Docker Contracts in Berkshire

Docker
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 72 68
Rank change year-on-year +18 -4 -7
Contract jobs citing Docker 39 52 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.32% 2.62% 2.60%
As % of the System Software category 23.78% 20.31% 23.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 29
10th Percentile £409 £425 £406
25th Percentile £429 £488 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +16.67% +2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £688 £675
90th Percentile £649 £714 £718
South East median daily rate £501 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -9.00% -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £58.19
25th Percentile - - £60.16
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £64.38
Median % change year-on-year - +0.97% -
75th Percentile - - £67.66
90th Percentile - - £69.06
South East median hourly rate - £56.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -25.00% +32.74%

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 164 256 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.98% 12.90% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 180 136
10th Percentile £275 £205 £320
25th Percentile £400 £345 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £534
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +7.73% +12.37%
75th Percentile £661 £608 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 15
10th Percentile - - £18.63
25th Percentile - - £47.95
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% +33.33%
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - £79.12
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £50.75 £54.03
% change year-on-year +13.30% -6.07% +170.15%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Docker in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in Berkshire

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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 1 May 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 +14 27 £488 -25.00% 40
Windsor - 6 £500 -
Wokingham -10 2 £440 -2.22% 1
Slough - 1 £650 - 29
Docker
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.13%) Apache
1 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 28 (71.79%) AWS
1 28 (71.79%) Azure
2 13 (33.33%) Serverless
3 9 (23.08%) Azure AKS
4 8 (20.51%) GitHub
5 7 (17.95%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (15.38%) GCP
7 4 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (10.26%) Azure Functions
8 3 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
9 2 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (5.13%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (5.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.38%) BGP
1 6 (15.38%) MPLS
2 5 (12.82%) TCP/IP
2 5 (12.82%) VLAN
3 1 (2.56%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.56%) Network Security
3 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.26%) Redis
3 2 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.13%) Big Data
3 2 (5.13%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.13%) DynamoDB
3 2 (5.13%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (35.90%) Jenkins
2 11 (28.21%) GitLab
3 10 (25.64%) JIRA
3 10 (25.64%) SonarQube
4 9 (23.08%) Cucumber
4 9 (23.08%) REST Assured
4 9 (23.08%) Selenium
5 5 (12.82%) Robot Framework
6 3 (7.69%) JUnit
6 3 (7.69%) Mockito
7 2 (5.13%) Git
7 2 (5.13%) JMeter
8 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
8 1 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (2.56%) DbUnit
8 1 (2.56%) jMock
8 1 (2.56%) Maven
General
1 25 (64.10%) Social Skills
2 17 (43.59%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (20.51%) Law
4 7 (17.95%) Telecoms
5 4 (10.26%) Police
6 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (30.77%) Developer
2 7 (17.95%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Java Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Automation Tester
3 5 (12.82%) Java Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Software Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Telecoms Tester
3 5 (12.82%) Tester
4 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Backend Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Senior
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.90%) REST
2 9 (23.08%) ARM Templates
2 9 (23.08%) Java EE
2 9 (23.08%) JSON
3 5 (12.82%) RESTful
4 4 (10.26%) GraphQL
4 4 (10.26%) Prisma
5 3 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (7.69%) Hibernate
5 3 (7.69%) HTML
5 3 (7.69%) Node.js
5 3 (7.69%) Spring
5 3 (7.69%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.69%) Web Services
5 3 (7.69%) XML
6 2 (5.13%) Apache Camel
6 2 (5.13%) jQuery
6 2 (5.13%) React
6 2 (5.13%) scikit-learn
6 2 (5.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.82%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (12.82%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) IoT
3 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.82%) Linux
2 3 (7.69%) Unix
3 2 (5.13%) AIX
4 1 (2.56%) CentOS
4 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (74.36%) Containerisation
2 24 (61.54%) DevOps
3 20 (51.28%) CI/CD
4 15 (38.46%) Test Automation
5 13 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 13 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (28.21%) Software Engineering
8 10 (25.64%) Microservices
9 9 (23.08%) Scrum
9 9 (23.08%) Software Architecture
9 9 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (15.38%) Agile
10 6 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (15.38%) Cost Management
10 6 (15.38%) Decision-Making
10 6 (15.38%) Test Strategy
11 5 (12.82%) Front End Development
12 4 (10.26%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (48.72%) Python
2 12 (30.77%) Java
3 5 (12.82%) SQL
3 5 (12.82%) TypeScript
4 3 (7.69%) Bicep
4 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.69%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.13%) R
6 1 (2.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) SC Cleared
1 11 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.56%) CCSP
2 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.56%) CISSP
2 1 (2.56%) OSCP
2 1 (2.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.56%) Postfix
2 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (82.05%) Kubernetes
2 19 (48.72%) Ansible
3 13 (33.33%) Terraform
4 9 (23.08%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (23.08%) Podman
5 2 (5.13%) Kibana
5 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.13%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.13%) Puppet
5 2 (5.13%) SCCM
6 1 (2.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Splunk
3 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.13%) VMware
4 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco
4 1 (2.56%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (2.56%) New Relic
4 1 (2.56%) Rapid7