Spinnaker Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Spinnaker
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Spinnaker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 - 407
Rank change year-on-year - - +83
Contract jobs citing Spinnaker 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% - 0.025%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.076% - 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -38.46%
75th Percentile - - £475
90th Percentile - - £573
UK median daily rate £550 £438 £513
% change year-on-year +25.71% -14.63% -21.15%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Spinnaker falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,619 2,065 2,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.67% 13.03% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,814 1,230 1,711
10th Percentile £316 £331 £363
25th Percentile £400 £399 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £514
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -5.07% -2.19%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 100 192
10th Percentile £38.10 £44.95 £46.18
25th Percentile £54.94 £53.31 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%

Spinnaker
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spinnaker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Spinnaker job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Spinnaker
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Spinnaker
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 Spinnaker within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 December 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
North of England - 2 £425 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £425 - 1
North West - 1 - -
Spinnaker
UK

Spinnaker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Apigee
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 2 (100.00%) Stackdriver
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace