Docker Contracts in Berkshire

Docker
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 90 59
Rank change year-on-year +28 -31 +7
Contract jobs citing Docker 37 22 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.09% 1.27% 3.13%
As % of the System Software category 24.34% 10.73% 22.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 12 35
10th Percentile £325 £466 £348
25th Percentile £418 £509 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £638 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +27.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £574 £688 £694
90th Percentile £673 - £825
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £600
% change year-on-year -3.85% -13.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £57.06
25th Percentile - - £57.34
Median hourly rate - - £59.38
75th Percentile - - £61.09
90th Percentile - - £61.19
South East median hourly rate - - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +56.76%

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 152 205 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.69% 11.86% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 129 167
10th Percentile £306 £313 £195
25th Percentile £400 £500 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £605 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% +21.00% +4.71%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £614
90th Percentile - £651 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 9
10th Percentile - - £41.25
25th Percentile - - £48.40
Median hourly rate - £58.49 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year - +7.20% -41.02%
75th Percentile - £64.09 £60.63
90th Percentile - £67.45 £61.90
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £54.88 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.78% +9.75% +150.00%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in Berkshire

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Docker in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Berkshire over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Berkshire

Docker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in Berkshire

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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 August 2025. 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 +27 25 £525 -19.23% 10
Wokingham -8 4 £458 -1.08% 2
Windsor -1 3 £500 - 1
Docker
South East

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.41%) nginx
2 1 (2.70%) Appian
2 1 (2.70%) CMS
2 1 (2.70%) Drupal
2 1 (2.70%) Gunicorn
2 1 (2.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 24 (64.86%) Azure
2 22 (59.46%) AWS
3 7 (18.92%) GitHub
3 7 (18.92%) Serverless
4 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (13.51%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (13.51%) Azure AKS
5 5 (13.51%) GCP
6 4 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (10.81%) Entra ID
7 3 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
7 3 (8.11%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (8.11%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (5.41%) Azure App Service
8 2 (5.41%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) Network Security
2 3 (8.11%) Firewall
3 1 (2.70%) BGP
3 1 (2.70%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.70%) MPLS
3 1 (2.70%) SMS
3 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.81%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.11%) DynamoDB
3 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
3 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.41%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.41%) Redis
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.70%) MySQL
5 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (37.84%) Jenkins
2 13 (35.14%) GitLab
3 11 (29.73%) JIRA
3 11 (29.73%) SonarQube
4 10 (27.03%) Cucumber
4 10 (27.03%) Selenium
5 9 (24.32%) REST Assured
6 5 (13.51%) Git
7 3 (8.11%) JUnit
7 3 (8.11%) Mockito
8 2 (5.41%) JMeter
9 1 (2.70%) Artifactory
9 1 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
9 1 (2.70%) DbUnit
9 1 (2.70%) jMock
9 1 (2.70%) Maven
9 1 (2.70%) MLflow
9 1 (2.70%) Mocha
9 1 (2.70%) Robot Framework
General
1 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 13 (35.14%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (21.62%) Law
4 6 (16.22%) Finance
5 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
6 4 (10.81%) Police
7 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.70%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (2.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Developer
2 7 (18.92%) Java Developer
3 5 (13.51%) Java Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Architect
5 3 (8.11%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) React Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (5.41%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Developer
7 1 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (43.24%) REST
2 9 (24.32%) ARM Templates
2 9 (24.32%) Java EE
3 7 (18.92%) JSON
4 6 (16.22%) HTML
5 5 (13.51%) Node.js
5 5 (13.51%) RESTful
5 5 (13.51%) XML
6 4 (10.81%) React
6 4 (10.81%) Spring
6 4 (10.81%) Spring Boot
7 3 (8.11%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (8.11%) CSS
7 3 (8.11%) Hibernate
7 3 (8.11%) jQuery
7 3 (8.11%) Material-UI
7 3 (8.11%) OpenAPI
7 3 (8.11%) SOAP
7 3 (8.11%) Swagger
7 3 (8.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.51%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (8.11%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (8.11%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (8.11%) Public Cloud
4 3 (8.11%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.70%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) CentOS
2 1 (2.70%) Unix
2 1 (2.70%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (67.57%) Containerisation
2 24 (64.86%) CI/CD
2 24 (64.86%) DevOps
3 18 (48.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (40.54%) Test Automation
5 14 (37.84%) Configuration Management
5 14 (37.84%) Software Engineering
6 13 (35.14%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (32.43%) Microservices
8 11 (29.73%) Agile
8 11 (29.73%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (29.73%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (24.32%) DevSecOps
9 9 (24.32%) Software Architecture
10 7 (18.92%) Decision-Making
11 5 (13.51%) Identity Access Management
11 5 (13.51%) Scrum
11 5 (13.51%) SDLC
11 5 (13.51%) Strategic Thinking
11 5 (13.51%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (37.84%) Java
1 14 (37.84%) Python
2 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
3 6 (16.22%) SQL
4 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
5 4 (10.81%) Bicep
6 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
6 3 (8.11%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.41%) Bash
7 2 (5.41%) C#
8 1 (2.70%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (29.73%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (10.81%) CCSP
3 4 (10.81%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (10.81%) CISSP
4 3 (8.11%) AWS Certification
4 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.41%) Degree
6 1 (2.70%) OSCP
6 1 (2.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) GDPR
1 4 (10.81%) PCI DSS
2 3 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.11%) NIST
2 3 (8.11%) PSD2
3 2 (5.41%) QA
4 1 (2.70%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.70%) HL7
4 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.70%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 28 (75.68%) Kubernetes
2 18 (48.65%) Terraform
3 15 (40.54%) Ansible
4 9 (24.32%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (24.32%) Podman
5 2 (5.41%) Grafana
5 2 (5.41%) Kibana
5 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) Splunk
2 2 (5.41%) Cisco
2 2 (5.41%) Dynatrace
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.70%) Google
3 1 (2.70%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (2.70%) New Relic
3 1 (2.70%) Pega
3 1 (2.70%) Rapid7
3 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.70%) Veracode