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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 39 65
Rank change year-on-year -43 +26 -34
Permanent jobs citing Docker 734 1,016 955
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.06% 6.25% 4.07%
As % of the System Software category 38.19% 50.88% 34.59%
Number of salaries quoted 559 365 650
10th Percentile £45,750 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,250 £99,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £71,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -5.59% +5.15% -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 1,922 1,997 2,761
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.02% 12.29% 11.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,449 1,119 1,794
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 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -5.41% -7.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £86,600 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 11 September 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 24 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (2.72%) Apache
3 18 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.09%) nginx
5 7 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.82%) IIS
6 6 (0.82%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.54%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.54%) Camunda
8 4 (0.54%) Confluence
8 4 (0.54%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.54%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.27%) CMS
9 2 (0.27%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) Drupal
10 1 (0.14%) Moodle
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.63%) 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
1 451 (61.44%) AWS
2 428 (58.31%) Azure
3 238 (32.43%) GitHub
4 164 (22.34%) GCP
5 155 (21.12%) GitHub Copilot
6 76 (10.35%) Azure AI
7 67 (9.13%) GitHub Actions
7 67 (9.13%) Serverless
8 53 (7.22%) SaaS
9 52 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 39 (5.31%) Amazon S3
12 36 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
13 34 (4.63%) Azure Service Bus
14 31 (4.22%) Amazon ECS
15 29 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 29 (3.95%) Azure AKS
16 28 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (3.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 24 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 41 (5.59%) Broadband
2 20 (2.72%) Internet
3 10 (1.36%) Firewall
3 10 (1.36%) VPN
4 9 (1.23%) AMQP
4 9 (1.23%) DNS
4 9 (1.23%) SMS
5 7 (0.95%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.82%) Network Security
7 4 (0.54%) SSH
8 3 (0.41%) HTTP
9 2 (0.27%) DHCP
9 2 (0.27%) Intranet
9 2 (0.27%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.27%) LAN
9 2 (0.27%) VLAN
9 2 (0.27%) WAN
9 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
9 2 (0.27%) X.509
10 1 (0.14%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (24.11%) MongoDB
2 144 (19.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 106 (14.44%) PostgreSQL
4 61 (8.31%) Elasticsearch
5 57 (7.77%) SQL Server
6 56 (7.63%) NoSQL
7 46 (6.27%) Relational Database
8 36 (4.90%) MySQL
9 32 (4.36%) Redis
10 24 (3.27%) DynamoDB
11 19 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (2.45%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (1.23%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.95%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (0.82%) Delta Lake
15 6 (0.82%) Power BI
16 5 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
16 5 (0.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 142 (19.35%) Git
2 70 (9.54%) Jenkins
3 61 (8.31%) GitLab
4 26 (3.54%) JUnit
5 21 (2.86%) Cypress.io
6 20 (2.72%) Selenium
7 19 (2.59%) Maven
8 15 (2.04%) JIRA
9 14 (1.91%) Mockito
10 12 (1.63%) CircleCI
10 12 (1.63%) Postman
11 11 (1.50%) Claude Code
12 9 (1.23%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.95%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.95%) Gatling
14 6 (0.82%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.82%) Storybook
14 6 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.68%) TeamCity
General
1 169 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 109 (14.85%) Finance
3 58 (7.90%) Public Sector
4 41 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (5.18%) Advertising
6 23 (3.13%) Marketing
7 22 (3.00%) Aerospace
8 21 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
9 16 (2.18%) Banking
9 16 (2.18%) Games
10 13 (1.77%) Law
11 12 (1.63%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.36%) Tech for Good
13 9 (1.23%) Health Technology
14 8 (1.09%) Legal
15 6 (0.82%) Electronics
15 6 (0.82%) Retail
16 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.41%) Local Government
17 3 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 317 (43.19%) Developer
2 176 (23.98%) Senior
3 147 (20.03%) .NET Developer
4 109 (14.85%) Software Engineer
5 78 (10.63%) Lead
6 58 (7.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 56 (7.63%) Senior Developer
8 48 (6.54%) Java Developer
9 43 (5.86%) Full-Stack Developer
10 32 (4.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 28 (3.81%) AWS Engineer
11 28 (3.81%) Senior Java Developer
12 26 (3.54%) Data Engineer
13 25 (3.41%) Senior Software Engineer
14 24 (3.27%) Lead Developer
14 24 (3.27%) Platform Engineer
15 23 (3.13%) Architect
16 22 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
17 21 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
18 20 (2.72%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (30.38%) .NET
2 192 (26.16%) Terraform
3 157 (21.39%) ASP.NET
4 156 (21.25%) .NET Core
5 144 (19.62%) Node.js
6 138 (18.80%) ASP.NET Core
6 138 (18.80%) React
7 110 (14.99%) REST
8 108 (14.71%) CSS
9 103 (14.03%) AngularJS
10 93 (12.67%) HTML
11 86 (11.72%) Spring
12 83 (11.31%) RESTful
13 78 (10.63%) Vue
14 74 (10.08%) ML.NET
15 64 (8.72%) Spring Boot
16 51 (6.95%) Kafka
17 42 (5.72%) Blazor
18 32 (4.36%) OAuth
19 30 (4.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 118 (16.08%) Cloud Native
2 73 (9.95%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.63%) Greenfield Project
4 20 (2.72%) Digital TV
4 20 (2.72%) Product Ownership
5 18 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (2.32%) Over-the-Top Content
6 17 (2.32%) Video\Live Streaming
7 15 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.77%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.77%) Robotics
10 12 (1.63%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.36%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.36%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.23%) IoT
14 8 (1.09%) Blog
15 7 (0.95%) Data Centre
15 7 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 134 (18.26%) Linux
2 20 (2.72%) Windows
3 18 (2.45%) Ubuntu
4 10 (1.36%) Debian
5 7 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
6 6 (0.82%) Unix
7 5 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.68%) CentOS
7 5 (0.68%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.54%) Android
9 3 (0.41%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.41%) Robot Operating System
9 3 (0.41%) VMS
10 2 (0.27%) Solaris
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.14%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (65.53%) CI/CD
2 302 (41.14%) Agile
3 259 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 257 (35.01%) Containerisation
5 253 (34.47%) DevOps
6 236 (32.15%) AI
7 232 (31.61%) Microservices
8 217 (29.56%) Software Engineering
9 157 (21.39%) Infrastructure as Code
10 146 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
11 143 (19.48%) Machine Learning
12 140 (19.07%) Mentoring
13 128 (17.44%) Scrum
14 113 (15.40%) Continuous Improvement
15 106 (14.44%) TDD
16 98 (13.35%) Test Automation
17 90 (12.26%) Clean Code
18 87 (11.85%) Observability
19 80 (10.90%) Event-Driven
20 68 (9.26%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 280 (38.15%) SQL
2 243 (33.11%) Python
3 231 (31.47%) C#
4 160 (21.80%) TypeScript
5 134 (18.26%) JavaScript
6 123 (16.76%) Java
7 71 (9.67%) Bash
8 46 (6.27%) Go
9 38 (5.18%) PowerShell
10 27 (3.68%) Scala
11 25 (3.41%) Ruby
12 22 (3.00%) Bicep
13 19 (2.59%) PHP
14 17 (2.32%) C++
14 17 (2.32%) Kotlin
15 16 (2.18%) PL/SQL
16 10 (1.36%) Groovy
17 9 (1.23%) Rust
18 8 (1.09%) C
19 4 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 115 (15.67%) Security Cleared
2 92 (12.53%) SC Cleared
3 54 (7.36%) Degree
4 21 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.32%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.18%) AWS Certification
6 16 (2.18%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.82%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.41%) OCP
10 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.27%) GIAC
11 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (9.13%) QA
2 34 (4.63%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.91%) WCAG
5 9 (1.23%) NIST
6 7 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.95%) SOC 2
7 6 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.54%) NCSC
9 3 (0.41%) GDPR
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%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 18 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.68%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.41%) iptables
4 3 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.27%) Firmware
5 2 (0.27%) KVM
5 2 (0.27%) QEMU
6 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 481 (65.53%) Kubernetes
2 58 (7.90%) Ansible
3 45 (6.13%) Grafana
4 38 (5.18%) Prometheus
5 20 (2.72%) Puppet
6 16 (2.18%) Podman
7 15 (2.04%) Istio
8 14 (1.91%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.77%) Argo
10 4 (0.54%) linkerd
10 4 (0.54%) Packer
11 3 (0.41%) Cilium
11 3 (0.41%) Kibana
11 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.27%) CASB
12 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.27%) MIIS
12 2 (0.27%) Nagios
Vendors
1 189 (25.75%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.36%) Google
3 24 (3.27%) OpenAI
3 24 (3.27%) Oracle
4 21 (2.86%) Facebook
5 17 (2.32%) Typelevel
6 16 (2.18%) Databricks
7 15 (2.04%) Okta
7 15 (2.04%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.91%) Ping Identity
9 12 (1.63%) Informatica
10 10 (1.36%) VMware
11 8 (1.09%) Splunk
12 7 (0.95%) New Relic
13 6 (0.82%) Confluent
14 5 (0.68%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.68%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.68%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.68%) IBM
15 4 (0.54%) TIBCO