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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 61 64
Rank change year-on-year +19 +3 -12
Contract jobs citing Docker 17 37 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.12% 3.13% 2.14%
As % of the System Software category 26.56% 21.14% 19.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 14
10th Percentile £365 £425 £433
25th Percentile £428 £522 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £519
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +25.30% +3.75%
75th Percentile £606 £688 £660
90th Percentile £663 £719 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £613 £519
% change year-on-year -18.37% +18.07% +2.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £64.38

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 64 175 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 11.74% 14.79% 11.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 134 86
10th Percentile £222 £207 £381
25th Percentile £494 £556 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £605 £589
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% +2.76% +20.15%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £675
90th Percentile - £675 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £543
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.89% +13.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £47.77
25th Percentile - - £48.18
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +500.00%
75th Percentile - - £72.84
90th Percentile - - £77.96
Berkshire median hourly rate - £58.49 £58.75
% change year-on-year - -0.44% +42.42%

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 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Reading

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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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) Azure
2 12 (70.59%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (23.53%) Serverless
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (17.65%) Azure AKS
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) GCP
5 2 (11.76%) npm
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) Route 53
6 1 (5.88%) Twilio
6 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) BGP
1 1 (5.88%) MPLS
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
1 1 (5.88%) SMS
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.88%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
2 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
2 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Jenkins
2 7 (41.18%) SonarQube
3 6 (35.29%) Cucumber
3 6 (35.29%) GitLab
3 6 (35.29%) JIRA
3 6 (35.29%) REST Assured
3 6 (35.29%) Selenium
4 3 (17.65%) Git
4 3 (17.65%) JUnit
4 3 (17.65%) Mockito
5 2 (11.76%) JMeter
6 1 (5.88%) Artifactory
6 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (5.88%) DbUnit
6 1 (5.88%) jMock
6 1 (5.88%) Maven
6 1 (5.88%) Robot Framework
General
1 8 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Law
4 4 (23.53%) Police
5 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
6 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
7 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Java Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Software Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Java Developer
3 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Cloud Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (11.76%) React Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior React Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Telecoms Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (58.82%) REST
2 6 (35.29%) ARM Templates
2 6 (35.29%) Java EE
3 4 (23.53%) HTML
4 3 (17.65%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (17.65%) Hibernate
4 3 (17.65%) Node.js
4 3 (17.65%) React
4 3 (17.65%) Spring
4 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
4 3 (17.65%) Web Services
5 2 (11.76%) Apache Camel
5 2 (11.76%) GraphQL
5 2 (11.76%) jQuery
5 2 (11.76%) Material-UI
5 2 (11.76%) Next.js
5 2 (11.76%) OpenAPI
5 2 (11.76%) RESTful
5 2 (11.76%) Swagger
5 2 (11.76%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Containerisation
2 10 (58.82%) DevOps
3 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (47.06%) Microservices
3 8 (47.06%) Test Automation
4 7 (41.18%) Configuration Management
4 7 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (41.18%) Software Engineering
5 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
5 6 (35.29%) Software Architecture
5 6 (35.29%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (23.53%) Agile
6 4 (23.53%) DevSecOps
6 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (17.65%) BDD
7 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
7 3 (17.65%) Front End Development
7 3 (17.65%) TDD
7 3 (17.65%) Test Strategy
8 2 (11.76%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Java
2 5 (29.41%) Python
3 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 4 (23.53%) TypeScript
4 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
5 2 (11.76%) Bicep
6 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (5.88%) CCSP
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.88%) CISSP
2 1 (5.88%) OSCP
2 1 (5.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) HL7
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 16 (94.12%) Kubernetes
2 9 (52.94%) Ansible
2 9 (52.94%) Terraform
3 6 (35.29%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (35.29%) Podman
4 2 (11.76%) Kibana
5 1 (5.88%) Grafana
5 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Dynatrace
1 2 (11.76%) Splunk
2 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.88%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) New Relic
2 1 (5.88%) Rapid7