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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 656 539 539
Rank change year-on-year -117 0 +105
Contract jobs citing Docker Swarm 9 13 41
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.039% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.13% 0.25% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 35
10th Percentile £491 £484 £499
25th Percentile £500 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £501 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.89% -16.58% -5.88%
75th Percentile £625 £529 £648
90th Percentile £658 £556 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £501 £622
% change year-on-year +7.39% -19.53% +5.83%

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 7,074 5,147 5,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.33% 15.63% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,801 3,394 3,763
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £502 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% -3.56% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 75 83
10th Percentile £18.15 £13.75 £17.14
25th Percentile £25.00 £19.56 £21.29
Median hourly rate £58.62 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.31% +25.00% -48.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.58 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.22 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.25 £55.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +0.45% +69.23% -29.62%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker Swarm over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Docker Swarm in the UK

Docker Swarm
Top 5 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 26 July 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 -118 5 £575 +14.89% 1
South West -34 3 £538 +2.38%
UK excluding London -114 3 £538 +7.39%
Work from Home -54 2 £500 -
London -69 2 £675 - 1

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 2 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon S3
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 3 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub
4 2 (22.22%) Prefect
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) 4G
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (22.22%) Internet
1 2 (22.22%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) AMQP
2 1 (11.11%) SSH
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) MongoDB
2 3 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (22.22%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (22.22%) InfluxDB
3 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (22.22%) Redis
4 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
4 1 (11.11%) MySQL
4 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Applications Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (22.22%) Kafka
2 2 (22.22%) PyTorch
3 1 (11.11%) JPA
3 1 (11.11%) Keycloak
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (22.22%) PKI
2 2 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) High Availability
4 3 (33.33%) Observability
4 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) AI
5 2 (22.22%) Architecture Roadmap
5 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
5 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
5 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) LLM
5 2 (22.22%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (22.22%) Open Source
5 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
5 2 (22.22%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Kubernetes
2 4 (44.44%) Terraform
3 3 (33.33%) Ansible
3 3 (33.33%) Grafana
3 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco
1 2 (22.22%) FireEye
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat