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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 33 31
Rank change year-on-year -58 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Docker 438 1,216 1,519
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.89% 7.31% 7.23%
As % of the System Software category 35.76% 47.10% 44.23%
Number of salaries quoted 324 671 1,277
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £71,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.07% +3.57% -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 1,225 2,582 3,434
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.08% 15.51% 16.35%
Number of salaries quoted 897 1,594 2,942
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,449 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £74,173
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £88,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -1.09%

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

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 7 January 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 15 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
1 15 (3.42%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.97%) nginx
3 10 (2.28%) Apache Solr
4 8 (1.83%) CMS
5 5 (1.14%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.14%) Apache
5 5 (1.14%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.14%) ArcGIS
5 5 (1.14%) Drupal
5 5 (1.14%) WordPress
6 4 (0.91%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.91%) IIS
6 4 (0.91%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.91%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.23%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.68%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.46%) Weka
3 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.83%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 285 (65.07%) AWS
2 232 (52.97%) Azure
3 108 (24.66%) GitHub
4 105 (23.97%) GCP
5 60 (13.70%) Serverless
6 59 (13.47%) GitHub Actions
7 51 (11.64%) Azure DevOps
8 48 (10.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 40 (9.13%) AWS Lambda
10 34 (7.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 31 (7.08%) Amazon S3
12 29 (6.62%) SaaS
13 28 (6.39%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (4.34%) Datadog
14 19 (4.34%) OpenShift
15 18 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
15 18 (4.11%) Azure AKS
16 16 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (3.65%) Pulumi
17 14 (3.20%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.25%) Broadband
2 16 (3.65%) Firewall
3 15 (3.42%) VPN
4 11 (2.51%) DNS
4 11 (2.51%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.37%) Network Security
6 5 (1.14%) AMQP
7 4 (0.91%) Internet
7 4 (0.91%) WAN
8 3 (0.68%) DHCP
8 3 (0.68%) VLAN
9 2 (0.46%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.46%) LAN
9 2 (0.46%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.46%) VSAN
10 1 (0.23%) 5G
10 1 (0.23%) MIMO
10 1 (0.23%) NAS
10 1 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
10 1 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (17.81%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (14.16%) NoSQL
3 45 (10.27%) SQL Server
4 38 (8.68%) MySQL
5 29 (6.62%) MongoDB
6 27 (6.16%) Relational Database
7 25 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
7 25 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (4.34%) Redis
9 14 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (2.97%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.83%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.83%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.60%) MariaDB
12 7 (1.60%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.60%) Tableau
13 6 (1.37%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 68 (15.53%) Git
2 60 (13.70%) Jenkins
3 53 (12.10%) GitLab
4 18 (4.11%) TeamCity
5 12 (2.74%) JUnit
5 12 (2.74%) Selenium
6 11 (2.51%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.05%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.83%) MLflow
9 7 (1.60%) Jaeger
10 6 (1.37%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.37%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.37%) Storybook
11 5 (1.14%) Maven
12 4 (0.91%) JIRA
12 4 (0.91%) JMeter
12 4 (0.91%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.68%) git-flow
13 3 (0.68%) TestRail
13 3 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 121 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 60 (13.70%) Finance
3 28 (6.39%) Public Sector
4 24 (5.48%) Telecoms
5 20 (4.57%) Law
6 14 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (2.74%) Marketing
9 10 (2.28%) Retail
10 9 (2.05%) Games
10 9 (2.05%) Legal
11 8 (1.83%) Banking
12 6 (1.37%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.14%) Front Office
13 5 (1.14%) Local Government
13 5 (1.14%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.14%) Police
14 4 (0.91%) Electronics
15 3 (0.68%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.46%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 131 (29.91%) Senior
2 122 (27.85%) Developer
3 75 (17.12%) Lead
4 59 (13.47%) DevOps Engineer
5 54 (12.33%) Software Engineer
6 33 (7.53%) Senior Developer
7 28 (6.39%) Architect
7 28 (6.39%) Java Developer
8 26 (5.94%) Full-Stack Developer
9 25 (5.71%) Lead DevOps
10 22 (5.02%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 21 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
11 21 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
11 21 (4.79%) Python Developer
11 21 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
11 21 (4.79%) Software Developer
12 19 (4.34%) Data Engineer
12 19 (4.34%) Development Engineer
13 18 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
14 17 (3.88%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (18.49%) React
2 76 (17.35%) .NET
3 54 (12.33%) RESTful
4 51 (11.64%) Node.js
5 49 (11.19%) Spring
6 48 (10.96%) Kafka
7 47 (10.73%) Spring Boot
8 43 (9.82%) REST
9 40 (9.13%) Django
10 37 (8.45%) Elastic Stack
11 32 (7.31%) AngularJS
11 32 (7.31%) Flask
12 31 (7.08%) .NET Core
13 29 (6.62%) CSS
13 29 (6.62%) HTML
14 25 (5.71%) Vue
15 23 (5.25%) FastAPI
16 18 (4.11%) gRPC
17 17 (3.88%) RabbitMQ
17 17 (3.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 100 (22.83%) Cloud Native
2 40 (9.13%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (7.08%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.34%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.74%) Over-the-Top Content
6 12 (2.74%) Video\Live Streaming
7 11 (2.51%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.28%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.83%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.83%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.37%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.14%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (1.14%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.91%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.91%) PKI
13 3 (0.68%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 91 (20.78%) Linux
2 37 (8.45%) Windows
3 29 (6.62%) Unix
4 18 (4.11%) Windows Server
5 14 (3.20%) Android
6 7 (1.60%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.60%) VMS
7 5 (1.14%) CentOS
8 4 (0.91%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.23%) Fedora
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (66.21%) CI/CD
2 246 (56.16%) DevOps
3 217 (49.54%) Containerisation
4 167 (38.13%) Agile
5 145 (33.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 114 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
7 111 (25.34%) Microservices
8 101 (23.06%) Software Engineering
9 94 (21.46%) AI
10 74 (16.89%) Mentoring
11 71 (16.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 70 (15.98%) Observability
13 60 (13.70%) Full-Stack Development
14 55 (12.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 53 (12.10%) Event-Driven
16 50 (11.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 50 (11.42%) Machine Learning
17 49 (11.19%) Test Automation
18 44 (10.05%) TDD
19 41 (9.36%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 203 (46.35%) Python
2 117 (26.71%) SQL
3 111 (25.34%) JavaScript
4 100 (22.83%) Java
5 61 (13.93%) C#
6 51 (11.64%) Bash
7 44 (10.05%) TypeScript
8 41 (9.36%) Go
9 26 (5.94%) PowerShell
10 25 (5.71%) PHP
11 24 (5.48%) Bicep
12 20 (4.57%) Scala
13 11 (2.51%) C++
14 8 (1.83%) Delphi
15 5 (1.14%) Ruby
15 5 (1.14%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.91%) Groovy
16 4 (0.91%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.46%) R
17 2 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 59 (13.47%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.19%) Degree
3 43 (9.82%) SC Cleared
4 35 (7.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (5.94%) AWS Certification
6 18 (4.11%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.20%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.46%) CISA
10 2 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.46%) CISM
10 2 (0.46%) CISSP
10 2 (0.46%) CRISC
10 2 (0.46%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.46%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.08%) QA
2 15 (3.42%) GDPR
3 12 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.51%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.14%) ISO 9001
6 5 (1.14%) NIST
7 3 (0.68%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.46%) ECSS
9 1 (0.23%) SEPA
9 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (1.60%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.14%) vSphere
3 4 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.91%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.46%) Ceph
4 2 (0.46%) Lustre
4 2 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.23%) Firmware
5 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.23%) vCloud
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 297 (67.81%) Kubernetes
2 189 (43.15%) Terraform
3 76 (17.35%) Ansible
4 70 (15.98%) Grafana
5 56 (12.79%) Prometheus
6 21 (4.79%) Argo
7 7 (1.60%) Kustomize
8 4 (0.91%) HP Fortify
8 4 (0.91%) Puppet
9 3 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.68%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.46%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.23%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.23%) Rancher
11 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (9.59%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.08%) Google
3 24 (5.48%) Oracle
4 17 (3.88%) Databricks
5 11 (2.51%) Splunk
6 10 (2.28%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.05%) SAP
8 7 (1.60%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.60%) VMware
9 6 (1.37%) Mercator
10 5 (1.14%) Dell
10 5 (1.14%) Epicor
10 5 (1.14%) Ericsson
10 5 (1.14%) IBM
10 5 (1.14%) Infor
10 5 (1.14%) Informatica
10 5 (1.14%) Nokia
10 5 (1.14%) Software AG
10 5 (1.14%) Talend
10 5 (1.14%) TIBCO