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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 44 51
Rank change year-on-year -44 +7 -21
Permanent jobs citing Docker 728 953 1,053
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.94% 5.67% 4.82%
As % of the System Software category 39.42% 50.58% 37.58%
Number of salaries quoted 556 305 589
10th Percentile £46,000 £44,250 £44,850
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £94,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +2.94% -2.86%

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 1,847 1,884 2,802
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.45% 11.22% 12.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,369 991 1,675
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £89,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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 8 October 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 23 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (3.02%) Apache
3 17 (2.34%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.37%) nginx
5 7 (0.96%) Jupyter
5 7 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.69%) Camunda
6 5 (0.69%) CMS
6 5 (0.69%) IIS
6 5 (0.69%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.55%) Confluence
8 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.41%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.41%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.27%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.27%) Hedera
9 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (1.65%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 433 (59.48%) Azure
2 428 (58.79%) AWS
3 245 (33.65%) GitHub
4 151 (20.74%) GitHub Copilot
5 143 (19.64%) GCP
6 78 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
7 72 (9.89%) Azure AI
8 66 (9.07%) Serverless
9 62 (8.52%) SaaS
10 49 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (6.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 36 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
13 35 (4.81%) Amazon S3
13 35 (4.81%) Azure Service Bus
14 31 (4.26%) Azure AKS
15 28 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 27 (3.71%) Amazon EC2
16 27 (3.71%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (3.71%) Datadog
17 25 (3.43%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.61%) Internet
2 18 (2.47%) Broadband
3 16 (2.20%) VPN
4 13 (1.79%) Firewall
5 12 (1.65%) AMQP
5 12 (1.65%) SMS
6 10 (1.37%) DNS
6 10 (1.37%) Network Security
7 7 (0.96%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.55%) SSH
9 3 (0.41%) HTTP
10 2 (0.27%) Intranet
10 2 (0.27%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.27%) VLAN
10 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
10 2 (0.27%) X.509
11 1 (0.14%) FCoE
11 1 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (0.14%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.14%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (23.08%) MongoDB
2 142 (19.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 118 (16.21%) PostgreSQL
4 59 (8.10%) Elasticsearch
5 52 (7.14%) Relational Database
6 51 (7.01%) NoSQL
6 51 (7.01%) SQL Server
7 38 (5.22%) MySQL
8 34 (4.67%) Redis
9 24 (3.30%) DynamoDB
10 21 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (1.65%) BigQuery
14 11 (1.51%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.96%) Metadata
16 6 (0.82%) Delta Lake
16 6 (0.82%) Power BI
17 5 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
17 5 (0.69%) Looker
Development Applications
1 134 (18.41%) Git
2 70 (9.62%) GitLab
3 68 (9.34%) Jenkins
4 32 (4.40%) JUnit
5 20 (2.75%) Mockito
6 18 (2.47%) Maven
7 17 (2.34%) Selenium
8 16 (2.20%) Cypress.io
9 15 (2.06%) JIRA
10 14 (1.92%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.51%) Postman
12 8 (1.10%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.82%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.82%) CircleCI
13 6 (0.82%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.82%) Gatling
13 6 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.82%) Storybook
14 5 (0.69%) Poetry
15 4 (0.55%) Vagrant
General
1 177 (24.31%) Social Skills
2 111 (15.25%) Finance
3 59 (8.10%) Public Sector
4 44 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (4.67%) Advertising
6 31 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (2.88%) Marketing
8 20 (2.75%) Aerospace
9 15 (2.06%) Games
9 15 (2.06%) Law
10 14 (1.92%) Tech for Good
11 13 (1.79%) Banking
12 12 (1.65%) Health Technology
13 11 (1.51%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.96%) Legal
14 7 (0.96%) Retail
15 6 (0.82%) Electronics
16 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.41%) Local Government
17 3 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 310 (42.58%) Developer
2 194 (26.65%) Senior
3 142 (19.51%) .NET Developer
4 116 (15.93%) Software Engineer
5 76 (10.44%) Lead
6 67 (9.20%) Senior Developer
7 53 (7.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 51 (7.01%) Java Developer
9 45 (6.18%) Full-Stack Developer
10 30 (4.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 30 (4.12%) Senior Java Developer
11 29 (3.98%) Senior Software Engineer
12 25 (3.43%) Architect
13 24 (3.30%) Data Engineer
14 23 (3.16%) Lead Developer
15 22 (3.02%) Azure Engineer
15 22 (3.02%) Cloud Engineer
16 21 (2.88%) Platform Engineer
17 19 (2.61%) Software Developer
17 19 (2.61%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (31.04%) .NET
2 196 (26.92%) Terraform
3 155 (21.29%) .NET Core
4 150 (20.60%) ASP.NET
4 150 (20.60%) React
5 141 (19.37%) Node.js
6 134 (18.41%) ASP.NET Core
7 117 (16.07%) REST
8 105 (14.42%) CSS
9 100 (13.74%) Spring
10 97 (13.32%) AngularJS
11 89 (12.23%) HTML
12 85 (11.68%) RESTful
13 78 (10.71%) Vue
14 77 (10.58%) Spring Boot
15 70 (9.62%) ML.NET
16 50 (6.87%) Kafka
17 40 (5.49%) Blazor
18 31 (4.26%) OAuth
19 29 (3.98%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 130 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 70 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.81%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (2.61%) Digital TV
4 19 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (2.34%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.92%) AI Agents
7 14 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (1.92%) Robotics
8 10 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
8 10 (1.37%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.24%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.24%) IoT
10 8 (1.10%) Blog
11 7 (0.96%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.96%) Onboarding
11 7 (0.96%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
13 5 (0.69%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 123 (16.90%) Linux
2 22 (3.02%) Windows
3 16 (2.20%) Ubuntu
4 7 (0.96%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.96%) Debian
4 7 (0.96%) Unix
5 6 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.69%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.55%) Android
7 4 (0.55%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.41%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.27%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (65.11%) CI/CD
2 305 (41.90%) Agile
3 260 (35.71%) AI
4 252 (34.62%) Full-Stack Development
5 244 (33.52%) DevOps
6 233 (32.01%) Containerisation
7 229 (31.46%) Microservices
8 221 (30.36%) Software Engineering
9 159 (21.84%) Infrastructure as Code
10 156 (21.43%) Mentoring
11 142 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
12 129 (17.72%) Machine Learning
13 121 (16.62%) Scrum
14 120 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 106 (14.56%) TDD
16 104 (14.29%) Test Automation
17 103 (14.15%) Observability
18 81 (11.13%) Event-Driven
19 79 (10.85%) Clean Code
20 72 (9.89%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 294 (40.38%) SQL
2 240 (32.97%) C#
3 233 (32.01%) Python
4 167 (22.94%) TypeScript
5 142 (19.51%) Java
6 136 (18.68%) JavaScript
7 73 (10.03%) Bash
8 40 (5.49%) PowerShell
9 26 (3.57%) Go
10 23 (3.16%) Bicep
10 23 (3.16%) Ruby
11 21 (2.88%) PHP
12 17 (2.34%) C++
13 16 (2.20%) Kotlin
14 15 (2.06%) PL/SQL
15 11 (1.51%) Scala
16 10 (1.37%) Groovy
17 9 (1.24%) C
17 9 (1.24%) Rust
18 5 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 118 (16.21%) Security Cleared
2 97 (13.32%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.87%) Degree
4 23 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.47%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.06%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.82%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.55%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.41%) GCFA
11 3 (0.41%) GIAC
11 3 (0.41%) OCP
11 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.79%) QA
2 32 (4.40%) Accessibility
3 27 (3.71%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.51%) WCAG
5 9 (1.24%) NIST
6 7 (0.96%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.69%) GDPR
7 5 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.69%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.41%) NCSC
8 3 (0.41%) SLA
9 2 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
9 2 (0.27%) MISRA
9 2 (0.27%) MISRA C
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 12 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.41%) iptables
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) KVM
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.14%) QEMU
5 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 484 (66.48%) Kubernetes
2 52 (7.14%) Ansible
2 52 (7.14%) Grafana
3 39 (5.36%) Prometheus
4 14 (1.92%) Progress Chef
4 14 (1.92%) Puppet
5 13 (1.79%) Argo
6 9 (1.24%) Istio
6 9 (1.24%) Podman
7 5 (0.69%) Packer
8 4 (0.55%) linkerd
9 3 (0.41%) Cilium
9 3 (0.41%) Kibana
9 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.27%) CASB
10 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 192 (26.37%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.69%) Google
3 29 (3.98%) OpenAI
4 27 (3.71%) Oracle
5 19 (2.61%) Facebook
6 14 (1.92%) Okta
6 14 (1.92%) Ping Identity
7 12 (1.65%) Informatica
7 12 (1.65%) Splunk
8 11 (1.51%) Databricks
9 10 (1.37%) New Relic
10 9 (1.24%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.10%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.10%) VMware
12 5 (0.69%) HubSpot
13 4 (0.55%) ForgeRock
13 4 (0.55%) IBM
13 4 (0.55%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.41%) ESRI
14 3 (0.41%) Perforce