Bun Contract Job Trends in England

Anthropic Bun
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Bun skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Bun 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.010% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.051% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £390 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £492 - -
90th Percentile £501 - -
UK median daily rate £450 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Bun falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,882 5,421 7,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.45% 22.37% 20.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,231 3,744 5,326
10th Percentile £363 £365 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 103 226
10th Percentile £34.50 £33.25 £22.12
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.95 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

Bun
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bun in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Bun in England

Bun
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bun within the England region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
North West - 2 £479 -
North of England - 2 £479 -
London - 1 - -
South West - 1 £388 -
Bun
UK

Bun
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Run
1 1 (25.00%) Figma
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Vite
1 1 (25.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Deno
1 3 (75.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (50.00%) Nuxt
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) Vue
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) Playwright
3 1 (25.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) CQRS
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Database Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Fintech
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Order Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe
1 1 (25.00%) F5
1 1 (25.00%) Google