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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 64 92
Rank change year-on-year -36 +28 -26
Contract jobs citing Docker 24 30 30
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.23% 2.47% 1.53%
As % of the System Software category 13.64% 18.99% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 16
10th Percentile £349 £360 £456
25th Percentile £359 £446 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £638
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -21.57% +6.92%
75th Percentile £483 £513 £688
90th Percentile £630 £663 £706
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £563
% change year-on-year +5.00% -11.11% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.25 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £83.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £82.50 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - -32.14%

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 176 158 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.01% 13.00% 11.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 91 145
10th Percentile £349 £300 £314
25th Percentile £403 £400 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £501 £605
Median % change year-on-year -7.09% -17.27% +15.24%
75th Percentile £550 £700 £613
90th Percentile £632 - £666
South East median daily rate £525 £501 £540
% change year-on-year +4.90% -7.31% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £28.85 - -
25th Percentile £48.50 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £58.49
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.20%
75th Percentile £84.38 - £64.09
90th Percentile £84.75 - £67.45
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.78% +9.75%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -12 11 £375 -18.03%
Reading -44 10 £525 +5.00% 11
Slough +9 2 £460 -29.23% 8
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 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 20 (83.33%) Azure
2 14 (58.33%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (37.50%) AWS
4 7 (29.17%) GCP
5 4 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (12.50%) GitHub
6 3 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (8.33%) Apigee
7 2 (8.33%) Azure AKS
7 2 (8.33%) Azure API Management
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (4.17%) PaaS
8 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) HTTP
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.17%) SNMP
2 1 (4.17%) SSH
2 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (45.83%) NoSQL
2 9 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (16.67%) Big Data
4 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
5 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
5 2 (8.33%) Parquet
5 2 (8.33%) Spark SQL
6 1 (4.17%) MySQL
6 1 (4.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Git
2 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) JMeter
3 1 (4.17%) JUnit
3 1 (4.17%) Liquibase
3 1 (4.17%) LoadRunner
3 1 (4.17%) Mockito
3 1 (4.17%) NeoLoad
General
1 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Aerospace
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Publishing
4 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Python Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior
5 3 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Apigee Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Tester
7 1 (4.17%) Automation Specialist
7 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Workflow Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) RESTful
2 8 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 8 (33.33%) Swagger
3 7 (29.17%) FastAPI
3 7 (29.17%) Flask
3 7 (29.17%) Kafka
4 6 (25.00%) Django
4 6 (25.00%) NumPy
4 6 (25.00%) Pandas
4 6 (25.00%) pytest
4 6 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (12.50%) ARM Templates
5 3 (12.50%) JSON
5 3 (12.50%) JWT
5 3 (12.50%) OAuth
5 3 (12.50%) OAuth2
5 3 (12.50%) REST
6 2 (8.33%) Jinja
6 2 (8.33%) SAML
6 2 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (25.00%) Data Structures
3 3 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.17%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) DevOps
2 19 (79.17%) Containerisation
3 13 (54.17%) CI/CD
3 13 (54.17%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (41.67%) Analytics
5 9 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (33.33%) TDD
7 7 (29.17%) Agile
7 7 (29.17%) Performance Optimisation
7 7 (29.17%) Software Engineering
8 6 (25.00%) Data Analytics
8 6 (25.00%) Data Science
8 6 (25.00%) Machine Learning
8 6 (25.00%) Mathematics
8 6 (25.00%) OOP
9 5 (20.83%) API Development
9 5 (20.83%) ETL
9 5 (20.83%) Microservices
10 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) Python
2 8 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) Bicep
4 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.33%) Java
6 1 (4.17%) Groovy
6 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.17%) CCNA
4 1 (4.17%) CCNP
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 15 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 9 (37.50%) Terraform
3 3 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Databricks
1 2 (8.33%) Google
1 2 (8.33%) MuleSoft
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco
2 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.17%) Parasoft