Flyway Contract Job Trends

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UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Flyway skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 624 523 -
Rank change year-on-year -101 - -
Contract jobs citing Flyway 4 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.009% 0.014% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.069% 0.099% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - £419 -
25th Percentile - £484 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - -
75th Percentile £434 £722 -
90th Percentile £496 £791 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £600 -
% change year-on-year -33.33% - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

Flyway 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 5,810 4,041 5,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.46% 13.76% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,909 2,680 3,559
10th Percentile £342 £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 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 68 200
10th Percentile £35.00 £23.76 £37.44
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £80.00 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £83.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%

Flyway
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Flyway job vacancy trend in the UK

Flyway
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Flyway
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flyway within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
North of England -64 4 £400 +6.67%
UK excluding London -94 4 £400 -33.33%
England -98 4 £400 -33.33%
Yorkshire - 3 £400 -
North West -32 1 £525 +40.00%

Flyway
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 3 (75.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (75.00%) DTS
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Liquibase
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Legal
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DBA
1 3 (75.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Database Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Database Migration
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) ETL Development
2 3 (75.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Build Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Debt
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Foglight
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Databricks
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle