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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 539 641
Rank change year-on-year +23 +102 +94
Contract jobs citing Docker Swarm 14 48 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.045% 0.11% 0.081%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.29% 0.89% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 40 35
10th Percentile £484 £495 £430
25th Percentile £500 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% -4.00% -0.16%
75th Percentile £529 £650 £650
90th Percentile £556 £690 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £622 £588
% change year-on-year -19.53% +5.83% -6.48%

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 4,875 5,379 8,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.72% 12.39% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,250 3,842 6,095
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.78% -5.59% -3.51%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 103 185
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.05 £19.40
25th Percentile £20.25 £21.29 £25.71
Median hourly rate £35.14 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -43.48% +155.56%
75th Percentile £63.36 £50.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.86 £71.25 £83.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +37.50% -8.57% +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 9 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 2 July 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 +27 13 £501 -19.27% 29
UK excluding London +21 12 £501 -19.53% 13
South East +50 9 £501 -25.85%
Work from Home +26 5 - - 32
North of England +1 2 £518 -17.20% 1
London +31 1 - - 14
South West +26 1 £525 -4.55% 6
North East -1 1 £550 -
North West - 1 £485 - 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 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (92.86%) Jenkins
2 10 (71.43%) Selenium
2 10 (71.43%) SonarQube
3 9 (64.29%) Cucumber
3 9 (64.29%) GitLab
3 9 (64.29%) JIRA
3 9 (64.29%) REST Assured
4 3 (21.43%) Git
5 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
General
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 9 (64.29%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (57.14%) Law
4 4 (28.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Java Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) Java Software Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Analytics Developer
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) ARM Templates
1 10 (71.43%) REST
2 9 (64.29%) Java EE
3 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
3 1 (7.14%) JPA
3 1 (7.14%) Keycloak
3 1 (7.14%) Pandas
3 1 (7.14%) Polars
3 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (7.14%) Ray
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) DevOps
2 11 (78.57%) Software Engineering
3 10 (71.43%) Configuration Management
3 10 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (71.43%) Test Automation
4 9 (64.29%) Containerisation
4 9 (64.29%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (64.29%) Software Architecture
4 9 (64.29%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
5 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
7 1 (7.14%) Incident Management
7 1 (7.14%) OWASP
7 1 (7.14%) Performance Management
7 1 (7.14%) Risk Management
7 1 (7.14%) TDD
7 1 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) Go
4 1 (7.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 10 (71.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (92.86%) Kubernetes
2 12 (85.71%) Terraform
3 11 (78.57%) Ansible
4 9 (64.29%) Podman
5 2 (14.29%) Grafana
5 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
6 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle