Docker Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Docker
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 56 88
Rank change year-on-year -30 +32 -28
Contract jobs citing Docker 33 40 24
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.81% 3.40% 1.40%
As % of the System Software category 18.75% 26.85% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 14
10th Percentile £349 £401 £450
25th Percentile £415 £456 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% -6.93% -2.27%
75th Percentile £529 £616 £678
90th Percentile £646 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.31% -12.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.74 - -
Median hourly rate £65.85 - -
75th Percentile £73.30 - -
90th Percentile £79.57 - -
South East median hourly rate £65.85 - -

All System Software Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 176 149 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.68% 12.67% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 83 131
10th Percentile £354 £219 £325
25th Percentile £408 £350 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -17.36% +21.00%
75th Percentile £571 £623 £638
90th Percentile £638 £700 £653
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 4
10th Percentile £45.00 - £56.66
25th Percentile £61.74 - £57.84
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £58.49
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.20%
75th Percentile £71.20 - £61.29
90th Percentile £83.88 - £66.33
South East median hourly rate £59.37 £81.00 £54.88
% change year-on-year -26.71% +47.61% +0.58%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Docker job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Docker

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Berkshire over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Berkshire

Docker
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Docker.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Docker

Docker
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Docker in Berkshire over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Docker in Berkshire

Docker
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 9 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -30 19 £578 -1.70% 23
Wokingham -11 7 £375 -21.05% 1
Windsor +2 3 £475 -5.00%
Slough - 3 £460 - 4
Docker
South East

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 4 (12.12%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 27 (81.82%) Azure
2 17 (51.52%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (42.42%) AWS
4 12 (36.36%) GCP
5 8 (24.24%) GitHub
5 8 (24.24%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (15.15%) OpenShift
7 4 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (9.09%) Apigee
8 3 (9.09%) Azure API Management
8 3 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (9.09%) Datadog
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Storage
9 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) DNS
1 4 (12.12%) TCP/IP
2 3 (9.09%) DHCP
2 3 (9.09%) Firewall
2 3 (9.09%) VPN
3 2 (6.06%) HTTP
4 1 (3.03%) HTTPS
4 1 (3.03%) SNMP
4 1 (3.03%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) NoSQL
2 7 (21.21%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (15.15%) MongoDB
4 4 (12.12%) Big Data
4 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.06%) Hadoop
5 2 (6.06%) Spark SQL
6 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.03%) MySQL
6 1 (3.03%) Parquet
6 1 (3.03%) Power BI
6 1 (3.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (30.30%) Jenkins
2 9 (27.27%) Git
3 7 (21.21%) GitLab
4 1 (3.03%) JMeter
4 1 (3.03%) JUnit
4 1 (3.03%) Liquibase
4 1 (3.03%) LoadRunner
4 1 (3.03%) Mockito
4 1 (3.03%) NeoLoad
General
1 10 (30.30%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Aerospace
4 3 (9.09%) Publishing
4 3 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Developer
2 7 (21.21%) Senior
3 5 (15.15%) Python Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Apigee Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Lead
5 3 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Data Integration Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Systems Integration Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Tester
7 1 (3.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (51.52%) Terraform
2 11 (33.33%) RESTful
3 8 (24.24%) OpenAPI
3 8 (24.24%) Swagger
4 6 (18.18%) FastAPI
4 6 (18.18%) Flask
5 5 (15.15%) Django
5 5 (15.15%) Kafka
5 5 (15.15%) NumPy
5 5 (15.15%) OAuth
5 5 (15.15%) Pandas
5 5 (15.15%) pytest
5 5 (15.15%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (12.12%) JWT
6 4 (12.12%) OAuth2
6 4 (12.12%) SAML
7 3 (9.09%) REST
7 3 (9.09%) SOAP
8 2 (6.06%) ARM Templates
8 2 (6.06%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Cloud Native
2 5 (15.15%) Algorithms
2 5 (15.15%) Data Structures
3 4 (12.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.03%) Life Science
5 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (24.24%) Linux
2 5 (15.15%) Windows
2 5 (15.15%) Windows Server
3 3 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (9.09%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (84.85%) DevOps
2 22 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 21 (63.64%) Containerisation
4 16 (48.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (42.42%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (36.36%) Agile
7 10 (30.30%) Analytics
7 10 (30.30%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (21.21%) ETL
8 7 (21.21%) Observability
8 7 (21.21%) Software Engineering
8 7 (21.21%) Test Automation
9 6 (18.18%) Collaborative Engineering
9 6 (18.18%) Data Analytics
9 6 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
9 6 (18.18%) Microservices
9 6 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (18.18%) TDD
10 5 (15.15%) Release Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (57.58%) Python
2 9 (27.27%) Bash
3 8 (24.24%) SQL
4 6 (18.18%) PowerShell
5 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.06%) Bicep
6 2 (6.06%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.03%) Groovy
7 1 (3.03%) Java
7 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (48.48%) Security Cleared
2 11 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) AWS Certification
3 4 (12.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.03%) CCNA
6 1 (3.03%) CCNP
6 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) QA
2 3 (9.09%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 3 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (9.09%) vSphere
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 14 (42.42%) Ansible
3 8 (24.24%) Grafana
4 5 (15.15%) Prometheus
5 3 (9.09%) Podman
6 2 (6.06%) Check_MK
7 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.21%) Google
3 6 (18.18%) VMware
4 4 (12.12%) Dynatrace
5 3 (9.09%) Databricks
5 3 (9.09%) MuleSoft
5 3 (9.09%) Salesforce
5 3 (9.09%) Splunk
6 2 (6.06%) AppDynamics
7 1 (3.03%) Cisco
7 1 (3.03%) Parasoft
7 1 (3.03%) Red Hat