Docker Contracts in Scotland

Docker
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 55 39
Rank change year-on-year -12 -16 +10
Contract jobs citing Docker 49 66 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.97% 3.17% 5.95%
As % of the System Software category 31.41% 24.26% 38.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 60 91
10th Percentile £350 £398 £418
25th Percentile £405 £414 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.40% -4.76%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £575
90th Percentile £576 £582 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +1.27%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 156 272 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 9.44% 13.07% 15.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 185 282
10th Percentile £200 £190 £226
25th Percentile £376 £275 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £540
90th Percentile £588 £608 £613
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 2
10th Percentile - £18.19 £24.34
25th Percentile - £42.22 £29.66
Median hourly rate - £60.50 £40.68
Median % change year-on-year - +48.72% -8.58%
75th Percentile - £60.75 £50.80
90th Percentile - - £55.57
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £24.34 £54.00
% change year-on-year +16.06% -54.93% +170.00%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in Scotland

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Docker in Scotland

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Scotland

Docker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in Scotland

Docker
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 Docker within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 June 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 -15 32 £418 -5.11% 108
Edinburgh -6 10 £463 -3.44% 64
Lanarkshire +4 3 £525 +14.13% 5
Argyll and Bute - 1 £475 -
Docker
UK

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.04%) Apache
1 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.04%) nginx
1 1 (2.04%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 25 (51.02%) AWS
2 11 (22.45%) Azure
3 8 (16.33%) GitHub
4 7 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 6 (12.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (12.24%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (12.24%) Serverless
6 5 (10.20%) GCP
7 4 (8.16%) Amazon Cognito
7 4 (8.16%) Amazon S3
7 4 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.12%) PaaS
9 2 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (4.08%) Apigee
10 1 (2.04%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (2.04%) Cloud Run
10 1 (2.04%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.12%) Network Security
1 3 (6.12%) VPN
2 2 (4.08%) Firewall
3 1 (2.04%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (2.04%) iSCSI
3 1 (2.04%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.45%) KDB
1 11 (22.45%) Kdb+
2 9 (18.37%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 4 (8.16%) DynamoDB
4 4 (8.16%) MySQL
5 3 (6.12%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (6.12%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (6.12%) Parquet
6 2 (4.08%) MariaDB
6 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.08%) Oracle Database
6 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.04%) DB2
7 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.04%) Redis
7 1 (2.04%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 11 (22.45%) Git
2 10 (20.41%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.20%) GitLab
3 5 (10.20%) Maven
4 4 (8.16%) Cypress.io
4 4 (8.16%) Gradle
5 3 (6.12%) JUnit
5 3 (6.12%) Mockito
5 3 (6.12%) Newman
6 2 (4.08%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.04%) webpack
General
1 31 (63.27%) Social Skills
2 18 (36.73%) Banking
3 12 (24.49%) Investment Banking
4 9 (18.37%) Finance
5 8 (16.33%) Public Sector
6 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (59.18%) Developer
2 19 (38.78%) Senior
3 18 (36.73%) Senior Developer
4 15 (30.61%) Python Developer
5 11 (22.45%) C++ Developer
5 11 (22.45%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
5 11 (22.45%) Linux Developer
5 11 (22.45%) Senior C++ Developer
5 11 (22.45%) Senior Python Developer
6 7 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Python Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) AWS Developer
8 3 (6.12%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (6.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Cloud Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Java Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Lead
8 3 (6.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) RESTful
1 6 (12.24%) Spring
2 5 (10.20%) AWS CDK
2 5 (10.20%) React
2 5 (10.20%) Spring Boot
3 4 (8.16%) AngularJS
3 4 (8.16%) JSON
3 4 (8.16%) Node.js
4 3 (6.12%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
4 3 (6.12%) FastAPI
4 3 (6.12%) HTML
4 3 (6.12%) Jest
4 3 (6.12%) LDAP
4 3 (6.12%) Nunjucks
4 3 (6.12%) Prisma
4 3 (6.12%) pytest
4 3 (6.12%) X-Windows
5 2 (4.08%) hapi
5 2 (4.08%) OpenAPI
5 2 (4.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.45%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.16%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (6.12%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.12%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.04%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.04%) NVMe
4 1 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 26 (53.06%) Linux
2 22 (44.90%) Windows
3 7 (14.29%) Unix
4 6 (12.24%) Mac OS
5 4 (8.16%) Windows Server
6 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.04%) AIX
7 1 (2.04%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (2.04%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (59.18%) CI/CD
2 25 (51.02%) DevOps
3 23 (46.94%) Containerisation
4 18 (36.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (34.69%) SDLC
6 15 (30.61%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (26.53%) Agile
8 11 (22.45%) Data Science
9 7 (14.29%) Observability
10 6 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (12.24%) Task Automation
10 6 (12.24%) Test Automation
11 5 (10.20%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (10.20%) Full-Stack Development
11 5 (10.20%) High Availability
11 5 (10.20%) Microservices
11 5 (10.20%) Scrum
12 4 (8.16%) Cost Optimisation
12 4 (8.16%) Event-Driven
12 4 (8.16%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (65.31%) Python
2 11 (22.45%) C++
2 11 (22.45%) SQL
3 10 (20.41%) Java
4 6 (12.24%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.20%) Bash
5 5 (10.20%) PowerShell
5 5 (10.20%) Shell Script
5 5 (10.20%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.16%) Go
7 2 (4.08%) Perl
8 1 (2.04%) Bicep
8 1 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (6.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (6.12%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.04%) GDPR
2 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (6.12%) Active Directory
1 3 (6.12%) Hyper-V
1 3 (6.12%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (4.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.04%) GPFS
3 1 (2.04%) NFS
Systems Management
1 35 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 17 (34.69%) Terraform
3 8 (16.33%) Ansible
4 3 (6.12%) Grafana
4 3 (6.12%) Podman
4 3 (6.12%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.08%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.08%) RSA Archer
6 1 (2.04%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.04%) linkerd
6 1 (2.04%) Puppet
6 1 (2.04%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 8 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.24%) Oracle
2 6 (12.24%) Splunk
3 3 (6.12%) AppDynamics
3 3 (6.12%) Dynatrace
3 3 (6.12%) Google
3 3 (6.12%) Netskope
3 3 (6.12%) Proofpoint
3 3 (6.12%) Symantec
3 3 (6.12%) Veritas
4 2 (4.08%) ForgeRock
4 2 (4.08%) IBM
4 2 (4.08%) VMware
5 1 (2.04%) Brocade
5 1 (2.04%) EMC
5 1 (2.04%) NetApp
5 1 (2.04%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.04%) Sybase