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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 419 476
Rank change year-on-year -92 +57 -27
Contract jobs citing nginx 51 63 88
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.24% 0.23%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.46% 2.13% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 46 49
10th Percentile £469 £380 £410
25th Percentile £519 £501 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +9.09% -13.96%
75th Percentile £698 £738 £638
90th Percentile £727 £775 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £590 £530
% change year-on-year -6.78% +11.32% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
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 3,502 2,963 3,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.02% 11.46% 9.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,445 1,851 2,448
10th Percentile £306 £263 £225
25th Percentile £404 £399 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 57 152
10th Percentile £15.05 £16.90 £13.90
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £47.50 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -42.72% +84.47% +16.20%
75th Percentile £73.82 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £82.90 £66.00 £67.96
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £41.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -33.63% +49.09% +24.55%

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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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -40 40 £601 +5.35% 5
Midlands -49 6 £513 - 2
West Midlands -49 6 £513 - 2
North of England -74 3 £550 -15.38% 2
South West -21 1 £500 -18.37% 2
North West -35 1 £450 -2.70% 2
Yorkshire -66 1 £675 -8.47%
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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 34 (66.67%) Confluence
2 4 (7.84%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.92%) Apache
3 2 (3.92%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.96%) CMS
4 1 (1.96%) IIS
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.96%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.96%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.96%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Shopify
1 1 (1.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 40 (78.43%) AWS
2 15 (29.41%) AWS CloudFormation
3 12 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (23.53%) Amazon S3
4 11 (21.57%) Route 53
4 11 (21.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (15.69%) Azure
6 8 (15.69%) GitHub
6 8 (15.69%) Serverless
7 7 (13.73%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (7.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (7.84%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (7.84%) Amazon ELB
8 4 (7.84%) AWS KMS
8 4 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.92%) MinIO
10 1 (1.96%) GCP
10 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 14 (27.45%) DNS
1 14 (27.45%) Firewall
2 10 (19.61%) VPN
3 8 (15.69%) TCP/IP
4 7 (13.73%) OpenVPN
5 6 (11.76%) HTTP
6 4 (7.84%) FTP
6 4 (7.84%) IMAP
6 4 (7.84%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (7.84%) SMTP
6 4 (7.84%) SSH
7 3 (5.88%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (1.96%) DHCP
8 1 (1.96%) ICMP
8 1 (1.96%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.96%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (19.61%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (9.80%) NoSQL
4 4 (7.84%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (7.84%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.88%) MySQL
6 2 (3.92%) GIS
6 2 (3.92%) MariaDB
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (66.67%) JIRA
2 27 (52.94%) Git
3 13 (25.49%) Bitbucket
4 11 (21.57%) Jenkins
5 9 (17.65%) GitLab
6 6 (11.76%) SonarQube
7 4 (7.84%) ScriptRunner
7 4 (7.84%) Vagrant
8 1 (1.96%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.96%) JUnit
8 1 (1.96%) Mockito
8 1 (1.96%) Postman
8 1 (1.96%) Vite
General
1 27 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 16 (31.37%) Public Sector
3 7 (13.73%) Finance
4 6 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (7.84%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (21.57%) Architect
2 9 (17.65%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (15.69%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (15.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (13.73%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (11.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) AWS Architect
6 5 (9.80%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) JIRA Specialist
6 5 (9.80%) Scrum Master
6 5 (9.80%) Technical Architect
7 4 (7.84%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (7.84%) DevOps Specialist
7 4 (7.84%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Cloud Architect
9 2 (3.92%) Lead
9 2 (3.92%) Linux DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.53%) LDAP
2 7 (13.73%) OpenID
3 3 (5.88%) Spring
4 2 (3.92%) EJB
4 2 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.92%) Hugging Face
4 2 (3.92%) Java EE
4 2 (3.92%) LangChain
4 2 (3.92%) Middleware
4 2 (3.92%) OpenLayers
4 2 (3.92%) vLLM
5 1 (1.96%) Apache Camel
5 1 (1.96%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.96%) Laravel
5 1 (1.96%) LEMP Stack
5 1 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.96%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.96%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (1.96%) Vue
5 1 (1.96%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.84%) Replication
3 3 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.92%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.96%) PKI
5 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 40 (78.43%) Linux
2 10 (19.61%) Windows
3 8 (15.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (9.80%) VMS
4 5 (9.80%) Windows Server
4 5 (9.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (7.84%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (7.84%) Solaris
5 4 (7.84%) Ubuntu
5 4 (7.84%) Unix
5 4 (7.84%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (60.78%) DevOps
2 26 (50.98%) Agile
3 14 (27.45%) CI/CD
4 13 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (25.49%) Scrum
5 10 (19.61%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (17.65%) Decision-Making
6 9 (17.65%) Roadmaps
7 7 (13.73%) Containerisation
8 6 (11.76%) Business Transformation
9 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (9.80%) Kanban
9 5 (9.80%) Project Management
10 4 (7.84%) Change Management
10 4 (7.84%) Configuration Management
10 4 (7.84%) ETL
10 4 (7.84%) Migration
10 4 (7.84%) Software Engineering
10 4 (7.84%) Workflow
10 4 (7.84%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (31.37%) Python
2 15 (29.41%) SQL
3 10 (19.61%) Bash
4 5 (9.80%) Java
5 4 (7.84%) Groovy
5 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.84%) PL/SQL
5 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.88%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.92%) Go
8 1 (1.96%) PHP
8 1 (1.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (78.43%) Security Cleared
2 39 (76.47%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.80%) AWS Certification
3 5 (9.80%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (9.80%) Degree
4 4 (7.84%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.96%) CISM
5 1 (1.96%) CISSP
5 1 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) NIST
1 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 33 (64.71%) Docker
2 11 (21.57%) Squid
3 4 (7.84%) DFS Replication
3 4 (7.84%) Dovecot
3 4 (7.84%) Postfix
4 3 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (3.92%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (68.63%) Terraform
2 34 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 19 (37.25%) Consul
4 14 (27.45%) Packer
5 13 (25.49%) Prometheus
6 12 (23.53%) Grafana
7 7 (13.73%) FortiGate
7 7 (13.73%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (7.84%) Nessus
8 4 (7.84%) Proxmox
9 3 (5.88%) Ansible
10 2 (3.92%) HAProxy
10 2 (3.92%) Istio
10 2 (3.92%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (1.96%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (27.45%) Red Hat
2 13 (25.49%) Atlassian
3 8 (15.69%) Dynatrace
4 5 (9.80%) IBM
4 5 (9.80%) Oracle
5 4 (7.84%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (7.84%) ServiceNow
5 4 (7.84%) VMware
6 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.96%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.96%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.96%) Databricks
7 1 (1.96%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.96%) Google
7 1 (1.96%) Sparx
7 1 (1.96%) WSO2