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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 56 43
Rank change year-on-year -3 -13 +12
Contract jobs citing Docker 9 14 34
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.42% 2.27% 3.94%
As % of the System Software category 20.00% 23.73% 31.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 23
10th Percentile - £205 £417
25th Percentile £358 £414 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £433 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% -9.90% +2.24%
75th Percentile £469 £476 £588
90th Percentile £470 £525 £634
Scotland median daily rate £375 £438 £480
% change year-on-year -14.29% -8.76% +0.95%

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 45 59 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.10% 9.56% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 37 60
10th Percentile £203 £200 £218
25th Percentile £383 £363 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £471 £477
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% -1.26% +0.42%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £634
90th Percentile £675 £619 £750
Scotland median daily rate £401 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -10.89% -2.70% -0.16%
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 3 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Functions
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
4 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (11.11%) Apigee
5 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (11.11%) npm
5 1 (11.11%) Route 53
5 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%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) GitLab
3 2 (22.22%) Git
3 2 (22.22%) Jasmine
3 2 (22.22%) Karma Test Runner
3 2 (22.22%) NUnit
4 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
4 1 (11.11%) Maven
4 1 (11.11%) webpack
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) 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%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Jest
1 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) .NET Core
2 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
2 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
2 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (22.22%) AWS CDK
2 2 (22.22%) Entity Framework
2 2 (22.22%) LINQ
2 2 (22.22%) NgRx
2 2 (22.22%) React
2 2 (22.22%) REST
2 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
3 1 (11.11%) Express.js
3 1 (11.11%) Next.js
3 1 (11.11%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (11.11%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Derivative
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 6 (66.67%) Agile
4 5 (55.56%) Microservices
5 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (33.33%) Kanban
6 3 (33.33%) Scrum
6 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
6 3 (33.33%) User Experience
7 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
7 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
7 2 (22.22%) Migration
7 2 (22.22%) MVC
7 2 (22.22%) Pair Programming
7 2 (22.22%) TDD
7 2 (22.22%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) Python
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Groovy
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
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
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Argo
3 1 (11.11%) Karpenter
3 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