Vagrant Contracts

Vagrant
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Vagrant skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vagrant 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 514 576 706
Rank change year-on-year +62 +130 +116
Contract jobs citing Vagrant 6 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.014% 0.020%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.15% 0.12% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 9
10th Percentile £356 £566 £443
25th Percentile £358 £572 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £379 £588 £533
Median % change year-on-year -35.53% +10.33% -2.07%
75th Percentile £452 £597 £575
90th Percentile £568 £599 £975
UK excluding London median daily rate £370 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +2.33%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Vagrant falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,103 5,181 9,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.89% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,744 3,477 6,339
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £717 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 197 246
10th Percentile £26.92 £32.48 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.53 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £81.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

Vagrant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Vagrant in the UK

Vagrant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Vagrant in the UK

Vagrant
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Vagrant in the UK

Vagrant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Vagrant.

Hourly rate trend for Vagrant in the UK

Vagrant
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vagrant 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 +58 4 £379 -34.13% 12
Work from Home +41 3 £630 +5.00% 5
UK excluding London - 3 £370 - 8
North of England - 3 £370 - 7
Yorkshire - 3 £370 - 2

Vagrant
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 3 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) GitHub
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (16.67%) CircleCI
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Change Management
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Customer Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Ruby
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VirtualBox
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Packer
2 3 (50.00%) Puppet
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (16.67%) Consul
4 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk