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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 41 40
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Docker 46 37 38
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.05% 4.93% 4.38%
As % of the System Software category 63.89% 31.62% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 30 26
10th Percentile £348 £355 £413
25th Percentile £358 £365 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -22.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £492 £716
90th Percentile £591 £518 £732
Scotland median daily rate £493 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +9.56% -6.25% +1.05%

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 72 117 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 9.47% 15.58% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 73 75
10th Percentile £208 £188 £311
25th Percentile £358 £356 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £440 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% -22.89% +51.50%
75th Percentile £538 £513 £694
90th Percentile £588 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +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 £20.29 £60.00
% change year-on-year +269.73% -66.19% +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 4 December 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 4 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.35%) Anypoint
2 2 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.35%) Mule
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.17%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 31 (67.39%) AWS
2 20 (43.48%) Azure
3 12 (26.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (23.91%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (23.91%) Serverless
5 10 (21.74%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (15.22%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (15.22%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (13.04%) Amazon MSK
8 5 (10.87%) GitHub
8 5 (10.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
10 3 (6.52%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (2.17%) Amazon EventBridge
12 1 (2.17%) Datadog
12 1 (2.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.04%) Firewall
2 2 (4.35%) AMQP
2 2 (4.35%) DSL
3 1 (2.17%) Network Security
3 1 (2.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (13.04%) NoSQL
3 4 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (4.35%) MySQL
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.17%) DB2
6 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.17%) HBase
6 1 (2.17%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 21 (45.65%) Jenkins
2 11 (23.91%) Git
3 9 (19.57%) GitLab
4 8 (17.39%) JUnit
5 7 (15.22%) Bitbucket
5 7 (15.22%) JIRA
6 6 (13.04%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (10.87%) Cypress.io
8 3 (6.52%) MLflow
8 3 (6.52%) Mockito
8 3 (6.52%) Vite
9 2 (4.35%) Cucumber
9 2 (4.35%) Gradle
9 2 (4.35%) TeamCity
10 1 (2.17%) Snyk
10 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
10 1 (2.17%) webpack
General
1 20 (43.48%) Finance
2 19 (41.30%) Banking
3 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 7 (15.22%) Public Sector
5 6 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (6.52%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.35%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (32.61%) Developer
2 10 (21.74%) Java Developer
3 9 (19.57%) Senior
4 8 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (15.22%) Python Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (13.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (10.87%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (10.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Software Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Java Software Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Python Developer
9 3 (6.52%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (30.43%) Spring
1 14 (30.43%) Spring Boot
2 11 (23.91%) RESTful
3 9 (19.57%) AngularJS
3 9 (19.57%) React
4 7 (15.22%) Node.js
5 6 (13.04%) Kafka
6 5 (10.87%) FastAPI
6 5 (10.87%) Jest
6 5 (10.87%) REST
7 4 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (6.52%) .NET
8 3 (6.52%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (6.52%) J2EE
8 3 (6.52%) Next.js
8 3 (6.52%) OAuth
8 3 (6.52%) scikit-learn
8 3 (6.52%) SOAP
8 3 (6.52%) TensorFlow
8 3 (6.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Cloud Native
1 5 (10.87%) Public Cloud
2 4 (8.70%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.70%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.35%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.17%) Clustering
5 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Unix
3 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (78.26%) CI/CD
2 25 (54.35%) DevOps
3 23 (50.00%) Microservices
4 22 (47.83%) Containerisation
5 18 (39.13%) Agile
6 14 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (26.09%) Software Engineering
8 11 (23.91%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (23.91%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (21.74%) AI
9 10 (21.74%) Test Automation
10 8 (17.39%) Computer Science
10 8 (17.39%) Observability
10 8 (17.39%) SDLC
11 7 (15.22%) Critical Thinking
11 7 (15.22%) DevSecOps
12 6 (13.04%) Data Engineering
12 6 (13.04%) Front End Development
12 6 (13.04%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 28 (60.87%) Java
2 26 (56.52%) Python
3 8 (17.39%) PowerShell
4 6 (13.04%) Perl
4 6 (13.04%) Ruby
5 4 (8.70%) SQL
6 3 (6.52%) Bash
6 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.52%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.35%) DataWeave
7 2 (4.35%) Rust
8 1 (2.17%) C#
8 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) AWS Certification
2 4 (8.70%) Degree
3 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) Accessibility
1 6 (13.04%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (2.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (63.04%) Kubernetes
2 14 (30.43%) Terraform
3 12 (26.09%) Ansible
4 2 (4.35%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Oracle
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.52%) Splunk
3 2 (4.35%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.17%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.17%) Confluent
4 1 (2.17%) Pega
4 1 (2.17%) Veracode