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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 30 70
Rank change year-on-year -45 +40 -38
Permanent jobs citing Docker 681 1,231 1,265
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.27% 7.61% 3.82%
As % of the System Software category 40.01% 54.86% 31.91%
Number of salaries quoted 489 552 1,052
10th Percentile £44,198 £48,750 £42,550
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £74,935 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.26% +15.28% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £122,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.29% -6.21%

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 1,702 2,244 3,964
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.17% 13.88% 11.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,270 1,354 3,088
10th Percentile £32,450 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,438 £37,813 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -9.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,375
% change year-on-year - +6.33% -10.23%

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 4 July 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 26 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.76%) Apache
4 9 (1.32%) nginx
5 7 (1.03%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.73%) CMS
6 5 (0.73%) IIS
6 5 (0.73%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.29%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.29%) Camunda
7 2 (0.29%) Confluence
7 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.29%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.29%) WordPress
8 1 (0.15%) Drupal
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
1 1 (0.15%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 429 (63.00%) AWS
2 353 (51.84%) Azure
3 207 (30.40%) GitHub
4 164 (24.08%) GCP
5 136 (19.97%) GitHub Copilot
6 86 (12.63%) Serverless
7 67 (9.84%) Azure AI
8 53 (7.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 50 (7.34%) Amazon S3
10 45 (6.61%) AWS Lambda
11 43 (6.31%) SaaS
12 42 (6.17%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
14 37 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
15 33 (4.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 33 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
16 29 (4.26%) Azure AKS
17 27 (3.96%) Azure Service Bus
18 26 (3.82%) Amazon EKS
19 25 (3.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 92 (13.51%) Broadband
2 17 (2.50%) Internet
3 11 (1.62%) DNS
3 11 (1.62%) Firewall
3 11 (1.62%) VPN
4 8 (1.17%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.73%) DHCP
5 5 (0.73%) HTTP
5 5 (0.73%) MQTT
5 5 (0.73%) Network Security
6 3 (0.44%) DSL
6 3 (0.44%) RTP
6 3 (0.44%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.44%) VoIP
6 3 (0.44%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.29%) Intranet
7 2 (0.29%) SAN
7 2 (0.29%) SCCP
7 2 (0.29%) SSH
7 2 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (25.11%) MongoDB
2 121 (17.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 84 (12.33%) PostgreSQL
4 60 (8.81%) NoSQL
5 59 (8.66%) Elasticsearch
6 48 (7.05%) Relational Database
7 45 (6.61%) SQL Server
8 34 (4.99%) MySQL
9 31 (4.55%) Redis
10 29 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
11 21 (3.08%) DynamoDB
12 16 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (1.76%) BigQuery
13 12 (1.76%) RDBMS
14 10 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.47%) Delta Lake
15 9 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (1.17%) Data Lake
16 8 (1.17%) Tableau
17 7 (1.03%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 108 (15.86%) Git
2 73 (10.72%) Jenkins
3 55 (8.08%) GitLab
4 18 (2.64%) JIRA
5 16 (2.35%) Cypress.io
6 15 (2.20%) JUnit
6 15 (2.20%) Maven
7 14 (2.06%) CircleCI
7 14 (2.06%) Selenium
8 13 (1.91%) TeamCity
9 12 (1.76%) Jaeger
10 10 (1.47%) Claude Code
11 9 (1.32%) JMeter
11 9 (1.32%) Mockito
11 9 (1.32%) Postman
12 8 (1.17%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.03%) MLflow
14 6 (0.88%) SonarQube
15 5 (0.73%) Locust
15 5 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 129 (18.94%) Social Skills
2 82 (12.04%) Finance
3 47 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 41 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 34 (4.99%) Advertising
6 19 (2.79%) Marketing
7 17 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (2.20%) Aerospace
9 14 (2.06%) Games
10 12 (1.76%) Banking
11 11 (1.62%) Law
12 10 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.03%) Retail
14 6 (0.88%) Legal
15 5 (0.73%) Aviation
15 5 (0.73%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.59%) Military
16 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.44%) Electronics
17 3 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 290 (42.58%) Developer
2 147 (21.59%) Senior
3 125 (18.36%) .NET Developer
4 97 (14.24%) Software Engineer
5 85 (12.48%) Lead
6 52 (7.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 45 (6.61%) Full-Stack Developer
8 40 (5.87%) Senior Developer
9 38 (5.58%) Java Developer
10 36 (5.29%) Scala Engineer
11 32 (4.70%) AWS Engineer
12 30 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
13 27 (3.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 27 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
14 24 (3.52%) Data Engineer
15 23 (3.38%) Software Developer
16 20 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
17 19 (2.79%) AWS DevOps
17 19 (2.79%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (27.90%) .NET
2 139 (20.41%) .NET Core
3 133 (19.53%) ASP.NET
4 120 (17.62%) ASP.NET Core
5 113 (16.59%) React
6 111 (16.30%) Node.js
7 98 (14.39%) AngularJS
8 91 (13.36%) CSS
9 86 (12.63%) HTML
10 74 (10.87%) REST
11 73 (10.72%) Spring
11 73 (10.72%) Vue
12 68 (9.99%) RESTful
13 65 (9.54%) ML.NET
14 58 (8.52%) Spring Boot
15 52 (7.64%) gRPC
16 50 (7.34%) Kafka
17 32 (4.70%) Django
18 24 (3.52%) Blazor
19 23 (3.38%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 121 (17.77%) Cloud Native
2 89 (13.07%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (8.22%) Over-the-Top Content
3 56 (8.22%) Video\Live Streaming
4 37 (5.43%) Product Ownership
5 26 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.94%) Digital TV
7 15 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
8 10 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.32%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.17%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.03%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.03%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.03%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.03%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.03%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.73%) Cyberattack
13 5 (0.73%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 134 (19.68%) Linux
2 26 (3.82%) Unix
3 15 (2.20%) Windows
4 14 (2.06%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.88%) Debian
7 5 (0.73%) Android
7 5 (0.73%) CentOS
7 5 (0.73%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.59%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.44%) VMS
9 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (65.93%) CI/CD
2 291 (42.73%) Agile
3 289 (42.44%) Containerisation
4 258 (37.89%) DevOps
5 238 (34.95%) Microservices
6 235 (34.51%) Full-Stack Development
7 200 (29.37%) Software Engineering
8 184 (27.02%) AI
9 166 (24.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 147 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
11 145 (21.29%) Machine Learning
12 134 (19.68%) Mentoring
13 118 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 117 (17.18%) Scrum
15 111 (16.30%) TDD
16 108 (15.86%) Clean Code
17 86 (12.63%) Coaching
18 77 (11.31%) Test Automation
19 76 (11.16%) Observability
20 73 (10.72%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 273 (40.09%) Python
2 221 (32.45%) SQL
3 199 (29.22%) C#
4 136 (19.97%) TypeScript
5 127 (18.65%) Java
6 124 (18.21%) JavaScript
7 87 (12.78%) Go
8 73 (10.72%) Scala
9 70 (10.28%) Bash
10 33 (4.85%) PowerShell
11 22 (3.23%) Bicep
11 22 (3.23%) PHP
12 17 (2.50%) Ruby
13 13 (1.91%) Kotlin
14 12 (1.76%) C++
15 10 (1.47%) Groovy
15 10 (1.47%) PL/SQL
16 8 (1.17%) Rust
17 7 (1.03%) C
18 3 (0.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 81 (11.89%) Security Cleared
2 65 (9.54%) SC Cleared
3 61 (8.96%) Degree
4 25 (3.67%) AWS Certification
5 22 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (3.08%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.47%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.73%) CISSP
8 5 (0.73%) GIAC
8 5 (0.73%) ISACA
8 5 (0.73%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.73%) SANS
9 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.29%) Linux+ Certification
10 2 (0.29%) LPIC
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.15%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.52%) QA
2 26 (3.82%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.06%) NIST
4 13 (1.91%) Data Quality
5 12 (1.76%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.76%) WCAG
6 11 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.59%) GDPR
8 3 (0.44%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.44%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.15%) NCSC
9 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.59%) Firmware
3 4 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.44%) iptables
4 3 (0.44%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.15%) KVM
6 1 (0.15%) QEMU
6 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
6 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 442 (64.90%) Kubernetes
2 179 (26.28%) Terraform
3 68 (9.99%) Ansible
4 48 (7.05%) Prometheus
5 43 (6.31%) Grafana
6 29 (4.26%) Argo
7 19 (2.79%) Puppet
8 15 (2.20%) Istio
8 15 (2.20%) Podman
9 13 (1.91%) Progress Chef
10 12 (1.76%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.88%) Packer
12 5 (0.73%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.73%) Kibana
13 3 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.44%) linkerd
13 3 (0.44%) Nagios
13 3 (0.44%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.29%) MIIS
14 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 177 (25.99%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.66%) Google
3 45 (6.61%) Typelevel
4 19 (2.79%) Oracle
5 18 (2.64%) Databricks
6 17 (2.50%) Facebook
7 9 (1.32%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.32%) Splunk
8 8 (1.17%) Confluent
8 8 (1.17%) Okta
8 8 (1.17%) VMware
9 6 (0.88%) ForgeRock
9 6 (0.88%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.73%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.73%) HubSpot
10 5 (0.73%) Palantir
11 3 (0.44%) BT
11 3 (0.44%) Commvault
11 3 (0.44%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.44%) Mitel