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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 40 71
Rank change year-on-year -38 +31 -40
Permanent jobs citing Docker 741 1,054 932
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.23% 6.36% 3.78%
As % of the System Software category 39.08% 51.07% 32.54%
Number of salaries quoted 558 406 702
10th Percentile £45,750 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £51,783
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -9.72%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,438
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £99,847
UK median annual salary £67,500 £71,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.59% +5.93% -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 1,896 2,064 2,864
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.27% 12.46% 11.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,421 1,208 2,029
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £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 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,375 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -10.71%

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 20 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 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.16%) Apache
4 8 (1.08%) nginx
5 7 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.81%) IIS
6 6 (0.81%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.67%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.54%) Camunda
8 4 (0.54%) Confluence
9 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.40%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.27%) CMS
10 2 (0.27%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) Drupal
11 1 (0.13%) Moodle
11 1 (0.13%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 6 (0.81%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 455 (61.40%) AWS
2 430 (58.03%) Azure
3 234 (31.58%) GitHub
4 177 (23.89%) GCP
5 154 (20.78%) GitHub Copilot
6 76 (10.26%) Azure AI
6 76 (10.26%) Serverless
7 57 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
7 57 (7.69%) SaaS
8 53 (7.15%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (6.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 41 (5.53%) AWS Lambda
11 40 (5.40%) Amazon S3
12 36 (4.86%) Azure Service Bus
13 31 (4.18%) Amazon ECS
14 30 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (4.05%) Azure AKS
15 26 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 25 (3.37%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 52 (7.02%) Broadband
2 20 (2.70%) Internet
3 10 (1.35%) DNS
3 10 (1.35%) VPN
4 9 (1.21%) Firewall
5 6 (0.81%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.67%) AMQP
6 5 (0.67%) SMS
7 4 (0.54%) Network Security
7 4 (0.54%) SSH
8 3 (0.40%) DHCP
8 3 (0.40%) HTTP
9 2 (0.27%) Intranet
9 2 (0.27%) MQTT
9 2 (0.27%) VLAN
9 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
9 2 (0.27%) X.509
10 1 (0.13%) DSL
10 1 (0.13%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (24.29%) MongoDB
2 144 (19.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 104 (14.04%) PostgreSQL
4 63 (8.50%) Elasticsearch
5 61 (8.23%) SQL Server
6 54 (7.29%) NoSQL
7 45 (6.07%) Relational Database
8 36 (4.86%) MySQL
9 35 (4.72%) Redis
10 24 (3.24%) DynamoDB
11 22 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.35%) Data Lake
14 8 (1.08%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (0.94%) Big Data
15 7 (0.94%) Power BI
16 6 (0.81%) Delta Lake
16 6 (0.81%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 144 (19.43%) Git
2 72 (9.72%) Jenkins
3 59 (7.96%) GitLab
4 26 (3.51%) JUnit
5 21 (2.83%) Cypress.io
6 20 (2.70%) Selenium
7 19 (2.56%) Maven
8 16 (2.16%) JIRA
9 14 (1.89%) Mockito
10 12 (1.62%) CircleCI
10 12 (1.62%) Postman
11 11 (1.48%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.48%) Cucumber
12 9 (1.21%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.94%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.94%) Gatling
14 6 (0.81%) JMeter
14 6 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.67%) Locust
General
1 167 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 108 (14.57%) Finance
3 56 (7.56%) Public Sector
4 46 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (5.26%) Advertising
6 22 (2.97%) Marketing
7 21 (2.83%) Aerospace
7 21 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (2.16%) Banking
8 16 (2.16%) Games
9 13 (1.75%) Law
10 12 (1.62%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.21%) Legal
12 7 (0.94%) Tech for Good
13 6 (0.81%) Electronics
14 5 (0.67%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.67%) Retail
15 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.40%) Local Government
16 3 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 317 (42.78%) Developer
2 166 (22.40%) Senior
3 148 (19.97%) .NET Developer
4 115 (15.52%) Software Engineer
5 82 (11.07%) Lead
6 56 (7.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 50 (6.75%) Senior Developer
8 46 (6.21%) Java Developer
9 44 (5.94%) Full-Stack Developer
10 35 (4.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 31 (4.18%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (3.78%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (3.51%) Data Engineer
13 26 (3.51%) Platform Engineer
14 24 (3.24%) Lead Developer
14 24 (3.24%) Senior Java Developer
15 23 (3.10%) Architect
15 23 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
16 22 (2.97%) Cloud Engineer
16 22 (2.97%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (30.23%) .NET
2 189 (25.51%) Terraform
3 158 (21.32%) .NET Core
3 158 (21.32%) ASP.NET
4 138 (18.62%) ASP.NET Core
5 134 (18.08%) React
6 133 (17.95%) Node.js
7 112 (15.11%) REST
8 109 (14.71%) CSS
9 105 (14.17%) AngularJS
10 95 (12.82%) HTML
11 84 (11.34%) RESTful
12 82 (11.07%) Spring
13 76 (10.26%) Vue
14 74 (9.99%) ML.NET
15 60 (8.10%) Spring Boot
16 52 (7.02%) Kafka
17 41 (5.53%) Blazor
18 40 (5.40%) gRPC
19 31 (4.18%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 124 (16.73%) Cloud Native
2 81 (10.93%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.45%) Greenfield Project
4 27 (3.64%) Over-the-Top Content
4 27 (3.64%) Video\Live Streaming
5 25 (3.37%) Product Ownership
6 21 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.70%) Digital TV
8 15 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.89%) AI Agents
9 14 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.48%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.48%) IoT
10 11 (1.48%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.35%) Robotics
12 9 (1.21%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (1.21%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.08%) Blog
14 7 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 131 (17.68%) Linux
2 17 (2.29%) Windows
3 15 (2.02%) Ubuntu
4 8 (1.08%) Debian
5 7 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
6 6 (0.81%) Unix
7 5 (0.67%) Android
7 5 (0.67%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.54%) CentOS
9 3 (0.40%) VMS
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.27%) Solaris
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.13%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 492 (66.40%) CI/CD
2 303 (40.89%) Agile
3 282 (38.06%) Containerisation
4 264 (35.63%) Full-Stack Development
5 262 (35.36%) DevOps
6 246 (33.20%) Microservices
7 229 (30.90%) AI
8 224 (30.23%) Software Engineering
9 165 (22.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 151 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
11 150 (20.24%) Machine Learning
12 138 (18.62%) Mentoring
13 128 (17.27%) Scrum
14 118 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 110 (14.84%) TDD
16 103 (13.90%) Test Automation
17 96 (12.96%) Clean Code
18 85 (11.47%) Event-Driven
19 84 (11.34%) Observability
20 69 (9.31%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 268 (36.17%) SQL
2 260 (35.09%) Python
3 234 (31.58%) C#
4 159 (21.46%) TypeScript
5 136 (18.35%) JavaScript
6 121 (16.33%) Java
7 66 (8.91%) Bash
8 57 (7.69%) Go
9 39 (5.26%) Scala
10 35 (4.72%) PowerShell
11 25 (3.37%) Ruby
12 20 (2.70%) PHP
13 19 (2.56%) Bicep
14 17 (2.29%) C++
15 16 (2.16%) Kotlin
15 16 (2.16%) PL/SQL
16 10 (1.35%) Groovy
17 8 (1.08%) C
17 8 (1.08%) Rust
18 4 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 110 (14.84%) Security Cleared
2 90 (12.15%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.15%) Degree
4 19 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 18 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.16%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.81%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.40%) OCP
11 3 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.27%) CISSP
12 2 (0.27%) GIAC
12 2 (0.27%) ISACA
12 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (9.72%) QA
2 38 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.70%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.43%) WCAG
5 10 (1.35%) NIST
6 9 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.94%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.54%) NCSC
10 3 (0.40%) GDPR
10 3 (0.40%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.40%) SLA
11 2 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
11 2 (0.27%) MISRA
11 2 (0.27%) MISRA C
12 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.13%) PSD2
12 1 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 22 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.54%) Firmware
4 3 (0.40%) iptables
4 3 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.27%) KVM
5 2 (0.27%) QEMU
6 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 477 (64.37%) Kubernetes
2 55 (7.42%) Ansible
3 50 (6.75%) Grafana
4 39 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 20 (2.70%) Puppet
6 17 (2.29%) Istio
7 16 (2.16%) Podman
8 13 (1.75%) Argo
9 12 (1.62%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.54%) linkerd
11 3 (0.40%) Cilium
11 3 (0.40%) Kibana
11 3 (0.40%) 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
1 192 (25.91%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.29%) Google
3 27 (3.64%) Typelevel
4 23 (3.10%) Oracle
5 21 (2.83%) Facebook
6 18 (2.43%) OpenAI
7 16 (2.16%) Okta
8 15 (2.02%) Databricks
9 14 (1.89%) Ping Identity
10 13 (1.75%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.62%) Informatica
12 9 (1.21%) VMware
13 8 (1.08%) Confluent
14 6 (0.81%) ForgeRock
14 6 (0.81%) New Relic
14 6 (0.81%) Splunk
15 5 (0.67%) Dynatrace
15 5 (0.67%) HubSpot
15 5 (0.67%) IBM
16 4 (0.54%) TIBCO