Mercurial Contract Job Trends in England

Mercurial
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Mercurial skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 509 569
Rank change year-on-year -24 +60 +120
Contract jobs citing Mercurial 2 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.007% 0.013% 0.025%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.044% 0.097% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £405
25th Percentile - £670 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £671 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +21.91% -15.38%
75th Percentile - £671 £650
90th Percentile - - £695
UK median daily rate - £671 £550
% change year-on-year - +21.91% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £49.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £49.00 -

All Development Application Skills
England

Mercurial falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,578 4,136 5,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.39% 13.23% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,200 2,600 3,583
10th Percentile £325 £350 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £542
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.97% -2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 128 223
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £45.88
25th Percentile £54.94 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.50 £70.00 £77.02
90th Percentile £79.25 £74.61 £89.31
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.84%

Mercurial
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mercurial relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Mercurial job vacancy trend in England

Mercurial
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Mercurial.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Mercurial

Mercurial
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Mercurial.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Mercurial

Mercurial
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 Mercurial within the England region over the 6 months to 7 November 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 +2 2 - -
Mercurial
UK

Mercurial
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (100.00%) Electronics
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blog
1 2 (100.00%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Content Development
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) Instructional Design
1 2 (100.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco