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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 640 553
Rank change year-on-year +96 -87 +258
Permanent jobs citing Docker Swarm 9 11 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.020% 0.080%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.27% 0.26% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 20
10th Percentile £55,000 - £46,125
25th Percentile £66,250 £56,250 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -11.54% -16.13%
75th Percentile £96,875 £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £87,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +15.38% -7.14%

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 3,299 4,205 4,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.62% 7.61% 13.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,679 2,402 3,825
10th Percentile £29,950 £34,000 £32,200
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,553 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,430 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% -7.62% +4.35%
75th Percentile £71,125 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%

Docker Swarm
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Docker Swarm as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Docker Swarm 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 16 September 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 16 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +49 4 £75,000 - 2
South West +67 3 £95,000 +18.75%
North of England - 2 £60,000 - 5
North East - 2 £60,000 - 4
Docker Swarm
UK

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