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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 31 73
Rank change year-on-year -44 +42 -40
Permanent jobs citing Docker 714 1,180 1,027
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.29% 7.17% 3.63%
As % of the System Software category 39.60% 53.64% 30.91%
Number of salaries quoted 543 498 840
10th Percentile £44,000 £48,165 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,261
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -9.72%
75th Percentile £76,250 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £91,250 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +6.62% -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 1,803 2,200 3,323
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.31% 13.36% 11.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,364 1,299 2,529
10th Percentile £32,750 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £50,875 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.18% +1.75% -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 24 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 23 (3.22%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.52%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.82%) Apache
4 9 (1.26%) nginx
5 6 (0.84%) IIS
5 6 (0.84%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.70%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.56%) CMS
8 3 (0.42%) Confluence
8 3 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.28%) Camunda
9 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.28%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.28%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) Moodle
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 445 (62.32%) AWS
2 397 (55.60%) Azure
3 223 (31.23%) GitHub
4 186 (26.05%) GCP
5 150 (21.01%) GitHub Copilot
6 84 (11.76%) Serverless
7 74 (10.36%) Azure AI
8 49 (6.86%) GitHub Actions
9 46 (6.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 46 (6.44%) SaaS
10 45 (6.30%) AWS Lambda
11 44 (6.16%) Amazon S3
11 44 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
12 35 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 32 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
15 31 (4.34%) Azure Service Bus
16 29 (4.06%) Azure AKS
17 24 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
17 24 (3.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (9.66%) Broadband
2 20 (2.80%) Internet
3 11 (1.54%) VPN
4 10 (1.40%) DNS
5 9 (1.26%) Firewall
6 8 (1.12%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.70%) MQTT
7 5 (0.70%) Network Security
8 4 (0.56%) DHCP
8 4 (0.56%) HTTP
8 4 (0.56%) SSH
9 3 (0.42%) AMQP
10 2 (0.28%) Intranet
10 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.28%) RTP
10 2 (0.28%) SAN
10 2 (0.28%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.28%) VLAN
10 2 (0.28%) WireGuard
10 2 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (25.35%) MongoDB
2 138 (19.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 96 (13.45%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (8.96%) Elasticsearch
5 50 (7.00%) NoSQL
5 50 (7.00%) SQL Server
6 41 (5.74%) Relational Database
7 37 (5.18%) MySQL
8 35 (4.90%) Redis
9 31 (4.34%) Amazon RDS
10 19 (2.66%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (1.26%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.12%) Data Lake
14 8 (1.12%) Delta Lake
15 7 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
16 6 (0.84%) Big Data
16 6 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 6 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 129 (18.07%) Git
2 64 (8.96%) Jenkins
3 58 (8.12%) GitLab
4 19 (2.66%) JUnit
5 18 (2.52%) Cypress.io
5 18 (2.52%) JIRA
6 16 (2.24%) Maven
7 15 (2.10%) Selenium
8 12 (1.68%) CircleCI
9 10 (1.40%) Claude Code
9 10 (1.40%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.40%) Mockito
10 9 (1.26%) Postman
11 6 (0.84%) Gatling
11 6 (0.84%) JMeter
11 6 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.70%) Locust
12 5 (0.70%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.70%) Subversion
12 5 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 147 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 95 (13.31%) Finance
3 44 (6.16%) Public Sector
4 41 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (5.46%) Advertising
6 22 (3.08%) Marketing
7 18 (2.52%) Aerospace
7 18 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (2.10%) Games
9 13 (1.82%) Banking
10 10 (1.40%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.26%) Law
12 7 (0.98%) Legal
13 5 (0.70%) Electronics
13 5 (0.70%) Retail
14 4 (0.56%) Military
14 4 (0.56%) Tech for Good
14 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.42%) Aviation
15 3 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 311 (43.56%) Developer
2 157 (21.99%) Senior
3 142 (19.89%) .NET Developer
4 106 (14.85%) Software Engineer
5 79 (11.06%) Lead
6 53 (7.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 45 (6.30%) Full-Stack Developer
8 44 (6.16%) Senior Developer
9 38 (5.32%) Java Developer
10 31 (4.34%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (4.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 30 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
11 30 (4.20%) Scala Engineer
12 27 (3.78%) Data Engineer
12 27 (3.78%) Senior Software Engineer
13 25 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
14 21 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
15 20 (2.80%) Architect
15 20 (2.80%) Lead Developer
16 19 (2.66%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (28.99%) .NET
2 153 (21.43%) .NET Core
3 152 (21.29%) ASP.NET
4 136 (19.05%) ASP.NET Core
5 118 (16.53%) React
6 114 (15.97%) Node.js
7 103 (14.43%) AngularJS
7 103 (14.43%) CSS
8 95 (13.31%) HTML
9 91 (12.75%) REST
10 79 (11.06%) RESTful
10 79 (11.06%) Vue
11 76 (10.64%) Spring
12 73 (10.22%) ML.NET
13 61 (8.54%) Spring Boot
14 54 (7.56%) gRPC
15 50 (7.00%) Kafka
16 33 (4.62%) Blazor
17 31 (4.34%) Django
18 28 (3.92%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 120 (16.81%) Cloud Native
2 94 (13.17%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.30%) Over-the-Top Content
3 45 (6.30%) Video\Live Streaming
4 32 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
4 32 (4.48%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.80%) Digital TV
6 13 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
7 12 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.40%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.26%) Robotics
10 8 (1.12%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.12%) IoT
10 8 (1.12%) Mobile App
11 7 (0.98%) Data Centre
11 7 (0.98%) Data Structures
11 7 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (0.98%) Onboarding
12 6 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 130 (18.21%) Linux
2 15 (2.10%) Ubuntu
3 14 (1.96%) Windows
4 11 (1.54%) Unix
5 7 (0.98%) Debian
5 7 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.70%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.56%) CentOS
7 4 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.42%) Android
8 3 (0.42%) VMS
8 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (67.93%) CI/CD
2 294 (41.18%) Containerisation
3 288 (40.34%) Agile
4 254 (35.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 252 (35.29%) DevOps
5 252 (35.29%) Microservices
6 214 (29.97%) Software Engineering
7 204 (28.57%) AI
8 166 (23.25%) Problem-Solving
9 159 (22.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 158 (22.13%) Machine Learning
11 127 (17.79%) Mentoring
12 121 (16.95%) Scrum
13 114 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 114 (15.97%) TDD
14 112 (15.69%) Clean Code
15 84 (11.76%) Coaching
15 84 (11.76%) Test Automation
16 82 (11.48%) Observability
17 72 (10.08%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 272 (38.10%) Python
2 242 (33.89%) SQL
3 219 (30.67%) C#
4 145 (20.31%) TypeScript
5 119 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 110 (15.41%) Java
7 72 (10.08%) Go
8 60 (8.40%) Bash
8 60 (8.40%) Scala
9 34 (4.76%) PowerShell
10 23 (3.22%) PHP
10 23 (3.22%) Ruby
11 21 (2.94%) Bicep
12 14 (1.96%) C++
13 12 (1.68%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.54%) PL/SQL
15 10 (1.40%) Groovy
16 9 (1.26%) Rust
17 6 (0.84%) C
18 3 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (12.04%) Security Cleared
2 73 (10.22%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.12%) Degree
4 21 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.66%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.40%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.70%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.56%) CISSP
9 4 (0.56%) GIAC
9 4 (0.56%) ISACA
9 4 (0.56%) SANS
10 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.68%) QA
2 33 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.38%) WCAG
4 11 (1.54%) NIST
5 10 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.26%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.70%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.42%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.28%) GDPR
9 2 (0.28%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.56%) Firmware
3 4 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.42%) iptables
4 3 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.28%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.28%) KVM
6 1 (0.14%) QEMU
6 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 456 (63.87%) Kubernetes
2 179 (25.07%) Terraform
3 52 (7.28%) Ansible
4 50 (7.00%) Grafana
5 42 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 19 (2.66%) Puppet
7 16 (2.24%) Istio
7 16 (2.24%) Podman
8 15 (2.10%) Argo
9 14 (1.96%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.70%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.70%) Kibana
11 4 (0.56%) linkerd
11 4 (0.56%) Packer
12 3 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.42%) Nagios
12 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.28%) MIIS
13 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 192 (26.89%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.72%) Google
3 45 (6.30%) Typelevel
4 20 (2.80%) Facebook
5 17 (2.38%) Databricks
5 17 (2.38%) Oracle
6 15 (2.10%) Okta
7 11 (1.54%) Ping Identity
8 9 (1.26%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.12%) Confluent
9 8 (1.12%) ForgeRock
9 8 (1.12%) Informatica
9 8 (1.12%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.12%) VMware
10 7 (0.98%) Splunk
11 5 (0.70%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.70%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.70%) New Relic
12 4 (0.56%) IBM
13 3 (0.42%) Commvault