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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 580 - 616
Rank change year-on-year - - +207
Contract jobs citing Varnish 2 0 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% - 0.024%
As % of the System Software category 0.045% - 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.00%
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - - £550
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £525

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 4,400 4,245 5,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.28% 11.71% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,885 2,711 4,024
10th Percentile £213 £208 £198
25th Percentile £400 £375 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £591 £613 £615
90th Percentile £675 £706 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 92 243
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.51 £15.04
25th Percentile £19.23 £21.46 £18.39
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.75 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% -27.43% +75.00%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.25 £65.99
90th Percentile £89.93 £75.00 £77.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £50.00 £33.50
% change year-on-year +25.00% +49.25% +55.81%

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
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 30 November 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 - 1 - -
London - 1 - -
England - 1 - -

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 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Magento
1 1 (50.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) BigCommerce
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
2 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Drupal Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) Drush
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Symfony
1 1 (50.00%) Twig
1 1 (50.00%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) B2B
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Acquisition
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) Issue Tracking
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Identification
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) Sitecore