Docker Swarm Contracts in the North of England

Docker Swarm
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 176 206
Rank change year-on-year +12 +30 +9
Contract jobs citing Docker Swarm 2 9 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.061% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.33% 1.67% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 12
10th Percentile £473 £586 £354
25th Percentile £482 £623 £641
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £635 £650
Median % change year-on-year -18.50% -2.31% +3.17%
75th Percentile £557 £645 -
90th Percentile £568 £648 £684
England median daily rate £501 £624 £650
% change year-on-year -19.73% -4.08% +4.00%

All Systems Management Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 612 538 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.57% 11.28% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 379 635
10th Percentile £254 £239 £325
25th Percentile £379 £400 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -12.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £564 £580 £638
90th Percentile £650 £645 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 22 52
10th Percentile £45.45 £16.89 £17.53
25th Percentile £51.38 £17.72 £22.34
Median hourly rate £62.50 £22.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +177.78% -40.00% +87.50%
75th Percentile £74.50 £48.75 £50.17
90th Percentile £80.95 £80.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

Docker Swarm
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker Swarm in the North of England

Docker Swarm
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Docker Swarm in the North of England

Docker Swarm
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +16 1 £485 - 2
North East 0 1 £550 - 1
Docker Swarm
England

Docker Swarm
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Code Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace