (1.86%) Delphi
14 6 (1.39%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.16%) Ruby
16 4 (0.93%) Scala
16 4 (0.93%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.70%) C
17 3 (0.70%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 58 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 41 (9.51%) Degree
3 39 (9.05%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.26%) AWS Certification
4 27 (6.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (4.41%) Azure Certification
6 14 (3.25%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.16%) CISM
8 5 (1.16%) CISSP
9 3 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.46%) CISA
10 2 (0.46%) CRISC
10 2 (0.46%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.42%) QA
2 28 (6.50%) GDPR
3 10 (2.32%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.32%) HIPAA
4 8 (1.86%) NIST
5 6 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.16%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.70%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.46%) ECSS
8 2 (0.46%) SLA
9 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.23%) SEPA
9 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (1.62%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.93%) vSphere
5 3 (0.70%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.46%) Ceph
6 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.46%) Lustre
6 2 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.46%) 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
1 285 (66.13%) Kubernetes
2 161 (37.35%) Terraform
3 64 (14.85%) Grafana
4 63 (14.62%) Ansible
5 46 (10.67%) 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 (0.46%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
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 (11.60%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.50%) Google
3 23 (5.34%) Oracle
4 16 (3.71%) Databricks
5 12 (2.78%) Splunk
6 9 (2.09%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.86%) SAP
8 7 (1.62%) VMware
9 5 (1.16%) Dell
9 5 (1.16%) Epicor
9 5 (1.16%) IBM
9 5 (1.16%) Infor
9 5 (1.16%) Informatica
9 5 (1.16%) Jitterbit
9 5 (1.16%) Mercator
9 5 (1.16%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.16%) SnapLogic
9 5 (1.16%) Software AG
9 5 (1.16%) Talend
9 5 (1.16%) TIBCO