Rancher
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Rancher skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Rancher over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 687 858 908
Rank change year-on-year +171 +50 +115
Permanent jobs citing Rancher 5 38 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.039% 0.078%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.10% 0.38% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4 30 54
10th Percentile £50,750 £40,000 £38,650
25th Percentile £63,125 £52,500 £65,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £58,350 £127,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.68% -54.24% +53.61%
75th Percentile £79,063 £60,025 £150,000
90th Percentile £79,625 £105,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £57,750 £36,700
% change year-on-year +34.20% +57.36% -43.54%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,978 10,017 15,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.57% 10.17% 14.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,344 7,239 9,373
10th Percentile £37,075 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.17% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,150 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

Rancher
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Rancher as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Rancher in the UK

Rancher
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Rancher.

Salary trend for Rancher in the UK

Rancher
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rancher over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Rancher in the UK

Rancher
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rancher within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
UK excluding London +179 4 £77,500 +34.20% 14
England +143 4 £77,500 +33.22% 20
East of England - 2 £77,500 - 2
Work from Home +178 1 £45,000 -36.24% 20
North of England +82 1 - - 7
Midlands +77 1 £45,000 - 1
North West - 1 - - 6
East Midlands - 1 £45,000 -

Rancher
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (20.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (20.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (20.00%) Travis CI
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Law
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Junior
3 1 (20.00%) Junior DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Junior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) RAD
3 3 (60.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (40.00%) Information Management
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 1 (20.00%) Digital Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Automic
3 1 (20.00%) Consul
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Hitachi
1 1 (20.00%) VMware