Docker Swarm Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Docker Swarm
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Docker Swarm skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 130 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing Docker Swarm 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.038% 0.073% -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.25% 0.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £500 -
25th Percentile £525 £504 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £515 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% - -
75th Percentile £575 £521 -
90th Percentile - £523 -
England median daily rate £501 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -16.58% +2.13% -12.96%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 401 309 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.10% 11.28% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 215 243
10th Percentile £263 £298 £265
25th Percentile £369 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £639 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile - £21.82 £17.88
25th Percentile - £34.26 £18.12
Median hourly rate £21.39 £55.00 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -61.11% +185.71% +8.63%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £20.94
90th Percentile £30.16 £71.00 £22.63
England median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £49.87
% change year-on-year -8.13% -19.78% +108.55%

Docker Swarm
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker Swarm in the Midlands

Docker Swarm
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Docker Swarm

Docker Swarm
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
West Midlands -8 1 £550 +6.90% 1
Docker Swarm
England

Docker Swarm
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform