Varnish Contract Job Trends in London

Varnish
England > London

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Varnish 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.015% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.16% - -
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 - -
England median daily rate £500 - -

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,842 1,515 1,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.04% 11.40% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,267 947 1,131
10th Percentile £260 £300 £256
25th Percentile £425 £413 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £732 £713 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 31 15
10th Percentile £16.05 £22.00 £21.52
25th Percentile £24.00 £22.50 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £24.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +0.84% -60.33%
75th Percentile £55.00 £35.75 £43.34
90th Percentile £69.40 £51.25 £104.20
England median hourly rate £63.14 £34.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +83.00% +13.11% -36.23%

Varnish
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Varnish job vacancy trend in London

Varnish
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Varnish

Varnish
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Varnish in London

Varnish
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 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