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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 44 59
Rank change year-on-year -47 +15 -29
Permanent jobs citing Docker 721 976 999
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.91% 5.88% 4.39%
As % of the System Software category 38.17% 50.39% 35.67%
Number of salaries quoted 542 324 608
10th Percentile £45,800 £46,500 £44,775
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +2.94% -4.90%

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 1,889 1,937 2,801
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.62% 11.67% 12.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,403 1,041 1,709
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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 27 September 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 23 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (2.91%) Apache
3 16 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.25%) nginx
5 7 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.83%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.69%) Camunda
7 5 (0.69%) IIS
8 4 (0.55%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.55%) CMS
8 4 (0.55%) Confluence
8 4 (0.55%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.55%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.28%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.28%) Hedera
11 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.66%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 429 (59.50%) AWS
2 427 (59.22%) Azure
3 238 (33.01%) GitHub
4 151 (20.94%) GitHub Copilot
5 148 (20.53%) GCP
6 73 (10.12%) GitHub Actions
7 72 (9.99%) Azure AI
8 66 (9.15%) Serverless
9 59 (8.18%) SaaS
10 49 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
11 44 (6.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 35 (4.85%) Amazon S3
12 35 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
12 35 (4.85%) Azure Service Bus
13 29 (4.02%) Azure AKS
14 28 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
15 27 (3.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 26 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (3.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 25 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.74%) Broadband
2 20 (2.77%) Internet
3 12 (1.66%) VPN
4 11 (1.53%) Firewall
5 10 (1.39%) AMQP
5 10 (1.39%) SMS
6 9 (1.25%) DNS
6 9 (1.25%) Network Security
7 8 (1.11%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.55%) SSH
9 3 (0.42%) HTTP
10 2 (0.28%) Intranet
10 2 (0.28%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.28%) LAN
10 2 (0.28%) VLAN
10 2 (0.28%) WAN
10 2 (0.28%) WireGuard
10 2 (0.28%) X.509
11 1 (0.14%) OpenVPN
11 1 (0.14%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (23.44%) MongoDB
2 140 (19.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 118 (16.37%) PostgreSQL
4 58 (8.04%) Elasticsearch
5 53 (7.35%) SQL Server
6 50 (6.93%) Relational Database
7 49 (6.80%) NoSQL
8 39 (5.41%) MySQL
9 35 (4.85%) Redis
10 23 (3.19%) DynamoDB
11 20 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
12 19 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (2.36%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (1.53%) BigQuery
14 11 (1.53%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.83%) Delta Lake
15 6 (0.83%) Metadata
15 6 (0.83%) Power BI
15 6 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 5 (0.69%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 139 (19.28%) Git
2 68 (9.43%) Jenkins
3 65 (9.02%) GitLab
4 28 (3.88%) JUnit
5 19 (2.64%) Selenium
6 18 (2.50%) Maven
7 16 (2.22%) Mockito
8 15 (2.08%) Cypress.io
8 15 (2.08%) JIRA
9 14 (1.94%) Claude Code
10 12 (1.66%) Postman
11 9 (1.25%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.83%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.83%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.83%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.83%) Gatling
12 6 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.83%) Storybook
13 5 (0.69%) Poetry
13 5 (0.69%) Subversion
General
1 173 (23.99%) Social Skills
2 107 (14.84%) Finance
3 57 (7.91%) Public Sector
4 44 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (4.72%) Advertising
6 26 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (3.05%) Aerospace
8 21 (2.91%) Marketing
9 15 (2.08%) Games
10 14 (1.94%) Law
11 12 (1.66%) Banking
11 12 (1.66%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.66%) Tech for Good
12 10 (1.39%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.11%) Retail
14 7 (0.97%) Legal
15 6 (0.83%) Electronics
16 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.42%) Local Government
17 3 (0.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 311 (43.13%) Developer
2 182 (25.24%) Senior
3 142 (19.69%) .NET Developer
4 112 (15.53%) Software Engineer
5 75 (10.40%) Lead
6 63 (8.74%) Senior Developer
7 51 (7.07%) DevOps Engineer
8 47 (6.52%) Java Developer
9 43 (5.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 32 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 28 (3.88%) Senior Java Developer
12 26 (3.61%) Senior Software Engineer
13 25 (3.47%) Data Engineer
14 24 (3.33%) Architect
14 24 (3.33%) Lead Developer
15 21 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
15 21 (2.91%) Cloud Engineer
15 21 (2.91%) Platform Engineer
16 20 (2.77%) Python Engineer
17 19 (2.64%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (31.07%) .NET
2 187 (25.94%) Terraform
3 154 (21.36%) .NET Core
4 150 (20.80%) ASP.NET
5 146 (20.25%) React
6 138 (19.14%) Node.js
7 133 (18.45%) ASP.NET Core
8 112 (15.53%) REST
9 104 (14.42%) CSS
10 101 (14.01%) AngularJS
11 92 (12.76%) Spring
12 89 (12.34%) HTML
13 87 (12.07%) RESTful
14 77 (10.68%) Vue
15 70 (9.71%) ML.NET
16 68 (9.43%) Spring Boot
17 48 (6.66%) Kafka
18 40 (5.55%) Blazor
19 30 (4.16%) RabbitMQ
20 29 (4.02%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 124 (17.20%) Cloud Native
2 72 (9.99%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.85%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (2.64%) Digital TV
5 18 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.80%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.80%) Robotics
9 10 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (1.39%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.25%) IoT
10 9 (1.25%) Over-the-Top Content
10 9 (1.25%) Video\Live Streaming
11 8 (1.11%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.11%) Blog
11 8 (1.11%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.97%) Onboarding
12 7 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 127 (17.61%) Linux
2 21 (2.91%) Windows
3 18 (2.50%) Ubuntu
4 8 (1.11%) Debian
5 7 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.97%) Unix
6 6 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (0.69%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.55%) Android
9 3 (0.42%) CentOS
9 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.42%) Robot Operating System
9 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.14%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
10 1 (0.14%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 468 (64.91%) CI/CD
2 299 (41.47%) Agile
3 251 (34.81%) Full-Stack Development
4 246 (34.12%) AI
5 239 (33.15%) DevOps
6 236 (32.73%) Containerisation
7 232 (32.18%) Microservices
8 218 (30.24%) Software Engineering
9 155 (21.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 147 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
11 146 (20.25%) Mentoring
12 135 (18.72%) Machine Learning
13 121 (16.78%) Scrum
14 110 (15.26%) Continuous Improvement
15 104 (14.42%) TDD
16 99 (13.73%) Test Automation
17 97 (13.45%) Observability
18 85 (11.79%) Clean Code
19 82 (11.37%) Event-Driven
20 66 (9.15%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 288 (39.94%) SQL
2 237 (32.87%) C#
3 233 (32.32%) Python
4 163 (22.61%) TypeScript
5 132 (18.31%) Java
6 130 (18.03%) JavaScript
7 74 (10.26%) Bash
8 39 (5.41%) PowerShell
9 36 (4.99%) Go
10 24 (3.33%) Ruby
11 21 (2.91%) Bicep
12 20 (2.77%) Scala
13 19 (2.64%) PHP
14 17 (2.36%) C++
15 16 (2.22%) Kotlin
15 16 (2.22%) PL/SQL
16 10 (1.39%) Groovy
17 9 (1.25%) C
17 9 (1.25%) Rust
18 6 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 112 (15.53%) Security Cleared
2 92 (12.76%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.93%) Degree
4 22 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.36%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.83%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.42%) GCFA
11 3 (0.42%) GIAC
11 3 (0.42%) OCP
11 3 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.28%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.88%) QA
2 32 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 27 (3.74%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.80%) WCAG
5 8 (1.11%) NIST
6 6 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.83%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.69%) GDPR
8 3 (0.42%) NCSC
8 3 (0.42%) SLA
9 2 (0.28%) AUTOSAR
9 2 (0.28%) MISRA
9 2 (0.28%) MISRA C
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.42%) iptables
4 2 (0.28%) KVM
4 2 (0.28%) QEMU
5 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 477 (66.16%) Kubernetes
2 53 (7.35%) Ansible
3 47 (6.52%) Grafana
4 39 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.22%) Puppet
6 14 (1.94%) Argo
6 14 (1.94%) Progress Chef
7 9 (1.25%) Istio
7 9 (1.25%) Podman
8 5 (0.69%) Packer
9 4 (0.55%) linkerd
10 3 (0.42%) Cilium
10 3 (0.42%) Kibana
10 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.28%) CASB
11 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 185 (25.66%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.21%) Google
3 27 (3.74%) OpenAI
4 24 (3.33%) Oracle
5 19 (2.64%) Facebook
6 14 (1.94%) Okta
6 14 (1.94%) Ping Identity
7 12 (1.66%) Databricks
7 12 (1.66%) Informatica
7 12 (1.66%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.66%) Splunk
8 10 (1.39%) New Relic
9 9 (1.25%) Typelevel
10 8 (1.11%) VMware
11 6 (0.83%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.69%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.69%) IBM
13 4 (0.55%) ESRI
13 4 (0.55%) ForgeRock
13 4 (0.55%) TIBCO