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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 53 38
Rank change year-on-year +2 -15 +23
Contract jobs citing Docker 14 14 46
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.33% 2.30% 5.12%
As % of the System Software category 27.45% 29.79% 42.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 32
10th Percentile £445 £247 £413
25th Percentile £467 £416 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £440 £477
Median % change year-on-year +10.80% -7.76% +2.58%
75th Percentile £525 £480 £515
90th Percentile £532 £489 £625
Scotland median daily rate £468 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +3.89% -6.25% +1.64%

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 51 47 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.49% 7.70% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 29 67
10th Percentile £272 £204 £212
25th Percentile £422 £250 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £480
Median % change year-on-year +8.08% -8.44% +1.05%
75th Percentile £544 £497 £543
90th Percentile £675 £591 £686
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £490
% change year-on-year - -8.16% +7.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile - £70.50 £60.00
25th Percentile - £71.25 £60.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £72.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +19.83% +241.42%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £60.75
90th Percentile - £74.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 £72.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +3.45% +19.83% +241.42%

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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 6 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (42.86%) OpenShift
3 6 (42.86%) Serverless
4 5 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (21.43%) Azure
5 3 (21.43%) GCP
5 3 (21.43%) Textract
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (7.14%) Apigee
7 1 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (7.14%) npm
7 1 (7.14%) Route 53
7 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (28.57%) GitLab
3 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 2 (14.29%) Git
4 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
4 1 (7.14%) Liquibase
4 1 (7.14%) Maven
4 1 (7.14%) webpack
General
1 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
4 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Developer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) AWS CDK
2 4 (28.57%) REST
2 4 (28.57%) Spring
3 3 (21.43%) PyTorch
3 3 (21.43%) React
3 3 (21.43%) SpaCy
3 3 (21.43%) Spring Boot
4 2 (14.29%) OAuth
4 2 (14.29%) OAuth2
4 2 (14.29%) RESTful
5 1 (7.14%) CSS
5 1 (7.14%) Express.js
5 1 (7.14%) HTML
5 1 (7.14%) Kafka
5 1 (7.14%) Node.js
5 1 (7.14%) PostGIS
5 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (7.14%) Spring MVC
5 1 (7.14%) Spring Security
5 1 (7.14%) Spring Web Flow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Derivative
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Agile
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 10 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (57.14%) DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
4 5 (35.71%) Microservices
5 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (28.57%) Kanban
5 4 (28.57%) Scrum
5 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) TDD
5 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 3 (21.43%) AI
6 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
6 3 (21.43%) Natural Language Processing
7 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
7 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
7 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
7 2 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) TypeScript
3 4 (28.57%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (7.14%) Bash
5 1 (7.14%) Go
5 1 (7.14%) Groovy
5 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 9 (64.29%) Grafana
3 6 (42.86%) Terraform
4 4 (28.57%) Ansible
5 1 (7.14%) Argo
5 1 (7.14%) Karpenter
5 1 (7.14%) Kibana
5 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) IBM
2 1 (7.14%) IBM Sterling