Heroku Contract Job Trends

Heroku
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Heroku skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 518 575
Rank change year-on-year -104 +57 +108
Contract jobs citing Heroku 2 8 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.027% 0.009%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.012% 0.072% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £376 - £315
25th Percentile £397 £525 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £625 £375
Median % change year-on-year -29.96% +66.67% -18.92%
75th Percentile £472 £638 £450
90th Percentile £489 £651 £495
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £625 £300
% change year-on-year -19.92% +108.33% -33.33%

All Cloud Computing 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 16,890 11,066 14,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.07% 37.68% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,494 7,700 10,003
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £735 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +1.05% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 251 347
10th Percentile £15.59 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.51 £16.03
Median hourly rate £41.64 £27.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.42% +30.95% -40.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.38 £73.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +111.11% +26.98% -27.11%

Heroku
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Heroku relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Heroku job vacancy trend in the UK

Heroku
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Heroku.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Heroku

Heroku
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Heroku over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Heroku in the UK

Heroku
Top 6 Contract Job 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 27 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
England -113 2 £438 -29.96% 3
Work from Home -29 1 £375 -40.00% 3
London -72 1 £375 -40.71% 3
UK excluding London -86 1 £501 -19.92% 1
North of England - 1 £501 -
Yorkshire - 1 £501 -

Heroku
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (50.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
General
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce