Spinnaker Contract Job Trends

Spinnaker
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Spinnaker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 577 542 597
Rank change year-on-year -35 +55 +161
Contract jobs citing Spinnaker 5 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.003% 0.024%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.091% 0.021% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 10
10th Percentile £450 - £373
25th Percentile £488 £431 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £438 £513
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -14.63% -21.15%
75th Percentile £675 £444 £638
90th Percentile £750 - £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -38.46%

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 5,481 4,716 5,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 13.21% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,793 2,957 4,102
10th Percentile £331 £340 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £693 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £514
% change year-on-year -2.56% -5.07% -2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 109 224
10th Percentile £30.35 £34.30 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.50 £50.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £89.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

Spinnaker
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Spinnaker job vacancy trend in the UK

Spinnaker
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Spinnaker
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spinnaker over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spinnaker in the UK

Spinnaker
Top 6 Contract Job 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 9 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 - 5 £550 - 2
London - 3 £675 -
UK excluding London - 2 £425 - 2
North of England - 2 £425 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £425 - 2
North West - 1 - -

Spinnaker
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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (80.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (40.00%) Anthos
3 2 (40.00%) Apigee
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Storage
3 2 (40.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) GCP DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (40.00%) API Design
4 2 (40.00%) API Management
4 2 (40.00%) Coaching
4 2 (40.00%) Community of Practice
4 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
4 2 (40.00%) GitOps
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (40.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
5 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bicep
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Go
2 2 (40.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Istio
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (40.00%) Google