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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 525 587 683
Rank change year-on-year +62 +96 +152
Contract jobs citing Vagrant 19 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.014% 0.019%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.40% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 8
10th Percentile £364 £566 £398
25th Percentile £404 £572 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £588 £488
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% +20.51% -11.36%
75th Percentile £488 £597 £619
90th Percentile £495 £599 £975
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -18.18%

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 4,754 5,351 7,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.53% 12.47% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,195 3,536 5,536
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £690 £724 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 248 238
10th Percentile £22.05 £30.28 £44.89
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +14.68%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.13 £86.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -2.31% +5.69% +10.47%

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 12 July 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 8 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 12 July 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 +56 17 £475 -17.39% 10
UK excluding London - 12 £475 - 9
Midlands - 9 £475 - 6
West Midlands - 9 £475 - 6
Work from Home +30 5 £630 +5.00% 5
London +29 3 £495 -13.91% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £370 - 1
North of England - 3 £370 - 3

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 14 (73.68%) Confluence
2 3 (15.79%) Apache
2 3 (15.79%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 16 (84.21%) AWS
2 10 (52.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 10 (52.63%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (52.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 9 (47.37%) Amazon ELB
3 9 (47.37%) Amazon S3
3 9 (47.37%) AWS KMS
4 6 (31.58%) Amazon Glacier
5 4 (21.05%) GitHub
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (15.79%) Route 53
7 2 (10.53%) Azure
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (5.26%) IaaS
8 1 (5.26%) PaaS
8 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (47.37%) SMTP
2 7 (36.84%) DNS
2 7 (36.84%) Firewall
2 7 (36.84%) FTP
2 7 (36.84%) HTTP
2 7 (36.84%) SSH
3 3 (15.79%) IMAP
3 3 (15.79%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (15.79%) MariaDB
2 3 (15.79%) MySQL
2 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (78.95%) Git
1 15 (78.95%) Jenkins
1 15 (78.95%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) Cucumber
2 3 (15.79%) Visual Studio
3 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.26%) CircleCI
General
1 9 (47.37%) Public Sector
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (21.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Administrator
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (15.79%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 3 (15.79%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Gherkin
1 3 (15.79%) LAMP
1 3 (15.79%) LDAP
2 2 (10.53%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Replication
2 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (63.16%) Linux
1 12 (63.16%) Windows
2 9 (47.37%) Amazon Linux
2 9 (47.37%) VMS
3 4 (21.05%) Ubuntu
4 3 (15.79%) CentOS
4 3 (15.79%) Debian
4 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) DevOps
2 13 (68.42%) Configuration Management
3 12 (63.16%) Change Management
4 10 (52.63%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (47.37%) Cloud Security
6 7 (36.84%) Agile
6 7 (36.84%) Patch Management
7 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
8 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
9 2 (10.53%) Build Automation
9 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
9 2 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
9 2 (10.53%) Security Hardening
9 2 (10.53%) Server Building
9 2 (10.53%) Server Patching
9 2 (10.53%) Software Deployment
10 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
10 1 (5.26%) Observability
10 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (84.21%) Python
2 13 (68.42%) PowerShell
3 9 (47.37%) Groovy
4 8 (42.11%) Perl
5 6 (31.58%) Java
6 4 (21.05%) Bash
7 3 (15.79%) Ruby
7 3 (15.79%) SQL
8 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
8 2 (10.53%) PHP
9 1 (5.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) Security Cleared
2 11 (57.89%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
System Software
1 14 (73.68%) Docker
2 7 (36.84%) DFS Replication
3 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
4 5 (26.32%) VirtualBox
5 3 (15.79%) Dovecot
5 3 (15.79%) Postfix
5 3 (15.79%) Squid
6 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) Terraform
2 9 (47.37%) Ansible
2 9 (47.37%) Grafana
2 9 (47.37%) Prometheus
3 6 (31.58%) Puppet
4 5 (26.32%) Progress Chef
5 3 (15.79%) Nessus
5 3 (15.79%) Packer
6 2 (10.53%) Icinga
6 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
6 2 (10.53%) Nagios
6 2 (10.53%) Salt
7 1 (5.26%) Consul
7 1 (5.26%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) ServiceNow
2 3 (15.79%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (15.79%) Rackspace
2 3 (15.79%) Splunk
3 2 (10.53%) New Relic
3 2 (10.53%) VMware
3 2 (10.53%) Zend
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft