Rancher Contract Job Trends

Rancher
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Rancher skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 520 646
Rank change year-on-year -13 +126 +125
Contract jobs citing Rancher 14 49 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.13% 0.032%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.27% 0.95% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 9
10th Percentile £472 £546 £465
25th Percentile £505 £613 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £650 £528
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +23.22% -24.64%
75th Percentile - £719 £558
90th Percentile - £751 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £638 £475
% change year-on-year -15.69% +34.21% -29.63%

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 5,170 5,160 7,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.83% 13.57% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,397 3,500 5,224
10th Percentile £300 £307 £325
25th Percentile £410 £421 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £668
90th Percentile £682 £704 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 61 179
10th Percentile £13.75 £20.00 £18.45
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £33.50
Median hourly rate £29.25 £38.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.03% -30.00% +130.03%
75th Percentile £63.06 £60.00 £75.25
90th Percentile £67.78 £74.00 £79.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £39.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.50% -15.01% +114.79%

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
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Rancher.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Rancher

Rancher
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rancher over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Rancher in the UK

Rancher
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 Rancher within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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 13 £750 +15.38% 3
London +33 11 £750 +7.91% 1
Work from Home +35 4 £490 -31.47% 4
UK excluding London -33 2 £538 -15.69% 4
South East +12 1 £550 -8.33% 1
South West +5 1 £525 -19.23% 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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) RStudio
2 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (7.14%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 8 (57.14%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) Keycloak
2 1 (7.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (71.43%) Platform Engineering
3 8 (57.14%) GitOps
3 8 (57.14%) High Availability
4 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 6 (42.86%) DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) ITIL
6 2 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (14.29%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Observability
6 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Zero Trust
7 1 (7.14%) Change Management
7 1 (7.14%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (7.14%) Identity Management
7 1 (7.14%) Integration Testing
7 1 (7.14%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Bash
2 3 (21.43%) Go
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) Groovy
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (92.86%) Terraform
3 10 (71.43%) Ansible
4 4 (28.57%) Grafana
4 4 (28.57%) Prometheus
5 2 (14.29%) Istio
5 2 (14.29%) linkerd
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace