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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 25 60
Rank change year-on-year -51 +35 -31
Permanent jobs citing Docker 580 1,326 1,404
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.13% 9.12% 4.32%
As % of the System Software category 40.59% 56.21% 33.88%
Number of salaries quoted 371 655 1,220
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,047 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £81,250 £98,474 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £95,125
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -2.78%

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 1,429 2,359 4,144
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.72% 16.23% 12.76%
Number of salaries quoted 995 1,468 3,392
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 14 May 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 27 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (3.28%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.24%) nginx
4 9 (1.55%) CMS
4 9 (1.55%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.03%) Apache
6 4 (0.69%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.69%) Drupal
6 4 (0.69%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.69%) Oracle Spatial
6 4 (0.69%) WordPress
7 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.34%) Camunda
8 2 (0.34%) Confluence
8 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.34%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.17%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.69%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.17%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 391 (67.41%) AWS
2 253 (43.62%) Azure
3 165 (28.45%) GCP
4 131 (22.59%) GitHub
5 97 (16.72%) Serverless
6 60 (10.34%) Amazon S3
7 59 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
8 50 (8.62%) SaaS
9 49 (8.45%) GitHub Copilot
10 48 (8.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 46 (7.93%) GitHub Actions
12 38 (6.55%) Azure DevOps
13 35 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (4.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 26 (4.48%) Azure AI
17 23 (3.97%) Pulumi
18 22 (3.79%) Amazon SQS
19 21 (3.62%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (18.10%) Broadband
2 10 (1.72%) DNS
2 10 (1.72%) Firewall
3 8 (1.38%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.21%) Network Security
4 7 (1.21%) VPN
5 6 (1.03%) DHCP
5 6 (1.03%) Internet
6 4 (0.69%) AMQP
6 4 (0.69%) HTTP
6 4 (0.69%) MQTT
7 3 (0.52%) RTP
7 3 (0.52%) SCCP
7 3 (0.52%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.52%) VLAN
7 3 (0.52%) VoIP
7 3 (0.52%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.34%) DSL
8 2 (0.34%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (16.21%) MongoDB
2 76 (13.10%) NoSQL
3 73 (12.59%) PostgreSQL
4 46 (7.93%) Relational Database
5 43 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 43 (7.41%) SQL Server
6 37 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
7 33 (5.69%) Elasticsearch
8 29 (5.00%) MySQL
9 24 (4.14%) DynamoDB
10 22 (3.79%) Redis
11 18 (3.10%) BigQuery
11 18 (3.10%) RDBMS
12 13 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (2.07%) Tableau
14 11 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (1.90%) Pinecone
15 10 (1.72%) Weaviate
16 9 (1.55%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 95 (16.38%) Git
2 71 (12.24%) Jenkins
3 49 (8.45%) GitLab
4 24 (4.14%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.28%) Cypress.io
6 18 (3.10%) CircleCI
6 18 (3.10%) Jaeger
7 14 (2.41%) Maven
8 13 (2.24%) MLflow
9 11 (1.90%) JMeter
9 11 (1.90%) Selenium
10 10 (1.72%) JIRA
10 10 (1.72%) SonarQube
11 8 (1.38%) JUnit
12 7 (1.21%) Cucumber
13 6 (1.03%) Locust
13 6 (1.03%) Visual Studio
13 6 (1.03%) Vite
14 5 (0.86%) Mockito
14 5 (0.86%) Storybook
General
1 99 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 77 (13.28%) Finance
3 44 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (6.21%) Public Sector
5 15 (2.59%) Banking
6 13 (2.24%) Law
7 12 (2.07%) Advertising
8 11 (1.90%) Retail
9 10 (1.72%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (1.38%) Games
12 7 (1.21%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.21%) Marketing
13 6 (1.03%) Aviation
13 6 (1.03%) Front Office
13 6 (1.03%) Legal
13 6 (1.03%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.69%) Local Government
14 4 (0.69%) Military
14 4 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 202 (34.83%) Developer
2 147 (25.34%) Senior
3 100 (17.24%) Lead
4 88 (15.17%) Software Engineer
5 53 (9.14%) .NET Developer
6 52 (8.97%) DevOps Engineer
7 42 (7.24%) Scala Engineer
8 38 (6.55%) Java Developer
8 38 (6.55%) Senior Developer
9 37 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
10 26 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
10 26 (4.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 24 (4.14%) Data Engineer
11 24 (4.14%) Senior Software Engineer
12 23 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
12 23 (3.97%) Scala Software Engineer
13 22 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
13 22 (3.79%) Software Developer
14 21 (3.62%) Lead DevOps
14 21 (3.62%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (18.97%) React
2 107 (18.45%) .NET
3 97 (16.72%) Node.js
4 70 (12.07%) .NET Core
5 68 (11.72%) Spring
6 60 (10.34%) AngularJS
7 58 (10.00%) Kafka
8 57 (9.83%) REST
9 56 (9.66%) Spring Boot
10 55 (9.48%) RESTful
11 54 (9.31%) ASP.NET
11 54 (9.31%) gRPC
12 49 (8.45%) ASP.NET Core
13 46 (7.93%) CSS
14 43 (7.41%) HTML
15 41 (7.07%) Vue
16 33 (5.69%) Django
17 31 (5.34%) Elastic Stack
18 23 (3.97%) Akka
18 23 (3.97%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 93 (16.03%) Cloud Native
2 76 (13.10%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (11.55%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (11.55%) Video\Live Streaming
4 52 (8.97%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (2.07%) AI Agents
6 12 (2.07%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.55%) Digital TV
7 9 (1.55%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.21%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.21%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
9 7 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.21%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.03%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.86%) Cyberattack
11 5 (0.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 105 (18.10%) Linux
2 31 (5.34%) Unix
3 13 (2.24%) Android
4 11 (1.90%) Ubuntu
4 11 (1.90%) Windows
5 8 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.21%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.86%) CentOS
8 4 (0.69%) VMS
9 3 (0.52%) Debian
9 3 (0.52%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (65.86%) CI/CD
2 280 (48.28%) Containerisation
3 260 (44.83%) DevOps
4 237 (40.86%) Agile
5 193 (33.28%) Microservices
6 169 (29.14%) Software Engineering
7 156 (26.90%) Infrastructure as Code
8 145 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 133 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
10 124 (21.38%) AI
11 112 (19.31%) Mentoring
12 108 (18.62%) Machine Learning
13 105 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 96 (16.55%) Clean Code
15 92 (15.86%) Scrum
16 89 (15.34%) TDD
17 84 (14.48%) Coaching
18 72 (12.41%) Continuous Delivery
18 72 (12.41%) Test Automation
19 71 (12.24%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 265 (45.69%) Python
2 145 (25.00%) SQL
3 136 (23.45%) Java
4 133 (22.93%) JavaScript
5 102 (17.59%) Go
6 101 (17.41%) C#
7 87 (15.00%) Scala
8 86 (14.83%) TypeScript
9 70 (12.07%) Bash
10 23 (3.97%) PHP
11 21 (3.62%) PowerShell
12 14 (2.41%) Bicep
13 12 (2.07%) C++
14 10 (1.72%) Kotlin
15 9 (1.55%) Ruby
16 8 (1.38%) Groovy
16 8 (1.38%) Rust
17 7 (1.21%) C
18 6 (1.03%) PL/SQL
19 4 (0.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 69 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 63 (10.86%) Degree
3 55 (9.48%) SC Cleared
4 29 (5.00%) AWS Certification
5 24 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (3.79%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.86%) CISSP
9 5 (0.86%) GIAC
9 5 (0.86%) ISACA
9 5 (0.86%) SANS
10 3 (0.52%) LPIC
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.34%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (9.48%) QA
2 24 (4.14%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.07%) NIST
5 11 (1.90%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.72%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.38%) WCAG
8 6 (1.03%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.69%) GDPR
10 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.52%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.86%) Firmware
4 3 (0.52%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.34%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.34%) vSphere
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) QEMU
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 354 (61.03%) Kubernetes
2 193 (33.28%) Terraform
3 80 (13.79%) Ansible
4 50 (8.62%) Prometheus
5 43 (7.41%) Grafana
6 36 (6.21%) Argo
7 18 (3.10%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.59%) Podman
9 11 (1.90%) Puppet
10 8 (1.38%) Istio
11 7 (1.21%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.86%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.86%) HP Fortify
12 5 (0.86%) Packer
13 4 (0.69%) Kibana
14 3 (0.52%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.34%) MIIS
15 2 (0.34%) Nagios
15 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 83 (14.31%) Microsoft
2 59 (10.17%) Google
3 45 (7.76%) Typelevel
4 21 (3.62%) Databricks
5 15 (2.59%) Oracle
6 12 (2.07%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.55%) Palantir
8 8 (1.38%) Confluent
9 6 (1.03%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.03%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.03%) Splunk
9 6 (1.03%) VMware
10 5 (0.86%) ForgeRock
10 5 (0.86%) Okta
10 5 (0.86%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.69%) ESRI
11 4 (0.69%) Facebook
11 4 (0.69%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.69%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.52%) Mitel