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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 32 31
Rank change year-on-year -54 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing Docker 466 1,224 1,555
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.05% 7.46% 7.15%
As % of the System Software category 37.34% 47.70% 44.38%
Number of salaries quoted 334 676 1,311
10th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £83,438 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £118,125 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,079 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.34% +3.57% -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 1,248 2,566 3,504
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.16% 15.64% 16.11%
Number of salaries quoted 891 1,572 2,998
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,031
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £74,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,250 £88,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -

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 16 January 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 16 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.22%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.00%) nginx
4 7 (1.50%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.07%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.07%) Apache
5 5 (1.07%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.07%) ArcGIS
5 5 (1.07%) CMS
5 5 (1.07%) Drupal
5 5 (1.07%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.07%) WordPress
6 4 (0.86%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.86%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.64%) IIS
7 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.21%) SAS
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.86%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.43%) Weka
3 1 (0.21%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 9 (1.93%) Shopify
2 1 (0.21%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 302 (64.81%) AWS
2 230 (49.36%) Azure
3 112 (24.03%) GitHub
4 106 (22.75%) GCP
5 62 (13.30%) Serverless
6 57 (12.23%) GitHub Actions
7 52 (11.16%) AWS CloudFormation
8 51 (10.94%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (8.80%) AWS Lambda
10 35 (7.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 35 (7.51%) SaaS
11 33 (7.08%) Amazon S3
12 28 (6.01%) Amazon ECS
13 22 (4.72%) Pulumi
14 20 (4.29%) OpenShift
15 19 (4.08%) Datadog
16 18 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
16 18 (3.86%) Azure AKS
17 16 (3.43%) Amazon EC2
18 15 (3.22%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 37 (7.94%) Broadband
2 18 (3.86%) Firewall
3 15 (3.22%) VPN
4 11 (2.36%) DNS
4 11 (2.36%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.72%) Network Security
6 5 (1.07%) AMQP
7 4 (0.86%) WAN
8 3 (0.64%) DHCP
8 3 (0.64%) Internet
8 3 (0.64%) SCCP
8 3 (0.64%) VLAN
9 2 (0.43%) DSL
9 2 (0.43%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.43%) LAN
9 2 (0.43%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.43%) VSAN
10 1 (0.21%) 5G
10 1 (0.21%) NAS
10 1 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (16.74%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (13.95%) NoSQL
3 45 (9.66%) SQL Server
4 37 (7.94%) MySQL
5 33 (7.08%) MongoDB
6 32 (6.87%) Relational Database
7 25 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (5.15%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (4.29%) Redis
10 14 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (3.00%) DynamoDB
11 13 (2.79%) RDBMS
12 12 (2.58%) BigQuery
13 10 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.93%) Data Lake
14 9 (1.93%) Tableau
15 8 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (1.72%) Delta Lake
16 7 (1.50%) MariaDB
16 7 (1.50%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 71 (15.24%) Jenkins
2 67 (14.38%) Git
3 52 (11.16%) GitLab
4 26 (5.58%) TeamCity
5 16 (3.43%) Selenium
6 13 (2.79%) Jaeger
7 12 (2.58%) JUnit
7 12 (2.58%) SonarQube
8 9 (1.93%) Cucumber
8 9 (1.93%) MLflow
9 8 (1.72%) CircleCI
10 7 (1.50%) JMeter
11 6 (1.29%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.29%) Storybook
12 5 (1.07%) JIRA
12 5 (1.07%) Maven
12 5 (1.07%) Robot Framework
12 5 (1.07%) Visual Studio
12 5 (1.07%) Vite
13 4 (0.86%) Bitbucket
General
1 115 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 61 (13.09%) Finance
3 29 (6.22%) Public Sector
4 24 (5.15%) Telecoms
5 22 (4.72%) Law
6 21 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.36%) Marketing
8 11 (2.36%) Retail
9 9 (1.93%) Games
9 9 (1.93%) Legal
10 8 (1.72%) Banking
11 6 (1.29%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.07%) Front Office
12 5 (1.07%) Local Government
12 5 (1.07%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.07%) Police
13 4 (0.86%) Aviation
13 4 (0.86%) Electronics
14 3 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 147 (31.55%) Senior
2 128 (27.47%) Developer
3 86 (18.45%) Lead
4 62 (13.30%) Software Engineer
5 59 (12.66%) DevOps Engineer
6 36 (7.73%) Senior Developer
7 28 (6.01%) Java Developer
7 28 (6.01%) Lead DevOps
8 27 (5.79%) Full-Stack Developer
9 25 (5.36%) Architect
9 25 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
9 25 (5.36%) Senior Software Engineer
10 24 (5.15%) Software Developer
11 23 (4.94%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 22 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
13 20 (4.29%) Data Engineer
13 20 (4.29%) Python Developer
14 19 (4.08%) Development Engineer
14 19 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
15 16 (3.43%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (18.24%) React
2 78 (16.74%) .NET
3 57 (12.23%) Node.js
4 52 (11.16%) RESTful
5 50 (10.73%) Spring
6 48 (10.30%) Spring Boot
7 44 (9.44%) Elastic Stack
7 44 (9.44%) Kafka
8 43 (9.23%) REST
9 39 (8.37%) Django
10 35 (7.51%) AngularJS
11 34 (7.30%) .NET Core
12 31 (6.65%) CSS
12 31 (6.65%) HTML
13 29 (6.22%) Flask
14 26 (5.58%) Vue
15 23 (4.94%) Akka
16 21 (4.51%) FastAPI
17 16 (3.43%) gRPC
18 15 (3.22%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 97 (20.82%) Cloud Native
2 40 (8.58%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (7.51%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.72%) Over-the-Top Content
4 22 (4.72%) Video\Live Streaming
5 18 (3.86%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.58%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.15%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.72%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (1.50%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.29%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.29%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.29%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.07%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.86%) PKI
14 3 (0.64%) Algorithms
14 3 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 101 (21.67%) Linux
2 40 (8.58%) Unix
3 35 (7.51%) Windows
4 16 (3.43%) Android
5 14 (3.00%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.72%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.50%) VMS
8 6 (1.29%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.29%) CentOS
9 4 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.21%) Fedora
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (63.09%) CI/CD
2 255 (54.72%) DevOps
3 222 (47.64%) Containerisation
4 186 (39.91%) Agile
5 156 (33.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 116 (24.89%) Problem-Solving
7 113 (24.25%) Microservices
8 105 (22.53%) Software Engineering
9 91 (19.53%) AI
10 85 (18.24%) Mentoring
11 78 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 67 (14.38%) Observability
13 64 (13.73%) Full-Stack Development
14 57 (12.23%) TDD
15 56 (12.02%) Event-Driven
16 54 (11.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 54 (11.59%) Test Automation
17 51 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 50 (10.73%) Machine Learning
19 49 (10.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 206 (44.21%) Python
2 122 (26.18%) JavaScript
3 120 (25.75%) SQL
4 115 (24.68%) Java
5 62 (13.30%) C#
6 58 (12.45%) Bash
7 51 (10.94%) TypeScript
8 50 (10.73%) Go
9 31 (6.65%) Scala
10 26 (5.58%) Bicep
10 26 (5.58%) PHP
10 26 (5.58%) PowerShell
11 11 (2.36%) C++
12 8 (1.72%) Delphi
13 5 (1.07%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.86%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.86%) Ruby
15 3 (0.64%) Groovy
15 3 (0.64%) Perl
16 2 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 66 (14.16%) Security Cleared
2 54 (11.59%) Degree
3 48 (10.30%) SC Cleared
4 36 (7.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (6.65%) AWS Certification
6 20 (4.29%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.22%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.43%) CISA
9 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.43%) CISM
9 2 (0.43%) CISSP
9 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.43%) LPIC
9 2 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.65%) QA
2 16 (3.43%) GDPR
3 14 (3.00%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.36%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.29%) NIST
7 5 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.07%) ISO 9001
7 5 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.43%) ECSS
8 2 (0.43%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.21%) SEPA
9 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (1.29%) Active Directory
1 6 (1.29%) vSphere
2 5 (1.07%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.43%) Ceph
5 2 (0.43%) Lustre
5 2 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.21%) Firmware
6 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.21%) vCloud
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 318 (68.24%) Kubernetes
2 204 (43.78%) Terraform
3 87 (18.67%) Ansible
4 68 (14.59%) Grafana
5 60 (12.88%) Prometheus
6 29 (6.22%) Argo
7 13 (2.79%) Kustomize
8 5 (1.07%) Puppet
9 4 (0.86%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.64%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.43%) Packer
12 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.21%) Rancher
12 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 38 (8.15%) Microsoft
2 37 (7.94%) Google
3 27 (5.79%) Oracle
4 19 (4.08%) Databricks
5 13 (2.79%) Splunk
6 10 (2.15%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.93%) SAP
8 8 (1.72%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.50%) VMware
10 6 (1.29%) Mercator
10 6 (1.29%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.29%) Palantir
10 6 (1.29%) TIBCO
11 5 (1.07%) IFS
11 5 (1.07%) Jitterbit
11 5 (1.07%) Mavenir
11 5 (1.07%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.07%) SnapLogic
11 5 (1.07%) Talend
11 5 (1.07%) Workday