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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 47 34
Rank change year-on-year +11 -13 +10
Contract jobs citing Docker 41 29 43
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.42% 4.00% 4.91%
As % of the System Software category 60.29% 28.16% 33.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 26 28
10th Percentile £358 £356 £413
25th Percentile £361 £365 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £425 £530
Median % change year-on-year +9.54% -19.91% +6.00%
75th Percentile £575 £484 £700
90th Percentile £599 £506 £730
Scotland median daily rate £497 £445 £479
% change year-on-year +11.57% -7.10% -0.10%

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 68 103 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.99% 14.21% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 63 72
10th Percentile £203 £172 £201
25th Percentile £358 £356 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -22.73% +46.18%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £688
90th Percentile £588 £725 £700
Scotland median daily rate £475 £440 £500
% change year-on-year +7.95% -12.00% +11.11%
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 £22.23 £60.00
% change year-on-year +237.34% -62.95% +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 17 November 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 3 (7.32%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.88%) Anypoint
2 2 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.88%) Mule
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.44%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 27 (65.85%) AWS
2 19 (46.34%) Azure
3 11 (26.83%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (26.83%) Serverless
4 10 (24.39%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (24.39%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (17.07%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (17.07%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (14.63%) Amazon MSK
7 5 (12.20%) GitHub
7 5 (12.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (9.76%) Amazon S3
9 3 (7.32%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (2.44%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (2.44%) Datadog
11 1 (2.44%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.63%) Firewall
2 2 (4.88%) AMQP
2 2 (4.88%) DSL
3 1 (2.44%) Network Security
3 1 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.51%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (14.63%) NoSQL
3 4 (9.76%) MongoDB
4 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.88%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (4.88%) MySQL
5 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.44%) DB2
6 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.44%) MariaDB
6 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (51.22%) Jenkins
2 11 (26.83%) Git
3 9 (21.95%) GitLab
4 8 (19.51%) JUnit
5 7 (17.07%) Bitbucket
5 7 (17.07%) JIRA
6 6 (14.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (12.20%) Cypress.io
8 3 (7.32%) MLflow
8 3 (7.32%) Mockito
8 3 (7.32%) Vite
9 2 (4.88%) Cucumber
9 2 (4.88%) Gradle
9 2 (4.88%) TeamCity
10 1 (2.44%) Snyk
10 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
10 1 (2.44%) webpack
General
1 19 (46.34%) Finance
2 18 (43.90%) Banking
3 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
4 6 (14.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 3 (7.32%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.88%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (34.15%) Developer
2 9 (21.95%) Java Developer
2 9 (21.95%) Senior
3 8 (19.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (17.07%) Python Engineer
5 6 (14.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 6 (14.63%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (14.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 5 (12.20%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (12.20%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (12.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (9.76%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (9.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 4 (9.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 3 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (7.32%) Java Engineer
8 3 (7.32%) Java Software Engineer
8 3 (7.32%) Python Developer
8 3 (7.32%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) Spring
1 13 (31.71%) Spring Boot
2 11 (26.83%) RESTful
3 9 (21.95%) AngularJS
3 9 (21.95%) React
4 7 (17.07%) Node.js
5 5 (12.20%) FastAPI
5 5 (12.20%) Jest
6 4 (9.76%) Kafka
6 4 (9.76%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (9.76%) REST
7 3 (7.32%) .NET
7 3 (7.32%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (7.32%) Apache Camel
7 3 (7.32%) J2EE
7 3 (7.32%) Next.js
7 3 (7.32%) OAuth
7 3 (7.32%) OAuth2
7 3 (7.32%) SOAP
7 3 (7.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Cloud Native
1 5 (12.20%) Public Cloud
2 4 (9.76%) Algorithms
2 4 (9.76%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (7.32%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.88%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.44%) Clustering
5 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.44%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.07%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (80.49%) CI/CD
2 23 (56.10%) DevOps
3 22 (53.66%) Microservices
4 19 (46.34%) Containerisation
5 17 (41.46%) Agile
6 12 (29.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (26.83%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (26.83%) Software Engineering
8 9 (21.95%) AI
8 9 (21.95%) Test Automation
9 8 (19.51%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (19.51%) SDLC
10 7 (17.07%) Critical Thinking
10 7 (17.07%) DevSecOps
11 6 (14.63%) Computer Science
11 6 (14.63%) Front End Development
11 6 (14.63%) Observability
11 6 (14.63%) User Experience
11 6 (14.63%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 25 (60.98%) Java
2 23 (56.10%) Python
3 6 (14.63%) Perl
3 6 (14.63%) PowerShell
3 6 (14.63%) Ruby
4 3 (7.32%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.32%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.88%) DataWeave
5 2 (4.88%) Rust
5 2 (4.88%) SQL
6 1 (2.44%) Bash
6 1 (2.44%) C#
6 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (19.51%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (4.88%) Degree
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) Accessibility
1 6 (14.63%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (60.98%) Kubernetes
2 12 (29.27%) Terraform
3 10 (24.39%) Ansible
4 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Oracle
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.88%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.44%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.44%) Pega
4 1 (2.44%) Splunk
4 1 (2.44%) Veracode