nginx Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

nginx
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring nginx skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited nginx over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 311 362
Rank change year-on-year +28 +51 +135
Contract jobs citing nginx 21 34 116
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.22% 0.45%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.86% 2.18% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 19 80
10th Percentile £380 £387 £496
25th Percentile £419 £463 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £750 £594 £688
90th Percentile £775 £638 £800
UK median daily rate £567 £529 £600
% change year-on-year +7.18% -11.83% -2.24%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

nginx falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,129 1,560 2,932
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.40% 10.17% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,093 2,063
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -2.50%
75th Percentile £633 £608 £638
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 39 72
10th Percentile £27.03 £16.28 £19.33
25th Percentile £38.39 £22.55 £22.16
Median hourly rate £57.00 £30.16 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.99% -45.16% +57.14%
75th Percentile £64.50 £47.94 £66.69
90th Percentile £66.00 £71.50 £82.40
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing nginx as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

nginx trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing nginx.

nginx daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing nginx over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

nginx daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (23.81%) Apache
1 5 (23.81%) Traefik
2 4 (19.05%) Apache Spark
2 4 (19.05%) OpenStack
3 2 (9.52%) Confluence
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (4.76%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) AWS
2 11 (52.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (23.81%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (23.81%) Entra ID
4 5 (23.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (19.05%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (9.52%) Kong
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.76%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (4.76%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 1 (4.76%) Azure
7 1 (4.76%) GCP
7 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) TCP/IP
2 8 (38.10%) HTTP
3 5 (23.81%) DNS
4 4 (19.05%) Firewall
4 4 (19.05%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (9.52%) SSL
6 1 (4.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) MongoDB
2 4 (19.05%) Apache Hive
2 4 (19.05%) Apache Iceberg
2 4 (19.05%) Hadoop
2 4 (19.05%) Parquet
2 4 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (19.05%) Presto
3 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 11 (52.38%) GitLab
3 7 (33.33%) Git
4 4 (19.05%) Poetry
5 2 (9.52%) JIRA
6 1 (4.76%) webpack
General
1 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
3 6 (28.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Senior
5 4 (19.05%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Unix Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Site Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Lead
7 2 (9.52%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (9.52%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) cloud-init
1 5 (23.81%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (23.81%) Kafka
1 5 (23.81%) Keycloak
1 5 (23.81%) React
2 4 (19.05%) Dask
2 4 (19.05%) LAPP Stack
3 2 (9.52%) Node.js
4 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.76%) CSS
4 1 (4.76%) HTML
4 1 (4.76%) REST
4 1 (4.76%) Sass
4 1 (4.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Cloud Native
1 5 (23.81%) PKI
2 4 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (85.71%) Linux
2 9 (42.86%) Unix
3 7 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (23.81%) CentOS
5 1 (4.76%) Windows
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) DevOps
2 16 (76.19%) CI/CD
3 10 (47.62%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 5 (23.81%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 5 (23.81%) Identity Management
5 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (23.81%) Mobile Device Management
5 5 (23.81%) Observability
5 5 (23.81%) Secrets Management
5 5 (23.81%) Static Application Security Testing
6 4 (19.05%) Agile
6 4 (19.05%) Canary Deployment
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (19.05%) Data Science
6 4 (19.05%) High Availability
6 4 (19.05%) SDLC
6 4 (19.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (19.05%) Trunk-Based Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (76.19%) Python
2 8 (38.10%) Bash
3 5 (23.81%) Go
3 5 (23.81%) TypeScript
4 4 (19.05%) Groovy
4 4 (19.05%) Shell Script
4 4 (19.05%) SQL
5 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (52.38%) Security Cleared
2 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
3 5 (23.81%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.76%) RHCA
4 1 (4.76%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) NCSC
2 1 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 12 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (85.71%) Kubernetes
1 18 (85.71%) Terraform
2 7 (33.33%) Consul
2 7 (33.33%) Packer
2 7 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 6 (28.57%) Ansible
3 6 (28.57%) Grafana
4 5 (23.81%) HAProxy
4 5 (23.81%) Istio
4 5 (23.81%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (23.81%) linkerd
4 5 (23.81%) Rancher
4 5 (23.81%) ZABBIX
5 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (4.76%) HP Data Protector
6 1 (4.76%) Kibana
6 1 (4.76%) logstash
6 1 (4.76%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Splunk
2 5 (23.81%) Apple
2 5 (23.81%) ESET
2 5 (23.81%) Okta
3 4 (19.05%) AppDynamics
3 4 (19.05%) Dynatrace
4 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.76%) Dell
5 1 (4.76%) EMC
5 1 (4.76%) HP
5 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.76%) VMware