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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 37 65
Rank change year-on-year -12 +28 -27
Contract jobs citing Docker 22 27 17
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.26% 4.42% 2.07%
As % of the System Software category 30.56% 57.45% 17.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 11
10th Percentile £360 £449 £430
25th Percentile £405 £469 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.17% +1.37%
75th Percentile £503 £525 £494
90th Percentile £517 £540 -
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -5.66%

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 72 47 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.67% 7.69% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 24 63
10th Percentile £177 £341 £200
25th Percentile £211 £461 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £500 £340
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +47.06% -27.58%
75th Percentile £523 £525 £492
90th Percentile £633 £546 £529
Scotland median daily rate £450 £484 £400
% change year-on-year -7.02% +21.00% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 6
10th Percentile - - £15.70
25th Percentile - - £18.55
Median hourly rate £15.81 £75.00 £22.23
Median % change year-on-year -78.92% +237.34% -
75th Percentile - - £24.18
90th Percentile - - £49.59
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £49.38 £22.23
% change year-on-year -67.98% +122.08% -60.09%

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 5 October 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 1 (4.55%) nginx
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) OpenShift
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) GitHub
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
4 3 (13.64%) GCP
4 3 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (9.09%) Serverless
5 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) DHCP
2 1 (4.55%) HTTP
2 1 (4.55%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.55%) Db2
3 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (22.73%) Git
3 4 (18.18%) GitLab
4 3 (13.64%) Claude Code
5 1 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.55%) webpack
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Lead
2 5 (22.73%) Python Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Technical Leader
4 3 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Test Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) REST
1 6 (27.27%) Spring
1 6 (27.27%) Spring Boot
1 6 (27.27%) Terraform
2 5 (22.73%) CSS
2 5 (22.73%) React
3 4 (18.18%) HTML
4 3 (13.64%) Next.js
4 3 (13.64%) Node.js
4 3 (13.64%) Spring MVC
4 3 (13.64%) Streamlit
4 3 (13.64%) Vue
5 2 (9.09%) .NET
5 2 (9.09%) AWS CDK
5 2 (9.09%) OAuth
5 2 (9.09%) OAuth2
5 2 (9.09%) RESTful
5 2 (9.09%) Spring Web Flow
5 2 (9.09%) Thymeleaf
6 1 (4.55%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
2 2 (9.09%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) CI/CD
1 16 (72.73%) DevOps
2 11 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (36.36%) Agile
4 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (27.27%) AI
6 5 (22.73%) Test Automation
7 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (18.18%) Data Protection
7 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
7 4 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
8 3 (13.64%) DevSecOps
8 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (13.64%) MVC
8 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
8 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (13.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) Java
3 5 (22.73%) Bash
3 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
3 5 (22.73%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) TypeScript
4 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) RHCE
4 1 (4.55%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 3 (13.64%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (9.09%) QA
4 1 (4.55%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (18.18%) Grafana
3 3 (13.64%) Ansible
4 1 (4.55%) Functional Safety
4 1 (4.55%) HAProxy
4 1 (4.55%) linkerd
4 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.55%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Google
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Databricks
3 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.55%) New Relic
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.55%) Splunk
3 1 (4.55%) webMethods