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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 25 62
Rank change year-on-year -51 +37 -34
Permanent jobs citing Docker 570 1,320 1,391
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.05% 8.72% 4.27%
As % of the System Software category 40.00% 55.98% 33.78%
Number of salaries quoted 361 648 1,207
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,560 £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% -2.10%

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 1,425 2,358 4,118
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.63% 15.57% 12.65%
Number of salaries quoted 989 1,468 3,364
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,552
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,467 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £86,250
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 18 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 25 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.93%) nginx
4 9 (1.58%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.23%) CMS
6 6 (1.05%) Apache
7 4 (0.70%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.70%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.70%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.53%) Drupal
8 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.53%) WordPress
9 2 (0.35%) Camunda
9 2 (0.35%) Confluence
9 2 (0.35%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.35%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.18%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.53%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Magento
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.18%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 385 (67.54%) AWS
2 248 (43.51%) Azure
3 159 (27.89%) GCP
4 131 (22.98%) GitHub
5 97 (17.02%) Serverless
6 60 (10.53%) Amazon S3
7 58 (10.18%) AWS Lambda
8 51 (8.95%) GitHub Copilot
9 49 (8.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 47 (8.25%) SaaS
11 46 (8.07%) GitHub Actions
12 38 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
13 35 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (6.14%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (5.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 29 (5.09%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (4.56%) Azure AI
16 23 (4.04%) Pulumi
17 22 (3.86%) Amazon SQS
18 21 (3.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (18.42%) Broadband
2 10 (1.75%) DNS
2 10 (1.75%) Firewall
3 8 (1.40%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.23%) Network Security
4 7 (1.23%) VPN
5 6 (1.05%) DHCP
5 6 (1.05%) Internet
6 4 (0.70%) AMQP
6 4 (0.70%) HTTP
6 4 (0.70%) MQTT
7 3 (0.53%) RTP
7 3 (0.53%) SCCP
7 3 (0.53%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.53%) VLAN
7 3 (0.53%) VoIP
7 3 (0.53%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.35%) DSL
8 2 (0.35%) SAN
8 2 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 75 (13.16%) NoSQL
3 71 (12.46%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (7.89%) Relational Database
5 43 (7.54%) SQL Server
6 42 (7.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 37 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
8 33 (5.79%) Elasticsearch
9 28 (4.91%) MySQL
10 24 (4.21%) DynamoDB
11 22 (3.86%) Redis
12 18 (3.16%) RDBMS
13 16 (2.81%) BigQuery
14 13 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
15 12 (2.11%) Tableau
16 11 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (1.93%) Pinecone
17 10 (1.75%) Weaviate
18 9 (1.58%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 95 (16.67%) Git
2 71 (12.46%) Jenkins
3 48 (8.42%) GitLab
4 24 (4.21%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.33%) Cypress.io
6 18 (3.16%) Jaeger
7 16 (2.81%) CircleCI
8 14 (2.46%) Maven
9 13 (2.28%) MLflow
10 11 (1.93%) JMeter
10 11 (1.93%) Selenium
11 10 (1.75%) JIRA
11 10 (1.75%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.40%) JUnit
13 7 (1.23%) Cucumber
14 6 (1.05%) Locust
14 6 (1.05%) Visual Studio
15 5 (0.88%) Postman
15 5 (0.88%) Storybook
15 5 (0.88%) Vite
General
1 99 (17.37%) Social Skills
2 76 (13.33%) Finance
3 44 (7.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 35 (6.14%) Public Sector
5 15 (2.63%) Banking
6 12 (2.11%) Advertising
7 11 (1.93%) Law
7 11 (1.93%) Retail
8 9 (1.58%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (1.40%) Games
9 8 (1.40%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.23%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.23%) Marketing
11 6 (1.05%) Aviation
11 6 (1.05%) Front Office
11 6 (1.05%) Legal
12 4 (0.70%) Military
12 4 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 201 (35.26%) Developer
2 143 (25.09%) Senior
3 97 (17.02%) Lead
4 86 (15.09%) Software Engineer
5 52 (9.12%) .NET Developer
6 50 (8.77%) DevOps Engineer
7 42 (7.37%) Scala Engineer
8 38 (6.67%) Java Developer
8 38 (6.67%) Senior Developer
9 37 (6.49%) Full-Stack Developer
10 25 (4.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 24 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
11 24 (4.21%) Cloud Engineer
