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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 42 58
Rank change year-on-year -8 +16 -15
Contract jobs citing Docker 22 27 16
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.06% 4.23% 1.95%
As % of the System Software category 29.73% 55.10% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 11
10th Percentile £365 £449 £430
25th Percentile £410 £469 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +4.17% +1.21%
75th Percentile £502 £525 £494
90th Percentile £516 £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 74 49 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.31% 7.68% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 28 67
10th Percentile £182 £311 £200
25th Percentile £213 £447 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £500 £340
Median % change year-on-year -15.40% +47.06% -28.19%
75th Percentile £522 £525 £494
90th Percentile £629 £550 £543
Scotland median daily rate £450 £484 £425
% change year-on-year -7.02% +13.88% -10.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile - - £15.70
25th Percentile - - £18.55
Median hourly rate £15.81 - £22.23
75th Percentile - - £24.18
90th Percentile £45.41 - £49.59
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £23.75 £22.23
% change year-on-year -33.43% +6.83% -60.48%

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 17 September 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 (9.09%) nginx
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 6 (27.27%) Azure
3 5 (22.73%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (22.73%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (22.73%) OpenShift
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (18.18%) GitHub
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
5 3 (13.64%) GCP
5 3 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (13.64%) Serverless
5 3 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (4.55%) CloudFront
7 1 (4.55%) Kong
7 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
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 6 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (13.64%) DynamoDB
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.55%) Db2
5 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) 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%) Python Developer
3 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Lead
3 4 (18.18%) Technical Leader
4 3 (13.64%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) .NET Software Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (4.55%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) WinForms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) Terraform
2 6 (27.27%) REST
2 6 (27.27%) Spring
2 6 (27.27%) Spring Boot
3 5 (22.73%) CSS
3 5 (22.73%) React
4 4 (18.18%) HTML
5 3 (13.64%) Next.js
5 3 (13.64%) Node.js
5 3 (13.64%) Spring MVC
5 3 (13.64%) Streamlit
5 3 (13.64%) Vue
6 2 (9.09%) .NET
6 2 (9.09%) AWS CDK
6 2 (9.09%) OAuth
6 2 (9.09%) OAuth2
6 2 (9.09%) RESTful
6 2 (9.09%) Spring Web Flow
6 2 (9.09%) Thymeleaf
7 1 (4.55%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
1 3 (13.64%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
2 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) DevOps
2 16 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 12 (54.55%) Containerisation
3 12 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (36.36%) Agile
5 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (22.73%) AI
7 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (18.18%) Data Protection
7 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
7 4 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
8 3 (13.64%) API Development
8 3 (13.64%) Dashboard Development
8 3 (13.64%) DevSecOps
8 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
8 3 (13.64%) Microservices
8 3 (13.64%) Prototyping
8 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) Bash
2 6 (27.27%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
5 2 (9.09%) Go
6 1 (4.55%) C#
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 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 5 (22.73%) Grafana
3 3 (13.64%) Ansible
4 2 (9.09%) linkerd
4 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.55%) HAProxy
5 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