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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 673 542 544
Rank change year-on-year -131 +2 +79
Contract jobs citing Docker Swarm 7 17 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.013% 0.052% 0.066%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.12% 0.37% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 23
10th Percentile £483 £474 £503
25th Percentile £500 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £501 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% -16.58% +14.29%
75th Percentile £631 £538 £641
90th Percentile £678 £567 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £501 £622
% change year-on-year -0.10% -19.53% +27.59%

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 6,060 4,633 4,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.04% 14.05% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,013 2,992 3,063
10th Percentile £313 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £609 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £707
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -4.25% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 94 61
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £19.95
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £26.23 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +147.86% -31.88% -30.00%
75th Percentile £73.88 £63.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £87.38 £67.18 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £21.39 £38.50
% change year-on-year +203.88% -44.44% -18.09%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -136 4 £581 +16.13% 6
Work from Home -72 2 £500 - 4
London -85 2 £675 +26.06% 2
UK excluding London -108 2 £500 -0.10% 5
South West - 2 £500 - 2

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 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) Prefect
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) 4G
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (14.29%) Internet
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) SSH
2 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
3 1 (14.29%) InfluxDB
3 1 (14.29%) MySQL
3 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Developer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (14.29%) JPA
3 1 (14.29%) Keycloak
3 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) PKI
1 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) High Availability
3 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) Open Source
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Security Hardening
5 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) DV Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) FireEye
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat