Hybrid/Remote Heroku Contract Job Trends

Heroku
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Heroku skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 330 418
Rank change year-on-year +24 +88 +171
Contract jobs citing Heroku 5 1 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.051% 0.008% 0.029%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.021% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £455 - £413
25th Percentile £500 - £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £375 £575
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -34.78% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 - £594
90th Percentile £745 - £598
UK median daily rate £585 £413 £588
% change year-on-year +41.82% -29.79% +16.92%

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 4,087 4,860 8,273
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 41.50% 37.80% 39.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,820 3,396 6,112
10th Percentile £340 £340 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 42 139
10th Percentile £18.29 £14.28 £18.90
25th Percentile £25.01 £18.70 £22.51
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -21.67% +28.57%
75th Percentile £67.00 £61.65 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £75.00 £77.63
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £28.50 £35.13
% change year-on-year -1.75% -18.86% +65.20%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Heroku.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Heroku

Heroku
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Heroku over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Heroku daily rate histogram 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (60.00%) Fastly
1 3 (60.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Figma
2 1 (20.00%) Miro
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Python Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Flask
1 3 (60.00%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) User Experience
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (60.00%) Domain Models
2 3 (60.00%) Mobile Development
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Debt
2 3 (60.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (20.00%) Rapid Prototyping
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce