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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 37 40
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +8
Contract jobs citing Docker 48 44 35
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.69% 5.80% 3.97%
As % of the System Software category 65.75% 35.77% 28.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 34 25
10th Percentile £310 £356 £413
25th Percentile £358 £381 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £431 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -31.00% +28.21%
75th Percentile £556 £493 £722
90th Percentile £588 £531 £733
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £485
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.22% +2.11%

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 73 123 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 10.17% 16.21% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 76 73
10th Percentile £210 £193 £335
25th Percentile £358 £356 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.61% -25.88% +57.89%
75th Percentile £538 £503 £700
90th Percentile £588 £663 £717
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £503
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.54% +13.16%
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 £24.18 £60.00
% change year-on-year +210.17% -59.70% +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 20 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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.17%) Anypoint
2 2 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.17%) Mule
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.08%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 33 (68.75%) AWS
2 20 (41.67%) Azure
3 14 (29.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (25.00%) Serverless
5 11 (22.92%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (14.58%) Amazon MSK
8 6 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (10.42%) GitHub
10 4 (8.33%) Amazon S3
11 3 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (6.25%) OpenShift
12 2 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (2.08%) Amazon EventBridge
13 1 (2.08%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.58%) Firewall
2 2 (4.17%) AMQP
2 2 (4.17%) DSL
3 1 (2.08%) Network Security
3 1 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 4 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 4 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (4.17%) MySQL
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.08%) DB2
6 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.08%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.08%) HBase
6 1 (2.08%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 23 (47.92%) Jenkins
2 12 (25.00%) Git
3 11 (22.92%) GitLab
4 8 (16.67%) Bitbucket
4 8 (16.67%) JIRA
4 8 (16.67%) JUnit
5 7 (14.58%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (10.42%) Cypress.io
7 3 (6.25%) MLflow
7 3 (6.25%) Mockito
7 3 (6.25%) Vite
8 2 (4.17%) Cucumber
8 2 (4.17%) Gradle
8 2 (4.17%) SonarQube
8 2 (4.17%) TeamCity
9 1 (2.08%) Snyk
9 1 (2.08%) webpack
General
1 21 (43.75%) Finance
2 20 (41.67%) Banking
3 8 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Developer
2 10 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (20.83%) Java Developer
2 10 (20.83%) Senior
3 7 (14.58%) Python Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 6 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
4 6 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Java Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.17%) Spring
1 14 (29.17%) Spring Boot
2 11 (22.92%) RESTful
3 9 (18.75%) AngularJS
3 9 (18.75%) React
4 8 (16.67%) Node.js
5 6 (12.50%) Kafka
6 5 (10.42%) FastAPI
6 5 (10.42%) Jest
6 5 (10.42%) REST
7 4 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (6.25%) .NET
8 3 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (6.25%) J2EE
8 3 (6.25%) Next.js
8 3 (6.25%) OAuth
8 3 (6.25%) OAuth2
8 3 (6.25%) scikit-learn
8 3 (6.25%) SOAP
8 3 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Cloud Native
1 5 (10.42%) Public Cloud
2 4 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.17%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.08%) Clustering
5 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.08%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.08%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.92%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Unix
3 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (79.17%) CI/CD
2 27 (56.25%) DevOps
3 24 (50.00%) Microservices
4 23 (47.92%) Containerisation
5 19 (39.58%) Agile
6 15 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 11 (22.92%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (22.92%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (22.92%) Test Automation
9 10 (20.83%) AI
10 9 (18.75%) Observability
10 9 (18.75%) SDLC
11 8 (16.67%) Computer Science
12 7 (14.58%) Critical Thinking
12 7 (14.58%) DevSecOps
13 6 (12.50%) Data Engineering
13 6 (12.50%) Front End Development
13 6 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 30 (62.50%) Java
2 27 (56.25%) Python
3 9 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 7 (14.58%) Perl
4 7 (14.58%) Ruby
5 4 (8.33%) SQL
6 3 (6.25%) Bash
6 3 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.17%) DataWeave
7 2 (4.17%) Rust
8 1 (2.08%) C#
8 1 (2.08%) Go
8 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (18.75%) AWS Certification
2 4 (8.33%) Degree
2 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 6 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (2.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 31 (64.58%) Kubernetes
2 16 (33.33%) Terraform
3 13 (27.08%) Ansible
4 2 (4.17%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) Oracle
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) Splunk
3 2 (4.17%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.08%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.08%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.08%) Confluent
4 1 (2.08%) Pega
4 1 (2.08%) Veracode