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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 59 52
Rank change year-on-year +1 -7 -3
Contract jobs citing Docker 16 10 23
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.02% 1.54% 2.68%
As % of the System Software category 26.67% 20.41% 17.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 19
10th Percentile £351 £205 £419
25th Percentile £358 £328 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £463 £479
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% -3.44% +0.42%
75th Percentile £491 £506 £570
90th Percentile £509 £530 £634
Scotland median daily rate £450 £469 £453
% change year-on-year -3.95% +3.42% -9.40%

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 60 49 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.56% 7.56% 15.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 29 81
10th Percentile £355 £204 £230
25th Percentile £412 £308 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +12.36% -5.27%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £500
90th Percentile £673 £588 £646
Scotland median daily rate £450 £453 £425
% change year-on-year -0.55% +6.47% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 11
10th Percentile £27.65 - £18.19
25th Percentile £45.41 - £42.22
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £60.50
75th Percentile - - £60.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 - £60.50
% change year-on-year - - +48.72%

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 27 June 2026.

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 2 (12.50%) nginx
2 1 (6.25%) CMS
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (6.25%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
3 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) GitHub
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (18.75%) GCP
5 3 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (18.75%) Serverless
5 3 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (12.50%) Azure Functions
6 2 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (6.25%) Algolia
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (6.25%) AWS KMS
7 1 (6.25%) CloudFront
7 1 (6.25%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
1 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) DynamoDB
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.25%) Db2
3 1 (6.25%) Metadata
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 4 (25.00%) GitLab
3 3 (18.75%) Claude Code
3 3 (18.75%) Git
4 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 2 (12.50%) Jasmine
4 2 (12.50%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (12.50%) NUnit
5 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (6.25%) JIRA
5 1 (6.25%) webpack
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Python Developer
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
5 1 (6.25%) Web Developer
5 1 (6.25%) WinForms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
1 3 (18.75%) .NET Core
1 3 (18.75%) .NET Framework
1 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
1 3 (18.75%) Entity Framework
1 3 (18.75%) Streamlit
2 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (12.50%) CSS
2 2 (12.50%) Jest
2 2 (12.50%) LINQ
2 2 (12.50%) NgRx
3 1 (6.25%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth
3 1 (6.25%) OpenID
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) WinForms
3 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Containerisation
1 10 (62.50%) DevOps
2 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (31.25%) AI
6 4 (25.00%) Agile
6 4 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (18.75%) Dashboard Development
7 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
7 3 (18.75%) Kanban
7 3 (18.75%) Micro Frontends
7 3 (18.75%) Microservices
7 3 (18.75%) Prototyping
7 3 (18.75%) Rapid Prototyping
7 3 (18.75%) Scrum
7 3 (18.75%) Validation
8 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
8 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) Bash
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) C#
3 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 2 (12.50%) Go
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (31.25%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) Ansible
3 2 (12.50%) Grafana
3 2 (12.50%) linkerd
3 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.25%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Google
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) New Relic
2 1 (6.25%) Splunk
2 1 (6.25%) webMethods
2 1 (6.25%) WooCommerce