Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 28 January 2022

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Docker skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Docker over the 6 months to 28 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Docker
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
28 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 17 17 22
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +7
Permanent jobs citing Docker 3,354 1,381 699
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.31% 12.27% 9.53%
As % of the System Software category 63.13% 62.40% 57.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,642 1,271 599
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +4.00%

Docker is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

All System Software Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,313 2,213 1,217
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.92% 19.66% 16.60%
Number of salaries quoted 4,192 2,028 1,012
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

Docker
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Docker trend for jobs with a WFH option

Docker
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Docker.

Docker salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Docker
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Docker over the 6 months to 28 January 2022.

Docker salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 28 January 2022, Docker job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for Docker.

1 2,073 (61.81%) Kubernetes
2 1,740 (51.88%) AWS
3 1,625 (48.45%) DevOps
4 1,464 (43.65%) Agile Software Development
5 1,458 (43.47%) CI/CD
6 1,063 (31.69%) Software Engineering
7 964 (28.74%) Finance
8 959 (28.59%) Azure
9 922 (27.49%) JavaScript
9 922 (27.49%) Terraform
10 911 (27.16%) Python
11 876 (26.12%) Git (software)
12 872 (26.00%) Microservices
13 829 (24.72%) Java
14 731 (21.79%) React
15 697 (20.78%) Linux
16 685 (20.42%) SQL
17 656 (19.56%) C#
18 638 (19.02%) Jenkins
19 609 (18.16%) .NET
20 605 (18.04%) Go
21 578 (17.23%) Node.js
22 556 (16.58%) GCP
23 552 (16.46%) TDD
24 542 (16.16%) Full Stack Development
25 527 (15.71%) Ansible
26 510 (15.21%) MySQL
27 488 (14.55%) Greenfield Project
28 485 (14.46%) Scrum
29 476 (14.19%) Social Skills

