Docker Swarm Contracts

Docker Swarm
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Docker Swarm skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Docker Swarm over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 647 720
Rank change year-on-year +90 +73 -86
Contract jobs citing Docker Swarm 43 69 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.100% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.84% 0.73% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 55 89
10th Percentile £490 £480 £513
25th Percentile £525 £513 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £621 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £678 £688 £673
90th Percentile £721 £700 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £595 £625
% change year-on-year +5.04% -4.80% +19.05%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Docker Swarm is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,125 9,471 14,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.87% 16.03% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,655 6,832 10,249
10th Percentile £258 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 211 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.95
25th Percentile £17.73 £24.13 £15.99
Median hourly rate £27.25 £57.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.61% +155.56% -43.75%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.25 £44.88 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.68% +124.38% -9.09%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker Swarm over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Docker Swarm in the UK

Docker Swarm
Top 10 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 5 May 2024. 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 +101 41 £624 -4.08% 19
UK excluding London +68 32 £625 +5.04% 11
Work from Home +121 17 £638 +4.72% 11
South East +31 12 £675 +28.57% 1
South West +33 11 £550 -
London +93 9 £620 -11.43% 8
North of England +28 9 £635 -2.31% 7
Yorkshire - 6 £645 - 3
North West +16 2 - - 3
North East - 1 £550 - 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 6 (13.95%) Confluence
2 3 (6.98%) nginx
3 2 (4.65%) Traefik
4 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 41 (95.35%) AWS
2 25 (58.14%) Azure
3 13 (30.23%) GCP
4 10 (23.26%) OpenShift
5 9 (20.93%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (18.60%) Amazon S3
6 8 (18.60%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (18.60%) GitHub
6 8 (18.60%) Serverless
7 6 (13.95%) Apigee
7 6 (13.95%) Kong
8 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (2.33%) Datadog
10 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.93%) TCP/IP
2 8 (18.60%) DNS
3 7 (16.28%) AMQP
4 6 (13.95%) Firewall
4 6 (13.95%) HTTP
4 6 (13.95%) VPN
5 5 (11.63%) Network Security
6 1 (2.33%) 4G
6 1 (2.33%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (16.28%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (16.28%) InfluxDB
2 5 (11.63%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (76.74%) Jenkins
2 23 (53.49%) GitLab
3 19 (44.19%) JIRA
4 13 (30.23%) Cucumber
4 13 (30.23%) Selenium
4 13 (30.23%) SonarQube
5 12 (27.91%) REST Assured
6 8 (18.60%) Git
7 7 (16.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 7 (16.28%) CircleCI
8 6 (13.95%) Travis CI
9 2 (4.65%) Artifactory
10 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
10 1 (2.33%) GoCD
10 1 (2.33%) Gradle
10 1 (2.33%) Hudson
10 1 (2.33%) IntelliJ
10 1 (2.33%) Maven
10 1 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (2.33%) Vagrant
General
1 24 (55.81%) Social Skills
2 18 (41.86%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (18.60%) Law
3 8 (18.60%) Police
4 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.65%) Finance
6 1 (2.33%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 16 (37.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (25.58%) Senior
3 7 (16.28%) Developer
3 7 (16.28%) Java Developer
4 6 (13.95%) Java Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Senior Developer
4 6 (13.95%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Lead
5 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Senior Java Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Senior Software Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Architect
6 4 (9.30%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Lead Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (27.91%) ARM Templates
1 12 (27.91%) Java EE
1 12 (27.91%) REST
2 7 (16.28%) JSON
2 7 (16.28%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (13.95%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (13.95%) XML
3 6 (13.95%) YAML
4 2 (4.65%) cloud-init
5 1 (2.33%) Django
5 1 (2.33%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.33%) Flask
5 1 (2.33%) jQuery
5 1 (2.33%) Keycloak
5 1 (2.33%) RESTful
5 1 (2.33%) SOAP
5 1 (2.33%) Spring
5 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.33%) Swagger
5 1 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Data Structures
2 5 (11.63%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.65%) Clustering
3 2 (4.65%) PKI
3 2 (4.65%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.91%) Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Apple iOS
2 2 (4.65%) CentOS
2 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Windows
3 1 (2.33%) Android
3 1 (2.33%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (86.05%) DevOps
2 23 (53.49%) Containerisation
3 21 (48.84%) Continuous Integration
4 20 (46.51%) Configuration Management
5 19 (44.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (44.19%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (39.53%) CI/CD
7 16 (37.21%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (30.23%) Test Automation
9 12 (27.91%) Agile
9 12 (27.91%) Decision-Making
9 12 (27.91%) Software Architecture
10 11 (25.58%) Software Engineering
11 10 (23.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (18.60%) Continuous Deployment
13 7 (16.28%) DevSecOps
13 7 (16.28%) Stakeholder Management
14 6 (13.95%) Project Management
14 6 (13.95%) Scrum
14 6 (13.95%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 24 (55.81%) Java
2 19 (44.19%) Python
3 9 (20.93%) Bash
4 8 (18.60%) SQL
5 7 (16.28%) Go
6 6 (13.95%) PowerShell
7 5 (11.63%) Shell Script
8 4 (9.30%) C
9 2 (4.65%) Ruby
10 1 (2.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 27 (62.79%) Security Cleared
2 16 (37.21%) SC Cleared
3 13 (30.23%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.98%) Degree
4 3 (6.98%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) QA
2 3 (6.98%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (100.00%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.33%) Ceph
3 1 (2.33%) iptables
3 1 (2.33%) NFS
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (93.02%) Kubernetes
2 33 (76.74%) Terraform
3 31 (72.09%) Ansible
4 20 (46.51%) Prometheus
5 18 (41.86%) Grafana
6 15 (34.88%) Progress Chef
7 14 (32.56%) Podman
8 10 (23.26%) Puppet
9 7 (16.28%) Kibana
10 6 (13.95%) logstash
11 4 (9.30%) Packer
12 3 (6.98%) Consul
13 2 (4.65%) Graphite
13 2 (4.65%) HAProxy
13 2 (4.65%) Istio
13 2 (4.65%) linkerd
13 2 (4.65%) ZABBIX
14 1 (2.33%) Anchore
14 1 (2.33%) Argo
14 1 (2.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 8 (18.60%) Splunk
2 3 (6.98%) VMware
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.65%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.33%) Apple
4 1 (2.33%) Google