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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 36 74
Rank change year-on-year -41 +38 -43
Permanent jobs citing Docker 722 1,132 942
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.24% 6.86% 3.73%
As % of the System Software category 39.41% 52.36% 32.13%
Number of salaries quoted 543 455 737
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -11.72%
75th Percentile £77,424 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,250 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.90% +7.41% -9.40%

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 1,832 2,162 2,932
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.23% 13.10% 11.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,376 1,260 2,144
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,438 £41,206
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £86,000
UK median annual salary £54,624 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.25% - -9.91%

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 4 August 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 22 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (2.35%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.66%) Apache
4 7 (0.97%) nginx
5 6 (0.83%) IIS
5 6 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.69%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.55%) Camunda
7 4 (0.55%) Confluence
8 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.28%) WordPress
9 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) Drupal
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
9 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
1 448 (62.05%) AWS
2 420 (58.17%) Azure
3 222 (30.75%) GitHub
4 183 (25.35%) GCP
5 152 (21.05%) GitHub Copilot
6 76 (10.53%) Azure AI
7 75 (10.39%) Serverless
8 55 (7.62%) SaaS
9 50 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (6.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 47 (6.51%) GitHub Actions
11 38 (5.26%) Amazon S3
11 38 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
12 33 (4.57%) Amazon ECS
12 33 (4.57%) Azure Service Bus
13 32 (4.43%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (4.29%) Azure AKS
15 29 (4.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 23 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
17 22 (3.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 60 (8.31%) Broadband
2 20 (2.77%) Internet
3 10 (1.39%) DNS
3 10 (1.39%) VPN
4 9 (1.25%) Firewall
4 9 (1.25%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.55%) DHCP
5 4 (0.55%) MQTT
5 4 (0.55%) Network Security
5 4 (0.55%) SSH
6 3 (0.42%) AMQP
6 3 (0.42%) SMS
7 2 (0.28%) HTTP
7 2 (0.28%) Intranet
7 2 (0.28%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.28%) SAN
7 2 (0.28%) VLAN
7 2 (0.28%) WireGuard
8 1 (0.14%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (24.65%) MongoDB
2 143 (19.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 99 (13.71%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (8.86%) Elasticsearch
5 57 (7.89%) SQL Server
6 46 (6.37%) NoSQL
7 38 (5.26%) Redis
7 38 (5.26%) Relational Database
8 34 (4.71%) MySQL
9 29 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (2.49%) DynamoDB
11 13 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
11 13 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.25%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.11%) Data Lake
13 8 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (0.97%) Big Data
14 7 (0.97%) Delta Lake
15 6 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 135 (18.70%) Git
2 68 (9.42%) Jenkins
3 57 (7.89%) GitLab
4 25 (3.46%) JUnit
5 20 (2.77%) Cypress.io
5 20 (2.77%) Selenium
6 19 (2.63%) Maven
7 17 (2.35%) JIRA
8 13 (1.80%) Mockito
9 12 (1.66%) CircleCI
9 12 (1.66%) Postman
10 11 (1.52%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.39%) Claude Code
12 8 (1.11%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.97%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.97%) Gatling
14 6 (0.83%) JMeter
14 6 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.69%) Locust
General
1 157 (21.75%) Social Skills
2 104 (14.40%) Finance
3 48 (6.65%) Public Sector
4 45 (6.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (5.54%) Advertising
6 22 (3.05%) Marketing
7 19 (2.63%) Aerospace
7 19 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (2.22%) Games
9 13 (1.80%) Banking
10 12 (1.66%) Law
11 10 (1.39%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.25%) Legal
13 6 (0.83%) Electronics
14 5 (0.69%) Military
14 5 (0.69%) Retail
14 5 (0.69%) Tech for Good
15 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.42%) Health Technology
17 2 (0.28%) Billing
Job Titles
1 308 (42.66%) Developer
2 163 (22.58%) Senior
3 146 (20.22%) .NET Developer
4 112 (15.51%) Software Engineer
5 80 (11.08%) Lead
6 52 (7.20%) DevOps Engineer
7 47 (6.51%) Senior Developer
8 42 (5.82%) Full-Stack Developer
9 39 (5.40%) Java Developer
10 31 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
10 31 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 29 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
12 28 (3.88%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (3.60%) Data Engineer
14 24 (3.32%) Scala Engineer
15 23 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
15 23 (3.19%) Cloud Engineer
16 21 (2.91%) Lead Developer
17 20 (2.77%) Python Engineer
18 19 (2.63%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (30.33%) .NET
2 157 (21.75%) .NET Core
3 152 (21.05%) ASP.NET
4 136 (18.84%) ASP.NET Core
5 127 (17.59%) React
6 113 (15.65%) Node.js
7 104 (14.40%) AngularJS
7 104 (14.40%) CSS
8 102 (14.13%) REST
9 95 (13.16%) HTML
10 80 (11.08%) RESTful
11 76 (10.53%) Vue
12 75 (10.39%) Spring
13 74 (10.25%) ML.NET
14 55 (7.62%) Spring Boot
15 49 (6.79%) Kafka
16 45 (6.23%) gRPC
17 37 (5.12%) Blazor
18 30 (4.16%) OAuth
19 29 (4.02%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 123 (17.04%) Cloud Native
2 86 (11.91%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (4.99%) Over-the-Top Content
3 36 (4.99%) Video\Live Streaming
4 32 (4.43%) Greenfield Project
5 29 (4.02%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.77%) Digital TV
7 19 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.80%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
10 11 (1.52%) IoT
11 10 (1.39%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.25%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.25%) Robotics
13 8 (1.11%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.11%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.97%) Onboarding
15 6 (0.83%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 127 (17.59%) Linux
2 15 (2.08%) Windows
3 13 (1.80%) Ubuntu
4 11 (1.52%) Unix
5 7 (0.97%) Debian
5 7 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.69%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.55%) Android
7 4 (0.55%) CentOS
8 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.42%) VMS
9 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 487 (67.45%) CI/CD
2 301 (41.69%) Agile
3 289 (40.03%) Containerisation
4 258 (35.73%) DevOps
5 257 (35.60%) Full-Stack Development
6 248 (34.35%) Microservices
7 221 (30.61%) Software Engineering
8 220 (30.47%) AI
9 164 (22.71%) Infrastructure as Code
10 155 (21.47%) Machine Learning
10 155 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
11 134 (18.56%) Mentoring
12 124 (17.17%) Scrum
13 116 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 116 (16.07%) TDD
14 109 (15.10%) Clean Code
15 91 (12.60%) Test Automation
16 85 (11.77%) Observability
17 78 (10.80%) Event-Driven
18 73 (10.11%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 262 (36.29%) Python
2 251 (34.76%) SQL
3 230 (31.86%) C#
4 144 (19.94%) TypeScript
5 126 (17.45%) JavaScript
6 116 (16.07%) Java
7 64 (8.86%) Go
8 60 (8.31%) Bash
9 50 (6.93%) Scala
10 36 (4.99%) PowerShell
11 24 (3.32%) Ruby
12 20 (2.77%) Bicep
13 19 (2.63%) PHP
14 15 (2.08%) C++
15 14 (1.94%) PL/SQL
16 12 (1.66%) Kotlin
17 10 (1.39%) Groovy
18 7 (0.97%) Rust
19 6 (0.83%) C
20 4 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 80 (11.08%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.76%) Degree
4 20 (2.77%) Azure Certification
5 18 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.94%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.80%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.83%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.55%) CISSP
9 4 (0.55%) GIAC
9 4 (0.55%) ISACA
9 4 (0.55%) SANS
10 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.28%) OCP
11 2 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.86%) QA
2 36 (4.99%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.49%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.49%) WCAG
4 12 (1.66%) NIST
5 8 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.83%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.42%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.42%) NCSC
8 2 (0.28%) GDPR
9 1 (0.14%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.14%) MISRA
9 1 (0.14%) MISRA C
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.55%) Firmware
3 4 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.42%) iptables
4 3 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.28%) KVM
6 1 (0.14%) QEMU
6 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 467 (64.68%) Kubernetes
2 185 (25.62%) Terraform
3 53 (7.34%) Ansible
4 50 (6.93%) Grafana
5 41 (5.68%) Prometheus
6 18 (2.49%) Puppet
7 16 (2.22%) Istio
7 16 (2.22%) Podman
8 13 (1.80%) Argo
8 13 (1.80%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.69%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.55%) Kibana
10 4 (0.55%) linkerd
11 3 (0.42%) Packer
11 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.28%) CASB
12 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.28%) MIIS
12 2 (0.28%) Nagios
Vendors
1 194 (26.87%) Microsoft
2 55 (7.62%) Google
3 36 (4.99%) Typelevel
4 21 (2.91%) Facebook
5 19 (2.63%) Oracle
6 17 (2.35%) Okta
7 16 (2.22%) Databricks
8 13 (1.80%) Ping Identity
9 11 (1.52%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.39%) Informatica
10 10 (1.39%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.11%) Confluent
11 8 (1.11%) ForgeRock
12 7 (0.97%) VMware
13 6 (0.83%) Splunk
14 5 (0.69%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.69%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.69%) IBM
14 5 (0.69%) New Relic
15 4 (0.55%) TIBCO