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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 30 41
Rank change year-on-year -52 +11 -11
Permanent jobs citing Docker 522 1,258 1,601
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.17% 8.10% 5.82%
As % of the System Software category 38.64% 50.04% 39.12%
Number of salaries quoted 361 744 1,370
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £102,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £138,750 £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 1,351 2,514 4,093
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.21% 16.19% 14.89%
Number of salaries quoted 957 1,572 3,536
10th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,836 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.55% +15.67% -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 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 21 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (3.64%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.07%) nginx
4 9 (1.72%) CMS
5 6 (1.15%) Apache
5 6 (1.15%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.96%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.96%) Apache Pulsar
6 5 (0.96%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.96%) Drupal
6 5 (0.96%) WordPress
7 4 (0.77%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.77%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.77%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.38%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.38%) IIS
9 2 (0.38%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.19%) Confluence
10 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.77%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.77%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.38%) Weka
3 1 (0.19%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 9 (1.72%) Shopify
2 1 (0.19%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 350 (67.05%) AWS
2 240 (45.98%) Azure
3 134 (25.67%) GCP
4 125 (23.95%) GitHub
5 76 (14.56%) Serverless
6 64 (12.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 63 (12.07%) GitHub Actions
8 50 (9.58%) AWS Lambda
9 48 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (8.81%) Amazon S3
11 42 (8.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (7.28%) SaaS
13 33 (6.32%) Amazon ECS
13 33 (6.32%) Pulumi
14 23 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (4.02%) OpenShift
16 19 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
16 19 (3.64%) AWS Step Functions
16 19 (3.64%) Datadog
17 17 (3.26%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 62 (11.88%) Broadband
2 16 (3.07%) Firewall
3 14 (2.68%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.49%) VPN
5 10 (1.92%) DNS
6 9 (1.72%) Network Security
7 6 (1.15%) DHCP
8 5 (0.96%) AMQP
9 4 (0.77%) WAN
10 3 (0.57%) HTTP
10 3 (0.57%) Internet
10 3 (0.57%) MQTT
10 3 (0.57%) RTP
10 3 (0.57%) SCCP
10 3 (0.57%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.57%) VLAN
10 3 (0.57%) VoIP
10 3 (0.57%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.38%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (15.33%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (14.18%) NoSQL
3 45 (8.62%) SQL Server
4 41 (7.85%) Relational Database
5 37 (7.09%) MongoDB
6 33 (6.32%) MySQL
7 32 (6.13%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (4.41%) Redis
10 19 (3.64%) RDBMS
11 16 (3.07%) DynamoDB
12 15 (2.87%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (2.87%) BigQuery
13 14 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (2.30%) Tableau
15 11 (2.11%) Delta Lake
16 10 (1.92%) Pinecone
16 10 (1.92%) Weaviate
17 9 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
17 9 (1.72%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 81 (15.52%) Git
2 79 (15.13%) Jenkins
3 56 (10.73%) GitLab
4 27 (5.17%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.64%) Jaeger
6 16 (3.07%) Selenium
7 12 (2.30%) MLflow
7 12 (2.30%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.11%) JUnit
9 10 (1.92%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.53%) JIRA
11 7 (1.34%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.34%) JMeter
11 7 (1.34%) Maven
12 5 (0.96%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.96%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.96%) Robot Framework
12 5 (0.96%) Storybook
12 5 (0.96%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.96%) Vite
General
1 122 (23.37%) Social Skills
2 69 (13.22%) Finance
3 32 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 32 (6.13%) Public Sector
4 24 (4.60%) Telecoms
5 23 (4.41%) Law
6 15 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (1.92%) Games
7 10 (1.92%) Legal
7 10 (1.92%) Retail
8 7 (1.34%) Banking
8 7 (1.34%) Financial Institution
9 5 (0.96%) Aviation
9 5 (0.96%) Front Office
9 5 (0.96%) Local Government
9 5 (0.96%) Manufacturing
9 5 (0.96%) Military
9 5 (0.96%) Police
10 4 (0.77%) Marketing
11 3 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 165 (31.61%) Senior
2 152 (29.12%) Developer
3 90 (17.24%) Lead
4 74 (14.18%) Software Engineer
5 54 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
6 40 (7.66%) Senior Developer
7 38 (7.28%) Full-Stack Developer
8 35 (6.70%) Cloud Engineer
9 33 (6.32%) Java Developer
10 28 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
11 27 (5.17%) Software Developer
12 26 (4.98%) Senior Software Engineer
13 25 (4.79%) Lead DevOps
14 24 (4.60%) Data Engineer
14 24 (4.60%) Scala Engineer
15 23 (4.41%) Python Developer
16 22 (4.21%) Architect
17 21 (4.02%) Azure Engineer
18 19 (3.64%) .NET Developer
18 19 (3.64%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (18.20%) React
2 85 (16.28%) .NET
3 63 (12.07%) Spring
4 61 (11.69%) Node.js
5 56 (10.73%) Spring Boot
6 52 (9.96%) Kafka
7 51 (9.77%) RESTful
8 49 (9.39%) REST
9 47 (9.00%) Elastic Stack
10 46 (8.81%) Django
11 41 (7.85%) .NET Core
11 41 (7.85%) AngularJS
12 35 (6.70%) gRPC
13 32 (6.13%) Vue
14 31 (5.94%) Flask
15 30 (5.75%) CSS
15 30 (5.75%) HTML
16 25 (4.79%) Akka
17 19 (3.64%) FastAPI
17 19 (3.64%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 96 (18.39%) Cloud Native
2 61 (11.69%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (8.43%) Product Ownership
4 41 (7.85%) Over-the-Top Content
4 41 (7.85%) Video\Live Streaming
5 17 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (3.26%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.30%) AI Agents
7 10 (1.92%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.53%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.53%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (1.15%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.15%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.15%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.15%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.96%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.77%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 118 (22.61%) Linux
2 51 (9.77%) Unix
3 30 (5.75%) Windows
4 17 (3.26%) Android
5 11 (2.11%) Ubuntu
5 11 (2.11%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.34%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.15%) CentOS
7 6 (1.15%) VMS
8 4 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.19%) Fedora
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (63.41%) CI/CD
2 276 (52.87%) DevOps
3 261 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 202 (38.70%) Agile
5 171 (32.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 141 (27.01%) Microservices
7 137 (26.25%) Problem-Solving
8 131 (25.10%) Software Engineering
9 97 (18.58%) Mentoring
10 96 (18.39%) AI
11 86 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 75 (14.37%) Full-Stack Development
13 70 (13.41%) Observability
14 66 (12.64%) TDD
15 65 (12.45%) Machine Learning
16 61 (11.69%) Coaching
17 60 (11.49%) Clean Code
18 59 (11.30%) Event-Driven
19 57 (10.92%) Test Automation
20 56 (10.73%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 244 (46.74%) Python
2 141 (27.01%) Java
3 130 (24.90%) JavaScript
4 126 (24.14%) SQL
5 78 (14.94%) Go
6 69 (13.22%) C#
7 66 (12.64%) Bash
8 55 (10.54%) Scala
8 55 (10.54%) TypeScript
9 27 (5.17%) PHP
10 25 (4.79%) Bicep
11 24 (4.60%) PowerShell
12 14 (2.68%) C++
13 8 (1.53%) Delphi
13 8 (1.53%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.15%) Rust
15 5 (0.96%) C
15 5 (0.96%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.77%) Perl
17 3 (0.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 77 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 69 (13.22%) Degree
3 59 (11.30%) SC Cleared
4 40 (7.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (6.90%) AWS Certification
6 20 (3.83%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.30%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.96%) CISSP
10 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.57%) GIAC
10 3 (0.57%) ISACA
10 3 (0.57%) LPIC
10 3 (0.57%) SANS
11 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.13%) QA
2 16 (3.07%) Accessibility
2 16 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (2.49%) GDPR
4 10 (1.92%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.92%) NIST
4 10 (1.92%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (0.96%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.38%) ECSS
6 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.15%) vSphere
3 5 (0.96%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.57%) Kamailio
5 3 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.38%) Ceph
6 2 (0.38%) Lustre
6 2 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.19%) Firmware
7 1 (0.19%) vCloud
7 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 341 (65.33%) Kubernetes
2 218 (41.76%) Terraform
3 95 (18.20%) Ansible
4 66 (12.64%) Grafana
4 66 (12.64%) Prometheus
5 37 (7.09%) Argo
6 19 (3.64%) Kustomize
7 7 (1.34%) Puppet
8 5 (0.96%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (0.77%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.77%) Packer
9 4 (0.77%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.38%) Kibana
11 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.19%) Rancher
11 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (9.77%) Google
2 42 (8.05%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.36%) Oracle
4 19 (3.64%) Databricks
5 18 (3.45%) Typelevel
6 14 (2.68%) Splunk
7 9 (1.72%) Palantir
7 9 (1.72%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.53%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.53%) SAP
9 7 (1.34%) VMware
10 6 (1.15%) Mercator
10 6 (1.15%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.15%) TIBCO
11 5 (0.96%) IFS
11 5 (0.96%) Jitterbit
11 5 (0.96%) Mavenir
11 5 (0.96%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.96%) SnapLogic
11 5 (0.96%) Workday