Docker: Markt
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 12 188 open positions listing Docker, 11 318 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.
Der Markt für Docker hat derzeit 12.188 offene Rollen, davon 11.318 frisch beobachtet. Median salary $7.375/mo. Observed candidate pool — 4.756.
36% of Docker postings allow fully remote work.
⚠ salary known for 1041 of 12188 jobs; remote share from 9861 with a stated format; 11318 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Nachfrage und beobachtetes Angebot
| Offene Nachfrage | 12.188 |
| Beobachtetes Angebot | 4.756 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Gehaltsverteilung
Jeder Zehnte verdient unter $3.367, jeder Zehnte über $16.708. Die Hälfte des Markts liegt zwischen $5.208 und $13.433. Stichprobe: 1.041.
The Docker range histogram uses only postings with an explicit compensation range.
Geografie der Nachfrage
| Land | Stellen |
|---|---|
| PL | 2.567 |
| US | 2.075 |
| RU | 911 |
| IN | 679 |
| DE | 577 |
| GB | 453 |
| SG | 248 |
| CA | 232 |
| HK | 199 |
| FR | 152 |
The top country is Poland (2 567 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Wird zusammen verwendet mit
Docker is almost never required alone: Kubernetes, AWS and Azure stand next to it — a container makes sense within an orchestration-and-cloud bundle.
Rollen, die sie nutzen
| Rolle | Stellen |
|---|---|
| DevOps | 3.085 |
| Backend | 2.146 |
| Fullstack | 1.885 |
| Data | 628 |
| Platform Engineer | 586 |
| ML/AI | 564 |
| AI Engineer | 511 |
| Architect | 433 |
| QA | 414 |
| Frontend | 369 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Nachfrage nach Level
| Level | Stellen |
|---|---|
| senior | 4.458 |
| middle | 1.307 |
| lead | 672 |
| principal | 578 |
| junior | 472 |
Senior-and-above is about 76% of 7 487 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
Arbeitgeber
Die Nachfrage verteilt sich auf 4.665 Arbeitgeber. Der größte steht für 1.6 %, die Top Ten für 6.9 %; die übrigen 93.1 % sind Long Tail.
| Anteil | Wert |
|---|---|
| Top-1 | 1.6% |
| Top-3 | 3.4% |
| Top-10 | 6.9% |
| Long Tail | 93.1% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Wo Zorky diesen Markt sieht
Beobachtet in 238 Quellen; die größte steht für 17.4 % — dieser Markt hängt nicht an einem einzigen Kanal.
Docker postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Neueste Ausschreibungen
- QA Engineer 2 · IN
- Software Development Engineer 4 · IN
- Lead Software Engineer · IN
- Engineering Team Lead · IN
- Lead Mobile Engineer
- Full Stack AI Engineer · IN
- Software Engineer · IN
- Engineering Lead · IN
Benachbarte Märkte
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
So wird gemessen
- Stelle
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Beobachteter Kandidat
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchbarer Kandidat
- not counted yet
- Fenster
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
Über die Daten
- Einige Aufschlüsselungen sind ausgeblendet: Die Datenabdeckung reicht noch nicht aus.
- Statistiken erscheinen nur, wo die Stichprobe eine Qualitätsschwelle passiert.
- Ein fehlender Block bedeutet nicht den Wert null.
Derzeit ausgeblendete Aufschlüsselungen: 7.
Datenstand 2026-10-26
Häufig gestellte Fragen
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: 12 188 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.