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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 41 135
Rank change year-on-year -74 +94 -97
Permanent jobs citing Docker 23 128 154
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.70% 6.44% 2.43%
As % of the System Software category 14.84% 63.37% 21.69%
Number of salaries quoted 8 61 80
10th Percentile £34,950 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,500 £51,698 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,283 £74,870 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.17% +11.75% -0.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £93,778 £80,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £146,300 £92,588
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -2.78%

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 155 202 710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.71% 10.16% 11.20%
Number of salaries quoted 71 124 410
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £43,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £58,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.91% +17.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £52,500 £76,840 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £106,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -36 11 £30,000 -59.93% 2
South Ayrshire - 6 £46,000 -
Glasgow -36 5 £65,000 - 11
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 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.35%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (8.70%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) Azure
1 10 (43.48%) GitHub
2 7 (30.43%) Datadog
2 7 (30.43%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (26.09%) IaaS
4 5 (21.74%) AWS
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
5 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (13.04%) Serverless
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (8.70%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.35%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) ATM
1 6 (26.09%) Multicast
1 6 (26.09%) TCP/IP
1 6 (26.09%) tcpdump
1 6 (26.09%) Wireshark
2 1 (4.35%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) MySQL
1 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) IntelliJ
3 1 (4.35%) jMock
3 1 (4.35%) JUnit
3 1 (4.35%) MLflow
3 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (73.91%) Social Skills
2 9 (39.13%) Finance
3 7 (30.43%) Aerospace
3 7 (30.43%) Automotive
4 6 (26.09%) Spanish Language
5 2 (8.70%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (4.35%) Advertising
6 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Legal
6 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Senior
2 7 (30.43%) Development Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Senior Development Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Deployment Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Integration Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Associate Director
5 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.70%) IT Director
6 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Junior Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Principal Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Python Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) .NET
1 7 (30.43%) ADO
2 4 (17.39%) REST
3 3 (13.04%) Kafka
4 2 (8.70%) Hibernate
4 2 (8.70%) JPA
4 2 (8.70%) RESTful
4 2 (8.70%) Spring
4 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.35%) gRPC
5 1 (4.35%) Java EE
5 1 (4.35%) Java SE
5 1 (4.35%) NumPy
5 1 (4.35%) OAuth
5 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (4.35%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (4.35%) Swing
5 1 (4.35%) Web Services
5 1 (4.35%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Onboarding
1 7 (30.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
2 6 (26.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
3 11 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (43.48%) Containerisation
4 10 (43.48%) DevOps
5 8 (34.78%) Code Quality
5 8 (34.78%) Observability
5 8 (34.78%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (30.43%) AI
6 7 (30.43%) Asset Management
6 7 (30.43%) Brown Bag Session
6 7 (30.43%) Coaching
6 7 (30.43%) Integration Testing
6 7 (30.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (26.09%) Validation
8 5 (21.74%) Machine Learning
9 4 (17.39%) Budgeting
9 4 (17.39%) Project Management
10 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
10 3 (13.04%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 19 (82.61%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.04%) Java
3 3 (13.04%) SQL
4 1 (4.35%) C
4 1 (4.35%) C++
4 1 (4.35%) Embedded C
4 1 (4.35%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.70%) CISM
2 2 (8.70%) CISSP
2 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) GxP
3 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) KVM
1 6 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (82.61%) Kubernetes
2 10 (43.48%) Terraform
3 8 (34.78%) Grafana
4 7 (30.43%) Prometheus
5 6 (26.09%) Ansible
5 6 (26.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) VMware
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks