Heroku Contracts

Heroku
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Heroku skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Heroku over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 578 701
Rank change year-on-year +66 +123 +106
Contract jobs citing Heroku 8 4 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.009% 0.028%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.073% 0.028% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 10
10th Percentile - £315 £324
25th Percentile £525 £338 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £375 £463
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -18.92% -17.78%
75th Percentile £638 £450 £553
90th Percentile £651 £495 £562
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £300 £450
% change year-on-year +108.33% -33.33% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Heroku falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

Heroku
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Heroku as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Heroku in the UK

Heroku
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Heroku.

Daily rate trend for Heroku in the UK

Heroku
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Heroku within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +62 7 £625 +56.25% 49
London +42 5 £633 +26.50% 23
Work from Home +43 4 £625 +66.67% 54
UK excluding London +62 1 £625 +108.33% 34
Midlands - 1 £625 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £625 -

Heroku
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) CMS
1 3 (37.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) GitHub
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) DigitalOcean
3 3 (37.50%) Figma
3 3 (37.50%) Google Workspace
3 3 (37.50%) Slack
4 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (25.00%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Alpine.js
1 3 (37.50%) Bootstrap
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
1 3 (37.50%) Laravel
1 3 (37.50%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) CRM
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
2 3 (37.50%) Prototyping
2 3 (37.50%) Technology Strategy
2 3 (37.50%) Web Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PHP
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Google
2 3 (37.50%) Sage
3 2 (25.00%) Salesforce