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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 44 56
Rank change year-on-year +8 +12 -28
Contract jobs citing Docker 34 37 25
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 4.87% 4.52% 2.68%
As % of the System Software category 52.31% 29.13% 21.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 23 19
10th Percentile £310 £348 £400
25th Percentile £341 £359 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £362 £425 £486
Median % change year-on-year -14.94% -12.55% -11.64%
75th Percentile £540 £480 £700
90th Percentile £606 £512 £722
Scotland median daily rate £365 £438 £475
% change year-on-year -16.57% -7.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 - -

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 65 127 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 9.31% 15.51% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 70 72
10th Percentile £263 £219 £200
25th Percentile £315 £379 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £448 £453
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -1.10% +1.57%
75th Percentile £537 £487 £650
90th Percentile £625 £576 £700
Scotland median daily rate £421 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -6.39% -2.70% -0.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +15.70% +153.56%

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 26 March 2026.

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 2 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 29 (85.29%) AWS
2 15 (44.12%) Azure
3 10 (29.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (26.47%) GCP
5 8 (23.53%) Serverless
6 7 (20.59%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (20.59%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (20.59%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (20.59%) Amazon MSK
6 7 (20.59%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (17.65%) GitHub
7 6 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (14.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
10 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.94%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) Network Security
2 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (32.35%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (26.47%) NoSQL
3 7 (20.59%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (17.65%) MongoDB
4 6 (17.65%) Relational Database
5 5 (14.71%) MySQL
6 4 (11.76%) DynamoDB
7 3 (8.82%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
8 1 (2.94%) HBase
Development Applications
1 15 (44.12%) Jenkins
2 9 (26.47%) Git
2 9 (26.47%) GitLab
3 8 (23.53%) JIRA
4 7 (20.59%) Bitbucket
4 7 (20.59%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (17.65%) JUnit
6 4 (11.76%) Cypress.io
7 2 (5.88%) Cucumber
7 2 (5.88%) Mockito
8 1 (2.94%) Gradle
8 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.94%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (50.00%) Finance
2 13 (38.24%) Banking
3 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
4 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Developer
2 10 (29.41%) Java Developer
2 10 (29.41%) Senior
3 9 (26.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Senior Developer
4 5 (14.71%) Senior DevOps
4 5 (14.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 3 (8.82%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (8.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Python Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Architect
8 1 (2.94%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (38.24%) React
2 11 (32.35%) Node.js
2 11 (32.35%) RESTful
2 11 (32.35%) Spring
2 11 (32.35%) Spring Boot
3 9 (26.47%) AngularJS
4 7 (20.59%) REST
5 6 (17.65%) FastAPI
6 5 (14.71%) Django
6 5 (14.71%) Flask
6 5 (14.71%) Jest
6 5 (14.71%) Redux
7 4 (11.76%) Express.js
7 4 (11.76%) GraphQL
7 4 (11.76%) Hibernate
7 4 (11.76%) MERN Stack
7 4 (11.76%) NestJS
8 3 (8.82%) JPA
8 3 (8.82%) Kafka
9 2 (5.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (32.35%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Unix
3 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (79.41%) CI/CD
2 25 (73.53%) DevOps
3 22 (64.71%) Microservices
4 21 (61.76%) Containerisation
5 18 (52.94%) Agile
6 14 (41.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (26.47%) Software Engineering
9 8 (23.53%) Observability
9 8 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (20.59%) Front End Development
11 6 (17.65%) High Availability
11 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (14.71%) Application Security
12 5 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (14.71%) Event-Driven
12 5 (14.71%) Test Automation
12 5 (14.71%) Translating Business Requirements
12 5 (14.71%) User Experience
12 5 (14.71%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 24 (70.59%) Java
2 19 (55.88%) Python
3 9 (26.47%) JavaScript
3 9 (26.47%) PowerShell
4 7 (20.59%) Perl
4 7 (20.59%) Ruby
4 7 (20.59%) SQL
4 7 (20.59%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.88%) Bash
6 1 (2.94%) C#
6 1 (2.94%) C++
6 1 (2.94%) Go
6 1 (2.94%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) AWS Certification
2 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (11.76%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) Accessibility
1 5 (14.71%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (2.94%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (82.35%) Kubernetes
2 9 (26.47%) Terraform
3 8 (23.53%) Ansible
4 2 (5.88%) Grafana
4 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Oracle
2 2 (5.88%) Splunk
3 1 (2.94%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.94%) Confluent
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft