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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 39 64
Rank change year-on-year -45 +25 -35
Permanent jobs citing Docker 706 1,007 948
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.95% 6.22% 4.09%
As % of the System Software category 37.69% 51.30% 34.66%
Number of salaries quoted 544 358 633
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,200 £43,850
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £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 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,550 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +2.94% -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 1,873 1,963 2,735
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.81% 12.13% 11.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,419 1,084 1,746
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,825 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,813 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -5.66% -3.64%

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 15 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 19 (2.69%) Apache
1 19 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (2.41%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.13%) nginx
4 7 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.85%) IIS
5 6 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.71%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.57%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.57%) Confluence
7 4 (0.57%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.57%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.42%) Camunda
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) Drupal
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.70%) 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%) Magento
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 428 (60.62%) AWS
2 422 (59.77%) Azure
3 230 (32.58%) GitHub
4 149 (21.10%) GCP
4 149 (21.10%) GitHub Copilot
5 72 (10.20%) Azure AI
6 66 (9.35%) GitHub Actions
7 64 (9.07%) Serverless
8 52 (7.37%) SaaS
9 50 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
11 35 (4.96%) Amazon S3
11 35 (4.96%) Azure Service Bus
12 34 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
13 30 (4.25%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (4.11%) Azure AKS
15 28 (3.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 26 (3.68%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (3.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 24 (3.40%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.97%) Broadband
2 20 (2.83%) Internet
3 10 (1.42%) Firewall
3 10 (1.42%) VPN
4 9 (1.27%) AMQP
4 9 (1.27%) DNS
4 9 (1.27%) SMS
5 7 (0.99%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.85%) Network Security
7 4 (0.57%) SSH
8 3 (0.42%) HTTP
9 2 (0.28%) DHCP
9 2 (0.28%) Intranet
9 2 (0.28%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.28%) LAN
9 2 (0.28%) VLAN
9 2 (0.28%) WAN
9 2 (0.28%) WireGuard
9 2 (0.28%) X.509
10 1 (0.14%) FCoE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (23.37%) MongoDB
2 138 (19.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 105 (14.87%) PostgreSQL
4 58 (8.22%) Elasticsearch
5 55 (7.79%) SQL Server
6 51 (7.22%) NoSQL
7 46 (6.52%) Relational Database
8 36 (5.10%) MySQL
9 31 (4.39%) Redis
10 24 (3.40%) DynamoDB
11 19 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (2.55%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (1.27%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.99%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 6 (0.85%) Delta Lake
16 6 (0.85%) Power BI
17 5 (0.71%) Apache Iceberg
17 5 (0.71%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 137 (19.41%) Git
2 69 (9.77%) Jenkins
3 60 (8.50%) GitLab
4 26 (3.68%) JUnit
5 19 (2.69%) Maven
5 19 (2.69%) Selenium
6 16 (2.27%) Cypress.io
7 15 (2.12%) JIRA
8 14 (1.98%) Mockito
9 12 (1.70%) Postman
10 11 (1.56%) Claude Code
11 9 (1.27%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.99%) CircleCI
12 7 (0.99%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.99%) Gatling
13 6 (0.85%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.85%) Storybook
14 5 (0.71%) Poetry
14 5 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 164 (23.23%) Social Skills
2 112 (15.86%) Finance
3 55 (7.79%) Public Sector
4 41 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (4.96%) Advertising
6 22 (3.12%) Aerospace
6 22 (3.12%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (2.97%) Marketing
8 16 (2.27%) Banking
9 15 (2.12%) Games
10 13 (1.84%) Law
11 12 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.42%) Tech for Good
13 9 (1.27%) Health Technology
14 8 (1.13%) Legal
15 6 (0.85%) Electronics
15 6 (0.85%) Retail
16 4 (0.57%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.42%) Local Government
17 3 (0.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 302 (42.78%) Developer
2 177 (25.07%) Senior
3 141 (19.97%) .NET Developer
4 106 (15.01%) Software Engineer
5 77 (10.91%) Lead
6 58 (8.22%) DevOps Engineer
7 57 (8.07%) Senior Developer
8 48 (6.80%) Java Developer
9 40 (5.67%) Full-Stack Developer
10 30 (4.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 28 (3.97%) Senior Java Developer
12 27 (3.82%) AWS Engineer
13 26 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
14 24 (3.40%) Data Engineer
14 24 (3.40%) Lead Developer
15 23 (3.26%) Architect
16 22 (3.12%) Azure Engineer
16 22 (3.12%) Platform Engineer
17 21 (2.97%) Cloud Engineer
18 19 (2.69%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (30.88%) .NET
2 187 (26.49%) Terraform
3 150 (21.25%) .NET Core
3 150 (21.25%) ASP.NET
4 136 (19.26%) Node.js
5 134 (18.98%) React
6 132 (18.70%) ASP.NET Core
7 107 (15.16%) REST
8 103 (14.59%) CSS
9 102 (14.45%) AngularJS
10 88 (12.46%) HTML
11 85 (12.04%) Spring
12 81 (11.47%) RESTful
13 75 (10.62%) Vue
14 70 (9.92%) ML.NET
15 64 (9.07%) Spring Boot
16 50 (7.08%) Kafka
17 40 (5.67%) Blazor
18 30 (4.25%) OAuth
19 29 (4.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 117 (16.57%) Cloud Native
2 65 (9.21%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.82%) Greenfield Project
4 20 (2.83%) Product Ownership
5 19 (2.69%) Digital TV
6 18 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.84%) Robotics
10 12 (1.70%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.42%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.27%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.27%) Over-the-Top Content
13 9 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
14 8 (1.13%) Algorithms
14 8 (1.13%) Blog
14 8 (1.13%) IoT
15 7 (0.99%) Data Centre
15 7 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 130 (18.41%) Linux
2 20 (2.83%) Windows
3 18 (2.55%) Ubuntu
4 10 (1.42%) Debian
5 7 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
6 6 (0.85%) Unix
7 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.71%) CentOS
7 5 (0.71%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.57%) Android
9 3 (0.42%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.42%) Robot Operating System
9 3 (0.42%) VMS
10 2 (0.28%) Solaris
10 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.14%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (65.01%) CI/CD
2 293 (41.50%) Agile
3 249 (35.27%) DevOps
4 245 (34.70%) Full-Stack Development
5 239 (33.85%) Containerisation
6 230 (32.58%) AI
7 219 (31.02%) Microservices
8 202 (28.61%) Software Engineering
9 151 (21.39%) Infrastructure as Code
10 142 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
11 140 (19.83%) Mentoring
12 129 (18.27%) Machine Learning
13 120 (17.00%) Scrum
14 107 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 103 (14.59%) TDD
16 95 (13.46%) Test Automation
17 84 (11.90%) Observability
18 79 (11.19%) Clean Code
18 79 (11.19%) Event-Driven
19 61 (8.64%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 275 (38.95%) SQL
2 228 (32.29%) C#
2 228 (32.29%) Python
3 157 (22.24%) TypeScript
4 127 (17.99%) JavaScript
5 123 (17.42%) Java
6 70 (9.92%) Bash
7 39 (5.52%) Go
8 38 (5.38%) PowerShell
9 24 (3.40%) Ruby
10 21 (2.97%) Bicep
11 18 (2.55%) PHP
11 18 (2.55%) Scala
12 17 (2.41%) C++
12 17 (2.41%) Kotlin
13 16 (2.27%) PL/SQL
14 10 (1.42%) Groovy
15 9 (1.27%) Rust
16 8 (1.13%) C
17 4 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 114 (16.15%) Security Cleared
2 91 (12.89%) SC Cleared
3 50 (7.08%) Degree
4 21 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.55%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.27%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.42%) OCP
11 3 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.28%) GIAC
12 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.14%) SANS
13 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (9.35%) QA
2 33 (4.67%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.26%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.98%) WCAG
5 9 (1.27%) NIST
6 6 (0.85%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.85%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.57%) NCSC
9 3 (0.42%) GDPR
9 3 (0.42%) SLA
10 2 (0.28%) AUTOSAR
10 2 (0.28%) MISRA
10 2 (0.28%) MISRA C
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 18 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.42%) iptables
4 3 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.28%) KVM
5 2 (0.28%) QEMU
6 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 471 (66.71%) Kubernetes
2 58 (8.22%) Ansible
3 44 (6.23%) Grafana
4 38 (5.38%) Prometheus
5 20 (2.83%) Puppet
6 15 (2.12%) Istio
7 14 (1.98%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.70%) Argo
9 11 (1.56%) Podman
10 4 (0.57%) linkerd
10 4 (0.57%) Packer
11 3 (0.42%) Cilium
11 3 (0.42%) Kibana
11 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.28%) CASB
12 2 (0.28%) Consul
12 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.28%) Nagios
Vendors
1 183 (25.92%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.80%) Google
3 24 (3.40%) OpenAI
3 24 (3.40%) Oracle
4 19 (2.69%) Facebook
5 15 (2.12%) Okta
5 15 (2.12%) Red Hat
6 14 (1.98%) Ping Identity
7 12 (1.70%) Databricks
7 12 (1.70%) Informatica
8 10 (1.42%) VMware
9 9 (1.27%) Typelevel
10 8 (1.13%) Splunk
11 7 (0.99%) New Relic
12 6 (0.85%) Confluent
13 5 (0.71%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.71%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.71%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.71%) IBM
14 4 (0.57%) TIBCO