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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 541 628
Rank change year-on-year +20 +87 +130
Permanent jobs citing Docker Swarm 5 5 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.015% 0.028%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.21% 0.16% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 8
10th Percentile £68,500 £45,350 £40,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £46,250 £43,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% +22.73% -29.03%
75th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £61,563
90th Percentile £90,500 £78,000 £74,875
UK median annual salary £77,500 £67,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.81% +28.57% -34.38%

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 2,381 3,083 5,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.00% 9.45% 10.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,644 1,758 4,148
10th Percentile £30,750 £36,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +9.09% -2.62%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%

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 14 February 2026.

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 14 February 2026. 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 of England +1 3 £85,000 +49.12% 2
North East -7 3 £85,000 +49.12% 1
South East +12 1 £70,000 -6.67% 2
South West -16 1 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Artifactory
2 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (40.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) CentOS
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) Dynamic Code Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (20.00%) OWASP
5 1 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (20.00%) Static Code Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) Bash
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) vSphere
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Grafana
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (40.00%) Control-M
3 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (20.00%) Argo
4 1 (20.00%) Istio
4 1 (20.00%) linkerd
4 1 (20.00%) Mesos
4 1 (20.00%) Nagios
4 1 (20.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk