Heroku Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Heroku
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Heroku skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Heroku 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 300 343 468
Rank change year-on-year +43 +125 +129
Contract jobs citing Heroku 4 2 9
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.013% 0.035%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.10% 0.036% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £345
25th Percentile £613 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -16.67% -12.20%
75th Percentile £638 - £475
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £625 £375 £463
% change year-on-year +66.67% -18.92% -17.78%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Heroku falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Heroku
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Heroku as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Heroku trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Heroku
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Heroku.

Heroku daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Heroku
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (75.00%) CMS
1 3 (75.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) DigitalOcean
1 3 (75.00%) Figma
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
1 3 (75.00%) Google Workspace
1 3 (75.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Alpine.js
1 3 (75.00%) Bootstrap
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) Laravel
1 3 (75.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) CRM
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Project Management
1 3 (75.00%) Prototyping
1 3 (75.00%) Technology Strategy
1 3 (75.00%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
1 3 (75.00%) Sage
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce