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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 37 32
Rank change year-on-year -58 -5 -11
Permanent jobs citing Docker 433 1,193 1,608
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.83% 6.07% 7.55%
As % of the System Software category 33.85% 42.78% 44.98%
Number of salaries quoted 339 601 1,351
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,125 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
75th Percentile £83,750 £88,750 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,079 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +0.11% -0.82% -2.65%

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 1,279 2,789 3,575
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.36% 14.20% 16.79%
Number of salaries quoted 985 1,662 3,060
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £42,793
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £92,400 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,762 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.33% +1.39% -

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 November 2025.

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 13 (3.00%) Apache Solr
1 13 (3.00%) CMS
2 12 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.77%) nginx
3 9 (2.08%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.85%) IIS
5 5 (1.15%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.15%) Apache
6 4 (0.92%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.69%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.69%) Drupal
7 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.69%) WordPress
8 2 (0.46%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.46%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.23%) MetaMask
9 1 (0.23%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Weka
2 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.39%) Shopify
2 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 261 (60.28%) AWS
2 250 (57.74%) Azure
3 98 (22.63%) GitHub
4 95 (21.94%) GCP
5 66 (15.24%) Azure DevOps
6 48 (11.09%) GitHub Actions
7 41 (9.47%) Serverless
8 39 (9.01%) AWS CloudFormation
9 32 (7.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (6.00%) Azure AKS
11 25 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
12 22 (5.08%) OpenShift
13 21 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (4.85%) Azure Service Bus
13 21 (4.85%) SaaS
14 17 (3.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 15 (3.46%) Amazon S3
16 14 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (3.23%) Datadog
17 13 (3.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.93%) Firewall
2 13 (3.00%) VPN
3 11 (2.54%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.31%) DNS
5 6 (1.39%) Broadband
5 6 (1.39%) Internet
6 4 (0.92%) Network Security
7 3 (0.69%) AMQP
7 3 (0.69%) WAN
8 2 (0.46%) DHCP
8 2 (0.46%) InfiniBand
8 2 (0.46%) LAN
8 2 (0.46%) VLAN
8 2 (0.46%) VSAN
9 1 (0.23%) 5G
9 1 (0.23%) NGN
9 1 (0.23%) SAN
9 1 (0.23%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (17.32%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (13.16%) NoSQL
3 50 (11.55%) SQL Server
4 37 (8.55%) MySQL
5 36 (8.31%) Elasticsearch
6 30 (6.93%) MongoDB
7 22 (5.08%) Relational Database
8 21 (4.85%) Redis
9 17 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (2.08%) Tick Data
12 8 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (1.62%) DynamoDB
14 6 (1.39%) Data Lake
15 5 (1.15%) Big Data
15 5 (1.15%) MariaDB
15 5 (1.15%) Power BI
16 4 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
16 4 (0.92%) Neo4j
17 3 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 87 (20.09%) Git
2 46 (10.62%) GitLab
3 44 (10.16%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.23%) Octopus Deploy
5 11 (2.54%) SonarQube
6 10 (2.31%) JUnit
6 10 (2.31%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (2.08%) Selenium
7 9 (2.08%) TeamCity
8 8 (1.85%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.85%) JIRA
9 7 (1.62%) MSBuild
9 7 (1.62%) Visual Studio
10 5 (1.15%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.92%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.92%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.92%) webpack
12 3 (0.69%) git-flow
12 3 (0.69%) TestRail
General
1 124 (28.64%) Social Skills
2 52 (12.01%) Finance
3 21 (4.85%) Public Sector
4 18 (4.16%) Marketing
4 18 (4.16%) Telecoms
5 17 (3.93%) Law
6 16 (3.70%) Retail
7 13 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.54%) Games
9 10 (2.31%) Legal
10 6 (1.39%) Front Office
10 6 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.15%) Automotive
11 5 (1.15%) Banking
11 5 (1.15%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.15%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.92%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.69%) Local Government
13 3 (0.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 126 (29.10%) Developer
2 115 (26.56%) Senior
3 71 (16.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 51 (11.78%) Lead
5 44 (10.16%) Software Engineer
6 36 (8.31%) Architect
7 33 (7.62%) Senior Developer
8 29 (6.70%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (6.24%) Azure Engineer
9 27 (6.24%) Python Developer
10 23 (5.31%) Senior DevOps
11 22 (5.08%) .NET Developer
11 22 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (4.62%) Data Engineer
13 19 (4.39%) Software Developer
14 18 (4.16%) Java Developer
15 17 (3.93%) C# Developer
15 17 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
15 17 (3.93%) Python Engineer
15 17 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (22.63%) .NET
2 68 (15.70%) React
3 57 (13.16%) REST
4 53 (12.24%) RESTful
5 43 (9.93%) CSS
5 43 (9.93%) HTML
6 37 (8.55%) Django
6 37 (8.55%) Spring
6 37 (8.55%) Spring Boot
7 36 (8.31%) Kafka
8 34 (7.85%) AngularJS
8 34 (7.85%) Node.js
9 33 (7.62%) .NET Core
9 33 (7.62%) Flask
10 31 (7.16%) Elastic Stack
11 26 (6.00%) FastAPI
12 24 (5.54%) Web Services
13 23 (5.31%) Vue
14 22 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
15 20 (4.62%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 102 (23.56%) Cloud Native
2 36 (8.31%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.85%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.16%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.77%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.54%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.62%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.39%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.39%) BYOD
12 6 (1.39%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.39%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.39%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.92%) IoT
13 4 (0.92%) PKI
13 4 (0.92%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 92 (21.25%) Linux
2 48 (11.09%) Windows
3 24 (5.54%) Unix
4 22 (5.08%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.85%) Android
6 6 (1.39%) CentOS
6 6 (1.39%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.39%) VMS
7 3 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.46%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.23%) Fedora
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (65.36%) CI/CD
2 258 (59.58%) DevOps
3 218 (50.35%) Containerisation
4 160 (36.95%) Agile
5 130 (30.02%) Infrastructure as Code
6 129 (29.79%) Microservices
7 118 (27.25%) Problem-Solving
8 92 (21.25%) Software Engineering
9 76 (17.55%) AI
10 73 (16.86%) Mentoring
11 62 (14.32%) Observability
12 58 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 58 (13.39%) Full-Stack Development
13 49 (11.32%) Event-Driven
14 47 (10.85%) Test Automation
15 46 (10.62%) Machine Learning
16 45 (10.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 40 (9.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 37 (8.55%) Clean Code
19 36 (8.31%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 211 (48.73%) Python
2 135 (31.18%) SQL
3 109 (25.17%) JavaScript
4 93 (21.48%) C#
5 78 (18.01%) Java
6 53 (12.24%) Bash
7 45 (10.39%) PowerShell
8 43 (9.93%) TypeScript
9 29 (6.70%) Bicep
10 26 (6.00%) Go
11 22 (5.08%) PHP
12 9 (2.08%) C++
13 8 (1.85%) Delphi
14 6 (1.39%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.15%) Ruby
16 4 (0.92%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.69%) C
17 3 (0.69%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.69%) R
17 3 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 58 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 40 (9.24%) Degree
2 40 (9.24%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.24%) AWS Certification
4 26 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.16%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.46%) DV Cleared
7 13 (3.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.15%) CISM
8 5 (1.15%) CISSP
9 3 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.46%) CISA
10 2 (0.46%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.16%) QA
2 29 (6.70%) GDPR
3 10 (2.31%) HIPAA
4 9 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.85%) NIST
6 6 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.15%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.69%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.46%) ECSS
9 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.46%) SLA
10 1 (0.23%) SEPA
10 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (1.62%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.92%) vSphere
4 3 (0.69%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.46%) Ceph
5 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.46%) Lustre
5 2 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.23%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.23%) Postfix
6 1 (0.23%) vCloud
6 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 288 (66.51%) Kubernetes
2 162 (37.41%) Terraform
3 64 (14.78%) Ansible
4 63 (14.55%) Grafana
5 46 (10.62%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.85%) Argo
7 4 (0.92%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.92%) Puppet
8 3 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.46%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.23%) Kibana
10 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.23%) Nagios
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.23%) Rancher
10 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 52 (12.01%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.47%) Google
3 24 (5.54%) Oracle
4 15 (3.46%) Databricks
5 13 (3.00%) Splunk
6 9 (2.08%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.08%) VMware
7 8 (1.85%) SAP
8 6 (1.39%) Trayport
9 5 (1.15%) Dell
9 5 (1.15%) Epicor
9 5 (1.15%) IBM
9 5 (1.15%) IFS
9 5 (1.15%) Infor
9 5 (1.15%) Informatica
9 5 (1.15%) Mercator
9 5 (1.15%) Software AG
9 5 (1.15%) Talend
9 5 (1.15%) TIBCO
9 5 (1.15%) Workday