Heroku
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Heroku skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Heroku over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 596 696 807
Rank change year-on-year +100 +111 -207
Contract jobs citing Heroku 4 17 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.028% 0.055%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.028% 0.077% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 30
10th Percentile £315 £324 £384
25th Percentile £338 £400 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £463 £563
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% -17.78% +7.14%
75th Percentile £450 £553 £597
90th Percentile £495 £562 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -33.33% - +24.14%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Heroku is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,092 22,029 34,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.32% 36.91% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,003 15,924 24,905
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 350 427
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £49.46
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.03% +31.31% -5.06%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Heroku over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Heroku in the UK

Heroku
Top 7 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 29 April 2024. 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 +111 2 £375 -16.67% 4
England +96 2 £400 -13.51% 6
UK excluding London +62 2 £300 -33.33%
London +101 1 £500 -6.54% 6
North of England +27 1 £300 -33.33%
Yorkshire +21 1 £300 -33.33%
Wales - 1 - -

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 1 (25.00%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (25.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Ruby Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Visualforce
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce