Docker Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Docker
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 51 46
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 +10
Contract jobs citing Docker 9 15 28
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.41% 2.45% 3.37%
As % of the System Software category 19.15% 24.19% 27.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 20
10th Percentile - £226 £420
25th Percentile £358 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £441 £480
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -7.98% +2.73%
75th Percentile £470 £474 £634
90th Percentile £473 £521 -
Scotland median daily rate £400 £438 £479
% change year-on-year -8.57% -8.66% +0.84%

All System Software Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 47 62 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.34% 10.11% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 39 58
10th Percentile £358 £204 £214
25th Percentile £413 £406 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £471 £477
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% -1.26% +0.42%
75th Percentile £575 £531 £634
90th Percentile £675 £613 £750
Scotland median daily rate £410 £450 £467
% change year-on-year -8.89% -3.64% +0.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 11
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile - - £60.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +15.70% -
75th Percentile - - £60.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +15.70% +199.80%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Docker job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Docker

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (11.11%) CMS
1 1 (11.11%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Serverless
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Functions
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (11.11%) Apigee
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Route 53
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (11.11%) Metadata
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) GitLab
2 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (22.22%) Jasmine
3 2 (22.22%) Karma Test Runner
3 2 (22.22%) NUnit
4 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
4 1 (11.11%) Git
4 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
1 2 (22.22%) .NET Core
1 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
1 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
1 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
1 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET Core
1 2 (22.22%) AWS CDK
1 2 (22.22%) Entity Framework
1 2 (22.22%) Jest
1 2 (22.22%) LINQ
1 2 (22.22%) NgRx
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) Express.js
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Security
2 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Derivative
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) Agile
4 4 (44.44%) Microservices
5 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (33.33%) Kanban
5 3 (33.33%) Migration
5 3 (33.33%) Scrum
5 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 3 (33.33%) User Experience
6 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
6 2 (22.22%) Micro Frontends
6 2 (22.22%) MVC
6 2 (22.22%) TDD
6 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Wealth Management
7 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Groovy
3 1 (11.11%) PHP
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Grafana
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
3 2 (22.22%) Ansible
4 1 (11.11%) Argo
4 1 (11.11%) Karpenter
4 1 (11.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) IBM
1 1 (11.11%) IBM Sterling
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk
1 1 (11.11%) WooCommerce