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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 29 68
Rank change year-on-year -48 +39 -35
Permanent jobs citing Docker 640 1,232 1,354
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.19% 7.98% 3.90%
As % of the System Software category 40.28% 55.52% 32.47%
Number of salaries quoted 426 557 1,127
10th Percentile £44,630 £48,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +15.18% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £83,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £126,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.29% -6.21%

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 1,589 2,219 4,170
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.91% 14.38% 12.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,143 1,331 3,257
10th Percentile £32,100 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £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 £77,125 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,410 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 19 June 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 28 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.97%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.88%) Apache
4 8 (1.25%) nginx
5 7 (1.09%) CMS
6 6 (0.94%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.78%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.31%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.31%) Camunda
8 2 (0.31%) Confluence
8 2 (0.31%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.31%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.31%) IIS
8 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.31%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.31%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) JBoss
9 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.47%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Shopify
2 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.16%) Magento
3 1 (0.16%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 418 (65.31%) AWS
2 300 (46.88%) Azure
3 171 (26.72%) GitHub
4 159 (24.84%) GCP
5 98 (15.31%) GitHub Copilot
6 88 (13.75%) Serverless
7 53 (8.28%) Amazon S3
8 51 (7.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 49 (7.66%) AWS Lambda
9 49 (7.66%) Azure AI
10 45 (7.03%) SaaS
11 39 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
12 37 (5.78%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (5.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
13 35 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
14 27 (4.22%) Pulumi
15 25 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
15 25 (3.91%) Azure AKS
16 22 (3.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 108 (16.88%) Broadband
2 12 (1.88%) Internet
3 10 (1.56%) DNS
4 9 (1.41%) Firewall
5 7 (1.09%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.09%) VPN
6 6 (0.94%) Network Security
7 5 (0.78%) DHCP
8 4 (0.63%) HTTP
8 4 (0.63%) MQTT
9 3 (0.47%) AMQP
9 3 (0.47%) DSL
9 3 (0.47%) RTP
9 3 (0.47%) SCCP
9 3 (0.47%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.47%) VoIP
9 3 (0.47%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.31%) Intranet
10 2 (0.31%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.31%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (21.09%) MongoDB
2 83 (12.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 78 (12.19%) PostgreSQL
4 68 (10.63%) NoSQL
5 53 (8.28%) Relational Database
6 43 (6.72%) Elasticsearch
7 37 (5.78%) SQL Server
8 33 (5.16%) MySQL
9 32 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
10 27 (4.22%) Redis
11 23 (3.59%) DynamoDB
12 18 (2.81%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (2.81%) RDBMS
13 14 (2.19%) BigQuery
14 11 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (1.72%) Delta Lake
15 10 (1.56%) Tableau
16 9 (1.41%) Pinecone
17 8 (1.25%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 106 (16.56%) Git
2 82 (12.81%) Jenkins
3 60 (9.38%) GitLab
4 24 (3.75%) TeamCity
5 18 (2.81%) Jaeger
6 17 (2.66%) Cypress.io
6 17 (2.66%) JIRA
7 15 (2.34%) JUnit
7 15 (2.34%) Maven
8 14 (2.19%) CircleCI
8 14 (2.19%) Selenium
9 10 (1.56%) JMeter
10 9 (1.41%) Claude Code
10 9 (1.41%) MLflow
10 9 (1.41%) Mockito
10 9 (1.41%) Postman
11 8 (1.25%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.94%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.94%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.78%) Locust
General
1 118 (18.44%) Social Skills
2 75 (11.72%) Finance
3 48 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 40 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 27 (4.22%) Advertising
6 16 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (2.34%) Marketing
8 12 (1.88%) Aerospace
8 12 (1.88%) Banking
9 10 (1.56%) Games
9 10 (1.56%) Law
9 10 (1.56%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.25%) Retail
11 6 (0.94%) Aviation
11 6 (0.94%) Legal
12 4 (0.63%) Military
12 4 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.63%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.31%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 254 (39.69%) Developer
2 145 (22.66%) Senior
3 96 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 90 (14.06%) Lead
5 87 (13.59%) .NET Developer
6 49 (7.66%) DevOps Engineer
7 42 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 42 (6.56%) Scala Engineer
7 42 (6.56%) Senior Developer
8 40 (6.25%) Java Developer
9 31 (4.84%) AWS Engineer
9 31 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
10 29 (4.53%) Platform Engineer
10 29 (4.53%) Senior Software Engineer
11 25 (3.91%) Data Engineer
11 25 (3.91%) Software Developer
12 24 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 23 (3.59%) Scala Software Engineer
14 21 (3.28%) Scala Developer
15 19 (2.97%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (22.97%) .NET
2 109 (17.03%) React
3 104 (16.25%) .NET Core
4 98 (15.31%) Node.js
5 94 (14.69%) ASP.NET
6 85 (13.28%) ASP.NET Core
7 80 (12.50%) AngularJS
8 76 (11.88%) CSS
9 73 (11.41%) Spring
10 71 (11.09%) HTML
11 67 (10.47%) REST
12 64 (10.00%) RESTful
13 58 (9.06%) Spring Boot
14 57 (8.91%) Vue
15 50 (7.81%) Kafka
16 48 (7.50%) gRPC
17 47 (7.34%) ML.NET
18 32 (5.00%) Django
19 26 (4.06%) OpenTelemetry
19 26 (4.06%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 114 (17.81%) Cloud Native
2 82 (12.81%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (10.47%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (10.47%) Video\Live Streaming
4 42 (6.56%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (2.19%) Digital TV
6 14 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.25%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.25%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.25%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.09%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.09%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.09%) Management Information System
10 6 (0.94%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.78%) Cyberattack
11 5 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.78%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 126 (19.69%) Linux
2 30 (4.69%) Unix
3 12 (1.88%) Ubuntu
3 12 (1.88%) Windows
4 8 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.78%) Android
5 5 (0.78%) CentOS
5 5 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.63%) Debian
7 3 (0.47%) VMS
7 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (65.94%) CI/CD
2 288 (45.00%) Containerisation
3 286 (44.69%) Agile
4 255 (39.84%) DevOps
5 216 (33.75%) Microservices
6 194 (30.31%) Full-Stack Development
7 193 (30.16%) Software Engineering
8 171 (26.72%) Infrastructure as Code
9 165 (25.78%) AI
10 138 (21.56%) Problem-Solving
11 132 (20.63%) Mentoring
12 127 (19.84%) Machine Learning
13 116 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
14 113 (17.66%) Scrum
15 111 (17.34%) TDD
16 106 (16.56%) Clean Code
17 87 (13.59%) Coaching
18 78 (12.19%) Test Automation
19 75 (11.72%) Observability
20 70 (10.94%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 268 (41.88%) Python
2 185 (28.91%) SQL
3 156 (24.38%) C#
4 138 (21.56%) Java
5 127 (19.84%) JavaScript
6 116 (18.13%) TypeScript
7 94 (14.69%) Go
8 85 (13.28%) Scala
9 77 (12.03%) Bash
10 27 (4.22%) PowerShell
11 24 (3.75%) PHP
12 18 (2.81%) Bicep
13 15 (2.34%) Ruby
14 14 (2.19%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.56%) C++
15 10 (1.56%) PL/SQL
16 9 (1.41%) Groovy
17 8 (1.25%) Rust
18 7 (1.09%) C
19 3 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 80 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 65 (10.16%) SC Cleared
3 56 (8.75%) Degree
4 31 (4.84%) AWS Certification
5 23 (3.59%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.41%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.78%) CISSP
9 5 (0.78%) GIAC
9 5 (0.78%) ISACA
9 5 (0.78%) SANS
10 4 (0.63%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.47%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.31%) Linux+ Certification
12 2 (0.31%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.44%) QA
2 28 (4.38%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.88%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.88%) NIST
4 11 (1.72%) WCAG
5 10 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.78%) GDPR
7 3 (0.47%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.47%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.16%) NCSC
8 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.63%) Firmware
4 3 (0.47%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.16%) iptables
6 1 (0.16%) KVM
6 1 (0.16%) QEMU
6 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.16%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 406 (63.44%) Kubernetes
2 184 (28.75%) Terraform
3 72 (11.25%) Ansible
4 52 (8.13%) Prometheus
5 41 (6.41%) Grafana
6 34 (5.31%) Argo
7 18 (2.81%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.34%) Podman
8 15 (2.34%) Puppet
9 14 (2.19%) Istio
10 12 (1.88%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.94%) Packer
12 5 (0.78%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.78%) Kibana
13 3 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.47%) linkerd
13 3 (0.47%) Nagios
13 3 (0.47%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.31%) MIIS
14 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 134 (20.94%) Microsoft
2 63 (9.84%) Google
3 45 (7.03%) Typelevel
4 19 (2.97%) Databricks
4 19 (2.97%) Oracle
5 13 (2.03%) Facebook
6 9 (1.41%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.25%) Confluent
7 8 (1.25%) Splunk
8 7 (1.09%) Palantir
8 7 (1.09%) VMware
9 5 (0.78%) ForgeRock
9 5 (0.78%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.78%) Okta
9 5 (0.78%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.63%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.63%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.47%) BT
11 3 (0.47%) Commvault
11 3 (0.47%) Dell