Zipkin Contract Job Trends

Zipkin
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Zipkin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 523 591
Rank change year-on-year -118 +68 +99
Contract jobs citing Zipkin 2 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.003% 0.018%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.030% 0.022% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £394
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile - - £484
90th Percentile - - £520
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £400

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Zipkin falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,633 4,645 5,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.35% 15.87% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,513 3,134 3,818
10th Percentile £325 £308 £288
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% - -6.82%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £625
90th Percentile £681 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £497 £494
% change year-on-year +0.15% +0.56% -5.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 48 97
10th Percentile £19.25 £13.75 £14.66
25th Percentile £25.75 £20.76 £20.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £33.25 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.41% +5.56% -45.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.29 £50.25
90th Percentile £76.70 £79.09 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% -6.25% -5.88%

Zipkin
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Zipkin job vacancy trend in the UK

Zipkin
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Zipkin
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Zipkin within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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
UK excluding London - 2 - -
North of England - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
England - 2 - -

Zipkin
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 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Flyway
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) git-flow
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Liquibase
1 2 (100.00%) Mockito
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Drools
1 2 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (100.00%) HATEOAS
1 2 (100.00%) Jasypt
1 2 (100.00%) JDBC
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) JWT
1 2 (100.00%) Loki
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Security
1 2 (100.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 2 (100.00%) Log Aggregation
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (100.00%) SOLID
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PromQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Consul
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Solace