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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Varnish 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.045% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £425 - -
25th Percentile £503 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £569 - -
England median daily rate £525 - -

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 1,787 1,464 1,753
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.93% 10.75% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,218 957 1,258
10th Percentile £257 £276 £262
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year - +1.94% -7.83%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £615
90th Percentile £713 £725 £721
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 29 20
10th Percentile £22.87 £22.40 £20.45
25th Percentile £28.50 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £48.75 £26.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +9.24% -60.33%
75th Percentile £55.00 £35.75 £24.39
90th Percentile £59.25 £49.25 £28.25
England median hourly rate £60.00 £37.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +60.00% +57.56% -40.50%

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 4 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Varnish in London

Varnish
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 Varnish within the London region over the 6 months to 4 August 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 - -
Varnish
England

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 7 (77.78%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) nginx
2 1 (11.11%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Magento
1 1 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Azure Key Vault
2 5 (55.56%) IaaS
2 5 (55.56%) PaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
1 2 (22.22%) Redis
2 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
2 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) PHPUnit
General
1 6 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (11.11%) CyberArk Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Magento Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
4 1 (11.11%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) CSS
1 2 (22.22%) HTML
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) CSS3
2 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) HTML5
2 1 (11.11%) jQuery
2 1 (11.11%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (11.11%) Memcached
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) Sass
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Migration
2 6 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (22.22%) B2B
5 2 (22.22%) Bill of Materials
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
5 2 (22.22%) Data Security
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 2 (22.22%) Kernel Tuning
5 2 (22.22%) Load Balancing
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 1 (11.11%) Load Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Bash
1 4 (44.44%) Python
1 4 (44.44%) Ruby
1 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
2 2 (22.22%) Perl
2 2 (22.22%) PHP
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Postfix
2 5 (55.56%) NFS
3 4 (44.44%) Sendmail
4 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) HAProxy
2 4 (44.44%) Ansible
3 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe
1 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk
1 1 (11.11%) Zscaler