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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 35 48
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 +3
Contract jobs citing Docker 46 43 29
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.79% 5.92% 3.39%
As % of the System Software category 65.71% 37.39% 24.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 32 21
10th Percentile £310 £356 £455
25th Percentile £358 £376 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £431 £693
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -37.77% +45.89%
75th Percentile £575 £491 £725
90th Percentile £606 £535 £738
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +5.56% -9.09% +5.32%

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 70 115 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 10.34% 15.84% 13.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 68 68
10th Percentile £211 £180 £269
25th Percentile £324 £356 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £445 £566
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -21.46% +45.19%
75th Percentile £538 £497 £700
90th Percentile £589 £638 £722
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +12.61%
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 £47.09 £60.00
% change year-on-year +59.27% -21.52% +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 9 January 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 4 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.17%) Anypoint
3 1 (2.17%) Mule
3 1 (2.17%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 32 (69.57%) AWS
2 19 (41.30%) Azure
3 13 (28.26%) 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
6 7 (15.22%) Amazon MSK
7 5 (10.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (8.70%) GitHub
9 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
9 3 (6.52%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (6.52%) OpenShift
10 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (2.17%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (2.17%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (2.17%) GCP
11 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) Firewall
2 1 (2.17%) AMQP
2 1 (2.17%) DSL
2 1 (2.17%) Network Security
2 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%) 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
3 9 (19.57%) JUnit
4 8 (17.39%) Bitbucket
4 8 (17.39%) JIRA
5 7 (15.22%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (13.04%) Cypress.io
7 3 (6.52%) MLflow
7 3 (6.52%) Mockito
7 3 (6.52%) Vite
8 2 (4.35%) Cucumber
8 2 (4.35%) Gradle
8 2 (4.35%) SonarQube
8 2 (4.35%) TeamCity
9 1 (2.17%) Snyk
9 1 (2.17%) webpack
General
1 22 (47.83%) Finance
2 21 (45.65%) Banking
3 9 (19.57%) 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%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (34.78%) Developer
2 11 (23.91%) Java Developer
2 11 (23.91%) Senior
3 10 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Python Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Senior DevOps
4 6 (13.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 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 10 (21.74%) AngularJS
3 10 (21.74%) React
4 8 (17.39%) Node.js
5 6 (13.04%) Jest
6 5 (10.87%) FastAPI
7 4 (8.70%) Kafka
7 4 (8.70%) REST
8 3 (6.52%) .NET
8 3 (6.52%) Next.js
8 3 (6.52%) scikit-learn
8 3 (6.52%) TensorFlow
9 2 (4.35%) HTML
9 2 (4.35%) J2EE
9 2 (4.35%) SOAP
9 2 (4.35%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (4.35%) Torch
9 2 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Public Cloud
2 4 (8.70%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.70%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.91%) 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 24 (52.17%) Containerisation
4 23 (50.00%) Microservices
5 18 (39.13%) Agile
6 16 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (26.09%) Software Engineering
8 11 (23.91%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (21.74%) AI
9 10 (21.74%) Observability
9 10 (21.74%) Test Automation
10 8 (17.39%) Computer Science
10 8 (17.39%) DevSecOps
10 8 (17.39%) SDLC
11 7 (15.22%) Critical Thinking
11 7 (15.22%) Front End Development
11 7 (15.22%) User Experience
11 7 (15.22%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 29 (63.04%) Java
2 26 (56.52%) Python
3 9 (19.57%) PowerShell
4 7 (15.22%) Perl
4 7 (15.22%) 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%) Rust
8 1 (2.17%) C#
8 1 (2.17%) DataWeave
8 1 (2.17%) Go
8 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) AWS Certification
2 4 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.52%) Degree
4 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) Accessibility
1 7 (15.22%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (2.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (60.87%) Kubernetes
2 15 (32.61%) Terraform
3 13 (28.26%) Ansible
4 2 (4.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Oracle
2 3 (6.52%) Splunk
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.17%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.17%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.17%) Confluent
4 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.17%) Pega
4 1 (2.17%) Veracode