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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 571 554 616
Rank change year-on-year -17 +62 +89
Contract jobs citing Docker Swarm 11 7 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.031% 0.019% 0.024%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.19% 0.13% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 10
10th Percentile £462 £499 £436
25th Percentile £475 £500 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £524 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% +4.80% -25.93%
75th Percentile £566 £569 £594
90th Percentile £575 £600 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £562 £488
% change year-on-year -2.14% +15.28% -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 5,782 5,186 6,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.13% 14.30% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,899 3,290 4,567
10th Percentile £310 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -5.22%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £726 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 71 166
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £17.74
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.05 £24.00
Median hourly rate £31.86 £27.00 £47.95
Median % change year-on-year +18.00% -43.69% +86.50%
75th Percentile £64.88 £55.88 £73.44
90th Percentile £79.75 £74.00 £78.09
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.43 £28.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +0.64% -38.83% +84.72%

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 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 30 November 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 -20 10 £506 -3.71% 7
London - 5 £492 -
Work from Home +8 3 £500 -2.44% 3
UK excluding London -16 3 £550 -2.14% 7
West Midlands -20 2 £550 +6.90% 2
Midlands -28 2 £550 +6.90% 2
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 (72.73%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) InfluxDB
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Python Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) Node.js
1 9 (81.82%) React
2 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 9 (81.82%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (81.82%) Roadmaps
3 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
4 1 (9.09%) Domain Models
4 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven
4 1 (9.09%) Front End Development
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (9.09%) ITIL
4 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
4 1 (9.09%) Observability
4 1 (9.09%) Service Management
4 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 9 (81.82%) TypeScript
3 8 (72.73%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) Java
5 1 (9.09%) Go
5 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (81.82%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
3 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft