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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 48 78
Rank change year-on-year -38 +30 -3
Contract jobs citing Docker 32 47 51
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.82% 3.82% 2.57%
As % of the System Software category 16.41% 23.86% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 25 17
10th Percentile £306 £386 £420
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £409 £580
Median % change year-on-year +16.14% -29.48% +13.73%
75th Percentile £531 £500 £650
90th Percentile £631 £569 £718
South East median daily rate £513 £445 £550
% change year-on-year +15.17% -19.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £71.20 - £65.23
25th Percentile £73.00 - £65.56
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £67.57
75th Percentile £84.50 - £68.63
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
South East median hourly rate £66.75 - £68.63
% change year-on-year - - -1.96%

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 195 197 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 11.08% 16.03% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 125 181
10th Percentile £255 £224 £205
25th Percentile £350 £380 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £608
90th Percentile £608 £700 £663
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £74.80 - £21.65
25th Percentile £82.00 £55.87 £34.51
Median hourly rate £90.00 £56.75 £65.75
Median % change year-on-year +58.60% -13.70% -6.07%
75th Percentile £100.00 £57.62 £68.29
90th Percentile £103.30 - £68.63
South East median hourly rate £66.75 £57.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +15.58% -7.60% +20.19%

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 4 March 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
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 4 March 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
Wokingham -17 18 £429 -2.41% 2
Reading -34 11 £506 +23.78% 13
Windsor -1 2 £475 -5.00%
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 1 (3.13%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 28 (87.50%) Azure
2 17 (53.13%) AWS
3 10 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (25.00%) Azure AKS
5 6 (18.75%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (18.75%) IaaS
5 6 (18.75%) OpenShift
6 4 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (12.50%) Datadog
6 4 (12.50%) GCP
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Functions
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (6.25%) GitHub
7 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.25%) Serverless
8 1 (3.13%) PaaS
8 1 (3.13%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 10 (31.25%) DNS
2 6 (18.75%) Firewall
3 5 (15.63%) TCP/IP
4 4 (12.50%) DHCP
5 1 (3.13%) HTTP
5 1 (3.13%) SSL
5 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
1 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.25%) Parquet
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.50%) Git
3 2 (6.25%) GitLab
4 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.13%) Robot Framework
4 1 (3.13%) Selenium
4 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Billing
5 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Architect
1 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Senior
3 5 (15.63%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Consultant
7 1 (3.13%) Delphi Software Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Head of Development
7 1 (3.13%) Lead
7 1 (3.13%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (3.13%) Network Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Python Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Service Management Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) JSON
2 4 (12.50%) Middleware
2 4 (12.50%) PyTorch
2 4 (12.50%) scikit-learn
2 4 (12.50%) TensorFlow
3 3 (9.38%) .NET
3 3 (9.38%) OpenAPI
3 3 (9.38%) REST
3 3 (9.38%) RESTful
3 3 (9.38%) Swagger
4 2 (6.25%) .NET Core
4 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
4 2 (6.25%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.13%) ADO
5 1 (3.13%) Django
5 1 (3.13%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.13%) NETCONF
5 1 (3.13%) NumPy
5 1 (3.13%) WebSockets
5 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (12.50%) PKI
3 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.25%) TM Forum
4 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (37.50%) Linux
2 6 (18.75%) Windows
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 21 (65.63%) Containerisation
2 21 (65.63%) DevOps
3 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (21.88%) DevSecOps
4 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (21.88%) Microservices
5 6 (18.75%) Agile
5 6 (18.75%) Load Balancing
5 6 (18.75%) Migration
5 6 (18.75%) RBAC
6 5 (15.63%) Analytics
6 5 (15.63%) Machine Learning
6 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
6 5 (15.63%) Observability
6 5 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (12.50%) Application Performance Management
7 4 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (12.50%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 25 (78.13%) Python
2 18 (56.25%) Bash
3 11 (34.38%) PowerShell
4 6 (18.75%) SQL
5 4 (12.50%) Bicep
6 3 (9.38%) C#
6 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
6 3 (9.38%) PHP
7 2 (6.25%) R
8 1 (3.13%) Delphi
8 1 (3.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (53.13%) Security Cleared
2 12 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 3 (9.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.13%) CCNA
6 1 (3.13%) CCNP
6 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.13%) JNCIP
6 1 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.13%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (28.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (18.75%) VMware NSX
2 6 (18.75%) vSphere
3 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.13%) NDS
4 1 (3.13%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 28 (87.50%) Kubernetes
2 16 (50.00%) Terraform
3 13 (40.63%) Ansible
4 6 (18.75%) Argo
4 6 (18.75%) vCenter Server
5 5 (15.63%) Grafana
5 5 (15.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) VMware
2 6 (18.75%) Pure Storage
2 6 (18.75%) Red Hat
3 4 (12.50%) AppDynamics
3 4 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.50%) Splunk
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco
4 1 (3.13%) NetIQ
4 1 (3.13%) OpenText
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.13%) Veracode