Rancher Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Rancher
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Rancher skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rancher 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 293 344 470
Rank change year-on-year +51 +126 +117
Contract jobs citing Rancher 11 1 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.007% 0.027%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.72% 0.061% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 6
10th Percentile £565 - £419
25th Percentile £625 - £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £740 £436 £556
Median % change year-on-year +69.72% -21.62% +1.14%
75th Percentile £750 - £741
90th Percentile £754 - £856
UK median daily rate £750 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +62.16% -9.76% -10.09%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Rancher falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,647 4,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.49% 10.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,220 3,179
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 73
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £26.55
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Rancher
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Rancher trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Rancher
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Rancher daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Rancher
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Rancher over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Rancher daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Rancher
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 5 (45.45%) nginx
1 5 (45.45%) Traefik
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (63.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (63.64%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (63.64%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (63.64%) AWS Fargate
3 7 (63.64%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) DNS
1 7 (63.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) GitLab
1 9 (81.82%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Senior
1 7 (63.64%) Senior DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) Kafka
2 7 (63.64%) cloud-init
2 7 (63.64%) Keycloak
3 1 (9.09%) Apache Camel
3 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (9.09%) Quarkus
3 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (9.09%) Spring
3 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
2 7 (63.64%) CentOS
2 7 (63.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (63.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (72.73%) Observability
3 7 (63.64%) Cloud Security
3 7 (63.64%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 7 (63.64%) Identity Management
3 7 (63.64%) Secrets Management
3 7 (63.64%) Static Application Security Testing
4 5 (45.45%) Mobile Device Management
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
5 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
6 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (9.09%) ITIL
7 1 (9.09%) Migration
7 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
7 1 (9.09%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Go
2 7 (63.64%) Bash
2 7 (63.64%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 7 (63.64%) AWS Certification
2 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) NCSC
2 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (81.82%) Terraform
3 7 (63.64%) Consul
3 7 (63.64%) Grafana
3 7 (63.64%) Istio
3 7 (63.64%) Jamf Pro
3 7 (63.64%) linkerd
3 7 (63.64%) Packer
3 7 (63.64%) Prometheus
3 7 (63.64%) ZABBIX
4 5 (45.45%) HAProxy
5 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Okta
1 7 (63.64%) Splunk
2 5 (45.45%) Apple
2 5 (45.45%) ESET
3 1 (9.09%) Confluent
3 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 1 (9.09%) MKS
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) VMware