The first table below looks at the demand for nginx skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited nginx over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
nginx
Rank 456 533 573
Rank change year-on-year
+77 +40
Contract jobs citing nginx 73 51 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.157% 0.087% 0.018%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.869% 0.536% 0.108%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 46 3
Average daily rate £275 £450 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-38.88% +50.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £280 -
% change year-on-year
-1.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
8396 9507 10206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.10% 16.30% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4754 5212 5447
Average daily rate £359 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.64% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 431 562
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.85 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.75 £37.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%

nginx
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing nginx within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

nginx Jobs Demand Trend

nginx
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing nginx within the UK.

nginx Daily Rate Trend

nginx
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing nginx within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

nginx Daily Rate Histogram

nginx
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing nginx within the UK.

nginx Hourly Rate Trend

nginx
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing nginx within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +67 71 £275 -38.88%
West Yorkshire +37 41 £275 -1.78%
Yorkshire +34 41 £275 -1.78%
Leeds +25 41 £275 -1.78%
London +20 23 £275 -38.88%
City of London - 5 £325 -
East of England - 5 £325 -
Cambridgeshire - 2 £325 -
Bedfordshire - 2 £400 -
Stirling - 2 £375 -
Bath - 2 - -
Somerset - 2 - -
South West - 2 - -
Scotland - 2 £375 -
Hammersmith - 1 £200 -
Stirlingshire - 1 £475 -
Hertfordshire - 1 - -

nginx
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing nginx also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited nginx.

1 96 (95.05%) Apache
2 91 (90.10%) MySQL
3 89 (88.12%) Linux
4 71 (70.30%) PHP
5 70 (69.31%) Web Services
6 63 (62.38%) Python
7 61 (60.40%) Ruby
8 51 (50.50%) Redis
9 49 (48.51%) C++
10 48 (47.52%) MongoDB
11 47 (46.53%) TDD
12 46 (45.54%) Amazon AWS
13 45 (44.55%) Amazon EC2
13 45 (44.55%) Bash shell
14 43 (42.57%) Amazon S3
14 43 (42.57%) Puppet
14 43 (42.57%) Route 53
14 43 (42.57%) Continuous Integration
14 43 (42.57%) Kanban
15 42 (41.58%) Node.js
15 42 (41.58%) DNS
16 41 (40.59%) Amazon RDS
17 39 (38.61%) Internet
17 39 (38.61%) JavaScript
18 36 (35.64%) CSS
18 36 (35.64%) Configuration Management
18 36 (35.64%) HTTP
19 34 (33.66%) Perl
19 34 (33.66%) Oracle
20 33 (32.67%) Java

nginx
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing nginx also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited nginx. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 70 (69.31%) Web Services
2 42 (41.58%) Node.js
3 36 (35.64%) CSS
4 30 (29.70%) CSS3
5 29 (28.71%) jQuery
6 28 (27.72%) HTML5
7 24 (23.76%) HTML
8 20 (19.80%) Ruby on Rails
9 18 (17.82%) POSIX
10 17 (16.83%) Django
11 16 (15.84%) SOAP
11 16 (15.84%) Ajax
11 16 (15.84%) RESTful
12 12 (11.88%) Mustache
13 11 (10.89%) LAMP
13 11 (10.89%) REST
14 10 (9.901%) XML
15 9 (8.911%) XSLT
15 9 (8.911%) JSON
16 8 (7.921%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 96 (95.05%) Apache
2 46 (45.54%) Amazon AWS
3 45 (44.55%) Amazon EC2
4 43 (42.57%) Amazon S3
4 43 (42.57%) Route 53
5 13 (12.87%) Apache Solr
6 7 (6.931%) Tomcat
6 7 (6.931%) Adobe CQ
7 6 (5.941%) IIS
8 5 (4.950%) Gunicorn
9 3 (2.970%) WordPress
9 3 (2.970%) Drupal
9 3 (2.970%) Magento
10 2 (1.980%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (1.980%) CloudFront
11 1 (0.990%) Moodle
11 1 (0.990%) Mule
11 1 (0.990%) ESB
11 1 (0.990%) RabbitMQ
Business Applications
1 13 (12.87%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.980%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 42 (41.58%) DNS
2 39 (38.61%) Internet
3 36 (35.64%) HTTP
4 24 (23.76%) TCP/IP
5 19 (18.81%) DHCP
6 18 (17.82%) SSL
7 12 (11.88%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (4.950%) FTP
9 4 (3.960%) SMTP
10 3 (2.970%) TACACS
11 1 (0.990%) VRRP
11 1 (0.990%) SAN
11 1 (0.990%) IPsec
11 1 (0.990%) Firewall
11 1 (0.990%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.990%) SSH
11 1 (0.990%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.990%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (90.10%) MySQL
2 51 (50.50%) Redis
3 48 (47.52%) MongoDB
4 41 (40.59%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (23.76%) NoSQL
6 20 (19.80%) RDBMS
7 18 (17.82%) SimpleDB
7 18 (17.82%) Couchbase
8 7 (6.931%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.980%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.980%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.990%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.990%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 33 (32.67%) Git (software)
2 23 (22.77%) Subversion
3 11 (10.89%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.931%) Maven
5 5 (4.950%) Eclipse
6 4 (3.960%) Capistrano
7 2 (1.980%) Phing
7 2 (1.980%) Capybara
7 2 (1.980%) RSpec
7 2 (1.980%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.980%) PHPUnit
7 2 (1.980%) Ant
8 1 (0.990%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.990%) Balsamiq Mockups
8 1 (0.990%) Hudson
8 1 (0.990%) Bitbucket
General
1 25 (24.75%) Telecoms
2 11 (10.89%) Games
3 3 (2.970%) Marketing
4 2 (1.980%) Finance
5 1 (0.990%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (41.58%) Developer
2 23 (22.77%) Software Engineer
3 13 (12.87%) Web Developer
3 13 (12.87%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 9 (8.911%) Python Developer
4 9 (8.911%) Operations Engineer
5 7 (6.931%) Java Developer
6 6 (5.941%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (5.941%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (4.950%) PHP Developer
7 5 (4.950%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (3.960%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.960%) Ruby Developer
8 4 (3.960%) Software Developer
8 4 (3.960%) Administrator
9 3 (2.970%) Graduate
9 3 (2.970%) Systems Administrator
9 3 (2.970%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (2.970%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 2 (1.980%) Django Developer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (24.75%) Client/Server
2 17 (16.83%) Open Source
3 13 (12.87%) Computer Science
4 12 (11.88%) W3C
5 11 (10.89%) Online Games
6 3 (2.970%) Replication
6 3 (2.970%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.990%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.990%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 89 (88.12%) Linux
2 17 (16.83%) Windows
3 14 (13.86%) UNIX
4 9 (8.911%) Windows XP
4 9 (8.911%) Windows 7
4 9 (8.911%) Ubuntu
5 8 (7.921%) Debian
6 4 (3.960%) FreeBSD
7 3 (2.970%) Solaris
7 3 (2.970%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.970%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.980%) Mac OS X Server
8 2 (1.980%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (1.980%) CentOS
8 2 (1.980%) Gentoo
8 2 (1.980%) OpenBSD
8 2 (1.980%) Mac OS X
8 2 (1.980%) VMS
9 1 (0.990%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.990%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (46.53%) TDD
2 43 (42.57%) Continuous Integration
2 43 (42.57%) Kanban
3 36 (35.64%) Configuration Management
4 31 (30.69%) Scrum
5 25 (24.75%) Test Automation
6 21 (20.79%) OO
7 19 (18.81%) Security Testing
8 18 (17.82%) Load Balancing
9 16 (15.84%) Incident Management
9 16 (15.84%) Capacity Management
10 12 (11.88%) Agile Software Development
11 9 (8.911%) Software Engineering
12 7 (6.931%) SOA
12 7 (6.931%) BDD
13 6 (5.941%) Performance Testing
13 6 (5.941%) Project Management
13 6 (5.941%) OOP
14 5 (4.950%) Web Development
15 4 (3.960%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 71 (70.30%) PHP
2 63 (62.38%) Python
3 61 (60.40%) Ruby
4 49 (48.51%) C++
5 45 (44.55%) Bash shell
6 39 (38.61%) JavaScript
7 34 (33.66%) Perl
8 33 (32.67%) Java
9 20 (19.80%) SQL
10 5 (4.950%) VB
10 5 (4.950%) VC++
11 4 (3.960%) PHP5
11 4 (3.960%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.980%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.980%) Objective-C
12 2 (1.980%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (12.87%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.970%) SLA
2 1 (0.990%) QA
System Software
1 17 (16.83%) Varnish
2 3 (2.970%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.990%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.990%) VMware ESX
3 1 (0.990%) Squid
3 1 (0.990%) Shibboleth
3 1 (0.990%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 43 (42.57%) Puppet
2 2 (1.980%) ZABBIX
3 1 (0.990%) Nagios
Vendors
1 34 (33.66%) Oracle
2 20 (19.80%) Percona
3 7 (6.931%) Adobe
3 7 (6.931%) hybris
4 6 (5.941%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.950%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.960%) Zend
7 3 (2.970%) VMware
8 2 (1.980%) Google
8 2 (1.980%) Apple
9 1 (0.990%) Salesforce.com
9 1 (0.990%) Sencha
London
Drupal 7. -Cloud Based Infrastructure - Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, ELB, CloudFormation, CloudFront, Route 53) -Linux (Ubuntu, Redhat) -Apache... -Nginx. -PHP. -MongoDB. -MySQL/Percona. -HTML4/5 + Javascript + CSS2/...
Hotfoot Resourcing.
Rate: From £100 to £150 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Drupal 7. -Cloud Based Infrastructure - Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, ELB, CloudFormation, CloudFront, Route 53) -Linux (Ubuntu, Redhat) -Apache... -Nginx. -PHP. -MongoDB. -MySQL/Percona. -HTML4/5 + Javascript + CSS2/...
Hotfoot Resourcing.
Rate: From £100 to £150 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Our client requires a Systems Engineer with Web Platforms experience to work onsite in Canary Wharf. To help keep our client's marketing sites and web applications running...
Experis IT
Rate: £400.00 - £450.00 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Strong SQL skills... Good understanding of Web and Web services: C# / ASP.NET MVC / WCF / WebApi. HTML / CSS / JavaScript... Redis. Mercurial source control. Linux. TeamCity. PHP and Nginx.
Release Recruitment
Rate: From £300 to £400 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
West London
Computer Futures are seeking a Linux Systems Administrator for a client based in West London. This is a 6 month contract with a view to go permanent thereafter.
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013