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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 554 620
Rank change year-on-year +5 +66 +184
Contract jobs citing Heroku 9 4 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.011% 0.036%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.068% 0.031% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 12
10th Percentile £416 £428 £506
25th Percentile £433 £431 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £450 £700
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -35.71% +40.00%
75th Percentile £630 £469 -
90th Percentile £703 £473 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £581 £450 -
% change year-on-year +29.17% - -

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 13,267 12,752 16,646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.69% 35.12% 35.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,908 8,399 11,919
10th Percentile £305 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £421 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £708 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 166 324
10th Percentile £15.06 £18.50 £14.53
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.15
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +8.86% +45.87%
75th Percentile £46.43 £64.31 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.62 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £33.74 £22.50
% change year-on-year -37.75% +49.93% +15.38%

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 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Heroku in the UK

Heroku
Top 9 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 3 November 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 -12 8 £620 +37.78% 9
Work from Home - 6 £450 - 1
London -1 5 £620 +37.78% 6
UK excluding London -28 3 £581 +29.17% 5
North of England - 2 £413 -
Midlands - 1 £750 -
North East - 1 £413 -
North West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £750 -

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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (55.56%) Serverless
3 3 (33.33%) Fastly
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub
5 1 (11.11%) Figma
5 1 (11.11%) Miro
5 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) CircleCI
2 1 (11.11%) Axure RP
General
1 2 (22.22%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Python Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Designer
3 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Interaction Designer
4 1 (11.11%) Programme Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Programme Manager
4 1 (11.11%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Flask
1 3 (33.33%) SQLAlchemy
2 2 (22.22%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) Framer.js
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) Next.js
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Code Quality
2 4 (44.44%) User Experience
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Domain Models
3 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (33.33%) Mobile Development
3 3 (33.33%) Observability
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Debt
3 3 (33.33%) User Stories
4 2 (22.22%) CRM
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Prototyping
5 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) User Research
5 1 (11.11%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Ruby
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) GDPR
2 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (11.11%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (22.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce