Spinnaker Contracts

Spinnaker
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Spinnaker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spinnaker over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 574 680
Rank change year-on-year +58 +106 +104
Contract jobs citing Spinnaker 4 8 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.018% 0.064%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.097% 0.15% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 30
10th Percentile £452 £578 £525
25th Percentile £483 £581 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £694 £763
90th Percentile - £713 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate - £600 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £87.50
Median hourly rate - - £95.00
75th Percentile - - £102.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

Spinnaker 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 4,103 5,181 9,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.89% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,744 3,477 6,339
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 £717 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 197 246
10th Percentile £26.92 £32.48 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.53 £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 £86.15 £81.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

Spinnaker
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Spinnaker in the UK

Spinnaker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Spinnaker in the UK

Spinnaker
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spinnaker over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spinnaker in the UK

Spinnaker
Top 1 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spinnaker within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Work from Home +44 4 £525 - 4

Spinnaker
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 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Datadog
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 3 (75.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (75.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Release Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Release Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Release Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Argo
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kibana
2 1 (25.00%) logstash
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft