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 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 53 43
Rank change year-on-year +17 -10 +27
Contract jobs citing Docker 28 18 38
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.75% 3.05% 4.18%
As % of the System Software category 51.85% 33.33% 38.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 24
10th Percentile £445 £417 £406
25th Percentile £471 £426 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £466 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £525 £481 £507
90th Percentile £541 £515 £538
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +5.56% -8.16% +3.98%

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 54 54 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.17% 9.14% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 33 65
10th Percentile £346 £179 £205
25th Percentile £466 £363 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% +2.13%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £538
90th Percentile £615 £686 £638
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% +12.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile - £21.00 £60.05
25th Percentile - £23.05 £60.13
Median hourly rate £75.00 £47.09 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.27% -22.17% +241.42%
75th Percentile - £71.25 £61.13
90th Percentile - £73.50 £61.35
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 £47.09 £60.00
% change year-on-year +59.27% -21.52% +238.60%

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 5 January 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 1 (3.57%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 20 (71.43%) AWS
2 12 (42.86%) Amazon S3
2 12 (42.86%) OpenShift
3 9 (32.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (32.14%) Serverless
4 7 (25.00%) Azure
5 6 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (14.29%) GCP
7 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (10.71%) Textract
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (3.57%) Apigee
9 1 (3.57%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (3.57%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
1 2 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (21.43%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (21.43%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (7.14%) InfluxDB
4 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.86%) Git
2 5 (17.86%) GitLab
3 3 (10.71%) Cypress.io
4 2 (7.14%) Liquibase
5 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.57%) Maven
5 1 (3.57%) webpack
General
1 11 (39.29%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Banking
3 3 (10.71%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Site Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Java Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Network Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Automation Developer
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) AWS CDK
2 5 (17.86%) REST
2 5 (17.86%) Spring
3 4 (14.29%) React
3 4 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 3 (10.71%) OAuth
4 3 (10.71%) OAuth2
4 3 (10.71%) PyTorch
4 3 (10.71%) RESTful
4 3 (10.71%) SpaCy
5 2 (7.14%) CSS
5 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (7.14%) HTML
5 2 (7.14%) Spring MVC
5 2 (7.14%) Spring Web Flow
5 2 (7.14%) Thymeleaf
6 1 (3.57%) Jest
6 1 (3.57%) Next.js
6 1 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (3.57%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Derivative
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Unix
2 9 (32.14%) Linux
3 5 (17.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) Agile
1 23 (82.14%) CI/CD
2 19 (67.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (60.71%) DevOps
4 11 (39.29%) Containerisation
5 8 (28.57%) Observability
6 7 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 6 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (21.43%) Kanban
7 6 (21.43%) Microservices
7 6 (21.43%) Scrum
7 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
8 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (17.86%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (17.86%) Software Delivery
8 5 (17.86%) TDD
9 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) Python
2 8 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 7 (25.00%) Bash
4 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
5 5 (17.86%) Java
5 5 (17.86%) Perl
6 4 (14.29%) SQL
7 3 (10.71%) Go
8 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
8 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
9 1 (3.57%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) AWS Certification
1 3 (10.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) KVM
Systems Management
1 23 (82.14%) Kubernetes
2 19 (67.86%) Grafana
3 15 (53.57%) Terraform
4 14 (50.00%) Ansible
5 8 (28.57%) Prometheus
6 4 (14.29%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (7.14%) Fluentd
7 2 (7.14%) HAProxy
7 2 (7.14%) Nagios
8 1 (3.57%) Argo
8 1 (3.57%) Karpenter
8 1 (3.57%) Kibana
8 1 (3.57%) linkerd
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Oracle
1 4 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 3 (10.71%) Commvault
2 3 (10.71%) Splunk
3 2 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.57%) ForgeRock
4 1 (3.57%) IBM
4 1 (3.57%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (3.57%) Ping Identity