Docker Job Trends in Scotland

Docker
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 69 85
Rank change year-on-year -33 +16 -53
Permanent jobs citing Docker 37 81 136
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.36% 3.04% 4.53%
As % of the System Software category 17.54% 32.93% 33.25%
Number of salaries quoted 17 50 119
10th Percentile £40,058 £45,800 £46,294
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £78,790 £80,000 £76,385
90th Percentile £80,274 £94,400 £82,811
UK median annual salary £71,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.07% +3.57% -3.45%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 211 246 409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.74% 9.22% 13.63%
Number of salaries quoted 84 144 323
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £27,323
25th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £78,790 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £86,750 £85,000 £77,715
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -1.03%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Docker job vacancy trend in Scotland

Docker
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in Scotland

Docker
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -26 31 £70,000 -0.92% 9
Glasgow +4 3 £80,000 +45.45% 1
Renfrewshire - 1 £42,500 - 1
South Ayrshire - 1 £65,000 - 1
Scottish Borders - 1 £39,594 -
Docker
UK

Docker
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 1 (2.70%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 34 (91.89%) Azure
2 21 (56.76%) GitHub
3 16 (43.24%) GitHub Actions
4 15 (40.54%) Datadog
5 11 (29.73%) AWS
6 8 (21.62%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (18.92%) GCP
8 5 (13.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (13.51%) dbt
9 4 (10.81%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (10.81%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (10.81%) Azure App Service
9 4 (10.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (10.81%) PaaS
9 4 (10.81%) Pulumi
10 3 (8.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 3 (8.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (8.11%) Sentry
11 2 (5.41%) Azure AKS
11 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) DNS
1 5 (13.51%) Firewall
1 5 (13.51%) TCP/IP
1 5 (13.51%) VPN
2 1 (2.70%) ATM
2 1 (2.70%) DHCP
2 1 (2.70%) LAN
2 1 (2.70%) Multicast
2 1 (2.70%) tcpdump
2 1 (2.70%) WAN
2 1 (2.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.81%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (10.81%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (10.81%) Redis
3 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.70%) IntelliJ
2 1 (2.70%) JMeter
2 1 (2.70%) jMock
2 1 (2.70%) JUnit
2 1 (2.70%) Locust
General
1 20 (54.05%) Finance
2 19 (51.35%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Health Technology
3 2 (5.41%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (5.41%) Tech for Good
4 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.70%) Automotive
4 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.70%) Law
4 1 (2.70%) Legal
4 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Police
4 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (45.95%) Senior
2 14 (37.84%) Development Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Senior Development Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Software Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Associate Director
8 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) IT Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (45.95%) .NET
2 14 (37.84%) ADO
3 5 (13.51%) React
4 4 (10.81%) Django
5 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
5 3 (8.11%) Blazor
5 3 (8.11%) RESTful
6 2 (5.41%) .NET Core
6 2 (5.41%) CSS
6 2 (5.41%) HTML
6 2 (5.41%) Kafka
6 2 (5.41%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.70%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.70%) Java EE
7 1 (2.70%) Java SE
7 1 (2.70%) Next.js
7 1 (2.70%) Quarkus
7 1 (2.70%) Swing
7 1 (2.70%) Vue
7 1 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (40.54%) Product Ownership
2 14 (37.84%) Onboarding
3 4 (10.81%) Cloud Native
4 3 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (8.11%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Linux
2 4 (10.81%) Unix
2 4 (10.81%) VMS
3 3 (8.11%) Windows
4 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (81.08%) DevOps
2 29 (78.38%) CI/CD
3 22 (59.46%) Containerisation
4 21 (56.76%) Observability
4 21 (56.76%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (54.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (54.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 18 (48.65%) Asset Management
6 18 (48.65%) Coaching
6 18 (48.65%) Platform Engineering
7 14 (37.84%) Brown Bag Session
7 14 (37.84%) Code Quality
8 12 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (18.92%) Migration
11 6 (16.22%) Agile
11 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (16.22%) Microservices
11 6 (16.22%) Software Engineering
12 4 (10.81%) Cloud Operations
Programming Languages
1 27 (72.97%) Python
2 17 (45.95%) JavaScript
3 8 (21.62%) SQL
4 5 (13.51%) Java
5 4 (10.81%) Bicep
5 4 (10.81%) PowerShell
6 3 (8.11%) C#
7 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.70%) Bash
8 1 (2.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.41%) CISM
3 2 (5.41%) CISSP
3 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) RHCE
4 1 (2.70%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (40.54%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) GxP
3 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) KVM
1 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (5.41%) vSphere
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (83.78%) Kubernetes
2 26 (70.27%) Terraform
3 15 (40.54%) Grafana
4 14 (37.84%) Prometheus
5 3 (8.11%) Ansible
5 3 (8.11%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (5.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Google
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) VMware
3 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.70%) Remedy