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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 58 89
Rank change year-on-year -34 +31 -32
Contract jobs citing Docker 31 37 22
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.66% 3.15% 1.30%
As % of the System Software category 17.13% 26.06% 10.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 12
10th Percentile £349 £393 £451
25th Percentile £395 £452 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -14.89% -0.84%
75th Percentile £494 £574 £688
90th Percentile £565 £673 -
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.31% -12.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £62.71 - -
25th Percentile £64.17 - -
Median hourly rate £68.22 - -
75th Percentile £76.79 - -
90th Percentile £80.96 - -
South East median hourly rate £68.22 - -

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 181 142 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.68% 12.11% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 79 128
10th Percentile £350 £316 £313
25th Percentile £406 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £605
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% -13.22% +20.94%
75th Percentile £550 £700 £638
90th Percentile £630 - £651
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £38.50 - -
25th Percentile £58.37 - -
Median hourly rate £67.61 - £58.49
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.20%
75th Percentile £74.51 - £64.09
90th Percentile £84.13 - £67.45
South East median hourly rate £53.75 £67.25 £54.88
% change year-on-year -20.07% +22.55% +2.51%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -33 16 £521 -5.23% 13
Wokingham -10 8 £375 -21.05% 1
Windsor -2 3 £475 -5.00%
Slough - 3 £460 - 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 4 (12.90%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (16.13%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 27 (87.10%) Azure
2 18 (58.06%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (48.39%) AWS
4 12 (38.71%) GCP
5 8 (25.81%) GitHub
5 8 (25.81%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (12.90%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (12.90%) OpenShift
7 3 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (9.68%) Apigee
7 3 (9.68%) Azure API Management
7 3 (9.68%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (9.68%) Datadog
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Storage
8 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) DNS
1 3 (9.68%) Firewall
1 3 (9.68%) TCP/IP
1 3 (9.68%) VPN
2 2 (6.45%) DHCP
2 2 (6.45%) HTTP
3 1 (3.23%) HTTPS
3 1 (3.23%) SNMP
3 1 (3.23%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) NoSQL
2 8 (25.81%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (16.13%) MongoDB
3 5 (16.13%) Relational Database
4 4 (12.90%) Big Data
5 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.45%) Hadoop
5 2 (6.45%) Spark SQL
6 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.23%) MySQL
6 1 (3.23%) Parquet
6 1 (3.23%) Power BI
6 1 (3.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Git
1 11 (35.48%) Jenkins
2 7 (22.58%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) JMeter
3 1 (3.23%) JUnit
3 1 (3.23%) Liquibase
3 1 (3.23%) LoadRunner
3 1 (3.23%) Mockito
3 1 (3.23%) NeoLoad
General
1 9 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Aerospace
4 3 (9.68%) Publishing
4 3 (9.68%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Developer
2 5 (16.13%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Python Developer
2 5 (16.13%) Senior
3 3 (9.68%) Apigee Developer
3 3 (9.68%) Data Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Lead
3 3 (9.68%) Lead DevOps
3 3 (9.68%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Tester
5 1 (3.23%) Consultant
5 1 (3.23%) Data Consultant
5 1 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (3.23%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (54.84%) Terraform
2 11 (35.48%) RESTful
3 8 (25.81%) OpenAPI
3 8 (25.81%) Swagger
4 6 (19.35%) FastAPI
4 6 (19.35%) Flask
4 6 (19.35%) Kafka
5 5 (16.13%) Django
5 5 (16.13%) NumPy
5 5 (16.13%) OAuth
5 5 (16.13%) Pandas
5 5 (16.13%) pytest
5 5 (16.13%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (12.90%) JWT
6 4 (12.90%) OAuth2
6 4 (12.90%) REST
6 4 (12.90%) SAML
7 3 (9.68%) SOAP
8 2 (6.45%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (6.45%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Cloud Native
2 5 (16.13%) Algorithms
2 5 (16.13%) Data Structures
3 3 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (9.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.23%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (87.10%) DevOps
2 22 (70.97%) Containerisation
3 21 (67.74%) CI/CD
4 16 (51.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (45.16%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (41.94%) Agile
7 10 (32.26%) Analytics
7 10 (32.26%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (22.58%) ETL
8 7 (22.58%) Microservices
8 7 (22.58%) Observability
8 7 (22.58%) Software Engineering
8 7 (22.58%) TDD
8 7 (22.58%) Test Automation
9 6 (19.35%) Deployment Automation
9 6 (19.35%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (16.13%) Collaborative Engineering
10 5 (16.13%) Data Science
10 5 (16.13%) Release Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) Python
2 8 (25.81%) SQL
3 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
4 5 (16.13%) Bash
5 4 (12.90%) JavaScript
6 3 (9.68%) Bicep
7 2 (6.45%) Java
8 1 (3.23%) Groovy
8 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (41.94%) Security Cleared
2 10 (32.26%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) AWS Certification
3 4 (12.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (3.23%) CCNA
6 1 (3.23%) CCNP
6 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) QA
2 3 (9.68%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Hyper-V
1 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (74.19%) Kubernetes
2 10 (32.26%) Ansible
3 5 (16.13%) Grafana
4 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 7 (22.58%) Google
3 4 (12.90%) Dynatrace
4 3 (9.68%) Databricks
4 3 (9.68%) MuleSoft
4 3 (9.68%) Salesforce
4 3 (9.68%) Splunk
5 2 (6.45%) AppDynamics
5 2 (6.45%) VMware
6 1 (3.23%) Cisco
6 1 (3.23%) Parasoft