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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 57 41
Rank change year-on-year +16 -16 +11
Contract jobs citing Docker 27 16 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.23% 1.94% 5.62%
As % of the System Software category 54.00% 15.38% 43.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 40
10th Percentile £449 £430 £398
25th Percentile £469 £438 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £474
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.21% -2.22%
75th Percentile £525 £494 £505
90th Percentile £540 - £538
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £477
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.66% -4.60%

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 50 104 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.82% 12.62% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 67 95
10th Percentile £287 £200 £221
25th Percentile £447 £240 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £340 £474
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -28.19% -0.32%
75th Percentile £525 £494 £534
90th Percentile £550 £543 £564
Scotland median daily rate £495 £425 £479
% change year-on-year +16.35% -11.27% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 £22.23 -
Median % change year-on-year +237.34% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £49.38 £22.23 £56.25
% change year-on-year +122.08% -60.48% +217.44%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Docker 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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Edinburgh

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.41%) nginx
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (74.07%) AWS
2 10 (37.04%) AWS CloudFormation
2 10 (37.04%) Azure
2 10 (37.04%) OpenShift
2 10 (37.04%) Serverless
3 9 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 7 (25.93%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (18.52%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (18.52%) GCP
7 4 (14.81%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (11.11%) Textract
9 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (3.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (3.70%) CloudFront
10 1 (3.70%) GitHub
10 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (3.70%) npm
10 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Firewall
1 2 (7.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (14.81%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (7.41%) InfluxDB
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.70%) Big Data
5 1 (3.70%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (18.52%) Git
3 3 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 3 (11.11%) GitLab
4 2 (7.41%) Liquibase
5 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.70%) Maven
5 1 (3.70%) webpack
General
1 10 (37.04%) Public Sector
2 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Site Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Network Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Automation Developer
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Open Source Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Python Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Python Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) AWS CDK
2 3 (11.11%) PyTorch
2 3 (11.11%) React
2 3 (11.11%) REST
2 3 (11.11%) RESTful
2 3 (11.11%) SpaCy
2 3 (11.11%) Spring
2 3 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 2 (7.41%) CSS
3 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (7.41%) HTML
3 2 (7.41%) OAuth
3 2 (7.41%) OAuth2
3 2 (7.41%) Spring MVC
3 2 (7.41%) Spring Web Flow
3 2 (7.41%) Thymeleaf
4 1 (3.70%) Great Expectations
4 1 (3.70%) Jest
4 1 (3.70%) Pandas
4 1 (3.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Linux
1 9 (33.33%) Unix
2 5 (18.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (77.78%) Agile
1 21 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 19 (70.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (59.26%) DevOps
4 13 (48.15%) Containerisation
5 7 (25.93%) Observability
6 6 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
6 6 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (18.52%) Kanban
7 5 (18.52%) Microservices
7 5 (18.52%) Network Load Balancing
7 5 (18.52%) Scrum
7 5 (18.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
8 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (14.81%) Software Delivery
9 3 (11.11%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Python
2 7 (25.93%) Bash
2 7 (25.93%) Shell Script
3 6 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 5 (18.52%) Perl
5 4 (14.81%) Go
5 4 (14.81%) SQL
6 3 (11.11%) Java
7 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) AWS Certification
1 5 (18.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) KVM
Systems Management
1 23 (85.19%) Kubernetes
2 15 (55.56%) Grafana
2 15 (55.56%) Terraform
3 14 (51.85%) Ansible
4 8 (29.63%) Prometheus
5 4 (14.81%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (11.11%) HAProxy
7 2 (7.41%) Fluentd
7 2 (7.41%) linkerd
7 2 (7.41%) Nagios
8 1 (3.70%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Oracle
1 4 (14.81%) Red Hat
2 3 (11.11%) Commvault
2 3 (11.11%) Dynatrace
2 3 (11.11%) ForgeRock
3 2 (7.41%) Splunk
4 1 (3.70%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) Ping Identity