Trunk-Based Development Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Trunk-Based Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Trunk-Based Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Trunk-Based Development 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.027% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £522 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £574 - -
90th Percentile £575 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £380 -
% change year-on-year +44.74% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Trunk-Based Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,224 11,634 17,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.86% 90.51% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,093 7,344 10,948
10th Percentile £263 £243 £234
25th Percentile £400 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,906 727 1,934
10th Percentile £14.49 £15.00 £12.40
25th Percentile £18.01 £19.83 £15.17
Median hourly rate £29.31 £31.76 £31.13
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +2.04% -12.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.74
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.63 £71.07
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -3.08% - -7.14%

Trunk-Based Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Trunk-Based Development job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Trunk-Based Development
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Trunk-Based Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Trunk-Based Development

Trunk-Based Development
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 Trunk-Based Development within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 March 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 - 4 £550 - 1
North of England - 4 £550 - 2
Scotland - 2 £550 -
Trunk-Based Development
UK

Trunk-Based Development
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 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Datadog
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Gradle
2 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Retail Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 4 (66.67%) Canary Deployment
3 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (66.67%) Observability
4 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
4 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (33.33%) Attestation
5 2 (33.33%) Community of Practice
5 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
5 2 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
5 2 (33.33%) SBOM
5 2 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Design for Test
6 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (33.33%) Rust
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google