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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 367 339
Rank change year-on-year -91 -28 +80
Contract jobs citing Rancher 11 1 37
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.040% 0.007% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.37% 0.047% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 12
10th Percentile £375 - £553
25th Percentile £413 - £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £644
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -14.56% +17.05%
75th Percentile £519 - £700
90th Percentile £625 - £723
UK median daily rate £463 £750 £644
% change year-on-year -38.33% +16.50% +17.05%

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 3,003 2,126 2,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.90% 13.89% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,991 1,430 1,514
10th Percentile £275 £225 £238
25th Percentile £406 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £655
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +4.00% -2.91% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 49 42
10th Percentile £17.99 £17.78 £17.26
25th Percentile £25.75 £20.25 £25.38
Median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% +40.13% -15.01%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 £65.38
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.30 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £36.83
% change year-on-year +111.60% -18.55% -34.52%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -58 8 £513 -6.82%
North of England - 3 £425 - 1
North East - 3 £425 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (27.27%) Serverless
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) Azure AI
5 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (9.09%) Figma
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) BGP
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (45.45%) Redis
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) Jaeger
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Data Scientist
3 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) Terraform
2 5 (45.45%) Kafka
2 5 (45.45%) Keycloak
3 3 (27.27%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (27.27%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (18.18%) .NET
4 2 (18.18%) Loki
5 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 1 (9.09%) Node.js
5 1 (9.09%) React
5 1 (9.09%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (27.27%) Replication
2 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
3 1 (9.09%) IoT
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
1 10 (90.91%) Observability
2 8 (72.73%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (54.55%) GitOps
4 5 (45.45%) Agile
5 4 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
6 3 (27.27%) AI
6 3 (27.27%) Change Management
6 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 3 (27.27%) Identity Management
6 3 (27.27%) Incident Response
6 3 (27.27%) ITIL
6 3 (27.27%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
6 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (27.27%) Secrets Management
6 3 (27.27%) Technical Debt
6 3 (27.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) Bash
3 4 (36.36%) Go
3 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
4 3 (27.27%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) GDPR
1 3 (27.27%) PCI DSS
2 2 (18.18%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (81.82%) Grafana
2 9 (81.82%) Prometheus
3 2 (18.18%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) Argo
3 2 (18.18%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Dynatrace
1 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
1 3 (27.27%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Splunk
3 1 (9.09%) OpenAI
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat