Varnish Contract Job Trends in England

Varnish
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Varnish skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Varnish 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.006% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.065% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £375 - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile £585 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £455 -
% change year-on-year +9.89% - -

All System Software Skills
England

Varnish falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,600 3,470 3,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.93% 12.36% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,989 2,229 2,467
10th Percentile £218 £212 £220
25th Percentile £385 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £692 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 108 90
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.38 £19.37
Median hourly rate £63.48 £34.50 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +84.00% +20.00% -37.62%
75th Percentile £74.24 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £91.48 £89.74 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £33.39 £27.50
% change year-on-year +87.21% +21.40% -42.54%

Varnish
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Varnish job vacancy trend in England

Varnish
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Varnish

Varnish
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Varnish in England over the 6 months to 4 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Varnish in England

Varnish
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Varnish.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Varnish

Varnish
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 Varnish within the England region over the 6 months to 4 October 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 - 3 £500 - 5
Varnish
UK

Varnish
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 2 (66.67%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
1 2 (66.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) CSS3
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5
1 1 (33.33%) Memcached
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Sass
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Database Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Postfix
2 1 (33.33%) NFS
2 1 (33.33%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) HAProxy
1 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef