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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 736 890 814
Rank change year-on-year +154 -76 +276
Permanent jobs citing Rancher 4 24 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.022% 0.093%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.066% 0.25% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3 17 58
10th Percentile £49,250 £40,000 £40,850
25th Percentile £59,375 £52,000 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £55,000 £135,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.91% -59.26% +62.65%
75th Percentile £78,750 £105,000 £150,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £55,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year +40.91% +18.28% -28.46%

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 6,055 9,632 12,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.17% 9.01% 14.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,308 6,755 8,575
10th Percentile £32,533 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -0.20%
75th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +4.55% -7.60% +3.52%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +157 4 £77,500 +40.91% 10
England +135 4 £77,500 +40.91% 23
East of England +39 2 £77,500 +28.10%
Work from Home +108 1 £45,000 -55.00% 10
Midlands +84 1 £45,000 -
North of England +46 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £45,000 -
North West - 1 - - 1

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 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (25.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior
3 1 (25.00%) Junior DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Junior DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Information Management
3 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) RAD
3 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) VMware