Docker: mercado
Docker is the baseline literacy of modern software work: the container became the unit of code delivery, and 'knows Docker' appears in postings of every profile. We track 12 384 open positions listing Docker, 11 238 of them fresh. For a developer it means Dockerfiles, compose and image debugging; for DevOps — registries, multi-stage builds, image security and runtimes. Docker most often appears next to Kubernetes, AWS and Azure. 36% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is measured Docker demand from public sources: trend, geography, seniority and the adjacent stack.
El mercado de Docker tiene ahora 12.384 puestos abiertos, 11.238 de ellos observados recientemente. Median salary $7472/mo. Observed candidate pool — 4776.
36% of Docker postings allow fully remote work.
⚠ salary known for 1083 of 12384 jobs; remote share from 9984 with a stated format; 11238 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Docker postings appeared each week since Aug 10, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 347
New sources connected: Aug 17 +57 · Aug 24 +31 · Aug 31 +31 · Sep 7 +25 · Sep 14 +19 · Sep 21 +31 · Sep 28 +18 · Oct 5 +17 · Oct 12 +13 · Oct 19 +26
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses. A posting belongs to the technology by its stack tag; the series starts on 10 Aug 2026 — earlier tags were assigned differently and are not comparable. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Salaries over time
Median Docker salary per week, USD per month.
Median salary, USD per month
Only postings with a USD salary and a known period (month or year), $500–$50,000 per month. Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank — that means no data, not zero.
Remote work over time
Share of Docker postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of Docker postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demanda y oferta observada
| Demanda abierta | 12.384 |
| Oferta observada | 4776 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Distribución de salarios
Uno de cada diez gana menos de $3306, uno de cada diez más de $16.717. La mitad del mercado está entre $5208 y $13.433. Muestra: 1083.
The Docker range histogram uses only postings with an explicit compensation range.
Geografía de la demanda
| país | empleos |
|---|---|
| PL | 2580 |
| US | 2144 |
| RU | 895 |
| IN | 713 |
| DE | 570 |
| GB | 453 |
| SG | 252 |
| CA | 240 |
| HK | 208 |
| FR | 151 |
The top country is Poland (2 580 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Se usa junto con
Docker is almost never required alone: Kubernetes, AWS and Azure stand next to it — a container makes sense within an orchestration-and-cloud bundle.
Roles que la usan
| rol | empleos |
|---|---|
| DevOps | 2728 |
| Backend | 2310 |
| Fullstack | 2078 |
| Platform Engineer | 607 |
| ML/AI | 592 |
| Data | 576 |
| AI Engineer | 555 |
| Architect | 491 |
| QA | 440 |
| Security | 309 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demanda por nivel
| nivel | empleos |
|---|---|
| senior | 4545 |
| middle | 1314 |
| lead | 682 |
| principal | 585 |
| junior | 547 |
Senior-and-above is about 76% of 7 673 graded Docker postings; Docker itself, however, is expected from the junior level up.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Empleadores
La demanda se reparte entre 4745 empleadores. El mayor concentra el 1.5%, los diez primeros el 6.8%; el 93.2% restante es cola larga.
| proporción | valor |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 1.5% |
| top-3 | 3.4% |
| top-10 | 6.8% |
| cola larga | 93.2% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Dónde ve Zorky este mercado
Observado en 236 fuentes; la mayor concentra el 17.4%: este mercado no depende de un solo canal.
Docker postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Vacantes recientes
- Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack & DevOps) · GB
- Senior Frontend Engineer (m/f/d) – Cluj · RO
- Senior Backend Engineer (m/f/d) - Cluj · RO
- Senior Backend Developer · PL · $7625
- Инженер по автоматизации тестирования (сессионный антифрод) · RU
- Cloud Engineer – Windows & Linux Platform Automation · PK
- Python Developer · UA
- GCP Cloud Platform Engineer · US
Mercados adyacentes
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
Cómo se mide
- Vacante
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Candidato observado
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Candidato emparejable
- not counted yet
- Ventana
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
Sobre los datos
- Algunos desgloses están ocultos: su cobertura de datos aún no es suficiente.
- Las estadísticas se muestran solo donde la muestra supera un control de calidad.
- Que falte un bloque no significa que el valor sea cero.
Desgloses ocultos actualmente: 7.
Datos a 2026-10-27
Preguntas frecuentes
Common questions about Docker on the job market — short answers from the slice.
Is Docker a standalone profession or a supporting skill?
A supporting but mandatory one: 12 384 postings in the slice list Docker across very different roles. A dedicated 'Docker engineer' title barely exists — containers are part of the DevOps, backend, QA-automation and data-engineering profiles.
What level of Docker is expected from a developer?
Write a Dockerfile for your service, build a slim multi-stage image, run an environment with compose, read logs and exec into a container while debugging. Registries, image signing and runtime security belong to DevOps/Platform.
What should I learn after Docker?
The natural ladder: compose → Kubernetes (orchestration), then Helm, one managed cloud cluster and a CI/CD pipeline that builds and publishes images. That is exactly the bundle visible in the adjacent technologies of this slice.
Is Docker still relevant with alternatives growing (Podman, containerd)?
Yes: alternative runtimes are OCI-image compatible, so the skill transfers almost without loss. In postings 'Docker' often means 'containerization in general' — demand for the ability itself keeps growing.