Zipkin Contracts in the UK excluding London

Zipkin
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Zipkin skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Zipkin over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 393 -
Rank change year-on-year +55 - -
Contract jobs citing Zipkin 1 6 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.029% -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.053% 0.25% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - £391 -
25th Percentile £384 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £401 - -
90th Percentile - £456 -
UK median daily rate £392 £400 £450
% change year-on-year -2.00% -11.11% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,890 2,355 3,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.77% 11.35% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,322 1,705 2,653
10th Percentile £235 £211 £275
25th Percentile £393 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £660 £652 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.94% -8.44% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 79 136
10th Percentile £14.86 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.00 £20.17
Median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% -9.41% +112.50%
75th Percentile £43.69 £51.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £70.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Zipkin
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Zipkin in the UK excluding London

Zipkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Zipkin in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Zipkin in the UK excluding London

Zipkin
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 Zipkin within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
South West - 1 £392 -
Zipkin
UK

Zipkin
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTracing
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Redux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus