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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 29 64
Rank change year-on-year -47 +35 -31
Permanent jobs citing Docker 657 1,229 1,323
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.22% 7.86% 3.91%
As % of the System Software category 40.21% 55.19% 32.43%
Number of salaries quoted 454 552 1,103
10th Percentile £44,481 £48,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £125,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.29% -6.21%

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 1,634 2,227 4,079
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.02% 14.24% 12.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,204 1,339 3,185
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,875 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +4.55% -9.84%
75th Percentile £76,213 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,200 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year - +6.06% -10.00%

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 26 June 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 27 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.74%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.83%) Apache
4 9 (1.37%) nginx
5 7 (1.07%) CMS
6 6 (0.91%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.76%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.46%) IIS
9 2 (0.30%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.30%) Camunda
9 2 (0.30%) Confluence
9 2 (0.30%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.30%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.30%) WordPress
10 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.46%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Shopify
2 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.15%) Magento
3 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 422 (64.23%) AWS
2 321 (48.86%) Azure
3 188 (28.61%) GitHub
4 158 (24.05%) GCP
5 115 (17.50%) GitHub Copilot
6 88 (13.39%) Serverless
7 56 (8.52%) Azure AI
8 52 (7.91%) Amazon S3
9 49 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 48 (7.31%) AWS Lambda
11 45 (6.85%) SaaS
12 40 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
15 34 (5.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 34 (5.18%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (4.11%) Azure AKS
17 26 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
18 22 (3.35%) Azure Service Bus
18 22 (3.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 103 (15.68%) Broadband
2 14 (2.13%) Internet
3 10 (1.52%) DNS
3 10 (1.52%) Firewall
4 7 (1.07%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.07%) VPN
5 5 (0.76%) DHCP
5 5 (0.76%) Network Security
6 4 (0.61%) HTTP
6 4 (0.61%) MQTT
7 3 (0.46%) AMQP
7 3 (0.46%) DSL
7 3 (0.46%) RTP
7 3 (0.46%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.46%) VoIP
7 3 (0.46%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.30%) Intranet
8 2 (0.30%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.30%) SAN
8 2 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (22.98%) MongoDB
2 99 (15.07%) Azure SQL Database
3 81 (12.33%) PostgreSQL
4 61 (9.28%) NoSQL
5 50 (7.61%) Elasticsearch
6 47 (7.15%) Relational Database
7 40 (6.09%) SQL Server
8 35 (5.33%) MySQL
9 31 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
10 29 (4.41%) Redis
11 22 (3.35%) DynamoDB
12 17 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (1.98%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.83%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (1.67%) Delta Lake
16 10 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
17 9 (1.37%) Tableau
18 8 (1.22%) Data Lake
18 8 (1.22%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 109 (16.59%) Git
2 84 (12.79%) Jenkins
3 58 (8.83%) GitLab
4 24 (3.65%) TeamCity
5 18 (2.74%) JIRA
6 16 (2.44%) Cypress.io
7 15 (2.28%) JUnit
7 15 (2.28%) Maven
8 14 (2.13%) CircleCI
8 14 (2.13%) Selenium
9 12 (1.83%) Jaeger
10 10 (1.52%) Claude Code
11 9 (1.37%) JMeter
11 9 (1.37%) Mockito
11 9 (1.37%) Postman
12 8 (1.22%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.22%) MLflow
13 6 (0.91%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.76%) Locust
14 5 (0.76%) Vite
General
1 122 (18.57%) Social Skills
2 75 (11.42%) Finance
3 43 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (6.39%) Public Sector
5 29 (4.41%) Advertising
6 17 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (2.44%) Marketing
8 13 (1.98%) Aerospace
9 12 (1.83%) Banking
9 12 (1.83%) Games
10 11 (1.67%) Law
11 10 (1.52%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.07%) Retail
13 6 (0.91%) Legal
14 5 (0.76%) Aviation
14 5 (0.76%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.61%) Military
15 4 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 272 (41.40%) Developer
2 148 (22.53%) Senior
3 103 (15.68%) .NET Developer
4 97 (14.76%) Software Engineer
5 83 (12.63%) Lead
6 50 (7.61%) DevOps Engineer
7 45 (6.85%) Full-Stack Developer
8 43 (6.54%) Senior Developer
9 42 (6.39%) Scala Engineer
10 41 (6.24%) Java Developer
11 31 (4.72%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
12 29 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
12 29 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
13 25 (3.81%) Data Engineer
14 24 (3.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 24 (3.65%) Software Developer
15 23 (3.50%) Scala Software Engineer
16 21 (3.20%) Scala Developer
17 19 (2.89%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (25.11%) .NET
2 119 (18.11%) .NET Core
3 111 (16.89%) ASP.NET
4 109 (16.59%) React
5 103 (15.68%) Node.js
6 100 (15.22%) ASP.NET Core
7 88 (13.39%) AngularJS
8 83 (12.63%) CSS
9 78 (11.87%) HTML
10 76 (11.57%) Spring
11 70 (10.65%) REST
12 68 (10.35%) RESTful
13 66 (10.05%) Vue
14 61 (9.28%) Spring Boot
15 54 (8.22%) ML.NET
16 51 (7.76%) Kafka
17 49 (7.46%) gRPC
18 32 (4.87%) Django
19 24 (3.65%) Playwright
20 23 (3.50%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 115 (17.50%) Cloud Native
2 87 (13.24%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (10.20%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (10.20%) Video\Live Streaming
4 40 (6.09%) Product Ownership
5 24 (3.65%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (2.59%) Digital TV
7 14 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.22%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.22%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.07%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.07%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.07%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.07%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.07%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.76%) Life Science
11 5 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 127 (19.33%) Linux
2 25 (3.81%) Unix
3 14 (2.13%) Ubuntu
4 13 (1.98%) Windows
5 8 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.91%) Debian
7 5 (0.76%) Android
7 5 (0.76%) CentOS
7 5 (0.76%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.46%) VMS
9 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (65.75%) CI/CD
2 291 (44.29%) Agile
3 285 (43.38%) Containerisation
4 252 (38.36%) DevOps
5 228 (34.70%) Microservices
6 213 (32.42%) Full-Stack Development
7 197 (29.98%) Software Engineering
8 174 (26.48%) AI
9 162 (24.66%) Infrastructure as Code
10 139 (21.16%) Problem-Solving
11 134 (20.40%) Machine Learning
12 130 (19.79%) Mentoring
13 120 (18.26%) Scrum
14 116 (17.66%) TDD
15 113 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
16 108 (16.44%) Clean Code
17 87 (13.24%) Coaching
18 77 (11.72%) Test Automation
19 75 (11.42%) Kanban
19 75 (11.42%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 263 (40.03%) Python
2 200 (30.44%) SQL
3 174 (26.48%) C#
4 131 (19.94%) Java
5 125 (19.03%) TypeScript
6 121 (18.42%) JavaScript
7 88 (13.39%) Go
8 85 (12.94%) Scala
9 71 (10.81%) Bash
10 28 (4.26%) PowerShell
11 24 (3.65%) PHP
12 18 (2.74%) Bicep
13 16 (2.44%) Ruby
14 14 (2.13%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.52%) C++
15 10 (1.52%) PL/SQL
16 9 (1.37%) Groovy
17 8 (1.22%) Rust
18 7 (1.07%) C
19 3 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 80 (12.18%) Security Cleared
2 65 (9.89%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.68%) Degree
4 25 (3.81%) AWS Certification
5 22 (3.35%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.37%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.76%) CISSP
8 5 (0.76%) GIAC
8 5 (0.76%) ISACA
8 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.76%) SANS
9 4 (0.61%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.30%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.30%) Linux+ Certification
10 2 (0.30%) LPIC
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.52%) QA
2 26 (3.96%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.83%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.67%) NIST
4 11 (1.67%) WCAG
5 9 (1.37%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.61%) GDPR
7 3 (0.46%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.46%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.61%) Firmware
3 4 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.46%) iptables
4 3 (0.46%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.15%) KVM
6 1 (0.15%) QEMU
6 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
6 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 423 (64.38%) Kubernetes
2 171 (26.03%) Terraform
3 67 (10.20%) Ansible
4 46 (7.00%) Prometheus
5 41 (6.24%) Grafana
6 29 (4.41%) Argo
7 18 (2.74%) Puppet
8 15 (2.28%) Istio
8 15 (2.28%) Podman
9 12 (1.83%) Kustomize
9 12 (1.83%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.91%) Packer
11 5 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.76%) Kibana
12 3 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.46%) linkerd
12 3 (0.46%) Nagios
12 3 (0.46%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.30%) MIIS
13 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 152 (23.14%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.68%) Google
3 45 (6.85%) Typelevel
4 19 (2.89%) Databricks
4 19 (2.89%) Oracle
5 14 (2.13%) Facebook
6 9 (1.37%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.37%) Splunk
7 8 (1.22%) Confluent
7 8 (1.22%) VMware
8 6 (0.91%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.91%) Palantir
9 5 (0.76%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.76%) ForgeRock
9 5 (0.76%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.76%) Okta
10 3 (0.46%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.46%) BT
10 3 (0.46%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.46%) Mitel