12 23 (4.04%) Data Engineer
12 23 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
12 23 (4.04%) Scala Software Engineer
12 23 (4.04%) Senior Software Engineer
12 23 (4.04%) Software Developer
13 21 (3.68%) Scala Developer
14 20 (3.51%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (18.95%) React
2 105 (18.42%) .NET
3 94 (16.49%) Node.js
4 70 (12.28%) .NET Core
5 69 (12.11%) Spring
6 59 (10.35%) AngularJS
7 57 (10.00%) REST
7 57 (10.00%) Spring Boot
8 55 (9.65%) Kafka
9 54 (9.47%) ASP.NET
9 54 (9.47%) RESTful
10 52 (9.12%) gRPC
11 49 (8.60%) ASP.NET Core
12 45 (7.89%) CSS
13 41 (7.19%) HTML
14 39 (6.84%) Vue
15 33 (5.79%) Django
16 31 (5.44%) Elastic Stack
17 23 (4.04%) Akka
17 23 (4.04%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 90 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 74 (12.98%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (11.75%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (11.75%) Video\Live Streaming
4 49 (8.60%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (1.93%) AI Agents
6 11 (1.93%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.58%) Digital TV
8 8 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.40%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.23%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.23%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.23%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.05%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.88%) Cyberattack
11 5 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 105 (18.42%) Linux
2 31 (5.44%) Unix
3 11 (1.93%) Ubuntu
3 11 (1.93%) Windows
4 10 (1.75%) Android
5 8 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.88%) CentOS
7 4 (0.70%) VMS
8 3 (0.53%) Debian
8 3 (0.53%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.35%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (65.79%) CI/CD
2 275 (48.25%) Containerisation
3 256 (44.91%) DevOps
4 232 (40.70%) Agile
5 188 (32.98%) Microservices
6 168 (29.47%) Software Engineering
7 158 (27.72%) Infrastructure as Code
8 143 (25.09%) Full-Stack Development
9 131 (22.98%) Problem-Solving
10 124 (21.75%) AI
11 113 (19.82%) Mentoring
12 106 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 106 (18.60%) Machine Learning
13 97 (17.02%) Clean Code
14 94 (16.49%) Scrum
15 89 (15.61%) TDD
16 83 (14.56%) Coaching
17 71 (12.46%) Continuous Delivery
17 71 (12.46%) Data Science
17 71 (12.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 261 (45.79%) Python
2 143 (25.09%) SQL
3 135 (23.68%) Java
4 125 (21.93%) JavaScript
5 100 (17.54%) C#
6 99 (17.37%) Go
7 87 (15.26%) Scala
8 86 (15.09%) TypeScript
9 70 (12.28%) Bash
10 22 (3.86%) PowerShell
11 21 (3.68%) PHP
12 15 (2.63%) Bicep
13 12 (2.11%) C++
14 10 (1.75%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.40%) Groovy
15 8 (1.40%) Rust
16 7 (1.23%) C
16 7 (1.23%) Ruby
17 6 (1.05%) PL/SQL
18 4 (0.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 67 (11.75%) Security Cleared
2 60 (10.53%) Degree
3 53 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 28 (4.91%) AWS Certification
5 22 (3.86%) Azure Certification
6 21 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.40%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.88%) CISSP
9 5 (0.88%) GIAC
9 5 (0.88%) ISACA
9 5 (0.88%) SANS
10 3 (0.53%) 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 (0.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.30%) QA
2 23 (4.04%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.11%) NIST
5 10 (1.75%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.75%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.40%) WCAG
7 5 (0.88%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.70%) GDPR
9 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.18%) NCSC
11 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.88%) Firmware
4 3 (0.53%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.35%) vSphere
6 1 (0.18%) KVM
6 1 (0.18%) QEMU
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 346 (60.70%) Kubernetes
2 190 (33.33%) Terraform
3 79 (13.86%) Ansible
4 48 (8.42%) Prometheus
5 41 (7.19%) Grafana
6 33 (5.79%) Argo
7 18 (3.16%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.63%) Podman
9 11 (1.93%) Puppet
10 8 (1.40%) Istio
11 7 (1.23%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.88%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.88%) HP Fortify
12 5 (0.88%) Packer
13 4 (0.70%) Kibana
14 3 (0.53%) 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 85 (14.91%) Microsoft
2 59 (10.35%) Google
3 45 (7.89%) Typelevel
4 21 (3.68%) Databricks
5 15 (2.63%) Oracle
6 11 (1.93%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.58%) Palantir
8 8 (1.40%) Confluent
9 6 (1.05%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.05%) Splunk
9 6 (1.05%) VMware
10 5 (0.88%) ForgeRock
10 5 (0.88%) Okta
10 5 (0.88%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.88%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.70%) ESRI
11 4 (0.70%) Facebook
11 4 (0.70%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.70%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.53%) Mitel