Docker Swarm Job Trends

Docker Swarm
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Docker Swarm skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 654 681 804
Rank change year-on-year +27 +123 +146
Permanent jobs citing Docker Swarm 15 6 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.013% 0.020%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.34% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 9
10th Percentile £69,000 £45,500 £40,750
25th Percentile £71,250 £46,563 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +15.22% -28.13%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £89,000 £81,250 £62,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £66,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.98% +15.22% -25.81%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,408 5,613 8,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.33% 11.79% 11.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,048 3,525 6,907
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £51,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £83,250 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -2.65%

Docker Swarm
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Docker Swarm job vacancy trend in the UK

Docker Swarm
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Docker Swarm

Docker Swarm
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker Swarm over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker Swarm in the UK

Docker Swarm
Top 8 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 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
England +24 12 £75,000 +13.21% 4
London - 6 £75,000 - 2
UK excluding London 0 5 £77,500 +16.98% 2
North East -3 3 £85,000 +47.83% 1
North of England -19 3 £85,000 +47.83% 1
Work from Home +44 2 - - 1
South East -8 1 £70,000 -6.67% 1
South West -11 1 - -

Docker Swarm
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 8 (53.33%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 12 (80.00%) GCP
3 10 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Stack
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) OCI
5 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Firewall
1 5 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
1 5 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (13.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (80.00%) Git
2 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (20.00%) JIRA
4 2 (13.33%) Artifactory
4 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
4 2 (13.33%) GitLab
4 2 (13.33%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
4 2 (13.33%) TeamCity
5 1 (6.67%) CircleCI
5 1 (6.67%) Subversion
General
1 12 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Electronics
3 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Military
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Publishing
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 3 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) Ubuntu
3 5 (33.33%) VMS
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (6.67%) CentOS
5 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (86.67%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (73.33%) Agile
3 11 (73.33%) Containerisation
4 10 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (53.33%) GitOps
5 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
6 7 (46.67%) DevOps
6 7 (46.67%) DevSecOps
7 5 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (33.33%) Observability
7 5 (33.33%) Security Patching
8 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
9 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
10 2 (13.33%) OWASP
10 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
10 2 (13.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (26.67%) Bash
4 2 (13.33%) C#
4 2 (13.33%) Java
5 1 (6.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 15 (100.00%) Docker
2 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (13.33%) vSphere
4 1 (6.67%) vCloud
4 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (100.00%) Ansible
1 15 (100.00%) Terraform
2 13 (86.67%) Grafana
2 13 (86.67%) Kubernetes
3 11 (73.33%) Prometheus
4 8 (53.33%) Argo
4 8 (53.33%) Istio
4 8 (53.33%) linkerd
4 8 (53.33%) Mesos
5 2 (13.33%) Control-M
6 1 (6.67%) Nagios
6 1 (6.67%) Podman
6 1 (6.67%) Puppet
6 1 (6.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Atlassian
1 2 (13.33%) Dynatrace
1 2 (13.33%) Google
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) VMware
2 1 (6.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk