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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 467 503
Rank change year-on-year +5 +36 +8
Contract jobs citing nginx 55 51 81
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.72% 1.49% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 28 47
10th Percentile £358 £213 £513
25th Percentile £413 £457 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £588
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -11.83% -2.08%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £622 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £78.00
Median hourly rate - - £84.00
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £84.00

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 3,196 3,421 4,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.20% 10.90% 10.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,171 2,179 2,794
10th Percentile £283 £265 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £638
90th Percentile £703 £825 £729
UK median daily rate £492 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -4.47% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 67 140
10th Percentile £15.60 £19.17 £15.44
25th Percentile £22.75 £27.40 £18.45
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +57.41% +35.00%
75th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.41 £74.18 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year -5.41% +28.70% +43.75%

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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 26 October 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 26 October 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 +9 39 £569 +3.41% 20
West Midlands -5 15 £450 -
Midlands -12 15 £450 - 3
North West -21 4 £358 -22.59% 6
North of England -33 4 £358 -22.59% 13
South East +8 3 £413 -13.16% 13
South West - 3 £588 - 5
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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 29 (52.73%) Confluence
2 6 (10.91%) Apache
3 4 (7.27%) Tomcat
4 2 (3.64%) IIS
5 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.82%) Gunicorn
5 1 (1.82%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (21.82%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 42 (76.36%) AWS
2 19 (34.55%) Azure
3 16 (29.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (25.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 14 (25.45%) Amazon S3
4 14 (25.45%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (25.45%) Route 53
5 12 (21.82%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (21.82%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (21.82%) Amazon ELB
5 12 (21.82%) AWS KMS
5 12 (21.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (18.18%) Serverless
7 9 (16.36%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (16.36%) GitHub
8 6 (10.91%) Amazon EventBridge
8 6 (10.91%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (7.27%) GCP
9 4 (7.27%) SaaS
10 2 (3.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (23.64%) Firewall
2 12 (21.82%) IMAP
2 12 (21.82%) OpenLDAP
2 12 (21.82%) SMTP
2 12 (21.82%) SSH
3 10 (18.18%) DNS
3 10 (18.18%) FTP
3 10 (18.18%) HTTP
4 3 (5.45%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (5.45%) VPN
5 2 (3.64%) BGP
5 2 (3.64%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (3.64%) IPsec
5 2 (3.64%) LAN
5 2 (3.64%) Multicast
5 2 (3.64%) OSPF
5 2 (3.64%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.64%) VLAN
5 2 (3.64%) VXLAN
5 2 (3.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (32.73%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (21.82%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (21.82%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (10.91%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.64%) GIS
4 2 (3.64%) MariaDB
4 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.64%) MySQL
4 2 (3.64%) Redis
5 1 (1.82%) Big Data
5 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.82%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 34 (61.82%) JIRA
2 32 (58.18%) Git
3 18 (32.73%) Jenkins
4 12 (21.82%) Vagrant
5 3 (5.45%) Gerrit
5 3 (5.45%) Subversion
6 2 (3.64%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.64%) GitLab
7 1 (1.82%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.82%) Chocolatey
7 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.82%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.82%) JUnit
7 1 (1.82%) Mockito
7 1 (1.82%) Postman
7 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (30.91%) Public Sector
2 14 (25.45%) Social Skills
3 10 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (9.09%) Digital Healthcare
4 5 (9.09%) Finance
5 1 (1.82%) Banking
5 1 (1.82%) German Language
5 1 (1.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (23.64%) AWS Engineer
1 13 (23.64%) Platform Engineer
2 12 (21.82%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 12 (21.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 11 (20.00%) Developer
3 11 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (20.00%) Lead
3 11 (20.00%) Technical Leader
4 10 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
4 10 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 10 (18.18%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Network Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) UI Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Cisco Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Integration Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Python Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.82%) LDAP
2 9 (16.36%) HTML
3 7 (12.73%) REST
3 7 (12.73%) SOAP
4 6 (10.91%) JSON
4 6 (10.91%) OAuth
4 6 (10.91%) OAuth2
4 6 (10.91%) React
4 6 (10.91%) RESTful
4 6 (10.91%) XML
5 4 (7.27%) jQuery
6 3 (5.45%) CSS
6 3 (5.45%) Django
6 3 (5.45%) lodash
6 3 (5.45%) React Native
7 2 (3.64%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.64%) Middleware
7 2 (3.64%) Node.js
7 2 (3.64%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Replication
2 6 (10.91%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (5.45%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.45%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.64%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.64%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.64%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.82%) IoT
6 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 37 (67.27%) Linux
2 14 (25.45%) Amazon Linux
2 14 (25.45%) Windows
3 12 (21.82%) VMS
4 11 (20.00%) Ubuntu
5 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.64%) Debian
7 1 (1.82%) Unix
7 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (47.27%) DevOps
2 23 (41.82%) Agile
2 23 (41.82%) CI/CD
3 14 (25.45%) Containerisation
4 13 (23.64%) Configuration Management
4 13 (23.64%) Platform Engineering
5 12 (21.82%) Change Management
5 12 (21.82%) Cloud Security
5 12 (21.82%) Patch Management
5 12 (21.82%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (14.55%) Microservices
8 7 (12.73%) High Availability
9 6 (10.91%) Computer Science
9 6 (10.91%) Deployment Automation
9 6 (10.91%) Network Load Balancing
10 5 (9.09%) Data Mapping
10 5 (9.09%) Data Protection
10 5 (9.09%) User Stories
11 4 (7.27%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.91%) Python
2 16 (29.09%) SQL
3 14 (25.45%) PowerShell
4 13 (23.64%) Groovy
5 10 (18.18%) Java
6 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
7 4 (7.27%) Bash
8 2 (3.64%) C
8 2 (3.64%) C++
8 2 (3.64%) Go
9 1 (1.82%) PHP
9 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.82%) Scala
9 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (61.82%) Security Cleared
2 32 (58.18%) SC Cleared
3 16 (29.09%) Degree
4 10 (18.18%) AWS Certification
4 10 (18.18%) Azure Certification
5 6 (10.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (7.27%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.64%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 39 (70.91%) Docker
2 12 (21.82%) Dovecot
2 12 (21.82%) Postfix
2 12 (21.82%) Squid
3 10 (18.18%) DFS Replication
4 3 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.64%) Firmware
5 2 (3.64%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.82%) DRBD
6 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (56.36%) Terraform
2 23 (41.82%) Kubernetes
3 16 (29.09%) Packer
4 14 (25.45%) Consul
5 13 (23.64%) Prometheus
6 12 (21.82%) Grafana
6 12 (21.82%) Nessus
7 10 (18.18%) Proxmox
8 7 (12.73%) Ansible
9 2 (3.64%) FortiGate
9 2 (3.64%) HAProxy
9 2 (3.64%) Kibana
9 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (3.64%) Podman
9 2 (3.64%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 12 (21.82%) Jaspersoft
1 12 (21.82%) ServiceNow
2 6 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.91%) Pega
3 3 (5.45%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.45%) VMware
4 2 (3.64%) Cisco
4 2 (3.64%) F5
4 2 (3.64%) Juniper
4 2 (3.64%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.82%) IBM
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle