Mercurial Contracts

Mercurial
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Mercurial skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mercurial over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 583 643
Rank change year-on-year +68 +60 +147
Contract jobs citing Mercurial 4 17 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.039% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.098% 0.33% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 57
10th Percentile £271 £445 £400
25th Percentile £272 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £273 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% -12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £325 £655 £725
90th Percentile £356 £740 £757
UK excluding London median daily rate £272 £483 £600
% change year-on-year -43.73% -19.58% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £58.75 £71.50
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year - -14.38% +8.15%
75th Percentile - £66.38 £74.88
90th Percentile - £66.60 £75.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.50 £73.00
% change year-on-year - -14.38% +8.15%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Mercurial 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 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

Mercurial
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Mercurial as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mercurial in the UK

Mercurial
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mercurial.

Daily rate trend for Mercurial in the UK

Mercurial
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mercurial.

Hourly rate trend for Mercurial in the UK

Mercurial
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mercurial within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +49 2 £365 -27.00% 16
UK excluding London +48 2 £272 -43.73% 6
London +30 2 £365 -47.86% 11
Scotland - 2 £272 -

Mercurial
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Subversion
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) Gradle
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Maven
3 1 (25.00%) Mockito
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Junior
2 2 (50.00%) Junior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Junior Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Android Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JDBC
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) DOM
2 1 (25.00%) EJB
2 1 (25.00%) Java EE
2 1 (25.00%) JAX-RS
2 1 (25.00%) JPA
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Push Notifications
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Android Development
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix