Varnish Contract Job Trends in Central London

Varnish
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Varnish skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Varnish 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.043% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
London median daily rate £525 - -

All System Software Skills
Central London

Varnish falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 184 246 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 7.97% 12.48% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 168 212
10th Percentile £212 £233 £213
25th Percentile £408 £397 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +12.11% -13.64%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £709
London median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile £22.68 £22.29 -
25th Percentile - £23.85 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% -33.88% +81.82%
75th Percentile - £106.98 -
90th Percentile £46.02 £155.29 £46.15
London median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £22.23
% change year-on-year -3.71% +19.01% -19.18%

Varnish
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Varnish relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Varnish job vacancy trend in Central London

Varnish
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Varnish.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Varnish

Varnish
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Varnish within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London - 1 - - 1
Varnish
London

Varnish
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Magento
1 1 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Magento Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) KnockoutJS
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe