Rancher Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Rancher
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Rancher skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 109 140
Rank change year-on-year -25 +31 +22
Contract jobs citing Rancher 1 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.045% 0.18% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.31% 1.32% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £625 -
South East median daily rate £513 £613 -
% change year-on-year -16.33% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 324 228 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.61% 13.68% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 161 263
10th Percentile £255 £350 £205
25th Percentile £366 £394 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £519 £625 £608
90th Percentile £600 £675 £658
South East median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 16
10th Percentile £18.01 - £24.00
25th Percentile £18.94 - £28.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £12.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.33% -74.74% -28.03%
75th Percentile £81.00 - £52.81
90th Percentile £83.60 - £68.63
South East median hourly rate £43.75 £15.99 £48.40
% change year-on-year +173.69% -66.97% -12.00%

Rancher
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Rancher job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Rancher
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Rancher.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Rancher

Rancher
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rancher within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 February 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
Buckinghamshire -8 1 - -
Rancher
South East

Rancher
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Text Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI