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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 68 63
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 +12
Contract jobs citing Docker 37 45 64
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.60% 2.81% 3.62%
As % of the System Software category 21.39% 18.60% 25.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 20 33
10th Percentile £413 £392 £373
25th Percentile £444 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £409 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.19% -25.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £557 £463 £663
90th Percentile £733 £553 £700
South East median daily rate £513 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +13.89% -21.74% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £71.20 - £61.25
25th Percentile £73.00 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £66.50
75th Percentile £84.50 - £68.63
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
South East median hourly rate £66.75 - £68.63

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 173 242 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.16% 15.13% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 145 180
10th Percentile £219 £272 £148
25th Percentile £310 £380 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +7.14% +2.08%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £600
90th Percentile £616 £670 £640
South East median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 7
10th Percentile £74.80 - £22.19
25th Percentile £82.00 £55.87 £41.55
Median hourly rate £90.00 £56.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.60% -12.70% +18.18%
75th Percentile £100.00 £60.64 £67.94
90th Percentile £103.30 £66.07 £68.63
South East median hourly rate £81.00 £57.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +41.48% -0.43% +98.28%

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 December 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 7 December 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 -6 19 £531 +29.89% 17
Wokingham - 12 £513 -
Windsor -3 3 £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 2 (5.41%) Appian
1 2 (5.41%) nginx
2 1 (2.70%) CMS
2 1 (2.70%) Drupal
2 1 (2.70%) Gunicorn
2 1 (2.70%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 26 (70.27%) Azure
2 19 (51.35%) AWS
3 9 (24.32%) Azure AKS
4 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (16.22%) IaaS
4 6 (16.22%) OpenShift
5 5 (13.51%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (13.51%) GitHub
6 4 (10.81%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (10.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (10.81%) GCP
6 4 (10.81%) Serverless
7 3 (8.11%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (8.11%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
7 3 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (5.41%) Azure Functions
8 2 (5.41%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.03%) DNS
2 9 (24.32%) Firewall
3 5 (13.51%) TCP/IP
4 4 (10.81%) DHCP
5 3 (8.11%) Network Security
6 2 (5.41%) VPN
7 1 (2.70%) BGP
7 1 (2.70%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (2.70%) HTTP
7 1 (2.70%) MPLS
7 1 (2.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Data Lake
1 4 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.41%) Redis
3 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.51%) GitLab
3 4 (10.81%) Git
4 2 (5.41%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.41%) JIRA
4 2 (5.41%) Robot Framework
4 2 (5.41%) Selenium
4 2 (5.41%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.70%) Mocha
General
1 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Finance
4 3 (8.11%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.41%) Billing
6 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.70%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Architect
2 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Head of Development
6 2 (5.41%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (5.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Automation Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Consultant
7 1 (2.70%) Delphi Software Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Django Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Service Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) JSON
1 6 (16.22%) RESTful
2 5 (13.51%) REST
3 4 (10.81%) PyTorch
3 4 (10.81%) scikit-learn
3 4 (10.81%) TensorFlow
3 4 (10.81%) XML
4 3 (8.11%) .NET
4 3 (8.11%) GraphQL
4 3 (8.11%) NETCONF
4 3 (8.11%) OpenAPI
4 3 (8.11%) Swagger
5 2 (5.41%) .NET Core
5 2 (5.41%) Jinja
5 2 (5.41%) Node.js
5 2 (5.41%) OAuth
5 2 (5.41%) OAuth2
5 2 (5.41%) SOAP
5 2 (5.41%) YAML
5 2 (5.41%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (10.81%) PKI
4 3 (8.11%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (8.11%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (8.11%) Public Cloud
4 3 (8.11%) Security Posture
5 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (5.41%) TM Forum
6 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.70%) Legacy Code
6 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (40.54%) Linux
2 7 (18.92%) Windows
3 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.70%) CentOS
4 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (81.08%) CI/CD
2 24 (64.86%) Containerisation
3 19 (51.35%) DevOps
4 10 (27.03%) Agile
5 9 (24.32%) DevSecOps
5 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (18.92%) Microservices
7 7 (18.92%) SIEM
8 6 (16.22%) Load Balancing
8 6 (16.22%) Machine Learning
8 6 (16.22%) Migration
8 6 (16.22%) RBAC
9 5 (13.51%) Architectural Patterns
9 5 (13.51%) Mentoring
9 5 (13.51%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (13.51%) SDLC
9 5 (13.51%) Strategic Thinking
9 5 (13.51%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 24 (64.86%) Python
2 15 (40.54%) Bash
3 9 (24.32%) SQL
4 8 (21.62%) PowerShell
5 6 (16.22%) JavaScript
6 4 (10.81%) Bicep
6 4 (10.81%) C#
6 4 (10.81%) R
7 3 (8.11%) Java
7 3 (8.11%) PHP
8 1 (2.70%) Delphi
8 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (37.84%) Security Cleared
2 9 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 7 (18.92%) AWS Certification
4 4 (10.81%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (8.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (8.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
5 3 (8.11%) CCSP
5 3 (8.11%) CISSP
5 3 (8.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (5.41%) Degree
7 1 (2.70%) CCNA
7 1 (2.70%) CCNP
7 1 (2.70%) JNCIP
7 1 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) GDPR
1 4 (10.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (10.81%) NIST
1 4 (10.81%) PCI DSS
2 3 (8.11%) PSD2
3 1 (2.70%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 9 (24.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (16.22%) VMware NSX
2 6 (16.22%) vSphere
3 4 (10.81%) Active Directory
3 4 (10.81%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.70%) NDS
4 1 (2.70%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 31 (83.78%) Kubernetes
2 18 (48.65%) Terraform
3 14 (37.84%) Ansible
4 6 (16.22%) Argo
4 6 (16.22%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.70%) Grafana
5 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) VMware
2 7 (18.92%) Red Hat
3 6 (16.22%) Pure Storage
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
5 3 (8.11%) Cisco
6 2 (5.41%) Veracode
7 1 (2.70%) Google
7 1 (2.70%) NetIQ
7 1 (2.70%) OpenText
7 1 (2.70%) Oracle
7 1 (2.70%) Pega
7 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.70%) Splunk