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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 35 56
Rank change year-on-year -37 +21 -26
Permanent jobs citing Docker 580 932 1,545
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.32% 7.11% 4.81%
As % of the System Software category 40.64% 47.38% 36.01%
Number of salaries quoted 372 715 1,313
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,371 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £101,830 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £135,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,930 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.81% +8.47% -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 1,427 1,967 4,290
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.17% 15.01% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,011 1,548 3,584
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £79,614 £83,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £50,860 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.53% +10.00% -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 15 April 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 28 (4.83%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.41%) nginx
4 9 (1.55%) CMS
5 8 (1.38%) OpenStack
6 6 (1.03%) Drupal
6 6 (1.03%) WordPress
7 5 (0.86%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.86%) Apache
7 5 (0.86%) Apache Pulsar
8 4 (0.69%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.69%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.69%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.52%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.34%) Camunda
10 2 (0.34%) Confluence
10 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.17%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.69%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.34%) Weka
3 1 (0.17%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 9 (1.55%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.17%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 413 (71.21%) AWS
2 246 (42.41%) Azure
3 187 (32.24%) GCP
4 124 (21.38%) GitHub
5 95 (16.38%) Serverless
6 60 (10.34%) Amazon S3
7 59 (10.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 57 (9.83%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (9.14%) GitHub Actions
10 46 (7.93%) SaaS
11 45 (7.76%) Azure DevOps
12 38 (6.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (6.55%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (5.52%) Amazon EKS
14 31 (5.34%) Pulumi
15 28 (4.83%) OpenShift
16 22 (3.79%) Datadog
16 22 (3.79%) PaaS
17 21 (3.62%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 101 (17.41%) Broadband
2 14 (2.41%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.72%) Firewall
4 7 (1.21%) DNS
4 7 (1.21%) Network Security
4 7 (1.21%) VPN
5 6 (1.03%) DHCP
6 5 (0.86%) AMQP
7 4 (0.69%) MQTT
8 3 (0.52%) HTTP
8 3 (0.52%) Internet
8 3 (0.52%) RTP
8 3 (0.52%) SCCP
8 3 (0.52%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.52%) VoIP
8 3 (0.52%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.34%) DSL
9 2 (0.34%) SAN
9 2 (0.34%) VLAN
9 2 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (15.00%) NoSQL
2 82 (14.14%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (10.34%) MongoDB
4 50 (8.62%) SQL Server
5 43 (7.41%) Relational Database
6 40 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
7 29 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
8 27 (4.66%) Redis
9 24 (4.14%) MySQL
10 20 (3.45%) DynamoDB
11 19 (3.28%) RDBMS
12 16 (2.76%) BigQuery
13 14 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (2.24%) Tableau
15 12 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (1.72%) Pinecone
16 10 (1.72%) Weaviate
17 9 (1.55%) Apache Iceberg
17 9 (1.55%) Looker
Development Applications
1 96 (16.55%) Git
2 84 (14.48%) Jenkins
3 57 (9.83%) GitLab
4 26 (4.48%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.28%) Jaeger
5 19 (3.28%) Selenium
6 18 (3.10%) CircleCI
7 17 (2.93%) Cypress.io
8 15 (2.59%) Cucumber
9 13 (2.24%) JMeter
9 13 (2.24%) MLflow
9 13 (2.24%) SonarQube
10 10 (1.72%) JUnit
11 9 (1.55%) JIRA
12 8 (1.38%) Maven
13 6 (1.03%) Bitbucket
13 6 (1.03%) Locust
13 6 (1.03%) Visual Studio
13 6 (1.03%) Vite
14 5 (0.86%) Storybook
General
1 130 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 74 (12.76%) Finance
3 43 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (6.38%) Public Sector
5 22 (3.79%) Telecoms
6 20 (3.45%) Law
7 14 (2.41%) Banking
8 12 (2.07%) Legal
9 11 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (1.72%) Retail
11 7 (1.21%) Aviation
12 6 (1.03%) Advertising
12 6 (1.03%) Front Office
12 6 (1.03%) Games
12 6 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.03%) Marketing
13 5 (0.86%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.86%) Local Government
13 5 (0.86%) Military
13 5 (0.86%) Police
Job Titles
1 175 (30.17%) Developer
2 170 (29.31%) Senior
3 101 (17.41%) Lead
4 90 (15.52%) Software Engineer
5 57 (9.83%) DevOps Engineer
6 44 (7.59%) Senior Developer
7 42 (7.24%) Scala Engineer
8 36 (6.21%) Full-Stack Developer
9 32 (5.52%) Java Developer
10 30 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
10 30 (5.17%) Software Developer
11 27 (4.66%) Python Developer
11 27 (4.66%) Senior Software Engineer
12 26 (4.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 26 (4.48%) Lead DevOps
13 25 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
14 24 (4.14%) .NET Developer
14 24 (4.14%) Data Engineer
14 24 (4.14%) Python Engineer
15 23 (3.97%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (18.45%) React
2 83 (14.31%) .NET
3 80 (13.79%) Node.js
4 69 (11.90%) Spring
5 64 (11.03%) Kafka
6 62 (10.69%) gRPC
7 59 (10.17%) REST
7 59 (10.17%) RESTful
7 59 (10.17%) Spring Boot
8 55 (9.48%) Django
9 45 (7.76%) Elastic Stack
10 42 (7.24%) .NET Core
10 42 (7.24%) AngularJS
11 34 (5.86%) CSS
11 34 (5.86%) HTML
11 34 (5.86%) Vue
12 32 (5.52%) Flask
13 25 (4.31%) Akka
13 25 (4.31%) ASP.NET
13 25 (4.31%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 96 (16.55%) Cloud Native
2 86 (14.83%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (11.72%) Over-the-Top Content
3 68 (11.72%) Video\Live Streaming
4 49 (8.45%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.59%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.72%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.55%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.55%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.03%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.03%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.03%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.86%) Cyberattack
11 5 (0.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 120 (20.69%) Linux
2 47 (8.10%) Unix
3 18 (3.10%) Windows
4 17 (2.93%) Android
5 12 (2.07%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.38%) CentOS
8 7 (1.21%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.86%) VMS
10 4 (0.69%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.52%) Debian
12 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (64.66%) CI/CD
2 308 (53.10%) Containerisation
3 286 (49.31%) DevOps
4 231 (39.83%) Agile
5 178 (30.69%) Microservices
6 168 (28.97%) Software Engineering
7 167 (28.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 153 (26.38%) Problem-Solving
9 110 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 106 (18.28%) Mentoring
11 105 (18.10%) Full-Stack Development
12 100 (17.24%) AI
13 94 (16.21%) Clean Code
13 94 (16.21%) Machine Learning
14 83 (14.31%) Coaching
15 80 (13.79%) TDD
16 76 (13.10%) Observability
17 74 (12.76%) Test Automation
18 72 (12.41%) Scrum
19 71 (12.24%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 292 (50.34%) Python
2 144 (24.83%) Java
3 139 (23.97%) JavaScript
4 124 (21.38%) SQL
5 111 (19.14%) Go
6 86 (14.83%) Scala
7 71 (12.24%) C#
8 68 (11.72%) Bash
9 59 (10.17%) TypeScript
10 22 (3.79%) PHP
11 21 (3.62%) PowerShell
12 18 (3.10%) Bicep
13 15 (2.59%) C++
14 11 (1.90%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.38%) Delphi
16 7 (1.21%) Rust
17 6 (1.03%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.86%) C
18 5 (0.86%) Groovy
18 5 (0.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 80 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 78 (13.45%) Degree
3 63 (10.86%) SC Cleared
4 38 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.62%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.07%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.86%) CISSP
9 5 (0.86%) GIAC
9 5 (0.86%) ISACA
9 5 (0.86%) SANS
10 3 (0.52%) LPIC
11 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.10%) QA
2 23 (3.97%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.24%) NIST
5 11 (1.90%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.55%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.55%) GDPR
7 8 (1.38%) ISO 9001
8 7 (1.21%) WCAG
9 5 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.52%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.34%) ECSS
12 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.86%) Firmware
3 5 (0.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.52%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.52%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.52%) vSphere
5 2 (0.34%) Ceph
5 2 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.34%) Lustre
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) QEMU
6 1 (0.17%) vCloud
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 348 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 211 (36.38%) Terraform
3 89 (15.34%) Ansible
4 65 (11.21%) Grafana
5 62 (10.69%) Prometheus
6 38 (6.55%) Argo
7 19 (3.28%) Kustomize
8 14 (2.41%) Podman
9 11 (1.90%) Puppet
10 8 (1.38%) Istio
11 5 (0.86%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.86%) Packer
12 4 (0.69%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.69%) Kibana
12 4 (0.69%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.52%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.34%) MIIS
14 2 (0.34%) Nagios
Vendors
1 67 (11.55%) Google
2 50 (8.62%) Microsoft
3 45 (7.76%) Typelevel
4 24 (4.14%) Oracle
5 22 (3.79%) Databricks
6 14 (2.41%) Red Hat
7 13 (2.24%) Splunk
8 9 (1.55%) Palantir
9 8 (1.38%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.38%) Confluent
9 8 (1.38%) Dell
9 8 (1.38%) SAP
10 7 (1.21%) VMware
11 6 (1.03%) IBM
11 6 (1.03%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.86%) Epicor
12 5 (0.86%) Ericsson
12 5 (0.86%) Informatica
12 5 (0.86%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.86%) Software AG
329 hybrid/remote Docker jobs