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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 448 478
Rank change year-on-year -140 +30 +43
Contract jobs citing nginx 51 63 48
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.23% 0.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.23% 2.01% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 45 29
10th Percentile £376 £353 £213
25th Percentile £425 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £564 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £623 £658
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -11.24%
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 4,159 3,134 3,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.97% 11.26% 10.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,716 2,078 2,406
10th Percentile £281 £276 £286
25th Percentile £404 £390 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £660
90th Percentile £688 £725 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £525
% change year-on-year +3.63% -8.10% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 79 81
10th Percentile £14.96 £16.96 £17.08
25th Percentile £17.50 £25.88 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £43.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.42% -9.47% +3.06%
75th Percentile £61.57 £67.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.09 £78.71 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £39.28 £38.00
% change year-on-year -17.26% +3.37% -29.63%

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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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -86 31 £484 -12.09% 19
South East -53 8 £450 +9.09% 15
North of England -75 5 £475 +32.68% 7
South West -43 3 £688 +12.24% 7
Yorkshire - 3 £475 - 2
North West -51 2 - - 4
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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 15 (29.41%) Apache
2 14 (27.45%) Tomcat
3 12 (23.53%) Confluence
4 6 (11.76%) SharePoint
5 5 (9.80%) WebLogic
6 3 (5.88%) IIS
6 3 (5.88%) Traefik
7 2 (3.92%) Apache Spark
8 1 (1.96%) CMS
8 1 (1.96%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Magento
1 1 (1.96%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (45.10%) AWS
2 12 (23.53%) Azure
3 9 (17.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 8 (15.69%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (15.69%) GitHub
5 7 (13.73%) Serverless
6 5 (9.80%) Amazon S3
6 5 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (7.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (7.84%) Route 53
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (5.88%) AWS KMS
8 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.88%) Cloudflare
8 3 (5.88%) GCP
9 2 (3.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Databricks
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 14 (27.45%) DNS
2 12 (23.53%) Firewall
3 10 (19.61%) HTTP
4 7 (13.73%) Reverse Proxy
5 6 (11.76%) SSH
5 6 (11.76%) TCP/IP
6 5 (9.80%) DHCP
6 5 (9.80%) OpenVPN
7 2 (3.92%) BIG-IP
7 2 (3.92%) FTP
7 2 (3.92%) HTTPS
7 2 (3.92%) IMAP
7 2 (3.92%) NAS
7 2 (3.92%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (3.92%) SAN
7 2 (3.92%) SMTP
7 2 (3.92%) VPN
8 1 (1.96%) DSL
8 1 (1.96%) Network Security
8 1 (1.96%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (35.29%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.84%) MySQL
4 3 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.88%) GIS
4 3 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.92%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.92%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.92%) Redis
6 1 (1.96%) Big Data
6 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.96%) Power BI
6 1 (1.96%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (35.29%) Git
2 16 (31.37%) Jenkins
3 9 (17.65%) JIRA
4 6 (11.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (9.80%) Bitbucket
6 4 (7.84%) GitLab
7 2 (3.92%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (3.92%) Vagrant
8 1 (1.96%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.96%) Capybara
8 1 (1.96%) Maven
8 1 (1.96%) minitest
8 1 (1.96%) PHPUnit
8 1 (1.96%) RSpec
8 1 (1.96%) Selenium
General
1 11 (21.57%) Public Sector
2 9 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (1.96%) Law
4 1 (1.96%) Marketing
4 1 (1.96%) Military
4 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (29.41%) Developer
2 13 (25.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (15.69%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (15.69%) Java Developer
3 8 (15.69%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Elasticsearch Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Architect
6 4 (7.84%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (7.84%) Computer Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Oracle Developer
7 3 (5.88%) WebLogic Developer
8 2 (3.92%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (3.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Lead
8 2 (3.92%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (52.94%) Terraform
2 10 (19.61%) React
3 9 (17.65%) Spring
4 5 (9.80%) JPA
4 5 (9.80%) YAML
5 4 (7.84%) boto
5 4 (7.84%) OpenTofu
5 4 (7.84%) Vue
6 3 (5.88%) EJB
6 3 (5.88%) Java SE
6 3 (5.88%) Kafka
6 3 (5.88%) LAMP
6 3 (5.88%) LDAP
6 3 (5.88%) LEMP Stack
6 3 (5.88%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.92%) .NET
7 2 (3.92%) CSS
7 2 (3.92%) HTML
7 2 (3.92%) Jakarta EE
7 2 (3.92%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.80%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (5.88%) Client/Server
4 3 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.92%) PKI
5 2 (3.92%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.92%) Replication
6 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.96%) NHS
6 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (56.86%) Linux
2 18 (35.29%) Windows
3 12 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (15.69%) Windows Server
5 7 (13.73%) Solaris
5 7 (13.73%) Ubuntu
5 7 (13.73%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (9.80%) CentOS
7 5 (9.80%) Windows 10
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (3.92%) Unix
9 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (47.06%) DevOps
2 20 (39.22%) CI/CD
3 13 (25.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (21.57%) Containerisation
4 11 (21.57%) ETL
5 8 (15.69%) Microservices
6 7 (13.73%) Agile
6 7 (13.73%) Master Data Management
6 7 (13.73%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (11.76%) Roadmaps
7 6 (11.76%) Secrets Management
7 6 (11.76%) Security Hardening
8 5 (9.80%) BCP
8 5 (9.80%) Micro Frontends
8 5 (9.80%) Observability
8 5 (9.80%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (9.80%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (7.84%) Refactoring
9 4 (7.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (39.22%) Python
2 18 (35.29%) Java
2 18 (35.29%) SQL
3 14 (27.45%) PowerShell
4 13 (25.49%) Bash
5 12 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 12 (23.53%) PL/SQL
6 10 (19.61%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.88%) Groovy
8 2 (3.92%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (3.92%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.96%) C#
9 1 (1.96%) Go
9 1 (1.96%) PHP
9 1 (1.96%) R
9 1 (1.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (68.63%) Security Cleared
2 33 (64.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.84%) AWS Certification
3 4 (7.84%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.88%) Degree
5 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.96%) CEH
6 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.96%) SANS
6 1 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.92%) NIST
1 2 (3.92%) QA
2 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.96%) HL7
2 1 (1.96%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (47.06%) Docker
2 11 (21.57%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (19.61%) Active Directory
4 7 (13.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (9.80%) Dovecot
5 5 (9.80%) Postfix
6 4 (7.84%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (5.88%) Squid
8 2 (3.92%) DFS Replication
9 1 (1.96%) Varnish
9 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (1.96%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (25.49%) Ansible
2 9 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 8 (15.69%) Grafana
3 8 (15.69%) Prometheus
4 6 (11.76%) Packer
4 6 (11.76%) vCenter Server
5 5 (9.80%) HAProxy
5 5 (9.80%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (7.84%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (5.88%) SELinux
8 2 (3.92%) Istio
8 2 (3.92%) Kibana
8 2 (3.92%) Nessus
8 2 (3.92%) Podman
8 2 (3.92%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (1.96%) logstash
9 1 (1.96%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.96%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 15 (29.41%) Oracle
3 13 (25.49%) VMware
4 11 (21.57%) ServiceNow
5 10 (19.61%) IBM
5 10 (19.61%) Microsoft
6 5 (9.80%) F5
6 5 (9.80%) Tanium
7 4 (7.84%) Cisco
8 3 (5.88%) Juniper
9 2 (3.92%) Databricks
9 2 (3.92%) Google
9 2 (3.92%) Jaspersoft
10 1 (1.96%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (1.96%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.96%) ESET
10 1 (1.96%) Okta
10 1 (1.96%) Sonatype
10 1 (1.96%) Splunk
10 1 (1.96%) WSO2