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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 620 728 659
Rank change year-on-year +108 -69 +343
Permanent jobs citing Rancher 12 14 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.021% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.27% 0.21% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 53
10th Percentile - £68,050 £56,675
25th Percentile £47,617 £72,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £77,500 £137,500
Median % change year-on-year +54.84% -43.64% +77.42%
75th Percentile - £81,250 £143,750
90th Percentile - £81,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £77,500 £58,350
% change year-on-year - +32.82% +20.31%

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 4,369 6,609 7,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.08% 10.10% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,116 4,015 6,489
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,612 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £105,000 £103,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £56,525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.72% +0.08%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 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 +106 12 £120,000 +54.84% 3
London +72 7 £120,000 +50.00% 2
UK excluding London +82 4 - - 3
South West +33 2 - -
North West - 2 - -
North of England - 2 - -
Work from Home +87 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 9 (75.00%) AWS
1 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (41.67%) GCP
4 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) GitHub
5 3 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
7 1 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (8.33%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Git
1 8 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (41.67%) GitLab
3 3 (25.00%) Subversion
4 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (33.33%) Games
2 2 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Electronics
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Military
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Publishing
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Public Cloud
2 4 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 4 (33.33%) Private Cloud
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) SUSE
3 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (75.00%) DevOps
4 7 (58.33%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
5 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
6 4 (33.33%) Agile
6 4 (33.33%) Business Continuity
6 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
6 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (33.33%) Data Protection
6 4 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (33.33%) Network Architecture
6 4 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (33.33%) Quantitative Research
6 4 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (33.33%) Security Hardening
6 4 (33.33%) Storage Management
7 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Go
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) Bash
3 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (25.00%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (75.00%) Ansible
2 9 (75.00%) Terraform
3 5 (41.67%) Argo
4 4 (33.33%) vRealize
5 3 (25.00%) Grafana
5 3 (25.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (16.67%) yum
7 1 (8.33%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) SAP