Hudson Contract Job Trends

Hudson (HudsonCI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Hudson skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 507 580
Rank change year-on-year -71 +73 +132
Contract jobs citing Hudson 15 11 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.039% 0.035% 0.050%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.27% 0.26% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 20
10th Percentile £237 £156 £162
25th Percentile £470 £197 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £388 £250
Median % change year-on-year +38.71% +55.00% -37.50%
75th Percentile £625 £430 £384
90th Percentile - £451 £548
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £356 £294
% change year-on-year +50.88% +21.28% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £28.13
25th Percentile - - £38.44
Median hourly rate - - £56.25
75th Percentile - - £73.44
90th Percentile - - £83.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £22.50

All Development Application Skills
UK

Hudson 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 5,515 4,248 5,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.37% 13.57% 12.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,787 2,667 3,755
10th Percentile £350 £331 £363
25th Percentile £408 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -5.83%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 70 211
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.48 £41.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £75.89
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.38 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

Hudson
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Hudson job vacancy trend in the UK

Hudson
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Hudson
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hudson over the 6 months to 28 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hudson in the UK

Hudson
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Hudson
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hudson within the UK over the 6 months to 28 January 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 -71 14 £550 +41.94% 23
UK excluding London -51 10 £538 +50.88% 25
East of England - 7 £600 - 7
Work from Home -16 5 £600 +45.45% 26
London -26 5 £328 -20.44% 1
North West -32 1 £525 +110.00% 2
West Midlands -37 1 £550 +15.79% 1
Midlands -49 1 £550 +15.79% 2
North of England -60 1 £525 +110.00% 4
Scotland - 1 £225 - 1

Hudson
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 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (6.67%) SAP CO
2 1 (6.67%) SAP FI
2 1 (6.67%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (6.67%) SAP PP
2 1 (6.67%) SAP PP-PI
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (20.00%) Git
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
1 3 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (33.33%) Manufacturing
4 3 (20.00%) General Ledger
4 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Billing
5 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Consultant
2 8 (53.33%) IFS Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) QA Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Supply Chain Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Field Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Field Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) IT Support
4 1 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) SAP PP Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Gherkin
1 3 (20.00%) Node.js
1 3 (20.00%) React
2 2 (13.33%) XML
3 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.67%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Accounts Payable
3 3 (20.00%) Accounts Receivable
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) API Testing
3 3 (20.00%) BDD
3 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 3 (20.00%) ERP
3 3 (20.00%) Open Source
3 3 (20.00%) QA Automation
3 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (20.00%) TDD
3 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Java
1 3 (20.00%) Python
1 3 (20.00%) Ruby
2 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) IFS
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) SAP
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Sybase