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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 72 66
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +11
Contract jobs citing Docker 33 39 56
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.50% 2.43% 3.15%
As % of the System Software category 19.76% 15.79% 23.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 19 34
10th Percentile £393 £391 £378
25th Percentile £453 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £409 £532
Median % change year-on-year +23.78% -23.12% -3.27%
75th Percentile £564 £450 £681
90th Percentile £771 £556 £770
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +5.56% -21.74% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £60.85
25th Percentile - - £64.00
Median hourly rate - - £67.57
75th Percentile - - £68.63
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £58.50 - £70.00

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 167 247 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.66% 15.37% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 149 167
10th Percentile £219 £329 £148
25th Percentile £255 £400 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.63% +15.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £615
90th Percentile £616 £670 £675
South East median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - - £21.65
25th Percentile - £55.87 £32.94
Median hourly rate - £57.62 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year - -8.91% -31.62%
75th Percentile - £58.49 £68.29
90th Percentile - £64.09 £68.63
South East median hourly rate £81.00 £60.50 £56.95
% change year-on-year +33.90% +6.22% +137.29%

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 +3 15 £625 +52.81% 13
Wokingham - 14 £513 - 1
Windsor -6 1 - - 1
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 2 (6.06%) Appian
1 2 (6.06%) nginx
2 1 (3.03%) CMS
2 1 (3.03%) Drupal
2 1 (3.03%) Gunicorn
2 1 (3.03%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 25 (75.76%) Azure
2 14 (42.42%) AWS
3 9 (27.27%) Azure AKS
4 7 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (18.18%) Azure Machine Learning
5 6 (18.18%) IaaS
5 6 (18.18%) OpenShift
6 5 (15.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (12.12%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (12.12%) GCP
7 4 (12.12%) GitHub
8 3 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (9.09%) Entra ID
9 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (6.06%) Serverless
9 2 (6.06%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (3.03%) Datadog
10 1 (3.03%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.18%) DNS
2 5 (15.15%) Firewall
3 3 (9.09%) Network Security
4 2 (6.06%) VPN
5 1 (3.03%) BGP
5 1 (3.03%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (3.03%) HTTP
5 1 (3.03%) MPLS
5 1 (3.03%) SMS
5 1 (3.03%) SSL
5 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) Data Lake
2 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 3 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.06%) Redis
3 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.03%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.18%) GitLab
3 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.06%) Git
3 2 (6.06%) JIRA
3 2 (6.06%) Robot Framework
3 2 (6.06%) Selenium
3 2 (6.06%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.03%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.03%) MLflow
4 1 (3.03%) Mocha
General
1 6 (18.18%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.03%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (3.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Architect
2 5 (15.15%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Developer
3 4 (12.12%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Security Architect
5 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Head of Development
6 1 (3.03%) Agile Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Automation Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Django Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) React Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) PyTorch
1 5 (15.15%) scikit-learn
1 5 (15.15%) TensorFlow
2 4 (12.12%) JSON
2 4 (12.12%) RESTful
2 4 (12.12%) XML
3 3 (9.09%) NETCONF
3 3 (9.09%) Node.js
3 3 (9.09%) REST
4 2 (6.06%) GraphQL
4 2 (6.06%) HTML
4 2 (6.06%) Jinja
4 2 (6.06%) OAuth
4 2 (6.06%) OAuth2
4 2 (6.06%) React
4 2 (6.06%) SOAP
4 2 (6.06%) YAML
4 2 (6.06%) YANG
5 1 (3.03%) Swagger
5 1 (3.03%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 3 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (30.30%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) CentOS
3 1 (3.03%) Unix
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (87.88%) CI/CD
2 20 (60.61%) Containerisation
2 20 (60.61%) DevOps
3 8 (24.24%) Agile
3 8 (24.24%) Machine Learning
4 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (21.21%) MLOps
5 6 (18.18%) Load Balancing
5 6 (18.18%) Microservices
5 6 (18.18%) RBAC
5 6 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 5 (15.15%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (15.15%) Data Engineering
6 5 (15.15%) DevSecOps
6 5 (15.15%) Migration
6 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (15.15%) Strategic Thinking
7 4 (12.12%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (12.12%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (63.64%) Python
2 9 (27.27%) Bash
2 9 (27.27%) SQL
3 5 (15.15%) Bicep
3 5 (15.15%) R
4 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.09%) Java
5 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.03%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 3 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 3 (9.09%) CCSP
4 3 (9.09%) CISSP
5 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.06%) Degree
6 1 (3.03%) CCNA
6 1 (3.03%) CCNP
6 1 (3.03%) JNCIP
6 1 (3.03%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) GDPR
1 4 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (12.12%) NIST
1 4 (12.12%) PCI DSS
2 3 (9.09%) PSD2
3 1 (3.03%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.03%) HL7
3 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) VMware NSX
1 6 (18.18%) vSphere
2 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.03%) NDS
3 1 (3.03%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 26 (78.79%) Kubernetes
2 16 (48.48%) Terraform
3 11 (33.33%) Ansible
4 6 (18.18%) Argo
4 6 (18.18%) vCenter Server
5 1 (3.03%) Grafana
5 1 (3.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Red Hat
2 6 (18.18%) Pure Storage
2 6 (18.18%) VMware
3 3 (9.09%) Cisco
4 2 (6.06%) Veracode
5 1 (3.03%) Google
5 1 (3.03%) NetIQ
5 1 (3.03%) OpenText
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle
5 1 (3.03%) Pega
5 1 (3.03%) Splunk