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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 - 541
Rank change year-on-year - - +166
Contract jobs citing Varnish 1 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.003% - 0.022%
As % of the System Software category 0.025% - 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £513
25th Percentile - - £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £528
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.67%
75th Percentile - - £546
90th Percentile - - £550
UK median daily rate £400 - £528
% change year-on-year - - -29.67%

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 3,943 3,242 4,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.46% 11.85% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,669 2,106 3,088
10th Percentile £213 £204 £190
25th Percentile £400 £368 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £608
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 78 201
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.59 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.91 £21.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.71 £46.39
Median % change year-on-year +65.48% -38.12% +68.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.50 £68.63
90th Percentile £90.60 £79.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £48.11 £28.41 £50.00
% change year-on-year +69.34% -43.18% +81.82%

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
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 7 January 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 - 1 - -
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Magento
1 1 (100.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) BigCommerce
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Acquisition
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Identification
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) Sitecore