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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 45 52
Rank change year-on-year -44 +7 -22
Permanent jobs citing Docker 727 949 1,042
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.93% 5.65% 4.81%
As % of the System Software category 39.45% 50.45% 37.43%
Number of salaries quoted 557 302 583
10th Percentile £45,750 £43,875 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £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 £83,438 £83,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £69,308
% change year-on-year -3.57% +1.00% -0.99%

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 1,843 1,881 2,784
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.44% 11.20% 12.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 989 1,668
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,375 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £49,800 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.44% -9.45% -

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 9 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 (3.03%) Apache
3 16 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.38%) 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%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.55%) Confluence
7 4 (0.55%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.55%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.41%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.28%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.28%) Hedera
9 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.14%) Moodle
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 12 (1.65%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 435 (59.83%) Azure
2 424 (58.32%) AWS
3 246 (33.84%) GitHub
4 151 (20.77%) GitHub Copilot
5 142 (19.53%) GCP
6 78 (10.73%) GitHub Actions
7 72 (9.90%) Azure AI
8 65 (8.94%) Serverless
9 62 (8.53%) SaaS
10 49 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
11 45 (6.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 36 (4.95%) Azure Service Bus
13 35 (4.81%) Amazon S3
14 34 (4.68%) AWS Lambda
15 32 (4.40%) Azure AKS
16 27 (3.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 26 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
17 26 (3.58%) Amazon ECS
18 25 (3.44%) Azure Monitor
18 25 (3.44%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.61%) Internet
2 16 (2.20%) Broadband
2 16 (2.20%) VPN
3 13 (1.79%) Firewall
4 12 (1.65%) AMQP
4 12 (1.65%) SMS
5 10 (1.38%) DNS
5 10 (1.38%) Network Security
6 7 (0.96%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.55%) SSH
8 3 (0.41%) HTTP
9 2 (0.28%) Intranet
9 2 (0.28%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.28%) VLAN
9 2 (0.28%) WireGuard
9 2 (0.28%) X.509
10 1 (0.14%) DSL
10 1 (0.14%) FCoE
10 1 (0.14%) SSL
10 1 (0.14%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (22.70%) MongoDB
2 142 (19.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 118 (16.23%) PostgreSQL
4 59 (8.12%) Elasticsearch
5 53 (7.29%) SQL Server
6 52 (7.15%) Relational Database
7 48 (6.60%) NoSQL
8 38 (5.23%) MySQL
9 33 (4.54%) Redis
10 23 (3.16%) DynamoDB
11 20 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (1.79%) BigQuery
14 11 (1.51%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.96%) Metadata
16 6 (0.83%) Delta Lake
16 6 (0.83%) Looker
16 6 (0.83%) Power BI
17 5 (0.69%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 135 (18.57%) Git
2 69 (9.49%) GitLab
3 68 (9.35%) Jenkins
4 32 (4.40%) JUnit
5 20 (2.75%) Mockito
6 18 (2.48%) Maven
7 17 (2.34%) Selenium
8 15 (2.06%) JIRA
9 14 (1.93%) Claude Code
9 14 (1.93%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.51%) Postman
11 8 (1.10%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.83%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.83%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.83%) Gatling
12 6 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.83%) Storybook
13 5 (0.69%) Poetry
14 4 (0.55%) Appium
14 4 (0.55%) Snyk
General
1 178 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 111 (15.27%) Finance
3 58 (7.98%) Public Sector
4 42 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (4.68%) Advertising
6 31 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (2.89%) Marketing
8 20 (2.75%) Aerospace
9 15 (2.06%) Games
9 15 (2.06%) Law
10 14 (1.93%) Tech for Good
11 13 (1.79%) Banking
12 12 (1.65%) Health Technology
13 11 (1.51%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.10%) Retail
15 7 (0.96%) Legal
16 6 (0.83%) Electronics
17 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
18 3 (0.41%) Local Government
18 3 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 309 (42.50%) Developer
2 194 (26.69%) Senior
3 142 (19.53%) .NET Developer
4 115 (15.82%) Software Engineer
5 76 (10.45%) Lead
6 67 (9.22%) Senior Developer
7 54 (7.43%) DevOps Engineer
8 51 (7.02%) Java Developer
9 45 (6.19%) Full-Stack Developer
10 30 (4.13%) Senior Java Developer
11 29 (3.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 29 (3.99%) Senior Software Engineer
12 27 (3.71%) Architect
13 24 (3.30%) Data Engineer
14 23 (3.16%) Lead Developer
15 22 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
15 22 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
16 21 (2.89%) Platform Engineer
17 20 (2.75%) Technical Leader
18 19 (2.61%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (31.50%) .NET
2 196 (26.96%) Terraform
3 155 (21.32%) .NET Core
4 150 (20.63%) ASP.NET
5 147 (20.22%) React
6 138 (18.98%) Node.js
7 134 (18.43%) ASP.NET Core
8 117 (16.09%) REST
9 105 (14.44%) CSS
10 100 (13.76%) Spring
11 97 (13.34%) AngularJS
12 89 (12.24%) HTML
13 85 (11.69%) RESTful
14 77 (10.59%) Spring Boot
14 77 (10.59%) Vue
15 70 (9.63%) ML.NET
16 50 (6.88%) Kafka
17 41 (5.64%) Blazor
18 31 (4.26%) OAuth
19 30 (4.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 131 (18.02%) Cloud Native
2 70 (9.63%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.68%) 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 15 (2.06%) Robotics
8 14 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.79%) AI Agents
10 11 (1.51%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.38%) IoT
11 10 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (1.24%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.10%) Blog
14 7 (0.96%) Algorithms
14 7 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
14 7 (0.96%) Onboarding
14 7 (0.96%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.83%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 126 (17.33%) Linux
2 22 (3.03%) Windows
3 17 (2.34%) Ubuntu
4 8 (1.10%) Unix
5 7 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.96%) Debian
6 6 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (0.69%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.55%) Android
8 4 (0.55%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.41%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.28%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.14%) Solaris
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (65.06%) CI/CD
2 304 (41.82%) Agile
3 260 (35.76%) AI
4 250 (34.39%) Full-Stack Development
5 245 (33.70%) DevOps
6 231 (31.77%) Containerisation
7 229 (31.50%) Microservices
8 222 (30.54%) Software Engineering
9 158 (21.73%) Infrastructure as Code
10 157 (21.60%) Mentoring
11 144 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
12 129 (17.74%) Machine Learning
13 120 (16.51%) Scrum
14 119 (16.37%) Continuous Improvement
15 106 (14.58%) TDD
16 105 (14.44%) Test Automation
17 102 (14.03%) Observability
18 82 (11.28%) Event-Driven
19 79 (10.87%) Clean Code
20 73 (10.04%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 294 (40.44%) SQL
2 242 (33.29%) C#
3 233 (32.05%) Python
4 166 (22.83%) TypeScript
5 143 (19.67%) Java
6 134 (18.43%) JavaScript
7 73 (10.04%) Bash
8 40 (5.50%) PowerShell
9 26 (3.58%) Go
10 23 (3.16%) Bicep
10 23 (3.16%) Ruby
11 21 (2.89%) PHP
12 17 (2.34%) C++
13 16 (2.20%) Kotlin
14 15 (2.06%) PL/SQL
15 12 (1.65%) Scala
16 10 (1.38%) Groovy
17 9 (1.24%) C
17 9 (1.24%) Rust
18 6 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 119 (16.37%) Security Cleared
2 98 (13.48%) SC Cleared
3 51 (7.02%) Degree
4 22 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.06%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.83%) 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 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.80%) QA
2 32 (4.40%) Accessibility
3 29 (3.99%) 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 (0.28%) AUTOSAR
9 2 (0.28%) MISRA
9 2 (0.28%) 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 (0.28%) 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
1 486 (66.85%) Kubernetes
2 54 (7.43%) Ansible
3 51 (7.02%) Grafana
4 38 (5.23%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.93%) Progress Chef
5 14 (1.93%) Puppet
6 13 (1.79%) Argo
7 9 (1.24%) Istio
8 7 (0.96%) Podman
9 6 (0.83%) Packer
10 4 (0.55%) linkerd
11 3 (0.41%) Cilium
11 3 (0.41%) Kibana
11 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.28%) CASB
12 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.14%) Consul
13 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 193 (26.55%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.70%) Google
3 29 (3.99%) OpenAI
4 28 (3.85%) Oracle
5 19 (2.61%) Facebook
6 14 (1.93%) Okta
6 14 (1.93%) Ping Identity
7 13 (1.79%) Splunk
8 12 (1.65%) Informatica
9 11 (1.51%) Databricks
9 11 (1.51%) New Relic
10 10 (1.38%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.10%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.10%) VMware
12 4 (0.55%) ESRI
12 4 (0.55%) ForgeRock
12 4 (0.55%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.55%) IBM
12 4 (0.55%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.41%) Perforce