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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 42 49
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 -21
Contract jobs citing Docker 39 41 31
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.40% 5.09% 3.38%
As % of the System Software category 54.93% 30.60% 25.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 26 24
10th Percentile £310 £352 £405
25th Percentile £358 £357 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £423 £503
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -16.00% -8.55%
75th Percentile £575 £482 £722
90th Percentile £606 £527 £734
Scotland median daily rate £401 £439 £479
% change year-on-year -8.60% -8.40% +0.84%
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 71 134 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 9.83% 16.63% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 76 74
10th Percentile £209 £195 £266
25th Percentile £350 £359 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £439 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% -10.14% +14.82%
75th Percentile £550 £485 £650
90th Percentile £606 £610 £700
Scotland median daily rate £418 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -7.22% -5.26% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £24.31 - -
25th Percentile £26.09 - -
Median hourly rate £29.38 - -
75th Percentile £32.34 - -
90th Percentile £33.94 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +15.70% +199.80%

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 23 February 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 4 (10.26%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 31 (79.49%) AWS
2 16 (41.03%) Azure
3 13 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (25.64%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (25.64%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (25.64%) Serverless
5 7 (17.95%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (17.95%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (17.95%) Amazon MSK
6 6 (15.38%) GCP
6 6 (15.38%) GitHub
7 5 (12.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (7.69%) Amazon S3
9 3 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (7.69%) OpenShift
10 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.56%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.95%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) Network Security
2 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (20.51%) NoSQL
3 7 (17.95%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (15.38%) MongoDB
5 5 (12.82%) MySQL
5 5 (12.82%) Relational Database
6 4 (10.26%) SQL Server
7 3 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (7.69%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.56%) DB2
8 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
8 1 (2.56%) HBase
Development Applications
1 17 (43.59%) Jenkins
2 10 (25.64%) Git
3 8 (20.51%) Bitbucket
3 8 (20.51%) GitLab
3 8 (20.51%) JIRA
4 7 (17.95%) JUnit
4 7 (17.95%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (10.26%) Cypress.io
6 3 (7.69%) MLflow
6 3 (7.69%) Mockito
7 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
7 2 (5.13%) Gradle
7 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
7 2 (5.13%) TeamCity
8 1 (2.56%) Snyk
8 1 (2.56%) Vite
General
1 24 (61.54%) Finance
2 19 (48.72%) Banking
3 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (7.69%) Investment Banking
7 2 (5.13%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Developer
2 11 (28.21%) Java Developer
2 11 (28.21%) Senior
3 10 (25.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) Senior DevOps
4 6 (15.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Senior Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Java Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Python Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.77%) Spring
1 12 (30.77%) Spring Boot
2 11 (28.21%) React
3 10 (25.64%) Node.js
4 9 (23.08%) AngularJS
4 9 (23.08%) RESTful
5 6 (15.38%) REST
6 4 (10.26%) Jest
6 4 (10.26%) Kafka
7 3 (7.69%) .NET
7 3 (7.69%) Django
7 3 (7.69%) Express.js
7 3 (7.69%) FastAPI
7 3 (7.69%) Flask
7 3 (7.69%) GraphQL
7 3 (7.69%) MERN Stack
7 3 (7.69%) NestJS
7 3 (7.69%) Redux
7 3 (7.69%) scikit-learn
7 3 (7.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Algorithms
1 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
1 4 (10.26%) Distributed Computing
1 4 (10.26%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.56%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Unix
3 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (82.05%) CI/CD
2 25 (64.10%) Containerisation
2 25 (64.10%) DevOps
3 21 (53.85%) Microservices
4 17 (43.59%) Agile
5 14 (35.90%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (28.21%) Software Engineering
8 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (25.64%) Test Automation
9 9 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (20.51%) Observability
11 6 (15.38%) Front End Development
11 6 (15.38%) High Availability
12 5 (12.82%) AI
12 5 (12.82%) DevSecOps
12 5 (12.82%) Event-Driven
12 5 (12.82%) Machine Learning
12 5 (12.82%) SDLC
12 5 (12.82%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 26 (66.67%) Java
2 22 (56.41%) Python
3 9 (23.08%) PowerShell
4 7 (17.95%) Perl
4 7 (17.95%) Ruby
5 6 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 6 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 5 (12.82%) SQL
7 2 (5.13%) Bash
7 2 (5.13%) Rust
8 1 (2.56%) C#
8 1 (2.56%) C++
8 1 (2.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) AWS Certification
2 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (10.26%) Degree
2 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) QA
2 4 (10.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (2.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (74.36%) Kubernetes
2 12 (30.77%) Terraform
3 9 (23.08%) Ansible
4 2 (5.13%) Grafana
4 2 (5.13%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Oracle
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) Splunk
3 1 (2.56%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.56%) Checkmarx
3 1 (2.56%) Confluent
3 1 (2.56%) Veracode