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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 43 33
Rank change year-on-year -10 -10 -12
Permanent jobs citing Docker 888 1,109 1,743
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.48% 5.49% 7.50%
As % of the System Software category 49.69% 41.04% 45.69%
Number of salaries quoted 291 569 1,481
10th Percentile £43,750 £44,250 £46,306
25th Percentile £54,375 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - -0.82% -1.98%

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 1,787 2,702 3,815
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.02% 13.37% 16.42%
Number of salaries quoted 955 1,621 3,260
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £74,144 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £48,037 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.66% - -

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 20 October 2025.

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
1 158 (17.79%) Confluence
2 13 (1.46%) Apache Solr
3 12 (1.35%) CMS
4 8 (0.90%) IIS
4 8 (0.90%) nginx
5 6 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.68%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.56%) Apache
7 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.23%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.23%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Drupal
9 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.11%) MetaMask
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.11%) Strapi
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Shopify
2 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 467 (52.59%) AWS
2 451 (50.79%) Azure
3 237 (26.69%) GCP
4 64 (7.21%) GitHub
5 58 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (4.28%) GitHub Actions
7 34 (3.83%) Serverless
8 26 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (2.93%) SaaS
9 23 (2.59%) Amazon ECS
9 23 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (2.25%) Azure AKS
11 20 (2.25%) Azure Service Bus
12 17 (1.91%) Amazon S3
12 17 (1.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 15 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (1.46%) Cloudflare
15 12 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 275 (30.97%) VPN
2 262 (29.50%) Cisco IOS
3 18 (2.03%) Firewall
4 11 (1.24%) DNS
5 8 (0.90%) Broadband
6 6 (0.68%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.45%) Internet
7 4 (0.45%) Network Security
8 3 (0.34%) WAN
9 2 (0.23%) 5G
9 2 (0.23%) AMQP
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) HTTP
9 2 (0.23%) LAN
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
9 2 (0.23%) VSAN
9 2 (0.23%) Wireless
10 1 (0.11%) Diameter Protocol
10 1 (0.11%) IOS XR
10 1 (0.11%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (32.43%) SQL Server
2 49 (5.52%) NoSQL
3 48 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
4 39 (4.39%) MySQL
5 35 (3.94%) Elasticsearch
6 26 (2.93%) MongoDB
7 19 (2.14%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.80%) Redis
9 15 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (1.35%) Tick Data
11 5 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.56%) Big Data
11 5 (0.56%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.56%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.45%) Neo4j
13 3 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.34%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.34%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 280 (31.53%) GitLab
2 258 (29.05%) SonarQube
3 257 (28.94%) JIRA
4 255 (28.72%) Sonatype Nexus
5 249 (28.04%) Maven
6 248 (27.93%) Bitbucket
6 248 (27.93%) Selenium
7 247 (27.82%) Cucumber
8 80 (9.01%) Git
9 33 (3.72%) Jenkins
10 19 (2.14%) Octopus Deploy
11 13 (1.46%) Team Foundation Server
12 10 (1.13%) MSBuild
12 10 (1.13%) TeamCity
12 10 (1.13%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.68%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.56%) webpack
15 4 (0.45%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.45%) PHPUnit
16 3 (0.34%) Mockito
General
1 517 (58.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 293 (33.00%) Finance
3 271 (30.52%) Analytical Skills
4 252 (28.38%) Banking
5 109 (12.27%) Retail
6 90 (10.14%) Corporate Banking
6 90 (10.14%) Investment Banking
7 83 (9.35%) Social Skills
8 21 (2.36%) Marketing
9 12 (1.35%) Games
9 12 (1.35%) Public Sector
10 10 (1.13%) Law
11 7 (0.79%) Front Office
12 5 (0.56%) Automotive
12 5 (0.56%) Legal
12 5 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.56%) Tech for Good
12 5 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.34%) Advertising
13 3 (0.34%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 288 (32.43%) Software Engineer
2 271 (30.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 108 (12.16%) Developer
4 81 (9.12%) Senior
5 71 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 40 (4.50%) Lead
7 39 (4.39%) Architect
8 28 (3.15%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (3.04%) AWS DevOps
10 26 (2.93%) Senior DevOps
11 22 (2.48%) Python Developer
12 21 (2.36%) Senior Developer
13 20 (2.25%) Azure Engineer
14 19 (2.14%) .NET Developer
14 19 (2.14%) AWS Engineer
15 18 (2.03%) Data Engineer
15 18 (2.03%) Python Engineer
15 18 (2.03%) Solutions Architect
16 17 (1.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 17 (1.91%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 306 (34.46%) React
2 288 (32.43%) CSS
2 288 (32.43%) HTML
3 281 (31.64%) Elastic Stack
4 274 (30.86%) Spring
5 273 (30.74%) Kafka
5 273 (30.74%) Spring Boot
6 251 (28.27%) Redux
7 249 (28.04%) JPA
8 160 (18.02%) REST
9 158 (17.79%) Hibernate
10 132 (14.86%) RESTful
11 101 (11.37%) CSS3
11 101 (11.37%) Jest
12 97 (10.92%) HTML5
13 91 (10.25%) .NET
13 91 (10.25%) Sass
14 29 (3.27%) .NET Core
15 28 (3.15%) AngularJS
15 28 (3.15%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 262 (29.50%) Cyberattack
1 262 (29.50%) Product Ownership
2 247 (27.82%) Enterprise Software
3 81 (9.12%) Cloud Native
4 25 (2.82%) Management Information System
5 23 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.01%) Algorithms
6 9 (1.01%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.01%) Public Cloud
6 9 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (0.90%) Data Structures
7 8 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (0.68%) BYOD
8 6 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (0.56%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.45%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (0.45%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.45%) IoT
10 4 (0.45%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 341 (38.40%) Linux
2 302 (34.01%) Windows
3 263 (29.62%) Android
4 21 (2.36%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.46%) Unix
6 5 (0.56%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.56%) VMS
7 2 (0.23%) CentOS
8 1 (0.11%) Debian
8 1 (0.11%) Fedora
8 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 737 (83.00%) DevOps
2 484 (54.50%) CI/CD
3 427 (48.09%) Containerisation
4 381 (42.91%) Agile
5 365 (41.10%) Microservices
6 357 (40.20%) Problem-Solving
7 329 (37.05%) Software Engineering
8 300 (33.78%) Full-Stack Development
9 290 (32.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 287 (32.32%) Platform Engineering
11 283 (31.87%) Test Automation
12 281 (31.64%) Performance Optimisation
13 269 (30.29%) Line Management
13 269 (30.29%) Risk Management
14 266 (29.95%) Storage Management
14 266 (29.95%) Task Automation
15 264 (29.73%) Front End Development
15 264 (29.73%) Mathematics
16 263 (29.62%) SDLC
17 196 (22.07%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 444 (50.00%) Python
2 366 (41.22%) SQL
3 348 (39.19%) JavaScript
4 316 (35.59%) Java
5 308 (34.68%) Bash
6 298 (33.56%) PowerShell
7 132 (14.86%) TypeScript
8 89 (10.02%) C#
9 24 (2.70%) PHP
10 22 (2.48%) Bicep
11 18 (2.03%) Go
12 9 (1.01%) C++
13 7 (0.79%) C
14 4 (0.45%) Groovy
14 4 (0.45%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.23%) Perl
16 2 (0.23%) R
16 2 (0.23%) Ruby
16 2 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 42 (4.73%) Security Cleared
2 32 (3.60%) AWS Certification
3 29 (3.27%) SC Cleared
4 23 (2.59%) Degree
5 19 (2.14%) Azure Certification
6 17 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (1.24%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (0.68%) CISM
9 6 (0.68%) CISSP
10 4 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.34%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.34%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.23%) CISA
12 2 (0.23%) Linux+ Certification
12 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (31.19%) QA
2 92 (10.36%) Accessibility
3 33 (3.72%) GDPR
4 14 (1.58%) HIPAA
5 10 (1.13%) NIST
6 7 (0.79%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.45%) SLA
8 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 265 (29.84%) vSphere
2 264 (29.73%) Hyper-V
2 264 (29.73%) VMware NSX
3 7 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.11%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.11%) KVM
6 1 (0.11%) Postfix
6 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 495 (55.74%) Kubernetes
2 398 (44.82%) Terraform
3 318 (35.81%) Ansible
4 48 (5.41%) Grafana
5 42 (4.73%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.56%) Argo
7 4 (0.45%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.45%) Puppet
8 3 (0.34%) Kibana
9 2 (0.23%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.23%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.23%) logstash
10 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.11%) Nagios
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 266 (29.95%) Splunk
2 265 (29.84%) Cisco
3 263 (29.62%) Juniper
4 262 (29.50%) 3PAR
5 247 (27.82%) Solace
6 47 (5.29%) Microsoft
7 25 (2.82%) Google
8 18 (2.03%) Databricks
9 12 (1.35%) Oracle
10 9 (1.01%) VMware
11 6 (0.68%) Trayport
12 4 (0.45%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.45%) SAP
13 3 (0.34%) Dell
13 3 (0.34%) IBM
13 3 (0.34%) Mercator
13 3 (0.34%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.34%) Pega
14 2 (0.23%) Solarflare
14 2 (0.23%) Workday