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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 25 61
Rank change year-on-year -51 +36 -32
Permanent jobs citing Docker 571 1,317 1,401
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.08% 9.00% 4.32%
As % of the System Software category 40.27% 56.14% 33.91%
Number of salaries quoted 363 646 1,219
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,875 £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 £101,500 £127,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 1,418 2,346 4,132
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.65% 16.03% 12.74%
Number of salaries quoted 986 1,455 3,381
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,200 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,679 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £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 15 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 25 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.15%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.10%) nginx
4 9 (1.58%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.40%) CMS
6 6 (1.05%) Apache
7 4 (0.70%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.70%) Drupal
7 4 (0.70%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.70%) Oracle Spatial
7 4 (0.70%) WordPress
8 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.35%) Camunda
9 2 (0.35%) Confluence
9 2 (0.35%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.35%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.18%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.53%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Magento
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.18%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 385 (67.43%) AWS
2 248 (43.43%) Azure
3 161 (28.20%) GCP
4 128 (22.42%) GitHub
5 96 (16.81%) Serverless
6 60 (10.51%) Amazon S3
7 58 (10.16%) AWS Lambda
8 49 (8.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (8.58%) GitHub Copilot
9 47 (8.23%) SaaS
10 45 (7.88%) GitHub Actions
11 38 (6.65%) Azure DevOps
12 35 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (6.13%) Amazon ECS
13 29 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 29 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (4.55%) Azure AI
15 23 (4.03%) Pulumi
16 22 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
17 21 (3.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (18.39%) Broadband
2 10 (1.75%) DNS
2 10 (1.75%) Firewall
3 8 (1.40%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.23%) Network Security
4 7 (1.23%) VPN
5 6 (1.05%) DHCP
5 6 (1.05%) Internet
6 4 (0.70%) AMQP
6 4 (0.70%) HTTP
6 4 (0.70%) MQTT
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 94 (16.46%) MongoDB
2 75 (13.13%) NoSQL
3 69 (12.08%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (7.88%) Relational Database
5 43 (7.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 43 (7.53%) SQL Server
6 37 (6.48%) Amazon RDS
7 33 (5.78%) Elasticsearch
8 27 (4.73%) MySQL
9 24 (4.20%) DynamoDB
10 22 (3.85%) Redis
11 18 (3.15%) RDBMS
12 16 (2.80%) BigQuery
13 13 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (2.10%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (2.10%) Tableau
15 11 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (1.93%) Pinecone
16 10 (1.75%) Weaviate
17 9 (1.58%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 94 (16.46%) Git
2 71 (12.43%) Jenkins
3 48 (8.41%) GitLab
4 24 (4.20%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.33%) Cypress.io
6 18 (3.15%) Jaeger
7 16 (2.80%) CircleCI
8 14 (2.45%) Maven
9 13 (2.28%) MLflow
10 11 (1.93%) JMeter
10 11 (1.93%) Selenium
11 10 (1.75%) JIRA
11 10 (1.75%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.40%) JUnit
13 7 (1.23%) Cucumber
14 6 (1.05%) Locust
14 6 (1.05%) Visual Studio
15 5 (0.88%) Postman
15 5 (0.88%) Storybook
15 5 (0.88%) Vite
General
1 98 (17.16%) Social Skills
2 76 (13.31%) Finance
3 44 (7.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (6.30%) Public Sector
5 15 (2.63%) Banking
6 12 (2.10%) Advertising
7 11 (1.93%) Law
7 11 (1.93%) Retail
8 10 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (1.75%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.40%) Games
10 7 (1.23%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.23%) Marketing
11 6 (1.05%) Aviation
11 6 (1.05%) Front Office
11 6 (1.05%) Legal
11 6 (1.05%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.70%) Military
12 4 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 200 (35.03%) Developer
2 144 (25.22%) Senior
3 97 (16.99%) Lead
4 86 (15.06%) Software Engineer
5 53 (9.28%) .NET Developer
6 50 (8.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 42 (7.36%) Scala Engineer
8 37 (6.48%) Java Developer
8 37 (6.48%) Senior Developer
9 36 (6.30%) Full-Stack Developer
10 25 (4.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 24 (4.20%) AWS Engineer
11 24 (4.20%) Cloud Engineer
12 23 (4.03%) Data Engineer
12 23 (4.03%) Scala Software Engineer
12 23 (4.03%) Senior Software Engineer
13 22 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
13 22 (3.85%) Software Developer
14 21 (3.68%) Scala Developer
15 20 (3.50%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (18.56%) .NET
1 106 (18.56%) React
2 94 (16.46%) Node.js
3 70 (12.26%) .NET Core
4 67 (11.73%) Spring
5 59 (10.33%) AngularJS
6 57 (9.98%) Kafka
6 57 (9.98%) REST
7 55 (9.63%) RESTful
7 55 (9.63%) Spring Boot
8 54 (9.46%) ASP.NET
8 54 (9.46%) gRPC
9 49 (8.58%) ASP.NET Core
10 44 (7.71%) CSS
11 41 (7.18%) HTML
12 39 (6.83%) Vue
13 33 (5.78%) Django
14 31 (5.43%) Elastic Stack
15 23 (4.03%) Playwright
15 23 (4.03%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 90 (15.76%) Cloud Native
2 76 (13.31%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (11.73%) Over-the-Top Content
3 67 (11.73%) Video\Live Streaming
4 49 (8.58%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (2.10%) AI Agents
7 11 (1.93%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.58%) Digital TV
9 8 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.40%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.23%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.23%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.23%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.05%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.88%) Cyberattack
12 5 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 105 (18.39%) Linux
2 31 (5.43%) Unix
3 11 (1.93%) Android
3 11 (1.93%) Ubuntu
3 11 (1.93%) Windows
4 8 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.88%) CentOS
6 4 (0.70%) VMS
7 3 (0.53%) Debian
7 3 (0.53%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (65.67%) CI/CD
2 276 (48.34%) Containerisation
3 256 (44.83%) DevOps
4 231 (40.46%) Agile
5 189 (33.10%) Microservices
6 167 (29.25%) Software Engineering
7 155 (27.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 141 (24.69%) Full-Stack Development
9 131 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
10 124 (21.72%) AI
11 111 (19.44%) Mentoring
12 108 (18.91%) Machine Learning
13 104 (18.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 96 (16.81%) Clean Code
15 92 (16.11%) Scrum
16 89 (15.59%) TDD
17 83 (14.54%) Coaching
18 71 (12.43%) Continuous Delivery
18 71 (12.43%) Data Science
19 70 (12.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 261 (45.71%) Python
2 144 (25.22%) SQL
3 134 (23.47%) Java
4 125 (21.89%) JavaScript
5 101 (17.69%) C#
5 101 (17.69%) Go
6 87 (15.24%) Scala
7 84 (14.71%) TypeScript
8 69 (12.08%) Bash
9 21 (3.68%) PHP
9 21 (3.68%) PowerShell
10 14 (2.45%) Bicep
11 12 (2.10%) C++
12 10 (1.75%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.40%) Groovy
13 8 (1.40%) Ruby
13 8 (1.40%) Rust
14 7 (1.23%) C
15 6 (1.05%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 67 (11.73%) Security Cleared
2 62 (10.86%) Degree
3 53 (9.28%) SC Cleared
4 29 (5.08%) AWS Certification
5 23 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (3.85%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.40%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.88%) CISSP
9 5 (0.88%) GIAC
9 5 (0.88%) ISACA
9 5 (0.88%) SANS
10 3 (0.53%) LPIC
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.35%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.35%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.28%) QA
2 23 (4.03%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.10%) NIST
5 10 (1.75%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.75%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.40%) WCAG
7 6 (1.05%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.70%) GDPR
9 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) NCSC
10 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.88%) Firmware
4 3 (0.53%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.35%) vSphere
6 1 (0.18%) KVM
6 1 (0.18%) QEMU
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 347 (60.77%) Kubernetes
2 189 (33.10%) Terraform
3 79 (13.84%) Ansible
4 48 (8.41%) Prometheus
5 41 (7.18%) Grafana
6 33 (5.78%) Argo
7 18 (3.15%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.63%) Podman
9 11 (1.93%) Puppet
10 8 (1.40%) Istio
11 7 (1.23%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.88%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.88%) HP Fortify
12 5 (0.88%) Packer
13 4 (0.70%) Kibana
14 3 (0.53%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.35%) MIIS
15 2 (0.35%) Nagios
15 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 83 (14.54%) Microsoft
2 59 (10.33%) Google
3 45 (7.88%) Typelevel
4 21 (3.68%) Databricks
5 15 (2.63%) Oracle
6 11 (1.93%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.58%) Palantir
8 8 (1.40%) Confluent
9 6 (1.05%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.05%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.05%) Splunk
9 6 (1.05%) VMware
10 5 (0.88%) ForgeRock
10 5 (0.88%) Okta
10 5 (0.88%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.70%) ESRI
11 4 (0.70%) Facebook
11 4 (0.70%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.70%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.53%) Mitel