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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 34 76
Rank change year-on-year -43 +42 -43
Permanent jobs citing Docker 708 1,179 1,054
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.27% 7.15% 3.62%
As % of the System Software category 39.40% 53.64% 30.62%
Number of salaries quoted 539 497 867
10th Percentile £43,750 £48,165 £43,450
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -10.34%
75th Percentile £76,250 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £91,250 £117,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £74,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -9.40% +9.56% -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 1,797 2,198 3,442
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.29% 13.33% 11.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,363 1,302 2,635
10th Percentile £32,550 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £40,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -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 22 July 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 24 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.54%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.69%) Apache
4 9 (1.27%) nginx
5 6 (0.85%) IIS
5 6 (0.85%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.71%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.56%) CMS
8 3 (0.42%) Confluence
8 3 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.28%) Camunda
9 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.28%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.28%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 445 (62.85%) AWS
2 393 (55.51%) Azure
3 222 (31.36%) GitHub
4 184 (25.99%) GCP
5 150 (21.19%) GitHub Copilot
6 85 (12.01%) Serverless
7 74 (10.45%) Azure AI
8 49 (6.92%) GitHub Actions
9 47 (6.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 46 (6.50%) Amazon S3
10 46 (6.50%) AWS Lambda
10 46 (6.50%) SaaS
11 43 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
12 36 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (4.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 32 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
15 30 (4.24%) Azure Service Bus
16 29 (4.10%) Azure AKS
17 25 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
18 24 (3.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (9.75%) Broadband
2 20 (2.82%) Internet
3 11 (1.55%) DNS
3 11 (1.55%) VPN
4 9 (1.27%) Firewall
5 8 (1.13%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.71%) DHCP
6 5 (0.71%) MQTT
6 5 (0.71%) Network Security
7 4 (0.56%) AMQP
7 4 (0.56%) HTTP
7 4 (0.56%) SSH
8 2 (0.28%) Intranet
8 2 (0.28%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.28%) RTP
8 2 (0.28%) SAN
8 2 (0.28%) SMS
8 2 (0.28%) VLAN
8 2 (0.28%) VoIP
8 2 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (25.42%) MongoDB
2 138 (19.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 95 (13.42%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (9.04%) Elasticsearch
5 49 (6.92%) SQL Server
6 48 (6.78%) NoSQL
7 42 (5.93%) Relational Database
8 37 (5.23%) MySQL
9 35 (4.94%) Redis
10 31 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (2.68%) DynamoDB
12 14 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (1.27%) BigQuery
14 9 (1.27%) Delta Lake
15 7 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.99%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.99%) Tableau
16 6 (0.85%) Big Data
16 6 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 123 (17.37%) Git
2 65 (9.18%) Jenkins
3 58 (8.19%) GitLab
4 18 (2.54%) Cypress.io
4 18 (2.54%) JIRA
4 18 (2.54%) JUnit
5 17 (2.40%) Maven
6 14 (1.98%) Selenium
7 12 (1.69%) CircleCI
8 10 (1.41%) Claude Code
8 10 (1.41%) Mockito
9 9 (1.27%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.13%) Postman
11 6 (0.85%) JMeter
11 6 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.71%) Gatling
12 5 (0.71%) Locust
12 5 (0.71%) MLflow
12 5 (0.71%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.71%) Subversion
General
1 144 (20.34%) Social Skills
2 93 (13.14%) Finance
3 43 (6.07%) Public Sector
4 40 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (5.51%) Advertising
6 22 (3.11%) Marketing
7 18 (2.54%) Aerospace
8 17 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (1.98%) Games
10 13 (1.84%) Banking
11 10 (1.41%) Law
11 10 (1.41%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.85%) Legal
13 5 (0.71%) Electronics
13 5 (0.71%) Retail
14 4 (0.56%) Military
14 4 (0.56%) Tech for Good
14 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.42%) Aviation
15 3 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 310 (43.79%) Developer
2 157 (22.18%) Senior
3 141 (19.92%) .NET Developer
4 107 (15.11%) Software Engineer
5 77 (10.88%) Lead
6 53 (7.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 44 (6.21%) Senior Developer
8 43 (6.07%) Full-Stack Developer
9 39 (5.51%) Java Developer
10 32 (4.52%) AWS Engineer
11 31 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
12 30 (4.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 30 (4.24%) Scala Engineer
13 27 (3.81%) Senior Software Engineer
14 25 (3.53%) Data Engineer
15 24 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
16 21 (2.97%) Azure Engineer
17 20 (2.82%) Architect
17 20 (2.82%) Software Developer
18 19 (2.68%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (28.95%) .NET
2 151 (21.33%) .NET Core
2 151 (21.33%) ASP.NET
3 136 (19.21%) ASP.NET Core
4 119 (16.81%) React
5 114 (16.10%) Node.js
6 103 (14.55%) AngularJS
7 102 (14.41%) CSS
8 96 (13.56%) HTML
9 89 (12.57%) REST
10 79 (11.16%) RESTful
10 79 (11.16%) Vue
11 78 (11.02%) Spring
12 73 (10.31%) ML.NET
13 62 (8.76%) Spring Boot
14 53 (7.49%) gRPC
15 50 (7.06%) Kafka
16 32 (4.52%) Blazor
17 31 (4.38%) Django
18 29 (4.10%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 123 (17.37%) Cloud Native
2 92 (12.99%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.36%) Over-the-Top Content
3 45 (6.36%) Video\Live Streaming
4 33 (4.66%) Product Ownership
5 31 (4.38%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.82%) Digital TV
7 14 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.41%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.27%) Robotics
12 8 (1.13%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.13%) IoT
12 8 (1.13%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.99%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.99%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.99%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 129 (18.22%) Linux
2 15 (2.12%) Ubuntu
3 14 (1.98%) Windows
4 11 (1.55%) Unix
5 7 (0.99%) Debian
5 7 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.71%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.56%) CentOS
7 4 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.42%) Android
8 3 (0.42%) VMS
8 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (67.80%) CI/CD
2 294 (41.53%) Containerisation
3 284 (40.11%) Agile
4 254 (35.88%) Microservices
5 253 (35.73%) Full-Stack Development
6 252 (35.59%) DevOps
7 216 (30.51%) Software Engineering
8 201 (28.39%) AI
9 167 (23.59%) Problem-Solving
10 157 (22.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 157 (22.18%) Machine Learning
11 125 (17.66%) Mentoring
12 119 (16.81%) Scrum
13 114 (16.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 112 (15.82%) Clean Code
15 111 (15.68%) TDD
16 85 (12.01%) Coaching
17 82 (11.58%) Observability
18 81 (11.44%) Test Automation
19 71 (10.03%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 270 (38.14%) Python
2 241 (34.04%) SQL
3 217 (30.65%) C#
4 144 (20.34%) TypeScript
5 117 (16.53%) JavaScript
6 112 (15.82%) Java
7 72 (10.17%) Go
8 61 (8.62%) Scala
9 60 (8.47%) Bash
10 34 (4.80%) PowerShell
11 23 (3.25%) PHP
11 23 (3.25%) Ruby
12 21 (2.97%) Bicep
13 14 (1.98%) C++
14 12 (1.69%) Kotlin
15 11 (1.55%) PL/SQL
16 10 (1.41%) Groovy
17 9 (1.27%) Rust
18 6 (0.85%) C
19 3 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (11.72%) Security Cleared
2 69 (9.75%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.19%) Degree
4 21 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.68%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.84%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.41%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.71%) CISSP
8 5 (0.71%) GIAC
8 5 (0.71%) ISACA
8 5 (0.71%) SANS
9 4 (0.56%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (8.47%) QA
2 29 (4.10%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.26%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.26%) WCAG
4 12 (1.69%) NIST
5 9 (1.27%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.42%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.42%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.28%) GDPR
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.56%) Firmware
3 4 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.42%) iptables
4 3 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.28%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.28%) KVM
6 1 (0.14%) QEMU
6 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 454 (64.12%) Kubernetes
2 177 (25.00%) Terraform
3 52 (7.34%) Ansible
4 50 (7.06%) Grafana
5 42 (5.93%) Prometheus
6 19 (2.68%) Puppet
7 16 (2.26%) Istio
7 16 (2.26%) Podman
8 15 (2.12%) Argo
9 14 (1.98%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.71%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.71%) Kibana
11 4 (0.56%) linkerd
11 4 (0.56%) Packer
12 3 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.42%) Nagios
12 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.28%) CASB
13 2 (0.28%) MIIS
13 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 193 (27.26%) Microsoft
2 49 (6.92%) Google
3 45 (6.36%) Typelevel
4 20 (2.82%) Facebook
5 17 (2.40%) Databricks
5 17 (2.40%) Oracle
6 16 (2.26%) Okta
7 11 (1.55%) Ping Identity
8 9 (1.27%) ForgeRock
8 9 (1.27%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.13%) Confluent
9 8 (1.13%) Informatica
9 8 (1.13%) VMware
10 7 (0.99%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.99%) Splunk
11 5 (0.71%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.71%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.71%) New Relic
12 4 (0.56%) IBM
13 3 (0.42%) Dell