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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 28 30
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 +7
Contract jobs citing Docker 41 40 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 5.64% 5.88% 5.50%
As % of the System Software category 62.12% 48.19% 34.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 38 25
10th Percentile £357 £359 £413
25th Percentile £405 £387 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £431 £530
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% -18.63% +0.95%
75th Percentile £547 £479 £613
90th Percentile £589 £513 £636
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £477
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.66% -4.60%

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 66 83 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 9.08% 12.21% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 76 71
10th Percentile £290 £196 £150
25th Percentile £395 £360 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -12.50% +24.22%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £614
90th Percentile £581 £675 £688
Scotland median daily rate £495 £425 £479
% change year-on-year +16.35% -11.27% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £50.63
25th Percentile £23.13 - £51.56
Median hourly rate £23.75 - £53.75
75th Percentile £24.38 - £56.56
90th Percentile - - £57.88
Scotland median hourly rate £49.38 £22.23 £56.25
% change year-on-year +122.08% -60.48% +217.44%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Docker 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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Glasgow

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.88%) Anypoint
1 2 (4.88%) Mule
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.44%) nginx
2 1 (2.44%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 20 (48.78%) AWS
2 18 (43.90%) Azure
3 4 (9.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (7.32%) GitHub
4 3 (7.32%) OpenShift
4 3 (7.32%) PaaS
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.88%) GCP
5 2 (4.88%) Serverless
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.44%) Datadog
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) AMQP
1 2 (4.88%) DSL
1 2 (4.88%) Firewall
2 1 (2.44%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (2.44%) iSCSI
2 1 (2.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.07%) MongoDB
2 6 (14.63%) NoSQL
3 5 (12.20%) KDB
3 5 (12.20%) Kdb+
3 5 (12.20%) MySQL
4 3 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
4 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.88%) DB2
5 2 (4.88%) MariaDB
5 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.44%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 19 (46.34%) Jenkins
2 11 (26.83%) Git
3 6 (14.63%) GitLab
3 6 (14.63%) JUnit
4 5 (12.20%) Maven
5 4 (9.76%) Gradle
5 4 (9.76%) Mockito
6 3 (7.32%) Vite
7 2 (4.88%) Cypress.io
7 2 (4.88%) webpack
8 1 (2.44%) JIRA
8 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.83%) Banking
3 8 (19.51%) Finance
3 8 (19.51%) Investment Banking
4 7 (17.07%) Public Sector
5 4 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (56.10%) Developer
2 11 (26.83%) Python Developer
3 9 (21.95%) Senior
4 8 (19.51%) Java Developer
5 7 (17.07%) Senior Developer
6 6 (14.63%) Python Engineer
7 5 (12.20%) C++ Developer
7 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (12.20%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
7 5 (12.20%) Linux Developer
7 5 (12.20%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (12.20%) Senior C++ Developer
7 5 (12.20%) Senior Python Developer
8 4 (9.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (9.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 4 (9.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (9.76%) React Developer
9 3 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) RESTful
1 11 (26.83%) Spring
1 11 (26.83%) Spring Boot
2 10 (24.39%) React
3 8 (19.51%) AngularJS
3 8 (19.51%) FastAPI
4 6 (14.63%) Kafka
4 6 (14.63%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (9.76%) OAuth
6 3 (7.32%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (7.32%) Apache Camel
6 3 (7.32%) HTML
6 3 (7.32%) LDAP
6 3 (7.32%) Next.js
6 3 (7.32%) OAuth2
6 3 (7.32%) pytest
6 3 (7.32%) REST
6 3 (7.32%) SOAP
6 3 (7.32%) XML
6 3 (7.32%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (12.20%) Public Cloud
2 4 (9.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.88%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.44%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.44%) Clustering
4 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.44%) NVMe
4 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (31.71%) Linux
1 13 (31.71%) Windows
2 6 (14.63%) Mac OS
3 4 (9.76%) Unix
3 4 (9.76%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.44%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (68.29%) CI/CD
2 20 (48.78%) DevOps
3 19 (46.34%) Agile
4 16 (39.02%) SDLC
5 14 (34.15%) Microservices
5 14 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (31.71%) Containerisation
7 11 (26.83%) Test Automation
8 10 (24.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (17.07%) Computer Science
9 7 (17.07%) Observability
10 6 (14.63%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (14.63%) Critical Thinking
10 6 (14.63%) Data Science
10 6 (14.63%) Front End Development
10 6 (14.63%) Full-Stack Development
11 5 (12.20%) Data Engineering
11 5 (12.20%) Generative AI
11 5 (12.20%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (12.20%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (48.78%) Python
2 19 (46.34%) Java
3 5 (12.20%) C++
3 5 (12.20%) Shell Script
4 3 (7.32%) Go
4 3 (7.32%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.32%) SQL
5 2 (4.88%) Bash
5 2 (4.88%) DataWeave
5 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.88%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (4.88%) Degree
2 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) QA
2 4 (9.76%) Accessibility
3 3 (7.32%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (7.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (4.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Active Directory
1 3 (7.32%) Hyper-V
1 3 (7.32%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (2.44%) GPFS
2 1 (2.44%) NFS
Systems Management
1 26 (63.41%) Kubernetes
2 11 (26.83%) Terraform
3 5 (12.20%) Ansible
4 2 (4.88%) Podman
4 2 (4.88%) RSA Archer
5 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.44%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.76%) Oracle
2 4 (9.76%) Splunk
3 3 (7.32%) AppDynamics
3 3 (7.32%) Netskope
3 3 (7.32%) Proofpoint
3 3 (7.32%) Symantec
4 2 (4.88%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.44%) Brocade
5 1 (2.44%) EMC
5 1 (2.44%) Google
5 1 (2.44%) IBM
5 1 (2.44%) NetApp
5 1 (2.44%) Pega
5 1 (2.44%) Sybase
5 1 (2.44%) Veritas