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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 455 477
Rank change year-on-year -127 +22 +24
Contract jobs citing nginx 47 62 50
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.23% 0.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.16% 2.00% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 46 30
10th Percentile £406 £338 £213
25th Percentile £425 £403 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -9.30% -10.42%
75th Percentile £545 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £623 £654
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% -12.50%
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 4,050 3,104 3,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.87% 11.27% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,649 2,068 2,467
10th Percentile £290 £276 £299
25th Percentile £405 £393 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £652
90th Percentile £688 £725 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £479 £520
% change year-on-year +4.49% -7.98% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 82 87
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £26.00 £23.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.26 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.22% +10.01% -18.64%
75th Percentile £59.00 £65.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.18 £78.58 £74.66
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £41.26 £33.04
% change year-on-year -21.22% +24.88% -37.08%

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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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -83 30 £475 -13.64% 12
South East -61 8 £450 +9.09% 4
North of England -70 3 £488 +36.17% 2
South West -44 2 £688 +12.24%
Yorkshire - 2 £488 - 1
North West -44 1 - -
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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 14 (29.79%) Tomcat
2 13 (27.66%) Apache
3 12 (25.53%) Confluence
4 6 (12.77%) SharePoint
5 5 (10.64%) WebLogic
6 3 (6.38%) IIS
7 2 (4.26%) Traefik
8 1 (2.13%) CMS
8 1 (2.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Magento
1 1 (2.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 21 (44.68%) AWS
2 11 (23.40%) Azure
3 8 (17.02%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (17.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (14.89%) GitHub
5 6 (12.77%) Serverless
6 5 (10.64%) Amazon S3
6 5 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.51%) Route 53
8 3 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (6.38%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (6.38%) AWS KMS
8 3 (6.38%) Cloudflare
8 3 (6.38%) GCP
9 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.26%) MinIO
10 1 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (2.13%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (27.66%) DNS
2 12 (25.53%) Firewall
3 10 (21.28%) HTTP
4 6 (12.77%) Reverse Proxy
4 6 (12.77%) SSH
5 5 (10.64%) DHCP
5 5 (10.64%) OpenVPN
5 5 (10.64%) TCP/IP
6 2 (4.26%) BIG-IP
6 2 (4.26%) FTP
6 2 (4.26%) HTTPS
6 2 (4.26%) IMAP
6 2 (4.26%) NAS
6 2 (4.26%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (4.26%) SAN
6 2 (4.26%) SMTP
6 2 (4.26%) VPN
7 1 (2.13%) DSL
7 1 (2.13%) Network Security
7 1 (2.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.04%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.51%) MySQL
4 3 (6.38%) GIS
4 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.26%) Redis
6 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.13%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (38.30%) Git
2 14 (29.79%) Jenkins
3 9 (19.15%) JIRA
4 5 (10.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (10.64%) Bitbucket
5 3 (6.38%) GitLab
6 2 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (4.26%) Vagrant
7 1 (2.13%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.13%) Capybara
7 1 (2.13%) Maven
7 1 (2.13%) minitest
7 1 (2.13%) PHPUnit
7 1 (2.13%) RSpec
7 1 (2.13%) Selenium
General
1 9 (19.15%) Public Sector
2 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.26%) Finance
4 1 (2.13%) Marketing
4 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (31.91%) Developer
2 11 (23.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) Java Developer
3 8 (17.02%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (14.89%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Elasticsearch Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Computer Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Architect
8 3 (6.38%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Oracle Developer
8 3 (6.38%) WebLogic Developer
9 2 (4.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Lead
9 2 (4.26%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (48.94%) Terraform
2 9 (19.15%) React
2 9 (19.15%) Spring
3 5 (10.64%) JPA
4 4 (8.51%) boto
4 4 (8.51%) OpenTofu
4 4 (8.51%) YAML
5 3 (6.38%) EJB
5 3 (6.38%) Java SE
5 3 (6.38%) LAMP
5 3 (6.38%) LDAP
5 3 (6.38%) LEMP Stack
5 3 (6.38%) Spring Boot
5 3 (6.38%) Vue
6 2 (4.26%) CSS
6 2 (4.26%) HTML
6 2 (4.26%) Jakarta EE
6 2 (4.26%) JSON
6 2 (4.26%) JSP
6 2 (4.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (8.51%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.51%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (6.38%) Client/Server
3 3 (6.38%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Replication
5 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.13%) NHS
5 1 (2.13%) PKI
5 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (55.32%) Linux
2 18 (38.30%) Windows
3 11 (23.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (17.02%) Windows Server
5 7 (14.89%) Solaris
5 7 (14.89%) Ubuntu
5 7 (14.89%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (12.77%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (10.64%) Windows 10
8 4 (8.51%) CentOS
9 3 (6.38%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (6.38%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (4.26%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (2.13%) Unix
11 1 (2.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (44.68%) DevOps
2 17 (36.17%) CI/CD
3 9 (19.15%) Containerisation
3 9 (19.15%) ETL
3 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (17.02%) Microservices
5 7 (14.89%) Master Data Management
5 7 (14.89%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (12.77%) Agile
6 6 (12.77%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (12.77%) Security Hardening
7 5 (10.64%) BCP
7 5 (10.64%) Micro Frontends
7 5 (10.64%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (10.64%) Roadmaps
7 5 (10.64%) Secrets Management
7 5 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (8.51%) Refactoring
8 4 (8.51%) Test Automation
9 3 (6.38%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 18 (38.30%) Java
2 17 (36.17%) Python
2 17 (36.17%) SQL
3 13 (27.66%) PowerShell
4 12 (25.53%) PL/SQL
5 11 (23.40%) Bash
5 11 (23.40%) JavaScript
6 9 (19.15%) TypeScript
7 3 (6.38%) Groovy
8 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.13%) C#
9 1 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (2.13%) PHP
9 1 (2.13%) R
9 1 (2.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (68.09%) SC Cleared
1 32 (68.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.38%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.26%) Degree
4 1 (2.13%) CEH
4 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.13%) SANS
4 1 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.26%) NIST
1 2 (4.26%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) HL7
System Software
1 22 (46.81%) Docker
2 11 (23.40%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (21.28%) Active Directory
4 7 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (10.64%) Dovecot
5 5 (10.64%) Postfix
6 4 (8.51%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (6.38%) Squid
8 2 (4.26%) DFS Replication
9 1 (2.13%) Varnish
9 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (2.13%) VMware NSX
9 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (23.40%) Ansible
2 6 (12.77%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.77%) vCenter Server
3 5 (10.64%) Grafana
3 5 (10.64%) Packer
3 5 (10.64%) Prometheus
3 5 (10.64%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (8.51%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (6.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (6.38%) HAProxy
5 3 (6.38%) SELinux
6 2 (4.26%) Kibana
6 2 (4.26%) Nessus
6 2 (4.26%) Podman
6 2 (4.26%) Proxmox
7 1 (2.13%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.13%) logstash
7 1 (2.13%) Puppet
7 1 (2.13%) systemd
7 1 (2.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (36.17%) Red Hat
2 15 (31.91%) Oracle
3 13 (27.66%) VMware
4 11 (23.40%) ServiceNow
5 10 (21.28%) IBM
5 10 (21.28%) Microsoft
6 5 (10.64%) F5
6 5 (10.64%) Tanium
7 4 (8.51%) Cisco
8 3 (6.38%) Juniper
9 2 (4.26%) Google
9 2 (4.26%) Jaspersoft
10 1 (2.13%) Adobe
10 1 (2.13%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (2.13%) CheckPoint
10 1 (2.13%) Databricks
10 1 (2.13%) Dynatrace
10 1 (2.13%) Intel
10 1 (2.13%) Sonatype