Docker Swarm Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Docker Swarm
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Docker Swarm skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 356 419
Rank change year-on-year +1 +63 +60
Contract jobs citing Docker Swarm 11 21 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.12% 0.009%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.46% 0.92% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 2
10th Percentile £481 £525 £434
25th Percentile £500 £563 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £622 £488
Median % change year-on-year -19.53% +27.59% -22.00%
75th Percentile £503 £645 £522
90th Percentile £546 £688 £531
UK median daily rate £501 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.58% +9.09% -18.52%

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 2,391 2,282 2,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.59% 12.81% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,602 1,573 2,023
10th Percentile £235 £250 £275
25th Percentile £375 £393 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £615
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 36 119
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.75 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £23.13
Median hourly rate £21.39 £39.25 £47.83
Median % change year-on-year -45.50% -17.94% +122.47%
75th Percentile £64.50 £55.63 £74.69
90th Percentile £79.00 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -29.38% -27.27% +130.03%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Docker Swarm.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Docker Swarm

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 21 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
South East +27 9 £501 -25.85% 2
West Midlands -11 1 £550 +6.90% 1
Midlands -15 1 £550 +6.90% 1
North of England -33 1 £485 -22.40% 4
North West - 1 £485 -
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 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 9 (81.82%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 11 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (90.91%) Selenium
2 10 (90.91%) SonarQube
3 9 (81.82%) Cucumber
3 9 (81.82%) GitLab
3 9 (81.82%) JIRA
3 9 (81.82%) REST Assured
4 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 9 (81.82%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (72.73%) Law
4 4 (36.36%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Java Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Java Developer
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) ARM Templates
1 9 (81.82%) Java EE
1 9 (81.82%) REST
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (90.91%) Configuration Management
2 10 (90.91%) Test Automation
3 9 (81.82%) Containerisation
3 9 (81.82%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (81.82%) Software Architecture
3 9 (81.82%) Software Engineering
3 9 (81.82%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
4 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 1 (9.09%) Agile
6 1 (9.09%) Code Quality
6 1 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 9 (81.82%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (90.91%) Terraform
3 9 (81.82%) Ansible
3 9 (81.82%) Podman
4 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft