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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 40 69
Rank change year-on-year -37 +29 -39
Permanent jobs citing Docker 731 1,042 945
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.15% 6.30% 3.81%
As % of the System Software category 38.70% 50.56% 32.69%
Number of salaries quoted 558 392 700
10th Percentile £45,750 £47,500 £43,675
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £51,471
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -8.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.90% +7.41% -6.90%

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 1,889 2,061 2,891
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.14% 12.47% 11.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,424 1,197 2,019
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.71%

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 26 August 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 22 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.19%) Apache
4 8 (1.09%) nginx
5 7 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.82%) IIS
6 6 (0.82%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.55%) Camunda
8 4 (0.55%) Confluence
9 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.41%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.41%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.27%) CMS
10 2 (0.27%) WordPress
11 1 (0.14%) Drupal
11 1 (0.14%) Moodle
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.23%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 446 (61.01%) AWS
2 426 (58.28%) Azure
3 233 (31.87%) GitHub
4 166 (22.71%) GCP
5 154 (21.07%) GitHub Copilot
6 76 (10.40%) Azure AI
7 70 (9.58%) Serverless
8 58 (7.93%) GitHub Actions
9 56 (7.66%) SaaS
10 53 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (6.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (5.47%) Amazon S3
13 39 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
14 36 (4.92%) Azure Service Bus
15 30 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 30 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
15 30 (4.10%) Amazon ECS
15 30 (4.10%) Azure AKS
16 25 (3.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 25 (3.42%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.75%) Broadband
2 20 (2.74%) Internet
3 10 (1.37%) VPN
4 9 (1.23%) DNS
4 9 (1.23%) Firewall
5 6 (0.82%) AMQP
5 6 (0.82%) SMS
5 6 (0.82%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.55%) Network Security
6 4 (0.55%) SSH
7 3 (0.41%) HTTP
8 2 (0.27%) DHCP
8 2 (0.27%) Intranet
8 2 (0.27%) MQTT
8 2 (0.27%) VLAN
8 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
8 2 (0.27%) X.509
9 1 (0.14%) DSL
9 1 (0.14%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.14%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (24.49%) MongoDB
2 144 (19.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 102 (13.95%) PostgreSQL
4 63 (8.62%) Elasticsearch
5 59 (8.07%) SQL Server
6 56 (7.66%) NoSQL
7 45 (6.16%) Relational Database
8 36 (4.92%) MySQL
9 34 (4.65%) Redis
10 24 (3.28%) DynamoDB
11 21 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.37%) Data Lake
14 8 (1.09%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (0.96%) Big Data
15 7 (0.96%) Power BI
16 6 (0.82%) Delta Lake
16 6 (0.82%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 142 (19.43%) Git
2 71 (9.71%) Jenkins
3 60 (8.21%) GitLab
4 26 (3.56%) JUnit
5 21 (2.87%) Cypress.io
6 20 (2.74%) Selenium
7 19 (2.60%) Maven
8 16 (2.19%) JIRA
9 14 (1.92%) Mockito
10 12 (1.64%) CircleCI
10 12 (1.64%) Postman
11 11 (1.50%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.50%) Cucumber
12 9 (1.23%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.96%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.96%) Gatling
14 6 (0.82%) JMeter
14 6 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.68%) Locust
General
1 166 (22.71%) Social Skills
2 107 (14.64%) Finance
3 55 (7.52%) Public Sector
4 45 (6.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (5.20%) Advertising
6 22 (3.01%) Marketing
7 21 (2.87%) Aerospace
7 21 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (2.19%) Banking
8 16 (2.19%) Games
9 12 (1.64%) Law
9 12 (1.64%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.09%) Legal
10 8 (1.09%) Tech for Good
11 6 (0.82%) Electronics
11 6 (0.82%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.68%) Retail
13 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.41%) Local Government
14 3 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 312 (42.68%) Developer
2 165 (22.57%) Senior
3 147 (20.11%) .NET Developer
4 109 (14.91%) Software Engineer
5 81 (11.08%) Lead
6 57 (7.80%) DevOps Engineer
7 49 (6.70%) Senior Developer
8 46 (6.29%) Java Developer
9 44 (6.02%) Full-Stack Developer
10 32 (4.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 31 (4.24%) AWS Engineer
12 27 (3.69%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
14 24 (3.28%) Architect
14 24 (3.28%) Data Engineer
14 24 (3.28%) Lead Developer
14 24 (3.28%) Senior Java Developer
15 22 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
16 21 (2.87%) Cloud Engineer
17 20 (2.74%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (30.64%) .NET
2 187 (25.58%) Terraform
3 158 (21.61%) .NET Core
4 157 (21.48%) ASP.NET
5 138 (18.88%) ASP.NET Core
6 137 (18.74%) Node.js
7 134 (18.33%) React
8 111 (15.18%) REST
9 107 (14.64%) CSS
10 104 (14.23%) AngularJS
11 93 (12.72%) HTML
12 82 (11.22%) RESTful
13 81 (11.08%) Spring
14 76 (10.40%) Vue
15 74 (10.12%) ML.NET
16 59 (8.07%) Spring Boot
17 51 (6.98%) Kafka
18 42 (5.75%) Blazor
19 31 (4.24%) gRPC
19 31 (4.24%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 118 (16.14%) Cloud Native
2 74 (10.12%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (3.15%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.74%) Digital TV
5 20 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (2.46%) Over-the-Top Content
6 18 (2.46%) Video\Live Streaming
7 15 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.92%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.64%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.64%) Robotics
10 11 (1.50%) IoT
10 11 (1.50%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.37%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.09%) Blog
13 7 (0.96%) Onboarding
13 7 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 132 (18.06%) Linux
2 18 (2.46%) Windows
3 16 (2.19%) Ubuntu
4 9 (1.23%) Debian
5 7 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
6 6 (0.82%) Unix
7 5 (0.68%) Android
7 5 (0.68%) CentOS
7 5 (0.68%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.55%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.41%) VMS
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.27%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.27%) Solaris
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.14%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (65.66%) CI/CD
2 302 (41.31%) Agile
3 270 (36.94%) Containerisation
4 261 (35.70%) Full-Stack Development
5 256 (35.02%) DevOps
6 234 (32.01%) Microservices
7 229 (31.33%) AI
8 214 (29.27%) Software Engineering
9 156 (21.34%) Infrastructure as Code
10 141 (19.29%) Machine Learning
10 141 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
11 137 (18.74%) Mentoring
12 125 (17.10%) Scrum
13 114 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
14 106 (14.50%) TDD
15 102 (13.95%) Test Automation
16 87 (11.90%) Clean Code
17 84 (11.49%) Observability
18 82 (11.22%) Event-Driven
19 68 (9.30%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 269 (36.80%) SQL
2 251 (34.34%) Python
3 233 (31.87%) C#
4 158 (21.61%) TypeScript
5 135 (18.47%) JavaScript
6 121 (16.55%) Java
7 68 (9.30%) Bash
8 48 (6.57%) Go
9 36 (4.92%) PowerShell
10 30 (4.10%) Scala
11 25 (3.42%) Ruby
12 20 (2.74%) Bicep
12 20 (2.74%) PHP
13 18 (2.46%) C++
14 16 (2.19%) Kotlin
14 16 (2.19%) PL/SQL
15 10 (1.37%) Groovy
16 9 (1.23%) Rust
17 8 (1.09%) C
18 4 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 110 (15.05%) Security Cleared
2 89 (12.18%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.25%) Degree
4 19 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.33%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.19%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.05%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.82%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.41%) OCP
11 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.14%) SANS
13 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (9.58%) QA
2 38 (5.20%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.74%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.46%) WCAG
5 9 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.23%) NIST
6 7 (0.96%) SOC 2
7 6 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.55%) NCSC
9 3 (0.41%) GDPR
9 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.41%) SLA
10 2 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
10 2 (0.27%) MISRA
10 2 (0.27%) MISRA C
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 21 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.68%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.55%) Firmware
5 3 (0.41%) iptables
5 3 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.27%) KVM
6 2 (0.27%) QEMU
7 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 479 (65.53%) Kubernetes
2 55 (7.52%) Ansible
3 50 (6.84%) Grafana
4 39 (5.34%) Prometheus
5 20 (2.74%) Puppet
6 17 (2.33%) Istio
7 16 (2.19%) Podman
8 13 (1.78%) Argo
9 12 (1.64%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.55%) linkerd
11 3 (0.41%) Cilium
11 3 (0.41%) Kibana
11 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.27%) Consul
12 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.27%) MIIS
12 2 (0.27%) Nagios
12 2 (0.27%) Packer
12 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 191 (26.13%) Microsoft
2 53 (7.25%) Google
3 23 (3.15%) Oracle
4 21 (2.87%) Facebook
4 21 (2.87%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.46%) Typelevel
6 15 (2.05%) Databricks
6 15 (2.05%) Okta
7 14 (1.92%) Ping Identity
7 14 (1.92%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.64%) Informatica
9 9 (1.23%) VMware
10 8 (1.09%) Confluent
11 7 (0.96%) Splunk
12 6 (0.82%) New Relic
13 5 (0.68%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.68%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.68%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.68%) IBM
14 4 (0.55%) TIBCO