Rancher Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Rancher
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Rancher skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 366 339
Rank change year-on-year -108 -27 +80
Contract jobs citing Rancher 6 2 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.021% 0.013% 0.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.20% 0.091% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 13
10th Percentile £343 £516 £540
25th Percentile £388 £522 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £538 £638
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% -15.69% +34.21%
75th Percentile £458 £547 £700
90th Percentile £494 £549 £720
UK median daily rate £488 £750 £650
% change year-on-year -35.00% +15.38% +23.22%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,069 2,208 2,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.84% 14.27% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,997 1,476 1,438
10th Percentile £275 £220 £240
25th Percentile £409 £369 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £587
90th Percentile £675 £640 £650
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +3.80% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 54 33
10th Percentile £17.88 £15.50 £16.73
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £21.39 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +203.88% -44.44% -16.63%
75th Percentile £71.00 £64.88 £53.00
90th Percentile £88.16 £79.25 £74.35
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £26.45 £38.25
% change year-on-year +145.75% -30.85% -30.45%

Rancher
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Rancher relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Rancher job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Rancher
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Rancher.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Rancher

Rancher
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rancher in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Rancher in the UK excluding London

Rancher
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rancher within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
South East -57 3 £413 -24.95% 2
North of England - 3 £425 - 2
North East - 2 £425 -
North West - 1 - - 2
Rancher
UK

Rancher
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (16.67%) nginx
1 1 (16.67%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) BGP
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (50.00%) Redis
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) Jaeger
General
1 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) Kafka
2 4 (66.67%) Keycloak
3 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (16.67%) cloud-init
4 1 (16.67%) Loki
4 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) IoT
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) SCADA
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) CentOS
3 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Observability
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
4 3 (50.00%) GitOps
4 3 (50.00%) Identity Management
4 3 (50.00%) Secrets Management
5 2 (33.33%) Change Management
5 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (33.33%) High Availability
5 2 (33.33%) ITIL
5 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 2 (33.33%) Technical Debt
5 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 2 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Bash
3 2 (33.33%) Go
3 2 (33.33%) Groovy
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) GRC
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Grafana
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (33.33%) Istio
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Argo
3 1 (16.67%) Consul
3 1 (16.67%) HAProxy
3 1 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (16.67%) linkerd
3 1 (16.67%) Packer
3 1 (16.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Apple
2 1 (16.67%) ESET
2 1 (16.67%) Okta
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat