Docker Swarm Contract Job Trends in England

Docker Swarm
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Docker Swarm skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 505 574
Rank change year-on-year -17 +69 +70
Contract jobs citing Docker Swarm 10 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.033% 0.019% 0.013%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.20% 0.14% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 4
10th Percentile £462 £505 £451
25th Percentile £475 £515 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £563 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.13% +4.65% -20.37%
75th Percentile £566 £600 £581
90th Percentile £575 £613 £593
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.62% +4.90% -25.93%

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 4,944 4,419 5,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.12% 14.24% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,330 2,835 3,985
10th Percentile £310 £313 £307
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £695 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 58 159
10th Percentile £18.87 £14.71 £17.74
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £24.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £36.83 £47.83
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -22.99% +82.63%
75th Percentile £66.50 £61.88 £72.20
90th Percentile £80.60 £75.36 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £32.32 £27.13 £49.00
% change year-on-year +19.13% -44.64% +90.59%

Docker Swarm
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Docker Swarm relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Docker Swarm job vacancy trend in England

Docker Swarm
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Docker Swarm.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Docker Swarm

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 26 November 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
London - 5 £492 - 2
West Midlands -20 2 £550 +6.90% 2
Midlands -30 2 £550 +6.90% 2
South East - 1 - - 1
Docker Swarm
UK

Docker Swarm
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 8 (80.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) InfluxDB
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) Node.js
1 8 (80.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 8 (80.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Domain Models
3 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) Observability
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
3 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (80.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft