Trunk-Based Development Contract Job Trends in England

Trunk-Based Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Trunk-Based Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 461 -
Rank change year-on-year -108 - -
Contract jobs citing Trunk-Based Development 7 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.019% 0.032% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.036% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 0
10th Percentile £481 £366 -
25th Percentile £522 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £380 -
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% - -
75th Percentile £574 - -
90th Percentile £575 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £380 -
% change year-on-year +44.74% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Trunk-Based Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,274 22,410 32,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.33% 90.76% 86.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,683 14,625 21,650
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,981 836 2,152
10th Percentile £15.38 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.86 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.26 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.25% +2.32% -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.35 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -3.08% - -7.14%

Trunk-Based Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Trunk-Based Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Trunk-Based Development job vacancy trend in England

Trunk-Based Development
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Trunk-Based Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Trunk-Based Development

Trunk-Based Development
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 Trunk-Based Development within the England region over the 6 months to 23 March 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
Yorkshire - 4 £550 - 1
North of England - 4 £550 - 2
London -45 3 £550 +44.74%
Trunk-Based Development
UK

Trunk-Based Development
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure App Service
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (14.29%) Datadog
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Gradle
2 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) git-flow
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Games
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) OAuth
3 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
3 1 (14.29%) OpenID
3 1 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) DevSecOps
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) Observability
2 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 4 (57.14%) Canary Deployment
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 3 (42.86%) Service-Level Objective
5 2 (28.57%) Attestation
5 2 (28.57%) Community of Practice
5 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
5 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
5 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 2 (28.57%) SBOM
5 2 (28.57%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Rust
3 1 (14.29%) Bicep
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google