Containerisation Contracts in Edinburgh

Containerization
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Containerisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Containerisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 55 99
Rank change year-on-year +1 +44 +3
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 13 17 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.08% 2.09% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 2.36% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 9
10th Percentile £205 £465 -
25th Percentile £456 £515 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £638 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +27.50% -12.66%
75th Percentile £538 £671 £525
90th Percentile £554 £688 £531
Scotland median daily rate £525 £516 £525
% change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -8.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in Edinburgh

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in Edinburgh

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Edinburgh

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (15.38%) Camunda
1 2 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (46.15%) Serverless
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon S3
3 5 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (38.46%) OpenShift
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 4 (30.77%) AWS CodeBuild
4 4 (30.77%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 4 (30.77%) AWS CodePipeline
4 4 (30.77%) AWS Fargate
4 4 (30.77%) Route 53
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (23.08%) Azure
5 3 (23.08%) PaaS
5 3 (23.08%) SaaS
6 2 (15.38%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (15.38%) InfluxDB
3 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 1 (7.69%) Big Data
4 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
4 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
4 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Git
2 5 (38.46%) Artifactory
3 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
4 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
4 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (15.38%) JIRA
5 1 (7.69%) GitLab
5 1 (7.69%) LoadRunner
General
1 6 (46.15%) Banking
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
1 4 (30.77%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Open Source Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) AWS CDK
2 4 (30.77%) RESTful
2 4 (30.77%) Spring
2 4 (30.77%) Spring Boot
3 2 (15.38%) LDAP
3 2 (15.38%) OpenAPI
3 2 (15.38%) Spring Security
3 2 (15.38%) Swagger
4 1 (7.69%) Great Expectations
4 1 (7.69%) Loki
4 1 (7.69%) Pandas
4 1 (7.69%) PySpark
4 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
3 1 (7.69%) AIX
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 9 (69.23%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (23.08%) Kanban
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Scrum
6 2 (15.38%) API Design
6 2 (15.38%) BPMN
6 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
6 2 (15.38%) Decision Table
6 2 (15.38%) Domain-Driven Design
6 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) Performance Management
6 2 (15.38%) Software Delivery
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (15.38%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) Bash
3 4 (30.77%) Groovy
4 2 (15.38%) Java
5 1 (7.69%) Go
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.69%) Perl
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.69%) SQL
5 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (7.69%) OCP
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
1 1 (7.69%) QA
1 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
2 6 (46.15%) Ansible
3 3 (23.08%) Grafana
3 3 (23.08%) Kibana
4 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (7.69%) HAProxy
5 1 (7.69%) linkerd
5 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
5 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.69%) Puppet
5 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
1 1 (7.69%) ForgeRock
1 1 (7.69%) Google
1 1 (7.69%) IBM
1 1 (7.69%) Imperva
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle
1 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
1 1 (7.69%) Splunk