Hybrid/Remote Docker Swarm Job Trends

Docker Swarm
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Docker Swarm skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 424 474 528
Rank change year-on-year +50 +54 +131
Permanent jobs citing Docker Swarm 1 16 9
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.006% 0.069% 0.034%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.054% 0.63% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1 16 2
10th Percentile - £52,500 £45,250
25th Percentile - £56,250 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - +17.95%
75th Percentile - £87,500 £64,375
90th Percentile - - £67,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +30.43% -14.81% +8.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,841 2,559 4,169
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.44% 11.04% 15.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,025 1,648 3,606
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,775 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year - -6.40% -0.79%
75th Percentile £82,751 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £103,425 £100,000
UK median annual salary £63,750 £65,000 £65,175
% change year-on-year -1.92% -0.27% -3.44%

Docker Swarm
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Docker Swarm as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Docker Swarm trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Docker Swarm
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Docker Swarm.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Docker Swarm

Docker Swarm
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Development Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Development Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat