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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 49 74
Rank change year-on-year -31 +25 0
Contract jobs citing Docker 34 48 54
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.20% 3.67% 2.81%
As % of the System Software category 18.09% 23.30% 20.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 25 24
10th Percentile £306 £396 £378
25th Percentile £413 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £580
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -22.41% +12.62%
75th Percentile £537 £500 £691
90th Percentile £628 £569 £709
South East median daily rate £513 £453 £558
% change year-on-year +13.26% -18.83% -3.04%
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 188 206 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.16% 15.75% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 129 191
10th Percentile £243 £209 £148
25th Percentile £316 £375 £234
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.31% +4.50%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £608
90th Percentile £604 £685 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% -7.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £74.80 - £21.65
25th Percentile £82.00 £55.87 £34.51
Median hourly rate £90.00 £56.75 £65.75
Median % change year-on-year +58.60% -13.70% +5.20%
75th Percentile £100.00 £57.62 £68.29
90th Percentile £103.30 - £68.63
South East median hourly rate £81.00 £57.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year +40.87% -6.12% +17.22%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 - 19 £467 - 2
Reading -22 12 £588 +43.64% 5
Windsor -4 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 2 (5.88%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 29 (85.29%) Azure
2 17 (50.00%) AWS
3 11 (32.35%) Azure AKS
4 9 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (17.65%) IaaS
5 6 (17.65%) OpenShift
6 5 (14.71%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (14.71%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (11.76%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (11.76%) Datadog
7 4 (11.76%) GCP
8 2 (5.88%) Azure Functions
8 2 (5.88%) GitHub
8 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (5.88%) Serverless
8 2 (5.88%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (2.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (29.41%) DNS
2 6 (17.65%) Firewall
3 5 (14.71%) TCP/IP
4 4 (11.76%) DHCP
5 1 (2.94%) HTTP
5 1 (2.94%) SSL
5 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.82%) Git
2 3 (8.82%) GitLab
3 2 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.88%) Robot Framework
3 2 (5.88%) Selenium
3 2 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.88%) Billing
4 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) Architect
3 6 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Senior
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Head of Development
6 2 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Consultant
7 1 (2.94%) Delphi Software Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Lead
7 1 (2.94%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (2.94%) Network Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Service Management Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) JSON
1 4 (11.76%) Middleware
1 4 (11.76%) PyTorch
1 4 (11.76%) scikit-learn
1 4 (11.76%) TensorFlow
2 3 (8.82%) .NET
2 3 (8.82%) REST
3 2 (5.88%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.88%) ADO
3 2 (5.88%) ARM Templates
3 2 (5.88%) GraphQL
3 2 (5.88%) Jinja
3 2 (5.88%) NETCONF
3 2 (5.88%) OpenAPI
3 2 (5.88%) RESTful
3 2 (5.88%) Swagger
3 2 (5.88%) XML
4 1 (2.94%) WebSockets
4 1 (2.94%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (11.76%) PKI
3 3 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) TM Forum
5 1 (2.94%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (35.29%) Linux
2 6 (17.65%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (73.53%) CI/CD
2 20 (58.82%) Containerisation
2 20 (58.82%) DevOps
3 10 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (23.53%) Microservices
5 7 (20.59%) DevSecOps
6 6 (17.65%) Agile
6 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (17.65%) Load Balancing
6 6 (17.65%) Machine Learning
6 6 (17.65%) Migration
6 6 (17.65%) RBAC
7 5 (14.71%) Analytics
7 5 (14.71%) Log Analytics
7 5 (14.71%) Mentoring
7 5 (14.71%) Observability
7 5 (14.71%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (11.76%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 25 (73.53%) Python
2 18 (52.94%) Bash
3 11 (32.35%) PowerShell
4 6 (17.65%) Bicep
4 6 (17.65%) SQL
5 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 4 (11.76%) R
6 3 (8.82%) C#
6 3 (8.82%) PHP
7 1 (2.94%) Delphi
7 1 (2.94%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 12 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) AWS Certification
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.94%) CCNA
5 1 (2.94%) CCNP
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.94%) JNCIP
5 1 (2.94%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.94%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (26.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (17.65%) VMware NSX
2 6 (17.65%) vSphere
3 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 4 (11.76%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.94%) NDS
4 1 (2.94%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 31 (91.18%) Kubernetes
2 18 (52.94%) Terraform
3 14 (41.18%) Ansible
4 6 (17.65%) Argo
4 6 (17.65%) vCenter Server
5 5 (14.71%) Grafana
5 5 (14.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) VMware
2 7 (20.59%) Red Hat
3 6 (17.65%) Pure Storage
4 4 (11.76%) AppDynamics
4 4 (11.76%) Dynatrace
4 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 4 (11.76%) Splunk
5 2 (5.88%) Cisco
5 2 (5.88%) Veracode
6 1 (2.94%) NetIQ
6 1 (2.94%) OpenText
6 1 (2.94%) Oracle
6 1 (2.94%) Salesforce