Trunk-Based Development Contract Job Trends

Trunk-Based Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Trunk-Based Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 510 -
Rank change year-on-year -91 - -
Contract jobs citing Trunk-Based Development 9 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.021% 0.027% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% 0.030% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 0
10th Percentile £500 £366 -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £380 -
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - -

All Process & 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 37,591 26,736 38,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 90.46% 86.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,832 17,220 24,877
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.54% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,217 938 2,335
10th Percentile £14.99 £15.21 £12.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.94 £16.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.51 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.28 £71.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.31 £31.76 £31.13
% change year-on-year -7.73% +2.04% -12.14%

Trunk-Based Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Trunk-Based Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Trunk-Based Development job vacancy trend in the UK

Trunk-Based Development
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Trunk-Based Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Trunk-Based Development

Trunk-Based Development
Top 7 Contract Job 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 23 March 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 -108 7 £550 +44.74% 9
UK excluding London - 6 £550 - 10
Work from Home -28 4 £550 +44.74% 5
North of England - 4 £550 - 2
Yorkshire - 4 £550 - 1
London -45 3 £550 +44.74%
Scotland - 2 £550 -

Trunk-Based Development
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure App Service
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (11.11%) Datadog
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) GitLab
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 4 (44.44%) Gradle
2 4 (44.44%) TeamCity
3 1 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) git-flow
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Retail Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Games
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Senior
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
3 1 (11.11%) OpenID
3 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
1 4 (44.44%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) Software Engineering
3 6 (66.67%) DevOps
3 6 (66.67%) Test Automation
4 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
4 5 (55.56%) DevSecOps
4 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (55.56%) Observability
5 4 (44.44%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 4 (44.44%) Canary Deployment
6 3 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
7 2 (22.22%) Attestation
7 2 (22.22%) Community of Practice
7 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
7 2 (22.22%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
7 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
7 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 2 (22.22%) SBOM
7 2 (22.22%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
1 5 (55.56%) Python
1 5 (55.56%) TypeScript
2 4 (44.44%) Rust
3 2 (22.22%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Bicep
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 4 (44.44%) Ansible
3 2 (22.22%) Terraform
4 1 (11.11%) Grafana
4 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google