Hybrid/Remote Rancher Contract Job Trends

Rancher
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Rancher skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 330 402
Rank change year-on-year +27 +72 +162
Contract jobs citing Rancher 4 7 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.041% 0.055% 0.025%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.26% 0.41% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £432 £657 £440
25th Percentile £452 £666 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £715 £475
Median % change year-on-year -31.47% +50.53% -26.92%
75th Percentile £518 £754 £488
90th Percentile £537 £758 £513
UK median daily rate £750 £650 £528
% change year-on-year +15.38% +23.22% -27.24%

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 1,557 1,710 3,088
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.82% 13.42% 15.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,006 1,190 2,277
10th Percentile £362 £358 £375
25th Percentile £418 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £675
90th Percentile £675 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 64
10th Percentile £29.90 £37.13 £21.71
25th Percentile £35.25 £41.00 £39.21
Median hourly rate £58.25 £52.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.95% -16.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £64.56 £56.88 £72.81
90th Percentile £67.55 £60.00 £78.58
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £38.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.62% -30.00% +130.03%

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 Hybrid Work Options

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

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

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 18 September 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) RStudio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Release Management
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Go
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (50.00%) Istio
2 2 (50.00%) linkerd
2 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow