Heroku Contract Job Trends

Heroku
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Heroku skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 554 626
Rank change year-on-year -5 +72 +185
Contract jobs citing Heroku 9 5 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.013% 0.051%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.073% 0.038% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 18
10th Percentile £441 £323 £386
25th Percentile £496 £356 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £413 £588
Median % change year-on-year +50.30% -29.79% +16.92%
75th Percentile £653 £456 £700
90th Percentile £718 £468 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 £375 -
% change year-on-year +100.00% - -

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 12,367 13,195 17,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.53% 34.26% 35.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,251 8,899 12,684
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 196 336
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.49 £15.11
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.45 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -11.43% +62.79%
75th Percentile £53.13 £62.81 £66.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.94 £30.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year -36.88% +14.29% +36.36%

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
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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Heroku in the UK

Heroku
Top 8 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 18 September 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 +20 8 £620 +37.78% 5
London +27 6 £620 +37.78% 5
Work from Home +34 5 £600 +60.00% 1
UK excluding London -8 2 £750 +100.00%
North of England -14 1 - -
Midlands - 1 £750 -
North West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £750 -

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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (55.56%) Serverless
3 3 (33.33%) Fastly
3 3 (33.33%) GCP
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
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 6 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
2 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) CircleCI
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (22.22%) Marketing
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Python Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Designer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
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%) 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 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 4 (44.44%) Code Quality
1 4 (44.44%) User Experience
2 3 (33.33%) Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Domain Models
2 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (33.33%) Mobile Development
2 3 (33.33%) Observability
2 3 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) Technical Debt
2 3 (33.33%) User Stories
3 2 (22.22%) CRM
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) OO
4 1 (11.11%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Java
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 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (22.22%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce