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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 40 33
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 +7
Contract jobs citing Docker 45 32 45
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.94% 4.53% 5.29%
As % of the System Software category 59.21% 30.77% 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 30 28
10th Percentile £353 £356 £413
25th Percentile £363 £381 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £431 £530
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% -18.63% +6.00%
75th Percentile £575 £496 £700
90th Percentile £599 £515 £730
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -1.76%

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 76 104 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 10.03% 14.73% 14.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 67 70
10th Percentile £200 £179 £175
25th Percentile £356 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £438 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -17.06% +31.88%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £688
90th Percentile £588 £713 £700
Scotland median daily rate £475 £440 £495
% change year-on-year +8.08% -11.21% +8.55%
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 £49.38 £22.23 £56.40
% change year-on-year +122.08% -60.58% +218.28%

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 4 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 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.44%) Anypoint
2 2 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.44%) Mule
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.22%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 28 (62.22%) AWS
2 20 (44.44%) Azure
3 9 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (17.78%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (17.78%) Serverless
5 7 (15.56%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (11.11%) GitHub
7 4 (8.89%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (8.89%) Amazon S3
8 3 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (6.67%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (4.44%) OpenShift
9 2 (4.44%) PaaS
10 1 (2.22%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) Firewall
2 2 (4.44%) AMQP
2 2 (4.44%) DSL
3 1 (2.22%) Network Security
3 1 (2.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) NoSQL
2 6 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 4 (8.89%) MySQL
4 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.44%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (4.44%) KDB
5 2 (4.44%) Kdb+
5 2 (4.44%) MariaDB
5 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.22%) DB2
6 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 23 (51.11%) Jenkins
2 10 (22.22%) Git
2 10 (22.22%) JUnit
3 9 (20.00%) GitLab
4 5 (11.11%) Cypress.io
4 5 (11.11%) Mockito
5 4 (8.89%) Bitbucket
5 4 (8.89%) Gradle
5 4 (8.89%) JIRA
5 4 (8.89%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (6.67%) Maven
6 3 (6.67%) MLflow
6 3 (6.67%) Vite
7 2 (4.44%) Cucumber
7 2 (4.44%) TeamCity
7 2 (4.44%) webpack
8 1 (2.22%) Snyk
8 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (42.22%) Banking
2 17 (37.78%) Finance
3 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
4 6 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (42.22%) Developer
2 12 (26.67%) Senior
3 11 (24.44%) Java Developer
4 7 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (15.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 7 (15.56%) Python Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Python Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) React Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (33.33%) Spring
1 15 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 14 (31.11%) RESTful
3 12 (26.67%) AngularJS
3 12 (26.67%) React
4 5 (11.11%) FastAPI
4 5 (11.11%) Jest
4 5 (11.11%) Kafka
4 5 (11.11%) Node.js
4 5 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (8.89%) OAuth
5 4 (8.89%) REST
6 3 (6.67%) .NET
6 3 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (6.67%) Hibernate
6 3 (6.67%) HTML
6 3 (6.67%) J2EE
6 3 (6.67%) JPA
6 3 (6.67%) SOAP
6 3 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 5 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 4 (8.89%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.89%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.22%) Clustering
5 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.22%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Linux
2 3 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (82.22%) CI/CD
2 24 (53.33%) DevOps
3 21 (46.67%) Containerisation
3 21 (46.67%) Microservices
4 19 (42.22%) Agile
5 14 (31.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (26.67%) SDLC
7 11 (24.44%) Software Engineering
8 10 (22.22%) Test Automation
9 8 (17.78%) Front End Development
9 8 (17.78%) Observability
9 8 (17.78%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (15.56%) AI
10 7 (15.56%) Critical Thinking
10 7 (15.56%) DevSecOps
11 6 (13.33%) Computer Science
11 6 (13.33%) User Experience
11 6 (13.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 27 (60.00%) Java
2 22 (48.89%) Python
3 4 (8.89%) JavaScript
3 4 (8.89%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.67%) Perl
4 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.67%) Ruby
4 3 (6.67%) SQL
5 2 (4.44%) Bash
5 2 (4.44%) C++
5 2 (4.44%) DataWeave
5 2 (4.44%) Go
5 2 (4.44%) Rust
5 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.22%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (4.44%) Degree
3 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) Accessibility
1 7 (15.56%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (31.11%) Terraform
3 10 (22.22%) Ansible
4 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) Oracle
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.44%) AppDynamics
3 2 (4.44%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.22%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.22%) Pega
4 1 (2.22%) Splunk
4 1 (2.22%) Veracode