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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 36 73
Rank change year-on-year -41 +37 -42
Permanent jobs citing Docker 733 1,103 920
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.23% 6.71% 3.69%
As % of the System Software category 39.11% 52.03% 31.82%
Number of salaries quoted 553 431 707
10th Percentile £45,750 £47,500 £42,800
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £77,424 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £102,410 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.90% +7.41% -10.00%

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 1,874 2,120 2,891
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.26% 12.90% 11.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,403 1,237 2,087
10th Percentile £32,100 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £86,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -11.50%

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 12 August 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 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.46%) Apache Spark
3 14 (1.91%) Apache
4 8 (1.09%) nginx
5 7 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.82%) IIS
7 5 (0.68%) Confluence
7 5 (0.68%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.55%) Camunda
9 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.41%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.41%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.27%) WordPress
11 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) Moodle
11 1 (0.14%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 456 (62.21%) AWS
2 433 (59.07%) Azure
3 228 (31.11%) GitHub
4 184 (25.10%) GCP
5 153 (20.87%) GitHub Copilot
6 77 (10.50%) Serverless
7 76 (10.37%) Azure AI
8 54 (7.37%) SaaS
9 51 (6.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 51 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
10 40 (5.46%) AWS Lambda
11 39 (5.32%) Amazon S3
12 35 (4.77%) Amazon ECS
12 35 (4.77%) Azure Service Bus
13 30 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
13 30 (4.09%) Azure AKS
14 29 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 24 (3.27%) Datadog
16 23 (3.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 52 (7.09%) Broadband
2 20 (2.73%) Internet
3 10 (1.36%) DNS
3 10 (1.36%) VPN
4 9 (1.23%) Firewall
4 9 (1.23%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.55%) AMQP
5 4 (0.55%) DHCP
5 4 (0.55%) Network Security
5 4 (0.55%) SMS
5 4 (0.55%) SSH
6 3 (0.41%) HTTP
6 3 (0.41%) MQTT
7 2 (0.27%) Intranet
7 2 (0.27%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.27%) SAN
7 2 (0.27%) VLAN
7 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
8 1 (0.14%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (24.28%) MongoDB
2 144 (19.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 104 (14.19%) PostgreSQL
4 65 (8.87%) Elasticsearch
5 59 (8.05%) SQL Server
6 50 (6.82%) NoSQL
7 42 (5.73%) Relational Database
8 40 (5.46%) Redis
9 35 (4.77%) MySQL
10 28 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (2.73%) DynamoDB
12 14 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
14 9 (1.23%) Data Lake
15 8 (1.09%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 7 (0.95%) Big Data
16 7 (0.95%) Power BI
17 6 (0.82%) Delta Lake
17 6 (0.82%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 142 (19.37%) Git
2 70 (9.55%) Jenkins
3 56 (7.64%) GitLab
4 26 (3.55%) JUnit
5 20 (2.73%) Cypress.io
5 20 (2.73%) Maven
5 20 (2.73%) Selenium
6 18 (2.46%) JIRA
7 14 (1.91%) Mockito
8 12 (1.64%) CircleCI
8 12 (1.64%) Postman
9 11 (1.50%) Claude Code
9 11 (1.50%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.09%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.95%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.95%) Gatling
12 6 (0.82%) JMeter
12 6 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.68%) Locust
General
1 162 (22.10%) Social Skills
2 112 (15.28%) Finance
3 53 (7.23%) Public Sector
4 49 (6.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (5.32%) Advertising
6 22 (3.00%) Marketing
7 20 (2.73%) Aerospace
7 20 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (2.05%) Banking
8 15 (2.05%) Games
8 15 (2.05%) Law
9 11 (1.50%) Legal
9 11 (1.50%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.82%) Electronics
10 6 (0.82%) Tech for Good
11 5 (0.68%) Military
11 5 (0.68%) Retail
12 4 (0.55%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 313 (42.70%) Developer
2 172 (23.47%) Senior
3 147 (20.05%) .NET Developer
4 111 (15.14%) Software Engineer
5 81 (11.05%) Lead
6 52 (7.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 51 (6.96%) Senior Developer
8 44 (6.00%) Java Developer
9 42 (5.73%) Full-Stack Developer
10 32 (4.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 31 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
13 28 (3.82%) Senior Software Engineer
14 25 (3.41%) Data Engineer
15 23 (3.14%) Architect
15 23 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
15 23 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
16 22 (3.00%) Lead Developer
16 22 (3.00%) Senior Java Developer
17 20 (2.73%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (30.42%) .NET
2 158 (21.56%) .NET Core
3 155 (21.15%) ASP.NET
4 138 (18.83%) ASP.NET Core
5 130 (17.74%) React
6 118 (16.10%) Node.js
7 108 (14.73%) REST
8 105 (14.32%) AngularJS
8 105 (14.32%) CSS
9 95 (12.96%) HTML
10 82 (11.19%) RESTful
11 80 (10.91%) Spring
12 77 (10.50%) Vue
13 74 (10.10%) ML.NET
14 57 (7.78%) Spring Boot
15 50 (6.82%) Kafka
16 38 (5.18%) Blazor
17 37 (5.05%) gRPC
18 32 (4.37%) OAuth
19 30 (4.09%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 125 (17.05%) Cloud Native
2 77 (10.50%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (4.37%) Greenfield Project
4 27 (3.68%) Over-the-Top Content
4 27 (3.68%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.68%) Video\Live Streaming
5 20 (2.73%) Digital TV
5 20 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.91%) AI Agents
6 14 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (1.50%) Algorithms
8 11 (1.50%) IoT
8 11 (1.50%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.23%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.23%) Robotics
10 8 (1.09%) Blog
10 8 (1.09%) Onboarding
11 7 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 134 (18.28%) Linux
2 16 (2.18%) Windows
3 14 (1.91%) Ubuntu
4 11 (1.50%) Unix
5 8 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.95%) Debian
7 5 (0.68%) Android
7 5 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (0.68%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.55%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.55%) CentOS
9 3 (0.41%) VMS
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.27%) Solaris
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (66.17%) CI/CD
2 310 (42.29%) Agile
3 286 (39.02%) Containerisation
4 261 (35.61%) DevOps
5 258 (35.20%) Full-Stack Development
6 242 (33.02%) Microservices
7 224 (30.56%) AI
8 218 (29.74%) Software Engineering
9 165 (22.51%) Infrastructure as Code
10 149 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
11 148 (20.19%) Machine Learning
12 137 (18.69%) Mentoring
13 129 (17.60%) Scrum
14 118 (16.10%) TDD
15 117 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
16 101 (13.78%) Clean Code
17 95 (12.96%) Test Automation
18 85 (11.60%) Observability
19 79 (10.78%) Event-Driven
20 69 (9.41%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 263 (35.88%) SQL
2 256 (34.92%) Python
3 236 (32.20%) C#
4 150 (20.46%) TypeScript
5 129 (17.60%) JavaScript
6 120 (16.37%) Java
7 62 (8.46%) Bash
8 55 (7.50%) Go
9 40 (5.46%) Scala
10 35 (4.77%) PowerShell
11 25 (3.41%) Ruby
12 21 (2.86%) PHP
13 19 (2.59%) Bicep
14 17 (2.32%) C++
15 16 (2.18%) PL/SQL
16 15 (2.05%) Kotlin
17 10 (1.36%) Groovy
18 7 (0.95%) C
18 7 (0.95%) Rust
19 4 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 88 (12.01%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.78%) Degree
4 21 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 18 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.18%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.77%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.82%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.55%) CISSP
10 4 (0.55%) GIAC
10 4 (0.55%) ISACA
10 4 (0.55%) SANS
11 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.41%) OCP
11 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (9.00%) QA
2 36 (4.91%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.59%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.46%) WCAG
5 12 (1.64%) NIST
6 7 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.55%) NCSC
10 3 (0.41%) GDPR
10 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
11 2 (0.27%) MISRA
11 2 (0.27%) MISRA C
12 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.14%) PSD2
12 1 (0.14%) SEPA
12 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.55%) Firmware
5 3 (0.41%) iptables
5 3 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.27%) KVM
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.14%) QEMU
7 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 475 (64.80%) Kubernetes
2 189 (25.78%) Terraform
3 55 (7.50%) Ansible
4 51 (6.96%) Grafana
5 41 (5.59%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.73%) Puppet
7 16 (2.18%) Istio
7 16 (2.18%) Podman
8 13 (1.77%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.64%) Argo
10 5 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
11 4 (0.55%) Kibana
11 4 (0.55%) linkerd
12 3 (0.41%) Packer
12 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.27%) CASB
13 2 (0.27%) Cilium
13 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.27%) MIIS
13 2 (0.27%) Nagios
Vendors
1 194 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 60 (8.19%) Google
3 27 (3.68%) Typelevel
4 23 (3.14%) Oracle
5 21 (2.86%) Facebook
6 18 (2.46%) Okta
7 15 (2.05%) Databricks
7 15 (2.05%) OpenAI
8 14 (1.91%) Ping Identity
8 14 (1.91%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.64%) Informatica
10 8 (1.09%) Confluent
10 8 (1.09%) ForgeRock
10 8 (1.09%) VMware
11 6 (0.82%) Splunk
12 5 (0.68%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.68%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.68%) IBM
12 5 (0.68%) New Relic
13 4 (0.55%) TIBCO