Rancher Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Rancher
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Rancher skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 154 173
Rank change year-on-year -81 +19 -
Contract jobs citing Rancher 2 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.033% 0.28% 0.084%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.19% 1.52% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile - £698 -
25th Percentile £413 £713 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £750 £463
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% +62.16% -
75th Percentile £438 - £469
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £513 £750 £463
% change year-on-year -31.67% +62.16% -13.35%

All Systems Management Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,049 592 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.52% 18.55% 11.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 395 375
10th Percentile £317 £265 £229
25th Percentile £401 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £492 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +3.58% -13.24%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £575
90th Percentile £630 £650 £647
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 5 21
10th Percentile £40.42 £29.23 £16.79
25th Percentile £52.50 £41.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £59.00 £62.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +177.78% -40.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £82.15 £82.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £25.77
% change year-on-year +107.55% +2.85% -55.19%

Rancher
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Rancher job vacancy trend in the North of England

Rancher
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Rancher

Rancher
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 April 2026. 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
North East -19 2 £425 -43.33%
Rancher
England

Rancher
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Groovy
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow