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

 6 months to
2 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 30 46
Rank change year-on-year -49 +16 -16
Permanent jobs citing Docker 532 1,193 1,590
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.24% 8.13% 5.58%
As % of the System Software category 39.88% 50.34% 38.15%
Number of salaries quoted 363 723 1,350
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £43,975
25th Percentile £53,750 £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 £83,750 £105,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £138,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,079 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.56% +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 1,334 2,370 4,168
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.12% 16.16% 14.62%
Number of salaries quoted 944 1,523 3,587
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,350 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.35% +11.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £114,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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

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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 2 March 2026.

Docker salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.82%) nginx
4 9 (1.69%) CMS
5 6 (1.13%) Apache
5 6 (1.13%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.94%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.94%) Apache Pulsar
6 5 (0.94%) Drupal
6 5 (0.94%) WordPress
7 4 (0.75%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.75%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.75%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.75%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.56%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.38%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.19%) Camunda
10 1 (0.19%) SAS
10 1 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.75%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.38%) Weka
3 1 (0.19%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 9 (1.69%) Shopify
2 1 (0.19%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 363 (68.23%) AWS
2 240 (45.11%) Azure
3 146 (27.44%) GCP
4 124 (23.31%) GitHub
5 82 (15.41%) Serverless
6 63 (11.84%) GitHub Actions
7 62 (11.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 51 (9.59%) AWS Lambda
9 48 (9.02%) Amazon S3
10 47 (8.83%) Azure DevOps
11 44 (8.27%) SaaS
12 41 (7.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 34 (6.39%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (6.20%) Pulumi
15 24 (4.51%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (3.95%) OpenShift
17 20 (3.76%) Datadog
17 20 (3.76%) PaaS
18 19 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
18 19 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 72 (13.53%) Broadband
2 14 (2.63%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.44%) Firewall
4 11 (2.07%) VPN
5 8 (1.50%) DNS
6 7 (1.32%) DHCP
6 7 (1.32%) Network Security
7 5 (0.94%) AMQP
8 4 (0.75%) MQTT
8 4 (0.75%) WAN
9 3 (0.56%) HTTP
9 3 (0.56%) Internet
9 3 (0.56%) RTP
9 3 (0.56%) SCCP
9 3 (0.56%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.56%) VLAN
9 3 (0.56%) VoIP
9 3 (0.56%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.38%) DSL
10 2 (0.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (15.23%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (14.10%) NoSQL
3 43 (8.08%) SQL Server
4 42 (7.89%) Relational Database
5 39 (7.33%) MongoDB
6 34 (6.39%) Amazon RDS
7 32 (6.02%) MySQL
8 29 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (4.89%) Redis
10 19 (3.57%) RDBMS
11 16 (3.01%) DynamoDB
12 15 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (2.82%) BigQuery
13 14 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (2.26%) Tableau
15 11 (2.07%) Delta Lake
16 10 (1.88%) Pinecone
16 10 (1.88%) Weaviate
17 9 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
17 9 (1.69%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 84 (15.79%) Git
2 81 (15.23%) Jenkins
3 59 (11.09%) GitLab
4 27 (5.08%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.57%) Jaeger
6 16 (3.01%) Selenium
7 13 (2.44%) Cucumber
8 12 (2.26%) MLflow
8 12 (2.26%) SonarQube
9 11 (2.07%) JUnit
10 10 (1.88%) JMeter
11 8 (1.50%) JIRA
12 7 (1.32%) Maven
13 6 (1.13%) Bitbucket
13 6 (1.13%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.94%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.94%) Robot Framework
14 5 (0.94%) Storybook
14 5 (0.94%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.94%) Vite
General
1 125 (23.50%) Social Skills
2 64 (12.03%) Finance
3 37 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 34 (6.39%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.51%) Law
5 24 (4.51%) Telecoms
6 14 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.07%) Legal
8 10 (1.88%) Games
8 10 (1.88%) Retail
9 7 (1.32%) Banking
9 7 (1.32%) Financial Institution
10 5 (0.94%) Aviation
10 5 (0.94%) Front Office
10 5 (0.94%) Local Government
10 5 (0.94%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.94%) Military
10 5 (0.94%) Police
11 4 (0.75%) Marketing
12 3 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 169 (31.77%) Senior
2 158 (29.70%) Developer
3 95 (17.86%) Lead
4 79 (14.85%) Software Engineer
5 54 (10.15%) DevOps Engineer
6 43 (8.08%) Senior Developer
7 37 (6.95%) Full-Stack Developer
8 35 (6.58%) Java Developer
9 33 (6.20%) Cloud Engineer
10 30 (5.64%) Scala Engineer
11 29 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
11 29 (5.45%) Software Developer
12 26 (4.89%) Senior Software Engineer
13 25 (4.70%) Lead DevOps
14 24 (4.51%) Data Engineer
15 22 (4.14%) Python Developer
16 21 (3.95%) Architect
17 19 (3.57%) .NET Developer
17 19 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
17 19 (3.57%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (17.86%) React
2 81 (15.23%) .NET
3 69 (12.97%) Spring
4 64 (12.03%) Node.js
5 62 (11.65%) Spring Boot
6 55 (10.34%) Kafka
7 54 (10.15%) RESTful
8 49 (9.21%) Django
9 48 (9.02%) REST
10 47 (8.83%) Elastic Stack
11 44 (8.27%) gRPC
12 41 (7.71%) .NET Core
12 41 (7.71%) AngularJS
13 32 (6.02%) CSS
13 32 (6.02%) HTML
13 32 (6.02%) Vue
14 31 (5.83%) Flask
15 25 (4.70%) Akka
16 22 (4.14%) FastAPI
17 21 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 103 (19.36%) Cloud Native
2 71 (13.35%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (9.40%) Over-the-Top Content
3 50 (9.40%) Video\Live Streaming
4 45 (8.46%) Product Ownership
5 17 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (3.20%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.44%) AI Agents
7 10 (1.88%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.69%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (1.13%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.13%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.13%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.13%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.94%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.94%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 114 (21.43%) Linux
2 51 (9.59%) Unix
3 26 (4.89%) Windows
4 18 (3.38%) Android
5 11 (2.07%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.69%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.32%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.13%) CentOS
9 5 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.75%) VMS
11 1 (0.19%) Fedora
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (65.23%) CI/CD
2 280 (52.63%) DevOps
3 273 (51.32%) Containerisation
4 209 (39.29%) Agile
5 177 (33.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 152 (28.57%) Microservices
7 145 (27.26%) Problem-Solving
8 139 (26.13%) Software Engineering
9 102 (19.17%) Mentoring
10 99 (18.61%) AI
11 96 (18.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 81 (15.23%) Full-Stack Development
13 76 (14.29%) Machine Learning
14 74 (13.91%) Observability
15 69 (12.97%) Clean Code
16 68 (12.78%) TDD
17 65 (12.22%) Coaching
17 65 (12.22%) Test Automation
18 64 (12.03%) Event-Driven
19 57 (10.71%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 256 (48.12%) Python
2 148 (27.82%) Java
3 134 (25.19%) JavaScript
4 124 (23.31%) SQL
5 87 (16.35%) Go
6 69 (12.97%) Bash
6 69 (12.97%) C#
7 65 (12.22%) Scala
8 57 (10.71%) TypeScript
9 26 (4.89%) PHP
10 24 (4.51%) PowerShell
11 23 (4.32%) Bicep
12 13 (2.44%) C++
13 9 (1.69%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.50%) Delphi
15 6 (1.13%) Rust
16 5 (0.94%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.75%) C
17 4 (0.75%) Perl
18 3 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 79 (14.85%) Security Cleared
2 71 (13.35%) Degree
3 61 (11.47%) SC Cleared
4 39 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (6.20%) AWS Certification
6 22 (4.14%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.26%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.75%) CISSP
9 4 (0.75%) GIAC
9 4 (0.75%) ISACA
9 4 (0.75%) SANS
10 3 (0.56%) LPIC
11 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.38%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.38%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.77%) QA
2 19 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.07%) GDPR
4 11 (2.07%) NIST
5 10 (1.88%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.88%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.94%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.56%) WCAG
8 2 (0.38%) ECSS
8 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (1.88%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.13%) vSphere
3 5 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.94%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.56%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.38%) Ceph
5 2 (0.38%) Lustre
5 2 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.38%) 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
1 339 (63.72%) Kubernetes
2 210 (39.47%) Terraform
3 95 (17.86%) Ansible
4 68 (12.78%) Grafana
5 64 (12.03%) Prometheus
6 37 (6.95%) Argo
7 19 (3.57%) Kustomize
8 5 (0.94%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (0.94%) Puppet
9 4 (0.75%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.75%) Packer
10 2 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.38%) Kibana
10 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.19%) Nagios
11 1 (0.19%) Rancher
11 1 (0.19%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 52 (9.77%) Google
2 43 (8.08%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.26%) Oracle
4 27 (5.08%) Typelevel
5 19 (3.57%) Databricks
6 14 (2.63%) Splunk
7 10 (1.88%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.69%) Palantir
9 8 (1.50%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.50%) SAP
10 7 (1.32%) VMware
11 6 (1.13%) Dell
11 6 (1.13%) Mercator
11 6 (1.13%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.13%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.94%) IFS
12 5 (0.94%) Jitterbit
12 5 (0.94%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.94%) SnapLogic
12 5 (0.94%) Workday
386 hybrid/remote Docker jobs