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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

docker

2,729 live US technical postings name docker in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 2,729 postings naming docker that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer55.1%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer20.4%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer7%
  4. 4Data Engineer4%
  5. 5Backend Engineer3.4%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer3.3%
  7. 7AI Engineer3%
  8. 8Security Engineer1.5%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where docker is named
n = 1,645
10th
$128k
25th
$150k
Median
$173k
75th
$200k
90th
$229k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote10.9%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA9.3%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA8%
  4. 4New York, NY6.4%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.9%
  6. 6Seattle, WA2.8%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.3%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA2.2%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.