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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 52 48
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing Docker 12 15 26
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.71% 2.39% 3.19%
As % of the System Software category 23.08% 25.42% 24.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 19
10th Percentile £358 £247 £419
25th Percentile £408 £416 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £460 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.82% -4.17% +2.24%
75th Percentile £478 £482 £634
90th Percentile £492 £525 -
Scotland median daily rate £435 £465 £461
% change year-on-year -6.45% +0.81% -3.71%

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 52 59 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.43% 9.41% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 38 63
10th Percentile £285 £230 £237
25th Percentile £409 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +3.11% -
75th Percentile £575 £547 £634
90th Percentile £675 £616 £750
Scotland median daily rate £418 £461 £450
% change year-on-year -9.49% +2.50% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 10
10th Percentile - - £55.19
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 £35.00 £70.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -50.00% +15.70% +48.72%

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 2 (16.67%) nginx
2 1 (8.33%) CMS
2 1 (8.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
3 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Serverless
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Functions
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (16.67%) GCP
5 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
6 1 (8.33%) Algolia
6 1 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (8.33%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
1 1 (8.33%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (16.67%) DynamoDB
1 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) DB2
2 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (8.33%) Metadata
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) GitLab
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (16.67%) Jasmine
3 2 (16.67%) Karma Test Runner
3 2 (16.67%) NUnit
4 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (8.33%) JIRA
4 1 (8.33%) webpack
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Retail Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
4 1 (8.33%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (8.33%) C# Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) REST
1 3 (25.00%) Spring
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) .NET Core
2 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (16.67%) AWS CDK
2 2 (16.67%) CSS
2 2 (16.67%) Entity Framework
2 2 (16.67%) Jest
2 2 (16.67%) LINQ
2 2 (16.67%) NgRx
2 2 (16.67%) OAuth
2 2 (16.67%) OAuth2
2 2 (16.67%) React
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (8.33%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Derivative
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) DevOps
3 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
4 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (41.67%) Microservices
5 4 (33.33%) Agile
5 4 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (25.00%) Kanban
6 3 (25.00%) Micro Frontends
6 3 (25.00%) Migration
6 3 (25.00%) Scrum
6 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
6 3 (25.00%) User Experience
7 2 (16.67%) AI
7 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
7 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
7 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
7 2 (16.67%) MVC
7 2 (16.67%) TDD
7 2 (16.67%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) Go
4 1 (8.33%) Groovy
4 1 (8.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Grafana
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (33.33%) Terraform
3 3 (25.00%) Ansible
4 2 (16.67%) linkerd
4 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (8.33%) Argo
5 1 (8.33%) HAProxy
5 1 (8.33%) Karpenter
5 1 (8.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) IBM
1 1 (8.33%) IBM Sterling
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle
1 1 (8.33%) Splunk
1 1 (8.33%) webMethods
1 1 (8.33%) WooCommerce