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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 522 583
Rank change year-on-year +40 +61 +191
Contract jobs citing Vagrant 30 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.018% 0.017%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.73% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 4 6
10th Percentile £435 - £388
25th Percentile £456 £213 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £225 £513
Median % change year-on-year +111.11% -56.10% +5.45%
75th Percentile £488 £238 £866
90th Percentile - - £975
UK median daily rate £475 £225 £500
% change year-on-year +111.11% -55.00% -5.88%

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 4,137 4,402 5,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.89% 13.37% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 2,829 3,902
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £603 £631 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 169 229
10th Percentile £44.63 £37.39 £46.18
25th Percentile £54.94 £54.36 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £73.80 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Vagrant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Vagrant 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 18 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
Midlands - 24 £475 - 1
West Midlands - 24 £475 - 1
London +34 13 £475 -
Yorkshire - 1 £369 - 1
North of England - 1 £369 - 1
Vagrant
UK

Vagrant
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 27 (90.00%) Confluence
2 12 (40.00%) nginx
3 3 (10.00%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (40.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 29 (96.67%) AWS
2 24 (80.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 24 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
2 24 (80.00%) Amazon ELB
2 24 (80.00%) Amazon S3
2 24 (80.00%) AWS KMS
2 24 (80.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 12 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 12 (40.00%) Amazon Glacier
3 12 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (40.00%) Route 53
4 11 (36.67%) Azure
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 24 (80.00%) SMTP
2 22 (73.33%) DNS
2 22 (73.33%) Firewall
2 22 (73.33%) FTP
2 22 (73.33%) HTTP
2 22 (73.33%) SSH
3 12 (40.00%) IMAP
3 12 (40.00%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (40.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (13.33%) MySQL
4 3 (10.00%) MariaDB
5 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (93.33%) Git
2 27 (90.00%) Jenkins
2 27 (90.00%) JIRA
3 2 (6.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (76.67%) Public Sector
2 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (76.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (63.33%) AWS Engineer
2 19 (63.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 19 (63.33%) Platform Engineer
3 17 (56.67%) AWS DevOps
3 17 (56.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 12 (40.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 10 (33.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Administrator
6 3 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 3 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.33%) Automation Tester
7 1 (3.33%) Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Lead
7 1 (3.33%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (3.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (40.00%) LDAP
2 3 (10.00%) LAMP
3 2 (6.67%) Zend Framework
4 1 (3.33%) .NET
4 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.33%) CSS
4 1 (3.33%) Django
4 1 (3.33%) Gherkin
4 1 (3.33%) HTML
4 1 (3.33%) Node.js
4 1 (3.33%) React
4 1 (3.33%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 22 (73.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (90.00%) Linux
2 25 (83.33%) Windows
3 24 (80.00%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (80.00%) VMS
4 13 (43.33%) Ubuntu
5 3 (10.00%) CentOS
5 3 (10.00%) Debian
5 3 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (90.00%) Configuration Management
1 27 (90.00%) DevOps
2 25 (83.33%) Change Management
3 24 (80.00%) Cloud Security
3 24 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
4 22 (73.33%) Patch Management
5 15 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 12 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (20.00%) Agile
8 3 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (6.67%) Build Automation
9 2 (6.67%) Containerisation
9 2 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
9 2 (6.67%) Security Hardening
9 2 (6.67%) Server Building
9 2 (6.67%) Server Patching
9 2 (6.67%) Software Deployment
10 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Development
10 1 (3.33%) Servant Leadership
10 1 (3.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 29 (96.67%) Python
2 25 (83.33%) PowerShell
3 24 (80.00%) Groovy
4 14 (46.67%) Perl
5 13 (43.33%) Java
6 12 (40.00%) SQL
7 3 (10.00%) Bash
7 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
8 2 (6.67%) PHP
8 2 (6.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 24 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (36.67%) Degree
4 10 (33.33%) AWS Certification
4 10 (33.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 29 (96.67%) Docker
2 22 (73.33%) DFS Replication
3 12 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 12 (40.00%) Dovecot
3 12 (40.00%) Postfix
3 12 (40.00%) Squid
4 3 (10.00%) VirtualBox
5 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (83.33%) Terraform
2 24 (80.00%) Grafana
2 24 (80.00%) Prometheus
3 12 (40.00%) Nessus
4 10 (33.33%) Proxmox
5 5 (16.67%) Ansible
6 4 (13.33%) Puppet
7 3 (10.00%) Progress Chef
8 2 (6.67%) Icinga
8 2 (6.67%) Nagios
8 2 (6.67%) Salt
9 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 12 (40.00%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (10.00%) Rackspace
4 2 (6.67%) New Relic
4 2 (6.67%) VMware
4 2 (6.67%) Zend
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle
5 1 (3.33%) Splunk