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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 673 668 773
Rank change year-on-year -5 +105 +156
Permanent jobs citing Rancher 17 4 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.009% 0.051%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.38% 0.074% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 34
10th Percentile - £48,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,617 £56,250 £56,356
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,860 £75,000 £58,350
Median % change year-on-year -32.19% +28.53% -45.72%
75th Percentile £70,576 £79,375 £105,000
90th Percentile £100,231 £79,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary - £61,250 £58,350
% change year-on-year - +4.97% +58.99%

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 4,448 5,389 8,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.16% 11.76% 11.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,068 3,494 7,023
10th Percentile £32,425 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,356 £50,546 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £101,275 £113,375 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% -4.42%

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
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rancher over the 6 months to 6 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Rancher in the UK

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 6 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 -11 15 £50,860 -16.96% 6
UK excluding London -19 9 - - 3
South West - 6 - -
London - 5 £50,860 - 2
North West -7 3 - -
North of England -31 3 - - 1
Work from Home +29 1 - - 2

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 8 (47.06%) AWS
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) GCP
3 5 (29.41%) OpenShift
4 4 (23.53%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (23.53%) GitHub
5 3 (17.65%) Azure AKS
5 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (17.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) DynamoDB
1 3 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (17.65%) MongoDB
1 3 (17.65%) MySQL
1 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
1 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (82.35%) Git
2 10 (58.82%) Subversion
3 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
4 4 (23.53%) GitLab
5 3 (17.65%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (29.41%) Aerospace
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Electronics
4 1 (5.88%) Games
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Military
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Publishing
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Public Cloud
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) SUSE
3 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 14 (82.35%) DevOps
3 12 (70.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (64.71%) Agile
5 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
5 7 (41.18%) Kanban
5 7 (41.18%) Scrum
5 7 (41.18%) SDLC
6 5 (29.41%) Collaborative Culture
6 5 (29.41%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (29.41%) Validation
7 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
7 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (17.65%) Cost Optimisation
8 3 (17.65%) FinOps
8 3 (17.65%) GitOps
8 3 (17.65%) Observability
8 3 (17.65%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) Python
2 12 (70.59%) Go
2 12 (70.59%) Java
3 10 (58.82%) Bash
4 3 (17.65%) SQL
5 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (52.94%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (70.59%) Argo
3 8 (47.06%) Ansible
3 8 (47.06%) Terraform
3 8 (47.06%) yum
4 5 (29.41%) Puppet
5 3 (17.65%) Grafana
5 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
6 1 (5.88%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (5.88%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) VMware
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) SAP