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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 37 29
Rank change year-on-year -22 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Docker 45 48 42
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.78% 6.43% 6.09%
As % of the System Software category 45.92% 63.16% 46.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 26 40
10th Percentile £340 £359 £356
25th Percentile £405 £401 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £469 £431
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% +8.64% -18.63%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £481
90th Percentile £565 £594 £513
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -7.69%

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 98 76 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.22% 10.19% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 39 80
10th Percentile £285 £232 £176
25th Percentile £381 £377 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £431
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +7.83% -14.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £519
90th Percentile £588 £588 £678
Scotland median daily rate £450 £493 £425
% change year-on-year -8.72% +16.00% -11.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.75 -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £49.38 £22.23
% change year-on-year -67.98% +122.08% -60.09%

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 27 September 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 6 (13.33%) Apache
2 3 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.22%) Camunda
3 1 (2.22%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) IIS
3 1 (2.22%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 28 (62.22%) AWS
2 16 (35.56%) Azure
3 13 (28.89%) GCP
4 7 (15.56%) GitHub
5 6 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (11.11%) OpenShift
7 4 (8.89%) Amazon S3
7 4 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (8.89%) Serverless
8 3 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (4.44%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (4.44%) Snowflake
10 1 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (2.22%) dbt
10 1 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) SSL
2 2 (4.44%) iSCSI
3 1 (2.22%) DNS
3 1 (2.22%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (2.22%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.22%) NAS
3 1 (2.22%) SAN
3 1 (2.22%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 6 (13.33%) MySQL
2 6 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 5 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (11.11%) Flink
4 4 (8.89%) MariaDB
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 3 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.44%) Big Data
6 2 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (4.44%) Metadata
6 2 (4.44%) Trino
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.22%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (28.89%) Git
1 13 (28.89%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.11%) Maven
2 5 (11.11%) Selenium
3 4 (8.89%) GitLab
3 4 (8.89%) Gradle
3 4 (8.89%) Postman
4 3 (6.67%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.67%) Cypress.io
4 3 (6.67%) REST Assured
4 3 (6.67%) SpecFlow
4 3 (6.67%) webpack
5 2 (4.44%) Appium
6 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.22%) git-flow
6 1 (2.22%) JIRA
6 1 (2.22%) Mockito
6 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (37.78%) Finance
2 13 (28.89%) Banking
2 13 (28.89%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.44%) Law
5 2 (4.44%) Private Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.22%) International Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Military
6 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Publishing
6 1 (2.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (42.22%) Developer
2 10 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 7 (15.56%) Senior
4 5 (11.11%) Python Developer
4 5 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Lead
6 3 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Java Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Lead Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Automation Tester
7 2 (4.44%) Django Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Automation Tester
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (37.78%) Spring
1 17 (37.78%) Spring Boot
2 12 (26.67%) RESTful
3 10 (22.22%) Kafka
3 10 (22.22%) Terraform
4 9 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 8 (17.78%) React
5 8 (17.78%) REST
6 5 (11.11%) Playwright
6 5 (11.11%) Web Services
7 4 (8.89%) JWT
7 4 (8.89%) OAuth
7 4 (8.89%) OAuth2
8 3 (6.67%) .NET
8 3 (6.67%) Jest
8 3 (6.67%) Node.js
8 3 (6.67%) Redux
8 3 (6.67%) SOAP
8 3 (6.67%) Vue
9 2 (4.44%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (24.44%) Cloud Native
2 9 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.44%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.44%) Market Risk
4 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.22%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.22%) NVMe
5 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Unix
2 2 (4.44%) Windows
2 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.22%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (71.11%) CI/CD
2 26 (57.78%) DevOps
3 20 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 19 (42.22%) Microservices
5 15 (33.33%) Agile
6 9 (20.00%) Event-Driven
6 9 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 8 (17.78%) Code Quality
7 8 (17.78%) Design Patterns
7 8 (17.78%) Mentoring
7 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (17.78%) Test Automation
8 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (15.56%) SDLC
8 7 (15.56%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (13.33%) Service Management
9 6 (13.33%) TDD
10 5 (11.11%) Migration
10 5 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 22 (48.89%) Java
2 21 (46.67%) Python
3 10 (22.22%) SQL
4 9 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 7 (15.56%) Bash
6 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 4 (8.89%) C#
7 4 (8.89%) Shell Script
8 3 (6.67%) Groovy
9 2 (4.44%) Go
9 2 (4.44%) Perl
9 2 (4.44%) Scala
10 1 (2.22%) C++
10 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
10 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.89%) Degree
4 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.67%) ISTQB
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 3 (6.67%) GDPR
2 2 (4.44%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.44%) QA
3 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.44%) Firmware
2 2 (4.44%) GPFS
2 2 (4.44%) KVM
2 2 (4.44%) NFS
3 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (82.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.89%) Ansible
3 2 (4.44%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (2.22%) Grafana
4 1 (2.22%) Podman
4 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (8.89%) Oracle
1 4 (8.89%) VMware
2 3 (6.67%) Google
3 2 (4.44%) AppDynamics
3 2 (4.44%) Brocade
3 2 (4.44%) EMC
3 2 (4.44%) IBM
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.44%) NetApp
3 2 (4.44%) SaltStack
4 1 (2.22%) Databricks
4 1 (2.22%) Dell
4 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.22%) Solace
4 1 (2.22%) Splunk
4 1 (2.22%) Temenos
4 1 (2.22%) Veritas
4 1 (2.22%) webMethods