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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 - 393
Rank change year-on-year - - +124
Contract jobs citing Varnish 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.031% - 0.005%
As % of the System Software category 0.29% - 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £503 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 - £530
% change year-on-year - - +11.58%

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 1,743 1,450 1,853
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.72% 10.81% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,177 985 1,304
10th Percentile £323 £263 £208
25th Percentile £425 £439 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +12.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £625
90th Percentile £738 £813 £723
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 34
10th Percentile £21.00 £21.95 £16.26
25th Percentile £21.61 £23.80 £20.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.71 £24.99
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +14.89% -18.75%
75th Percentile £42.94 £80.19 £45.15
90th Percentile £67.70 £112.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £29.00 £25.06
% change year-on-year +17.24% +15.73% -34.92%

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
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 (40.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Magento
1 1 (20.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (40.00%) IaaS
2 2 (40.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) BigCommerce
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) CyberArk Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (20.00%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) CentOS
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) B2B
2 2 (40.00%) Kernel Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Bill of Materials
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Acquisition
3 1 (20.00%) Data Security
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Identification
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) RHCA
2 1 (20.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Postfix
2 2 (40.00%) NFS
3 1 (20.00%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) HAProxy
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (20.00%) SAP
1 1 (20.00%) Sitecore
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) Zscaler