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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 59 61
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 +12
Contract jobs citing Docker 39 47 63
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.63% 3.13% 3.66%
As % of the System Software category 20.86% 20.35% 24.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 22 33
10th Percentile £406 £394 £373
25th Percentile £431 £401 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £409 £514
Median % change year-on-year +19.19% -20.43% -8.62%
75th Percentile £539 £500 £638
90th Percentile £708 £549 £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
% 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 187 231 253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.61% 15.40% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 140 189
10th Percentile £232 £232 £148
25th Percentile £344 £375 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -8.69% +9.38% -
75th Percentile £538 £638 £600
90th Percentile £614 £671 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 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 £57.62 £67.94
90th Percentile £103.30 - £68.63
South East median hourly rate £81.00 £57.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +41.48% -4.58% +150.00%

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 20 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 20 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 -7 18 £531 +29.89% 2
Wokingham - 16 £500 - 2
Windsor -4 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 (5.13%) Appian
1 2 (5.13%) nginx
2 1 (2.56%) CMS
2 1 (2.56%) Drupal
2 1 (2.56%) Gunicorn
2 1 (2.56%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 29 (74.36%) Azure
2 20 (51.28%) AWS
3 11 (28.21%) Azure AKS
4 9 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (15.38%) IaaS
5 6 (15.38%) OpenShift
6 5 (12.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (12.82%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (12.82%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (12.82%) GCP
6 5 (12.82%) GitHub
7 4 (10.26%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (10.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (10.26%) Serverless
8 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
8 3 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (5.13%) Azure Functions
9 2 (5.13%) Datadog
9 2 (5.13%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.64%) DNS
2 9 (23.08%) Firewall
3 5 (12.82%) TCP/IP
4 4 (10.26%) DHCP
5 3 (7.69%) Network Security
6 1 (2.56%) HTTP
6 1 (2.56%) SSL
6 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Data Lake
1 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.13%) Redis
2 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.56%) MySQL
3 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.26%) Git
2 4 (10.26%) GitLab
3 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.13%) Robot Framework
3 2 (5.13%) Selenium
3 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.56%) JIRA
4 1 (2.56%) Mocha
General
1 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.69%) Finance
3 3 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.13%) Billing
5 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.56%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Architect
2 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Senior
4 4 (10.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Head of Development
6 2 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (5.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Consultant
7 1 (2.56%) Delphi Software Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Django Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Lead
7 1 (2.56%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (2.56%) Network Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Service Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) RESTful
2 5 (12.82%) JSON
3 4 (10.26%) PyTorch
3 4 (10.26%) REST
3 4 (10.26%) scikit-learn
3 4 (10.26%) TensorFlow
4 3 (7.69%) .NET
4 3 (7.69%) GraphQL
4 3 (7.69%) OpenAPI
4 3 (7.69%) Swagger
4 3 (7.69%) XML
5 2 (5.13%) .NET Core
5 2 (5.13%) ADO
5 2 (5.13%) ARM Templates
5 2 (5.13%) Jinja
5 2 (5.13%) Middleware
5 2 (5.13%) NETCONF
5 2 (5.13%) Node.js
5 2 (5.13%) OAuth
5 2 (5.13%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (10.26%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (10.26%) PKI
4 3 (7.69%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 3 (7.69%) Security Posture
4 3 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (5.13%) TM Forum
6 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.56%) Legacy Code
6 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (33.33%) Linux
2 6 (15.38%) Windows
3 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 24 (61.54%) Containerisation
3 22 (56.41%) DevOps
4 10 (25.64%) Agile
4 10 (25.64%) DevSecOps
4 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (20.51%) Microservices
6 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (17.95%) SIEM
7 6 (15.38%) Load Balancing
7 6 (15.38%) Machine Learning
7 6 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 6 (15.38%) Migration
7 6 (15.38%) RBAC
8 5 (12.82%) Architectural Patterns
8 5 (12.82%) Log Analytics
8 5 (12.82%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (12.82%) SDLC
8 5 (12.82%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 24 (61.54%) Python
2 16 (41.03%) Bash
3 8 (20.51%) PowerShell
3 8 (20.51%) SQL
4 6 (15.38%) Bicep
4 6 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.26%) C#
5 4 (10.26%) R
6 3 (7.69%) Java
6 3 (7.69%) PHP
7 1 (2.56%) Delphi
7 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 10 (25.64%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.95%) AWS Certification
4 4 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 3 (7.69%) CCSP
5 3 (7.69%) CISSP
5 3 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (5.13%) Degree
7 1 (2.56%) CCNA
7 1 (2.56%) CCNP
7 1 (2.56%) JNCIP
7 1 (2.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (10.26%) NIST
2 3 (7.69%) GDPR
2 3 (7.69%) PCI DSS
2 3 (7.69%) PSD2
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (15.38%) VMware NSX
2 6 (15.38%) vSphere
3 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
3 4 (10.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.56%) NDS
4 1 (2.56%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 33 (84.62%) Kubernetes
2 21 (53.85%) Terraform
3 15 (38.46%) Ansible
4 6 (15.38%) Argo
4 6 (15.38%) vCenter Server
5 3 (7.69%) Grafana
6 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) VMware
2 7 (17.95%) Red Hat
3 6 (15.38%) Pure Storage
4 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.13%) Cisco
5 2 (5.13%) Splunk
5 2 (5.13%) Veracode
6 1 (2.56%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.56%) Google
6 1 (2.56%) NetIQ
6 1 (2.56%) OpenText
6 1 (2.56%) Oracle
6 1 (2.56%) Pega
6 1 (2.56%) Salesforce