Docker
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 169 (5.04%) Elasticsearch
2 109 (3.25%) Confluence
3 61 (1.82%) Apache
4 55 (1.64%) Apache Spark
5 40 (1.19%) nginx
6 31 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
6 31 (0.92%) CMS
6 31 (0.92%) IIS
7 23 (0.69%) WordPress
8 22 (0.66%) Apache Solr
9 17 (0.51%) OpenStack
10 15 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
11 9 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
12 8 (0.24%) Ethereum
12 8 (0.24%) Jetty
13 7 (0.21%) Drupal
13 7 (0.21%) JBoss
14 5 (0.15%) Gunicorn
14 5 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 5 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.24%) Sketch
3 7 (0.21%) InVision
4 5 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (0.15%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.089%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.060%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.030%) InDesign
7 1 (0.030%) LaTeX
7 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.030%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.030%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.030%) Weka
Business Applications
1 16 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
2 13 (0.39%) R3 Corda
3 10 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.21%) Magento
5 3 (0.089%) Sentinel
6 2 (0.060%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.030%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.030%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,740 (51.88%) AWS
2 959 (28.59%) Azure
3 556 (16.58%) GCP
4 417 (12.43%) Serverless
5 408 (12.16%) SaaS
6 237 (7.07%) GitHub
7 225 (6.71%) AWS Lambda
8 211 (6.29%) Amazon S3
9 184 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 151 (4.50%) Amazon EC2
11 123 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
12 117 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
13 85 (2.53%) OpenShift
14 80 (2.39%) PaaS
15 78 (2.33%) CloudFront
16 70 (2.09%) Cloudflare
17 57 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
17 57 (1.70%) AWS Step Functions
17 57 (1.70%) IaaS
18 53 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 100 (2.98%) DNS
2 56 (1.67%) HTTP
3 49 (1.46%) AMQP
4 45 (1.34%) Firewall
5 35 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 33 (0.98%) IPv6
7 27 (0.81%) DHCP
8 23 (0.69%) Internet
9 20 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (0.57%) SSH
10 19 (0.57%) VPN
11 12 (0.36%) Wireless
11 12 (0.36%) ZigBee
12 11 (0.33%) Bluetooth
13 10 (0.30%) LAN
13 10 (0.30%) SSL
13 10 (0.30%) VLAN
13 10 (0.30%) WAN
14 8 (0.24%) Network Security
15 7 (0.21%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 510 (15.21%) MySQL
2 431 (12.85%) PostgreSQL
3 342 (10.20%) NoSQL
4 299 (8.91%) MongoDB
5 240 (7.16%) Amazon DynamoDB
6 230 (6.86%) Redis
7 199 (5.93%) SQL Server
8 162 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
9 158 (4.71%) Relational Database
10 92 (2.74%) Big Data
11 80 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
12 56 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
13 47 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
13 47 (1.40%) RDBMS
14 41 (1.22%) Blockchain
14 41 (1.22%) Hadoop
15 40 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
16 36 (1.07%) Data Lake
17 35 (1.04%) BigQuery
18 32 (0.95%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 876 (26.12%) Git (software)
2 638 (19.02%) Jenkins
3 244 (7.27%) GitLab
4 195 (5.81%) JIRA
5 130 (3.88%) Selenium
6 111 (3.31%) Cypress.io
7 90 (2.68%) CircleCI
8 71 (2.12%) Maven
9 68 (2.03%) Bitbucket
10 65 (1.94%) PHPUnit
11 63 (1.88%) Octopus Deploy
12 60 (1.79%) webpack
13 56 (1.67%) TeamCity
14 49 (1.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 45 (1.34%) SpecFlow
15 45 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
16 42 (1.25%) Cucumber
17 38 (1.13%) Subversion
18 37 (1.10%) Postman
19 36 (1.07%) SonarQube
General
1 964 (28.74%) Finance
2 476 (14.19%) Social Skills
3 372 (11.09%) Games
4 336 (10.02%) Retail
5 124 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 99 (2.95%) Automotive
7 91 (2.71%) Marketing
8 90 (2.68%) Banking
9 85 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
10 72 (2.15%) Front Office
11 67 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 52 (1.55%) Telecoms
13 41 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
14 39 (1.16%) Advertising
15 38 (1.13%) Law
16 36 (1.07%) Billing
17 31 (0.92%) Electronics
18 29 (0.86%) Manufacturing
19 24 (0.72%) Retail Finance
20 23 (0.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,737 (51.79%) Developer
2 513 (15.30%) DevOps Engineer
3 452 (13.48%) Software Engineer
4 409 (12.19%) Senior Developer
5 246 (7.33%) C# Developer
6 226 (6.74%) Java Developer
7 220 (6.56%) PHP Developer
8 217 (6.47%) AWS Engineer
9 184 (5.49%) Python Developer
10 174 (5.19%) Java Engineer
10 174 (5.19%) Senior Software Engineer
11 168 (5.01%) Full Stack Developer
12 164 (4.89%) Architect
13 163 (4.86%) Cloud Engineer
14 149 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
15 143 (4.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 138 (4.11%) Senior Python Developer
17 135 (4.03%) React Developer
18 132 (3.94%) Java Software Engineer
19 128 (3.82%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 731 (21.79%) React
2 609 (18.16%) .NET
3 578 (17.23%) Node.js
4 414 (12.34%) .NET Core
5 405 (12.08%) HTML
6 396 (11.81%) CSS
7 365 (10.88%) Spring
8 331 (9.87%) REST
9 325 (9.69%) Kafka
10 288 (8.59%) RESTful
11 236 (7.04%) Spring Boot
12 211 (6.29%) Django
13 186 (5.55%) HTML5
14 184 (5.49%) AngularJS
15 179 (5.34%) GraphQL
16 171 (5.10%) Jest
17 148 (4.41%) Vue.js
18 133 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
19 128 (3.82%) Laravel
20 121 (3.61%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 488 (14.55%) Greenfield Project
2 320 (9.54%) Virtual Team
3 174 (5.19%) User Experience
4 151 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
5 116 (3.46%) Public Cloud
6 100 (2.98%) e-Learning
7 96 (2.86%) Cloud Native
8 87 (2.59%) Social Media
9 79 (2.36%) Legacy Code
10 77 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
11 65 (1.94%) Mobile App
12 60 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
13 52 (1.55%) Video\Live Streaming
14 47 (1.40%) Algorithms
15 45 (1.34%) Tandem
16 42 (1.25%) iPad
17 40 (1.19%) Blog
18 39 (1.16%) Video on Demand
19 35 (1.04%) Fixed Income
20 29 (0.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 697 (20.78%) Linux
2 157 (4.68%) Windows
3 82 (2.44%) Unix
4 50 (1.49%) CentOS
5 29 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 28 (0.83%) Ubuntu
7 23 (0.69%) Windows Server
8 21 (0.63%) Debian
9 15 (0.45%) Android
10 11 (0.33%) AIX
10 11 (0.33%) Apple iOS
10 11 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
10 11 (0.33%) VMS
11 10 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2003
13 8 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
13 8 (0.24%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.21%) Fedora
14 7 (0.21%) Solaris
15 6 (0.18%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,625 (48.45%) DevOps
2 1,464 (43.65%) Agile Software Development
3 1,458 (43.47%) CI/CD
4 1,063 (31.69%) Software Engineering
5 872 (26.00%) Microservices
6 552 (16.46%) TDD
7 542 (16.16%) Full Stack Development
8 485 (14.46%) Scrum
9 449 (13.39%) Infrastructure as Code
10 360 (10.73%) Continuous Integration
11 353 (10.52%) Test Automation
12 276 (8.23%) E-Commerce
13 264 (7.87%) Fintech
14 263 (7.84%) BDD
15 251 (7.48%) Unit Testing
16 229 (6.83%) Mentoring
17 205 (6.11%) Problem-Solving
18 202 (6.02%) OO
19 190 (5.66%) Open Source
20 189 (5.64%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 922 (27.49%) JavaScript
2 911 (27.16%) Python
3 829 (24.72%) Java
4 685 (20.42%) SQL
5 656 (19.56%) C#
6 605 (18.04%) Go
7 434 (12.94%) TypeScript
8 370 (11.03%) PHP
9 201 (5.99%) Bash
10 176 (5.25%) T-SQL
11 158 (4.71%) Kotlin
12 137 (4.08%) PowerShell
13 96 (2.86%) Dart
14 92 (2.74%) Ruby
15 91 (2.71%) ES6
15 91 (2.71%) VB.NET
16 90 (2.68%) Java 8
17 78 (2.33%) Scala
18 72 (2.15%) PHP 7
19 64 (1.91%) C++
Qualifications
1 178 (5.31%) Degree
2 103 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 81 (2.42%) Security Cleared
4 60 (1.79%) AWS Certification
5 42 (1.25%) SC Cleared
6 33 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 29 (0.86%) CESG Certified Professional
8 11 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.24%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.24%) OCP
9 8 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (0.21%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.21%) SANS
11 4 (0.12%) CCNA
11 4 (0.12%) RHCE
12 2 (0.060%) MBA
13 1 (0.030%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.030%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.030%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (4.59%) QA
2 60 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 30 (0.89%) SLA
4 29 (0.86%) IASME
4 29 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 29 (0.86%) NIST
5 25 (0.75%) WCAG
6 14 (0.42%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
8 3 (0.089%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.060%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.030%) GDPR
10 1 (0.030%) PMO
10 1 (0.030%) PSD2
10 1 (0.030%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 24 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.42%) VirtualBox
5 13 (0.39%) Varnish
6 12 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 12 (0.36%) KVM
7 11 (0.33%) Firmware
8 9 (0.27%) vSphere
9 8 (0.24%) NFS
10 7 (0.21%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.12%) Ceph
11 4 (0.12%) LXC
11 4 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.12%) XenApp
11 4 (0.12%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.060%) ISA Server
13 1 (0.030%) Openswan
13 1 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.030%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2,073 (61.81%) Kubernetes
2 922 (27.49%) Terraform
3 527 (15.71%) Ansible
4 201 (5.99%) Puppet
5 191 (5.69%) Opscode Chef
6 161 (4.80%) Grafana
7 145 (4.32%) Prometheus
8 57 (1.70%) Docker Swarm
9 34 (1.01%) Rancher
10 29 (0.86%) CASB
11 27 (0.81%) Kibana
12 22 (0.66%) Nagios
12 22 (0.66%) Packer
13 19 (0.57%) Istio
14 17 (0.51%) Amdocs OSS
15 16 (0.48%) Icinga
16 10 (0.30%) HAProxy
16 10 (0.30%) Salt
17 9 (0.27%) ZABBIX
18 8 (0.24%) logstash
Vendors
1 264 (7.87%) Google
2 167 (4.98%) Microsoft
3 153 (4.56%) Oracle
4 50 (1.49%) Red Hat
5 39 (1.16%) New Relic
6 36 (1.07%) VMware
6 36 (1.07%) Zend
7 34 (1.01%) SAP
8 33 (0.98%) IBM
9 32 (0.95%) Splunk
10 18 (0.54%) Cloudera
11 17 (0.51%) Amdocs
12 15 (0.45%) Hortonworks
13 14 (0.42%) Adobe
14 13 (0.39%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.39%) Dynatrace
14 13 (0.39%) Twitter
15 12 (0.36%) AppDynamics
16 11 (0.33%) SaltStack
17 10 (0.30%) ServiceNow