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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 46 75
Rank change year-on-year -44 +29 -3
Contract jobs citing Docker 31 48 55
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.69% 4.22% 2.66%
As % of the System Software category 16.40% 25.81% 22.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 28 20
10th Percentile £306 £390 £425
25th Percentile £385 £402 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £448 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% -25.42% +22.45%
75th Percentile £519 £500 £688
90th Percentile £540 £604 £714
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £566
% change year-on-year +2.50% -11.70% -2.37%
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 £75.00 - £66.50
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

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 189 186 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.29% 16.36% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 121 170
10th Percentile £306 £325 £205
25th Percentile £398 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £537 £650 £608
90th Percentile £613 £700 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile £74.80 - £37.37
25th Percentile £82.00 £55.87 £65.00
Median hourly rate £90.00 £56.75 £66.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.60% -14.67% +16.92%
75th Percentile £100.00 £57.62 £68.63
90th Percentile £103.30 - -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £57.25 £54.88
% change year-on-year -12.66% +4.32% +5.53%

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 April 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 April 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 -14 19 £400 -9.09% 2
Reading -48 9 £425 +3.91% 17
Windsor -2 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 1 (3.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 25 (80.65%) Azure
2 16 (51.61%) AWS
3 11 (35.48%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (19.35%) Azure AKS
4 6 (19.35%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (19.35%) IaaS
4 6 (19.35%) OpenShift
5 4 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (12.90%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (12.90%) Datadog
5 4 (12.90%) GCP
6 3 (9.68%) GitHub
6 3 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (9.68%) Serverless
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Functions
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (6.45%) PaaS
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 10 (32.26%) DNS
2 5 (16.13%) Firewall
3 4 (12.90%) DHCP
3 4 (12.90%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
2 4 (12.90%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.45%) Parquet
4 1 (3.23%) MySQL
4 1 (3.23%) Redis
4 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Jenkins
2 7 (22.58%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) JUnit
3 1 (3.23%) Liquibase
3 1 (3.23%) Mockito
General
1 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Billing
5 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Architect
2 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Senior
4 5 (16.13%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Python Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (6.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Delphi Software Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 1 (3.23%) Java Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Lead
8 1 (3.23%) Lead DevOps
8 1 (3.23%) Service Management Architect
8 1 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) RESTful
2 4 (12.90%) JSON
2 4 (12.90%) Middleware
2 4 (12.90%) OpenAPI
2 4 (12.90%) REST
2 4 (12.90%) Swagger
3 3 (9.68%) .NET
3 3 (9.68%) FastAPI
3 3 (9.68%) Flask
3 3 (9.68%) GraphQL
3 3 (9.68%) Kafka
4 2 (6.45%) .NET Core
4 2 (6.45%) ARM Templates
4 2 (6.45%) Django
4 2 (6.45%) NumPy
4 2 (6.45%) Pandas
4 2 (6.45%) pytest
4 2 (6.45%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (6.45%) React
4 2 (6.45%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (12.90%) PKI
3 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.45%) TM Forum
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.23%) Life Science
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (35.48%) Linux
2 5 (16.13%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (70.97%) CI/CD
1 22 (70.97%) DevOps
2 21 (67.74%) Containerisation
3 9 (29.03%) Microservices
4 8 (25.81%) Agile
4 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (22.58%) DevSecOps
5 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (22.58%) RBAC
6 6 (19.35%) Analytics
6 6 (19.35%) Load Balancing
6 6 (19.35%) Mentoring
6 6 (19.35%) Migration
6 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (16.13%) Observability
7 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Log Analytics
8 4 (12.90%) Problem Management
8 4 (12.90%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 23 (74.19%) Python
2 17 (54.84%) Bash
3 11 (35.48%) PowerShell
4 4 (12.90%) Bicep
4 4 (12.90%) SQL
5 3 (9.68%) C#
5 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.68%) PHP
6 1 (3.23%) Delphi
6 1 (3.23%) Java
6 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (54.84%) Security Cleared
2 12 (38.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) AWS Certification
4 3 (9.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (19.35%) VMware NSX
2 6 (19.35%) vSphere
3 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
3 4 (12.90%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (83.87%) Kubernetes
2 15 (48.39%) Terraform
3 11 (35.48%) Ansible
4 6 (19.35%) Argo
4 6 (19.35%) vCenter Server
5 5 (16.13%) Grafana
5 5 (16.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) VMware
2 6 (19.35%) Pure Storage
3 5 (16.13%) Red Hat
4 4 (12.90%) AppDynamics
4 4 (12.90%) Dynatrace
4 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
4 4 (12.90%) Splunk
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce