Hackathon
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hackathon in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Hackathon over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 856 617 476
Rank change year-on-year -239 -141 +151
Permanent jobs citing Hackathon 46 393 1,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.39% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.91% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 37 85 188
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £33,375
25th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £78,142 £66,786
Median % change year-on-year -23.22% +17.00% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £108,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £61,434 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.40% +36.52% -14.29%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,043 43,311 74,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.36% 42.74% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23,056 23,480 33,820
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,550 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Hackathon.

Salary trend for Hackathon in the UK

Hackathon
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hackathon over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Hackathon in the UK

Hackathon
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hackathon within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -195 46 £60,000 -23.22% 14
Work from Home -8 25 £60,000 -23.22% 11
UK excluding London -4 24 £57,500 -6.40% 5
London -162 22 £85,000 -5.56% 9
South West -14 10 £57,500 +12.75% 2
South East -1 6 - - 1
North of England +41 5 £60,000 -5.88%
North West +6 5 £60,000 -11.11%
East of England - 3 - -

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 16 (34.78%) Azure
2 11 (23.91%) AWS
3 6 (13.04%) SaaS
4 5 (10.87%) Datadog
5 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.35%) Serverless
7 1 (2.17%) GCP
7 1 (2.17%) Google Container Engine
7 1 (2.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.52%) Big Data
2 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (6.52%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.52%) Redis
3 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) JMeter
1 6 (13.04%) JUnit
1 6 (13.04%) Selenium
1 6 (13.04%) WebDriver
2 3 (6.52%) Git
2 3 (6.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (6.52%) Visual Studio
2 3 (6.52%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (4.35%) Appium
3 2 (4.35%) CircleCI
3 2 (4.35%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.35%) XCUITest
General
1 8 (17.39%) Finance
2 7 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Front Office
3 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 23 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 20 (43.48%) Senior
3 14 (30.43%) Senior Software Engineer
4 10 (21.74%) Developer
5 6 (13.04%) Lead
6 5 (10.87%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 5 (10.87%) Principal Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Principal Software Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Junior
7 4 (8.70%) Junior Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Junior Software Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Software Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Architect
8 3 (6.52%) Big Data Architect
8 3 (6.52%) Data Architect
8 3 (6.52%) Python Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Senior Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 2 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.39%) React
2 4 (8.70%) CSS
2 4 (8.70%) HTML
3 3 (6.52%) .NET
3 3 (6.52%) .NET Framework
3 3 (6.52%) ASP.NET
3 3 (6.52%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (6.52%) HTML5
3 3 (6.52%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (6.52%) REST
3 3 (6.52%) XML
3 3 (6.52%) XSLT
4 2 (4.35%) FastAPI
4 2 (4.35%) Flask
5 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.17%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Embedded Systems
2 6 (13.04%) Social Media
3 3 (6.52%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.35%) Low-Code
4 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.17%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Windows
2 2 (4.35%) Android
2 2 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (56.52%) Software Engineering
2 17 (36.96%) CI/CD
3 15 (32.61%) Roadmaps
4 14 (30.43%) Agile
5 13 (28.26%) Code Quality
6 11 (23.91%) TDD
7 10 (21.74%) DevOps
7 10 (21.74%) Multithreading
7 10 (21.74%) Technology Roadmap
8 9 (19.57%) Computer Science
9 8 (17.39%) Mentoring
10 7 (15.22%) Line Management
11 6 (13.04%) BDD
11 6 (13.04%) Front End Development
11 6 (13.04%) Pair Programming
11 6 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 6 (13.04%) Software Testing
12 5 (10.87%) Community of Practice
12 5 (10.87%) Deployment Automation
12 5 (10.87%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.74%) C++
1 10 (21.74%) Java
1 10 (21.74%) Python
2 8 (17.39%) JavaScript
3 6 (13.04%) SQL
4 4 (8.70%) C#
5 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.17%) C
6 1 (2.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) Degree
2 5 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (32.61%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.17%) Google
2 1 (2.17%) YouTube