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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 32 36
Rank change year-on-year -54 +4 -7
Permanent jobs citing Docker 477 1,242 1,661
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.04% 7.62% 6.45%
As % of the System Software category 37.21% 48.29% 41.87%
Number of salaries quoted 337 698 1,410
10th Percentile £43,750 £49,925 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £98,474 £82,500
90th Percentile £103,000 £118,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 1,282 2,572 3,967
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.16% 15.78% 15.41%
Number of salaries quoted 907 1,583 3,416
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.54% -6.14%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £108,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.17% +9.52% -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 28 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 17 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (3.35%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.94%) nginx
4 7 (1.47%) Apache Solr
5 6 (1.26%) Apache
6 5 (1.05%) Anypoint
6 5 (1.05%) Apache Pulsar
6 5 (1.05%) ArcGIS
6 5 (1.05%) CMS
6 5 (1.05%) Drupal
6 5 (1.05%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.05%) WordPress
7 4 (0.84%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.84%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.63%) IIS
8 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.21%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.21%) SAS
9 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.21%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.84%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.42%) Weka
3 1 (0.21%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 9 (1.89%) Shopify
2 1 (0.21%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 307 (64.36%) AWS
2 228 (47.80%) Azure
3 119 (24.95%) GitHub
4 105 (22.01%) GCP
5 64 (13.42%) Serverless
6 62 (13.00%) GitHub Actions
7 55 (11.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 50 (10.48%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (9.01%) AWS Lambda
10 39 (8.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 37 (7.76%) Amazon S3
12 36 (7.55%) SaaS
13 28 (5.87%) Pulumi
14 27 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
15 20 (4.19%) Datadog
15 20 (4.19%) OpenShift
16 19 (3.98%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
18 17 (3.56%) Azure AKS
19 16 (3.35%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 45 (9.43%) Broadband
2 18 (3.77%) Firewall
3 16 (3.35%) VPN
4 12 (2.52%) DNS
5 11 (2.31%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.68%) Network Security
7 4 (0.84%) AMQP
7 4 (0.84%) DHCP
7 4 (0.84%) WAN
8 3 (0.63%) Internet
8 3 (0.63%) SCCP
8 3 (0.63%) VLAN
9 2 (0.42%) DSL
9 2 (0.42%) HTTP
9 2 (0.42%) LAN
9 2 (0.42%) RTP
9 2 (0.42%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.42%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.42%) VoIP
9 2 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (16.56%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (14.47%) NoSQL
3 46 (9.64%) SQL Server
4 40 (8.39%) Relational Database
5 38 (7.97%) MySQL
6 35 (7.34%) MongoDB
7 25 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (5.03%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (3.98%) RDBMS
10 18 (3.77%) Redis
11 15 (3.14%) DynamoDB
12 14 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (2.73%) BigQuery
14 12 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (2.10%) Tableau
16 9 (1.89%) Data Lake
16 9 (1.89%) Delta Lake
17 8 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
17 8 (1.68%) Pinecone
17 8 (1.68%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 75 (15.72%) Jenkins
2 71 (14.88%) Git
3 52 (10.90%) GitLab
4 27 (5.66%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.98%) Jaeger
6 16 (3.35%) Selenium
7 12 (2.52%) JUnit
8 11 (2.31%) SonarQube
9 10 (2.10%) Cucumber
9 10 (2.10%) MLflow
10 8 (1.68%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.47%) JMeter
12 6 (1.26%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.26%) JIRA
12 6 (1.26%) Maven
13 5 (1.05%) Robot Framework
13 5 (1.05%) Storybook
13 5 (1.05%) Visual Studio
13 5 (1.05%) Vite
14 4 (0.84%) Postman
General
1 116 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 65 (13.63%) Finance
3 30 (6.29%) Public Sector
4 27 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (5.24%) Telecoms
6 21 (4.40%) Law
7 14 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.31%) Retail
9 10 (2.10%) Marketing
10 8 (1.68%) Games
10 8 (1.68%) Legal
11 7 (1.47%) Banking
12 6 (1.26%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.05%) Aviation
13 5 (1.05%) Front Office
13 5 (1.05%) Local Government
13 5 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.05%) Police
14 4 (0.84%) Electronics
15 3 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 150 (31.45%) Senior
2 133 (27.88%) Developer
3 89 (18.66%) Lead
4 64 (13.42%) Software Engineer
5 55 (11.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 35 (7.34%) Senior Developer
7 30 (6.29%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (6.29%) Java Developer
8 29 (6.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (5.66%) Lead DevOps
10 26 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
11 24 (5.03%) Software Developer
12 23 (4.82%) Architect
12 23 (4.82%) Python Developer
13 22 (4.61%) Azure Engineer
