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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 518 586
Rank change year-on-year -70 +68 +161
Contract jobs citing Heroku 5 7 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.013% 0.023% 0.016%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.035% 0.061% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £410 - £480
25th Percentile £416 £613 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +13.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile £553 £638 £594
90th Percentile £599 - £598
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £625 -
% change year-on-year -34.00% - -

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 14,437 11,483 14,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.92% 36.93% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,948 7,619 10,678
10th Percentile £306 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 166 308
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.65 £27.43 £23.43
Median % change year-on-year +15.41% +17.08% +1.19%
75th Percentile £58.75 £43.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.75 £72.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £24.83 £21.00
% change year-on-year +20.82% +18.24% +5.79%

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 January 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 January 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
Work from Home -18 4 £431 -31.00% 24
England -69 4 £516 -17.40% 22
London -23 3 £620 -0.80% 2
UK excluding London -63 1 £413 -34.00% 23
North of England - 1 £413 - 3
North East - 1 £413 - 1

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 (20.00%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (60.00%) Serverless
2 2 (40.00%) Fastly
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Figma
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Axure RP
1 1 (20.00%) CircleCI
General
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Designer
2 2 (40.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Interaction Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Flask
1 2 (40.00%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (20.00%) Framer.js
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) User Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (40.00%) Domain Models
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile Development
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Debt
2 2 (40.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Interaction Design
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Progressive Enhancement
3 1 (20.00%) Rapid Prototyping
3 1 (20.00%) UX Design
3 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk