Which roles ask for Docker at tech companies · 343 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
343 roles counted that list Docker, one per company, title and level; 744 postings in the window.
In short
Docker: listed in 343 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 230 and preferred in 113. The largest group is software engineer roles: 174 of 343 (51%).
- Required
- 230 of 343 (67%)
- Of the roles that list Docker
- Preferred
- 113 of 343 (33%)
- Of the roles that list Docker
- Largest group
- 174 of 343 (51%)
- Software engineer
Roles that ask for Docker
Roles listing Docker, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.
| Role | Roles | Of the role's roles we read |
|---|---|---|
| Software engineer | 174 | 174 of 719 (24%) |
| DevOps engineer | 33 | 33 of 58 (57%) |
| Security engineer | 26 | 26 of 126 (21%) |
| Platform engineer | 21 | 21 of 57 (37%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 20 | 20 of 70 (29%) |
| AI engineer | 13 | 13 of 70 (19%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 12 | 12 of 63 (19%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 11 | 11 of 79 (14%) |
| QA engineer | 11 | 11 of 63 (17%) |
| Data engineer | 10 | 10 of 99 (10%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- Akamai Technologies7 roles
- Scale AI7 roles
- Crusoe6 roles
- Deepgram5 roles
- TASQ Staffing Solutions5 roles
- Zscaler5 roles
- George Bernard Consulting4 roles
- Netskope4 roles
- Okta4 roles
- Palantir4 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 343 Docker roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 178 of 343 (52%) |
| Kubernetes | 156 of 343 (45%) |
| CI/CD | 154 of 343 (45%) |
| AWS | 142 of 343 (41%) |
| Go | 92 of 343 (27%) |
| Azure | 86 of 343 (25%) |
| Distributed Systems | 85 of 343 (25%) |
| GCP | 85 of 343 (25%) |
| REST | 83 of 343 (24%) |
| Git | 81 of 343 (24%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Kubernetes | 84 of 343 (24%) |
| AWS | 57 of 343 (17%) |
| CI/CD | 56 of 343 (16%) |
| GCP | 42 of 343 (12%) |
| Azure | 38 of 343 (11%) |
| AI | 36 of 343 (10%) |
| Terraform | 32 of 343 (9%) |
| LLMs | 31 of 343 (9%) |
| Open Source | 29 of 343 (8%) |
| Python | 29 of 343 (8%) |
Experience
Of the 185 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 184 of 185 (99%)
- 2+ years
- 183 of 185 (99%)
- 3+ years
- 172 of 185 (93%)
- 5+ years
- 125 of 185 (68%)
- 8+ years
- 42 of 185 (23%)
- 10+ years
- 12 of 185 (6%)
Degree
Of the 229 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 24 of 229 (10%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 43 of 229 (19%)
- Preferred
- 10 of 229 (4%)
- Not mentioned
- 152 of 229 (66%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 343 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Median stated pay
- $157.9k a year
- Roles stating pay
- 123 of 343 (36%)
- Remote roles
- 257 of 343 (75%)
How we count: 343 roles from 235 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology