Docker Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Docker
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 61 33
Rank change year-on-year +20 -28 -16
Permanent jobs citing Docker 1,058 1,498 3,220
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.37% 4.44% 7.76%
As % of the System Software category 50.43% 34.96% 52.29%
Number of salaries quoted 689 1,229 2,149
10th Percentile £49,094 £43,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.78% -0.69%

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 2,098 4,285 6,158
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.62% 12.69% 14.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,520 3,422 4,557
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -1.79%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Docker trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Docker.

Docker salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Docker over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Docker salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 195 (18.43%) Confluence
2 90 (8.51%) Apache Airflow
3 83 (7.84%) Apache
4 78 (7.37%) Apache Spark
5 26 (2.46%) Jupyter
6 14 (1.32%) CMS
7 7 (0.66%) nginx
8 6 (0.57%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.38%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.19%) Drupal
10 2 (0.19%) IIS
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) WordPress
11 1 (0.095%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.095%) Mendix
11 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.19%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.095%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 692 (65.41%) AWS
2 590 (55.77%) Azure
3 372 (35.16%) GCP
4 152 (14.37%) Serverless
5 127 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
6 115 (10.87%) Amazon ECS
7 108 (10.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 89 (8.41%) dbt
9 88 (8.32%) OpenShift
10 80 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
11 77 (7.28%) SaaS
12 75 (7.09%) GitHub
13 64 (6.05%) Amazon EKS
14 44 (4.16%) Amazon S3
15 41 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
16 40 (3.78%) GitHub Actions
17 33 (3.12%) Azure Service Bus
18 27 (2.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 24 (2.27%) npm
19 24 (2.27%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.80%) TCP/IP
2 17 (1.61%) Firewall
3 15 (1.42%) Internet
3 15 (1.42%) Network Security
4 11 (1.04%) DNS
5 6 (0.57%) Broadband
5 6 (0.57%) DHCP
5 6 (0.57%) HTTP
6 5 (0.47%) 5G
6 5 (0.47%) VLAN
7 3 (0.28%) VPN
8 2 (0.19%) MQTT
8 2 (0.19%) SSH
8 2 (0.19%) WAN
9 1 (0.095%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.095%) Diameter Protocol
9 1 (0.095%) GSM
9 1 (0.095%) IPsec
9 1 (0.095%) LAN
9 1 (0.095%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (23.72%) SQL Server
2 103 (9.74%) Elasticsearch
3 99 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
4 91 (8.60%) NoSQL
5 73 (6.90%) Amazon Athena
6 71 (6.71%) Apache Arrow
6 71 (6.71%) Apache Iceberg
6 71 (6.71%) Apache Ignite
6 71 (6.71%) Dremio
7 61 (5.77%) MySQL
8 38 (3.59%) MongoDB
9 37 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
9 37 (3.50%) Big Data
9 37 (3.50%) Redis
9 37 (3.50%) Relational Database
10 23 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (1.61%) Power BI
12 16 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
13 14 (1.32%) Tableau
14 13 (1.23%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 272 (25.71%) SonarQube
2 266 (25.14%) JIRA
3 253 (23.91%) GitLab
3 253 (23.91%) Sonatype Nexus
4 243 (22.97%) Maven
5 227 (21.46%) Selenium
6 226 (21.36%) Cucumber
7 213 (20.13%) Bitbucket
8 185 (17.49%) Git
9 82 (7.75%) Jenkins
10 75 (7.09%) Artifactory
11 44 (4.16%) JUnit
12 28 (2.65%) Mockito
13 26 (2.46%) Visual Studio
14 25 (2.36%) Octopus Deploy
14 25 (2.36%) Team Foundation Server
14 25 (2.36%) webpack
15 24 (2.27%) MSBuild
16 23 (2.17%) Jasmine
16 23 (2.17%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 510 (48.20%) Finance
2 376 (35.54%) Banking
3 327 (30.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 179 (16.92%) Social Skills
5 100 (9.45%) Front Office
6 97 (9.17%) Retail
7 69 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
8 57 (5.39%) Investment Banking
9 54 (5.10%) Corporate Banking
10 35 (3.31%) Public Sector
11 15 (1.42%) Marketing
12 14 (1.32%) Games
13 10 (0.95%) Automotive
13 10 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.66%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.57%) Advertising
16 6 (0.57%) Back Office
17 5 (0.47%) Legal
17 5 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 335 (31.66%) Software Engineer
2 269 (25.43%) Developer
3 200 (18.90%) Senior
4 179 (16.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 129 (12.19%) Python Engineer
6 119 (11.25%) AWS DevOps
7 114 (10.78%) AWS Engineer
8 112 (10.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 94 (8.88%) Data Engineer
10 85 (8.03%) Lead
11 66 (6.24%) Architect
12 64 (6.05%) Software Developer
13 63 (5.95%) Java Developer
14 56 (5.29%) Senior Developer
15 47 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
16 40 (3.78%) Java Engineer
17 32 (3.02%) Data Scientist
18 30 (2.84%) Senior DevOps
19 28 (2.65%) Backend Developer
20 27 (2.55%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 378 (35.73%) Kafka
2 355 (33.55%) React
3 295 (27.88%) Spring
4 283 (26.75%) Spring Boot
5 282 (26.65%) HTML
6 271 (25.61%) CSS
7 240 (22.68%) JPA
8 216 (20.42%) Redux
9 197 (18.62%) Hibernate
10 169 (15.97%) .NET
11 166 (15.69%) REST
12 133 (12.57%) RESTful
13 107 (10.11%) Node.js
14 80 (7.56%) Jest
15 78 (7.37%) AngularJS
16 76 (7.18%) PySpark
17 73 (6.90%) J2EE
18 67 (6.33%) Sass
19 64 (6.05%) CSS3
19 64 (6.05%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 253 (23.91%) Product Ownership
2 212 (20.04%) Enterprise Software
3 72 (6.81%) Cyberattack
4 67 (6.33%) Algorithms
5 65 (6.14%) Cloud Native
6 44 (4.16%) Management Information System
7 35 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (1.70%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.70%) Private Cloud
9 17 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (1.61%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.32%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.23%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (0.85%) IoT
13 9 (0.85%) Legacy Code
14 8 (0.76%) Distributed Applications
14 8 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.76%) Online Banking
14 8 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 195 (18.43%) Linux
2 61 (5.77%) Android
3 35 (3.31%) Unix
4 32 (3.02%) Windows
5 9 (0.85%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.47%) CentOS
8 4 (0.38%) Debian
9 2 (0.19%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.19%) VMS
9 2 (0.19%) zOS
10 1 (0.095%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.095%) Solaris
10 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 690 (65.22%) DevOps
2 660 (62.38%) CI/CD
3 628 (59.36%) Agile
4 594 (56.14%) Software Engineering
5 556 (52.55%) Containerisation
6 522 (49.34%) Microservices
7 322 (30.43%) Test Automation
8 294 (27.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 264 (24.95%) SDLC
10 260 (24.57%) Front End Development
11 256 (24.20%) TDD
12 246 (23.25%) Performance Optimisation
13 221 (20.89%) Mentoring
14 205 (19.38%) Clean Code
15 198 (18.71%) Continuous Improvement
16 156 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
17 124 (11.72%) Design Patterns
18 121 (11.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 113 (10.68%) Event-Driven
20 110 (10.40%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 578 (54.63%) Java
2 463 (43.76%) JavaScript
3 440 (41.59%) Python
4 415 (39.22%) SQL
5 168 (15.88%) Go
6 146 (13.80%) TypeScript
7 110 (10.40%) C#
8 68 (6.43%) C++
9 59 (5.58%) Rust
10 49 (4.63%) Bash
11 37 (3.50%) PHP
12 27 (2.55%) PowerShell
13 17 (1.61%) C
14 9 (0.85%) Bicep
14 9 (0.85%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.85%) Scala
14 9 (0.85%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.76%) Perl
15 8 (0.76%) Ruby
16 7 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 154 (14.56%) Security Cleared
2 93 (8.79%) Degree
3 86 (8.13%) DV Cleared
4 65 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (5.10%) SC Cleared
6 37 (3.50%) AWS Certification
7 27 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 19 (1.80%) Azure Certification
9 16 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.51%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.38%) PhD
11 3 (0.28%) Linux+ Certification
11 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.28%) OCP
11 3 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.28%) RHCE
12 2 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 246 (23.25%) QA
2 60 (5.67%) Accessibility
3 51 (4.82%) GDPR
4 24 (2.27%) HIPAA
5 8 (0.76%) NCSC
5 8 (0.76%) NIST
6 6 (0.57%) CDISC
6 6 (0.57%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.47%) SLA
8 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.095%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.095%) Basel III
9 1 (0.095%) ECSS
9 1 (0.095%) GMP
9 1 (0.095%) IFRS
9 1 (0.095%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.095%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.095%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.095%) PMO
9 1 (0.095%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (1.32%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (0.85%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.28%) Dovecot
5 3 (0.28%) Postfix
6 1 (0.095%) LXC
6 1 (0.095%) Samba
Systems Management
1 798 (75.43%) Kubernetes
2 345 (32.61%) Terraform
3 110 (10.40%) Ansible
4 48 (4.54%) Prometheus
5 41 (3.88%) Grafana
6 22 (2.08%) Istio
7 11 (1.04%) AWS Copilot
8 9 (0.85%) Argo
9 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (0.57%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.57%) Puppet
11 5 (0.47%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.47%) Kibana
11 5 (0.47%) Nagios
12 3 (0.28%) logstash
12 3 (0.28%) Rundeck
13 2 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.19%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.19%) Packer
13 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 211 (19.94%) Solace
2 81 (7.66%) Google
3 49 (4.63%) Microsoft
4 30 (2.84%) IBM
5 25 (2.36%) Databricks
6 18 (1.70%) Oracle
7 12 (1.13%) Splunk
7 12 (1.13%) VMware
8 9 (0.85%) Red Hat
9 7 (0.66%) New Relic
10 6 (0.57%) Confluent
10 6 (0.57%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.47%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.38%) IBM Sterling
12 4 (0.38%) Okta
13 3 (0.28%) Ping Identity
14 2 (0.19%) Bloomberg
14 2 (0.19%) CA Agile Central
14 2 (0.19%) Rapid7
14 2 (0.19%) Teradata