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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 368 331
Rank change year-on-year -114 -37 +84
Contract jobs citing Rancher 7 1 41
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.025% 0.006% 0.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.23% 0.044% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 15
10th Percentile £353 - £543
25th Percentile £413 £513 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £638
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -17.65% +34.21%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £700
90th Percentile £545 - £715
UK median daily rate £488 £689 £650
% change year-on-year -29.22% +5.96% +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 3,058 2,253 2,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.81% 14.36% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,976 1,510 1,363
10th Percentile £281 £214 £240
25th Percentile £409 £368 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.55% -3.19%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £576
90th Percentile £688 £644 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £518
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.52% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 61 36
10th Percentile £18.18 £15.50 £15.75
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £23.70
Median hourly rate £63.14 £21.39 £37.08
Median % change year-on-year +195.16% -42.32% -23.38%
75th Percentile £71.00 £63.75 £54.13
90th Percentile £88.16 £77.50 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £23.79 £37.50
% change year-on-year +166.86% -36.57% -32.68%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 - 5 £519 - 2
North of England - 2 £425 - 1
North East - 1 £425 -
North West - 1 - - 1
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 (14.29%) nginx
1 1 (14.29%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) BGP
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (28.57%) Redis
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) Jaeger
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Military
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 3 (42.86%) Keycloak
2 3 (42.86%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) cloud-init
3 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (14.29%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) IoT
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Replication
1 1 (14.29%) SCADA
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) CentOS
3 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Observability
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) GitOps
3 4 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
5 2 (28.57%) Secrets Management
6 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 1 (14.29%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Edge Computing
6 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
6 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 1 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
6 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 1 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
6 1 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) Go
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) GRC
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Grafana
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (42.86%) Argo
2 3 (42.86%) Packer
3 2 (28.57%) Istio
4 1 (14.29%) Ansible
4 1 (14.29%) Consul
4 1 (14.29%) HAProxy
4 1 (14.29%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (14.29%) linkerd
4 1 (14.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Apple
2 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) ESET
2 1 (14.29%) Okta
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow