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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 41 56
Rank change year-on-year -11 +15 -9
Contract jobs citing Docker 22 26 13
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.90% 4.23% 1.61%
As % of the System Software category 28.57% 55.32% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 8
10th Percentile £370 £447 £432
25th Percentile £414 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £487
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.67% +2.53%
75th Percentile £501 £525 £494
90th Percentile £515 £539 £505
Scotland median daily rate £475 £493 £450
% change year-on-year -3.65% +9.56% -6.05%

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 77 47 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.16% 7.64% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 30 72
10th Percentile £182 £312 £200
25th Percentile £238 £452 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £427
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.23% -9.59%
75th Percentile £531 £525 £496
90th Percentile £629 £550 £585
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -11.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 6
10th Percentile - - £15.70
25th Percentile - - £18.55
Median hourly rate £15.81 - £22.23
75th Percentile £45.41 - £24.18
90th Percentile £75.00 - £49.59
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £23.75 £22.23
% change year-on-year -33.43% +6.83% -58.64%

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 27 August 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%) CMS
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (4.55%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (22.73%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) OpenShift
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) GitHub
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
4 3 (13.64%) GCP
4 3 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (13.64%) Serverless
4 3 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.55%) Algolia
6 1 (4.55%) CloudFront
6 1 (4.55%) Kong
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) DHCP
1 1 (4.55%) DNS
1 1 (4.55%) HTTP
1 1 (4.55%) HTTPS
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%) Metadata
5 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 5 (22.73%) GitLab
3 4 (18.18%) Git
4 3 (13.64%) Claude Code
5 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (4.55%) JIRA
6 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 9 (40.91%) 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 Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.55%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Web Developer
5 1 (4.55%) WinForms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) CSS
1 6 (27.27%) REST
1 6 (27.27%) Spring
1 6 (27.27%) Spring Boot
1 6 (27.27%) Terraform
2 5 (22.73%) HTML
2 5 (22.73%) React
3 3 (13.64%) Next.js
3 3 (13.64%) Node.js
3 3 (13.64%) Spring MVC
3 3 (13.64%) Streamlit
3 3 (13.64%) Vue
4 2 (9.09%) .NET
4 2 (9.09%) AWS CDK
4 2 (9.09%) OAuth
4 2 (9.09%) OAuth2
4 2 (9.09%) RESTful
4 2 (9.09%) Spring Web Flow
4 2 (9.09%) Thymeleaf
5 1 (4.55%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 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 16 (72.73%) DevOps
2 15 (68.18%) CI/CD
3 11 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (31.82%) Agile
4 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (22.73%) AI
6 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
7 3 (13.64%) API Development
7 3 (13.64%) Dashboard Development
7 3 (13.64%) DevSecOps
7 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) Migration
7 3 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) Prototyping
7 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (13.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) Bash
4 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
5 2 (9.09%) Go
6 1 (4.55%) C#
6 1 (4.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
1 5 (22.73%) 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
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 2 (9.09%) Google
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.55%) New Relic
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.55%) Splunk
2 1 (4.55%) webMethods
2 1 (4.55%) WooCommerce