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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 59 90
Rank change year-on-year -19 +31 -24
Contract jobs citing Docker 37 35 19
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.04% 2.88% 1.16%
As % of the System Software category 21.02% 23.33% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 20 6
10th Percentile £349 £393 -
25th Percentile £425 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.11% -15.91%
75th Percentile £526 £639 £525
90th Percentile £630 £771 £556
South East median daily rate £537 £475 £470
% change year-on-year +13.05% +1.06% -18.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £61.74 - -
25th Percentile £62.96 - -
Median hourly rate £75.36 - -
75th Percentile £90.31 - -
90th Percentile £98.75 - -
South East median hourly rate £75.36 £58.50 -
% change year-on-year +28.82% - -

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 176 150 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.72% 12.33% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 87 133
10th Percentile £335 £196 £315
25th Percentile £439 £255 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £605
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -21.49% +20.88%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £638
90th Percentile £638 £647 £671
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +5.00% -0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 5
10th Percentile £49.60 - -
25th Percentile £61.74 - £55.87
Median hourly rate £68.11 - £58.49
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.88%
75th Percentile £84.06 - -
90th Percentile £91.75 - £65.21
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £81.00 £58.49
% change year-on-year -25.93% +38.49% +6.35%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -28 22 £574 -8.20% 22
Wokingham -2 8 £413 -13.16% 2
Slough - 4 £460 - 12
Windsor +2 3 £475 -
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 (10.81%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) CPLEX
2 1 (2.70%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 31 (83.78%) Azure
2 19 (51.35%) AWS
3 17 (45.95%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (35.14%) GCP
5 9 (24.32%) GitHub
6 8 (21.62%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (16.22%) OpenShift
8 5 (13.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (10.81%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (8.11%) Apigee
10 3 (8.11%) Azure API Management
10 3 (8.11%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (8.11%) Datadog
10 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
11 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (5.41%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (2.70%) Anthropic Claude
12 1 (2.70%) Azure Storage
12 1 (2.70%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) DNS
1 4 (10.81%) TCP/IP
2 3 (8.11%) DHCP
2 3 (8.11%) Firewall
2 3 (8.11%) VPN
3 2 (5.41%) HTTP
4 1 (2.70%) HTTPS
4 1 (2.70%) SNMP
4 1 (2.70%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) NoSQL
2 5 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (10.81%) Big Data
3 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
4 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (8.11%) Power BI
5 2 (5.41%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.41%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.70%) Parquet
6 1 (2.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) Jenkins
2 8 (21.62%) Git
3 7 (18.92%) GitLab
4 1 (2.70%) JMeter
4 1 (2.70%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.70%) NeoLoad
General
1 10 (27.03%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Aerospace
2 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Publishing
3 3 (8.11%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.70%) Banking
4 1 (2.70%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) German Language
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) Developer
1 8 (21.62%) Senior
2 5 (13.51%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Python Developer
3 4 (10.81%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Apigee Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Data Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Lead
4 3 (8.11%) Lead DevOps
4 3 (8.11%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Data Integration Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (56.76%) Terraform
2 9 (24.32%) RESTful
3 7 (18.92%) OpenAPI
3 7 (18.92%) Swagger
4 6 (16.22%) FastAPI
5 5 (13.51%) Kafka
6 4 (10.81%) Django
6 4 (10.81%) Flask
6 4 (10.81%) NumPy
6 4 (10.81%) OAuth
6 4 (10.81%) Pandas
6 4 (10.81%) pytest
6 4 (10.81%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (10.81%) SAML
7 3 (8.11%) JWT
7 3 (8.11%) OAuth2
7 3 (8.11%) REST
7 3 (8.11%) SOAP
8 2 (5.41%) ARM Templates
8 2 (5.41%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.81%) Algorithms
2 4 (10.81%) Data Structures
2 4 (10.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Linux
2 5 (13.51%) Windows
2 5 (13.51%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (8.11%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (75.68%) DevOps
2 27 (72.97%) CI/CD
3 24 (64.86%) Containerisation
4 18 (48.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (37.84%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (32.43%) Agile
7 10 (27.03%) Analytics
8 9 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (24.32%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (24.32%) Observability
8 9 (24.32%) Test Automation
9 7 (18.92%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (18.92%) ETL
9 7 (18.92%) Software Engineering
10 6 (16.22%) Cloud Security
10 6 (16.22%) Collaborative Engineering
10 6 (16.22%) Machine Learning
10 6 (16.22%) Mentoring
10 6 (16.22%) Validation
11 5 (13.51%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (54.05%) Python
2 9 (24.32%) Bash
3 7 (18.92%) SQL
4 6 (16.22%) PowerShell
5 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.41%) Bicep
6 2 (5.41%) Java
6 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.70%) Groovy
7 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (43.24%) Security Cleared
2 12 (32.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.51%) AWS Certification
4 4 (10.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (10.81%) Azure Certification
5 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
5 3 (8.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (5.41%) CISSP
7 1 (2.70%) CCNA
7 1 (2.70%) CCNP
7 1 (2.70%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) QA
2 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.11%) Hyper-V
2 3 (8.11%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (8.11%) vSphere
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (75.68%) Kubernetes
2 14 (37.84%) Ansible
3 8 (21.62%) Grafana
4 5 (13.51%) Prometheus
5 4 (10.81%) Podman
6 2 (5.41%) Check_MK
7 1 (2.70%) Argo
7 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 13 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.92%) Google
3 6 (16.22%) VMware
4 4 (10.81%) Dynatrace
5 3 (8.11%) Databricks
5 3 (8.11%) MuleSoft
5 3 (8.11%) Salesforce
5 3 (8.11%) Splunk
6 2 (5.41%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.70%) Cisco
7 1 (2.70%) Foundry
7 1 (2.70%) IBM
7 1 (2.70%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.70%) Parasoft
7 1 (2.70%) Red Hat