14 21 (4.40%) Lead DevOps Engineer
15 20 (4.19%) Data Engineer
15 20 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
16 19 (3.98%) Development Engineer
17 17 (3.56%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (18.66%) React
2 79 (16.56%) .NET
3 59 (12.37%) Node.js
4 50 (10.48%) RESTful
4 50 (10.48%) Spring
5 49 (10.27%) Elastic Stack
6 46 (9.64%) REST
6 46 (9.64%) Spring Boot
7 44 (9.22%) Kafka
8 41 (8.60%) Django
9 36 (7.55%) .NET Core
10 35 (7.34%) AngularJS
11 31 (6.50%) CSS
11 31 (6.50%) Flask
11 31 (6.50%) HTML
12 28 (5.87%) Vue
13 24 (5.03%) Akka
14 21 (4.40%) FastAPI
15 19 (3.98%) OpenTelemetry
16 18 (3.77%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 92 (19.29%) Cloud Native
2 39 (8.18%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (7.97%) Product Ownership
4 24 (5.03%) Over-the-Top Content
4 24 (5.03%) Video\Live Streaming
5 18 (3.77%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.52%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.10%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.68%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.26%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.26%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.26%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.26%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.05%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.84%) PKI
13 4 (0.84%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 109 (22.85%) Linux
2 46 (9.64%) Unix
3 35 (7.34%) Windows
4 17 (3.56%) Android
5 14 (2.94%) Windows Server
6 10 (2.10%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.47%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.47%) VMS
8 6 (1.26%) CentOS
9 4 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.21%) Fedora
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (62.05%) CI/CD
2 258 (54.09%) DevOps
3 227 (47.59%) Containerisation
4 184 (38.57%) Agile
5 162 (33.96%) Infrastructure as Code
6 122 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
7 111 (23.27%) Microservices
8 109 (22.85%) Software Engineering
9 93 (19.50%) AI
10 91 (19.08%) Mentoring
11 78 (16.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 65 (13.63%) Full-Stack Development
13 64 (13.42%) Observability
14 58 (12.16%) Test Automation
15 57 (11.95%) TDD
16 56 (11.74%) Event-Driven
17 51 (10.69%) Machine Learning
17 51 (10.69%) Scrum
18 50 (10.48%) Computer Science
18 50 (10.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 218 (45.70%) Python
2 127 (26.62%) JavaScript
3 122 (25.58%) Java
3 122 (25.58%) SQL
4 66 (13.84%) Bash
5 61 (12.79%) C#
6 59 (12.37%) Go
7 53 (11.11%) TypeScript
8 35 (7.34%) Scala
9 27 (5.66%) Bicep
10 26 (5.45%) PowerShell
11 24 (5.03%) PHP
12 14 (2.94%) C++
13 8 (1.68%) Delphi
14 5 (1.05%) C
14 5 (1.05%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.05%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.84%) Ruby
16 3 (0.63%) Groovy
16 3 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 66 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 59 (12.37%) Degree
3 48 (10.06%) SC Cleared
4 38 (7.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (7.76%) AWS Certification
6 19 (3.98%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.94%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.63%) CISSP
11 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.42%) CISA
11 2 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.42%) CISM
11 2 (0.42%) CRISC
11 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.42%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.29%) QA
2 15 (3.14%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.14%) GDPR
3 14 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.31%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.68%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.47%) NIST
7 5 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.05%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.42%) ECSS
9 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.21%) SEPA
9 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.26%) vSphere
3 5 (1.05%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.42%) Ceph
6 2 (0.42%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.42%) Lustre
6 2 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.21%) Firmware
7 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.21%) vCloud
7 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 325 (68.13%) Kubernetes
2 210 (44.03%) Terraform
3 91 (19.08%) Ansible
4 65 (13.63%) Grafana
5 63 (13.21%) Prometheus
6 35 (7.34%) Argo
7 19 (3.98%) Kustomize
8 5 (1.05%) Puppet
9 4 (0.84%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.63%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.42%) Packer
12 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.21%) Rancher
12 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 43 (9.01%) Google
2 41 (8.60%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.66%) Oracle
4 19 (3.98%) Databricks
5 13 (2.73%) Splunk
6 10 (2.10%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.89%) SAP
8 8 (1.68%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.47%) Palantir
9 7 (1.47%) VMware
10 6 (1.26%) Mercator
10 6 (1.26%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.26%) TIBCO
11 5 (1.05%) IBM
11 5 (1.05%) IFS
11 5 (1.05%) Jitterbit
11 5 (1.05%) Mavenir
11 5 (1.05%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.05%) SnapLogic
11 5 (1.05%) Workday