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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 50 43
Rank change year-on-year +14 -7 +26
Contract jobs citing Docker 28 20 46
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.68% 3.03% 4.90%
As % of the System Software category 53.85% 30.30% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 30
10th Percentile £445 £417 £397
25th Percentile £475 £426 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £466 £474
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -1.85% +0.90%
75th Percentile £525 £481 £508
90th Percentile £542 £515 £538
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +1.05%

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 52 66 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.70% 10.02% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 37 77
10th Percentile £178 £171 £217
25th Percentile £452 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £474
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -4.96% -0.32%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £538
90th Percentile £546 £635 £580
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile - £15.20 £60.05
25th Percentile - £18.19 £60.13
Median hourly rate £75.00 £20.29 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +269.73% -66.47% +241.42%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £61.13
90th Percentile - £54.67 £61.35
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 £20.29 £60.00
% change year-on-year +269.73% -66.19% +238.60%

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 12 December 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 (3.57%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 20 (71.43%) AWS
2 12 (42.86%) Amazon S3
2 12 (42.86%) OpenShift
3 9 (32.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (32.14%) Serverless
4 8 (28.57%) Azure
5 6 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (17.86%) GCP
7 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (10.71%) Textract
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (3.57%) Apigee
9 1 (3.57%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (3.57%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
1 2 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (21.43%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (17.86%) MongoDB
4 3 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (7.14%) InfluxDB
5 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.29%) Git
2 4 (14.29%) GitLab
3 3 (10.71%) Cypress.io
4 2 (7.14%) Liquibase
5 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.57%) Maven
5 1 (3.57%) webpack
General
1 10 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Banking
3 3 (10.71%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Site Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Network Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Automation Developer
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) AWS CDK
2 5 (17.86%) REST
3 4 (14.29%) React
3 4 (14.29%) Spring
3 4 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 3 (10.71%) OAuth
4 3 (10.71%) OAuth2
4 3 (10.71%) PyTorch
4 3 (10.71%) RESTful
4 3 (10.71%) SpaCy
5 2 (7.14%) CSS
5 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (7.14%) HTML
5 2 (7.14%) Spring MVC
5 2 (7.14%) Spring Web Flow
5 2 (7.14%) Thymeleaf
6 1 (3.57%) Jest
6 1 (3.57%) Next.js
6 1 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (3.57%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Derivative
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Unix
2 9 (32.14%) Linux
3 5 (17.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) Agile
2 22 (78.57%) CI/CD
3 19 (67.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (60.71%) DevOps
5 11 (39.29%) Containerisation
6 8 (28.57%) Observability
7 7 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 6 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (21.43%) Kanban
8 6 (21.43%) Microservices
8 6 (21.43%) Scrum
8 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
9 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (17.86%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (17.86%) Software Delivery
9 5 (17.86%) TDD
10 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Python
2 8 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 7 (25.00%) Bash
4 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
5 5 (17.86%) Perl
6 4 (14.29%) Java
6 4 (14.29%) SQL
7 3 (10.71%) Go
8 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
8 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
9 1 (3.57%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) AWS Certification
1 3 (10.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) KVM
Systems Management
1 24 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 19 (67.86%) Grafana
3 15 (53.57%) Terraform
4 14 (50.00%) Ansible
5 8 (28.57%) Prometheus
6 4 (14.29%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (7.14%) Fluentd
7 2 (7.14%) HAProxy
7 2 (7.14%) Nagios
8 1 (3.57%) Argo
8 1 (3.57%) Karpenter
8 1 (3.57%) Kibana
8 1 (3.57%) linkerd
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Oracle
1 4 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 3 (10.71%) Commvault
2 3 (10.71%) Splunk
3 2 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.57%) ForgeRock
4 1 (3.57%) IBM
4 1 (3.57%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (3.57%) Ping Identity