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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 34 56
Rank change year-on-year -39 +22 -27
Permanent jobs citing Docker 585 902 1,535
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.30% 6.82% 4.72%
As % of the System Software category 40.91% 46.54% 35.15%
Number of salaries quoted 375 715 1,309
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £100,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £132,000 £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 1,430 1,938 4,367
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.07% 14.66% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,009 1,551 3,574
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £72,433
90th Percentile £102,650 £113,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £52,024 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.41% +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 April 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 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.42%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.39%) nginx
4 9 (1.54%) CMS
4 9 (1.54%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.03%) Drupal
5 6 (1.03%) WordPress
6 5 (0.85%) Apache
6 5 (0.85%) Apache Pulsar
7 4 (0.68%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.68%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.68%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.68%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.51%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.34%) Camunda
9 2 (0.34%) Confluence
9 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.17%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.68%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.34%) Weka
3 1 (0.17%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 8 (1.37%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.17%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 419 (71.62%) AWS
2 247 (42.22%) Azure
3 186 (31.79%) GCP
4 125 (21.37%) GitHub
5 99 (16.92%) Serverless
6 60 (10.26%) Amazon S3
6 60 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 60 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
7 53 (9.06%) GitHub Actions
8 47 (8.03%) SaaS
9 46 (7.86%) Azure DevOps
10 40 (6.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 40 (6.84%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (5.64%) Amazon EKS
12 32 (5.47%) Amazon EC2
13 30 (5.13%) Pulumi
14 28 (4.79%) OpenShift
15 24 (4.10%) Datadog
16 22 (3.76%) PaaS
17 21 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 101 (17.26%) Broadband
2 13 (2.22%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.71%) Firewall
4 8 (1.37%) DNS
4 8 (1.37%) VPN
5 7 (1.20%) Network Security
6 6 (1.03%) DHCP
7 5 (0.85%) AMQP
8 4 (0.68%) MQTT
9 3 (0.51%) HTTP
9 3 (0.51%) Internet
9 3 (0.51%) RTP
9 3 (0.51%) SCCP
9 3 (0.51%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.51%) VLAN
9 3 (0.51%) VoIP
9 3 (0.51%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.34%) DSL
10 2 (0.34%) SAN
10 2 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (14.87%) NoSQL
2 85 (14.53%) PostgreSQL
3 62 (10.60%) MongoDB
4 52 (8.89%) SQL Server
5 43 (7.35%) Relational Database
6 41 (7.01%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
8 26 (4.44%) Redis
9 24 (4.10%) MySQL
10 22 (3.76%) DynamoDB
11 19 (3.25%) RDBMS
12 16 (2.74%) BigQuery
13 14 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (2.22%) Tableau
15 12 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
16 10 (1.71%) Pinecone
16 10 (1.71%) Weaviate
17 9 (1.54%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 99 (16.92%) Git
2 88 (15.04%) Jenkins
3 57 (9.74%) GitLab
4 25 (4.27%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.25%) Jaeger
5 19 (3.25%) Selenium
6 18 (3.08%) CircleCI
7 17 (2.91%) Cypress.io
8 15 (2.56%) Cucumber
9 13 (2.22%) JMeter
9 13 (2.22%) MLflow
9 13 (2.22%) SonarQube
10 11 (1.88%) JUnit
11 10 (1.71%) JIRA
12 9 (1.54%) Maven
13 6 (1.03%) Bitbucket
13 6 (1.03%) Locust
13 6 (1.03%) Robot Framework
13 6 (1.03%) Visual Studio
13 6 (1.03%) Vite
General
1 127 (21.71%) Social Skills
2 74 (12.65%) Finance
3 43 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 39 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 22 (3.76%) Telecoms
6 19 (3.25%) Law
7 14 (2.39%) Banking
8 11 (1.88%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (1.88%) Legal
9 9 (1.54%) Retail
10 7 (1.20%) Aviation
11 6 (1.03%) Advertising
11 6 (1.03%) Front Office
11 6 (1.03%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.03%) Marketing
12 5 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.85%) Games
12 5 (0.85%) Local Government
12 5 (0.85%) Military
12 5 (0.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 178 (30.43%) Developer
2 170 (29.06%) Senior
3 104 (17.78%) Lead
4 89 (15.21%) Software Engineer
5 58 (9.91%) DevOps Engineer
6 44 (7.52%) Senior Developer
7 42 (7.18%) Scala Engineer
8 35 (5.98%) Full-Stack Developer
9 33 (5.64%) Java Developer
10 29 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
10 29 (4.96%) Software Developer
11 28 (4.79%) Python Developer
12 27 (4.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 27 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
13 25 (4.27%) Lead DevOps
13 25 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
14 24 (4.10%) .NET Developer
14 24 (4.10%) Data Engineer
14 24 (4.10%) Python Engineer
15 23 (3.93%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (18.29%) React
2 86 (14.70%) Node.js
3 81 (13.85%) .NET
4 70 (11.97%) Spring
5 66 (11.28%) Kafka
6 62 (10.60%) gRPC
7 59 (10.09%) Spring Boot
8 58 (9.91%) REST
8 58 (9.91%) RESTful
9 54 (9.23%) Django
10 47 (8.03%) Elastic Stack
11 44 (7.52%) AngularJS
12 41 (7.01%) .NET Core
13 33 (5.64%) CSS
13 33 (5.64%) HTML
13 33 (5.64%) Vue
14 32 (5.47%) Flask
15 26 (4.44%) FastAPI
16 25 (4.27%) Akka
16 25 (4.27%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 98 (16.75%) Cloud Native
2 89 (15.21%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (11.62%) Over-the-Top Content
3 68 (11.62%) Video\Live Streaming
4 48 (8.21%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.56%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.71%) Data Structures
7 10 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.54%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.54%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.03%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.03%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.85%) Cyberattack
11 5 (0.85%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 121 (20.68%) Linux
2 45 (7.69%) Unix
3 20 (3.42%) Windows
4 17 (2.91%) Android
5 13 (2.22%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.54%) CentOS
8 7 (1.20%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.85%) VMS
10 4 (0.68%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.51%) Debian
12 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (64.79%) CI/CD
2 311 (53.16%) Containerisation
3 288 (49.23%) DevOps
4 233 (39.83%) Agile
5 183 (31.28%) Microservices
6 169 (28.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 168 (28.72%) Software Engineering
8 152 (25.98%) Problem-Solving
9 111 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 109 (18.63%) Mentoring
11 105 (17.95%) AI
11 105 (17.95%) Full-Stack Development
12 97 (16.58%) Machine Learning
13 95 (16.24%) Clean Code
14 85 (14.53%) Coaching
15 80 (13.68%) TDD
16 78 (13.33%) Test Automation
17 77 (13.16%) Observability
18 75 (12.82%) Scrum
19 74 (12.65%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 297 (50.77%) Python
2 146 (24.96%) Java
3 139 (23.76%) JavaScript
4 122 (20.85%) SQL
5 111 (18.97%) Go
6 88 (15.04%) Scala
7 71 (12.14%) C#
8 70 (11.97%) Bash
9 61 (10.43%) TypeScript
10 24 (4.10%) PHP
11 23 (3.93%) PowerShell
12 18 (3.08%) Bicep
13 15 (2.56%) C++
14 11 (1.88%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.37%) Delphi
16 7 (1.20%) Rust
17 5 (0.85%) C
17 5 (0.85%) Groovy
17 5 (0.85%) Ruby
17 5 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 81 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 78 (13.33%) Degree
3 62 (10.60%) SC Cleared
4 38 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (4.96%) AWS Certification
6 20 (3.42%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.39%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.85%) CISSP
9 5 (0.85%) GIAC
9 5 (0.85%) ISACA
9 5 (0.85%) SANS
10 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.51%) LPIC
11 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (8.38%) QA
2 24 (4.10%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.22%) NIST
5 11 (1.88%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.54%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.37%) GDPR
7 8 (1.37%) ISO 9001
8 7 (1.20%) WCAG
9 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.51%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.34%) ECSS
12 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.85%) Firmware
3 5 (0.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.51%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.51%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.51%) vSphere
5 2 (0.34%) Ceph
5 2 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.34%) Lustre
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) QEMU
6 1 (0.17%) vCloud
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 352 (60.17%) Kubernetes
2 214 (36.58%) Terraform
3 93 (15.90%) Ansible
4 66 (11.28%) Grafana
5 62 (10.60%) Prometheus
6 38 (6.50%) Argo
7 19 (3.25%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.56%) Podman
9 12 (2.05%) Puppet
10 8 (1.37%) Istio
11 5 (0.85%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.85%) Packer
11 5 (0.85%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.68%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.68%) Kibana
13 3 (0.51%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.34%) MIIS
14 2 (0.34%) Nagios
Vendors
1 66 (11.28%) Google
2 51 (8.72%) Microsoft
3 45 (7.69%) Typelevel
4 23 (3.93%) Oracle
5 22 (3.76%) Databricks
6 15 (2.56%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.39%) Splunk
8 9 (1.54%) Palantir
9 8 (1.37%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.37%) Confluent
10 7 (1.20%) Dell
10 7 (1.20%) SAP
10 7 (1.20%) VMware
11 5 (0.85%) Ericsson
11 5 (0.85%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.85%) IBM
11 5 (0.85%) Nokia
11 5 (0.85%) Okta
11 5 (0.85%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.85%) TIBCO