Docker Contracts in Edinburgh

Docker
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 56 47
Rank change year-on-year -1 -9 -6
Contract jobs citing Docker 11 24 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.67% 2.75% 5.46%
As % of the System Software category 22.00% 17.39% 33.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 47
10th Percentile £205 £419 £400
25th Percentile £328 £439 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.44% +0.84% -2.96%
75th Percentile £506 £570 £508
90th Percentile £530 £634 £549
Scotland median daily rate £472 £453 £500
% change year-on-year +4.19% -9.40% -4.76%

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 50 138 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.61% 15.81% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 84 149
10th Percentile £204 £213 £239
25th Percentile £308 £340 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £448 £474
Median % change year-on-year +11.73% -5.49% -0.32%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £525
90th Percentile £588 £634 £577
Scotland median daily rate £453 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +6.47% -10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 0
Median hourly rate - £60.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £60.50 £40.68
% change year-on-year - +48.72% -9.24%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in Edinburgh

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Docker in Edinburgh

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
1 1 (9.09%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) GCP
4 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Serverless
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (18.18%) Apigee
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (9.09%) Cloud Run
6 1 (9.09%) CloudFront
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (9.09%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
6 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
6 1 (9.09%) Stackdriver
6 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) MongoDB
1 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (27.27%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (9.09%) Big Data
3 1 (9.09%) Delta Lake
3 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
3 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
3 1 (9.09%) MariaDB
3 1 (9.09%) Metadata
3 1 (9.09%) MySQL
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
3 1 (9.09%) Power Query
3 1 (9.09%) Redis
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
General
1 5 (45.45%) Banking
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Open Source Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Unix Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 2 (18.18%) AWS CDK
2 2 (18.18%) OpenAPI
2 2 (18.18%) RESTful
2 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
2 2 (18.18%) Spring Security
2 2 (18.18%) Swagger
3 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
3 1 (9.09%) Great Expectations
3 1 (9.09%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (9.09%) JSON
3 1 (9.09%) Pandas
3 1 (9.09%) PySpark
3 1 (9.09%) React
3 1 (9.09%) TypeORM
3 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (9.09%) Low-Code
1 1 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) AIX
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
1 8 (72.73%) Containerisation
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) API Design
4 3 (27.27%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Fintech
5 2 (18.18%) High Availability
5 2 (18.18%) Kanban
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
6 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
6 1 (9.09%) Inclusive Design
6 1 (9.09%) Log Analytics
6 1 (9.09%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Bicep
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (9.09%) Go
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Perl
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
1 1 (9.09%) QA
1 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 5 (45.45%) Ansible
2 5 (45.45%) Terraform
3 2 (18.18%) Progress Chef
4 1 (9.09%) Grafana
4 1 (9.09%) HAProxy
4 1 (9.09%) linkerd
4 1 (9.09%) Podman
4 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Dynatrace
2 2 (18.18%) ForgeRock
2 2 (18.18%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk