Docker Job Trends in Berkshire

Docker
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 12 22
Rank change year-on-year -89 +10 +21
Permanent jobs citing Docker 26 218 185
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 1.33% 13.35% 8.92%
As % of the System Software category 25.74% 73.40% 41.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4 128 151
10th Percentile - £47,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% -3.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £66,250 £89,375 £93,750
90th Percentile £70,750 £112,500 £112,500
South East median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +3.70%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 101 297 442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.16% 18.19% 21.30%
Number of salaries quoted 48 188 378
10th Percentile £31,250 £45,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,375 £52,500 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £70,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -52.14% +23.84% +2.77%
75th Percentile £51,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £95,000 £93,250
South East median annual salary £37,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -34.78% +15.00% +5.23%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Docker relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Docker job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Docker
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Docker

Docker
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -14 21 £60,000 -25.00% 8
Slough -35 3 - - 65
Wokingham -2 1 - -
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 6 (23.08%) OpenStack
2 2 (7.69%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 22 (84.62%) AWS
2 17 (65.38%) Amazon ECS
2 17 (65.38%) Amazon EKS
2 17 (65.38%) Serverless
3 11 (42.31%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (26.92%) Azure
5 6 (23.08%) Amazon S3
5 6 (23.08%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (11.54%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.85%) GCP
7 1 (3.85%) IaaS
7 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) DNS
2 2 (7.69%) DHCP
2 2 (7.69%) Firewall
2 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.69%) VPN
3 1 (3.85%) 5G
3 1 (3.85%) MIMO
3 1 (3.85%) NGN
3 1 (3.85%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (69.23%) PostgreSQL
1 18 (69.23%) Relational Database
2 11 (42.31%) RDBMS
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (69.23%) Jenkins
2 12 (46.15%) JUnit
3 11 (42.31%) JMeter
3 11 (42.31%) Mockito
4 10 (38.46%) Git
5 3 (11.54%) MLflow
General
1 12 (46.15%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Retail
2 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (69.23%) Developer
2 17 (65.38%) Java Developer
3 15 (57.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (53.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 11 (42.31%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 6 (23.08%) Senior
7 2 (7.69%) Architect
7 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (7.69%) Lead
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
8 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.85%) Wireless Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (65.38%) REST
1 17 (65.38%) Spring
1 17 (65.38%) Spring Boot
2 16 (61.54%) Web Services
3 11 (42.31%) ActiveMQ
3 11 (42.31%) Apache Camel
3 11 (42.31%) Hibernate
3 11 (42.31%) HTML
3 11 (42.31%) jQuery
3 11 (42.31%) JSON
3 11 (42.31%) WireMock
3 11 (42.31%) XML
4 7 (26.92%) Node.js
4 7 (26.92%) React
5 6 (23.08%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (23.08%) Kafka
5 6 (23.08%) Mustache
6 3 (11.54%) Keras
6 3 (11.54%) scikit-learn
6 3 (11.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (65.38%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (11.54%) Life Science
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Clustering
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (88.46%) CI/CD
2 18 (69.23%) Agile
3 17 (65.38%) Microservices
3 17 (65.38%) SDLC
3 17 (65.38%) TDD
4 16 (61.54%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (53.85%) Workflow
6 11 (42.31%) BDD
6 11 (42.31%) Process Management
7 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
7 6 (23.08%) DevOps
7 6 (23.08%) Scrum
8 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
8 4 (15.38%) Software Engineering
9 3 (11.54%) AI
9 3 (11.54%) Bioinformatics
9 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
9 3 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (11.54%) Data Governance
9 3 (11.54%) Neural Network
Programming Languages
1 18 (69.23%) JavaScript
2 17 (65.38%) Java
3 16 (61.54%) Python
4 11 (42.31%) Shell Script
5 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.85%) Bash
6 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) Master's Degree
3 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.85%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (76.92%) Kubernetes
2 11 (42.31%) Kibana
3 2 (7.69%) Ansible
3 2 (7.69%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (7.69%) Terraform
4 1 (3.85%) Argo
4 1 (3.85%) Grafana
4 1 (3.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Dynatrace
1 11 (42.31%) Splunk
2 2 (7.69%) Cisco
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Pure Storage
3 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.85%) VMware