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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 32 40
Rank change year-on-year -51 +8 -11
Permanent jobs citing Docker 501 1,240 1,677
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.14% 7.78% 6.12%
As % of the System Software category 38.01% 49.01% 40.40%
Number of salaries quoted 351 722 1,427
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,400 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £100,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £122,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -3.45%

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 1,318 2,530 4,151
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.25% 15.87% 15.14%
Number of salaries quoted 932 1,582 3,576
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,063 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,250 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.61% +15.00% -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 6 February 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 20 (3.99%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (3.79%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.19%) nginx
4 9 (1.80%) CMS
5 7 (1.40%) Apache Solr
6 6 (1.20%) Apache
6 6 (1.20%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.00%) Anypoint
7 5 (1.00%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (1.00%) ArcGIS
7 5 (1.00%) Drupal
7 5 (1.00%) WordPress
8 4 (0.80%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.80%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.40%) IIS
10 2 (0.40%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.20%) Camunda
11 1 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.80%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.40%) Weka
3 1 (0.20%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 9 (1.80%) Shopify
2 1 (0.20%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 327 (65.27%) AWS
2 231 (46.11%) Azure
3 125 (24.95%) GitHub
4 115 (22.95%) GCP
5 73 (14.57%) Serverless
6 63 (12.57%) GitHub Actions
7 58 (11.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (9.78%) AWS Lambda
8 49 (9.78%) Azure DevOps
9 42 (8.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 42 (8.38%) Amazon S3
10 36 (7.19%) SaaS
11 28 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
11 28 (5.59%) Pulumi
12 21 (4.19%) Amazon EC2
13 20 (3.99%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (3.99%) Datadog
13 20 (3.99%) OpenShift
14 17 (3.39%) AWS Step Functions
15 16 (3.19%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (10.58%) Broadband
2 17 (3.39%) Firewall
3 16 (3.19%) VPN
4 12 (2.40%) DNS
5 11 (2.20%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.80%) Network Security
7 5 (1.00%) AMQP
8 4 (0.80%) DHCP
8 4 (0.80%) WAN
9 3 (0.60%) HTTP
9 3 (0.60%) Internet
9 3 (0.60%) RTP
9 3 (0.60%) SCCP
9 3 (0.60%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.60%) VLAN
9 3 (0.60%) VoIP
9 3 (0.60%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.40%) DSL
10 2 (0.40%) LAN
10 2 (0.40%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (15.37%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (14.57%) NoSQL
3 45 (8.98%) SQL Server
4 44 (8.78%) Relational Database
5 39 (7.78%) MySQL
6 38 (7.58%) MongoDB
7 27 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (5.19%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (3.79%) RDBMS
10 18 (3.59%) Redis
11 16 (3.19%) DynamoDB
12 15 (2.99%) BigQuery
12 15 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
13 14 (2.79%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (2.40%) Tableau
15 11 (2.20%) Delta Lake
16 10 (2.00%) Pinecone
16 10 (2.00%) Weaviate
17 9 (1.80%) Apache Iceberg
17 9 (1.80%) Looker
Development Applications
1 78 (15.57%) Git
2 76 (15.17%) Jenkins
3 53 (10.58%) GitLab
4 27 (5.39%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.79%) Jaeger
6 16 (3.19%) Selenium
7 12 (2.40%) MLflow
7 12 (2.40%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.20%) JUnit
9 10 (2.00%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.60%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.40%) JMeter
12 6 (1.20%) JIRA
12 6 (1.20%) Maven
13 5 (1.00%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.00%) Robot Framework
13 5 (1.00%) Storybook
13 5 (1.00%) Visual Studio
13 5 (1.00%) Vite
14 4 (0.80%) Postman
General
1 119 (23.75%) Social Skills
2 68 (13.57%) Finance
3 33 (6.59%) Public Sector
4 28 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (4.99%) Telecoms
6 22 (4.39%) Law
7 15 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.00%) Retail
9 8 (1.60%) Games
9 8 (1.60%) Legal
9 8 (1.60%) Marketing
10 7 (1.40%) Banking
10 7 (1.40%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.20%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.00%) Aviation
12 5 (1.00%) Front Office
12 5 (1.00%) Local Government
12 5 (1.00%) Police
13 4 (0.80%) Electronics
14 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 159 (31.74%) Senior
2 146 (29.14%) Developer
3 88 (17.56%) Lead
4 66 (13.17%) Software Engineer
5 55 (10.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 38 (7.58%) Senior Developer
7 35 (6.99%) Full-Stack Developer
8 33 (6.59%) Cloud Engineer
9 32 (6.39%) Java Developer
10 27 (5.39%) Software Developer
11 25 (4.99%) Lead DevOps
11 25 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
12 24 (4.79%) Architect
13 23 (4.59%) Data Engineer
13 23 (4.59%) Python Developer
14 22 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
