Mercurial Contract Job Trends

Mercurial
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Mercurial skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 593 538 590
Rank change year-on-year -55 +52 +109
Contract jobs citing Mercurial 2 6 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.005% 0.018% 0.034%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.036% 0.13% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £448
25th Percentile - - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.26%
75th Percentile - - £725
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £475
% change year-on-year - - -26.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £47.00 £64.25
Median hourly rate - £49.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -25.19% -10.27%
75th Percentile - £51.00 £66.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £49.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - -25.19% -10.27%

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 5,504 4,538 5,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.04% 13.27% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,780 2,867 3,981
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.74% -3.93%
75th Percentile £600 £629 £638
90th Percentile £690 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 89 215
10th Percentile £39.00 £38.30 £45.88
25th Percentile £53.75 £51.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.02
90th Percentile £83.80 £75.00 £89.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

Mercurial
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Mercurial job vacancy trend in the UK

Mercurial
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Mercurial
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Mercurial
Top 2 Contract Job 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 18 December 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 -38 2 - -
London - 2 - -

Mercurial
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (100.00%) Electronics
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blog
1 2 (100.00%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Content Development
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) Instructional Design
1 2 (100.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco