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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 481 510
Rank change year-on-year +22 +29 0
Contract jobs citing nginx 62 53 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.02% 1.50% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 29 54
10th Percentile £352 £213 £500
25th Percentile £409 £488 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £659
90th Percentile £624 £658 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £579
% change year-on-year -4.76% -9.33% -3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £74.25
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £87.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
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 3,067 3,544 4,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.04% 10.76% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,380 2,980
10th Percentile £275 £275 £256
25th Percentile £386 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £850 £743
UK median daily rate £483 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -8.10% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 78 145
10th Percentile £16.42 £17.72 £15.75
25th Percentile £25.60 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.26 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.15% +5.56% +122.33%
75th Percentile £65.06 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.61 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £38.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -7.79% -26.67% +144.19%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for nginx 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +21 41 £556 -1.11% 3
West Midlands +7 14 £450 -
Midlands -3 14 £450 - 2
North of England -28 8 £358 -31.15% 5
North West -7 7 £358 - 3
South West - 4 £613 - 4
South East +12 3 £413 -25.00%
North East -3 1 £520 - 1
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UK

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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:

Application Platforms
1 29 (46.77%) Confluence
2 11 (17.74%) Apache
3 9 (14.52%) Tomcat
4 4 (6.45%) Apache Spark
5 2 (3.23%) IIS
6 1 (1.61%) Gunicorn
6 1 (1.61%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (19.35%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 47 (75.81%) AWS
2 20 (32.26%) AWS CloudFormation
3 19 (30.65%) Amazon S3
4 18 (29.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 18 (29.03%) Azure
5 17 (27.42%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (25.81%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (25.81%) AWS KMS
7 14 (22.58%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (22.58%) Route 53
8 12 (19.35%) Amazon ELB
8 12 (19.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (16.13%) GitHub
10 9 (14.52%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (14.52%) Serverless
11 6 (9.68%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (9.68%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (6.45%) GCP
12 4 (6.45%) SaaS
13 2 (3.23%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.97%) Firewall
2 12 (19.35%) IMAP
2 12 (19.35%) OpenLDAP
2 12 (19.35%) SMTP
2 12 (19.35%) SSH
3 10 (16.13%) DNS
3 10 (16.13%) FTP
3 10 (16.13%) HTTP
4 3 (4.84%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (4.84%) VPN
5 2 (3.23%) BGP
5 2 (3.23%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (3.23%) IPsec
5 2 (3.23%) LAN
5 2 (3.23%) Multicast
5 2 (3.23%) NGFW
5 2 (3.23%) OSPF
5 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.23%) VLAN
5 2 (3.23%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (29.03%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (19.35%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (19.35%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (9.68%) MongoDB
3 6 (9.68%) Relational Database
4 5 (8.06%) SQL Server
5 4 (6.45%) Big Data
6 2 (3.23%) GIS
6 2 (3.23%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.23%) MariaDB
6 2 (3.23%) Redis
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.61%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.61%) Impala
7 1 (1.61%) MySQL
7 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.61%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 35 (56.45%) JIRA
2 32 (51.61%) Git
3 24 (38.71%) Jenkins
4 12 (19.35%) Vagrant
5 4 (6.45%) Subversion
6 3 (4.84%) Gerrit
7 2 (3.23%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.23%) GitLab
7 2 (3.23%) JUnit
8 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.61%) Chocolatey
8 1 (1.61%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.61%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.61%) Mockito
8 1 (1.61%) ScalaTest
8 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.61%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.61%) webpack
General
1 19 (30.65%) Public Sector
2 13 (20.97%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.13%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (8.06%) Digital Healthcare
4 5 (8.06%) Finance
5 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Banking
5 1 (1.61%) German Language
5 1 (1.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (27.42%) AWS Engineer
1 17 (27.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (22.58%) AWS DevOps
2 14 (22.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 13 (20.97%) Developer
3 13 (20.97%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (19.35%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 12 (19.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 12 (19.35%) Lead
5 11 (17.74%) Technical Leader
6 10 (16.13%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Architect
7 4 (6.45%) Network Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) UI Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Cisco Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Integration Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Java Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.35%) LDAP
2 11 (17.74%) HTML
3 10 (16.13%) OAuth
4 9 (14.52%) REST
5 8 (12.90%) React
6 6 (9.68%) JSON
6 6 (9.68%) OAuth2
6 6 (9.68%) SOAP
6 6 (9.68%) XML
7 5 (8.06%) CSS
7 5 (8.06%) jQuery
7 5 (8.06%) RESTful
8 4 (6.45%) .NET
9 3 (4.84%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.84%) Django
9 3 (4.84%) lodash
9 3 (4.84%) Node.js
9 3 (4.84%) React Native
9 3 (4.84%) Spring
10 2 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Replication
2 6 (9.68%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.06%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.84%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.84%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.23%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.23%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.61%) IoT
6 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (66.13%) Linux
2 14 (22.58%) Amazon Linux
2 14 (22.58%) Windows
3 12 (19.35%) VMS
4 11 (17.74%) Ubuntu
5 6 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.23%) Debian
7 1 (1.61%) Unix
7 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.00%) DevOps
2 27 (43.55%) CI/CD
3 24 (38.71%) Agile
4 13 (20.97%) Configuration Management
4 13 (20.97%) Containerisation
4 13 (20.97%) Platform Engineering
5 12 (19.35%) Change Management
5 12 (19.35%) Cloud Security
5 12 (19.35%) Patch Management
5 12 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (17.74%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (11.29%) Computer Science
7 7 (11.29%) High Availability
7 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (11.29%) Microservices
8 6 (9.68%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (9.68%) Network Load Balancing
8 6 (9.68%) Secrets Management
9 5 (8.06%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (8.06%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 29 (46.77%) Python
2 21 (33.87%) SQL
3 14 (22.58%) PowerShell
4 13 (20.97%) Groovy
5 11 (17.74%) Java
6 9 (14.52%) JavaScript
7 5 (8.06%) Bash
8 3 (4.84%) Scala
9 2 (3.23%) C
9 2 (3.23%) C++
9 2 (3.23%) Go
9 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.61%) PHP
10 1 (1.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (58.06%) Security Cleared
2 32 (51.61%) SC Cleared
3 17 (27.42%) Degree
4 10 (16.13%) AWS Certification
4 10 (16.13%) Azure Certification
5 6 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (8.06%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.23%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 39 (62.90%) Docker
2 12 (19.35%) Dovecot
2 12 (19.35%) Postfix
2 12 (19.35%) Squid
3 10 (16.13%) DFS Replication
4 3 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.23%) Firmware
5 2 (3.23%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.61%) DRBD
6 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (59.68%) Terraform
2 23 (37.10%) Kubernetes
3 16 (25.81%) Packer
4 14 (22.58%) Consul
5 13 (20.97%) Grafana
5 13 (20.97%) Prometheus
6 12 (19.35%) Nessus
7 10 (16.13%) Proxmox
8 7 (11.29%) Ansible
9 6 (9.68%) Kibana
10 3 (4.84%) HAProxy
11 2 (3.23%) FortiGate
11 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (3.23%) Podman
12 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 12 (19.35%) Jaspersoft
1 12 (19.35%) ServiceNow
2 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.68%) Pega
3 4 (6.45%) AppDynamics
4 3 (4.84%) VMware
5 2 (3.23%) Cisco
5 2 (3.23%) F5
5 2 (3.23%) Juniper
5 2 (3.23%) Oracle
5 2 (3.23%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.23%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.61%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.61%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.61%) IBM