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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 45 30
Rank change year-on-year -13 -15 +1
Contract jobs citing Docker 36 39 39
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.25% 5.31% 5.64%
As % of the System Software category 41.86% 58.21% 45.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 20 37
10th Percentile £375 £350 £360
25th Percentile £420 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £438
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% +6.29% -17.45%
75th Percentile £550 £528 £480
90th Percentile £725 £582 £513
Scotland median daily rate £475 £495 £450
% change year-on-year -3.94% +9.89% -5.26%

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 86 67 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 7.77% 9.12% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 31 76
10th Percentile £168 £300 £196
25th Percentile £375 £377 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £431
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +7.83% -17.86%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £519
90th Percentile £665 £580 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -10.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.75 -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £23.75 £22.23
% change year-on-year -33.43% +6.83% -58.64%

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 30 August 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 3 (8.33%) Apache
2 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.78%) Camunda
3 1 (2.78%) Confluence
3 1 (2.78%) IIS
3 1 (2.78%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 22 (61.11%) AWS
2 14 (38.89%) Azure
3 11 (30.56%) GCP
4 8 (22.22%) GitHub
4 8 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (11.11%) Serverless
7 3 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (5.56%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.78%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.78%) dbt
9 1 (2.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) SSL
2 1 (2.78%) DNS
2 1 (2.78%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (2.78%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.78%) iSCSI
2 1 (2.78%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) NoSQL
2 5 (13.89%) MongoDB
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (11.11%) Flink
3 4 (11.11%) MariaDB
3 4 (11.11%) MySQL
3 4 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.78%) Big Data
6 1 (2.78%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (30.56%) Jenkins
2 10 (27.78%) Git
3 4 (11.11%) GitLab
3 4 (11.11%) Maven
3 4 (11.11%) Postman
4 3 (8.33%) Cucumber
4 3 (8.33%) Cypress.io
4 3 (8.33%) Gradle
4 3 (8.33%) REST Assured
4 3 (8.33%) Selenium
4 3 (8.33%) SpecFlow
4 3 (8.33%) webpack
5 2 (5.56%) Appium
6 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.78%) git-flow
6 1 (2.78%) JIRA
6 1 (2.78%) Mockito
6 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.00%) Finance
3 7 (19.44%) Banking
4 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.56%) Law
7 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.78%) International Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Military
7 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Private Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) Developer
2 8 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 7 (19.44%) Senior
4 5 (13.89%) Lead
4 5 (13.89%) Software Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Lead Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Python Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Automation Tester
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Java Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Automation Tester
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Tester
6 2 (5.56%) Technical Leader
6 2 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (41.67%) Spring
1 15 (41.67%) Spring Boot
2 13 (36.11%) RESTful
3 8 (22.22%) Kafka
3 8 (22.22%) Terraform
4 7 (19.44%) AngularJS
5 6 (16.67%) React
6 5 (13.89%) Web Services
7 4 (11.11%) .NET
7 4 (11.11%) Jest
7 4 (11.11%) Redux
8 3 (8.33%) CSS
8 3 (8.33%) Django
8 3 (8.33%) Hibernate
8 3 (8.33%) HTML
8 3 (8.33%) Node.js
8 3 (8.33%) Playwright
8 3 (8.33%) Vue
9 2 (5.56%) CSS3
9 2 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Cloud Native
2 6 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.56%) Market Risk
3 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.78%) NVMe
4 1 (2.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.78%) SUSE
3 1 (2.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (69.44%) CI/CD
2 20 (55.56%) DevOps
3 16 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 15 (41.67%) Agile
4 15 (41.67%) Microservices
5 10 (27.78%) Design Patterns
6 8 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 8 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 7 (19.44%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (19.44%) Test Automation
8 6 (16.67%) Code Quality
8 6 (16.67%) Event-Driven
8 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (16.67%) Service Management
8 6 (16.67%) TDD
9 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (13.89%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (13.89%) Observability
9 5 (13.89%) OO
9 5 (13.89%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 19 (52.78%) Java
2 16 (44.44%) Python
3 9 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 7 (19.44%) SQL
5 6 (16.67%) Bash
5 6 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 5 (13.89%) C#
7 4 (11.11%) Shell Script
8 3 (8.33%) Groovy
9 1 (2.78%) Perl
9 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) Degree
2 4 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.33%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) GDPR
2 2 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.56%) Firmware
2 2 (5.56%) KVM
3 1 (2.78%) GPFS
3 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.78%) NFS
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
2 2 (5.56%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) Oracle
2 3 (8.33%) VMware
3 2 (5.56%) Databricks
3 2 (5.56%) Google
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.78%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.78%) Brocade
4 1 (2.78%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.78%) Dell
4 1 (2.78%) EMC
4 1 (2.78%) IBM
4 1 (2.78%) NetApp
4 1 (2.78%) Okta
4 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.78%) SaltStack
4 1 (2.78%) Solace
4 1 (2.78%) Temenos
4 1 (2.78%) Veritas