Docker Contracts in Reading

Docker
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 47 55
Rank change year-on-year +14 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Docker 27 45 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.52% 3.78% 3.07%
As % of the System Software category 36.00% 25.57% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 21
10th Percentile £394 £425 £478
25th Percentile £409 £522 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £566 £688 £675
90th Percentile £656 £719 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £613 £525
% change year-on-year -18.37% +16.67% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £65.00 £64.38
% change year-on-year - +0.97% -

All System Software Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 75 176 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 12.56% 14.77% 11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 131 90
10th Percentile £301 £205 £373
25th Percentile £494 £525 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £634 £605 £569
Median % change year-on-year +4.75% +6.37% +13.75%
75th Percentile £700 £614 £675
90th Percentile - £675 £701
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £575 £534
% change year-on-year -10.83% +7.73% +12.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £32.61
25th Percentile - - £47.73
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +23.81% +425.00%
75th Percentile - - £66.88
90th Percentile - - £75.69
Berkshire median hourly rate - £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +33.33%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Reading

Docker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Docker in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (7.41%) Apache
1 2 (7.41%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 22 (81.48%) Azure
2 18 (66.67%) AWS
3 7 (25.93%) Azure AKS
3 7 (25.93%) Serverless
4 6 (22.22%) GCP
5 4 (14.81%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (14.81%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (14.81%) Azure Functions
6 3 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.70%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.70%) GitHub
8 1 (3.70%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) BGP
1 6 (22.22%) MPLS
2 5 (18.52%) TCP/IP
2 5 (18.52%) VLAN
3 1 (3.70%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (3.70%) Network Security
3 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (14.81%) Redis
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (7.41%) Big Data
3 2 (7.41%) Data Lake
3 2 (7.41%) DynamoDB
3 2 (7.41%) RDBMS
3 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (40.74%) Jenkins
2 8 (29.63%) GitLab
3 7 (25.93%) JIRA
3 7 (25.93%) SonarQube
4 6 (22.22%) Cucumber
4 6 (22.22%) REST Assured
4 6 (22.22%) Selenium
5 5 (18.52%) Robot Framework
6 3 (11.11%) JUnit
6 3 (11.11%) Mockito
7 2 (7.41%) Git
7 2 (7.41%) JMeter
8 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
8 1 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (3.70%) DbUnit
8 1 (3.70%) jMock
8 1 (3.70%) Maven
General
1 15 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 14 (51.85%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (25.93%) Telecoms
4 5 (18.52%) Law
5 4 (14.81%) Police
6 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Automation Tester
2 5 (18.52%) Java Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Software Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Telecoms Tester
2 5 (18.52%) Tester
3 4 (14.81%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Backend Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.70%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (37.04%) REST
2 6 (22.22%) ARM Templates
2 6 (22.22%) Java EE
3 5 (18.52%) RESTful
4 4 (14.81%) GraphQL
4 4 (14.81%) Prisma
5 3 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (11.11%) Hibernate
5 3 (11.11%) HTML
5 3 (11.11%) JSON
5 3 (11.11%) Node.js
5 3 (11.11%) Spring
5 3 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 3 (11.11%) Web Services
5 3 (11.11%) XML
6 2 (7.41%) Apache Camel
6 2 (7.41%) jQuery
6 2 (7.41%) scikit-learn
6 2 (7.41%) SOAP
6 2 (7.41%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 5 (18.52%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) IoT
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Unix
3 2 (7.41%) AIX
4 1 (3.70%) CentOS
4 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (85.19%) Containerisation
2 13 (48.15%) DevOps
3 12 (44.44%) Test Automation
4 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
5 10 (37.04%) Microservices
6 9 (33.33%) Configuration Management
6 9 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (25.93%) Software Engineering
9 6 (22.22%) Agile
9 6 (22.22%) Software Architecture
9 6 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (22.22%) Test Strategy
10 5 (18.52%) Cost Management
10 5 (18.52%) Front End Development
11 4 (14.81%) Code Quality
11 4 (14.81%) Cost Optimisation
11 4 (14.81%) Event-Driven
11 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 9 (33.33%) Java
3 5 (18.52%) TypeScript
4 4 (14.81%) SQL
5 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 3 (11.11%) Shell Script
6 2 (7.41%) R
7 1 (3.70%) Bicep
7 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) SC Cleared
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.70%) CCSP
2 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.70%) CISSP
2 1 (3.70%) OSCP
2 1 (3.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.70%) Postfix
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (96.30%) Kubernetes
2 15 (55.56%) Ansible
3 8 (29.63%) Terraform
4 6 (22.22%) Docker Swarm
4 6 (22.22%) Podman
5 2 (7.41%) Kibana
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
5 2 (7.41%) Puppet
5 2 (7.41%) SCCM
6 1 (3.70%) Grafana
6 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Dynatrace
2 2 (7.41%) Splunk
2 2 (7.41%) VMware
3 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco
3 1 (3.70%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (3.70%) New Relic
3 1 (3.70%) Rapid7