Vagrant Contract Job Trends in England

Vagrant
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Vagrant skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 519 589
Rank change year-on-year +24 +70 +167
Contract jobs citing Vagrant 29 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.013% 0.010%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.66% 0.095% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 4
10th Percentile £450 - £439
25th Percentile £463 £213 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £225 £513
Median % change year-on-year +111.11% -56.10% +2.50%
75th Percentile £488 £238 £553
90th Percentile - - £581
UK median daily rate £475 £225 £500
% change year-on-year +111.11% -55.00% -4.76%

All Development Application Skills
England

Vagrant falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,374 4,211 5,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.34% 13.38% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,028 2,638 3,748
10th Percentile £325 £350 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 149 225
10th Percentile £36.15 £41.51 £46.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.36 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.08 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

Vagrant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Vagrant relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Vagrant job vacancy trend in England

Vagrant
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Vagrant

Vagrant
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Vagrant.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Vagrant

Vagrant
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 Vagrant within the England region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Midlands - 24 £475 -
West Midlands - 24 £475 -
London - 13 £475 -
Vagrant
UK

Vagrant
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 26 (89.66%) Confluence
2 12 (41.38%) nginx
3 3 (10.34%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (41.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (82.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 24 (82.76%) Amazon EC2
2 24 (82.76%) Amazon ELB
2 24 (82.76%) Amazon S3
2 24 (82.76%) AWS KMS
2 24 (82.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 12 (41.38%) Amazon ECS
3 12 (41.38%) Amazon Glacier
3 12 (41.38%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (41.38%) Route 53
4 11 (37.93%) Azure
5 1 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 24 (82.76%) SMTP
2 22 (75.86%) DNS
2 22 (75.86%) Firewall
2 22 (75.86%) FTP
2 22 (75.86%) HTTP
2 22 (75.86%) SSH
3 12 (41.38%) IMAP
3 12 (41.38%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (82.76%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (41.38%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (41.38%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (13.79%) MySQL
4 3 (10.34%) MariaDB
5 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (93.10%) Git
1 27 (93.10%) Jenkins
2 26 (89.66%) JIRA
3 2 (6.90%) Bitbucket
General
1 22 (75.86%) Public Sector
2 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
3 10 (34.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (79.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (65.52%) AWS Engineer
2 19 (65.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 19 (65.52%) Platform Engineer
3 17 (58.62%) AWS DevOps
3 17 (58.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 12 (41.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 10 (34.48%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Administrator
6 3 (10.34%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (10.34%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 3 (10.34%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.45%) Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Lead
7 1 (3.45%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (3.45%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (41.38%) LDAP
2 3 (10.34%) LAMP
3 2 (6.90%) Zend Framework
4 1 (3.45%) .NET
4 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.45%) CSS
4 1 (3.45%) Django
4 1 (3.45%) HTML
4 1 (3.45%) Node.js
4 1 (3.45%) React
4 1 (3.45%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 22 (75.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (93.10%) Linux
2 25 (86.21%) Windows
3 24 (82.76%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (82.76%) VMS
4 13 (44.83%) Ubuntu
5 3 (10.34%) CentOS
5 3 (10.34%) Debian
5 3 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (93.10%) Configuration Management
1 27 (93.10%) DevOps
2 24 (82.76%) Change Management
2 24 (82.76%) Cloud Security
2 24 (82.76%) Platform Engineering
3 22 (75.86%) Patch Management
4 15 (51.72%) CI/CD
5 12 (41.38%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (17.24%) Agile
7 3 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (6.90%) Build Automation
8 2 (6.90%) Containerisation
8 2 (6.90%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (6.90%) Security Hardening
8 2 (6.90%) Server Building
8 2 (6.90%) Server Patching
8 2 (6.90%) Software Deployment
9 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Development
9 1 (3.45%) Servant Leadership
9 1 (3.45%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 28 (96.55%) Python
2 24 (82.76%) Groovy
2 24 (82.76%) PowerShell
3 14 (48.28%) Perl
4 13 (44.83%) Java
5 12 (41.38%) SQL
6 3 (10.34%) Bash
6 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
7 2 (6.90%) PHP
8 1 (3.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (82.76%) SC Cleared
1 24 (82.76%) Security Cleared
2 11 (37.93%) Degree
3 10 (34.48%) AWS Certification
3 10 (34.48%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
System Software
1 29 (100.00%) Docker
2 22 (75.86%) DFS Replication
3 12 (41.38%) Active Directory
3 12 (41.38%) Dovecot
3 12 (41.38%) Postfix
3 12 (41.38%) Squid
4 2 (6.90%) VirtualBox
4 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (86.21%) Terraform
2 24 (82.76%) Grafana
2 24 (82.76%) Prometheus
3 12 (41.38%) Nessus
4 10 (34.48%) Proxmox
5 4 (13.79%) Ansible
6 3 (10.34%) Progress Chef
6 3 (10.34%) Puppet
7 2 (6.90%) Icinga
7 2 (6.90%) Nagios
7 2 (6.90%) Salt
8 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (82.76%) ServiceNow
2 12 (41.38%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (10.34%) Rackspace
4 2 (6.90%) New Relic
4 2 (6.90%) VMware
4 2 (6.90%) Zend
5 1 (3.45%) Google
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle