Docker Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Docker
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 37 47
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Docker 48 41 33
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.83% 5.41% 3.74%
As % of the System Software category 66.67% 34.45% 25.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 31 23
10th Percentile £310 £356 £431
25th Percentile £358 £371 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £438 £693
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -36.87% +45.89%
75th Percentile £575 £492 £723
90th Percentile £606 £538 £735
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +5.56% -8.16% +3.16%

All System Software Skills
Glasgow

Docker falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 72 119 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 10.24% 15.70% 14.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 72 73
10th Percentile £209 £187 £304
25th Percentile £346 £356 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% -25.00% +50.00%
75th Percentile £538 £513 £700
90th Percentile £593 £673 £717
Scotland median daily rate £468 £450 £503
% change year-on-year +3.89% -10.54% +12.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.13 - -
Median hourly rate £23.75 - £50.00
75th Percentile £24.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 £24.18 £60.00
% change year-on-year +210.17% -59.70% +238.60%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Docker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Docker job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Docker

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Glasgow over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Glasgow

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.17%) Anypoint
2 2 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.17%) Mule
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.08%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 33 (68.75%) AWS
2 20 (41.67%) Azure
3 14 (29.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (25.00%) Serverless
5 11 (22.92%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (14.58%) Amazon MSK
8 6 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (10.42%) GitHub
10 4 (8.33%) Amazon S3
11 3 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (6.25%) OpenShift
12 2 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (2.08%) Datadog
13 1 (2.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.58%) Firewall
2 2 (4.17%) AMQP
2 2 (4.17%) DSL
3 1 (2.08%) Network Security
3 1 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 4 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 4 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (4.17%) MySQL
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.08%) DB2
6 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.08%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.08%) HBase
6 1 (2.08%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 23 (47.92%) Jenkins
2 12 (25.00%) Git
3 11 (22.92%) GitLab
4 9 (18.75%) JUnit
5 8 (16.67%) Bitbucket
5 8 (16.67%) JIRA
6 7 (14.58%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (12.50%) Cypress.io
8 3 (6.25%) MLflow
8 3 (6.25%) Mockito
8 3 (6.25%) Vite
9 2 (4.17%) Cucumber
9 2 (4.17%) Gradle
9 2 (4.17%) SonarQube
9 2 (4.17%) TeamCity
10 1 (2.08%) Snyk
10 1 (2.08%) webpack
General
1 22 (45.83%) Finance
2 21 (43.75%) Banking
3 9 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 8 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 6 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (6.25%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) Developer
2 11 (22.92%) Java Developer
2 11 (22.92%) Senior
3 10 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 6 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
4 6 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (31.25%) Spring
1 15 (31.25%) Spring Boot
2 12 (25.00%) RESTful
3 10 (20.83%) AngularJS
3 10 (20.83%) React
4 8 (16.67%) Node.js
5 6 (12.50%) Jest
5 6 (12.50%) Kafka
6 5 (10.42%) FastAPI
6 5 (10.42%) REST
7 4 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (6.25%) .NET
8 3 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (6.25%) J2EE
8 3 (6.25%) Next.js
8 3 (6.25%) OAuth
8 3 (6.25%) scikit-learn
8 3 (6.25%) SOAP
8 3 (6.25%) TensorFlow
8 3 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Cloud Native
1 5 (10.42%) Public Cloud
2 4 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.08%) Clustering
5 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.08%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.08%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.92%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Unix
3 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (79.17%) CI/CD
2 27 (56.25%) DevOps
3 25 (52.08%) Microservices
4 24 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 19 (39.58%) Agile
6 16 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 10 (20.83%) AI
8 10 (20.83%) Observability
8 10 (20.83%) Test Automation
9 8 (16.67%) Computer Science
9 8 (16.67%) DevSecOps
9 8 (16.67%) SDLC
10 7 (14.58%) Critical Thinking
10 7 (14.58%) Front End Development
10 7 (14.58%) User Experience
10 7 (14.58%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 31 (64.58%) Java
2 26 (54.17%) Python
3 9 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 7 (14.58%) Perl
4 7 (14.58%) Ruby
5 4 (8.33%) SQL
6 3 (6.25%) Bash
6 3 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.17%) DataWeave
7 2 (4.17%) Rust
8 1 (2.08%) C#
8 1 (2.08%) Go
8 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (18.75%) AWS Certification
2 4 (8.33%) Degree
2 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) Accessibility
1 7 (14.58%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (2.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 30 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 17 (35.42%) Terraform
3 14 (29.17%) Ansible
4 2 (4.17%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) Oracle
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) Splunk
3 2 (4.17%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.08%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.08%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.08%) Confluent
4 1 (2.08%) Pega
4 1 (2.08%) Veracode