Hybrid/Remote Vagrant Contract Job Trends

Vagrant
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Vagrant skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 314 390
Rank change year-on-year -1 +76 +180
Contract jobs citing Vagrant 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.029% 0.016% 0.006%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.19% 0.13% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £615 £450
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +36.67% -24.21%
UK median daily rate £475 £340 £525
% change year-on-year +39.71% -35.24% -

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Vagrant falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,565 1,536 2,378
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.37% 12.66% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,048 984 1,719
10th Percentile £331 £325 £360
25th Percentile £400 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £610 £619
90th Percentile £669 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 25 71
10th Percentile £39.00 £25.40 £50.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £51.25 £60.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £67.00 £68.00 £90.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.50 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%

Vagrant
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Vagrant and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Vagrant job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Vagrant
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Vagrant.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Vagrant

Vagrant
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Confluence
2 2 (66.67%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Route 53
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) FTP
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) IMAP
1 1 (33.33%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (33.33%) SMTP
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MariaDB
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LAMP
1 2 (66.67%) Zend Framework
2 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) CentOS
2 2 (66.67%) Debian
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (33.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Build Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Security Hardening
2 2 (66.67%) Server Building
2 2 (66.67%) Server Patching
2 2 (66.67%) Software Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) Groovy
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) VirtualBox
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) DFS Replication
3 1 (33.33%) Dovecot
3 1 (33.33%) Postfix
3 1 (33.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Icinga
1 2 (66.67%) Nagios
1 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
1 2 (66.67%) Salt
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Nessus
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Proxmox
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) New Relic
1 2 (66.67%) Rackspace
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
1 2 (66.67%) Zend
2 1 (33.33%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow