Rancher Job Trends

Rancher
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Rancher skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 664 769 715
Rank change year-on-year +105 -54 +351
Permanent jobs citing Rancher 6 17 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.022% 0.092%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.11% 0.24% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 55
10th Percentile £93,750 £52,500 £54,150
25th Percentile - £66,375 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £77,500 £135,000
Median % change year-on-year +54.84% -42.59% +80.00%
75th Percentile - £81,250 £143,750
90th Percentile - £82,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year - +37.17% +13.00%

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 5,294 7,159 9,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.78% 9.23% 14.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,114 4,409 7,384
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,430 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.29% -7.62% +4.35%

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Rancher.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Rancher

Rancher
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rancher over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Rancher in the UK

Rancher
Top 6 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 15 September 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
England +109 6 £120,000 +54.84% 3
London +87 4 £120,000 +26.32% 1
UK excluding London +82 2 £77,500 - 4
East of England -5 1 £77,500 +28.10%
North of England - 1 - - 1
North West - 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 5 (83.33%) OpenShift
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) GitLab
2 4 (66.67%) Git
2 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
3 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 4 (66.67%) Private Cloud
1 4 (66.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Business Continuity
3 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (66.67%) Data Protection
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 4 (66.67%) Network Architecture
3 4 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (66.67%) Quantitative Research
3 4 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 4 (66.67%) Security Hardening
3 4 (66.67%) Storage Management
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Bash
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Go
2 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (83.33%) Ansible
3 4 (66.67%) Terraform
3 4 (66.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) VMware