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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 628 724 691
Rank change year-on-year +96 -33 +259
Permanent jobs citing Docker Swarm 15 4 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.025% 0.007% 0.023%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.36% 0.065% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 11
10th Percentile £67,500 £67,125 £40,750
25th Percentile £71,875 £72,188 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £77,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +55.00% -35.48%
75th Percentile £100,625 £81,250 £60,625
90th Percentile £102,500 £83,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% +42.86% -32.26%

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 4,193 6,142 7,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.99% 11.02% 14.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,028 3,782 6,209
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £49,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £102,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,065 £57,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year -7.71% +2.68% -2.61%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 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
England +96 13 £87,500 +12.90% 45
UK excluding London +56 8 £90,000 +20.00% 48
London +49 4 £65,000 -18.75% 1
Work from Home +86 3 £65,000 -13.33% 6
South West +1 3 £95,000 +28.81% 4
North of England - 3 £85,000 - 13
North East - 3 £85,000 - 5
South East +30 2 £70,000 -6.67% 10

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 4 (26.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 11 (73.33%) Azure
3 7 (46.67%) GCP
4 5 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (26.67%) OpenShift
6 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (20.00%) Serverless
7 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (6.67%) GitHub
8 1 (6.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) AMQP
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
1 3 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 3 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (13.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (20.00%) InfluxDB
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Git
1 8 (53.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (26.67%) SonarQube
3 2 (13.33%) Artifactory
3 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (13.33%) JIRA
3 2 (13.33%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (13.33%) TeamCity
4 1 (6.67%) GitLab
4 1 (6.67%) Subversion
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Electronics
3 1 (6.67%) Law
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 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Support Specialist
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%) Development Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Development Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Development Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (13.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 13 (86.67%) Linux
2 10 (66.67%) Windows
3 3 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (20.00%) VMS
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (73.33%) Containerisation
3 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (60.00%) DevOps
4 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (46.67%) Agile
6 6 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (33.33%) Configuration Management
7 5 (33.33%) DevSecOps
8 4 (26.67%) GitOps
8 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
9 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
9 3 (20.00%) Security Patching
9 3 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (20.00%) Validation
10 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (13.33%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) Go
3 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) Bash
4 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (13.33%) C#
6 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (13.33%) Degree
System Software
1 15 (100.00%) Docker
2 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (20.00%) vCloud
3 2 (13.33%) vSphere
4 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (93.33%) Ansible
2 12 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (80.00%) Terraform
3 11 (73.33%) Grafana
4 9 (60.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (26.67%) Argo
5 4 (26.67%) Istio
5 4 (26.67%) linkerd
5 4 (26.67%) Mesos
6 3 (20.00%) Progress Chef
7 2 (13.33%) Control-M
7 2 (13.33%) Rundeck
8 1 (6.67%) Puppet
8 1 (6.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) VMware
2 2 (13.33%) Atlassian
2 2 (13.33%) Dynatrace
2 2 (13.33%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) SAP