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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 39 71
Rank change year-on-year -39 +32 -41
Permanent jobs citing Docker 739 1,075 931
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.24% 6.49% 3.77%
As % of the System Software category 38.98% 51.34% 32.37%
Number of salaries quoted 556 424 711
10th Percentile £45,750 £47,500 £43,000
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% -11.11%
75th Percentile £77,424 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £101,250 £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 1,896 2,094 2,876
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.31% 12.64% 11.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,419 1,229 2,066
10th Percentile £31,465 £29,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -11.50%

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 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 21 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.57%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.03%) Apache
4 8 (1.08%) nginx
5 7 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.81%) IIS
6 6 (0.81%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.54%) Camunda
8 4 (0.54%) Confluence
9 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.41%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.41%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.27%) WordPress
11 1 (0.14%) Drupal
11 1 (0.14%) Moodle
11 1 (0.14%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (0.81%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 457 (61.84%) AWS
2 433 (58.59%) Azure
3 230 (31.12%) GitHub
4 181 (24.49%) GCP
5 153 (20.70%) GitHub Copilot
6 76 (10.28%) Azure AI
7 74 (10.01%) Serverless
8 57 (7.71%) SaaS
9 53 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
9 53 (7.17%) GitHub Actions
10 46 (6.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 39 (5.28%) Amazon S3
11 39 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
12 35 (4.74%) Azure Service Bus
13 31 (4.19%) Azure AKS
14 30 (4.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (4.06%) Amazon ECS
15 25 (3.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 24 (3.25%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 52 (7.04%) Broadband
2 20 (2.71%) Internet
3 10 (1.35%) VPN
4 9 (1.22%) DNS
4 9 (1.22%) Firewall
5 5 (0.68%) AMQP
5 5 (0.68%) SMS
6 4 (0.54%) Network Security
6 4 (0.54%) SSH
6 4 (0.54%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.41%) DHCP
7 3 (0.41%) HTTP
7 3 (0.41%) MQTT
8 2 (0.27%) Intranet
8 2 (0.27%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.27%) SAN
8 2 (0.27%) VLAN
8 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
9 1 (0.14%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (24.22%) MongoDB
2 144 (19.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 104 (14.07%) PostgreSQL
4 62 (8.39%) Elasticsearch
5 61 (8.25%) SQL Server
6 54 (7.31%) NoSQL
7 44 (5.95%) Relational Database
8 37 (5.01%) MySQL
9 35 (4.74%) Redis
10 22 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
10 22 (2.98%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (1.35%) Data Lake
13 8 (1.08%) Big Data
13 8 (1.08%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.95%) Power BI
15 6 (0.81%) Delta Lake
15 6 (0.81%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 146 (19.76%) Git
2 72 (9.74%) Jenkins
3 60 (8.12%) GitLab
4 26 (3.52%) JUnit
5 21 (2.84%) Cypress.io
6 20 (2.71%) Selenium
7 19 (2.57%) Maven
8 17 (2.30%) JIRA
9 14 (1.89%) Mockito
10 12 (1.62%) CircleCI
10 12 (1.62%) Postman
11 11 (1.49%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.49%) Cucumber
12 9 (1.22%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.95%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.95%) Gatling
14 6 (0.81%) JMeter
14 6 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 167 (22.60%) Social Skills
2 108 (14.61%) Finance
3 55 (7.44%) Public Sector
4 45 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (5.28%) Advertising
6 22 (2.98%) Marketing
7 21 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (2.71%) Aerospace
9 15 (2.03%) Banking
9 15 (2.03%) Games
10 14 (1.89%) Law
11 11 (1.49%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.35%) Legal
13 7 (0.95%) Tech for Good
14 6 (0.81%) Electronics
15 5 (0.68%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.68%) Retail
16 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.41%) Local Government
17 3 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 316 (42.76%) Developer
2 169 (22.87%) Senior
3 148 (20.03%) .NET Developer
4 114 (15.43%) Software Engineer
5 82 (11.10%) Lead
6 54 (7.31%) DevOps Engineer
7 50 (6.77%) Senior Developer
8 45 (6.09%) Java Developer
9 43 (5.82%) Full-Stack Developer
10 34 (4.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 31 (4.19%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
13 25 (3.38%) Data Engineer
13 25 (3.38%) Platform Engineer
14 23 (3.11%) Architect
14 23 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
14 23 (3.11%) Lead Developer
14 23 (3.11%) Senior Java Developer
15 22 (2.98%) Cloud Engineer
16 21 (2.84%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (30.45%) .NET
2 159 (21.52%) .NET Core
3 157 (21.24%) ASP.NET
4 138 (18.67%) ASP.NET Core
5 133 (18.00%) React
6 127 (17.19%) Node.js
7 111 (15.02%) REST
8 108 (14.61%) CSS
9 104 (14.07%) AngularJS
10 96 (12.99%) HTML
11 83 (11.23%) RESTful
12 80 (10.83%) Spring
13 77 (10.42%) Vue
14 74 (10.01%) ML.NET
15 58 (7.85%) Spring Boot
16 51 (6.90%) Kafka
17 40 (5.41%) Blazor
18 39 (5.28%) gRPC
19 32 (4.33%) OAuth
20 30 (4.06%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 124 (16.78%) Cloud Native
2 78 (10.55%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.47%) Greenfield Project
4 27 (3.65%) Over-the-Top Content
4 27 (3.65%) Video\Live Streaming
5 26 (3.52%) Product Ownership
6 21 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.71%) Digital TV
8 15 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.89%) AI Agents
9 14 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.49%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.49%) IoT
10 11 (1.49%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.35%) Robotics
12 9 (1.22%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (1.08%) Blog
13 8 (1.08%) Onboarding
14 7 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 131 (17.73%) Linux
2 16 (2.17%) Windows
3 15 (2.03%) Ubuntu
4 8 (1.08%) Debian
4 8 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.81%) Unix
6 5 (0.68%) Android
6 5 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.68%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.54%) CentOS
8 3 (0.41%) VMS
9 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.27%) Solaris
9 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (66.04%) CI/CD
2 304 (41.14%) Agile
3 282 (38.16%) Containerisation
4 262 (35.45%) DevOps
4 262 (35.45%) Full-Stack Development
5 244 (33.02%) Microservices
6 228 (30.85%) AI
7 221 (29.91%) Software Engineering
8 161 (21.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 151 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
10 150 (20.30%) Machine Learning
11 138 (18.67%) Mentoring
12 129 (17.46%) Scrum
13 118 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 112 (15.16%) TDD
15 101 (13.67%) Test Automation
16 96 (12.99%) Clean Code
17 83 (11.23%) Observability
18 80 (10.83%) Event-Driven
19 70 (9.47%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 268 (36.27%) SQL
2 260 (35.18%) Python
3 235 (31.80%) C#
4 154 (20.84%) TypeScript
5 135 (18.27%) JavaScript
6 118 (15.97%) Java
7 65 (8.80%) Bash
8 55 (7.44%) Go
9 40 (5.41%) Scala
10 35 (4.74%) PowerShell
11 25 (3.38%) Ruby
12 21 (2.84%) PHP
13 19 (2.57%) Bicep
14 17 (2.30%) C++
15 16 (2.17%) PL/SQL
16 15 (2.03%) Kotlin
17 10 (1.35%) Groovy
18 7 (0.95%) C
18 7 (0.95%) Rust
19 4 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 108 (14.61%) Security Cleared
2 90 (12.18%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.71%) Degree
4 19 (2.57%) Azure Certification
4 19 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 13 (1.76%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.41%) CISSP
10 3 (0.41%) GIAC
10 3 (0.41%) ISACA
10 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.41%) OCP
10 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.41%) SANS
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (9.61%) QA
2 37 (5.01%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.57%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.44%) WCAG
5 11 (1.49%) NIST
6 9 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.95%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.54%) NCSC
10 3 (0.41%) GDPR
10 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
11 2 (0.27%) MISRA
11 2 (0.27%) MISRA C
11 2 (0.27%) SLA
12 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.14%) PSD2
12 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 22 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.54%) Firmware
5 3 (0.41%) iptables
5 3 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.27%) KVM
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.14%) QEMU
7 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 478 (64.68%) Kubernetes
2 186 (25.17%) Terraform
3 56 (7.58%) Ansible
4 51 (6.90%) Grafana
5 40 (5.41%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.71%) Puppet
7 17 (2.30%) Istio
8 16 (2.17%) Podman
9 13 (1.76%) Argo
10 12 (1.62%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.54%) linkerd
12 3 (0.41%) Cilium
12 3 (0.41%) Kibana
12 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.27%) CASB
13 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.27%) MIIS
13 2 (0.27%) Nagios
13 2 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 194 (26.25%) Microsoft
2 55 (7.44%) Google
3 27 (3.65%) Typelevel
4 23 (3.11%) Oracle
5 21 (2.84%) Facebook
6 18 (2.44%) OpenAI
7 17 (2.30%) Okta
8 15 (2.03%) Databricks
9 14 (1.89%) Ping Identity
9 14 (1.89%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.62%) Informatica
11 8 (1.08%) Confluent
11 8 (1.08%) VMware
12 7 (0.95%) ForgeRock
13 6 (0.81%) Splunk
14 5 (0.68%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.68%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.68%) IBM
14 5 (0.68%) New Relic
15 4 (0.54%) TIBCO