Containerisation Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Containerization
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 69 89
Rank change year-on-year +26 +20 +14
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 74 50 54
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 4.71% 2.91% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.34% 3.29% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 34 23
10th Percentile £358 £356 £428
25th Percentile £402 £361 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -10.95% -0.66%
75th Percentile £556 £524 £613
90th Percentile £593 £542 £710
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Containerisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,386 1,521 2,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.22% 88.43% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 901 1,374
10th Percentile £238 £213 £250
25th Percentile £381 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 46 57
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.11 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.90 £18.77 £16.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £52.25 £31.44 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Containerisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Containerisation job vacancy trend in Scotland

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Containerisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Scotland

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Containerisation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +14 45 £465 +18.93% 6
Edinburgh +14 29 £500 -3.38% 4
Containerisation
UK

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.05%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.70%) nginx
3 1 (1.35%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.35%) Apache
3 1 (1.35%) Confluence
3 1 (1.35%) FileNet
3 1 (1.35%) Mule
3 1 (1.35%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 54 (72.97%) AWS
2 24 (32.43%) Azure
3 22 (29.73%) Serverless
4 18 (24.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (22.97%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (20.27%) Amazon S3
7 13 (17.57%) GCP
8 11 (14.86%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (13.51%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (12.16%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (12.16%) OpenShift
11 7 (9.46%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (6.76%) Amazon SageMaker
14 4 (5.41%) GitHub
15 3 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 3 (4.05%) Amazon MSK
15 3 (4.05%) AWS CloudTrail
16 2 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.81%) Firewall
2 4 (5.41%) VPN
3 2 (2.70%) HTTP
3 2 (2.70%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.35%) AMQP
4 1 (1.35%) DSL
4 1 (1.35%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.57%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (12.16%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.76%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (6.76%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (6.76%) Redis
4 4 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (5.41%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.05%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (4.05%) Big Data
5 3 (4.05%) MSDE
5 3 (4.05%) NewSQL
6 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.70%) MySQL
6 2 (2.70%) OLTP
6 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.35%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.35%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 22 (29.73%) Jenkins
2 12 (16.22%) GitLab
3 11 (14.86%) Git
4 9 (12.16%) JIRA
5 7 (9.46%) Bitbucket
5 7 (9.46%) JUnit
6 5 (6.76%) Cypress.io
7 4 (5.41%) MLflow
7 4 (5.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (4.05%) Artifactory
8 3 (4.05%) IntelliJ
8 3 (4.05%) Liquibase
8 3 (4.05%) PyCharm
8 3 (4.05%) Visual Studio
8 3 (4.05%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (2.70%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.70%) git-flow
9 2 (2.70%) Gradle
9 2 (2.70%) Mockito
9 2 (2.70%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (40.54%) Finance
2 25 (33.78%) Banking
2 25 (33.78%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.51%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.76%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.41%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (17.57%) Developer
2 12 (16.22%) Senior
3 10 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (13.51%) Python Engineer
4 9 (12.16%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (9.46%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 7 (9.46%) Network Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) Architect
6 6 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) Java Developer
6 6 (8.11%) Python Developer
6 6 (8.11%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Database Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (5.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.05%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.27%) RESTful
2 11 (14.86%) OAuth
3 9 (12.16%) FastAPI
3 9 (12.16%) PyTorch
3 9 (12.16%) Spring
3 9 (12.16%) Spring Boot
4 8 (10.81%) REST
5 7 (9.46%) AngularJS
5 7 (9.46%) Kafka
5 7 (9.46%) OAuth2
5 7 (9.46%) TensorFlow
6 6 (8.11%) Hugging Face
6 6 (8.11%) Node.js
6 6 (8.11%) React
7 5 (6.76%) Flask
7 5 (6.76%) Jest
7 5 (6.76%) LangChain
7 5 (6.76%) LangGraph
8 4 (5.41%) Loki
8 4 (5.41%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.92%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.76%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.41%) AI Agents
3 4 (5.41%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.05%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (4.05%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (4.05%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.05%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (29.73%) Linux
2 4 (5.41%) Unix
3 3 (4.05%) Windows
4 2 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (64.86%) CI/CD
2 47 (63.51%) DevOps
3 42 (56.76%) Agile
4 36 (48.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (36.49%) Microservices
6 16 (21.62%) Machine Learning
6 16 (21.62%) Software Engineering
7 15 (20.27%) Observability
8 14 (18.92%) AI
9 11 (14.86%) SDLC
9 11 (14.86%) Test Automation
10 10 (13.51%) LLM
11 9 (12.16%) Computer Science
11 9 (12.16%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (12.16%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (12.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (10.81%) Data Engineering
12 8 (10.81%) Scrum
12 8 (10.81%) Translating Business Requirements
13 7 (9.46%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 46 (62.16%) Python
2 23 (31.08%) Java
3 13 (17.57%) SQL
4 8 (10.81%) PowerShell
5 6 (8.11%) Bash
5 6 (8.11%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.76%) Perl
7 4 (5.41%) Go
8 3 (4.05%) C#
8 3 (4.05%) Ruby
9 2 (2.70%) ANSI SQL
9 2 (2.70%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.70%) Rust
9 2 (2.70%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.35%) Bicep
10 1 (1.35%) DataWeave
10 1 (1.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (17.57%) AWS Certification
2 9 (12.16%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (12.16%) Degree
3 7 (9.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 7 (9.46%) Security Cleared
4 6 (8.11%) Master's Degree
5 4 (5.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.70%) CISM
7 2 (2.70%) CISSP
8 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.81%) Accessibility
2 7 (9.46%) QA
3 2 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.70%) NIST
4 1 (1.35%) DICOM
4 1 (1.35%) HL7
4 1 (1.35%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 33 (44.59%) Docker
2 2 (2.70%) KVM
3 1 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 45 (60.81%) Kubernetes
2 27 (36.49%) Terraform
3 21 (28.38%) Ansible
4 16 (21.62%) Grafana
5 11 (14.86%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.41%) Kustomize
7 2 (2.70%) Fluentd
7 2 (2.70%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.35%) Argo
8 1 (1.35%) Karpenter
8 1 (1.35%) linkerd
8 1 (1.35%) Nagios
8 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 13 (17.57%) Oracle
2 8 (10.81%) Splunk
3 6 (8.11%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.05%) Google
5 2 (2.70%) Cribl.io
5 2 (2.70%) IBM
6 1 (1.35%) Commvault
6 1 (1.35%) Confluent
6 1 (1.35%) Databricks
6 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.35%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.35%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.35%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.35%) Pega
6 1 (1.35%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.35%) Red Hat