Trunk-Based Development Contracts

Trunk-Based Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Trunk-Based Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Trunk-Based Development 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 512 - 715
Rank change year-on-year - - +125
Contract jobs citing Trunk-Based Development 8 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% - 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £366 - £519
25th Percentile - - £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 - £539
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.09%
75th Percentile - - £547
90th Percentile - - £548
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £539
% change year-on-year - - -2.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Trunk-Based Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Trunk-Based Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Trunk-Based Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Trunk-Based Development in the UK

Trunk-Based Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Trunk-Based Development.

Daily rate trend for Trunk-Based Development in the UK

Trunk-Based Development
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Trunk-Based Development 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
England - 8 £380 - 7
London - 5 £380 - 3
Work from Home - 4 £380 - 6

Trunk-Based Development
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 5 (62.50%) Apache Spark
1 5 (62.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
1 5 (62.50%) HTTP
1 5 (62.50%) Reverse Proxy
1 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Apache Hive
1 5 (62.50%) Apache Iceberg
1 5 (62.50%) Hadoop
1 5 (62.50%) Parquet
1 5 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (62.50%) Presto
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Git
2 5 (62.50%) GitLab
2 5 (62.50%) Poetry
3 3 (37.50%) git-flow
3 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) AWS DevOps
1 5 (62.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) AWS Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Dask
1 5 (62.50%) LAPP Stack
1 5 (62.50%) React
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Continuous Delivery
2 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (62.50%) Data Science
2 5 (62.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
3 3 (37.50%) Bash
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kustomize