nginx Contract Job Trends in England

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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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 447 460
Rank change year-on-year -50 +13 0
Contract jobs citing nginx 53 66 97
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.23% 0.26%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.59% 2.03% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 46 60
10th Percentile £413 £366 £513
25th Percentile £469 £501 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £614 £579
Median % change year-on-year -2.24% +6.00% -7.36%
75th Percentile £713 £738 £638
90th Percentile £747 £775 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £610 £550
% change year-on-year -13.93% +10.91% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate - - £78.00

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 3,331 3,252 3,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.71% 11.09% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 2,031 2,519
10th Percentile £290 £263 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £626
90th Percentile £725 £788 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 70 127
10th Percentile £15.60 £17.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £41.91 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.49% +74.63% +29.73%
75th Percentile £69.40 £64.67 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.60 £70.13 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £28.86 £35.00 £26.39
% change year-on-year -17.56% +32.63% +42.65%

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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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 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 +3 39 £621 -7.96% 3
West Midlands -24 14 £450 -
Midlands -26 14 £450 - 1
South East 0 2 £375 -25.00% 5
South West -8 2 £544 -11.22% 1
North West -22 1 £425 -8.11% 5
North of England -52 1 £425 -34.62% 6
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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 34 (64.15%) Confluence
2 3 (5.66%) Apache
3 2 (3.77%) IIS
4 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.89%) Gunicorn
4 1 (1.89%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (20.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 44 (83.02%) AWS
2 17 (32.08%) AWS CloudFormation
3 14 (26.42%) Azure
4 13 (24.53%) GitHub
5 11 (20.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (20.75%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (20.75%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (20.75%) Amazon ELB
5 11 (20.75%) Amazon S3
5 11 (20.75%) AWS KMS
5 11 (20.75%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (20.75%) Route 53
5 11 (20.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (13.21%) Serverless
7 6 (11.32%) Amazon EventBridge
7 6 (11.32%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (11.32%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (3.77%) GCP
9 1 (1.89%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Communications & Networking
1 11 (20.75%) DNS
1 11 (20.75%) Firewall
1 11 (20.75%) IMAP
1 11 (20.75%) OpenLDAP
1 11 (20.75%) SMTP
2 10 (18.87%) FTP
2 10 (18.87%) HTTP
2 10 (18.87%) SSH
3 1 (1.89%) Network Security
3 1 (1.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (41.51%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (20.75%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (20.75%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (11.32%) Relational Database
4 5 (9.43%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.77%) MariaDB
5 2 (3.77%) MySQL
6 1 (1.89%) Big Data
6 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.89%) GIS
6 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.89%) OLTP
6 1 (1.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (73.58%) JIRA
2 33 (62.26%) Git
3 17 (32.08%) Jenkins
4 11 (20.75%) Vagrant
5 7 (13.21%) Bitbucket
6 6 (11.32%) GitLab
7 4 (7.55%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (1.89%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.89%) Chocolatey
8 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.89%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.89%) JUnit
8 1 (1.89%) Mockito
8 1 (1.89%) Postman
8 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (47.17%) Social Skills
2 24 (45.28%) Public Sector
3 10 (18.87%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (13.21%) Finance
5 5 (9.43%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.89%) Banking
6 1 (1.89%) German Language
6 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (26.42%) AWS Engineer
2 13 (24.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (24.53%) Platform Engineer
3 12 (22.64%) AWS DevOps
4 11 (20.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 11 (20.75%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 11 (20.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 9 (16.98%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 7 (13.21%) Developer
7 5 (9.43%) JIRA Specialist
7 5 (9.43%) Scrum Master
8 4 (7.55%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (7.55%) DevOps Specialist
9 3 (5.66%) Lead
9 3 (5.66%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Technical Leader
10 2 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (3.77%) Integration Engineer
11 1 (1.89%) Cloud Engineer
11 1 (1.89%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (22.64%) LDAP
2 7 (13.21%) SOAP
3 6 (11.32%) HTML
3 6 (11.32%) JSON
3 6 (11.32%) OAuth
3 6 (11.32%) OAuth2
3 6 (11.32%) REST
3 6 (11.32%) RESTful
3 6 (11.32%) XML
4 2 (3.77%) Django
4 2 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.77%) Middleware
4 2 (3.77%) Spring
4 2 (3.77%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.89%) EJB
5 1 (1.89%) J2EE
5 1 (1.89%) Java SE
5 1 (1.89%) jQuery
5 1 (1.89%) Node.js
5 1 (1.89%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.64%) Cloud Native
2 11 (20.75%) Replication
3 4 (7.55%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.89%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 42 (79.25%) Linux
2 13 (24.53%) Windows
3 11 (20.75%) Amazon Linux
3 11 (20.75%) Ubuntu
3 11 (20.75%) VMS
4 5 (9.43%) Unix
5 3 (5.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (60.38%) DevOps
2 31 (58.49%) Agile
3 25 (47.17%) CI/CD
4 13 (24.53%) Containerisation
4 13 (24.53%) Platform Engineering
5 12 (22.64%) Scrum
6 11 (20.75%) Change Management
6 11 (20.75%) Cloud Security
6 11 (20.75%) Configuration Management
6 11 (20.75%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (18.87%) Patch Management
8 8 (15.09%) Microservices
9 7 (13.21%) High Availability
10 6 (11.32%) Computer Science
10 6 (11.32%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (11.32%) Network Load Balancing
11 5 (9.43%) Business Transformation
11 5 (9.43%) Data Mapping
11 5 (9.43%) Kanban
11 5 (9.43%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 29 (54.72%) Python
2 20 (37.74%) SQL
3 12 (22.64%) Groovy
3 12 (22.64%) PowerShell
4 10 (18.87%) Bash
4 10 (18.87%) Java
5 2 (3.77%) Go
5 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.89%) C
6 1 (1.89%) C++
6 1 (1.89%) PHP
6 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.89%) Scala
6 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (71.70%) Security Cleared
2 37 (69.81%) SC Cleared
3 16 (30.19%) Degree
4 10 (18.87%) AWS Certification
4 10 (18.87%) Azure Certification
5 6 (11.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (9.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 45 (84.91%) Docker
2 11 (20.75%) Dovecot
2 11 (20.75%) Postfix
2 11 (20.75%) Squid
3 10 (18.87%) DFS Replication
4 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.89%) DRBD
5 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (64.15%) Terraform
2 27 (50.94%) Kubernetes
3 15 (28.30%) Packer
4 14 (26.42%) Consul
5 13 (24.53%) Prometheus
6 12 (22.64%) Grafana
7 11 (20.75%) Nessus
8 10 (18.87%) Proxmox
9 4 (7.55%) Ansible
10 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (1.89%) Istio
11 1 (1.89%) Podman
11 1 (1.89%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (20.75%) Jaspersoft
1 11 (20.75%) ServiceNow
2 7 (13.21%) Atlassian
3 5 (9.43%) Pega
4 3 (5.66%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.77%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.89%) Google
6 1 (1.89%) IBM
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle
6 1 (1.89%) VMware