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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 90 57
Rank change year-on-year +32 -33 +14
Contract jobs citing Docker 39 21 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.36% 1.24% 3.49%
As % of the System Software category 27.27% 10.00% 24.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 43
10th Percentile £400 - £366
25th Percentile £454 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £513 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -11.64% +13.17%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £700
90th Percentile £663 - £820
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £600
% change year-on-year -1.96% -15.00% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £57.06
25th Percentile - - £57.34
Median hourly rate - - £59.38
75th Percentile - - £61.09
90th Percentile - - £61.19
South East median hourly rate - - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +56.76%

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 143 210 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.34% 12.43% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 129 178
10th Percentile £213 £325 £168
25th Percentile £325 £432 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £605 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +21.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £569 £638 £615
90th Percentile £663 £654 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 10
10th Percentile - £56.66 £23.53
25th Percentile - £57.84 £47.73
Median hourly rate - £58.49 £52.28
Median % change year-on-year - +11.88% -43.48%
75th Percentile - £61.29 £59.11
90th Percentile - £66.33 £61.58
South East median hourly rate £81.00 £54.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year +47.61% -0.23% +56.03%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker 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 15 September 2025.

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
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 15 September 2025. 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 +36 25 £588 -12.96% 7
Wokingham 0 8 £475 +2.70% 1
Windsor -8 1 - - 1
Docker
South East

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (5.13%) nginx
2 1 (2.56%) Appian
2 1 (2.56%) CMS
2 1 (2.56%) Drupal
2 1 (2.56%) Gunicorn
2 1 (2.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 29 (74.36%) Azure
2 20 (51.28%) AWS
3 8 (20.51%) Azure AKS
4 7 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (12.82%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (12.82%) GCP
6 4 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (10.26%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (10.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (10.26%) GitHub
6 4 (10.26%) Serverless
7 3 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
8 2 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (5.13%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) Firewall
1 4 (10.26%) Network Security
2 2 (5.13%) VPN
3 1 (2.56%) BGP
3 1 (2.56%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.56%) MPLS
3 1 (2.56%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.26%) Data Lake
2 4 (10.26%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.13%) DynamoDB
4 2 (5.13%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.13%) Redis
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.56%) MySQL
5 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (35.90%) GitLab
1 14 (35.90%) Jenkins
2 11 (28.21%) JIRA
2 11 (28.21%) SonarQube
3 10 (25.64%) Cucumber
3 10 (25.64%) Selenium
4 9 (23.08%) REST Assured
5 5 (12.82%) Git
6 3 (7.69%) JUnit
6 3 (7.69%) Mockito
7 2 (5.13%) JMeter
8 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.56%) DbUnit
8 1 (2.56%) jMock
8 1 (2.56%) Maven
8 1 (2.56%) MLflow
8 1 (2.56%) Mocha
8 1 (2.56%) Robot Framework
General
1 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 13 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (20.51%) Law
4 6 (15.38%) Finance
5 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
6 4 (10.26%) Police
7 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.56%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (2.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (35.90%) Developer
2 7 (17.95%) Java Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Java Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Senior
4 4 (10.26%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Architect
5 3 (7.69%) React Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (5.13%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (38.46%) REST
2 10 (25.64%) ARM Templates
3 9 (23.08%) Java EE
4 6 (15.38%) HTML
5 5 (12.82%) JSON
5 5 (12.82%) Node.js
5 5 (12.82%) RESTful
5 5 (12.82%) XML
6 4 (10.26%) PyTorch
6 4 (10.26%) React
6 4 (10.26%) scikit-learn
6 4 (10.26%) Spring
6 4 (10.26%) Spring Boot
6 4 (10.26%) TensorFlow
7 3 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (7.69%) CSS
7 3 (7.69%) Hibernate
7 3 (7.69%) Material-UI
7 3 (7.69%) OpenAPI
7 3 (7.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (7.69%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 3 (7.69%) Security Posture
4 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) CentOS
2 1 (2.56%) Unix
2 1 (2.56%) Windows
2 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 24 (61.54%) DevOps
3 23 (58.97%) CI/CD
4 16 (41.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (38.46%) Test Automation
6 14 (35.90%) Continuous Integration
7 12 (30.77%) Agile
7 12 (30.77%) Configuration Management
7 12 (30.77%) Software Engineering
8 11 (28.21%) Microservices
8 11 (28.21%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (23.08%) Software Architecture
11 8 (20.51%) DevSecOps
12 7 (17.95%) Decision-Making
13 6 (15.38%) Machine Learning
13 6 (15.38%) MLOps
14 5 (12.82%) Identity Access Management
14 5 (12.82%) SDLC
14 5 (12.82%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) Java
1 14 (35.90%) Python
2 8 (20.51%) SQL
3 7 (17.95%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.82%) Bicep
4 5 (12.82%) TypeScript
5 4 (10.26%) R
6 3 (7.69%) Bash
7 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.82%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (10.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (10.26%) CCSP
4 4 (10.26%) CISSP
5 3 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
6 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (5.13%) Degree
7 1 (2.56%) CCNA
7 1 (2.56%) CCNP
7 1 (2.56%) JNCIP
7 1 (2.56%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (2.56%) OSCP
7 1 (2.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) GDPR
1 4 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (10.26%) NIST
1 4 (10.26%) PCI DSS
2 3 (7.69%) PSD2
3 1 (2.56%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.56%) HL7
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 32 (82.05%) Kubernetes
2 19 (48.72%) Terraform
3 13 (33.33%) Ansible
4 9 (23.08%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (23.08%) Podman
5 2 (5.13%) Grafana
5 2 (5.13%) Kibana
6 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (7.69%) Splunk
2 2 (5.13%) Cisco
2 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.56%) Google
3 1 (2.56%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (2.56%) Pega
3 1 (2.56%) Rapid7
3 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.56%) Veracode