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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 58 37
Rank change year-on-year +17 -21 +13
Contract jobs citing Docker 26 18 51
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.19% 2.37% 5.12%
As % of the System Software category 52.00% 19.35% 42.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 31
10th Percentile £445 £426 £400
25th Percentile £475 £436 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £474
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.37% -1.76%
75th Percentile £525 £494 £515
90th Percentile £542 - £538
Scotland median daily rate £497 £450 £479
% change year-on-year +10.33% -6.05% -2.15%

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 50 93 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.06% 12.25% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 58 79
10th Percentile £341 £199 £200
25th Percentile £463 £240 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £423 £463
Median % change year-on-year +18.34% -8.65% -2.63%
75th Percentile £525 £494 £528
90th Percentile £546 £540 £550
Scotland median daily rate £475 £438 £480
% change year-on-year +8.57% -8.85% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £15.70 -
25th Percentile - £18.55 £60.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £22.23 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +237.34% -63.55% +244.24%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £61.50
90th Percentile - £49.59 -
Scotland median hourly rate £49.38 £22.23 £56.40
% change year-on-year +122.08% -60.58% +218.28%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Edinburgh

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 (3.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 18 (69.23%) AWS
2 10 (38.46%) OpenShift
3 9 (34.62%) Amazon S3
3 9 (34.62%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (34.62%) Azure
3 9 (34.62%) Serverless
4 6 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (19.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (15.38%) GCP
7 3 (11.54%) Textract
8 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (3.85%) GitHub
9 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (3.85%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
1 2 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (7.69%) InfluxDB
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 4 (15.38%) Git
3 3 (11.54%) Cypress.io
3 3 (11.54%) GitLab
4 2 (7.69%) Liquibase
5 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.85%) Maven
5 1 (3.85%) webpack
General
1 10 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Site Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (11.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Network Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Automation Developer
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Python Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) AWS CDK
2 3 (11.54%) PyTorch
2 3 (11.54%) React
2 3 (11.54%) REST
2 3 (11.54%) RESTful
2 3 (11.54%) SpaCy
2 3 (11.54%) Spring
2 3 (11.54%) Spring Boot
3 2 (7.69%) CSS
3 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (7.69%) HTML
3 2 (7.69%) OAuth
3 2 (7.69%) OAuth2
3 2 (7.69%) Spring MVC
3 2 (7.69%) Spring Web Flow
3 2 (7.69%) Thymeleaf
4 1 (3.85%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Unix
2 9 (34.62%) Linux
3 5 (19.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (84.62%) Agile
2 20 (76.92%) CI/CD
3 18 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (61.54%) DevOps
5 11 (42.31%) Containerisation
6 7 (26.92%) Observability
7 6 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
7 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
8 5 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (19.23%) Kanban
8 5 (19.23%) Microservices
8 5 (19.23%) Scrum
8 5 (19.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (19.23%) Software Delivery
9 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (15.38%) Network Load Balancing
10 3 (11.54%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Python
2 8 (30.77%) Shell Script
3 6 (23.08%) Bash
3 6 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 5 (19.23%) Perl
5 3 (11.54%) Go
5 3 (11.54%) Java
5 3 (11.54%) SQL
6 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) AWS Certification
1 4 (15.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) KVM
Systems Management
1 23 (88.46%) Kubernetes
2 16 (61.54%) Grafana
3 15 (57.69%) Terraform
4 14 (53.85%) Ansible
5 8 (30.77%) Prometheus
6 4 (15.38%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (7.69%) Fluentd
7 2 (7.69%) HAProxy
7 2 (7.69%) Nagios
8 1 (3.85%) linkerd
8 1 (3.85%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle
1 4 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 3 (11.54%) Commvault
3 2 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 2 (7.69%) ForgeRock
3 2 (7.69%) Splunk
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) Ping Identity