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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 52 52
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Docker 13 16 23
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.71% 2.54% 2.69%
As % of the System Software category 21.67% 28.07% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 20
10th Percentile £351 £247 £420
25th Percentile £358 £416 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £460 £487
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -5.45% +1.57%
75th Percentile £475 £482 £634
90th Percentile £486 £518 -
Scotland median daily rate £430 £460 £460
% change year-on-year -6.52% +0.11% -7.82%

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 57 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.88% 9.03% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 37 82
10th Percentile £351 £226 £230
25th Percentile £408 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +7.95% -7.37%
75th Percentile £578 £525 £500
90th Percentile £675 £588 £646
Scotland median daily rate £449 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -0.33% +5.88% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 10
10th Percentile - - £22.95
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 £24.72 £70.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -64.69% +15.70% +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
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 (15.38%) nginx
2 1 (7.69%) CMS
2 1 (7.69%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 4 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Serverless
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (23.08%) GCP
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (15.38%) GitHub
5 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (7.69%) Algolia
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (7.69%) CloudFront
6 1 (7.69%) Kong
6 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
1 1 (7.69%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) DynamoDB
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.69%) DB2
3 1 (7.69%) Metadata
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) GitLab
2 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
3 2 (15.38%) Git
3 2 (15.38%) Jasmine
3 2 (15.38%) Karma Test Runner
3 2 (15.38%) NUnit
4 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (7.69%) Claude Code
4 1 (7.69%) JIRA
4 1 (7.69%) webpack
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
1 2 (15.38%) .NET Core
1 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
1 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
1 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
1 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET Core
1 2 (15.38%) AWS CDK
1 2 (15.38%) CSS
1 2 (15.38%) Entity Framework
1 2 (15.38%) Jest
1 2 (15.38%) LINQ
1 2 (15.38%) NgRx
1 2 (15.38%) REST
1 2 (15.38%) Spring
2 1 (7.69%) Express.js
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
2 1 (7.69%) Open Graph
2 1 (7.69%) Quarkus
2 1 (7.69%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Derivative
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 9 (69.23%) DevOps
3 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
4 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (30.77%) Agile
5 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (30.77%) Microservices
5 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (23.08%) AI
6 3 (23.08%) Kanban
6 3 (23.08%) Micro Frontends
6 3 (23.08%) Scrum
6 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
6 3 (23.08%) User Experience
7 2 (15.38%) Analytics
7 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (15.38%) Migration
7 2 (15.38%) MVC
7 2 (15.38%) Wealth Management
8 1 (7.69%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 5 (38.46%) Bash
4 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
5 2 (15.38%) C#
5 2 (15.38%) Go
5 2 (15.38%) Java
5 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
6 1 (7.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 4 (30.77%) Terraform
3 3 (23.08%) Grafana
4 2 (15.38%) Ansible
4 2 (15.38%) linkerd
4 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.69%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) New Relic
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) webMethods
2 1 (7.69%) WooCommerce