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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 - 580
Rank change year-on-year - - +194
Contract jobs citing Varnish 4 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% - 0.019%
As % of the System Software category 0.089% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £513
25th Percentile - - £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £528
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.67%
75th Percentile - - £546
90th Percentile - - £550
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 4,505 3,815 5,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.17% 11.83% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,032 2,475 3,556
10th Percentile £213 £200 £193
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £600
90th Percentile £700 £712 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £463
% change year-on-year +4.40% -1.62% +0.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 91 216
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.84 £21.15 £18.84
Median hourly rate £48.11 £28.41 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.34% -43.18% +81.82%
75th Percentile £73.20 £64.50 £69.72
90th Percentile £90.75 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £32.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +92.31% -35.00% +150.00%

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
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 7 January 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
Work from Home - 1 - - 2
London - 1 - -
England - 1 - - 2

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 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Magento
2 1 (25.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) BigCommerce
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) Redis
2 3 (75.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Drupal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (75.00%) VML
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
2 1 (25.00%) Drush
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Symfony
2 1 (25.00%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (75.00%) Data Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (75.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Identification
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) B2B
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Acquisition
2 1 (25.00%) Issue Tracking
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Sitecore