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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 517 540
Rank change year-on-year -126 +23 +112
Contract jobs citing Docker Swarm 10 14 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.020% 0.046% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.15% 0.29% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 40
10th Percentile £446 £484 £495
25th Percentile £452 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £501 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% -16.58% -4.00%
75th Percentile £622 £529 £650
90th Percentile £636 £556 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £501 £622
% change year-on-year -0.10% -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 6,811 4,772 5,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.39% 15.78% 12.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,662 3,182 3,839
10th Percentile £325 £300 £299
25th Percentile £420 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -0.52% -6.33%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 52 103
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £15.72
25th Percentile £22.11 £21.11 £20.50
Median hourly rate £55.50 £37.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.00% +19.05% -45.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £49.38
90th Percentile £76.20 £78.58 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -4.55% +37.50% -8.57%

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 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Docker Swarm in the UK

Docker Swarm
Top 7 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 June 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 -133 5 £538 +7.39% 2
UK excluding London -121 4 £500 -0.10% 1
South West -31 3 £538 +2.38%
Work from Home -58 1 £500 -
London -66 1 £725 - 1
Midlands - 1 £425 -
West Midlands - 1 £425 -

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 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 4 (40.00%) Serverless
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (20.00%) Prefect
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) AMQP
1 2 (20.00%) Internet
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) 4G
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (10.00%) SSH
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) InfluxDB
1 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (20.00%) Redis
3 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Applications Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (20.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (10.00%) JPA
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Observability
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) AI
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) Data Enrichment
5 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 2 (20.00%) High Availability
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) LLM
5 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 2 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Groovy
3 2 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) OpenSSH
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (60.00%) Terraform
3 4 (40.00%) Ansible
4 3 (30.00%) Grafana
4 3 (30.00%) Progress Chef
4 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) FireEye
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) VMware