nginx Contract Job Trends in England

nginx
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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 432 474
Rank change year-on-year -111 +42 -1
Contract jobs citing nginx 47 47 66
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.23% 1.64% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 40 39
10th Percentile £406 £346 £343
25th Percentile £463 £375 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £503 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.37% -16.80%
75th Percentile £569 £591 £588
90th Percentile £685 £621 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £520
% change year-on-year +1.99% -3.37% -13.33%

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 3,830 2,858 3,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.89% 11.49% 9.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,594 1,905 2,700
10th Percentile £313 £289 £263
25th Percentile £406 £400 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.30% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +2.83% -2.75% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 61 146
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £13.38
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.45 £15.74
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £30.49
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +72.17% -38.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £72.50 £49.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £31.71
% change year-on-year -38.10% +65.56% -39.60%

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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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -70 33 £519 -5.72% 4
North of England -71 4 £525 +46.65% 2
South East -64 3 £450 -8.12% 1
South West -23 2 £688 +5.77%
Yorkshire - 2 £588 - 1
North West -41 1 £450 +25.70% 1
Midlands -57 1 £550 +22.22%
West Midlands -60 1 £550 +22.22%
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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 16 (34.04%) Tomcat
2 11 (23.40%) Confluence
3 6 (12.77%) Apache
4 5 (10.64%) WebLogic
5 3 (6.38%) IIS
5 3 (6.38%) Traefik
6 2 (4.26%) CMS
6 2 (4.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (2.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Magento
1 1 (2.13%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (57.45%) AWS
2 12 (25.53%) Serverless
3 11 (23.40%) Amazon EKS
3 11 (23.40%) Amazon S3
4 10 (21.28%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (21.28%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (19.15%) Route 53
5 9 (19.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (14.89%) Azure
7 3 (6.38%) Cloudflare
7 3 (6.38%) GitHub
7 3 (6.38%) MinIO
8 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.26%) GCP
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (2.13%) Figma
9 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (31.91%) DNS
2 13 (27.66%) Firewall
3 10 (21.28%) TCP/IP
3 10 (21.28%) VPN
4 9 (19.15%) OpenVPN
5 8 (17.02%) HTTP
6 6 (12.77%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (4.26%) BIG-IP
7 2 (4.26%) NAS
7 2 (4.26%) SAN
8 1 (2.13%) DHCP
8 1 (2.13%) DSL
8 1 (2.13%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (48.94%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (14.89%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (10.64%) MySQL
4 4 (8.51%) GIS
5 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
5 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database
6 2 (4.26%) Redis
7 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.13%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 12 (25.53%) Git
1 12 (25.53%) JIRA
2 9 (19.15%) Jenkins
3 7 (14.89%) Bitbucket
3 7 (14.89%) SonarQube
4 4 (8.51%) GitLab
5 2 (4.26%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.13%) Capybara
6 1 (2.13%) minitest
6 1 (2.13%) PHPUnit
6 1 (2.13%) RSpec
6 1 (2.13%) Selenium
6 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.13%) Vite
General
1 11 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.28%) Public Sector
3 7 (14.89%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Finance
4 1 (2.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Architect
1 12 (25.53%) Developer
2 9 (19.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) AWS Architect
3 5 (10.64%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) Java Developer
3 5 (10.64%) Technical Architect
4 4 (8.51%) Lead
4 4 (8.51%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Lead Software Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (4.26%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (4.26%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.15%) LDAP
1 9 (19.15%) OpenID
2 8 (17.02%) Spring
3 7 (14.89%) React
4 4 (8.51%) EJB
4 4 (8.51%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (8.51%) Vue
4 4 (8.51%) YAML
5 3 (6.38%) CSS
5 3 (6.38%) HTML
5 3 (6.38%) Java EE
5 3 (6.38%) JPA
5 3 (6.38%) LAMP
5 3 (6.38%) Middleware
5 3 (6.38%) OpenLayers
6 2 (4.26%) FastAPI
6 2 (4.26%) Hugging Face
6 2 (4.26%) LangChain
6 2 (4.26%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.26%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (10.64%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.51%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) NHS
6 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (44.68%) Linux
2 13 (27.66%) Windows
3 11 (23.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (21.28%) Solaris
4 10 (21.28%) Windows Server
4 10 (21.28%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (19.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (8.51%) CentOS
6 4 (8.51%) Ubuntu
6 4 (8.51%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (4.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (2.13%) Unix
8 1 (2.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (55.32%) DevOps
2 13 (27.66%) CI/CD
2 13 (27.66%) Roadmaps
3 11 (23.40%) Decision-Making
3 11 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (21.28%) Containerisation
4 10 (21.28%) ETL
4 10 (21.28%) Master Data Management
5 7 (14.89%) Agile
5 7 (14.89%) Microservices
6 5 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (10.64%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (10.64%) Refactoring
6 5 (10.64%) Software Engineering
6 5 (10.64%) Test Automation
7 4 (8.51%) Migration
7 4 (8.51%) SDLC
7 4 (8.51%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (6.38%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.79%) SQL
2 13 (27.66%) JavaScript
3 12 (25.53%) Bash
3 12 (25.53%) Java
3 12 (25.53%) PL/SQL
3 12 (25.53%) Python
4 7 (14.89%) TypeScript
5 5 (10.64%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.38%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.26%) PHP
8 1 (2.13%) Go
8 1 (2.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (78.72%) Security Cleared
2 36 (76.60%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.13%) CISM
4 1 (2.13%) CISSP
4 1 (2.13%) Degree
4 1 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) HL7
2 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (44.68%) Docker
2 9 (19.15%) Squid
3 8 (17.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (14.89%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (10.64%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (6.38%) Active Directory
6 3 (6.38%) Dovecot
6 3 (6.38%) Postfix
7 1 (2.13%) Varnish
7 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (48.94%) Terraform
2 15 (31.91%) Kubernetes
3 9 (19.15%) Consul
3 9 (19.15%) FortiGate
3 9 (19.15%) Grafana
3 9 (19.15%) Prometheus
3 9 (19.15%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (14.89%) Ansible
5 5 (10.64%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (8.51%) HAProxy
7 3 (6.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (4.26%) Packer
8 2 (4.26%) Podman
9 1 (2.13%) Istio
9 1 (2.13%) Kibana
9 1 (2.13%) logstash
9 1 (2.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (48.94%) Red Hat
2 16 (34.04%) Oracle
3 13 (27.66%) IBM
4 9 (19.15%) Dynatrace
5 8 (17.02%) VMware
6 7 (14.89%) Atlassian
7 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
8 3 (6.38%) Cisco
8 3 (6.38%) F5
8 3 (6.38%) Juniper
9 2 (4.26%) Google
10 1 (2.13%) Adobe
10 1 (2.13%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (2.13%) CheckPoint
10 1 (2.13%) Databricks
10 1 (2.13%) Fortinet