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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 48 55
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 -6
Contract jobs citing Docker 20 22 22
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.59% 3.40% 2.62%
As % of the System Software category 27.40% 40.74% 16.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 16
10th Percentile £353 £453 £418
25th Percentile £379 £463 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.71% -0.31%
75th Percentile £494 £525 £503
90th Percentile £507 £538 £634
Scotland median daily rate £450 £493 £450
% change year-on-year -8.72% +9.56% -10.00%

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 73 54 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.44% 8.35% 15.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 35 84
10th Percentile £210 £267 £200
25th Percentile £350 £434 £279
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £439
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +13.90% -6.60%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £500
90th Percentile £650 £577 £634
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £431
% change year-on-year -5.26% +10.14% -9.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile - - £15.20
25th Percentile - - £18.19
Median hourly rate £15.81 - £20.29
75th Percentile £45.41 - £24.18
90th Percentile £75.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 - £20.29
% change year-on-year - - -62.26%

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 1 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 (10.00%) nginx
2 1 (5.00%) CMS
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (5.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (35.00%) Azure
3 6 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (25.00%) Serverless
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (20.00%) GitHub
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (15.00%) GCP
6 3 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (15.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Functions
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
8 1 (5.00%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DHCP
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
1 1 (5.00%) HTTP
1 1 (5.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (15.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) Db2
3 1 (5.00%) Metadata
3 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (25.00%) GitLab
3 4 (20.00%) Git
4 3 (15.00%) Claude Code
5 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (10.00%) Jasmine
5 2 (10.00%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (10.00%) NUnit
6 1 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (5.00%) JIRA
6 1 (5.00%) webpack
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Python Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.00%) Web Developer
5 1 (5.00%) WinForms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) .NET
1 3 (15.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (15.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (15.00%) CSS
1 3 (15.00%) Entity Framework
1 3 (15.00%) REST
1 3 (15.00%) Spring
1 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (15.00%) Streamlit
2 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (10.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (10.00%) HTML
2 2 (10.00%) Jest
2 2 (10.00%) NgRx
2 2 (10.00%) OAuth
2 2 (10.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (10.00%) React
2 2 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) DevOps
2 13 (65.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (30.00%) Agile
7 5 (25.00%) AI
7 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (25.00%) Microservices
8 3 (15.00%) API Development
8 3 (15.00%) Dashboard Development
8 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
8 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (15.00%) Kanban
8 3 (15.00%) Micro Frontends
8 3 (15.00%) Prototyping
8 3 (15.00%) Rapid Prototyping
8 3 (15.00%) Scrum
8 3 (15.00%) Unit Testing
8 3 (15.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) Bash
2 5 (25.00%) SQL
3 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (15.00%) C#
4 3 (15.00%) Java
4 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.00%) Go
6 1 (5.00%) PHP
6 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) RHCE
4 1 (5.00%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (30.00%) Terraform
3 3 (15.00%) Ansible
3 3 (15.00%) Grafana
4 2 (10.00%) linkerd
4 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.00%) HAProxy
5 1 (5.00%) yum
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Google
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.00%) New Relic
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.00%) Splunk
2 1 (5.00%) webMethods
2 1 (5.00%) WooCommerce