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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 31 52
Rank change year-on-year -46 +21 -23
Permanent jobs citing Docker 565 1,113 1,568
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.34% 8.20% 5.22%
As % of the System Software category 42.07% 50.02% 36.70%
Number of salaries quoted 378 733 1,328
10th Percentile £44,778 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £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 £83,750 £102,410 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £135,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,079 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.56% +7.14% -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 1,343 2,225 4,272
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.95% 16.39% 14.23%
Number of salaries quoted 949 1,562 3,664
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,125 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 17 March 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 28 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (3.72%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.30%) nginx
4 9 (1.59%) CMS
5 7 (1.24%) OpenStack
6 6 (1.06%) Apache
7 5 (0.88%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.88%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (0.88%) Drupal
7 5 (0.88%) WordPress
8 4 (0.71%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.71%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.71%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.71%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.53%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.35%) Camunda
10 2 (0.35%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.18%) SAS
11 1 (0.18%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.71%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.35%) Weka
3 1 (0.18%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 9 (1.59%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 394 (69.73%) AWS
2 254 (44.96%) Azure
3 172 (30.44%) GCP
4 131 (23.19%) GitHub
5 87 (15.40%) Serverless
6 60 (10.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 58 (10.27%) GitHub Actions
8 56 (9.91%) Amazon S3
9 55 (9.73%) AWS Lambda
10 48 (8.50%) SaaS
11 47 (8.32%) Azure DevOps
12 38 (6.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
14 32 (5.66%) Pulumi
15 29 (5.13%) OpenShift
16 28 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
16 28 (4.96%) Amazon EKS
17 21 (3.72%) dbt
17 21 (3.72%) PaaS
18 20 (3.54%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 86 (15.22%) Broadband
2 14 (2.48%) TCP/IP
3 9 (1.59%) Firewall
4 7 (1.24%) Network Security
4 7 (1.24%) VPN
5 5 (0.88%) AMQP
5 5 (0.88%) DHCP
5 5 (0.88%) DNS
6 4 (0.71%) MQTT
7 3 (0.53%) HTTP
7 3 (0.53%) Internet
7 3 (0.53%) RTP
7 3 (0.53%) SCCP
7 3 (0.53%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.53%) VLAN
7 3 (0.53%) VoIP
7 3 (0.53%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.35%) DSL
8 2 (0.35%) SAN
8 2 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (14.34%) NoSQL
2 79 (13.98%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (9.20%) MongoDB
4 46 (8.14%) SQL Server
5 42 (7.43%) Relational Database
6 38 (6.73%) Amazon RDS
7 33 (5.84%) Elasticsearch
8 29 (5.13%) MySQL
9 27 (4.78%) Redis
10 19 (3.36%) RDBMS
11 17 (3.01%) DynamoDB
12 16 (2.83%) BigQuery
13 15 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
15 13 (2.30%) Tableau
16 11 (1.95%) Delta Lake
17 10 (1.77%) Pinecone
17 10 (1.77%) Weaviate
18 9 (1.59%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 90 (15.93%) Git
2 82 (14.51%) Jenkins
3 60 (10.62%) GitLab
4 27 (4.78%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.36%) Jaeger
6 16 (2.83%) Selenium
7 14 (2.48%) Cucumber
8 13 (2.30%) MLflow
9 12 (2.12%) CircleCI
9 12 (2.12%) SonarQube
10 11 (1.95%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.95%) JMeter
10 11 (1.95%) JUnit
11 9 (1.59%) JIRA
12 7 (1.24%) Maven
13 6 (1.06%) Bitbucket
13 6 (1.06%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.88%) Locust
14 5 (0.88%) Robot Framework
14 5 (0.88%) Storybook
General
1 133 (23.54%) Social Skills
2 72 (12.74%) Finance
3 38 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (6.37%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.25%) Telecoms
6 19 (3.36%) Law
7 15 (2.65%) Banking
8 14 (2.48%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (1.95%) Legal
10 10 (1.77%) Retail
11 8 (1.42%) Games
12 6 (1.06%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.06%) Front Office
12 6 (1.06%) Marketing
13 5 (0.88%) Advertising
13 5 (0.88%) Aviation
13 5 (0.88%) Local Government
13 5 (0.88%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.88%) Military
13 5 (0.88%) Police
Job Titles
1 175 (30.97%) Developer
2 170 (30.09%) Senior
3 99 (17.52%) Lead
4 85 (15.04%) Software Engineer
5 56 (9.91%) DevOps Engineer
6 44 (7.79%) Senior Developer
7 39 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 36 (6.37%) Java Developer
8 36 (6.37%) Scala Engineer
9 30 (5.31%) Cloud Engineer
9 30 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
10 28 (4.96%) Python Developer
11 27 (4.78%) Senior Software Engineer
11 27 (4.78%) Software Developer
12 26 (4.60%) Lead DevOps
13 25 (4.42%) Data Engineer
14 24 (4.25%) .NET Developer
15 20 (3.54%) Architect
15 20 (3.54%) Scala Software Engineer
16 19 (3.36%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (17.52%) React
2 83 (14.69%) .NET
3 75 (13.27%) Node.js
4 69 (12.21%) Spring
5 63 (11.15%) Kafka
6 60 (10.62%) Spring Boot
7 55 (9.73%) RESTful
8 54 (9.56%) Django
9 53 (9.38%) gRPC
10 52 (9.20%) REST
11 47 (8.32%) Elastic Stack
12 46 (8.14%) .NET Core
13 42 (7.43%) AngularJS
14 35 (6.19%) CSS
14 35 (6.19%) HTML
15 34 (6.02%) Flask
15 34 (6.02%) Vue
16 25 (4.42%) Akka
17 23 (4.07%) FastAPI
18 22 (3.89%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 99 (17.52%) Cloud Native
2 79 (13.98%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (10.44%) Over-the-Top Content
3 59 (10.44%) Video\Live Streaming
4 46 (8.14%) Product Ownership
5 17 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.83%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.48%) AI Agents
8 11 (1.95%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.24%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.06%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.06%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.06%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.88%) IoT
13 5 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 117 (20.71%) Linux
2 50 (8.85%) Unix
3 24 (4.25%) Windows
4 18 (3.19%) Android
5 11 (1.95%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.59%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.24%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.24%) CentOS
8 6 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.71%) VMS
10 1 (0.18%) Debian
10 1 (0.18%) Fedora
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (64.07%) CI/CD
2 299 (52.92%) Containerisation
3 283 (50.09%) DevOps
4 222 (39.29%) Agile
5 171 (30.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 167 (29.56%) Microservices
7 157 (27.79%) Software Engineering
8 147 (26.02%) Problem-Solving
9 103 (18.23%) AI
9 103 (18.23%) Mentoring
10 101 (17.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 97 (17.17%) Full-Stack Development
12 90 (15.93%) Machine Learning
13 79 (13.98%) Clean Code
14 71 (12.57%) Observability
14 71 (12.57%) TDD
15 68 (12.04%) Coaching
15 68 (12.04%) Event-Driven
15 68 (12.04%) Test Automation
16 65 (11.50%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 284 (50.27%) Python
2 147 (26.02%) Java
3 139 (24.60%) JavaScript
4 130 (23.01%) SQL
5 101 (17.88%) Go
6 76 (13.45%) Scala
7 72 (12.74%) C#
8 69 (12.21%) Bash
9 59 (10.44%) TypeScript
10 27 (4.78%) PHP
11 23 (4.07%) PowerShell
12 20 (3.54%) Bicep
13 14 (2.48%) C++
14 10 (1.77%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.42%) Delphi
16 6 (1.06%) Rust
17 5 (0.88%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.71%) C
18 4 (0.71%) Perl
18 4 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 76 (13.45%) Degree
2 72 (12.74%) Security Cleared
3 56 (9.91%) SC Cleared
4 39 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (5.49%) AWS Certification
6 23 (4.07%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.30%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.71%) CISSP
9 4 (0.71%) GIAC
9 4 (0.71%) ISACA
9 4 (0.71%) SANS
10 3 (0.53%) LPIC
11 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.35%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (7.43%) QA
2 21 (3.72%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.95%) GDPR
4 11 (1.95%) NIST
5 10 (1.77%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.77%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.42%) ISO 9001
7 5 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.71%) WCAG
9 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.35%) ECSS
11 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 16 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.06%) vSphere
4 5 (0.88%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.71%) Firmware
6 3 (0.53%) Kamailio
6 3 (0.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.35%) Ceph
7 2 (0.35%) Lustre
8 1 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.18%) vCloud
8 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 347 (61.42%) Kubernetes
2 214 (37.88%) Terraform
3 92 (16.28%) Ansible
4 64 (11.33%) Grafana
5 62 (10.97%) Prometheus
6 37 (6.55%) Argo
7 19 (3.36%) Kustomize
8 8 (1.42%) Istio
9 6 (1.06%) Podman
9 6 (1.06%) Puppet
10 5 (0.88%) AWS Copilot
11 4 (0.71%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.71%) Packer
12 2 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.35%) Kibana
12 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.18%) Rundeck
13 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 60 (10.62%) Google
2 51 (9.03%) Microsoft
3 36 (6.37%) Typelevel
4 25 (4.42%) Oracle
5 23 (4.07%) Databricks
6 14 (2.48%) Splunk
7 10 (1.77%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.59%) Palantir
9 8 (1.42%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.42%) Confluent
9 8 (1.42%) SAP
10 7 (1.24%) VMware
11 6 (1.06%) Dell
11 6 (1.06%) Mercator
11 6 (1.06%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.88%) Epicor
12 5 (0.88%) Ericsson
12 5 (0.88%) Informatica
12 5 (0.88%) Nokia
12 5 (0.88%) Software AG