Docker Swarm Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Docker Swarm
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Docker Swarm skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 109 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing Docker Swarm 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.054% 0.10% -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.31% 0.94% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £500 -
25th Percentile £525 £504 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £515 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% - -
75th Percentile £575 £521 -
90th Percentile - £523 -
England median daily rate £501 £611 £593
% change year-on-year -18.09% +3.12% -12.22%

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 320 212 276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.42% 11.11% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 146 184
10th Percentile £263 £298 £300
25th Percentile £418 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £589 £584 £607
90th Percentile £650 £664 £700
England median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.41% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £56.00 -
25th Percentile - £57.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £62.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.40% +237.84% +12.12%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £18.75
90th Percentile - £73.00 -
England median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £51.25
% change year-on-year -8.13% -21.95% +114.35%

Docker Swarm
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Docker Swarm as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Docker Swarm in the West Midlands

Docker Swarm
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Docker Swarm.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Docker Swarm

Docker Swarm
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
Herefordshire - 1 £550 - 1
Docker Swarm
England

Docker Swarm
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform