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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 459 476
Rank change year-on-year -114 +17 +25
Contract jobs citing nginx 50 55 56
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.20% 1.79% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 43 34
10th Percentile £406 £330 £250
25th Percentile £463 £397 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% -10.42%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £624 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £59.61 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £67.47 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.47 - -

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 4,166 3,073 3,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.10% 11.13% 10.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,755 2,057 2,483
10th Percentile £305 £281 £290
25th Percentile £406 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £595 £600 £658
90th Percentile £680 £735 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £479 £520
% change year-on-year +4.38% -7.88% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 81 97
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £15.55
25th Percentile £19.00 £26.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.09 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% +30.58% -28.54%
75th Percentile £62.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.00 £74.66
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £43.80 £32.11
% change year-on-year -20.08% +36.41% -38.85%

nginx
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

nginx
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

nginx
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for nginx in England

nginx
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

nginx
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 8 August 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 -75 33 £502 -8.68% 11
South East -57 8 £450 +9.09% 4
North of England -85 3 £500 +39.66% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £500 - 1
South West -44 2 £688 +5.77% 2
nginx
UK

nginx
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 16 (32.00%) Tomcat
2 13 (26.00%) Apache
2 13 (26.00%) Confluence
3 6 (12.00%) SharePoint
4 5 (10.00%) WebLogic
5 3 (6.00%) IIS
5 3 (6.00%) Traefik
6 1 (2.00%) CMS
6 1 (2.00%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Magento
1 1 (2.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (46.00%) AWS
2 9 (18.00%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (18.00%) Azure
3 8 (16.00%) GitHub
3 8 (16.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (14.00%) Serverless
5 6 (12.00%) Amazon S3
6 5 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (8.00%) Route 53
8 3 (6.00%) Cloudflare
8 3 (6.00%) MinIO
9 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.00%) GCP
10 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
10 1 (2.00%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 15 (30.00%) DNS
2 12 (24.00%) Firewall
3 8 (16.00%) HTTP
3 8 (16.00%) TCP/IP
4 7 (14.00%) OpenVPN
5 6 (12.00%) DHCP
5 6 (12.00%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (8.00%) SSH
6 4 (8.00%) VPN
7 2 (4.00%) BIG-IP
7 2 (4.00%) NAS
7 2 (4.00%) SAN
8 1 (2.00%) DSL
8 1 (2.00%) HTTPS
8 1 (2.00%) ICMP
8 1 (2.00%) SSL
8 1 (2.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (36.00%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.00%) GIS
3 4 (8.00%) MySQL
4 3 (6.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.00%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.00%) Redis
6 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (30.00%) Git
2 12 (24.00%) Jenkins
3 10 (20.00%) JIRA
4 7 (14.00%) Bitbucket
5 5 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (6.00%) GitLab
7 2 (4.00%) Artifactory
7 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
7 2 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (2.00%) Capybara
8 1 (2.00%) Maven
8 1 (2.00%) minitest
8 1 (2.00%) PHPUnit
8 1 (2.00%) RSpec
8 1 (2.00%) Selenium
General
1 13 (26.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Marketing
4 1 (2.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Developer
2 8 (16.00%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Architect
3 7 (14.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Java Developer
4 6 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Elasticsearch Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Computer Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (8.00%) Lead
7 3 (6.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Oracle Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.00%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.00%) Spring
2 9 (18.00%) React
3 5 (10.00%) JPA
4 4 (8.00%) boto
4 4 (8.00%) EJB
4 4 (8.00%) LDAP
4 4 (8.00%) YAML
5 3 (6.00%) Jakarta EE
5 3 (6.00%) LAMP
5 3 (6.00%) LEMP Stack
5 3 (6.00%) Middleware
5 3 (6.00%) OpenID
5 3 (6.00%) OpenLayers
5 3 (6.00%) Vue
6 2 (4.00%) CSS
6 2 (4.00%) FastAPI
6 2 (4.00%) HTML
6 2 (4.00%) Java SE
6 2 (4.00%) JSON
6 2 (4.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (12.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (6.00%) Client/Server
4 3 (6.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 28 (56.00%) Linux
2 18 (36.00%) Windows
3 16 (32.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (20.00%) Solaris
4 10 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 10 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (18.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (10.00%) Ubuntu
6 5 (10.00%) Windows 10
7 4 (8.00%) CentOS
7 4 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (2.00%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.00%) DevOps
2 15 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (22.00%) ETL
4 10 (20.00%) Master Data Management
5 9 (18.00%) Microservices
6 8 (16.00%) Containerisation
6 8 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (12.00%) Roadmaps
8 6 (12.00%) Security Hardening
8 6 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (10.00%) Agile
9 5 (10.00%) BCP
9 5 (10.00%) Micro Frontends
9 5 (10.00%) Refactoring
9 5 (10.00%) Secrets Management
9 5 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 5 (10.00%) Test Automation
10 4 (8.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.00%) Java
2 17 (34.00%) SQL
3 16 (32.00%) Python
4 14 (28.00%) JavaScript
4 14 (28.00%) PL/SQL
5 12 (24.00%) Bash
5 12 (24.00%) PowerShell
6 9 (18.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.00%) Go
8 1 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (2.00%) PHP
8 1 (2.00%) R
8 1 (2.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (70.00%) SC Cleared
1 35 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) CISM
3 1 (2.00%) CISSP
3 1 (2.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) HL7
2 1 (2.00%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (38.00%) Docker
2 12 (24.00%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 8 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (6.00%) Dovecot
6 3 (6.00%) Postfix
6 3 (6.00%) Squid
7 1 (2.00%) Varnish
7 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
7 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (48.00%) Terraform
2 12 (24.00%) Ansible
3 10 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 7 (14.00%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (12.00%) vCenter Server
6 5 (10.00%) Grafana
6 5 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (10.00%) Packer
6 5 (10.00%) Prometheus
7 4 (8.00%) HAProxy
8 3 (6.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (6.00%) FortiGate
8 3 (6.00%) SELinux
9 2 (4.00%) Consul
9 2 (4.00%) Podman
10 1 (2.00%) Istio
10 1 (2.00%) Kibana
10 1 (2.00%) logstash
10 1 (2.00%) Puppet
10 1 (2.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 23 (46.00%) Red Hat
2 18 (36.00%) Oracle
3 14 (28.00%) VMware
4 13 (26.00%) IBM
5 9 (18.00%) Microsoft
5 9 (18.00%) ServiceNow
6 5 (10.00%) Tanium
7 4 (8.00%) F5
8 3 (6.00%) Cisco
8 3 (6.00%) Dynatrace
8 3 (6.00%) Juniper
9 2 (4.00%) Atlassian
9 2 (4.00%) Databricks
9 2 (4.00%) Google
10 1 (2.00%) Adobe
10 1 (2.00%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (2.00%) CheckPoint
10 1 (2.00%) Fortinet
10 1 (2.00%) Sonatype