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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 537 629
Rank change year-on-year -6 +92 +88
Contract jobs citing Docker Swarm 11 32 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.083% 0.053%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.21% 0.62% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 30 17
10th Percentile £477 £511 £433
25th Percentile £492 £525 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% +1.27% -8.85%
75th Percentile £501 £645 £650
90th Percentile £502 £688 £808
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £622 £525
% change year-on-year -19.53% +18.48% -16.00%

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 5,153 5,187 7,699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 13.46% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,386 3,580 5,390
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £408 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £670
90th Percentile £685 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 64 183
10th Percentile £13.75 £20.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.09 £26.38
Median hourly rate £31.39 £38.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% -27.14% +128.26%
75th Percentile £63.40 £60.63 £74.69
90th Percentile £78.10 £74.00 £79.09
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.73 £40.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.19% -13.38% +114.79%

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
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 7 September 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 -11 11 £501 -16.58% 9
UK excluding London -15 10 £501 -19.53% 8
South East +30 9 £501 -25.85% 3
Work from Home +8 5 - - 6
London +19 1 - - 3
North of England -24 1 £485 -22.40% 4
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 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 9 (81.82%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Jenkins
1 10 (90.91%) Selenium
1 10 (90.91%) SonarQube
2 9 (81.82%) Cucumber
2 9 (81.82%) GitLab
2 9 (81.82%) JIRA
2 9 (81.82%) REST Assured
3 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 9 (81.82%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (72.73%) Law
4 4 (36.36%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
1 5 (45.45%) Java Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Java Developer
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Analytics Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) ARM Templates
1 9 (81.82%) Java EE
1 9 (81.82%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
2 1 (9.09%) Pandas
2 1 (9.09%) Polars
2 1 (9.09%) Ray
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Configuration Management
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps
1 10 (90.91%) Software Engineering
1 10 (90.91%) Test Automation
2 9 (81.82%) Containerisation
2 9 (81.82%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (81.82%) Software Architecture
2 9 (81.82%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
3 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Code Quality
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
4 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
4 1 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Go
3 1 (9.09%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) SC Cleared
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (81.82%) Ansible
2 9 (81.82%) Podman
2 9 (81.82%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft