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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 542 615
Rank change year-on-year -17 +73 +95
Contract jobs citing Docker Swarm 12 11 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.036% 0.030% 0.027%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.22% 0.21% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 11
10th Percentile £462 £500 £425
25th Percentile £468 £503 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £563 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% +18.42% -29.63%
75th Percentile £538 £617 £606
90th Percentile £567 £626 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £600 £488
% change year-on-year -13.75% +23.08% -22.00%

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 5,508 5,235 6,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.37% 14.20% 14.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,618 3,398 4,949
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £650
90th Percentile £675 £725 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £514
% change year-on-year -1.00% -2.68% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 56 171
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.79 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £26.38
Median hourly rate £28.50 £36.83 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.94% +98.92%
75th Percentile £63.40 £60.63 £75.63
90th Percentile £76.20 £76.25 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.42 £35.08 £46.18
% change year-on-year -36.09% -24.03% +109.91%

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 26 October 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
England +3 11 £492 -18.00% 7
London - 6 £492 - 1
Work from Home +15 3 £500 -4.76% 8
UK excluding London -25 3 £518 -13.75% 7
West Midlands -20 1 £550 +6.90%
Midlands -27 1 £550 +6.90%
North of England -33 1 £485 -22.21% 2
North West - 1 £485 -
South East - 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 8 (66.67%) SAS
2 1 (8.33%) Apache
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Selenium
2 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Analytics Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) Node.js
1 9 (75.00%) React
2 1 (8.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (8.33%) Pandas
2 1 (8.33%) Polars
2 1 (8.33%) Ray
2 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 9 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (75.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Analytics
5 1 (8.33%) Code Quality
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
5 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
5 1 (8.33%) Front End Development
5 1 (8.33%) TDD
5 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
2 9 (75.00%) TypeScript
3 8 (66.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) Go
4 1 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft