nginx Contracts

nginx
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring nginx skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited nginx 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 452 518 459
Rank change year-on-year +66 -59 +133
Contract jobs citing nginx 67 82 260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.19% 0.44%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.03% 1.96% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 50 202
10th Percentile £358 £332 £470
25th Percentile £475 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £530 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -11.67% -2.24%
75th Percentile £738 £588 £750
90th Percentile £760 £650 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £610 £529 £588
% change year-on-year +15.31% -9.96% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £71.25
25th Percentile - - £72.38
Median hourly rate - - £75.50
75th Percentile - - £77.38
90th Percentile - - £77.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £75.50

All Application Platform Skills
UK

nginx falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,308 4,179 6,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.31% 9.59% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,205 2,874 4,603
10th Percentile £275 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.97%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.72% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 161 147
10th Percentile £16.65 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £15.42 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%
75th Percentile £64.13 £46.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £68.00 £78.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.24
% change year-on-year +94.44% -9.49% +41.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for nginx in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for nginx in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing nginx over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for nginx in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for nginx in the UK

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Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing nginx 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 +48 59 £580 +9.43% 47
London +24 38 £550 - 16
UK excluding London +56 24 £610 +15.31% 35
Work from Home +36 21 £570 +3.64% 31
North of England +34 15 £610 +15.53% 13
North East - 7 £600 -
Yorkshire +14 5 £738 +26.07% 4
South West +42 3 £613 -9.26% 3
North West +11 3 £358 -32.20% 9
Wales - 3 - -
Scotland - 2 £525 - 4
South East +38 1 £567 +7.49% 4

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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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (29.85%) Apache
2 12 (17.91%) Traefik
3 10 (14.93%) Apache Spark
3 10 (14.93%) Tomcat
4 7 (10.45%) Confluence
5 4 (5.97%) OpenStack
6 3 (4.48%) IIS
6 3 (4.48%) JBoss
6 3 (4.48%) WebLogic
6 3 (4.48%) WebLogic Portal
6 3 (4.48%) WebSphere
7 1 (1.49%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.49%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Adobe XD
1 4 (5.97%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 48 (71.64%) AWS
2 27 (40.30%) AWS CloudFormation
3 19 (28.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 17 (25.37%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (19.40%) Entra ID
5 13 (19.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 12 (17.91%) AWS Fargate
7 9 (13.43%) Azure
8 8 (11.94%) Amazon S3
9 6 (8.96%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (8.96%) OpenShift
10 5 (7.46%) SaaS
11 4 (5.97%) AWS KMS
11 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (5.97%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (5.97%) Figma
12 3 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (4.48%) GCP
13 2 (2.99%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 18 (26.87%) TCP/IP
2 14 (20.90%) DNS
3 9 (13.43%) HTTP
4 8 (11.94%) SSL
5 6 (8.96%) Firewall
6 5 (7.46%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (1.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.88%) MongoDB
2 9 (13.43%) Hadoop
2 9 (13.43%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.96%) Apache Hive
4 5 (7.46%) Apache Iceberg
4 5 (7.46%) Big Data
4 5 (7.46%) Parquet
4 5 (7.46%) Presto
4 5 (7.46%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.97%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (5.97%) Redis
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.49%) Impala
7 1 (1.49%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 35 (52.24%) Jenkins
2 25 (37.31%) GitLab
3 14 (20.90%) Git
4 10 (14.93%) JIRA
5 5 (7.46%) Poetry
5 5 (7.46%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (4.48%) ESLint
6 3 (4.48%) Mocha
7 2 (2.99%) JUnit
7 2 (2.99%) Postman
7 2 (2.99%) Selenium
8 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.49%) Mockito
8 1 (1.49%) ScalaTest
8 1 (1.49%) Subversion
8 1 (1.49%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.49%) webpack
General
1 11 (16.42%) Finance
1 11 (16.42%) Public Sector
2 7 (10.45%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.96%) Military
4 5 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (47.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (29.85%) Senior
3 13 (19.40%) AWS DevOps
3 13 (19.40%) Senior DevOps
4 12 (17.91%) Developer
5 11 (16.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 11 (16.42%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (10.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.96%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (8.96%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (7.46%) Lead
8 5 (7.46%) Senior Developer
8 5 (7.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (7.46%) Unix Engineer
9 4 (5.97%) Site Engineer
10 3 (4.48%) Senior UI/UX Developer
10 3 (4.48%) Senior UX Developer
10 3 (4.48%) UI Developer
10 3 (4.48%) UI/UX Developer
10 3 (4.48%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.39%) Keycloak
2 13 (19.40%) React
3 12 (17.91%) cloud-init
3 12 (17.91%) Kafka
4 10 (14.93%) CSS
4 10 (14.93%) HTML
5 8 (11.94%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (8.96%) Node.js
7 5 (7.46%) .NET
7 5 (7.46%) Dask
7 5 (7.46%) LAPP Stack
7 5 (7.46%) OAuth
7 5 (7.46%) REST
8 4 (5.97%) Middleware
9 3 (4.48%) Express.js
9 3 (4.48%) Jest
9 3 (4.48%) Redux
9 3 (4.48%) SOAP
9 3 (4.48%) YAML
10 2 (2.99%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.91%) PKI
2 6 (8.96%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.97%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (64.18%) Linux
2 20 (29.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (28.36%) Unix
4 13 (19.40%) CentOS
5 5 (7.46%) Windows
6 2 (2.99%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.49%) AIX
7 1 (1.49%) Rocky
7 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (77.61%) DevOps
2 45 (67.16%) CI/CD
3 28 (41.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (29.85%) Agile
5 19 (28.36%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (23.88%) Secrets Management
7 15 (22.39%) Observability
8 14 (20.90%) Cloud Security
8 14 (20.90%) Identity Management
9 13 (19.40%) Containerisation
10 12 (17.91%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 12 (17.91%) Mobile Device Management
10 12 (17.91%) Static Application Security Testing
11 10 (14.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 9 (13.43%) Data Science
12 9 (13.43%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure Automation
13 8 (11.94%) High Availability
14 7 (10.45%) Microservices
14 7 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 28 (41.79%) Python
2 19 (28.36%) Bash
3 13 (19.40%) Go
3 13 (19.40%) JavaScript
4 12 (17.91%) SQL
5 9 (13.43%) TypeScript
6 7 (10.45%) Groovy
6 7 (10.45%) Java
6 7 (10.45%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.99%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.99%) Scala
8 1 (1.49%) Perl
8 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.49%) VB
8 1 (1.49%) VB6
Qualifications
1 34 (50.75%) Security Cleared
2 28 (41.79%) SC Cleared
3 14 (20.90%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.48%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.48%) RHCA
4 3 (4.48%) RHCE
5 1 (1.49%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.49%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.40%) NCSC
2 5 (7.46%) QA
3 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.49%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (55.22%) Docker
2 4 (5.97%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.48%) LXC
4 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.49%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 48 (71.64%) Terraform
2 46 (68.66%) Kubernetes
3 19 (28.36%) Ansible
3 19 (28.36%) Prometheus
4 18 (26.87%) Grafana
5 16 (23.88%) Consul
5 16 (23.88%) HAProxy
5 16 (23.88%) Packer
6 15 (22.39%) Istio
7 13 (19.40%) linkerd
8 12 (17.91%) Jamf Pro
8 12 (17.91%) Rancher
8 12 (17.91%) ZABBIX
9 5 (7.46%) Kibana
10 3 (4.48%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (2.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (2.99%) Argo
11 2 (2.99%) Nagios
12 1 (1.49%) Kustomize
12 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (23.88%) Splunk
2 12 (17.91%) Apple
2 12 (17.91%) ESET
2 12 (17.91%) Okta
3 9 (13.43%) Red Hat
4 8 (11.94%) AppDynamics
5 5 (7.46%) Dynatrace
5 5 (7.46%) Oracle
6 4 (5.97%) Adobe
7 3 (4.48%) VMware
8 2 (2.99%) Microsoft
8 2 (2.99%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.49%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.49%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (1.49%) Citrix
9 1 (1.49%) Dell
9 1 (1.49%) EMC
9 1 (1.49%) HP
9 1 (1.49%) IBM
9 1 (1.49%) Pega