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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 54 86
Rank change year-on-year -29 +32 -24
Contract jobs citing Docker 35 39 20
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.92% 3.35% 1.21%
As % of the System Software category 20.11% 27.27% 9.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 20 11
10th Percentile £349 £393 -
25th Percentile £425 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -15.25%
75th Percentile £507 £563 £631
90th Percentile £646 £673 £688
South East median daily rate £530 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +8.72% -2.50% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £61.74 - -
25th Percentile £62.96 - -
Median hourly rate £75.36 - -
75th Percentile £90.31 - -
90th Percentile £98.75 - -
South East median hourly rate £75.36 - -

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 174 143 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.56% 12.27% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 75 133
10th Percentile £363 £190 £313
25th Percentile £428 £273 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £605
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -21.49% +21.00%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £638
90th Percentile £638 £648 £651
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +5.00% -0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 5
10th Percentile £49.60 - -
25th Percentile £61.74 - £55.87
Median hourly rate £68.11 - £58.49
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.20%
75th Percentile £84.06 - -
90th Percentile £91.75 - £65.21
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £81.00 £56.75
% change year-on-year -25.93% +42.74% +3.17%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -33 21 £574 +2.00% 22
Wokingham -11 7 £375 -21.05%
Windsor +3 3 £475 -
Slough - 3 £460 - 7
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 (11.43%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 29 (82.86%) Azure
2 17 (48.57%) AWS
2 17 (48.57%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (34.29%) GCP
4 8 (22.86%) GitHub
4 8 (22.86%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (17.14%) OpenShift
6 5 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (8.57%) Apigee
7 3 (8.57%) Azure API Management
7 3 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (8.57%) Datadog
7 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (2.86%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) DNS
1 4 (11.43%) TCP/IP
2 3 (8.57%) DHCP
2 3 (8.57%) Firewall
2 3 (8.57%) VPN
3 2 (5.71%) HTTP
4 1 (2.86%) HTTPS
4 1 (2.86%) SNMP
4 1 (2.86%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) NoSQL
2 5 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.43%) Big Data
3 4 (11.43%) MongoDB
4 3 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (8.57%) Power BI
5 2 (5.71%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.71%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.86%) MySQL
6 1 (2.86%) Parquet
6 1 (2.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 8 (22.86%) Git
2 8 (22.86%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) JMeter
3 1 (2.86%) LoadRunner
3 1 (2.86%) NeoLoad
General
1 10 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Aerospace
3 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Publishing
4 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.86%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Finance
5 1 (2.86%) German Language
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Developer
1 7 (20.00%) Senior
2 5 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Python Developer
3 4 (11.43%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Apigee Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Lead
4 3 (8.57%) Lead DevOps
4 3 (8.57%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Data Integration Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (54.29%) Terraform
2 10 (28.57%) RESTful
3 7 (20.00%) OpenAPI
3 7 (20.00%) Swagger
4 5 (14.29%) FastAPI
4 5 (14.29%) Flask
4 5 (14.29%) OAuth
5 4 (11.43%) Django
5 4 (11.43%) JWT
5 4 (11.43%) Kafka
5 4 (11.43%) NumPy
5 4 (11.43%) OAuth2
5 4 (11.43%) Pandas
5 4 (11.43%) pytest
5 4 (11.43%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (11.43%) SAML
6 3 (8.57%) REST
6 3 (8.57%) SOAP
7 2 (5.71%) ARM Templates
7 2 (5.71%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.43%) Algorithms
2 4 (11.43%) Data Structures
2 4 (11.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.86%) Life Science
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.86%) Linux
2 5 (14.29%) Windows
2 5 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (8.57%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (77.14%) DevOps
2 25 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 22 (62.86%) Containerisation
4 17 (48.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (34.29%) Agile
7 10 (28.57%) Analytics
7 10 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (25.71%) Test Automation
9 8 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (20.00%) ETL
10 7 (20.00%) Observability
11 6 (17.14%) Collaborative Engineering
11 6 (17.14%) Software Engineering
12 5 (14.29%) Data Analytics
12 5 (14.29%) DevSecOps
12 5 (14.29%) Machine Learning
12 5 (14.29%) Release Management
12 5 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (54.29%) Python
2 9 (25.71%) Bash
3 7 (20.00%) SQL
4 6 (17.14%) PowerShell
5 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.71%) Bicep
6 2 (5.71%) Java
6 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.86%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 16 (45.71%) Security Cleared
2 12 (34.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 4 (11.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Azure Certification
5 3 (8.57%) DV Cleared
5 3 (8.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (5.71%) CISSP
7 1 (2.86%) CCNA
7 1 (2.86%) CCNP
7 1 (2.86%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) QA
2 3 (8.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.57%) Hyper-V
2 3 (8.57%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (8.57%) vSphere
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 14 (40.00%) Ansible
3 8 (22.86%) Grafana
4 5 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 4 (11.43%) Podman
6 2 (5.71%) Check_MK
7 1 (2.86%) Argo
7 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.00%) Google
3 6 (17.14%) VMware
4 4 (11.43%) Dynatrace
5 3 (8.57%) Databricks
5 3 (8.57%) MuleSoft
5 3 (8.57%) Salesforce
5 3 (8.57%) Splunk
6 2 (5.71%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.86%) Cisco
7 1 (2.86%) IBM
7 1 (2.86%) Parasoft
7 1 (2.86%) Red Hat