Docker Swarm Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Docker Swarm
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Docker Swarm skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 579 541
Rank change year-on-year +65 -38 +226
Permanent jobs citing Docker Swarm 9 3 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.021% 0.008% 0.034%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.37% 0.090% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 9
10th Percentile £62,500 £66,000 £40,708
25th Percentile £71,875 £69,375 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £75,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +42.86% -32.26%
75th Percentile £100,625 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £79,000 £73,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% +55.00% -35.48%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

Docker Swarm falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,415 3,342 4,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.69% 8.81% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,678 1,954 3,348
10th Percentile £30,500 £34,433 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,956 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +2.68% -2.61%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,177 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -3.70%

Docker Swarm
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Docker Swarm relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Docker Swarm job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Docker Swarm
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Docker Swarm.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Docker Swarm

Docker Swarm
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker Swarm in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Docker Swarm in the UK excluding London

Docker Swarm
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker Swarm within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North East - 4 £72,500 - 3
North of England - 4 £72,500 - 10
South West +13 3 £95,000 +28.81% 4
South East +37 2 £70,000 -6.67% 10
Docker Swarm
UK

Docker Swarm
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 3 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) AMQP
1 3 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (33.33%) InfluxDB
1 3 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (55.56%) SonarQube
3 3 (33.33%) Artifactory
3 3 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 3 (33.33%) JIRA
3 3 (33.33%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (33.33%) TeamCity
4 2 (22.22%) Git
5 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 8 (88.89%) Containerisation
3 7 (77.78%) DevOps
4 5 (55.56%) Configuration Management
5 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
6 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
7 2 (22.22%) Runbook
7 2 (22.22%) Scrum
7 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
7 2 (22.22%) Validation
8 1 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
8 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
8 1 (11.11%) Dynamic Code Analysis
8 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
8 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) C#
3 3 (33.33%) Go
3 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
2 3 (33.33%) vSphere
3 2 (22.22%) vCloud
3 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Ansible
2 8 (88.89%) Kubernetes
3 7 (77.78%) Grafana
3 7 (77.78%) Terraform
4 4 (44.44%) Prometheus
5 3 (33.33%) Control-M
5 3 (33.33%) Progress Chef
6 2 (22.22%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Google
4 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace