Trunk-Based Development Contract Job Trends in London

Trunk-Based Development
England > London

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 354 -
Rank change year-on-year -56 - -
Contract jobs citing Trunk-Based Development 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.032% 0.008% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.009% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £444 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £380 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile £539 - -
90th Percentile £570 - -
England median daily rate £550 £380 -
% change year-on-year +44.74% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,739 11,333 15,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.82% 92.30% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,153 7,596 11,160
10th Percentile £359 £344 £341
25th Percentile £433 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 201 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +13.33% -24.68%
75th Percentile £58.96 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.85 £37.50
% change year-on-year +68.76% -25.73% +4.17%

Trunk-Based Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Trunk-Based Development job vacancy trend in London

Trunk-Based Development
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Trunk-Based Development
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 Trunk-Based Development within the London region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Central London - 1 - -
East London - 1 £590 -
Trunk-Based Development
England

Trunk-Based Development
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure App Service
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) git-flow
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) JMeter
3 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (16.67%) Gatling
3 1 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Mockito
General
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 3 (50.00%) OAuth
1 3 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (50.00%) OpenID
1 3 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (33.33%) Entity Framework
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) AssertJ
3 1 (16.67%) Playwright
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Information Security
2 5 (83.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 4 (66.67%) Observability
3 4 (66.67%) Refactoring
3 4 (66.67%) Validation
4 3 (50.00%) Component Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven
4 3 (50.00%) RBAC
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) Secrets Management
4 3 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (50.00%) Sprint Review
4 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bicep
1 3 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) QA
2 2 (33.33%) GRC
3 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 2 (33.33%) Snow