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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 62 89
Rank change year-on-year -33 +27 -23
Contract jobs citing Docker 30 36 26
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.55% 3.01% 1.49%
As % of the System Software category 16.13% 23.68% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 19 12
10th Percentile £349 £324 £466
25th Percentile £389 £416 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £638
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -21.57% +15.91%
75th Percentile £494 £525 £688
90th Percentile £565 £663 -
South East median daily rate £525 £488 £520
% change year-on-year +7.69% -6.25% -13.33%
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 186 152 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.64% 12.71% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 85 129
10th Percentile £345 £305 £313
25th Percentile £406 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £605
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -17.36% +21.00%
75th Percentile £550 £700 £638
90th Percentile £630 - £651
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £542
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.66% +8.30%
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 £52.50 £57.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.78% +7.07%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -34 15 £521 +4.25% 16
Wokingham -11 8 £375 -18.03% 3
Windsor 0 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 (13.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 26 (86.67%) Azure
2 17 (56.67%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (50.00%) AWS
4 12 (40.00%) GCP
5 8 (26.67%) GitHub
5 8 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (10.00%) Apigee
7 3 (10.00%) Azure API Management
7 3 (10.00%) Datadog
7 3 (10.00%) OpenShift
8 2 (6.67%) Azure AKS
8 2 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
9 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) DNS
1 3 (10.00%) Firewall
1 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (10.00%) VPN
2 2 (6.67%) DHCP
2 2 (6.67%) HTTP
3 1 (3.33%) HTTPS
3 1 (3.33%) SNMP
3 1 (3.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) NoSQL
1 8 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 4 (13.33%) Big Data
4 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.67%) Hadoop
4 2 (6.67%) Spark SQL
5 1 (3.33%) MySQL
5 1 (3.33%) Power BI
5 1 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Git
1 10 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (3.33%) JMeter
3 1 (3.33%) JUnit
3 1 (3.33%) Liquibase
3 1 (3.33%) LoadRunner
3 1 (3.33%) Mockito
3 1 (3.33%) NeoLoad
General
1 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Aerospace
4 3 (10.00%) Publishing
4 3 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Python Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (10.00%) Apigee Developer
3 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Lead
3 3 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
3 3 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Tester
5 1 (3.33%) Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Data Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (3.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (36.67%) RESTful
2 8 (26.67%) OpenAPI
2 8 (26.67%) Swagger
3 6 (20.00%) FastAPI
3 6 (20.00%) Flask
3 6 (20.00%) Kafka
4 5 (16.67%) Django
4 5 (16.67%) NumPy
4 5 (16.67%) OAuth
4 5 (16.67%) Pandas
4 5 (16.67%) pytest
4 5 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (13.33%) JWT
5 4 (13.33%) OAuth2
5 4 (13.33%) REST
5 4 (13.33%) SAML
6 3 (10.00%) ARM Templates
6 3 (10.00%) SOAP
7 2 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (6.67%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 5 (16.67%) Data Structures
3 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.33%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (86.67%) DevOps
2 21 (70.00%) Containerisation
3 19 (63.33%) CI/CD
4 16 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (43.33%) Agile
7 11 (36.67%) Analytics
8 9 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (23.33%) ETL
9 7 (23.33%) Microservices
9 7 (23.33%) TDD
10 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (20.00%) Observability
10 6 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
10 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
10 6 (20.00%) Test Automation
11 5 (16.67%) Data Analytics
11 5 (16.67%) Mathematics
11 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
11 5 (16.67%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) Python
2 7 (23.33%) SQL
3 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (13.33%) Bash
4 4 (13.33%) Bicep
4 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.67%) Java
6 1 (3.33%) Groovy
6 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.33%) AWS Certification
3 4 (13.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.33%) CCNA
6 1 (3.33%) CCNP
6 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) QA
2 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (76.67%) Kubernetes
2 17 (56.67%) Terraform
3 9 (30.00%) Ansible
4 5 (16.67%) Grafana
5 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Google
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Dynatrace
3 3 (10.00%) Databricks
3 3 (10.00%) MuleSoft
3 3 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (10.00%) Splunk
4 2 (6.67%) AppDynamics
4 2 (6.67%) VMware
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) Parasoft