nginx Contract Job Trends in London

nginx
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring nginx skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 310 334
Rank change year-on-year -70 +24 +30
Contract jobs citing nginx 28 34 61
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.28% 0.35%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.70% 2.39% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 31 40
10th Percentile £463 £380 £396
25th Percentile £469 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £511
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.74% -21.46%
75th Percentile £578 £688 £578
90th Percentile £632 £775 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -16.00%

All Application Platform Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,646 1,424 2,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.32% 11.52% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,101 957 1,497
10th Percentile £363 £350 £263
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £670
90th Percentile £725 £825 £825
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 9 27
10th Percentile £15.30 £25.56 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.04 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £27.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% -5.26% -18.57%
75th Percentile £28.82 £50.00 £36.50
90th Percentile £67.45 £53.75 £60.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £52.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year -46.67% +105.88% -27.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

nginx job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing nginx.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing nginx

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing nginx in London over the 6 months to 13 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for nginx in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing nginx.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing nginx

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing nginx within the London region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
South London - 6 £519 -
Central London -10 2 £525 -22.22% 2
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 10 (35.71%) Confluence
2 9 (32.14%) Tomcat
3 3 (10.71%) WebLogic
4 2 (7.14%) Apache
5 1 (3.57%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Magento
1 1 (3.57%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (3.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 18 (64.29%) AWS
2 11 (39.29%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (35.71%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (35.71%) Amazon S3
4 9 (32.14%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (32.14%) Route 53
4 9 (32.14%) Serverless
4 9 (32.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (10.71%) MinIO
6 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (3.57%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 12 (42.86%) DNS
2 11 (39.29%) VPN
3 10 (35.71%) Firewall
3 10 (35.71%) TCP/IP
4 9 (32.14%) OpenVPN
5 5 (17.86%) HTTP
6 1 (3.57%) DHCP
6 1 (3.57%) DSL
6 1 (3.57%) ICMP
6 1 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (3.57%) NAS
6 1 (3.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (3.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (67.86%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (10.71%) GIS
2 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.57%) MySQL
4 1 (3.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (35.71%) JIRA
2 7 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 7 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 3 (10.71%) Git
4 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.57%) GitLab
4 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.57%) PHPUnit
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Architect
2 7 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) AWS Architect
4 5 (17.86%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Technical Architect
5 4 (14.29%) Lead
5 4 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) AWS Solution Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
8 1 (3.57%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 1 (3.57%) Magento Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) LDAP
1 9 (32.14%) OpenID
2 4 (14.29%) EJB
3 3 (10.71%) Java EE
3 3 (10.71%) Middleware
3 3 (10.71%) OpenLayers
3 3 (10.71%) Spring
4 1 (3.57%) CSS
4 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.57%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.57%) HTML
4 1 (3.57%) JAAS
4 1 (3.57%) JavaBeans
4 1 (3.57%) jQuery
4 1 (3.57%) JSON
4 1 (3.57%) JSP
4 1 (3.57%) JSSE
4 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.57%) REST
4 1 (3.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (39.29%) Linux
2 8 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (28.57%) Solaris
2 8 (28.57%) Windows
2 8 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.57%) CentOS
5 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) DevOps
2 11 (39.29%) Roadmaps
3 10 (35.71%) Decision-Making
3 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (25.00%) ETL
4 7 (25.00%) Master Data Management
5 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
6 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 4 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Refactoring
6 4 (14.29%) SDLC
6 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 3 (10.71%) Agile
7 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
7 3 (10.71%) Microservices
7 3 (10.71%) Migration
7 3 (10.71%) Observability
7 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) SQL
2 7 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 6 (21.43%) Java
4 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.14%) Bash
5 2 (7.14%) Python
6 1 (3.57%) Go
6 1 (3.57%) PHP
6 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (89.29%) SC Cleared
1 25 (89.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.57%) NIST
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Squid
2 8 (28.57%) Docker
3 6 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (17.86%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (3.57%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 14 (50.00%) Terraform
2 13 (46.43%) Kubernetes
3 9 (32.14%) Consul
3 9 (32.14%) FortiGate
3 9 (32.14%) Grafana
3 9 (32.14%) Prometheus
3 9 (32.14%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (7.14%) Ansible
5 2 (7.14%) Packer
6 1 (3.57%) HAProxy
6 1 (3.57%) Istio
6 1 (3.57%) Kibana
6 1 (3.57%) logstash
6 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (64.29%) Red Hat
2 9 (32.14%) Dynatrace
2 9 (32.14%) IBM
2 9 (32.14%) Oracle
3 7 (25.00%) Atlassian
4 6 (21.43%) VMware
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.57%) Adobe
6 1 (3.57%) Sparx
6 1 (3.57%) WSO2