Rancher Contracts

Rancher
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Rancher skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rancher over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 558 700
Rank change year-on-year +68 +142 +53
Contract jobs citing Rancher 30 24 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.055% 0.030%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.65% 0.47% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 6 9
10th Percentile £595 £446 £423
25th Percentile £713 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +62.16% -9.76% -10.09%
75th Percentile - £469 £600
90th Percentile - £522 £815
UK excluding London median daily rate £738 £463 £425
% change year-on-year +59.46% +8.82% -22.02%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Rancher falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,597 5,137 9,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.70% 11.79% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,150 3,667 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £258 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £19.51 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £69.88 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

Rancher
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Rancher as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Rancher in the UK

Rancher
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Rancher.

Daily rate trend for Rancher in the UK

Rancher
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rancher over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Rancher in the UK

Rancher
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rancher within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +60 27 £750 +62.16% 20
London +51 16 £750 +72.02% 6
UK excluding London +53 11 £738 +59.46% 14
Work from Home +51 11 £740 +69.72% 20
North of England +24 9 £750 +62.16% 7
Yorkshire +10 6 £725 +56.76% 1
North East - 2 £750 -
South East +32 1 £550 - 2
North West - 1 £750 - 6
Midlands - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1

Rancher
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 12 (40.00%) nginx
1 12 (40.00%) Traefik
2 4 (13.33%) Confluence
3 1 (3.33%) Apache
3 1 (3.33%) MQSeries
3 1 (3.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 18 (60.00%) AWS
2 15 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 14 (46.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 14 (46.67%) Amazon ECS
3 14 (46.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 14 (46.67%) AWS Fargate
3 14 (46.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (50.00%) DNS
1 15 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) HTTP
2 1 (3.33%) Network Security
2 1 (3.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (56.67%) GitLab
1 17 (56.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (13.33%) JIRA
3 2 (6.67%) Maven
4 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 5 (16.67%) Military
2 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.33%) Banking
3 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 14 (46.67%) Senior
1 14 (46.67%) Senior DevOps
2 10 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 8 (26.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 8 (26.67%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Developer
4 1 (3.33%) Genesys Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (3.33%) Lead
4 1 (3.33%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (53.33%) Kafka
2 15 (50.00%) Keycloak
3 14 (46.67%) cloud-init
4 2 (6.67%) Apache Camel
4 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (6.67%) Quarkus
4 2 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (6.67%) Spring
4 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.33%) .NET
5 1 (3.33%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.33%) Bootstrap
5 1 (3.33%) Node.js
5 1 (3.33%) React
5 1 (3.33%) RESTful
5 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (50.00%) PKI
2 8 (26.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (86.67%) Linux
2 15 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (46.67%) CentOS
3 14 (46.67%) Unix
4 3 (10.00%) Mac OS
4 3 (10.00%) Windows
5 1 (3.33%) CoreOS
5 1 (3.33%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 21 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 21 (70.00%) DevOps
3 15 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 15 (50.00%) Observability
4 14 (46.67%) Cloud Security
4 14 (46.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 14 (46.67%) Identity Management
4 14 (46.67%) Secrets Management
4 14 (46.67%) Static Application Security Testing
5 12 (40.00%) Mobile Device Management
6 10 (33.33%) Agile
7 9 (30.00%) GitOps
8 8 (26.67%) High Availability
8 8 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (16.67%) Service Delivery
10 4 (13.33%) Containerisation
11 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
11 3 (10.00%) ITIL
11 3 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (76.67%) Python
2 15 (50.00%) Bash
2 15 (50.00%) Go
3 2 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (3.33%) C#
4 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) Perl
4 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (56.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (53.33%) SC Cleared
3 14 (46.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (46.67%) NCSC
2 1 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (96.67%) Kubernetes
2 26 (86.67%) Terraform
3 14 (46.67%) Consul
3 14 (46.67%) Grafana
3 14 (46.67%) Istio
3 14 (46.67%) Jamf Pro
3 14 (46.67%) linkerd
3 14 (46.67%) Packer
3 14 (46.67%) Prometheus
3 14 (46.67%) ZABBIX
4 13 (43.33%) HAProxy
5 12 (40.00%) Ansible
6 2 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) Okta
1 14 (46.67%) Splunk
2 12 (40.00%) Apple
2 12 (40.00%) ESET
3 2 (6.67%) VMware
4 1 (3.33%) Confluent
4 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.33%) Genesys
4 1 (3.33%) MKS
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow