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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 31 44
Rank change year-on-year -49 +13 -14
Permanent jobs citing Docker 536 1,204 1,589
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.26% 8.05% 5.71%
As % of the System Software category 39.88% 50.00% 38.61%
Number of salaries quoted 368 724 1,354
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £82,813 £105,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £138,750 £97,125
UK median annual salary £70,079 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.56% +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 1,344 2,408 4,116
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.17% 16.10% 14.79%
Number of salaries quoted 954 1,532 3,555
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,175 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.09% +11.23% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,938 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,625 £113,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 28 February 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 21 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.73%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.80%) nginx
4 9 (1.68%) CMS
5 6 (1.12%) Apache
5 6 (1.12%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.93%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.93%) Apache Pulsar
6 5 (0.93%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.93%) Drupal
6 5 (0.93%) WordPress
7 4 (0.75%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.75%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.75%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.56%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.37%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.37%) IIS
10 1 (0.19%) Camunda
10 1 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.75%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.37%) Weka
3 1 (0.19%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 9 (1.68%) Shopify
2 1 (0.19%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 365 (68.10%) AWS
2 243 (45.34%) Azure
3 147 (27.43%) GCP
4 124 (23.13%) GitHub
5 82 (15.30%) Serverless
6 63 (11.75%) GitHub Actions
7 62 (11.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 51 (9.51%) AWS Lambda
9 48 (8.96%) Amazon S3
10 47 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
11 43 (8.02%) SaaS
12 41 (7.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 34 (6.34%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (6.16%) Pulumi
15 24 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (3.92%) OpenShift
17 20 (3.73%) Datadog
17 20 (3.73%) PaaS
18 19 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
18 19 (3.54%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 72 (13.43%) Broadband
2 14 (2.61%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.43%) Firewall
4 11 (2.05%) VPN
5 9 (1.68%) DNS
6 7 (1.31%) DHCP
6 7 (1.31%) Network Security
7 5 (0.93%) AMQP
8 4 (0.75%) MQTT
8 4 (0.75%) WAN
9 3 (0.56%) HTTP
9 3 (0.56%) Internet
9 3 (0.56%) RTP
9 3 (0.56%) SCCP
9 3 (0.56%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.56%) VLAN
9 3 (0.56%) VoIP
9 3 (0.56%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.37%) DSL
10 2 (0.37%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (15.11%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (14.18%) NoSQL
3 45 (8.40%) SQL Server
4 42 (7.84%) Relational Database
5 40 (7.46%) MongoDB
6 34 (6.34%) Amazon RDS
7 32 (5.97%) MySQL
8 29 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
9 25 (4.66%) Redis
10 19 (3.54%) RDBMS
11 16 (2.99%) DynamoDB
12 15 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (2.80%) BigQuery
13 14 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (2.24%) Tableau
15 11 (2.05%) Delta Lake
16 10 (1.87%) Pinecone
16 10 (1.87%) Weaviate
17 9 (1.68%) Apache Iceberg
17 9 (1.68%) Looker
Development Applications
1 84 (15.67%) Git
2 81 (15.11%) Jenkins
3 59 (11.01%) GitLab
4 27 (5.04%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.54%) Jaeger
6 16 (2.99%) Selenium
7 13 (2.43%) Cucumber
8 12 (2.24%) MLflow
8 12 (2.24%) SonarQube
9 11 (2.05%) JUnit
10 10 (1.87%) JMeter
11 8 (1.49%) JIRA
12 7 (1.31%) Maven
13 6 (1.12%) Bitbucket
13 6 (1.12%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.93%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.93%) Robot Framework
14 5 (0.93%) Storybook
14 5 (0.93%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.93%) Vite
General
1 126 (23.51%) Social Skills
2 64 (11.94%) Finance
3 36 (6.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 35 (6.53%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.48%) Law
5 24 (4.48%) Telecoms
6 14 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.05%) Legal
8 10 (1.87%) Games
8 10 (1.87%) Retail
9 7 (1.31%) Banking
9 7 (1.31%) Financial Institution
10 5 (0.93%) Aviation
10 5 (0.93%) Front Office
10 5 (0.93%) Local Government
10 5 (0.93%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.93%) Military
10 5 (0.93%) Police
11 4 (0.75%) Marketing
12 3 (0.56%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 168 (31.34%) Senior
2 160 (29.85%) Developer
3 95 (17.72%) Lead
4 79 (14.74%) Software Engineer
5 54 (10.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 43 (8.02%) Senior Developer
7 38 (7.09%) Full-Stack Developer
8 35 (6.53%) Java Developer
9 33 (6.16%) Cloud Engineer
10 30 (5.60%) Scala Engineer
11 29 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
11 29 (5.41%) Software Developer
12 26 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
13 25 (4.66%) Data Engineer
13 25 (4.66%) Lead DevOps
14 23 (4.29%) Python Developer
15 21 (3.92%) Architect
16 19 (3.54%) .NET Developer
16 19 (3.54%) Azure Engineer
16 19 (3.54%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (17.91%) React
2 82 (15.30%) .NET
3 69 (12.87%) Spring
4 64 (11.94%) Node.js
5 62 (11.57%) Spring Boot
6 55 (10.26%) Kafka
7 54 (10.07%) RESTful
8 49 (9.14%) Django
8 49 (9.14%) REST
9 47 (8.77%) Elastic Stack
10 44 (8.21%) gRPC
11 41 (7.65%) .NET Core
11 41 (7.65%) AngularJS
12 32 (5.97%) CSS
12 32 (5.97%) HTML
12 32 (5.97%) Vue
13 31 (5.78%) Flask
14 25 (4.66%) Akka
15 21 (3.92%) FastAPI
15 21 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 104 (19.40%) Cloud Native
2 71 (13.25%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (9.33%) Over-the-Top Content
3 50 (9.33%) Video\Live Streaming
4 45 (8.40%) Product Ownership
5 17 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.24%) AI Agents
7 10 (1.87%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.68%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (1.12%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.12%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.12%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.12%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.93%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.93%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.75%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 114 (21.27%) Linux
2 51 (9.51%) Unix
3 27 (5.04%) Windows
4 18 (3.36%) Android
5 11 (2.05%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.87%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.31%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.12%) CentOS
9 5 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.75%) VMS
11 1 (0.19%) Fedora
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (65.30%) CI/CD
2 283 (52.80%) DevOps
3 277 (51.68%) Containerisation
4 210 (39.18%) Agile
5 178 (33.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 154 (28.73%) Microservices
7 146 (27.24%) Problem-Solving
8 140 (26.12%) Software Engineering
9 102 (19.03%) Mentoring
10 101 (18.84%) AI
11 96 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 82 (15.30%) Full-Stack Development
13 76 (14.18%) Machine Learning
14 74 (13.81%) Observability
15 70 (13.06%) Clean Code
16 68 (12.69%) TDD
17 66 (12.31%) Coaching
18 65 (12.13%) Test Automation
19 64 (11.94%) Event-Driven
20 57 (10.63%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 257 (47.95%) Python
2 148 (27.61%) Java
3 134 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 125 (23.32%) SQL
5 87 (16.23%) Go
6 70 (13.06%) C#
7 69 (12.87%) Bash
8 65 (12.13%) Scala
9 58 (10.82%) TypeScript
10 26 (4.85%) PHP
11 24 (4.48%) PowerShell
12 23 (4.29%) Bicep
13 13 (2.43%) C++
14 9 (1.68%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.49%) Delphi
16 6 (1.12%) Rust
17 5 (0.93%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.75%) C
18 4 (0.75%) Perl
19 3 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 80 (14.93%) Security Cleared
2 72 (13.43%) Degree
3 62 (11.57%) SC Cleared
4 40 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (6.16%) AWS Certification
6 22 (4.10%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.24%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.75%) CISSP
9 4 (0.75%) GIAC
9 4 (0.75%) ISACA
9 4 (0.75%) SANS
10 3 (0.56%) LPIC
11 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.37%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.37%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.90%) QA
2 19 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.24%) GDPR
5 11 (2.05%) NIST
6 10 (1.87%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.87%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.93%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.56%) WCAG
9 2 (0.37%) ECSS
9 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (2.05%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.12%) vSphere
3 5 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.93%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.56%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.37%) Ceph
5 2 (0.37%) Lustre
5 2 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.19%) vCloud
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 342 (63.81%) Kubernetes
2 212 (39.55%) Terraform
3 96 (17.91%) Ansible
4 68 (12.69%) Grafana
5 65 (12.13%) Prometheus
6 37 (6.90%) Argo
7 19 (3.54%) Kustomize
8 6 (1.12%) Puppet
9 5 (0.93%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.75%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.75%) Packer
11 3 (0.56%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.37%) Kibana
13 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.19%) Rancher
13 1 (0.19%) Rundeck
13 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 52 (9.70%) Google
2 44 (8.21%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.22%) Oracle
4 27 (5.04%) Typelevel
5 19 (3.54%) Databricks
6 14 (2.61%) Splunk
7 10 (1.87%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.68%) Palantir
9 8 (1.49%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.49%) SAP
10 7 (1.31%) VMware
11 6 (1.12%) Dell
11 6 (1.12%) Mercator
11 6 (1.12%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.12%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.93%) IFS
12 5 (0.93%) Jitterbit
12 5 (0.93%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.93%) SnapLogic
12 5 (0.93%) Workday