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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 47 56
Rank change year-on-year -6 +9 -4
Contract jobs citing Docker 14 25 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.24% 3.07% 4.53%
As % of the System Software category 24.14% 22.12% 28.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 48
10th Percentile £226 £419 £415
25th Percentile £415 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £480 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +2.18% -10.52%
75th Percentile £474 £634 £508
90th Percentile £521 - £547
Scotland median daily rate £463 £461 £479
% change year-on-year +0.27% -3.71% -8.76%

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 58 113 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.28% 13.87% 15.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 65 166
10th Percentile £226 £237 £209
25th Percentile £413 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £634 £528
90th Percentile £619 £750 £578
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.00% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.70% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £70.00 £60.50 £40.68
% change year-on-year +15.70% +48.72% -8.58%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Edinburgh

Docker
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 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.14%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (42.86%) AWS CodePipeline
3 6 (42.86%) OpenShift
3 6 (42.86%) Serverless
4 5 (35.71%) Amazon S3
4 5 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (28.57%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (28.57%) Azure
6 3 (21.43%) GCP
7 2 (14.29%) Apigee
7 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (7.14%) Cloud Run
8 1 (7.14%) CloudFront
8 1 (7.14%) GitHub
8 1 (7.14%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
8 1 (7.14%) Stackdriver
8 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (28.57%) MongoDB
4 3 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (7.14%) Big Data
5 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
5 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
5 1 (7.14%) GIS
5 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
5 1 (7.14%) MariaDB
5 1 (7.14%) Metadata
5 1 (7.14%) MySQL
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
5 1 (7.14%) Power Query
5 1 (7.14%) Redis
5 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) GitLab
2 3 (21.43%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 4 (28.57%) Banking
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Open Source Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Unix Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 5 (35.71%) REST
3 3 (21.43%) PostGIS
3 3 (21.43%) Spring
4 2 (14.29%) OpenAPI
4 2 (14.29%) RESTful
4 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 2 (14.29%) Spring Security
4 2 (14.29%) Swagger
5 1 (7.14%) .NET
5 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
5 1 (7.14%) Great Expectations
5 1 (7.14%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (7.14%) JSON
5 1 (7.14%) Pandas
5 1 (7.14%) PySpark
5 1 (7.14%) React
5 1 (7.14%) TypeORM
5 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (7.14%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) AIX
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 8 (57.14%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) Data Transformation
3 6 (42.86%) Kanban
4 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
4 5 (35.71%) Data Integration
4 5 (35.71%) Migration
4 5 (35.71%) Scrum
4 5 (35.71%) TDD
5 4 (28.57%) Data Migration
5 4 (28.57%) Human-Centred Design
5 4 (28.57%) Inclusive Design
5 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Analytics
6 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
7 2 (14.29%) API Design
7 2 (14.29%) Microservices
7 2 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 8 (57.14%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Bash
4 2 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.14%) Bicep
5 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (7.14%) Go
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) Perl
5 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
5 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 2 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) Grafana
3 3 (21.43%) Terraform
4 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
5 1 (7.14%) HAProxy
5 1 (7.14%) linkerd
5 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
1 2 (14.29%) Google
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) ForgeRock
2 1 (7.14%) IBM
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk