Zipkin Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Zipkin
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Zipkin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Zipkin 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.031% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate - - -

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

Zipkin falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,082 614 516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.86% 18.53% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 718 406 361
10th Percentile £321 £250 £235
25th Percentile £405 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% - -12.84%
75th Percentile £560 £556 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £645
England median daily rate £507 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.43% +1.90% -10.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 8 22
10th Percentile £52.05 £55.33 £16.89
25th Percentile £52.50 £62.86 £17.72
Median hourly rate £61.00 £63.40 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% +181.78% -35.71%
75th Percentile £68.75 £84.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £88.18 £80.38
England median hourly rate £56.50 £33.25 £25.77
% change year-on-year +69.92% +29.05% -50.58%

Zipkin
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Zipkin relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Zipkin job vacancy trend in the North of England

Zipkin
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Zipkin within the North of England region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Zipkin
England

Zipkin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Flyway
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) git-flow
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Liquibase
1 2 (100.00%) Mockito
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Drools
1 2 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (100.00%) HATEOAS
1 2 (100.00%) Jasypt
1 2 (100.00%) JDBC
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) JWT
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Security
1 2 (100.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 2 (100.00%) Log Aggregation
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (100.00%) SOLID
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PromQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Consul
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Solace