nginx Contract Job Trends

nginx
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring nginx skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 468 512
Rank change year-on-year -110 +44 -41
Contract jobs citing nginx 63 49 78
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.17% 0.18%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.47% 1.50% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 41 45
10th Percentile £401 £356 £325
25th Percentile £450 £380 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -3.37% -13.33%
75th Percentile £569 £580 £588
90th Percentile £685 £620 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £431 £528
% change year-on-year +27.54% -18.32% -10.13%

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 4,273 3,258 4,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.63% 11.15% 9.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,874 2,150 3,026
10th Percentile £313 £281 £262
25th Percentile £403 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -2.75% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £619
90th Percentile £675 £707 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 64 162
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.33 £13.28
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.42 £15.54
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +74.07% -41.15%
75th Percentile £63.38 £70.63 £48.11
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.63 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £53.61 £30.00
% change year-on-year -34.71% +78.70% -33.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

nginx job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing nginx over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for nginx in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

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Top 12 Contract Job 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 7 June 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 -106 48 £519 +3.19% 21
London -71 33 £519 -5.72% 12
Work from Home -45 22 £550 +10.00% 9
UK excluding London -100 13 £550 +27.54% 9
Scotland -4 4 £463 -11.90%
South East -55 3 £450 -8.12% 5
North of England -78 3 £550 +53.63%
South West -26 2 £688 +5.77% 1
Midlands -49 1 £550 +22.22% 2
North West -49 1 £450 +25.70%
West Midlands -57 1 £550 +22.22% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £675 -

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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 18 (28.57%) Tomcat
2 13 (20.63%) Confluence
3 8 (12.70%) Apache
4 5 (7.94%) WebLogic
5 3 (4.76%) IIS
5 3 (4.76%) Traefik
6 2 (3.17%) CMS
6 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.59%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Magento
1 1 (1.59%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.59%) Shopify
1 1 (1.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 34 (53.97%) AWS
2 17 (26.98%) Amazon EKS
3 16 (25.40%) Serverless
4 14 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (17.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (15.87%) Amazon S3
6 10 (15.87%) Azure
7 9 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (14.29%) Route 53
8 5 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (6.35%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (6.35%) GitHub
9 4 (6.35%) Kong
9 4 (6.35%) MinIO
10 3 (4.76%) Cloudflare
11 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.17%) GCP
12 1 (1.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (1.59%) Figma
12 1 (1.59%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (26.98%) DNS
2 16 (25.40%) Firewall
3 12 (19.05%) VPN
4 10 (15.87%) HTTP
4 10 (15.87%) TCP/IP
5 9 (14.29%) OpenVPN
5 9 (14.29%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (3.17%) BIG-IP
6 2 (3.17%) NAS
6 2 (3.17%) SAN
7 1 (1.59%) DHCP
7 1 (1.59%) DSL
7 1 (1.59%) ICMP
7 1 (1.59%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.59%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (17.46%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (11.11%) GIS
4 5 (7.94%) MySQL
5 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.17%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.17%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.59%) Redis
7 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.59%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (22.22%) JIRA
2 13 (20.63%) Git
3 12 (19.05%) GitLab
4 10 (15.87%) Jenkins
5 7 (11.11%) Bitbucket
5 7 (11.11%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.17%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.59%) Capybara
7 1 (1.59%) minitest
7 1 (1.59%) PHPUnit
7 1 (1.59%) RSpec
7 1 (1.59%) Selenium
7 1 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.59%) Vite
General
1 13 (20.63%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.46%) Public Sector
3 7 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.76%) Finance
5 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (25.40%) Developer
2 15 (23.81%) Architect
3 12 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) AWS Architect
6 5 (7.94%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Elasticsearch Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Java Developer
6 5 (7.94%) Senior
6 5 (7.94%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.94%) Software Developer
6 5 (7.94%) Technical Architect
7 4 (6.35%) Lead
7 4 (6.35%) Security Architect
7 4 (6.35%) Senior Software Developer
8 3 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) LDAP
2 9 (14.29%) OpenID
3 7 (11.11%) EJB
3 7 (11.11%) Spring
4 6 (9.52%) Node.js
4 6 (9.52%) OpenLayers
4 6 (9.52%) React
5 5 (7.94%) Java SE
6 4 (6.35%) FastAPI
6 4 (6.35%) Java EE
6 4 (6.35%) JSP
6 4 (6.35%) LEMP Stack
6 4 (6.35%) Vue
6 4 (6.35%) YAML
7 3 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (4.76%) Flask
7 3 (4.76%) HTML
7 3 (4.76%) JPA
7 3 (4.76%) LAMP
7 3 (4.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) Legacy Applications
2 8 (12.70%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (7.94%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.17%) PKI
5 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 33 (52.38%) Linux
2 18 (28.57%) Windows
3 16 (25.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (22.22%) Windows Server
5 13 (20.63%) Solaris
5 13 (20.63%) Windows Server 2008
6 12 (19.05%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (6.35%) CentOS
8 4 (6.35%) Ubuntu
9 2 (3.17%) Unix
9 2 (3.17%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (50.79%) DevOps
2 25 (39.68%) CI/CD
3 21 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 13 (20.63%) Decision-Making
4 13 (20.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (20.63%) Roadmaps
5 12 (19.05%) ETL
6 9 (14.29%) Master Data Management
6 9 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (12.70%) Refactoring
7 8 (12.70%) Test Automation
8 7 (11.11%) Agile
8 7 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (9.52%) Microservices
9 6 (9.52%) SDLC
9 6 (9.52%) Software Engineering
10 5 (7.94%) Mentoring
10 5 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (6.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (38.10%) Python
2 20 (31.75%) SQL
3 18 (28.57%) Bash
4 15 (23.81%) Java
5 14 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 14 (22.22%) PL/SQL
6 7 (11.11%) PowerShell
7 6 (9.52%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.76%) Go
8 3 (4.76%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.17%) PHP
9 2 (3.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 41 (65.08%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.17%) CISM
4 2 (3.17%) CISSP
4 2 (3.17%) Degree
4 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.17%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) QA
2 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.59%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (44.44%) Docker
2 11 (17.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (15.87%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (14.29%) Squid
5 7 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (7.94%) Active Directory
7 3 (4.76%) Dovecot
7 3 (4.76%) Postfix
8 2 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (1.59%) Hyper-V
9 1 (1.59%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 30 (47.62%) Terraform
2 21 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 15 (23.81%) Grafana
3 15 (23.81%) Prometheus
4 13 (20.63%) Ansible
5 9 (14.29%) Consul
5 9 (14.29%) FortiGate
5 9 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (9.52%) HAProxy
8 3 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (4.76%) Packer
9 2 (3.17%) linkerd
9 2 (3.17%) Podman
9 2 (3.17%) WSUS
10 1 (1.59%) Argo
10 1 (1.59%) Istio
10 1 (1.59%) Kibana
10 1 (1.59%) logstash
10 1 (1.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (42.86%) Red Hat
2 18 (28.57%) Oracle
3 15 (23.81%) IBM
4 13 (20.63%) VMware
5 10 (15.87%) Dynatrace
6 7 (11.11%) Atlassian
7 5 (7.94%) Microsoft
8 4 (6.35%) F5
9 3 (4.76%) Cisco
9 3 (4.76%) Databricks
9 3 (4.76%) Juniper
10 2 (3.17%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (3.17%) CheckPoint
10 2 (3.17%) Fortinet
10 2 (3.17%) Google
11 1 (1.59%) Adobe
11 1 (1.59%) Sparx
11 1 (1.59%) WSO2