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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 330 414
Rank change year-on-year -51 +84 +81
Contract jobs citing Rancher 1 39 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% 0.23% 0.037%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.039% 1.68% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 15 6
10th Percentile - £543 -
25th Percentile £513 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £638 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +34.21% -28.30%
75th Percentile £538 £700 -
90th Percentile - £715 £513
UK median daily rate £525 £650 £475
% change year-on-year -19.23% +36.84% -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 2,572 2,318 2,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.02% 13.48% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,716 1,525 2,028
10th Percentile £235 £250 £273
25th Percentile £381 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £613
90th Percentile £643 £656 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 37 123
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.71 £17.90
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.25 £24.50
Median hourly rate £21.39 £34.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.09% -26.38% +110.96%
75th Percentile £64.23 £50.00 £74.06
90th Percentile £81.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £34.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -23.53% -38.18% +130.03%

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 18 October 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
South West -1 1 £525 -19.23%
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) React
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) SBOM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware