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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 410 468
Rank change year-on-year -129 +58 -44
Contract jobs citing nginx 48 63 79
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.26% 0.21%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.31% 2.22% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 52 45
10th Percentile £470 £380 £400
25th Percentile £519 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +10.85% -17.79%
75th Percentile £697 £738 £588
90th Percentile £727 £773 £645
UK median daily rate £550 £578 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -12.00%

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 3,678 2,834 3,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.69% 11.68% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,585 1,889 2,452
10th Percentile £312 £270 £228
25th Percentile £406 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £698 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 68 150
10th Percentile £15.30 £17.00 £13.48
25th Percentile £18.39 £25.72 £15.47
Median hourly rate £27.50 £52.75 £27.51
Median % change year-on-year -47.87% +91.77% +22.26%
75th Percentile £74.26 £64.79 £45.00
90th Percentile £82.40 £77.50 £67.60
UK median hourly rate £35.25 £45.95 £28.01
% change year-on-year -23.29% +64.07% +24.48%

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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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -54 38 £588 +6.82% 9
North of England -77 3 £550 -15.38% 1
West Midlands -56 2 £513 -
Midlands -74 2 £513 -
North West -39 1 £450 -2.70%
Yorkshire -58 1 £675 -8.47%
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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 (64.58%) Confluence
2 5 (10.42%) Tomcat
3 3 (6.25%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.08%) Apache
4 1 (2.08%) CMS
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.08%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (2.08%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Shopify
1 1 (2.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 38 (79.17%) AWS
2 15 (31.25%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (22.92%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (20.83%) Amazon S3
4 10 (20.83%) Serverless
5 9 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (18.75%) Route 53
5 9 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 8 (16.67%) GitHub
7 3 (6.25%) Azure
8 2 (4.17%) MinIO
9 1 (2.08%) GCP
9 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (2.08%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 12 (25.00%) DNS
2 11 (22.92%) Firewall
2 11 (22.92%) VPN
3 10 (20.83%) TCP/IP
4 9 (18.75%) OpenVPN
5 3 (6.25%) HTTP
5 3 (6.25%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (2.08%) DHCP
6 1 (2.08%) ICMP
6 1 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.08%) Elasticsearch
1 13 (27.08%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (10.42%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.17%) GIS
3 2 (4.17%) MySQL
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.08%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (64.58%) JIRA
2 23 (47.92%) Git
3 14 (29.17%) Bitbucket
4 9 (18.75%) GitLab
5 7 (14.58%) Jenkins
5 7 (14.58%) SonarQube
6 4 (8.33%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.08%) JUnit
7 1 (2.08%) Mockito
7 1 (2.08%) Postman
7 1 (2.08%) Vite
General
1 22 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 14 (29.17%) Public Sector
3 7 (14.58%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (12.50%) Finance
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (25.00%) Architect
2 6 (12.50%) AWS Architect
2 6 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) JIRA Specialist
3 5 (10.42%) Scrum Master
3 5 (10.42%) Technical Architect
4 4 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
4 4 (8.33%) DevOps Specialist
5 3 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Security Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.83%) LDAP
2 9 (18.75%) OpenID
3 3 (6.25%) Spring
4 2 (4.17%) EJB
4 2 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (4.17%) Hugging Face
4 2 (4.17%) Java EE
4 2 (4.17%) LangChain
4 2 (4.17%) Middleware
4 2 (4.17%) OpenLayers
4 2 (4.17%) vLLM
5 1 (2.08%) Apache Camel
5 1 (2.08%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.08%) Flask
5 1 (2.08%) JAAS
5 1 (2.08%) LEMP Stack
5 1 (2.08%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.08%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (2.08%) Vue
5 1 (2.08%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.08%) PKI
4 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 36 (75.00%) Linux
2 8 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (12.50%) Windows
4 5 (10.42%) Solaris
4 5 (10.42%) Windows Server
4 5 (10.42%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (10.42%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (8.33%) Unix
6 3 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (58.33%) DevOps
2 24 (50.00%) Agile
3 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (27.08%) Scrum
5 11 (22.92%) CI/CD
5 11 (22.92%) Decision-Making
5 11 (22.92%) Roadmaps
6 7 (14.58%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (12.50%) Business Transformation
7 6 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 5 (10.42%) ETL
8 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (10.42%) Kanban
8 5 (10.42%) Project Management
9 4 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
9 4 (8.33%) Master Data Management
9 4 (8.33%) Migration
9 4 (8.33%) SDLC
9 4 (8.33%) Workflow
9 4 (8.33%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.00%) Python
2 11 (22.92%) SQL
3 10 (20.83%) Bash
4 6 (12.50%) Java
5 5 (10.42%) PL/SQL
6 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.25%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.17%) Go
9 1 (2.08%) PHP
9 1 (2.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (81.25%) Security Cleared
2 38 (79.17%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.08%) CISM
4 1 (2.08%) CISSP
4 1 (2.08%) Degree
4 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) NIST
1 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 29 (60.42%) Docker
2 9 (18.75%) Squid
3 3 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (72.92%) Kubernetes
2 33 (68.75%) Terraform
3 20 (41.67%) Consul
4 14 (29.17%) Packer
5 11 (22.92%) Prometheus
6 10 (20.83%) Grafana
7 9 (18.75%) FortiGate
7 9 (18.75%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (6.25%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (4.17%) Ansible
9 2 (4.17%) HAProxy
9 2 (4.17%) Istio
10 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (2.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 14 (29.17%) Atlassian
3 10 (20.83%) Dynatrace
4 6 (12.50%) IBM
4 6 (12.50%) Oracle
5 4 (8.33%) VMware
6 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.08%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (2.08%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.08%) Databricks
7 1 (2.08%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.08%) Google
7 1 (2.08%) Sparx
7 1 (2.08%) WSO2