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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 39 58
Rank change year-on-year -53 +19 -28
Permanent jobs citing Docker 713 993 977
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.91% 6.15% 4.29%
As % of the System Software category 37.87% 50.72% 35.89%
Number of salaries quoted 541 344 617
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £44,700
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,938 £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 £95,175 £106,000
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 1,883 1,958 2,722
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.69% 12.13% 11.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,407 1,073 1,713
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,050 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -7.02% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £88,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,462
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.19% -0.98%

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 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 21 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.66%) Apache
3 16 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.26%) nginx
5 7 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.84%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.70%) IIS
8 4 (0.56%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.56%) Camunda
8 4 (0.56%) Confluence
8 4 (0.56%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.56%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.56%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.42%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) JBoss
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.14%) Moodle
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.68%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 427 (59.89%) AWS
2 422 (59.19%) Azure
3 235 (32.96%) GitHub
4 150 (21.04%) GitHub Copilot
5 143 (20.06%) GCP
6 72 (10.10%) Azure AI
7 69 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
8 67 (9.40%) Serverless
9 57 (7.99%) SaaS
10 50 (7.01%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 36 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
12 36 (5.05%) Azure Service Bus
13 35 (4.91%) Amazon S3
14 30 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
15 29 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 29 (4.07%) Azure AKS
16 27 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 25 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.79%) Broadband
2 20 (2.81%) Internet
3 12 (1.68%) VPN
4 11 (1.54%) Firewall
5 10 (1.40%) AMQP
5 10 (1.40%) SMS
6 9 (1.26%) DNS
6 9 (1.26%) Network Security
7 8 (1.12%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.56%) 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%) MQTT
11 1 (0.14%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (23.56%) MongoDB
2 140 (19.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 113 (15.85%) PostgreSQL
4 58 (8.13%) Elasticsearch
5 53 (7.43%) SQL Server
6 50 (7.01%) NoSQL
6 50 (7.01%) Relational Database
7 38 (5.33%) MySQL
8 33 (4.63%) Redis
9 24 (3.37%) DynamoDB
10 20 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
11 19 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.40%) Data Lake
14 9 (1.26%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.84%) Delta Lake
15 6 (0.84%) Metadata
15 6 (0.84%) Power BI
15 6 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 5 (0.70%) GIS
Development Applications
1 138 (19.35%) Git
2 70 (9.82%) Jenkins
3 63 (8.84%) GitLab
4 27 (3.79%) JUnit
5 19 (2.66%) Maven
5 19 (2.66%) Selenium
6 15 (2.10%) Cypress.io
6 15 (2.10%) JIRA
6 15 (2.10%) Mockito
7 13 (1.82%) Claude Code
8 12 (1.68%) Postman
9 9 (1.26%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.98%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.84%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.84%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.84%) Gatling
11 6 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.84%) Storybook
12 5 (0.70%) Poetry
12 5 (0.70%) Subversion
General
1 169 (23.70%) Social Skills
2 106 (14.87%) Finance
3 56 (7.85%) Public Sector
4 44 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (4.91%) Advertising
6 25 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (3.09%) Aerospace
8 21 (2.95%) Marketing
9 15 (2.10%) Games
10 14 (1.96%) Law
11 12 (1.68%) Banking
11 12 (1.68%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.54%) Tech for Good
13 10 (1.40%) Health Technology
14 8 (1.12%) Retail
15 7 (0.98%) Legal
16 6 (0.84%) Electronics
17 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
18 3 (0.42%) Local Government
18 3 (0.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 308 (43.20%) Developer
2 177 (24.82%) Senior
3 141 (19.78%) .NET Developer
4 106 (14.87%) Software Engineer
5 76 (10.66%) Lead
6 60 (8.42%) Senior Developer
7 53 (7.43%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (6.73%) Java Developer
9 43 (6.03%) Full-Stack Developer
10 31 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 28 (3.93%) Senior Java Developer
12 25 (3.51%) Data Engineer
12 25 (3.51%) Senior Software Engineer
13 24 (3.37%) Architect
13 24 (3.37%) Lead Developer
14 21 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
14 21 (2.95%) Cloud Engineer
14 21 (2.95%) Platform Engineer
15 20 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
16 19 (2.66%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (30.72%) .NET
2 185 (25.95%) Terraform
3 153 (21.46%) .NET Core
4 150 (21.04%) ASP.NET
5 141 (19.78%) React
6 136 (19.07%) Node.js
7 133 (18.65%) ASP.NET Core
8 107 (15.01%) REST
9 104 (14.59%) CSS
10 102 (14.31%) AngularJS
11 90 (12.62%) Spring
12 89 (12.48%) HTML
13 84 (11.78%) RESTful
14 78 (10.94%) Vue
15 70 (9.82%) ML.NET
16 66 (9.26%) Spring Boot
17 47 (6.59%) Kafka
18 40 (5.61%) Blazor
19 30 (4.21%) OAuth
19 30 (4.21%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 123 (17.25%) Cloud Native
2 69 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.91%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (2.66%) Digital TV
5 18 (2.52%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.82%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.82%) Robotics
9 11 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.40%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.26%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.26%) IoT
11 9 (1.26%) Over-the-Top Content
11 9 (1.26%) Video\Live Streaming
12 8 (1.12%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.12%) Blog
13 7 (0.98%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 131 (18.37%) Linux
2 22 (3.09%) Windows
3 18 (2.52%) Ubuntu
4 9 (1.26%) Debian
5 8 (1.12%) Unix
6 7 (0.98%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
7 6 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.70%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.56%) Android
9 4 (0.56%) CentOS
9 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.42%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.28%) Solaris
11 2 (0.28%) VMS
11 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.14%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (65.22%) CI/CD
2 299 (41.94%) Agile
3 250 (35.06%) Full-Stack Development
4 242 (33.94%) DevOps
5 238 (33.38%) AI
6 236 (33.10%) Containerisation
7 226 (31.70%) Microservices
8 210 (29.45%) Software Engineering
9 154 (21.60%) Infrastructure as Code
10 146 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
11 143 (20.06%) Mentoring
12 132 (18.51%) Machine Learning
13 120 (16.83%) Scrum
14 111 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 103 (14.45%) TDD
16 96 (13.46%) Test Automation
17 92 (12.90%) Observability
18 84 (11.78%) Clean Code
19 82 (11.50%) Event-Driven
20 62 (8.70%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 284 (39.83%) SQL
2 233 (32.68%) C#
3 229 (32.12%) Python
4 159 (22.30%) TypeScript
5 129 (18.09%) Java
5 129 (18.09%) JavaScript
6 74 (10.38%) Bash
7 39 (5.47%) PowerShell
8 36 (5.05%) Go
9 24 (3.37%) Ruby
10 21 (2.95%) Bicep
11 19 (2.66%) PHP
12 18 (2.52%) Scala
13 17 (2.38%) C++
13 17 (2.38%) Kotlin
14 16 (2.24%) PL/SQL
15 11 (1.54%) Groovy
16 9 (1.26%) Rust
17 8 (1.12%) C
18 4 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 115 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 94 (13.18%) SC Cleared
3 50 (7.01%) Degree
4 22 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.52%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.10%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.10%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.42%) GCFA
10 3 (0.42%) GIAC
10 3 (0.42%) OCP
10 3 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.28%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (9.12%) QA
2 33 (4.63%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.51%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.96%) WCAG
5 8 (1.12%) NIST
6 6 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.84%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.84%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.70%) 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 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.42%) iptables
4 2 (0.28%) KVM
4 2 (0.28%) QEMU
4 2 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.14%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 474 (66.48%) Kubernetes
2 56 (7.85%) Ansible
3 46 (6.45%) Grafana
4 40 (5.61%) Prometheus
5 18 (2.52%) Puppet
6 15 (2.10%) Progress Chef
7 13 (1.82%) Argo
8 10 (1.40%) Podman
9 9 (1.26%) Istio
10 5 (0.70%) Packer
11 4 (0.56%) Kibana
11 4 (0.56%) linkerd
12 3 (0.42%) Cilium
12 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.28%) CASB
13 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.28%) Nagios
13 2 (0.28%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 184 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 49 (6.87%) Google
3 26 (3.65%) OpenAI
4 24 (3.37%) Oracle
5 19 (2.66%) Facebook
6 15 (2.10%) Red Hat
7 14 (1.96%) Okta
7 14 (1.96%) Ping Identity
8 12 (1.68%) Databricks
8 12 (1.68%) Informatica
9 11 (1.54%) Splunk
10 10 (1.40%) VMware
11 9 (1.26%) Typelevel
12 8 (1.12%) New Relic
13 6 (0.84%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.70%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.70%) IBM
15 4 (0.56%) ESRI
15 4 (0.56%) ForgeRock
15 4 (0.56%) TIBCO