Rancher Contract Job Trends in England

Rancher
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Rancher skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 479 577
Rank change year-on-year -17 +98 +133
Contract jobs citing Rancher 13 47 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.048% 0.14% 0.035%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.30% 1.05% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 9
10th Percentile £496 £545 £465
25th Percentile £513 £613 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £650 £528
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +23.22% -27.24%
75th Percentile - £701 £558
90th Percentile - £747 £610
UK median daily rate £750 £650 £528
% change year-on-year +15.38% +23.22% -24.64%

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 4,284 4,456 6,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.66% 13.67% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,843 3,064 4,552
10th Percentile £300 £310 £325
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £713 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 53 164
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.10 £18.33
25th Percentile £21.39 £24.18 £25.74
Median hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -23.81% +119.57%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £75.63
90th Percentile £77.88 £74.00 £79.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £38.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.08% -30.00% +130.03%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Rancher.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Rancher

Rancher
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rancher in England over the 6 months to 15 September 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 15 September 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 +22 11 £750 +7.91% 1
South East +18 1 £550 -8.33% 1
South West +10 1 £525 -19.23% 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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) GitHub
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) RStudio
2 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (7.69%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 8 (61.54%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Keycloak
2 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (69.23%) Platform Engineering
3 8 (61.54%) GitOps
3 8 (61.54%) High Availability
4 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 5 (38.46%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 2 (15.38%) Agile
6 2 (15.38%) ITIL
6 2 (15.38%) Observability
6 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
7 1 (7.69%) Build Automation
7 1 (7.69%) Change Management
7 1 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
7 1 (7.69%) Identity Management
7 1 (7.69%) Integration Testing
7 1 (7.69%) Migration
7 1 (7.69%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Bash
2 2 (15.38%) Go
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Groovy
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (92.31%) Terraform
3 10 (76.92%) Ansible
4 3 (23.08%) Grafana
4 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.69%) Istio
5 1 (7.69%) linkerd
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) VMware
2 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace