Spinnaker Contract Job Trends in England

Spinnaker
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Spinnaker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 - 564
Rank change year-on-year - - +142
Contract jobs citing Spinnaker 5 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.016% - 0.018%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.11% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £450 - £475
25th Percentile £488 - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £588
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.62%
75th Percentile £675 - £684
90th Percentile £750 - £738
UK median daily rate £550 £438 £513
% change year-on-year +25.71% -14.63% -21.15%

All Development Application Skills
England

Spinnaker falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,684 4,020 4,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.13% 13.26% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,277 2,521 3,424
10th Percentile £330 £345 £375
25th Percentile £408 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £645
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 101 214
10th Percentile £39.00 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.36 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%

Spinnaker
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spinnaker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Spinnaker job vacancy trend in England

Spinnaker
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Spinnaker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Spinnaker

Spinnaker
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spinnaker in England over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spinnaker in England

Spinnaker
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 Spinnaker within the England region over the 6 months to 9 December 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 - 3 £675 -
North of England - 2 £425 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £425 - 2
North West - 1 - -
Spinnaker
UK

Spinnaker
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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (80.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (40.00%) Anthos
3 2 (40.00%) Apigee
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Storage
3 2 (40.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) GCP DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (40.00%) API Design
4 2 (40.00%) API Management
4 2 (40.00%) Coaching
4 2 (40.00%) Community of Practice
4 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
4 2 (40.00%) GitOps
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (40.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) AI
5 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Data Security
5 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
5 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bicep
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Go
2 2 (40.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Istio
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (40.00%) Google