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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 417 466
Rank change year-on-year -126 +49 -12
Contract jobs citing nginx 40 51 83
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.098% 0.21% 0.23%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.10% 1.81% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 47 52
10th Percentile £463 £357 £400
25th Percentile £469 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -16.00%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £578
90th Percentile £691 £760 £634
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.72% +4.76% -12.50%

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 3,633 2,824 3,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.93% 11.53% 9.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,497 1,891 2,505
10th Percentile £313 £281 £250
25th Percentile £406 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £613
90th Percentile £688 £750 £767
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 64 138
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.81 £15.00
Median hourly rate £27.71 £52.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.22% +98.11% -33.75%
75th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £79.00 £77.50 £69.13
UK median hourly rate £28.44 £45.59 £28.01
% change year-on-year -37.62% +62.78% -39.44%

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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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -55 29 £525 -4.55% 4
North of England -77 3 £550 -9.84% 4
South West -34 2 £688 +10.00% 3
North West -44 1 £450 +25.70% 4
Yorkshire -56 1 £675 -8.47%
Midlands - 1 £550 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £550 - 1
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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 12 (30.00%) Confluence
2 9 (22.50%) Tomcat
3 3 (7.50%) Apache
3 3 (7.50%) Traefik
3 3 (7.50%) WebLogic
4 2 (5.00%) CMS
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (2.50%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Magento
1 1 (2.50%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.50%) Shopify
1 1 (2.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 23 (57.50%) AWS
2 11 (27.50%) Amazon EKS
2 11 (27.50%) Serverless
3 10 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 9 (22.50%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (22.50%) Route 53
4 9 (22.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (10.00%) Azure
6 3 (7.50%) GitHub
6 3 (7.50%) MinIO
7 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.00%) GCP
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (2.50%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 13 (32.50%) DNS
2 11 (27.50%) Firewall
2 11 (27.50%) VPN
3 10 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 9 (22.50%) OpenVPN
5 6 (15.00%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (12.50%) HTTP
7 1 (2.50%) DHCP
7 1 (2.50%) DSL
7 1 (2.50%) ICMP
7 1 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (2.50%) NAS
7 1 (2.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (52.50%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (22.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.50%) GIS
3 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.00%) MySQL
4 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.50%) Redis
5 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.50%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) JIRA
2 8 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 8 (20.00%) Git
3 7 (17.50%) SonarQube
4 6 (15.00%) GitLab
5 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
6 2 (5.00%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.50%) Capybara
7 1 (2.50%) minitest
7 1 (2.50%) PHPUnit
7 1 (2.50%) RSpec
7 1 (2.50%) Selenium
7 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.50%) Vite
General
1 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Finance
4 1 (2.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (32.50%) Architect
2 8 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Developer
4 6 (15.00%) AWS Architect
5 5 (12.50%) Elasticsearch Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Technical Architect
6 4 (10.00%) Lead
7 3 (7.50%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Software Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) AWS Solution Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Security Architect
9 1 (2.50%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) LDAP
2 9 (22.50%) OpenID
3 4 (10.00%) EJB
3 4 (10.00%) Vue
4 3 (7.50%) CSS
4 3 (7.50%) HTML
4 3 (7.50%) Java EE
4 3 (7.50%) Middleware
4 3 (7.50%) OpenLayers
4 3 (7.50%) React
4 3 (7.50%) Spring
5 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (5.00%) FastAPI
5 2 (5.00%) LangChain
5 2 (5.00%) Node.js
5 2 (5.00%) REST
5 2 (5.00%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (5.00%) SignalR
5 2 (5.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) PKI
4 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (47.50%) Linux
2 10 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (22.50%) Windows
4 8 (20.00%) Solaris
4 8 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (17.50%) Windows Server
5 7 (17.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.50%) CentOS
7 1 (2.50%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) DevOps
2 13 (32.50%) Roadmaps
3 12 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (27.50%) CI/CD
4 11 (27.50%) Decision-Making
5 10 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 7 (17.50%) Agile
6 7 (17.50%) ETL
6 7 (17.50%) Master Data Management
7 6 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (12.50%) SDLC
8 5 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (10.00%) Refactoring
9 4 (10.00%) Test Automation
10 3 (7.50%) Data Modelling
10 3 (7.50%) Mentoring
10 3 (7.50%) Migration
10 3 (7.50%) Open Source
10 3 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (27.50%) SQL
2 9 (22.50%) JavaScript
3 7 (17.50%) Bash
3 7 (17.50%) PL/SQL
3 7 (17.50%) Python
4 6 (15.00%) Java
5 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
5 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.00%) PHP
6 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.00%) Ruby
7 1 (2.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 30 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (72.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.50%) CISM
4 1 (2.50%) CISSP
4 1 (2.50%) Degree
4 1 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (42.50%) Docker
2 9 (22.50%) Squid
3 6 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
6 1 (2.50%) Varnish
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (42.50%) Kubernetes
1 17 (42.50%) Terraform
2 9 (22.50%) Consul
2 9 (22.50%) FortiGate
2 9 (22.50%) Grafana
2 9 (22.50%) Prometheus
2 9 (22.50%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (5.00%) Ansible
4 2 (5.00%) HAProxy
4 2 (5.00%) Packer
4 2 (5.00%) Podman
5 1 (2.50%) Istio
5 1 (2.50%) Kibana
5 1 (2.50%) logstash
5 1 (2.50%) Puppet
5 1 (2.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (47.50%) Red Hat
2 9 (22.50%) Dynatrace
2 9 (22.50%) IBM
2 9 (22.50%) Oracle
3 8 (20.00%) Atlassian
4 7 (17.50%) VMware
5 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.00%) Google
7 1 (2.50%) Adobe
7 1 (2.50%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (2.50%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.50%) Databricks
7 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.50%) Sparx
7 1 (2.50%) WSO2