Rancher Contracts in England

Rancher
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Rancher skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rancher over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 518 639
Rank change year-on-year +60 +121 +70
Contract jobs citing Rancher 27 24 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.065% 0.028%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.71% 0.55% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 6 6
10th Percentile - £446 £419
25th Percentile £713 £456 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £463 £534
Median % change year-on-year +62.16% -13.35% -7.17%
75th Percentile - £469 £730
90th Percentile - £522 £856
UK median daily rate £750 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +62.16% -9.76% -10.09%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Rancher falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Rancher
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Rancher as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Rancher in England

Rancher
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Rancher in England.

Daily rate trend for Rancher in England

Rancher
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rancher in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Rancher in England

Rancher
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rancher within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +51 16 £750 +72.02% 8
North of England +24 9 £750 +62.16% 7
Yorkshire +10 6 £725 +56.76% 1
North East - 2 £750 -
South East +32 1 £550 - 3
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £750 - 6
Midlands - 1 - - 1
Rancher
UK

Rancher
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (44.44%) nginx
1 12 (44.44%) Traefik
2 4 (14.81%) Confluence
3 1 (3.70%) Apache
3 1 (3.70%) MQSeries
3 1 (3.70%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) AWS
2 15 (55.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 14 (51.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 14 (51.85%) Amazon ECS
3 14 (51.85%) AWS CloudFormation
3 14 (51.85%) AWS Fargate
3 14 (51.85%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (51.85%) DNS
1 14 (51.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (55.56%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (59.26%) GitLab
1 16 (59.26%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.81%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.70%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) Maven
General
1 5 (18.52%) Military
2 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) DevOps Engineer
1 14 (51.85%) Senior
1 14 (51.85%) Senior DevOps
2 10 (37.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 8 (29.63%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Developer
4 1 (3.70%) Java Developer
4 1 (3.70%) Lead
4 1 (3.70%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (59.26%) Kafka
2 15 (55.56%) Keycloak
3 14 (51.85%) cloud-init
4 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.70%) .NET
5 1 (3.70%) Apache Camel
5 1 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.70%) Bootstrap
5 1 (3.70%) Node.js
5 1 (3.70%) Quarkus
5 1 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.70%) React
5 1 (3.70%) RESTful
5 1 (3.70%) Spring
5 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (55.56%) PKI
2 8 (29.63%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (92.59%) Linux
2 14 (51.85%) CentOS
2 14 (51.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 14 (51.85%) Unix
3 2 (7.41%) Mac OS
3 2 (7.41%) Windows
4 1 (3.70%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (88.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (70.37%) CI/CD
2 19 (70.37%) DevOps
3 15 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
3 15 (55.56%) Observability
4 14 (51.85%) Cloud Security
4 14 (51.85%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 14 (51.85%) Identity Management
4 14 (51.85%) Secrets Management
4 14 (51.85%) Static Application Security Testing
5 12 (44.44%) Mobile Device Management
6 9 (33.33%) Agile
6 9 (33.33%) GitOps
7 8 (29.63%) High Availability
7 8 (29.63%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (14.81%) Service Delivery
9 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
9 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (11.11%) ITIL
9 3 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (81.48%) Python
2 15 (55.56%) Go
3 14 (51.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (62.96%) Security Cleared
2 16 (59.26%) SC Cleared
3 14 (51.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (51.85%) NCSC
2 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 26 (96.30%) Terraform
3 14 (51.85%) Consul
3 14 (51.85%) Grafana
3 14 (51.85%) Istio
3 14 (51.85%) Jamf Pro
3 14 (51.85%) linkerd
3 14 (51.85%) Packer
3 14 (51.85%) Prometheus
3 14 (51.85%) ZABBIX
4 13 (48.15%) HAProxy
5 11 (40.74%) Ansible
6 2 (7.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) Okta
1 14 (51.85%) Splunk
2 12 (44.44%) Apple
2 12 (44.44%) ESET
3 1 (3.70%) Confluent
3 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.70%) MKS
3 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.70%) VMware