Docker salary: $198K median
From 645 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$198Kmedian advertised salary
$162K – $226Kmiddle half of roles
$200Kaverage advertised salary
645roles counted
Docker salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $230K, 18% more than senior roles ($196K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $196K | $183K–$215K | 245 |
| Lead and above | $230K | $214K–$260K | 141 |
| No level in title | $155K | $140K–$210K | 255 |
Docker salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $220K | 237 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $214K | 74 |
| 🇺🇸California | $202K | 327 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $198K | 605 |
| 🇺🇸Washington, DC | $195K | 19 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle | $187K | 48 |
| 🇺🇸Boston | $162K | 22 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles | $142K | 69 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $558K | 4 |
| OpenAI | $338K | 5 |
| Character.AI | $312K | 5 |
| Lambda | $312K | 5 |
| Wayve | $285K | 3 |
| Apollo.io | $274K | 5 |
| Hims & Hers | $260K | 5 |
| Strava | $252K | 3 |
| CodeRabbit | $250K | 3 |
| Baseten | $248K | 5 |
| Roblox | $244K | 4 |
| Nuro | $244K | 4 |
| Scale AI | $243K | 23 |
| Invisible Technologies | $238K | 4 |
| Kong | $235K | 4 |
| Faire | $233K | 3 |
| xAI | $230K | 4 |
| Astranis | $230K | 3 |
| $229K | 6 | |
| Freenome | $229K | 3 |
| Justworks | $229K | 8 |
| ClickHouse | $228K | 5 |
| Omada Health | $228K | 5 |
| Typeface | $225K | 3 |
| Muon Space | $225K | 5 |
Highest-paying open Docker roles
All Docker jobs- Research Engineer, DiscoveryAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$350K - $850KDockerGCPPyTorch
- Staff Research Engineer, Discovery TeamAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$350K - $850KLeadDockerKubernetes
- Full Stack Engineer, Fleet SchedulingOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$230K - $490KGoPythonReact
- Software Engineer, Build Systems / CIOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$185K - $490KRustGoPython
- Director, Software Engineering (Platform)Neko Health · 🇺🇸New York$405K - $480KLeadDockerAzure
- Staff Software Engineer (Hybrid, San Francisco)Apollo.io · 🇺🇸Hybrid, San Francisco$315K - $415KLeadPythonReactRuby
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Monetization)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KPythonTypeScriptReact
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Financial ProductsAdyen · 🇺🇸San Francisco$297K - $401KLeadPythonJavaSQL
- Research Engineer, Post-Training (All Industry Levels)Character.AI · 🇺🇸Redwood City or New York City$225K - $400KDockerMachine LearningKubernetes
- Principal Research Engineer, Post-TrainingCharacter.AI · 🇺🇸Redwood City, CA$275K - $400KLeadDockerMachine LearningLLM
- Senior Software Engineer, Developer InfrastructureSentry · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$190K - $400KSeniorPythonDockerGCP
- Senior Software Engineer - Storage Control PlaneLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$266K - $395KSeniorGoPythonC++
- Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure StorageLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$266K - $395KSeniorGoPythonC++
- Software Engineer, InfrastructureSierra · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$230K - $390KDockerTerraformGCP
- AI Engineer - Public SectorUnstructured · Remote$205K - $365KRemotePythonSQLDocker
- Staff Software Engineer, Public SectorScale AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA; St. Louis, MO; New York, NY; Washingto…$189K - $362KLeadDockerGCPAzure
- Senior Staff Frontier Agents EngineerScale AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA; New York, NY$288K - $360KLeadPythonDockerTerraform
- Senior Engineering Manager, Device SoftwareHinge Health · 🇺🇸San Francisco-HQ$240K - $360KSeniorPythonTypeScriptReact
- Senior Software Engineer (Hybrid, San Francisco)Apollo.io · 🇺🇸Hybrid, San Francisco$195K - $358KSeniorPythonReactRuby
- Sr. Model Engineer, Mid-TrainingxAI · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$220K - $357KSeniorRustPythonC++
Questions about Docker pay
- What is the average Docker salary?
- $200K a year on average and $198K at the median, across 645 open Docker postings at tech companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.
- What is the typical range?
- The middle half of the postings offer $162K to $226K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Docker pay?
- Anthropic ($558K), OpenAI ($338K), Character.AI ($312K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Where do these figures come from?
- From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.
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The median advertised salary for Docker roles at tech companies is $198K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $162K to $226K. Counted from 645 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/docker/
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