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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 514 496
Rank change year-on-year +27 -18 +108
Contract jobs citing nginx 52 76 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.17% 0.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.49% 1.72% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 46 141
10th Percentile £351 £326 £440
25th Percentile £400 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £516 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.82% -14.08% -
75th Percentile £597 £584 £750
90th Percentile £618 £625 £836
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £520 £600
% change year-on-year -13.46% -13.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £73.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.00

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 3,499 4,431 5,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.17% 10.19% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,270 3,076 4,088
10th Percentile £289 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £645
90th Percentile £713 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +4.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 160 159
10th Percentile £17.45 £13.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £26.35 £16.44 £21.13
Median hourly rate £51.25 £31.91 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.60% -39.21% +128.26%
75th Percentile £66.00 £51.91 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £74.04 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £32.12 £46.75
% change year-on-year +63.48% -31.30% +133.75%

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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 3 July 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 13 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 3 July 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 46 £520 - 184
London +31 32 £550 +6.18% 74
UK excluding London +33 18 £450 -13.46% 114
Work from Home +11 11 £513 -1.44% 66
North of England +6 7 £358 -32.20% 15
North West +11 6 £358 -32.20% 10
Wales - 3 - - 1
South East +40 2 £490 +3.11% 70
South West +30 2 £650 - 7
Scotland +1 2 £525 +5.00% 7
West Midlands - 2 £450 - 5
Midlands - 2 £450 - 5
North East - 1 £520 - 2

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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 (38.46%) Confluence
2 14 (26.92%) Apache
3 12 (23.08%) Tomcat
4 3 (5.77%) Apache Spark
4 3 (5.77%) JBoss
4 3 (5.77%) WebLogic
4 3 (5.77%) WebLogic Portal
4 3 (5.77%) WebSphere
5 2 (3.85%) IIS
6 1 (1.92%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (1.92%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 37 (71.15%) AWS
2 20 (38.46%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (19.23%) Amazon S3
3 10 (19.23%) Azure
4 8 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (13.46%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (11.54%) AWS KMS
7 4 (7.69%) GCP
7 4 (7.69%) GitHub
7 4 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (7.69%) OpenShift
7 4 (7.69%) Route 53
7 4 (7.69%) SaaS
7 4 (7.69%) Serverless
8 3 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.77%) Entra ID
8 3 (5.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (3.85%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (3.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) Reverse Proxy
1 3 (5.77%) SSL
1 3 (5.77%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.85%) BGP
2 2 (3.85%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (3.85%) Firewall
2 2 (3.85%) IMAP
2 2 (3.85%) IPsec
2 2 (3.85%) LAN
2 2 (3.85%) Multicast
2 2 (3.85%) NGFW
2 2 (3.85%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (3.85%) OSPF
2 2 (3.85%) SMTP
2 2 (3.85%) SSH
2 2 (3.85%) VLAN
2 2 (3.85%) VPN
2 2 (3.85%) VXLAN
2 2 (3.85%) WAN
3 1 (1.92%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.62%) MongoDB
2 5 (9.62%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.77%) Big Data
4 3 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.85%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.85%) Redis
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.92%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.92%) GIS
6 1 (1.92%) Impala
6 1 (1.92%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (46.15%) Git
2 22 (42.31%) JIRA
3 15 (28.85%) Jenkins
4 6 (11.54%) GitLab
5 4 (7.69%) Subversion
6 3 (5.77%) Gerrit
7 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.85%) JUnit
7 2 (3.85%) Postman
7 2 (3.85%) Selenium
7 2 (3.85%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.85%) Vagrant
8 1 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.92%) ESLint
8 1 (1.92%) Mocha
8 1 (1.92%) Mockito
8 1 (1.92%) ScalaTest
8 1 (1.92%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.92%) webpack
General
1 8 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 6 (11.54%) Finance
3 3 (5.77%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Banking
4 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (26.92%) Lead
2 12 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (23.08%) Technical Leader
3 9 (17.31%) Developer
4 7 (13.46%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (11.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Network Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) UI Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Cisco Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (3.85%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Juniper Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.31%) React
2 7 (13.46%) CSS
2 7 (13.46%) HTML
3 5 (9.62%) .NET
3 5 (9.62%) OAuth
4 4 (7.69%) jQuery
4 4 (7.69%) Node.js
5 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.77%) lodash
5 3 (5.77%) Middleware
5 3 (5.77%) React Native
5 3 (5.77%) Redux
5 3 (5.77%) REST
6 2 (3.85%) LDAP
6 2 (3.85%) RESTful
6 2 (3.85%) Sass
6 2 (3.85%) Spring
7 1 (1.92%) CSS3
7 1 (1.92%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.92%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.77%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.85%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.85%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.92%) IoT
4 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (65.38%) Linux
2 6 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (7.69%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (5.77%) Windows
5 2 (3.85%) Debian
5 2 (3.85%) VMS
6 1 (1.92%) AIX
6 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (36.54%) DevOps
2 18 (34.62%) Agile
2 18 (34.62%) CI/CD
3 11 (21.15%) Containerisation
3 11 (21.15%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (11.54%) Microservices
5 6 (11.54%) Secrets Management
6 5 (9.62%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (7.69%) Blue-Green Deployment
7 4 (7.69%) Configuration Management
7 4 (7.69%) Service Catalogue
8 3 (5.77%) API Management
8 3 (5.77%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (5.77%) Platform Engineering
9 2 (3.85%) Cloud Security
9 2 (3.85%) Roadmaps
9 2 (3.85%) Technology Roadmap
9 2 (3.85%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.00%) Python
2 10 (19.23%) JavaScript
2 10 (19.23%) SQL
3 8 (15.38%) Java
4 6 (11.54%) Bash
5 5 (9.62%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.85%) Go
7 2 (3.85%) Groovy
7 2 (3.85%) Scala
8 1 (1.92%) C
8 1 (1.92%) C++
8 1 (1.92%) Perl
8 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.92%) VB
8 1 (1.92%) VB6
Qualifications
1 30 (57.69%) Security Cleared
2 27 (51.92%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) JNCIA
5 1 (1.92%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.92%) NCSC
2 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (53.85%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) LXC
2 3 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.85%) Dovecot
3 2 (3.85%) Firmware
3 2 (3.85%) Postfix
3 2 (3.85%) Squid
3 2 (3.85%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.92%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 31 (59.62%) Kubernetes
2 30 (57.69%) Terraform
3 16 (30.77%) Packer
4 14 (26.92%) Consul
5 11 (21.15%) Ansible
6 6 (11.54%) Kibana
7 4 (7.69%) HAProxy
7 4 (7.69%) Prometheus
8 3 (5.77%) Grafana
8 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (3.85%) FortiGate
9 2 (3.85%) Istio
9 2 (3.85%) Nessus
9 2 (3.85%) Podman
9 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (1.92%) Argo
10 1 (1.92%) HP Data Protector
10 1 (1.92%) linkerd
10 1 (1.92%) Nagios
10 1 (1.92%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
1 5 (9.62%) Oracle
1 5 (9.62%) Red Hat
2 4 (7.69%) AppDynamics
2 4 (7.69%) VMware
3 2 (3.85%) Cisco
3 2 (3.85%) F5
3 2 (3.85%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (3.85%) Juniper
3 2 (3.85%) Palo Alto
3 2 (3.85%) Pega
3 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.92%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.92%) Citrix
4 1 (1.92%) Dell
4 1 (1.92%) EMC
4 1 (1.92%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.92%) HP
4 1 (1.92%) IBM
4 1 (1.92%) SolarWinds