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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 - 583
Rank change year-on-year - - +152
Contract jobs citing Varnish 10 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.023% - 0.004%
As % of the System Software category 0.21% - 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £475 - £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £530
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.58%
75th Percentile £538 - £545
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £530

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 4,796 3,840 4,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.11% 13.08% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,290 2,588 3,273
10th Percentile £213 £210 £190
25th Percentile £400 £400 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £596 £624 £600
90th Percentile £688 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £450
% change year-on-year -0.42% +6.00% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 91 236
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.33 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.98 £21.46 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.84 £32.50 £30.45
Median % change year-on-year +34.90% +6.73% -26.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £81.50 £86.25 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +20.00% +15.38% +20.41%

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 17 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
London - 5 £525 - 1
England - 5 £525 - 1
Work from Home - 2 £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 2 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) CMS
2 1 (10.00%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Magento
2 1 (10.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (20.00%) IaaS
2 2 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (10.00%) BigCommerce
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) MySQL
1 6 (60.00%) Redis
2 5 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Architect
2 5 (50.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (10.00%) CyberArk Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Drupal Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (50.00%) VML
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) CSS3
2 1 (10.00%) Drush
2 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) HTML5
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) Symfony
2 1 (10.00%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Unix
3 1 (10.00%) CentOS
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Migration
2 5 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 5 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 5 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 5 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 5 (50.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Identification
2 5 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (20.00%) B2B
3 2 (20.00%) Kernel Tuning
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (10.00%) Bill of Materials
4 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (10.00%) Data Security
4 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) PHP
2 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (10.00%) RHCA
2 1 (10.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Postfix
2 2 (20.00%) NFS
3 1 (10.00%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) HAProxy
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Sitecore
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) Zscaler