Rancher Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Rancher
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Rancher skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 561 544
Rank change year-on-year +60 -17 +203
Permanent jobs citing Rancher 5 11 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.031% 0.066%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.22% 0.35% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 21
10th Percentile - £73,125 £56,250
25th Percentile - £73,750 £56,675
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £77,500 £58,350
Median % change year-on-year - +32.82% +20.31%
75th Percentile - £81,250 £61,700
90th Percentile - - £72,433
UK median annual salary £120,000 £77,500 £107,500
% change year-on-year +54.84% -27.91% +38.71%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

Rancher falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,305 3,161 4,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.46% 8.81% 12.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,596 1,794 3,454
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,283 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £69,404 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.95% +6.78% -3.70%

Rancher
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Rancher job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Rancher
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Rancher
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 Rancher within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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 West +12 3 - -
North West +29 2 - -
North of England +29 2 - -
Rancher
UK

Rancher
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 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (60.00%) Subversion
3 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (40.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (60.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (60.00%) Kanban
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) System Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Go
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Bash
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Argo
2 3 (60.00%) yum
3 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 2 (40.00%) Terraform