Hackathon Contracts in England

Hackathon
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hackathon in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hackathon over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 540 642
Rank change year-on-year +58 +102 +131
Contract jobs citing Hackathon 3 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.012% 0.005% 0.022%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.036% 0.017% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £708 £323 £348
25th Percentile £719 £340 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £386 £450
Median % change year-on-year +94.17% -14.17% -23.40%
75th Percentile £794 £440 £613
90th Percentile £813 £461 £628
UK median daily rate £750 £386 £425
% change year-on-year +94.17% -9.12% -26.09%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Hackathon
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Hackathon as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Hackathon in England

Hackathon
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hackathon in England.

Daily rate trend for Hackathon in England

Hackathon
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 Hackathon within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +38 2 £750 +94.17% 70
Hackathon
UK

Hackathon
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jasmine
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Law
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Angular Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Innovation Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) Flask
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Lean Six Sigma
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) OOD
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Six Sigma
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (33.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Bloomberg
1 1 (33.33%) LexisNexis