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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 663 740 691
Rank change year-on-year +77 -49 +377
Permanent jobs citing Rancher 5 15 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.021% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.099% 0.22% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 55
10th Percentile - £59,425 £55,500
25th Percentile - £72,813 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £77,500 £137,500
Median % change year-on-year +54.84% -43.64% +83.33%
75th Percentile - £81,250 £143,750
90th Percentile - £85,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £77,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year - +33.62% +19.59%

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 5,057 6,755 8,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.34% 9.58% 15.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,120 4,048 6,899
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £101,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,449 £57,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year -10.52% -3.40% +8.23%

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 5 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 16 October 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 +103 5 £120,000 +54.84% 3
London +57 4 £120,000 +26.32% 1
UK excluding London +64 1 - - 4
North of England - 1 - - 2
North West - 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 4 (80.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (80.00%) Private Cloud
1 4 (80.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Business Continuity
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 4 (80.00%) Network Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Quantitative Research
2 4 (80.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 4 (80.00%) Security Hardening
2 4 (80.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) Go
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) Python
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware