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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 51 47
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 +12
Contract jobs citing Docker 10 14 27
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.48% 2.27% 3.28%
As % of the System Software category 20.00% 21.88% 26.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 20
10th Percentile £358 £226 £420
25th Percentile £375 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £441 £480
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -7.98% +2.73%
75th Percentile £474 £474 £634
90th Percentile £475 £521 -
Scotland median daily rate £370 £450 £465
% change year-on-year -17.78% -3.17% -2.16%

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 50 64 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.42% 10.39% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 42 57
10th Percentile £356 £205 £368
25th Percentile £411 £372 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £466 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.64% -3.02% +1.05%
75th Percentile £556 £534 £634
90th Percentile £675 £605 £750
Scotland median daily rate £400 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -11.11% -2.70% -1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 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% +153.56%

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 1 (10.00%) CMS
1 1 (10.00%) nginx
1 1 (10.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Serverless
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (10.00%) Algolia
5 1 (10.00%) Apigee
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) GitLab
2 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (20.00%) Jasmine
3 2 (20.00%) Karma Test Runner
3 2 (20.00%) NUnit
4 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (10.00%) Git
4 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Banking
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 2 (20.00%) AWS CDK
1 2 (20.00%) Entity Framework
1 2 (20.00%) Jest
1 2 (20.00%) LINQ
1 2 (20.00%) NgRx
1 2 (20.00%) REST
1 2 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Express.js
2 1 (10.00%) Next.js
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (10.00%) Open Graph
2 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Derivative
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (40.00%) Microservices
5 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (30.00%) Kanban
5 3 (30.00%) Migration
5 3 (30.00%) Scrum
5 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
5 3 (30.00%) User Experience
6 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
6 2 (20.00%) Micro Frontends
6 2 (20.00%) MVC
6 2 (20.00%) TDD
6 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Wealth Management
7 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) Groovy
3 1 (10.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Grafana
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
3 3 (30.00%) Ansible
4 1 (10.00%) Argo
4 1 (10.00%) Karpenter
4 1 (10.00%) Kibana
4 1 (10.00%) linkerd
4 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) IBM
1 1 (10.00%) IBM Sterling
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk
1 1 (10.00%) WooCommerce