nginx Contract Job Trends in England

nginx
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring nginx skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 416 461
Rank change year-on-year -120 +45 -31
Contract jobs citing nginx 54 63 81
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.26% 0.22%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.45% 2.21% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 54 47
10th Percentile £473 £358 £385
25th Percentile £519 £423 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £569 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% +7.26% -18.46%
75th Percentile £693 £738 £588
90th Percentile £727 £768 £643
UK median daily rate £550 £559 £540
% change year-on-year -1.52% +3.43% -10.00%

All Application Platform Skills
England

nginx falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,724 2,846 3,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.46% 11.64% 9.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,588 1,908 2,491
10th Percentile £313 £281 £250
25th Percentile £406 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £496
Median % change year-on-year - +0.91% -5.62%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 70 142
10th Percentile £15.20 £16.26 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.04 £15.03
Median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £27.51
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +90.86% +10.03%
75th Percentile £74.00 £64.88 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £42.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -16.47% +49.12% +3.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

nginx job vacancy trend in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing nginx

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing nginx in England over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for nginx in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing nginx

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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 nginx within the England region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
London -68 41 £575 +4.55% 9
North of England -83 3 £550 -8.33% 3
South West -31 2 £688 +12.24% 3
North West -38 1 £450 +25.70% 2
Yorkshire -57 1 £675 -8.47%
West Midlands -58 1 £550 - 1
Midlands -72 1 £550 - 1
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UK

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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:

Application Platforms
1 31 (57.41%) Confluence
2 8 (14.81%) Tomcat
3 3 (5.56%) Apache
3 3 (5.56%) WebLogic
4 2 (3.70%) CMS
4 2 (3.70%) Traefik
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.85%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Magento
1 1 (1.85%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.85%) Shopify
1 1 (1.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 40 (74.07%) AWS
2 15 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (20.37%) Amazon EKS
3 11 (20.37%) Serverless
4 10 (18.52%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (18.52%) Amazon S3
5 9 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (16.67%) Route 53
5 9 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 8 (14.81%) GitHub
7 5 (9.26%) Azure
8 3 (5.56%) GCP
9 2 (3.70%) MinIO
10 1 (1.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (1.85%) Figma
10 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 13 (24.07%) DNS
2 11 (20.37%) Firewall
2 11 (20.37%) VPN
3 10 (18.52%) TCP/IP
4 9 (16.67%) OpenVPN
5 6 (11.11%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (9.26%) HTTP
7 1 (1.85%) DHCP
7 1 (1.85%) DSL
7 1 (1.85%) ICMP
7 1 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.85%) NAS
7 1 (1.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (31.48%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (25.93%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (12.96%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.70%) GIS
4 2 (3.70%) MySQL
4 2 (3.70%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.85%) Redis
5 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.85%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 32 (59.26%) JIRA
2 25 (46.30%) Git
3 14 (25.93%) Bitbucket
4 9 (16.67%) GitLab
5 7 (12.96%) Jenkins
5 7 (12.96%) SonarQube
6 4 (7.41%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.85%) Capybara
7 1 (1.85%) minitest
7 1 (1.85%) PHPUnit
7 1 (1.85%) RSpec
7 1 (1.85%) Selenium
7 1 (1.85%) Vite
General
1 20 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.93%) Public Sector
3 7 (12.96%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (9.26%) Finance
5 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (24.07%) Architect
2 7 (12.96%) Developer
3 6 (11.11%) AWS Architect
3 6 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) JIRA Specialist
4 5 (9.26%) Scrum Master
4 5 (9.26%) Technical Architect
5 4 (7.41%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (7.41%) DevOps Specialist
6 3 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Lead
6 3 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.70%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.52%) LDAP
2 9 (16.67%) OpenID
3 4 (7.41%) Vue
4 3 (5.56%) CSS
4 3 (5.56%) EJB
4 3 (5.56%) HTML
4 3 (5.56%) Middleware
4 3 (5.56%) React
5 2 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.70%) FastAPI
5 2 (3.70%) Hugging Face
5 2 (3.70%) Java EE
5 2 (3.70%) Node.js
5 2 (3.70%) OpenLayers
5 2 (3.70%) REST
5 2 (3.70%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (3.70%) SignalR
5 2 (3.70%) Spring
5 2 (3.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.26%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.85%) PKI
5 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 36 (66.67%) Linux
2 8 (14.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (14.81%) Windows
3 7 (12.96%) Solaris
3 7 (12.96%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 6 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (7.41%) Unix
5 4 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.85%) CentOS
6 1 (1.85%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (55.56%) DevOps
2 25 (46.30%) Agile
3 14 (25.93%) CI/CD
3 14 (25.93%) Roadmaps
4 13 (24.07%) Scrum
5 12 (22.22%) Decision-Making
5 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (18.52%) Containerisation
7 7 (12.96%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (11.11%) Business Transformation
8 6 (11.11%) ETL
8 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (11.11%) Master Data Management
8 6 (11.11%) Project Management
9 5 (9.26%) Kanban
9 5 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (7.41%) Kalman Filter
10 4 (7.41%) Refactoring
10 4 (7.41%) Software Engineering
10 4 (7.41%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.93%) Python
1 14 (25.93%) SQL
2 13 (24.07%) Bash
3 8 (14.81%) JavaScript
4 6 (11.11%) Java
4 6 (11.11%) PL/SQL
5 3 (5.56%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.56%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.70%) Go
6 2 (3.70%) PHP
6 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 43 (79.63%) Security Cleared
2 42 (77.78%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.85%) CISM
5 1 (1.85%) CISSP
5 1 (1.85%) Degree
5 1 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.85%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (61.11%) Docker
2 9 (16.67%) Squid
3 6 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (9.26%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (7.41%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.85%) Varnish
6 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (64.81%) Kubernetes
2 34 (62.96%) Terraform
3 20 (37.04%) Consul
4 14 (25.93%) Packer
5 10 (18.52%) Grafana
5 10 (18.52%) Prometheus
6 9 (16.67%) FortiGate
6 9 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (7.41%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (3.70%) Ansible
8 2 (3.70%) HAProxy
8 2 (3.70%) Istio
8 2 (3.70%) Podman
9 1 (1.85%) Kibana
9 1 (1.85%) logstash
9 1 (1.85%) Puppet
9 1 (1.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 14 (25.93%) Atlassian
3 10 (18.52%) Dynatrace
4 8 (14.81%) IBM
4 8 (14.81%) Oracle
5 7 (12.96%) VMware
6 3 (5.56%) Google
6 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.85%) Adobe
7 1 (1.85%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.85%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.85%) Databricks
7 1 (1.85%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.85%) Sparx
7 1 (1.85%) WSO2