Varnish Contract Job Trends

Varnish
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Varnish skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 652 552 -
Rank change year-on-year -100 - -
Contract jobs citing Varnish 9 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.003% -
As % of the System Software category 0.17% 0.026% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £425 - -
25th Percentile £503 £428 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £455 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -
75th Percentile £538 £483 -
90th Percentile £569 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £455 -

All System Software Skills
UK

Varnish falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,289 3,817 4,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.91% 11.60% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,485 2,427 3,081
10th Percentile £225 £231 £220
25th Percentile £400 £388 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £606
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 108 143
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.75 £14.06
25th Percentile £22.56 £18.03 £16.50
Median hourly rate £54.00 £33.64 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +60.55% +39.10% -49.45%
75th Percentile £74.00 £80.00 £59.28
90th Percentile £84.63 £91.50 £71.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.37 £63.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -6.51% +144.23% +4.00%

Varnish
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Varnish job vacancy trend in the UK

Varnish
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Varnish
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Varnish over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Varnish in the UK

Varnish
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Varnish.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Varnish

Varnish
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Varnish within the UK over the 6 months to 14 August 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
London - 9 £525 - 1
England - 9 £525 - 1
Work from Home - 5 £500 -

Varnish
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 7 (77.78%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) nginx
2 1 (11.11%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Magento
1 1 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Azure Key Vault
2 5 (55.56%) IaaS
2 5 (55.56%) PaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
1 2 (22.22%) Redis
2 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
2 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) PHPUnit
General
1 6 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (11.11%) CyberArk Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Magento Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
4 1 (11.11%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) CSS
1 2 (22.22%) HTML
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) CSS3
2 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) HTML5
2 1 (11.11%) jQuery
2 1 (11.11%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (11.11%) Memcached
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) Sass
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Migration
2 6 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (22.22%) B2B
5 2 (22.22%) Bill of Materials
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
5 2 (22.22%) Data Security
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 2 (22.22%) Kernel Tuning
5 2 (22.22%) Load Balancing
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 1 (11.11%) Load Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Bash
1 4 (44.44%) Python
1 4 (44.44%) Ruby
1 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
2 2 (22.22%) Perl
2 2 (22.22%) PHP
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Postfix
2 5 (55.56%) NFS
3 4 (44.44%) Sendmail
4 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) HAProxy
2 4 (44.44%) Ansible
3 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe
1 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk
1 1 (11.11%) Zscaler