Vagrant Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Vagrant
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Vagrant skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vagrant over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 341 472
Rank change year-on-year +39 +131 +129
Contract jobs citing Vagrant 3 3 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.020% 0.008%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.20% 0.16% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £615 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +20.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £645 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £388 £588 £533
% change year-on-year -33.96% +10.33% -0.93%

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 1,488 1,833 3,905
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.09% 12.04% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,071 1,319 2,795
10th Percentile £340 £360 £394
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.53% +3.33%
75th Percentile £609 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 42 110
10th Percentile £27.05 £27.62 £39.60
25th Percentile £57.63 £47.06 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £73.75 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 - £82.73
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -5.38% +5.69% +17.14%

Vagrant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Vagrant trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Vagrant
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Vagrant daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Vagrant
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 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) CircleCI
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Packer
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (33.33%) Consul
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes