Docker Swarm Contracts in England

Docker Swarm
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Docker Swarm skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Docker Swarm over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 509 601
Rank change year-on-year +28 +92 +66
Contract jobs citing Docker Swarm 13 45 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.051% 0.12% 0.078%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.32% 0.97% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 37 27
10th Percentile £484 £489 £410
25th Percentile £500 £525 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £620 £625
Median % change year-on-year -19.27% -0.80% -0.95%
75th Percentile £529 £650 £650
90th Percentile £556 £698 £700
UK median daily rate £501 £600 £609
% change year-on-year -16.58% -1.44% -2.76%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Docker Swarm falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,028 4,643 7,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.71% 12.51% 15.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,690 3,353 5,149
10th Percentile £305 £300 £350
25th Percentile £409 £415 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £610 £625 £688
90th Percentile £700 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £511 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -1.73% -5.45% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 96 161
10th Percentile £19.63 £16.13 £18.50
25th Percentile £26.34 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £48.50 £31.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.20% -43.18% +150.00%
75th Percentile £63.49 £49.06 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.61 £71.25 £83.75
UK median hourly rate £35.14 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +8.11% -43.48% +155.56%

Docker Swarm
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker Swarm in England

Docker Swarm
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Docker Swarm in England

Docker Swarm
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker Swarm within the England region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
South East +50 9 £501 -25.85%
North of England +3 2 £518 -17.20% 1
London +39 1 - - 14
South West +24 1 £525 -4.55% 6
North East +2 1 £550 -
North West - 1 £485 - 1
Docker Swarm
UK

Docker Swarm
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) Azure
2 10 (76.92%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (92.31%) Jenkins
2 10 (76.92%) Selenium
2 10 (76.92%) SonarQube
3 9 (69.23%) Cucumber
3 9 (69.23%) GitLab
3 9 (69.23%) JIRA
3 9 (69.23%) REST Assured
4 3 (23.08%) Git
5 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
General
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 9 (69.23%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (61.54%) Law
4 4 (30.77%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Java Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) Java Software Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) Software Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Java Developer
3 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Analytics Developer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) ARM Templates
1 10 (76.92%) REST
2 9 (69.23%) Java EE
3 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
3 1 (7.69%) JPA
3 1 (7.69%) Pandas
3 1 (7.69%) Polars
3 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (7.69%) Ray
3 1 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) DevOps
2 11 (84.62%) Software Engineering
3 10 (76.92%) Configuration Management
3 10 (76.92%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (76.92%) Test Automation
4 9 (69.23%) Containerisation
4 9 (69.23%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (69.23%) Software Architecture
4 9 (69.23%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (38.46%) Decision-Making
5 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Agile
6 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
7 1 (7.69%) Incident Management
7 1 (7.69%) Performance Management
7 1 (7.69%) Risk Analysis
7 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
7 1 (7.69%) TDD
7 1 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 9 (69.23%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Kubernetes
2 11 (84.62%) Ansible
2 11 (84.62%) Terraform
3 9 (69.23%) Podman
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle