Hackathon Contracts

Hackathon
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hackathon in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Hackathon over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 692 847
Rank change year-on-year +104 +155 -161
Contract jobs citing Hackathon 2 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.019% 0.015%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.015% 0.056% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 7
10th Percentile £323 £343 £408
25th Percentile £340 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.12% -26.09% -14.81%
75th Percentile £440 £613 £625
90th Percentile £461 £624 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate - £350 £425
% change year-on-year - -17.65% +25.93%

All Generic Skills
UK

Hackathon is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,163 19,732 29,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.34% 33.30% 33.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,459 13,566 20,480
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £656
90th Percentile £788 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 907 640 723
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.13% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.05 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £20.07
% change year-on-year +29.55% +9.64% -16.40%

Hackathon
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Hackathon as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Hackathon in the UK

Hackathon
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hackathon.

Daily rate trend for Hackathon in the UK

Hackathon
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hackathon over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Hackathon in the UK

Hackathon
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hackathon within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +126 2 £386 - 8
England +117 2 £386 -14.17% 13
London +87 2 £386 -14.17% 8

Hackathon
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 2 (100.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) git-flow
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) boto
1 2 (100.00%) FastAPI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree