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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 329 393
Rank change year-on-year -98 +64 +57
Contract jobs citing Rancher 12 11 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.087% 0.077%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.39% 0.57% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 4
10th Percentile £401 £638 -
25th Percentile £413 £703 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £738 £463
Median % change year-on-year -30.51% +59.46% +8.82%
75th Percentile £589 £750 £469
90th Percentile £625 - -
UK median daily rate £513 £740 £463
% change year-on-year -30.74% +60.00% -9.76%

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 3,099 1,942 2,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.36% 15.29% 11.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,166 1,351 1,733
10th Percentile £285 £230 £213
25th Percentile £401 £391 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £660 £660 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 28 82
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.31 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.26 £19.51 £17.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.34 £27.88
Median % change year-on-year +117.05% -9.12% -39.45%
75th Percentile £70.00 £49.31 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.30 £77.86 £67.95
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.94% -11.83% -47.83%

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 13 April 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 13 April 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 -42 9 £513 -6.82%
North East -16 2 £425 -43.33% 1
North of England -76 2 £425 -43.33% 2
South West - 1 £575 - 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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (16.67%) Azure AI
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Figma
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (41.67%) Redis
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (8.33%) Big Data
4 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
4 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Jaeger
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Data Scientist
3 2 (16.67%) Site Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Kafka
1 5 (41.67%) Keycloak
2 3 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (16.67%) .NET
3 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (16.67%) Loki
3 2 (16.67%) Node.js
3 2 (16.67%) React
4 1 (8.33%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (16.67%) Replication
2 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (75.00%) DevOps
1 9 (75.00%) Observability
2 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (50.00%) Agile
3 6 (50.00%) GitOps
4 5 (41.67%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) AI
5 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Data Science
5 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (25.00%) LLM
5 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) Bash
3 5 (41.67%) Go
3 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) Groovy
5 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) GDPR
1 3 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (16.67%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (75.00%) Grafana
2 9 (75.00%) Prometheus
3 8 (66.67%) Terraform
4 4 (33.33%) Ansible
4 4 (33.33%) Argo
5 2 (16.67%) Istio
6 1 (8.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Splunk
1 3 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 2 (16.67%) OpenAI
2 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow