Hackathon Job Trends in England

Hackathon
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hackathon in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Hackathon over the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 697 616 734
Rank change year-on-year -81 +118 -64
Permanent jobs citing Hackathon 42 20 27
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.043% 0.046% 0.038%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 24 9 13
10th Percentile - £45,500 -
25th Percentile £15,600 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £69,018 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.75% +15.03% -33.33%
75th Percentile £79,688 £83,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,756 £135,500
UK median annual salary £68,500 £69,018 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.75% +15.03% -31.42%

All Generic Skills
England

Hackathon falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,857 18,266 23,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.56% 41.86% 32.26%
Number of salaries quoted 16,341 9,336 13,217
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -6.78% -9.23%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%

Hackathon
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Hackathon relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Hackathon job vacancy trend in England

Hackathon
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Hackathon.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Hackathon

Hackathon
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hackathon in England over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Hackathon in England

Hackathon
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hackathon within the England region over the 6 months to 2 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -18 22 £39,050 -49.61% 9
London -52 18 £72,500 +45.00% 130
North of England -51 2 - - 13
Yorkshire -47 1 - - 1
North West - 1 - - 12
Hackathon
UK

Hackathon
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 4 (9.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.19%) AWS
2 8 (19.05%) GitHub
3 7 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
4 5 (11.90%) Amazon Bedrock
5 4 (9.52%) ChatGPT
6 3 (7.14%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (7.14%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.76%) Azure
7 2 (4.76%) dbt
7 2 (4.76%) Google Gemini
7 2 (4.76%) Prefect
7 2 (4.76%) SaaS
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.38%) Azure AI
8 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.38%) BrowserStack
8 1 (2.38%) GCP
8 1 (2.38%) Serverless
8 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.38%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (7.14%) Claude Code
3 2 (4.76%) Snyk
4 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.38%) JIRA
4 1 (2.38%) NUnit
4 1 (2.38%) Postman
General
1 20 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 12 (28.57%) Finance
3 7 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (16.67%) Law
3 7 (16.67%) Marketing
3 7 (16.67%) Military
3 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.52%) Public Speaking
5 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.14%) Games
6 2 (4.76%) Publishing
7 1 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (40.48%) Senior
2 6 (14.29%) Consultant
2 6 (14.29%) Developer
3 5 (11.90%) IT Support
3 5 (11.90%) Senior Developer
4 4 (9.52%) ABAP Consultant
4 4 (9.52%) Android Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Associate Director
4 4 (9.52%) Chief Technology Officer
4 4 (9.52%) Senior ABAP Consultant
4 4 (9.52%) Senior Android Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Senior Consultant
5 3 (7.14%) Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) Android Jetpack
1 4 (9.52%) Jetpack Compose
1 4 (9.52%) RESTful
2 3 (7.14%) CrewAI
2 3 (7.14%) jQuery
2 3 (7.14%) LangGraph
2 3 (7.14%) Model Context Protocol
2 3 (7.14%) Pandas
2 3 (7.14%) scikit-learn
2 3 (7.14%) Terraform
3 2 (4.76%) .NET
3 2 (4.76%) .NET Core
3 2 (4.76%) FastAPI
3 2 (4.76%) Flask
3 2 (4.76%) htmx
3 2 (4.76%) Loki
3 2 (4.76%) Streamlit
3 2 (4.76%) Tapestry
4 1 (2.38%) Pulumi
4 1 (2.38%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Mobile App
2 4 (9.52%) AI Agents
2 4 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (9.52%) Life Science
2 4 (9.52%) Low-Code
2 4 (9.52%) Public Cloud
3 3 (7.14%) Autonomous Agent
3 3 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.14%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.76%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.38%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.38%) PropTech
5 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.38%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (9.52%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (66.67%) AI
2 15 (35.71%) Mathematics
3 14 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 13 (30.95%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 11 (26.19%) Agile
6 11 (26.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (26.19%) Mentoring
6 11 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (26.19%) Test Automation
7 10 (23.81%) Machine Learning
7 10 (23.81%) Software Engineering
8 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (21.43%) LLM
8 9 (21.43%) Thought Leadership
8 9 (21.43%) Workflow
9 8 (19.05%) Presales
9 8 (19.05%) Workshop Facilitation
10 7 (16.67%) Digital Forensics
10 7 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (28.57%) Python
2 4 (9.52%) ABAP
2 4 (9.52%) Kotlin
3 3 (7.14%) C#
3 3 (7.14%) SQL
4 2 (4.76%) Bash
5 1 (2.38%) Java
5 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.38%) Perl
5 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (33.33%) Degree
2 11 (26.19%) Master's Degree
3 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.05%) Accessibility
1 8 (19.05%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.76%) Argo
2 2 (4.76%) Grafana
2 2 (4.76%) Kustomize
2 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.38%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) OpenAI
2 4 (9.52%) SAP
3 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.76%) Google