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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 35 75
Rank change year-on-year -44 +40 -44
Permanent jobs citing Docker 726 1,151 928
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.26% 6.93% 3.69%
As % of the System Software category 39.50% 52.75% 31.88%
Number of salaries quoted 548 470 737
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,149 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,746 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% +12.10% -11.72%
75th Percentile £77,424 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.90% +7.41% -9.40%

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 1,838 2,182 2,911
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.24% 13.14% 11.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,379 1,275 2,148
10th Percentile £32,400 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £86,000
UK median annual salary £54,875 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.75% - -9.91%

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 3 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 22 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (2.34%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.65%) Apache
4 7 (0.96%) nginx
5 6 (0.83%) IIS
5 6 (0.83%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.69%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.55%) Confluence
8 3 (0.41%) Camunda
9 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.28%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Drupal
10 1 (0.14%) JBoss
10 1 (0.14%) Moodle
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 453 (62.40%) AWS
2 419 (57.71%) Azure
3 224 (30.85%) GitHub
4 184 (25.34%) GCP
5 151 (20.80%) GitHub Copilot
6 76 (10.47%) Azure AI
6 76 (10.47%) Serverless
7 55 (7.58%) SaaS
8 49 (6.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (6.75%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
10 39 (5.37%) Amazon S3
10 39 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (4.68%) Amazon ECS
12 32 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (4.41%) Azure Service Bus
13 30 (4.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 30 (4.13%) Azure AKS
14 23 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
14 23 (3.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (8.26%) Broadband
2 20 (2.75%) Internet
3 11 (1.52%) VPN
4 10 (1.38%) DNS
5 9 (1.24%) Firewall
5 9 (1.24%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.55%) DHCP
6 4 (0.55%) MQTT
6 4 (0.55%) Network Security
6 4 (0.55%) SSH
7 3 (0.41%) AMQP
7 3 (0.41%) SMS
8 2 (0.28%) HTTP
8 2 (0.28%) Intranet
8 2 (0.28%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.28%) SAN
8 2 (0.28%) VLAN
8 2 (0.28%) WireGuard
9 1 (0.14%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (24.66%) MongoDB
2 141 (19.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 99 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (8.82%) Elasticsearch
5 56 (7.71%) SQL Server
6 48 (6.61%) NoSQL
7 38 (5.23%) Redis
7 38 (5.23%) Relational Database
8 35 (4.82%) MySQL
9 29 (3.99%) Amazon RDS
10 19 (2.62%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (1.24%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.10%) Data Lake
14 8 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.96%) Big Data
15 7 (0.96%) Delta Lake
16 6 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 135 (18.60%) Git
2 69 (9.50%) Jenkins
3 60 (8.26%) GitLab
4 25 (3.44%) JUnit
5 20 (2.75%) Cypress.io
5 20 (2.75%) Selenium
6 19 (2.62%) Maven
7 18 (2.48%) JIRA
8 13 (1.79%) Mockito
9 12 (1.65%) CircleCI
9 12 (1.65%) Postman
10 11 (1.52%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.38%) Claude Code
12 8 (1.10%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.96%) Gatling
14 6 (0.83%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.83%) JMeter
14 6 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.69%) Subversion
General
1 158 (21.76%) Social Skills
2 104 (14.33%) Finance
3 47 (6.47%) Public Sector
4 46 (6.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (5.51%) Advertising
6 22 (3.03%) Marketing
7 19 (2.62%) Aerospace
8 18 (2.48%) Analytical Skills
9 16 (2.20%) Games
10 13 (1.79%) Banking
11 12 (1.65%) Law
12 11 (1.52%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.24%) Legal
14 6 (0.83%) Electronics
15 5 (0.69%) Military
15 5 (0.69%) Retail
15 5 (0.69%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.41%) Health Technology
17 3 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 308 (42.42%) Developer
2 165 (22.73%) Senior
3 146 (20.11%) .NET Developer
4 111 (15.29%) Software Engineer
5 81 (11.16%) Lead
6 54 (7.44%) DevOps Engineer
7 46 (6.34%) Senior Developer
8 43 (5.92%) Full-Stack Developer
9 40 (5.51%) Java Developer
10 31 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
10 31 (4.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 29 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
12 28 (3.86%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (3.58%) Data Engineer
14 24 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
14 24 (3.31%) Scala Engineer
15 23 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
16 21 (2.89%) Lead Developer
17 20 (2.75%) Architect
17 20 (2.75%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (30.03%) .NET
2 158 (21.76%) .NET Core
3 153 (21.07%) ASP.NET
4 137 (18.87%) ASP.NET Core
5 127 (17.49%) React
6 115 (15.84%) Node.js
7 105 (14.46%) AngularJS
8 104 (14.33%) CSS
9 100 (13.77%) REST
10 95 (13.09%) HTML
11 81 (11.16%) RESTful
12 77 (10.61%) Vue
13 76 (10.47%) Spring
14 74 (10.19%) ML.NET
15 56 (7.71%) Spring Boot
16 48 (6.61%) Kafka
17 45 (6.20%) gRPC
18 37 (5.10%) Blazor
19 30 (4.13%) OAuth
20 29 (3.99%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 123 (16.94%) Cloud Native
2 86 (11.85%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (4.96%) Over-the-Top Content
3 36 (4.96%) Video\Live Streaming
4 32 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
5 29 (3.99%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.75%) Digital TV
7 18 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (1.65%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.52%) IoT
12 10 (1.38%) Algorithms
13 9 (1.24%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.24%) Robotics
14 8 (1.10%) Data Structures
14 8 (1.10%) Virtual Team
15 7 (0.96%) Data Centre
15 7 (0.96%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 133 (18.32%) Linux
2 16 (2.20%) Windows
3 13 (1.79%) Ubuntu
4 11 (1.52%) Unix
5 7 (0.96%) Debian
5 7 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.83%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.55%) Android
8 4 (0.55%) CentOS
9 3 (0.41%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.41%) VMS
9 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (67.22%) CI/CD
2 298 (41.05%) Agile
3 291 (40.08%) Containerisation
4 261 (35.95%) DevOps
5 258 (35.54%) Full-Stack Development
6 249 (34.30%) Microservices
7 219 (30.17%) AI
8 217 (29.89%) Software Engineering
9 164 (22.59%) Infrastructure as Code
10 155 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
11 154 (21.21%) Machine Learning
12 132 (18.18%) Mentoring
13 123 (16.94%) Scrum
14 117 (16.12%) Continuous Improvement
15 116 (15.98%) TDD
16 107 (14.74%) Clean Code
17 88 (12.12%) Test Automation
18 85 (11.71%) Observability
19 78 (10.74%) Event-Driven
20 74 (10.19%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 265 (36.50%) Python
2 249 (34.30%) SQL
3 229 (31.54%) C#
4 144 (19.83%) TypeScript
5 126 (17.36%) JavaScript
6 115 (15.84%) Java
7 65 (8.95%) Go
8 62 (8.54%) Bash
9 50 (6.89%) Scala
10 36 (4.96%) PowerShell
11 24 (3.31%) Ruby
12 22 (3.03%) PHP
13 21 (2.89%) Bicep
14 15 (2.07%) C++
15 14 (1.93%) PL/SQL
16 13 (1.79%) Kotlin
17 10 (1.38%) Groovy
18 8 (1.10%) Rust
19 6 (0.83%) C
20 4 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (13.50%) Security Cleared
2 82 (11.29%) SC Cleared
3 58 (7.99%) Degree
4 19 (2.62%) Azure Certification
4 19 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.93%) AWS Certification
6 13 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.83%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.55%) CISSP
9 4 (0.55%) GIAC
9 4 (0.55%) ISACA
9 4 (0.55%) SANS
10 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.28%) OCP
11 2 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.68%) QA
2 36 (4.96%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.48%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.48%) WCAG
4 13 (1.79%) NIST
5 8 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.96%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.83%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.41%) NCSC
9 2 (0.28%) GDPR
10 1 (0.14%) AUTOSAR
10 1 (0.14%) MISRA
10 1 (0.14%) MISRA C
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.55%) Firmware
3 4 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.41%) iptables
4 3 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.28%) KVM
6 1 (0.14%) QEMU
6 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 470 (64.74%) Kubernetes
2 188 (25.90%) Terraform
3 54 (7.44%) Ansible
4 51 (7.02%) Grafana
5 43 (5.92%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.75%) Puppet
7 16 (2.20%) Istio
7 16 (2.20%) Podman
8 13 (1.79%) Argo
8 13 (1.79%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.69%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.69%) Kibana
10 4 (0.55%) linkerd
11 3 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.41%) Nagios
11 3 (0.41%) Packer
11 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.28%) CASB
12 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.28%) MIIS
Vendors
1 194 (26.72%) Microsoft
2 55 (7.58%) Google
3 36 (4.96%) Typelevel
4 21 (2.89%) Facebook
5 19 (2.62%) Oracle
6 17 (2.34%) Okta
7 16 (2.20%) Databricks
8 13 (1.79%) Ping Identity
9 11 (1.52%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.38%) Informatica
10 10 (1.38%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.10%) Confluent
11 8 (1.10%) ForgeRock
11 8 (1.10%) VMware
12 7 (0.96%) Splunk
13 5 (0.69%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.69%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.69%) IBM
13 5 (0.69%) New Relic
14 4 (0.55%) TIBCO