Mercurial Contracts in England

Mercurial
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Mercurial skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mercurial over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 542 603
Rank change year-on-year +48 +61 +129
Contract jobs citing Mercurial 4 10 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.015% 0.027% 0.077%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.11% 0.22% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 34
10th Percentile - £467 £313
25th Percentile £354 £496 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -37.87% +17.50% -14.71%
75th Percentile £377 £651 £725
90th Percentile - £663 £757
UK median daily rate £273 £569 £500
% change year-on-year -52.00% +13.75% -14.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 -

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 3,766 4,584 6,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.18% 12.32% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,567 3,060 4,799
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £409 £425 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £637 £675
90th Percentile £707 £730 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 234 208
10th Percentile £28.41 £33.02 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +16.82%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.83 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +15.74%

Mercurial
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Mercurial in England

Mercurial
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Mercurial in England

Mercurial
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mercurial in England.

Hourly rate trend for Mercurial in England

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 6 July 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 +37 4 £365 -41.97% 14
Mercurial
UK

Mercurial
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 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Subversion
3 1 (25.00%) Gradle
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Maven
3 1 (25.00%) Mockito
General
1 2 (50.00%) Electronics
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
1 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Android Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Blog
1 2 (50.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Content Development
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (50.00%) Instructional Design
1 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (25.00%) Android Development
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) C++
2 2 (50.00%) Go
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNA
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Puppet
2 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft