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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 46 80
Rank change year-on-year -41 +34 -4
Contract jobs citing Docker 31 46 52
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.68% 3.99% 2.55%
As % of the System Software category 15.20% 24.34% 20.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 26 15
10th Percentile £306 £387 £425
25th Percentile £389 £401 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.01% -29.25% +20.00%
75th Percentile £532 £500 £650
90th Percentile £600 £566 £720
South East median daily rate £513 £455 £550
% change year-on-year +12.64% -17.27% -2.65%
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 204 189 252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 11.07% 16.39% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 126 171
10th Percentile £262 £306 £205
25th Percentile £387 £400 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £539 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.87% -6.26% +9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £661 £608
90th Percentile £607 £700 £663
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile £74.80 - £37.37
25th Percentile £82.00 £55.87 £65.00
Median hourly rate £90.00 £56.75 £66.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.60% -14.67% +3.30%
75th Percentile £100.00 £57.62 £68.63
90th Percentile £103.30 - -
South East median hourly rate £53.61 £57.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year -7.17% +0.43% +10.58%

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 18 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 18 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 -22 19 £400 -9.09% 1
Reading -46 10 £475 +16.14% 11
Windsor 0 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 (3.23%) Appian
1 1 (3.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 25 (80.65%) Azure
2 16 (51.61%) AWS
3 11 (35.48%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (19.35%) Azure AKS
4 6 (19.35%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (19.35%) IaaS
4 6 (19.35%) OpenShift
5 4 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (12.90%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (12.90%) Datadog
5 4 (12.90%) GCP
6 3 (9.68%) Serverless
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Functions
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (6.45%) GitHub
7 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.45%) PaaS
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (32.26%) DNS
2 5 (16.13%) Firewall
3 4 (12.90%) DHCP
3 4 (12.90%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
3 3 (9.68%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.45%) Parquet
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Jenkins
2 7 (22.58%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.23%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) JUnit
3 1 (3.23%) Liquibase
3 1 (3.23%) Mockito
3 1 (3.23%) Robot Framework
3 1 (3.23%) Selenium
3 1 (3.23%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Billing
5 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Architect
2 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Senior
4 5 (16.13%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Python Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (6.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Delphi Software Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 1 (3.23%) Head of Development
8 1 (3.23%) Java Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Lead
8 1 (3.23%) Lead DevOps
8 1 (3.23%) Service Management Architect
8 1 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) JSON
2 4 (12.90%) Middleware
2 4 (12.90%) OpenAPI
2 4 (12.90%) REST
2 4 (12.90%) RESTful
2 4 (12.90%) Swagger
3 3 (9.68%) .NET
3 3 (9.68%) Kafka
4 2 (6.45%) .NET Core
4 2 (6.45%) Django
4 2 (6.45%) Flask
4 2 (6.45%) GraphQL
4 2 (6.45%) Jinja
4 2 (6.45%) NumPy
4 2 (6.45%) Pandas
4 2 (6.45%) pytest
4 2 (6.45%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (6.45%) React
4 2 (6.45%) scikit-learn
4 2 (6.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (12.90%) PKI
3 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.45%) TM Forum
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (35.48%) Linux
2 5 (16.13%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (70.97%) CI/CD
1 22 (70.97%) DevOps
2 21 (67.74%) Containerisation
3 10 (32.26%) Microservices
4 8 (25.81%) Agile
4 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (22.58%) DevSecOps
5 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (22.58%) RBAC
6 6 (19.35%) Analytics
6 6 (19.35%) Load Balancing
6 6 (19.35%) Mentoring
6 6 (19.35%) Migration
6 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (16.13%) Observability
7 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Application Performance Management
8 4 (12.90%) Log Analytics
8 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (74.19%) Python
2 17 (54.84%) Bash
3 11 (35.48%) PowerShell
4 4 (12.90%) Bicep
4 4 (12.90%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.90%) SQL
5 3 (9.68%) C#
5 3 (9.68%) PHP
6 1 (3.23%) Delphi
6 1 (3.23%) Java
6 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (54.84%) Security Cleared
2 12 (38.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) AWS Certification
4 3 (9.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (19.35%) VMware NSX
2 6 (19.35%) vSphere
3 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
3 4 (12.90%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (83.87%) Kubernetes
2 15 (48.39%) Terraform
3 12 (38.71%) Ansible
4 6 (19.35%) Argo
4 6 (19.35%) vCenter Server
5 5 (16.13%) Grafana
5 5 (16.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) VMware
2 6 (19.35%) Pure Storage
2 6 (19.35%) Red Hat
3 4 (12.90%) AppDynamics
3 4 (12.90%) Dynatrace
3 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.90%) Splunk
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco
4 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.23%) Veracode