Loki Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Loki C++ Library
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Loki skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 366 422
Rank change year-on-year +7 +56 +99
Contract jobs citing Loki 8 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.053% 0.023% 0.023%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.28% 0.13% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £466 £554 £487
25th Percentile £479 £569 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £615 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +23.00% -1.38%
75th Percentile £519 £627 £506
90th Percentile £530 £630 £516
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.80% -3.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Loki falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,857 3,040 3,815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.76% 17.11% 17.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,887 1,907 2,755
10th Percentile £313 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £600
90th Percentile £638 £689 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 160 126
10th Percentile £31.67 £27.00 £45.88
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £59.52
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +9.22% -4.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.45 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.77% +2.67% -

Loki
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Loki as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Loki in the UK excluding London

Loki
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Loki.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Loki

Loki
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Loki within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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
Scotland 0 6 £495 -9.01% 1
South East +25 1 - - 4
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
Midlands - 1 £500 -
Loki
UK

Loki
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) OpenShift
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Cloudflare
2 1 (12.50%) CloudFront
2 1 (12.50%) PaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Route 53
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) MQTT
1 1 (12.50%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) NoSQL
1 5 (62.50%) Redis
2 4 (50.00%) Big Data
3 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (12.50%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (62.50%) Artifactory
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Python Data Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Python Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) FastAPI
1 5 (62.50%) Flask
1 5 (62.50%) Kafka
1 5 (62.50%) LangChain
1 5 (62.50%) LangGraph
1 5 (62.50%) OAuth
1 5 (62.50%) OAuth2
1 5 (62.50%) OpenTelemetry
1 5 (62.50%) RESTful
2 4 (50.00%) Hugging Face
2 4 (50.00%) PyTorch
2 4 (50.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 4 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 7 (87.50%) DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) Agile
3 6 (75.00%) GitOps
3 6 (75.00%) Microservices
4 5 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (62.50%) Blue-Green Deployment
4 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
4 5 (62.50%) Generative AI
4 5 (62.50%) LLM
4 5 (62.50%) Machine Learning
4 5 (62.50%) ModelOps
4 5 (62.50%) Multithreading
4 5 (62.50%) Secure Coding
4 5 (62.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (62.50%) Use Case
4 5 (62.50%) Workflow
5 4 (50.00%) BDD
5 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Groovy
3 1 (12.50%) PromQL
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) OCP
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO 9001
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (87.50%) Grafana
2 7 (87.50%) Prometheus
3 4 (50.00%) Kustomize
4 2 (25.00%) Ansible
4 2 (25.00%) Terraform
5 1 (12.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat