Rancher Job Trends

Rancher
UK

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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 669 656 791
Rank change year-on-year -13 +135 +146
Permanent jobs citing Rancher 16 4 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.009% 0.048%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.36% 0.079% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 33
10th Percentile - £48,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,617 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,860 £75,000 £58,350
Median % change year-on-year -32.19% +28.53% -51.38%
75th Percentile £54,102 £79,375 £72,433
90th Percentile - £79,750 £114,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £61,250 £58,000
% change year-on-year - +5.60% +63.84%

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 4,409 5,086 9,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.98% 11.65% 10.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,046 3,470 7,186
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -4.39%

Rancher
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Rancher job vacancy trend 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
Top 7 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 13 March 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
England +3 14 £50,860 -16.96% 5
UK excluding London -22 9 - - 4
South West - 6 - -
London - 4 £50,860 -
North West -13 3 - -
North of England -37 3 - - 2
Work from Home +22 1 - - 1

Rancher
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (43.75%) AWS
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
1 7 (43.75%) GCP
2 4 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (25.00%) GitHub
2 4 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (18.75%) Azure AKS
3 3 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (18.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (6.25%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) DynamoDB
1 3 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (18.75%) MongoDB
1 3 (18.75%) MySQL
1 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
1 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (81.25%) Git
2 10 (62.50%) Subversion
3 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (18.75%) Bitbucket
4 3 (18.75%) GitLab
General
1 5 (31.25%) Aerospace
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Electronics
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Military
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Publishing
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
1 3 (18.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) SUSE
3 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (81.25%) DevOps
3 11 (68.75%) Agile
3 11 (68.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
4 7 (43.75%) Kanban
4 7 (43.75%) Scrum
4 7 (43.75%) SDLC
5 5 (31.25%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (31.25%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (31.25%) Validation
6 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
6 3 (18.75%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (18.75%) FinOps
6 3 (18.75%) GitOps
6 3 (18.75%) Observability
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Java
1 12 (75.00%) Python
2 11 (68.75%) Go
3 9 (56.25%) Bash
4 3 (18.75%) SQL
5 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (50.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (56.25%) QA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (75.00%) Argo
3 8 (50.00%) yum
4 7 (43.75%) Ansible
4 7 (43.75%) Terraform
5 5 (31.25%) Puppet
6 3 (18.75%) Grafana
6 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
7 1 (6.25%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) VMware
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) SAP