Varnish Contract Job Trends in London

Varnish
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London citing Varnish skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 27 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	456	-	-
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
10^th Percentile	£375	-	-
25^th Percentile	£413	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	-	-
75^th Percentile	£563	-	-
90^th 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 citing system software skills in London.

	6 months to 27 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing system software skills	1,887	1,514	1,637
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London	9.25%	11.28%	10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted	1,303	940	1,095
10^th Percentile	£263	£300	£263
25^th Percentile	£418	£419	£409
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£525	£525
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	-2.95%
75^th Percentile	£638	£638	£650
90^th Percentile	£729	£701	£750
England median daily rate	£500	£500	£513
% change year-on-year	-	-2.44%	+2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted	15	32	11
10^th Percentile	£17.68	£21.10	£20.00
25^th Percentile	£24.03	£22.50	-
Median hourly rate	£30.00	£24.00	£23.80
Median % change year-on-year	+25.00%	+0.84%	-52.29%
75^th Percentile	£45.63	£35.75	£77.50
90^th Percentile	£55.00	£50.13	£112.00
England median hourly rate	£63.31	£30.00	£50.00
% change year-on-year	+111.03%	-40.00%	+14.17%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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 27 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Varnish in London

Varnish Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 27 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Varnish also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region citing Varnish.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Git	100.0%	3
1	Migration	100.0%	3
3	Ansible	66.7%	2
3	Apache	66.7%	2
3	Azure	66.7%	2
3	Azure Key Vault	66.7%	2
3	Bash	66.7%	2
3	Configuration Management	66.7%	2
3	DNS	66.7%	2
3	HAProxy	66.7%	2
3	IaaS	66.7%	2
3	Jenkins	66.7%	2
3	Linux	66.7%	2
3	PaaS	66.7%	2
3	Performance Tuning	66.7%	2
3	Perl	66.7%	2
3	Postfix	66.7%	2
3	Progress Chef	66.7%	2
3	Python	66.7%	2
3	Root Cause Analysis	66.7%	2
3	Ruby	66.7%	2
3	SC Cleared	66.7%	2
3	Security Cleared	66.7%	2
3	Unix	66.7%	2
25	Application Performance Monitoring	33.3%	1
25	Capacity Planning	33.3%	1
25	CI/CD	33.3%	1
25	Cloud Security	33.3%	1
25	CSS	33.3%	1
25	CSS3	33.3%	1

Varnish Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

System Software

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Postfix	66.7%	2
2	NFS	33.3%	1
2	Sendmail	33.3%	1