Heroku Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Heroku
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Heroku skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 559 568
Rank change year-on-year +51 +9 +172
Permanent jobs citing Heroku 1 7 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.002% 0.019% 0.014%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.007% 0.060% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - - £52,500
25th Percentile - £42,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -28.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile - £57,500 £70,000
90th Percentile - £63,500 £71,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +14.29%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

Heroku falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,614 11,604 12,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.10% 32.30% 36.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,850 6,313 10,415
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

Heroku
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Heroku relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Heroku job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Heroku
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Heroku.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Heroku

Heroku
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Heroku within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 1 £55,000 - 3
Heroku
UK

Heroku
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudflare
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SendGrid