Artifactory Contract Job Trends

JFrog Artifactory
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Artifactory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 430 512
Rank change year-on-year -127 +82 -24
Contract jobs citing Artifactory 69 94 85
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.32% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.18% 2.32% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 78 66
10th Percentile £372 £473 £406
25th Percentile £456 £620 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £740 £525
Median % change year-on-year -32.43% +40.95% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £838 £650
90th Percentile £631 - £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £493 £513
% change year-on-year +1.52% -3.90% -9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 5
10th Percentile £40.00 - £59.10
25th Percentile £48.13 - £63.75
Median hourly rate £78.50 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +11.45% +6.34%
75th Percentile £82.75 - £77.50
90th Percentile £86.00 - £77.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.50 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -5.38% +11.45% +6.34%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Artifactory 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,830 4,053 5,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.51% 13.73% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,919 2,674 3,574
10th Percentile £343 £331 £356
25th Percentile £405 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £629
90th Percentile £688 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.55% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 68 201
10th Percentile £35.00 £23.76 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.75 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.94 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.20% - +1.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Artifactory relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Artifactory job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Artifactory.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Artifactory

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artifactory over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Artifactory in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Artifactory.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Artifactory

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Artifactory over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Artifactory in the UK

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Top 12 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artifactory within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England -107 65 £500 -34.43% 9
UK excluding London -60 37 £500 +1.52% 10
London -100 27 £506 -34.68% 1
South East -35 17 £500 - 3
South West -15 12 £75 - 1
Work from Home -66 9 £513 -33.87% 5
Midlands - 6 £575 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £575 - 1
North of England -70 2 £600 +32.16% 4
North East -14 1 £600 +31.29% 1
Yorkshire -57 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £525 -

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (14.49%) Apache
2 6 (8.70%) Confluence
3 3 (4.35%) OpenStack
4 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.45%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (1.45%) nginx
5 1 (1.45%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 45 (65.22%) GitHub
2 31 (44.93%) AWS
2 31 (44.93%) Azure
3 11 (15.94%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (15.94%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (14.49%) Datadog
5 8 (11.59%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (11.59%) GCP
6 7 (10.14%) Amazon ECR
6 7 (10.14%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (8.70%) OpenShift
8 5 (7.25%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (7.25%) Amazon S3
8 5 (7.25%) Azure AKS
8 5 (7.25%) Power Platform
9 4 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (5.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (5.80%) PowerApps
9 4 (5.80%) Pulumi
9 4 (5.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) Kerberos
2 4 (5.80%) Firewall
3 2 (2.90%) OpenVPN
3 2 (2.90%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.45%) DNS
4 1 (1.45%) Internet
4 1 (1.45%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.59%) HBase
1 8 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.70%) DynamoDB
2 6 (8.70%) MongoDB
2 6 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.90%) Power BI
5 1 (1.45%) Big Data
5 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (43.48%) GitLab
2 27 (39.13%) Jenkins
3 17 (24.64%) Git
3 17 (24.64%) Sonatype Nexus
4 13 (18.84%) JUnit
4 13 (18.84%) SonarQube
5 12 (17.39%) Gradle
6 10 (14.49%) Cucumber
7 7 (10.14%) JIRA
8 6 (8.70%) Postman
9 5 (7.25%) Bitbucket
9 5 (7.25%) Maven
9 5 (7.25%) Selenium
10 3 (4.35%) CircleCI
10 3 (4.35%) Cypress.io
10 3 (4.35%) JMeter
10 3 (4.35%) Snyk
10 3 (4.35%) webpack
11 2 (2.90%) Chocolatey
12 1 (1.45%) REST Assured
General
1 24 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.94%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.80%) Finance
4 3 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.35%) Military
5 2 (2.90%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.90%) Banking
5 2 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (28.99%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (17.39%) Senior
3 10 (14.49%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (14.49%) Developer
4 9 (13.04%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (11.59%) Architect
5 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (11.59%) Java Developer
5 8 (11.59%) Migration Engineer
6 7 (10.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (10.14%) Senior Developer
7 6 (8.70%) AWS Developer
7 6 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.35%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (23.19%) REST
2 14 (20.29%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (15.94%) Apache NiFi
3 11 (15.94%) Kafka
3 11 (15.94%) Spring
3 11 (15.94%) Spring Boot
4 8 (11.59%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (5.80%) JSON
6 3 (4.35%) OAuth
6 3 (4.35%) OAuth2
6 3 (4.35%) YAML
7 2 (2.90%) Bootstrap
7 2 (2.90%) HTML5
7 2 (2.90%) JAX-RS
7 2 (2.90%) LESS
7 2 (2.90%) Node.js
7 2 (2.90%) OpenID
7 2 (2.90%) React
7 2 (2.90%) RESTful
7 2 (2.90%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.35%) Cloud Native
1 3 (4.35%) Private Cloud
2 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.45%) Contactless
3 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.45%) PMI
3 1 (1.45%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (27.54%) Linux
2 14 (20.29%) Windows
3 4 (5.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.90%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.90%) Unix
5 1 (1.45%) AIX
5 1 (1.45%) Android
5 1 (1.45%) Windows Embedded Compact
5 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (76.81%) CI/CD
2 50 (72.46%) DevOps
3 29 (42.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (26.09%) Migration
5 14 (20.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 13 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (18.84%) Workflow
7 11 (15.94%) Microservices
8 10 (14.49%) Containerisation
8 10 (14.49%) Observability
8 10 (14.49%) Test Automation
9 9 (13.04%) Agile
9 9 (13.04%) DevSecOps
9 9 (13.04%) Software Engineering
9 9 (13.04%) User Experience
10 8 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (10.14%) Collaborative Working
11 7 (10.14%) Event-Driven
11 7 (10.14%) Immutable Infrastructure
11 7 (10.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 23 (33.33%) Python
2 17 (24.64%) Java
3 14 (20.29%) PowerShell
4 7 (10.14%) Bash
5 4 (5.80%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.35%) Groovy
6 3 (4.35%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.35%) SQL
7 1 (1.45%) C
7 1 (1.45%) C#
7 1 (1.45%) C++
7 1 (1.45%) Go
7 1 (1.45%) Jython
7 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 47 (68.12%) Security Cleared
2 34 (49.28%) SC Cleared
3 11 (15.94%) DV Cleared
4 8 (11.59%) OCP
4 8 (11.59%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.80%) Degree
6 3 (4.35%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.45%) ISEB
8 1 (1.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.49%) QA
2 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (18.84%) Docker
2 3 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 49 (71.01%) Terraform
2 42 (60.87%) Kubernetes
3 23 (33.33%) Grafana
4 21 (30.43%) Ansible
5 15 (21.74%) Prometheus
6 9 (13.04%) Sysdig
7 8 (11.59%) Puppet
8 4 (5.80%) Podman
9 3 (4.35%) Argo
9 3 (4.35%) Progress Chef
10 2 (2.90%) Istio
10 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (2.90%) Salt
10 2 (2.90%) SCCM
11 1 (1.45%) CA Wily
11 1 (1.45%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (1.45%) Opsgenie
11 1 (1.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (28.99%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.39%) Red Hat
3 6 (8.70%) Splunk
4 4 (5.80%) Google
4 4 (5.80%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.35%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.90%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.90%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.90%) Oracle
7 1 (1.45%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.45%) Black Duck
7 1 (1.45%) IBM
7 1 (1.45%) Intel
7 1 (1.45%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.45%) Qualys
7 1 (1.45%) Veracode
7 1 (1.45%) Xamarin