Hackathon Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Hackathon
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hackathon in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hackathon over the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Hackathon 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.053% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £475 - -

All Generic Skills
City of London

Hackathon falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 688 590 755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.67% 31.28% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 371 504
10th Percentile £350 £376 £309
25th Percentile £451 £475 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £688 £710 £707
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 11
10th Percentile £18.51 - -
25th Percentile £20.04 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.13 - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.57%
75th Percentile £38.69 - £41.63
90th Percentile £41.85 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £25.79 £24.00
% change year-on-year +1.24% +7.46% -31.43%

Hackathon
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Hackathon job vacancy trend in the City of London

Hackathon
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Hackathon.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Hackathon

Hackathon
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python