Docker Swarm Contracts in the Thames Valley

Docker Swarm
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 93 133 148
Rank change year-on-year +40 +15 +17
Contract jobs citing Docker Swarm 9 12 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.60% 0.45% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.92% 3.74% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 3
10th Percentile - £600 £398
25th Percentile £500 £644 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.85% +28.57% -
75th Percentile £501 £700 £588
90th Percentile - £725 £604
South East median daily rate £501 £675 £525
% change year-on-year -25.85% +28.57% -

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 183 321 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.11% 11.95% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 243 273
10th Percentile £318 £205 £303
25th Percentile £413 £300 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £578 £608 £623
90th Percentile £663 £650 £725
South East median daily rate £501 £475 £543
% change year-on-year +5.37% -12.52% +8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 11
10th Percentile - £21.34 £48.50
25th Percentile - £28.41 £54.69
Median hourly rate - £38.75 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.29% +5.60%
75th Percentile - £52.81 £75.38
90th Percentile - £66.50 £81.37
South East median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £61.38
% change year-on-year -49.51% -22.61% +182.18%

Docker Swarm
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker Swarm in the Thames Valley

Docker Swarm
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker Swarm in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Docker Swarm in the Thames Valley

Docker Swarm
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +28 9 £501 -25.85% 6
Docker Swarm
South East

Docker Swarm
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 9 (100.00%) GitLab
1 9 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 9 (100.00%) JIRA
1 9 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 9 (100.00%) Selenium
1 9 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (88.89%) Law
3 4 (44.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Java Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Software Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Java Developer
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 9 (100.00%) Java EE
1 9 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 9 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 9 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 9 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 9 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (55.56%) Decision-Making
2 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Ansible
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (100.00%) Podman
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform