Docker Swarm Contracts in the UK excluding London

Docker Swarm
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 324 367 439
Rank change year-on-year +43 +72 +12
Contract jobs citing Docker Swarm 12 32 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.15% 0.096%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.64% 1.36% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 27 20
10th Percentile £484 £505 £370
25th Percentile £500 £538 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £625 £610
Median % change year-on-year -19.92% +2.46% -2.40%
75th Percentile £529 £669 £650
90th Percentile £556 £698 £654
UK median daily rate £501 £621 £650
% change year-on-year -19.40% -4.46% +4.00%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,884 2,353 3,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.76% 11.33% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 1,702 2,664
10th Percentile £235 £210 £275
25th Percentile £391 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £657 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 79 139
10th Percentile £14.86 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%
75th Percentile £43.69 £51.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £70.25 £75.10
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Docker Swarm
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker Swarm in the UK excluding London

Docker Swarm
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker Swarm in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Docker Swarm in the UK excluding London

Docker Swarm
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +43 9 £501 -25.85% 4
North of England +12 2 £518 -18.50% 3
South West +36 1 £525 -4.55% 2
North West +16 1 £485 - 2
North East 0 1 £550 - 1
Docker Swarm
UK

Docker Swarm
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 10 (83.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (83.33%) Selenium
2 10 (83.33%) SonarQube
3 9 (75.00%) Cucumber
3 9 (75.00%) GitLab
3 9 (75.00%) JIRA
3 9 (75.00%) REST Assured
4 3 (25.00%) Git
5 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (66.67%) Law
4 4 (33.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) ARM Templates
1 10 (83.33%) REST
2 9 (75.00%) Java EE
3 1 (8.33%) JPA
3 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (8.33%) Spring
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) Configuration Management
2 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 10 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 9 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 9 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (75.00%) Software Architecture
3 9 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (41.67%) Decision-Making
4 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
6 1 (8.33%) OWASP
6 1 (8.33%) Performance Management
6 1 (8.33%) Risk Analysis
6 1 (8.33%) Risk Management
6 1 (8.33%) TDD
6 1 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Ansible
1 11 (91.67%) Kubernetes
1 11 (91.67%) Terraform
2 9 (75.00%) Podman
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle