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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 25 61
Rank change year-on-year -53 +36 -33
Permanent jobs citing Docker 579 1,300 1,390
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.08% 8.67% 4.27%
As % of the System Software category 40.10% 56.08% 33.61%
Number of salaries quoted 366 629 1,207
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,624 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £81,250 £98,474 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -2.78%

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 1,444 2,318 4,136
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.69% 15.47% 12.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,001 1,429 3,354
10th Percentile £32,750 £30,000 £31,325
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,000 £80,000 £70,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,484 £86,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 21 May 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 26 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.11%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.90%) nginx
4 9 (1.55%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.21%) CMS
6 6 (1.04%) Apache
7 4 (0.69%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.69%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.69%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.52%) Drupal
8 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.52%) WordPress
9 2 (0.35%) Camunda
9 2 (0.35%) Confluence
9 2 (0.35%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.35%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.17%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.52%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (0.52%) Shopify
2 2 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 394 (68.05%) AWS
2 254 (43.87%) Azure
3 161 (27.81%) GCP
4 131 (22.63%) GitHub
5 99 (17.10%) Serverless
6 61 (10.54%) Amazon S3
7 59 (10.19%) AWS Lambda
8 50 (8.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 50 (8.64%) GitHub Copilot
9 46 (7.94%) GitHub Actions
9 46 (7.94%) SaaS
10 38 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
12 36 (6.22%) Amazon EC2
13 29 (5.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 29 (5.01%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (4.49%) Azure AI
15 23 (3.97%) Amazon SQS
15 23 (3.97%) Pulumi
16 21 (3.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (18.13%) Broadband
2 10 (1.73%) DNS
3 9 (1.55%) Firewall
4 8 (1.38%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.21%) Network Security
5 7 (1.21%) VPN
6 6 (1.04%) DHCP
6 6 (1.04%) Internet
7 4 (0.69%) AMQP
7 4 (0.69%) HTTP
7 4 (0.69%) MQTT
8 3 (0.52%) RTP
8 3 (0.52%) SCCP
8 3 (0.52%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.52%) VLAN
8 3 (0.52%) VoIP
8 3 (0.52%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.35%) DSL
9 2 (0.35%) SAN
9 2 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (16.41%) MongoDB
2 74 (12.78%) NoSQL
3 73 (12.61%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (7.77%) Relational Database
5 43 (7.43%) SQL Server
6 42 (7.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 38 (6.56%) Amazon RDS
8 33 (5.70%) Elasticsearch
9 27 (4.66%) MySQL
10 26 (4.49%) DynamoDB
11 22 (3.80%) Redis
12 18 (3.11%) RDBMS
13 17 (2.94%) BigQuery
14 13 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (2.07%) Tableau
16 11 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (1.90%) Pinecone
17 10 (1.73%) Weaviate
18 9 (1.55%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 95 (16.41%) Git
2 73 (12.61%) Jenkins
3 49 (8.46%) GitLab
4 24 (4.15%) TeamCity
5 20 (3.45%) Cypress.io
6 18 (3.11%) Jaeger
7 17 (2.94%) Maven
8 16 (2.76%) CircleCI
9 13 (2.25%) MLflow
10 11 (1.90%) JMeter
10 11 (1.90%) JUnit
10 11 (1.90%) Selenium
11 10 (1.73%) SonarQube
12 9 (1.55%) JIRA
13 8 (1.38%) Mockito
14 7 (1.21%) Cucumber
15 6 (1.04%) Locust
15 6 (1.04%) Visual Studio
16 5 (0.86%) Postman
16 5 (0.86%) Storybook
General
1 100 (17.27%) Social Skills
2 78 (13.47%) Finance
3 45 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 35 (6.04%) Public Sector
5 15 (2.59%) Banking
6 12 (2.07%) Advertising
6 12 (2.07%) Law
7 10 (1.73%) Retail
8 8 (1.38%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (1.38%) Games
8 8 (1.38%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.21%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.21%) Marketing
9 7 (1.21%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.04%) Aviation
10 6 (1.04%) Front Office
10 6 (1.04%) Legal
11 4 (0.69%) Military
11 4 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 205 (35.41%) Developer
2 142 (24.53%) Senior
3 99 (17.10%) Lead
4 87 (15.03%) Software Engineer
5 52 (8.98%) .NET Developer
6 49 (8.46%) DevOps Engineer
7 42 (7.25%) Scala Engineer
8 40 (6.91%) Java Developer
9 38 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
10 37 (6.39%) Senior Developer
11 26 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
12 25 (4.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 24 (4.15%) AWS Engineer
13 24 (4.15%) Data Engineer
13 24 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
13 24 (4.15%) Senior Software Engineer
14 23 (3.97%) Scala Software Engineer
14 23 (3.97%) Software Developer
15 21 (3.63%) Scala Developer
16 20 (3.45%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (19.17%) React
2 106 (18.31%) .NET
3 95 (16.41%) Node.js
4 73 (12.61%) Spring
5 70 (12.09%) .NET Core
6 60 (10.36%) AngularJS
6 60 (10.36%) REST
7 58 (10.02%) Spring Boot
8 57 (9.84%) RESTful
9 56 (9.67%) Kafka
10 54 (9.33%) ASP.NET
11 52 (8.98%) gRPC
12 49 (8.46%) ASP.NET Core
13 47 (8.12%) CSS
14 42 (7.25%) HTML
15 39 (6.74%) Vue
16 33 (5.70%) Django
17 29 (5.01%) Elastic Stack
18 24 (4.15%) OpenTelemetry
19 23 (3.97%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 93 (16.06%) Cloud Native
2 77 (13.30%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (11.57%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (11.57%) Video\Live Streaming
4 49 (8.46%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (2.07%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.90%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.55%) Digital TV
10 8 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.38%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.21%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.21%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.21%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.04%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.86%) Cyberattack
13 5 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.86%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 107 (18.48%) Linux
2 29 (5.01%) Unix
3 11 (1.90%) Ubuntu
3 11 (1.90%) Windows
4 10 (1.73%) Android
5 8 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.86%) CentOS
7 4 (0.69%) VMS
7 4 (0.69%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.52%) Debian
9 2 (0.35%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (65.98%) CI/CD
2 282 (48.70%) Containerisation
3 256 (44.21%) DevOps
4 237 (40.93%) Agile
5 191 (32.99%) Microservices
6 172 (29.71%) Software Engineering
7 162 (27.98%) Infrastructure as Code
8 145 (25.04%) Full-Stack Development
9 130 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
10 128 (22.11%) AI
11 117 (20.21%) Mentoring
12 110 (19.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 106 (18.31%) Machine Learning
14 98 (16.93%) Clean Code
15 97 (16.75%) Scrum
16 92 (15.89%) TDD
17 83 (14.34%) Coaching
18 71 (12.26%) Test Automation
19 70 (12.09%) Continuous Delivery
19 70 (12.09%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 264 (45.60%) Python
2 144 (24.87%) SQL
3 140 (24.18%) Java
4 129 (22.28%) JavaScript
5 101 (17.44%) C#
6 99 (17.10%) Go
7 88 (15.20%) TypeScript
8 87 (15.03%) Scala
9 70 (12.09%) Bash
10 21 (3.63%) PowerShell
11 20 (3.45%) PHP
12 15 (2.59%) Bicep
13 12 (2.07%) C++
14 11 (1.90%) Kotlin
15 9 (1.55%) Groovy
15 9 (1.55%) PL/SQL
15 9 (1.55%) Ruby
16 8 (1.38%) Rust
17 7 (1.21%) C
18 4 (0.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 70 (12.09%) Security Cleared
2 60 (10.36%) Degree
3 57 (9.84%) SC Cleared
4 31 (5.35%) AWS Certification
5 23 (3.97%) Azure Certification
6 21 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.86%) CISSP
9 5 (0.86%) GIAC
9 5 (0.86%) ISACA
9 5 (0.86%) SANS
10 3 (0.52%) LPIC
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.35%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.35%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (9.33%) QA
2 25 (4.32%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.07%) NIST
5 11 (1.90%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.73%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.55%) WCAG
8 5 (0.86%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.69%) GDPR
10 3 (0.52%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.17%) NCSC
12 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.86%) Firmware
4 3 (0.52%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.35%) vSphere
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) QEMU
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 352 (60.79%) Kubernetes
2 191 (32.99%) Terraform
3 77 (13.30%) Ansible
4 49 (8.46%) Prometheus
5 41 (7.08%) Grafana
6 35 (6.04%) Argo
7 18 (3.11%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.59%) Podman
9 11 (1.90%) Puppet
10 9 (1.55%) Istio
11 8 (1.38%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.86%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.86%) HP Fortify
12 5 (0.86%) Packer
13 4 (0.69%) Kibana
14 3 (0.52%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.35%) MIIS
15 2 (0.35%) Nagios
15 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (14.85%) Microsoft
2 60 (10.36%) Google
3 45 (7.77%) Typelevel
4 21 (3.63%) Databricks
5 19 (3.28%) Oracle
6 11 (1.90%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.55%) Palantir
8 8 (1.38%) Confluent
9 7 (1.21%) VMware
10 6 (1.04%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.86%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.86%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.86%) Okta
11 5 (0.86%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.86%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.86%) Splunk
12 4 (0.69%) ESRI
12 4 (0.69%) Facebook
12 4 (0.69%) Fortinet
13 3 (0.52%) Mitel