14 22 (4.39%) Platform Engineer
15 19 (3.79%) Development Engineer
15 19 (3.79%) Lead DevOps Engineer
16 18 (3.59%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (18.16%) React
2 81 (16.17%) .NET
3 65 (12.97%) Node.js
4 57 (11.38%) Spring
5 52 (10.38%) Spring Boot
6 51 (10.18%) RESTful
7 49 (9.78%) Elastic Stack
8 48 (9.58%) Kafka
9 47 (9.38%) REST
10 42 (8.38%) Django
11 37 (7.39%) .NET Core
11 37 (7.39%) AngularJS
12 31 (6.19%) CSS
12 31 (6.19%) Flask
12 31 (6.19%) HTML
12 31 (6.19%) Vue
13 26 (5.19%) gRPC
14 25 (4.99%) Akka
15 20 (3.99%) FastAPI
16 19 (3.79%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 95 (18.96%) Cloud Native
2 49 (9.78%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (8.38%) Product Ownership
4 32 (6.39%) Over-the-Top Content
4 32 (6.39%) Video\Live Streaming
5 18 (3.59%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.40%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.00%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.60%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.60%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.20%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.20%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.00%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.00%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.80%) PKI
13 4 (0.80%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 117 (23.35%) Linux
2 46 (9.18%) Unix
3 35 (6.99%) Windows
4 17 (3.39%) Android
5 15 (2.99%) Windows Server
6 11 (2.20%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.40%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.40%) VMS
8 6 (1.20%) CentOS
9 4 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.20%) Fedora
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (62.67%) CI/CD
2 263 (52.50%) DevOps
3 243 (48.50%) Containerisation
4 189 (37.72%) Agile
5 164 (32.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 133 (26.55%) Problem-Solving
7 125 (24.95%) Microservices
8 123 (24.55%) Software Engineering
9 97 (19.36%) AI
10 95 (18.96%) Mentoring
11 83 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 71 (14.17%) Full-Stack Development
13 64 (12.77%) Observability
14 62 (12.38%) Test Automation
15 60 (11.98%) Machine Learning
16 58 (11.58%) Event-Driven
16 58 (11.58%) TDD
17 54 (10.78%) Computer Science
18 53 (10.58%) Scrum
19 52 (10.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 236 (47.11%) Python
2 132 (26.35%) JavaScript
3 129 (25.75%) Java
4 126 (25.15%) SQL
5 70 (13.97%) Bash
6 69 (13.77%) Go
7 62 (12.38%) C#
8 57 (11.38%) TypeScript
9 45 (8.98%) Scala
10 30 (5.99%) PHP
11 26 (5.19%) Bicep
11 26 (5.19%) PowerShell
12 15 (2.99%) C++
13 8 (1.60%) Delphi
14 6 (1.20%) C
14 6 (1.20%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.00%) Rust
15 5 (1.00%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.80%) Perl
16 4 (0.80%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 69 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 65 (12.97%) Degree
3 53 (10.58%) SC Cleared
4 40 (7.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (7.58%) AWS Certification
6 17 (3.39%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.59%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.60%) CISSP
10 3 (0.60%) LPIC
11 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.40%) CISA
11 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.40%) CISM
11 2 (0.40%) CRISC
11 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.40%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.19%) QA
2 15 (2.99%) Accessibility
2 15 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.79%) GDPR
4 10 (2.00%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.00%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.60%) NIST
6 5 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.00%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.40%) ECSS
8 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.20%) SEPA
8 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (1.40%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.20%) vSphere
3 5 (1.00%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.60%) Kamailio
5 3 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.40%) Ceph
6 2 (0.40%) Lustre
6 2 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.20%) Firmware
7 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.20%) vCloud
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 333 (66.47%) Kubernetes
2 213 (42.51%) Terraform
3 92 (18.36%) Ansible
4 66 (13.17%) Grafana
5 65 (12.97%) Prometheus
6 36 (7.19%) Argo
7 19 (3.79%) Kustomize
8 7 (1.40%) Puppet
9 4 (0.80%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.80%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.60%) Packer
11 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.20%) Kibana
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.20%) Nagios
11 1 (0.20%) Rancher
11 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 44 (8.78%) Google
1 44 (8.78%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.59%) Oracle
3 20 (3.99%) Databricks
4 14 (2.79%) Splunk
5 10 (2.00%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.80%) Palantir
6 9 (1.80%) SAP
6 9 (1.80%) Typelevel
7 8 (1.60%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.60%) VMware
8 6 (1.20%) Mercator
8 6 (1.20%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.20%) TIBCO
9 5 (1.00%) IFS
9 5 (1.00%) Jitterbit
9 5 (1.00%) Mavenir
9 5 (1.00%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.00%) SnapLogic
9 5 (1.00%) Workday