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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 470 505
Rank change year-on-year -105 +35 +106
Contract jobs citing Docker Swarm 9 9 35
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.023% 0.037% 0.094%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.16% 0.23% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 27
10th Percentile £441 - £475
25th Percentile £461 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -14.54% -7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £688
90th Percentile £590 £564 £725
UK median daily rate £484 £513 £600
% change year-on-year -5.70% -14.54% -7.69%

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 5,535 3,832 4,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.09% 15.72% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,823 2,651 3,224
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £421 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 37 123
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £33.17 £21.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% +2.85% -55.19%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.25 £50.13
90th Percentile £75.30 £77.98 £69.60
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.94% -11.83% -47.83%

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 13 April 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 13 April 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 - 3 £475 - 4
Midlands - 3 £550 -
West Midlands - 3 £550 -
South West -29 1 £575 +9.52% 3
South East -56 1 - - 3
North of England -69 1 - - 4
Yorkshire - 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 4 (44.44%) SAS
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) OpenShift
2 4 (44.44%) Serverless
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) Apigee
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (22.22%) AMQP
3 1 (11.11%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) HTTP
3 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) InfluxDB
1 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (11.11%) CircleCI
3 1 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) Travis CI
General
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Site Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Node.js
1 4 (44.44%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (44.44%) React
2 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) XML
2 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
2 4 (44.44%) Event-Driven
2 4 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (44.44%) Observability
2 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
2 4 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 3 (33.33%) Task Automation
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Domain Models
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) Service Management
5 1 (11.11%) Agile
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Project Management
5 1 (11.11%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) TypeScript
3 2 (22.22%) Go
3 2 (22.22%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (55.56%) Ansible
2 5 (55.56%) Grafana
2 5 (55.56%) Progress Chef
2 5 (55.56%) Prometheus
2 5 (55.56%) Terraform
3 3 (33.33%) Puppet
4 1 (11.11%) Kibana
4 1 (11.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk