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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 564 454 489
Rank change year-on-year -110 +35 +6
Contract jobs citing nginx 56 46 68
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.39% 1.50% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 37 40
10th Percentile £406 £334 £353
25th Percentile £463 £358 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £520 £523
Median % change year-on-year -0.28% -0.48% -12.92%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £591
90th Percentile £676 £622 £650
UK median daily rate £516 £510 £520
% change year-on-year +1.08% -1.92% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £56.99 - -
25th Percentile £60.92 - -
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 4,041 3,059 3,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.98% 11.24% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,685 2,024 2,698
10th Percentile £309 £289 £274
25th Percentile £405 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -0.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £738 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.49% -4.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 78 124
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £13.63
25th Percentile £19.02 £26.14 £19.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £46.65 £33.04
Median % change year-on-year -30.33% +41.21% -31.18%
75th Percentile £61.17 £69.00 £52.68
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.13 £74.31
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £47.12 £32.75
% change year-on-year -25.72% +43.88% -37.62%

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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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -49 40 £519 -5.72% 4
South East -52 6 £450 -8.12% 4
North of England -83 4 £525 +46.65%
South West -38 2 £688 +5.77% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £588 -
North West -57 1 £450 +25.70%
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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 18 (32.14%) Confluence
2 16 (28.57%) Tomcat
3 9 (16.07%) Apache
4 6 (10.71%) SharePoint
5 5 (8.93%) WebLogic
6 3 (5.36%) IIS
6 3 (5.36%) Traefik
7 1 (1.79%) CMS
7 1 (1.79%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Magento
1 1 (1.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 30 (53.57%) AWS
2 14 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (23.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 12 (21.43%) Serverless
5 11 (19.64%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (19.64%) Amazon S3
6 10 (17.86%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (16.07%) Route 53
8 7 (12.50%) Azure
9 6 (10.71%) GitHub
10 4 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (5.36%) Cloudflare
11 3 (5.36%) MinIO
12 2 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (3.57%) GCP
13 1 (1.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 1 (1.79%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 18 (32.14%) DNS
2 16 (28.57%) Firewall
3 14 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 13 (23.21%) OpenVPN
5 10 (17.86%) VPN
6 8 (14.29%) HTTP
7 7 (12.50%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (7.14%) DHCP
8 4 (7.14%) SSH
9 2 (3.57%) BIG-IP
9 2 (3.57%) NAS
9 2 (3.57%) SAN
10 1 (1.79%) DSL
10 1 (1.79%) ICMP
10 1 (1.79%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (41.07%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.14%) GIS
3 4 (7.14%) MySQL
4 3 (5.36%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.36%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.57%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.57%) Redis
6 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.79%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 17 (30.36%) Git
2 15 (26.79%) JIRA
3 11 (19.64%) Jenkins
4 10 (17.86%) Bitbucket
5 7 (12.50%) SonarQube
6 4 (7.14%) GitLab
7 3 (5.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (3.57%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.79%) Capybara
9 1 (1.79%) minitest
9 1 (1.79%) PHPUnit
9 1 (1.79%) RSpec
9 1 (1.79%) Selenium
9 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (23.21%) Public Sector
3 7 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.79%) Finance
4 1 (1.79%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Developer
2 13 (23.21%) Architect
3 9 (16.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 5 (8.93%) AWS Architect
6 5 (8.93%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Elasticsearch Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Technical Architect
7 4 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Lead
7 4 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.36%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) AWS Solution Architect
9 2 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.86%) Spring
2 9 (16.07%) LDAP
2 9 (16.07%) OpenID
2 9 (16.07%) React
3 5 (8.93%) JPA
4 4 (7.14%) boto
4 4 (7.14%) EJB
5 3 (5.36%) Java EE
5 3 (5.36%) LAMP
5 3 (5.36%) LEMP Stack
5 3 (5.36%) Middleware
5 3 (5.36%) OpenLayers
5 3 (5.36%) Vue
5 3 (5.36%) YAML
6 2 (3.57%) CSS
6 2 (3.57%) Flask
6 2 (3.57%) HTML
6 2 (3.57%) Java SE
6 2 (3.57%) JSON
6 2 (3.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (8.93%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (5.36%) Client/Server
4 3 (5.36%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) NHS
6 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (50.00%) Linux
2 16 (28.57%) Windows
3 14 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (17.86%) Solaris
4 10 (17.86%) Windows Server
4 10 (17.86%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (16.07%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (7.14%) CentOS
6 4 (7.14%) Ubuntu
6 4 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (5.36%) Windows 10
8 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.79%) Unix
9 1 (1.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (53.57%) DevOps
2 15 (26.79%) CI/CD
3 12 (21.43%) Roadmaps
4 11 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (17.86%) Containerisation
5 10 (17.86%) Decision-Making
5 10 (17.86%) ETL
5 10 (17.86%) Master Data Management
6 9 (16.07%) Microservices
7 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (10.71%) Agile
8 6 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (8.93%) Micro Frontends
9 5 (8.93%) Refactoring
9 5 (8.93%) Software Engineering
9 5 (8.93%) Test Automation
10 4 (7.14%) Migration
10 4 (7.14%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.14%) Java
2 16 (28.57%) SQL
3 15 (26.79%) Python
4 14 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 14 (25.00%) PL/SQL
5 11 (19.64%) Bash
6 9 (16.07%) TypeScript
7 8 (14.29%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.36%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.79%) Go
9 1 (1.79%) PHP
9 1 (1.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 44 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 43 (76.79%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) CISM
4 1 (1.79%) CISSP
4 1 (1.79%) Degree
4 1 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.79%) HL7
2 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (39.29%) Docker
2 10 (17.86%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (16.07%) Squid
4 8 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (10.71%) Active Directory
6 5 (8.93%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (5.36%) Dovecot
7 3 (5.36%) Postfix
8 1 (1.79%) Varnish
8 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.79%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (53.57%) Terraform
2 16 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 13 (23.21%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (19.64%) Ansible
5 9 (16.07%) Consul
5 9 (16.07%) FortiGate
5 9 (16.07%) Grafana
5 9 (16.07%) Prometheus
6 5 (8.93%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (8.93%) Packer
7 4 (7.14%) HAProxy
7 4 (7.14%) vCenter Server
8 3 (5.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (5.36%) SELinux
9 2 (3.57%) Podman
10 1 (1.79%) Istio
10 1 (1.79%) Kibana
10 1 (1.79%) logstash
10 1 (1.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (48.21%) Red Hat
2 18 (32.14%) Oracle
3 13 (23.21%) IBM
4 12 (21.43%) VMware
5 9 (16.07%) Dynatrace
5 9 (16.07%) Microsoft
6 7 (12.50%) Atlassian
6 7 (12.50%) ServiceNow
7 4 (7.14%) F5
8 3 (5.36%) Cisco
8 3 (5.36%) Juniper
8 3 (5.36%) Tanium
9 2 (3.57%) Google
10 1 (1.79%) Adobe
10 1 (1.79%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (1.79%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.79%) Databricks
10 1 (1.79%) Fortinet