Docker Swarm Contract Job Trends

Docker Swarm
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Docker Swarm skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 525 578
Rank change year-on-year -46 +53 +92
Contract jobs citing Docker Swarm 13 2 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.006% 0.028%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.22% 0.043% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 9
10th Percentile £462 £521 £500
25th Percentile £479 £534 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% -6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £573 £584 £638
90th Percentile £575 £594 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,811 4,702 5,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.72% 14.88% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,004 3,034 3,996
10th Percentile £313 £310 £278
25th Percentile £413 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% -1.64% -7.97%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 66 153
10th Percentile £17.83 £15.36 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.94 £21.10 £22.00
Median hourly rate £53.25 £24.84 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +114.37% -46.21% +31.94%
75th Percentile £63.32 £49.05 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.80 £74.22 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +127.46% -47.64% +23.15%

Docker Swarm
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Docker Swarm relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Docker Swarm job vacancy trend in the UK

Docker Swarm
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Docker Swarm
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
England -50 12 £515 -8.40% 7
UK excluding London -51 5 £550 -8.33% 5
London - 5 £492 - 1
Work from Home -1 3 £500 -11.11% 3
West Midlands - 3 £550 - 1
Midlands - 3 £550 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
South East - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 3

Docker Swarm
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (61.54%) SAS
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) OpenShift
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Apigee
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) HTTP
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (15.38%) InfluxDB
2 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (7.69%) CircleCI
3 1 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) Travis CI
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Python Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Site Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) Node.js
1 9 (69.23%) React
2 2 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.69%) JSON
3 1 (7.69%) Web Services
3 1 (7.69%) XML
3 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 9 (69.23%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (69.23%) Roadmaps
3 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Task Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
5 2 (15.38%) Domain Models
5 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
5 2 (15.38%) ITIL
5 2 (15.38%) Observability
5 2 (15.38%) Service Management
5 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (7.69%) Blue-Green Deployment
6 1 (7.69%) Canary Deployment
6 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps
6 1 (7.69%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
2 9 (69.23%) TypeScript
3 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
4 3 (23.08%) Java
5 2 (15.38%) Go
5 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
5 2 (15.38%) SQL
6 1 (7.69%) Bash
6 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) Security Cleared
2 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (30.77%) Terraform
3 3 (23.08%) Ansible
3 3 (23.08%) Grafana
3 3 (23.08%) Progress Chef
3 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
3 3 (23.08%) Puppet
4 1 (7.69%) Kibana
4 1 (7.69%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk