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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 331 393
Rank change year-on-year -71 +62 +78
Contract jobs citing Rancher 4 17 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.13% 0.072%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.14% 0.83% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 8
10th Percentile £508 £571 -
25th Percentile £509 £656 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £475
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +52.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £750 -
90th Percentile £598 - £498
UK median daily rate £513 £715 £475
% change year-on-year -28.32% +50.53% -36.67%

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 2,949 2,037 2,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.83% 15.05% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,061 1,318 1,742
10th Percentile £263 £224 £213
25th Percentile £400 £372 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £597
90th Percentile £655 £668 £687
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 33 118
10th Percentile £16.30 £12.50 £14.53
25th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £53.25 £23.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +131.52% -50.19% +7.08%
75th Percentile £66.56 £41.25 £61.81
90th Percentile £81.80 £69.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% +2.79%

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
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 12 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
South East -31 2 £513 -14.58%
South West - 2 £550 -
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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 1 (25.00%) Figma
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) GitOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) SBOM
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Text Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (50.00%) Argo
4 1 (25.00%) Nagios
4 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk