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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 461 507
Rank change year-on-year -1 +46 -12
Contract jobs citing nginx 72 49 80
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.21% 1.44% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 26 45
10th Percentile £390 £213 £513
25th Percentile £450 £445 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £595 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +1.28% -3.49%
75th Percentile £635 £650 £638
90th Percentile £727 £744 £675
UK median daily rate £569 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +3.41% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £84.00
90th Percentile - - £87.60
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 3,262 3,407 4,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.08% 11.04% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,165 2,750
10th Percentile £288 £263 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £810 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £507 £500
% change year-on-year -1.38% +1.40% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 71 137
10th Percentile £16.98 £20.12 £15.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £29.75 £18.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £41.91 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.52% +55.22% +33.40%
75th Percentile £69.25 £66.51 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.00 £75.44
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -6.67% +36.36% +34.15%

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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 9 November 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 9 November 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 +35 53 £600 - 21
Midlands -10 15 £450 - 8
West Midlands -14 15 £450 - 2
North West -11 4 £358 -22.59% 10
North of England -36 4 £358 -36.64% 21
South West +12 3 £588 -4.08% 8
South East 0 3 £413 -13.16% 31
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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 47 (65.28%) Confluence
2 6 (8.33%) Apache
3 4 (5.56%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.78%) IIS
5 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.39%) Gunicorn
5 1 (1.39%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (16.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 60 (83.33%) AWS
2 28 (38.89%) AWS CloudFormation
3 18 (25.00%) Azure
4 14 (19.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 14 (19.44%) Amazon S3
4 14 (19.44%) GitHub
4 14 (19.44%) Route 53
5 12 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
5 12 (16.67%) AWS KMS
5 12 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (13.89%) Serverless
7 9 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
8 6 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (6.94%) GCP
10 2 (2.78%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.06%) Firewall
2 12 (16.67%) IMAP
2 12 (16.67%) OpenLDAP
2 12 (16.67%) SMTP
2 12 (16.67%) SSH
3 10 (13.89%) DNS
3 10 (13.89%) FTP
3 10 (13.89%) HTTP
4 3 (4.17%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (4.17%) VPN
5 2 (2.78%) BGP
5 2 (2.78%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (2.78%) IPsec
5 2 (2.78%) LAN
5 2 (2.78%) Multicast
5 2 (2.78%) OSPF
5 2 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.78%) VLAN
5 2 (2.78%) VXLAN
5 2 (2.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 5 (6.94%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.78%) GIS
5 2 (2.78%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.78%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.78%) MySQL
5 2 (2.78%) Redis
6 1 (1.39%) Big Data
6 1 (1.39%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 52 (72.22%) JIRA
2 48 (66.67%) Git
3 22 (30.56%) Jenkins
4 12 (16.67%) Vagrant
5 8 (11.11%) Bitbucket
6 6 (8.33%) GitLab
7 4 (5.56%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (4.17%) Gerrit
8 3 (4.17%) Subversion
9 1 (1.39%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.39%) Chocolatey
9 1 (1.39%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.39%) IntelliJ
9 1 (1.39%) JUnit
9 1 (1.39%) Mockito
9 1 (1.39%) Postman
9 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (34.72%) Public Sector
2 24 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.89%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (8.33%) Finance
5 5 (6.94%) Digital Healthcare
6 2 (2.78%) Banking
7 1 (1.39%) German Language
7 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (20.83%) AWS Engineer
2 14 (19.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (19.44%) Platform Engineer
3 13 (18.06%) AWS DevOps
4 12 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 12 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 12 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 11 (15.28%) Developer
5 11 (15.28%) Lead
5 11 (15.28%) Technical Leader
6 10 (13.89%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) JIRA Specialist
7 5 (6.94%) Scrum Master
8 4 (5.56%) DevOps Specialist
8 4 (5.56%) Network Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) UI Developer
10 2 (2.78%) Cisco Engineer
10 2 (2.78%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.67%) LDAP
2 9 (12.50%) HTML
3 7 (9.72%) REST
3 7 (9.72%) SOAP
4 6 (8.33%) JSON
4 6 (8.33%) OAuth
4 6 (8.33%) OAuth2
4 6 (8.33%) React
4 6 (8.33%) RESTful
4 6 (8.33%) XML
5 4 (5.56%) jQuery
6 3 (4.17%) CSS
6 3 (4.17%) Django
6 3 (4.17%) lodash
6 3 (4.17%) React Native
7 2 (2.78%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.78%) Middleware
7 2 (2.78%) Node.js
7 2 (2.78%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 11 (15.28%) Replication
3 5 (6.94%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.78%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.78%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.39%) IoT
6 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 53 (73.61%) Linux
2 14 (19.44%) Amazon Linux
3 12 (16.67%) VMS
3 12 (16.67%) Windows
4 11 (15.28%) Ubuntu
5 5 (6.94%) Unix
6 3 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (55.56%) Agile
2 36 (50.00%) DevOps
3 27 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 14 (19.44%) Containerisation
4 14 (19.44%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (18.06%) Configuration Management
6 12 (16.67%) Change Management
6 12 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 12 (16.67%) Patch Management
6 12 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (15.28%) Scrum
7 11 (15.28%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (11.11%) Microservices
9 7 (9.72%) High Availability
10 6 (8.33%) Computer Science
10 6 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
10 6 (8.33%) Network Load Balancing
11 5 (6.94%) Data Mapping
11 5 (6.94%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 35 (48.61%) Python
2 20 (27.78%) SQL
3 14 (19.44%) PowerShell
4 13 (18.06%) Groovy
5 11 (15.28%) Java
6 10 (13.89%) Bash
7 7 (9.72%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.17%) Go
9 2 (2.78%) C
9 2 (2.78%) C++
10 1 (1.39%) PHP
10 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.39%) Scala
10 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 50 (69.44%) SC Cleared
3 16 (22.22%) Degree
4 10 (13.89%) AWS Certification
4 10 (13.89%) Azure Certification
5 6 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.56%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.78%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 55 (76.39%) Docker
2 12 (16.67%) Dovecot
2 12 (16.67%) Postfix
2 12 (16.67%) Squid
3 10 (13.89%) DFS Replication
4 3 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.78%) Firmware
5 2 (2.78%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.39%) DRBD
6 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (66.67%) Terraform
2 38 (52.78%) Kubernetes
3 27 (37.50%) Packer
4 24 (33.33%) Consul
5 14 (19.44%) Prometheus
6 13 (18.06%) Grafana
7 12 (16.67%) Nessus
8 10 (13.89%) Proxmox
9 7 (9.72%) Ansible
10 2 (2.78%) FortiGate
10 2 (2.78%) HAProxy
10 2 (2.78%) Kibana
10 2 (2.78%) Podman
10 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (1.39%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (16.67%) Jaspersoft
1 12 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 6 (8.33%) Atlassian
2 6 (8.33%) Pega
3 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.17%) VMware
5 2 (2.78%) Cisco
5 2 (2.78%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.78%) F5
5 2 (2.78%) Juniper
5 2 (2.78%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.39%) Google
6 1 (1.39%) IBM
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle