Docker Swarm Contracts

Docker Swarm
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 556 641
Rank change year-on-year +49 +85 +66
Contract jobs citing Docker Swarm 12 44 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.26% 0.86% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 35 58
10th Percentile - £495 £496
25th Percentile £500 £525 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £620 £650
Median % change year-on-year -19.27% -4.62% +4.00%
75th Percentile £538 £669 £688
90th Percentile £560 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £625 £610
% change year-on-year -19.92% +2.46% -2.40%

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 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

Docker Swarm
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Docker Swarm as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Docker Swarm in the UK

Docker Swarm
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Docker Swarm in the UK

Docker Swarm
Top 7 Contract 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 30 April 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
UK excluding London +33 11 £501 -19.92% 11
England +32 11 £501 -19.53% 14
South East +40 9 £501 -25.85% 4
Work from Home +38 5 - - 15
South West +35 1 £525 -4.55% 2
North of England +20 1 £550 -13.39% 3
North East 0 1 £550 - 1

Docker Swarm
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) AWS
2 10 (83.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (75.00%) Cucumber
2 9 (75.00%) GitLab
2 9 (75.00%) JIRA
2 9 (75.00%) REST Assured
2 9 (75.00%) Selenium
2 9 (75.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (16.67%) Git
4 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (66.67%) Law
3 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 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 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%) Keycloak
3 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (8.33%) Spring
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 9 (75.00%) Configuration Management
3 9 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 9 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (75.00%) Software Architecture
3 9 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
3 9 (75.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (41.67%) Decision-Making
4 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
6 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (8.33%) High Availability
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%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Terraform
2 11 (91.67%) Ansible
2 11 (91.67%) Kubernetes
3 9 (75.00%) Podman
4 2 (16.67%) Grafana
4 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle