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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 482 535
Rank change year-on-year -66 +53 +75
Contract jobs citing Docker Swarm 13 2 20
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.038% 0.008% 0.053%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.25% 0.051% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 13
10th Percentile £460 £521 £475
25th Percentile £469 £534 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.13% -6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £570 £584 £725
90th Percentile £575 £594 £735
UK median daily rate £492 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -12.53% -6.25% -11.11%

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 5,228 3,912 4,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.39% 15.00% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,613 2,547 3,382
10th Percentile £313 £313 £252
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.48%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 46 152
10th Percentile £17.18 £13.86 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.34 £20.23 £20.00
Median hourly rate £50.61 £26.00 £40.16
Median % change year-on-year +94.65% -35.25% -19.39%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.88 £75.97 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% +2.79%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker Swarm in England over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 12 February 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
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
Midlands - 4 £550 -
West Midlands - 4 £550 -
North of England - 1 - - 2
South East - 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 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 (61.54%) SAS
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) OpenShift
3 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) Serverless
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) Apigee
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) AMQP
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) HTTP
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (23.08%) InfluxDB
2 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (7.69%) CircleCI
3 1 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) Travis CI
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Site Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) Node.js
1 8 (61.54%) React
2 3 (23.08%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.69%) JSON
3 1 (7.69%) XML
3 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) Full-Stack Development
2 8 (61.54%) Roadmaps
3 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
3 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
3 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Observability
3 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Task Automation
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Domain Models
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) Service Management
5 1 (7.69%) API Development
5 1 (7.69%) API Integration
5 1 (7.69%) Canary Deployment
5 1 (7.69%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (7.69%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
2 8 (61.54%) TypeScript
3 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Go
4 2 (15.38%) Java
5 1 (7.69%) Bash
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) Security Cleared
2 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (38.46%) Terraform
3 4 (30.77%) Ansible
3 4 (30.77%) Grafana
3 4 (30.77%) Progress Chef
3 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
4 3 (23.08%) Puppet
5 1 (7.69%) Kibana
5 1 (7.69%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk