Docker Job Trends in Edinburgh

Docker
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 53 23
Rank change year-on-year -22 -30 +4
Permanent jobs citing Docker 31 49 111
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 2.93% 4.40% 10.54%
As % of the System Software category 22.30% 42.24% 66.47%
Number of salaries quoted 11 33 100
10th Percentile £46,500 £46,491 £46,306
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,991 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.77% +2.84% +12.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £88,750 £75,313
90th Percentile - £107,000 £84,150
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £68,404 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.28% +12.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 139 116 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.13% 10.41% 15.86%
Number of salaries quoted 45 69 153
10th Percentile £25,750 £34,700 £39,050
25th Percentile £28,000 £43,750 £46,335
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £57,443 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.44% -11.63% +9.20%
75th Percentile £54,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,274 £95,022 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% -4.55%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Docker relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Docker job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Docker
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary 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 (3.23%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 29 (93.55%) Azure
2 18 (58.06%) GitHub
3 15 (48.39%) Datadog
4 14 (45.16%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (32.26%) AWS
6 7 (22.58%) GCP
7 6 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (16.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (16.13%) dbt
9 4 (12.90%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (12.90%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (12.90%) Azure App Service
9 4 (12.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (12.90%) PaaS
9 4 (12.90%) Pulumi
10 3 (9.68%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 3 (9.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (9.68%) Sentry
11 2 (6.45%) Azure AKS
11 2 (6.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) DNS
1 5 (16.13%) Firewall
1 5 (16.13%) VPN
2 4 (12.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.23%) DHCP
3 1 (3.23%) LAN
3 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (12.90%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (12.90%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (12.90%) Redis
3 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
1 1 (3.23%) Git
1 1 (3.23%) IntelliJ
1 1 (3.23%) JMeter
1 1 (3.23%) jMock
1 1 (3.23%) JUnit
1 1 (3.23%) Locust
General
1 20 (64.52%) Finance
2 17 (54.84%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Health Technology
3 2 (6.45%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (6.45%) Tech for Good
4 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (51.61%) Senior
2 14 (45.16%) Development Engineer
3 8 (25.81%) Senior Development Engineer
4 6 (19.35%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (12.90%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (12.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 4 (12.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (9.68%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (9.68%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (6.45%) Associate Director
8 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.45%) IT Director
8 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
9 1 (3.23%) Developer
9 1 (3.23%) Junior
9 1 (3.23%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (45.16%) .NET
1 14 (45.16%) ADO
2 4 (12.90%) Django
3 2 (6.45%) CSS
3 2 (6.45%) HTML
3 2 (6.45%) Kafka
3 2 (6.45%) React
3 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.23%) Gherkin
4 1 (3.23%) Java EE
4 1 (3.23%) Java SE
4 1 (3.23%) Quarkus
4 1 (3.23%) RESTful
4 1 (3.23%) Swing
4 1 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (45.16%) Onboarding
1 14 (45.16%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.68%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.81%) Linux
2 4 (12.90%) Unix
2 4 (12.90%) VMS
3 3 (9.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (90.32%) DevOps
2 26 (83.87%) CI/CD
3 21 (67.74%) Observability
4 20 (64.52%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (64.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 18 (58.06%) Asset Management
5 18 (58.06%) Coaching
5 18 (58.06%) Containerisation
5 18 (58.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (58.06%) Platform Engineering
6 14 (45.16%) Brown Bag Session
6 14 (45.16%) Code Quality
7 12 (38.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (22.58%) Migration
10 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Automation
11 4 (12.90%) Cloud Operations
11 4 (12.90%) Identity Access Management
11 4 (12.90%) SDLC
11 4 (12.90%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 23 (74.19%) Python
2 16 (51.61%) JavaScript
3 7 (22.58%) SQL
4 4 (12.90%) Bicep
4 4 (12.90%) Java
4 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
1 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.45%) CISM
2 2 (6.45%) CISSP
2 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (48.39%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) GxP
3 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) vSphere
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (83.87%) Kubernetes
1 26 (83.87%) Terraform
2 15 (48.39%) Grafana
3 14 (45.16%) Prometheus
4 3 (9.68%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (3.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Google
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft