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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 52 50
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Docker 11 14 22
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.51% 2.25% 2.68%
As % of the System Software category 20.75% 25.93% 18.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 17
10th Percentile £358 £226 £419
25th Percentile £408 £415 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £455 £479
Median % change year-on-year +0.27% -5.01% +0.42%
75th Percentile £478 £474 £634
90th Percentile £492 £521 -
Scotland median daily rate £420 £455 £460
% change year-on-year -7.69% -1.09% -3.97%

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 53 54 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.28% 8.70% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 36 68
10th Percentile £285 £223 £227
25th Percentile £409 £409 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £490 £467
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +4.87% -1.68%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £634
90th Percentile £675 £622 £750
Scotland median daily rate £437 £458 £440
% change year-on-year -4.48% +3.98% -7.37%
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 (18.18%) nginx
2 1 (9.09%) CMS
2 1 (9.09%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Serverless
4 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Functions
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
5 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (9.09%) Algolia
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (9.09%) CloudFront
6 1 (9.09%) GCP
6 1 (9.09%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
1 1 (9.09%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) DB2
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) Metadata
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Jasmine
2 2 (18.18%) Karma Test Runner
2 2 (18.18%) NUnit
3 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) webpack
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Retail Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
3 1 (9.09%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) REST
1 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) .NET Core
2 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
2 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
2 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
2 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (18.18%) AWS CDK
2 2 (18.18%) CSS
2 2 (18.18%) Entity Framework
2 2 (18.18%) Jest
2 2 (18.18%) LINQ
2 2 (18.18%) NgRx
2 2 (18.18%) OAuth
2 2 (18.18%) OAuth2
2 2 (18.18%) React
2 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 1 (9.09%) Next.js
3 1 (9.09%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Derivative
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) DevOps
3 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
4 5 (45.45%) Microservices
5 4 (36.36%) Agile
5 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (27.27%) Kanban
6 3 (27.27%) Micro Frontends
6 3 (27.27%) Migration
6 3 (27.27%) Scrum
6 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
6 3 (27.27%) User Experience
7 2 (18.18%) AI
7 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
7 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
7 2 (18.18%) MVC
7 2 (18.18%) TDD
7 2 (18.18%) Wealth Management
8 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 2 (18.18%) Bash
4 2 (18.18%) C#
4 2 (18.18%) Go
5 1 (9.09%) Groovy
5 1 (9.09%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Grafana
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 3 (27.27%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) Terraform
3 2 (18.18%) linkerd
3 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
4 1 (9.09%) HAProxy
4 1 (9.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
1 1 (9.09%) IBM
1 1 (9.09%) IBM Sterling
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) webMethods
1 1 (9.09%) WooCommerce