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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 640 740 694
Rank change year-on-year +100 -46 +291
Permanent jobs citing Docker Swarm 13 7 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.010% 0.051%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.26% 0.11% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 10 7 19
10th Percentile £55,000 £54,750 £40,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -16.13%
75th Percentile £94,375 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £89,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +3.85% -16.13%

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 4,984 6,484 8,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.91% 9.59% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,209 3,865 6,744
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £48,925 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,449 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.52% - +4.55%

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 4 November 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 4 November 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 +104 12 £75,000 - 7
UK excluding London +79 10 £75,000 +11.11% 8
South East +37 4 £75,000 - 1
South West +37 3 £95,000 +28.81% 4
North East - 3 £60,000 - 2
North of England - 3 £60,000 - 2
Work from Home +63 2 £65,000 +13.04% 1
London +51 2 £65,000 -23.53%

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 1 (7.69%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) AWS
2 9 (69.23%) Azure
3 4 (30.77%) GCP
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (23.08%) OpenShift
4 3 (23.08%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) AMQP
1 3 (23.08%) SAN
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Relational Database
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (23.08%) InfluxDB
2 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Jenkins
2 7 (53.85%) SonarQube
3 5 (38.46%) Git
4 3 (23.08%) Artifactory
4 3 (23.08%) Bitbucket
4 3 (23.08%) GitLab
4 3 (23.08%) JIRA
4 3 (23.08%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (23.08%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Automation Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Site Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Support
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Support Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Development Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Development Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (23.08%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (76.92%) Windows
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
4 1 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (84.62%) Containerisation
3 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
4 9 (69.23%) DevOps
5 7 (53.85%) Configuration Management
5 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (38.46%) Agile
7 5 (38.46%) Validation
8 4 (30.77%) Risk Management
8 4 (30.77%) Runbook
8 4 (30.77%) Scrum
9 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
9 3 (23.08%) Continuous Deployment
9 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (23.08%) Task Automation
10 2 (15.38%) Change Advisory Board
10 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
10 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) Go
3 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 3 (23.08%) C#
4 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
5 2 (15.38%) Bash
6 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) DV Cleared
3 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
4 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (23.08%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Docker
2 5 (38.46%) vCloud
3 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (23.08%) vSphere
4 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Ansible
2 11 (84.62%) Kubernetes
3 8 (61.54%) Grafana
3 8 (61.54%) Terraform
4 5 (38.46%) Prometheus
5 4 (30.77%) Rundeck
6 3 (23.08%) Control-M
6 3 (23.08%) Progress Chef
7 1 (7.69%) Argo
7 1 (7.69%) Istio
7 1 (7.69%) linkerd
7 1 (7.69%) Mesos
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) VMware
2 3 (23.08%) Atlassian
2 3 (23.08%) Google
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat