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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 633 734 675
Rank change year-on-year +101 -59 -212
Permanent jobs citing Hackathon 18 26 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.042% 0.038% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.100% 0.12% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 37
10th Percentile £44,750 £56,000 £56,750
25th Percentile £49,375 £58,750 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £87,483
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -17.13% +34.59%
75th Percentile £83,750 £115,625 £130,000
90th Percentile £87,761 £140,000 £200,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £87,483
% change year-on-year +6.90% -17.13% +32.77%

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 18,083 22,186 22,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 41.84% 32.15% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 9,181 11,818 15,926
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £43,742 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

Hackathon
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Hackathon as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Hackathon 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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
London +72 13 £50,000 -55.56% 9
South East +50 3 £77,500 +19.23% 2
South West +71 1 £85,253 +45.11%
East of England - 1 £47,500 - 2
Hackathon
UK

Hackathon
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (22.22%) CMS
1 4 (22.22%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (22.22%) Contentstack
3 3 (16.67%) GCP
4 2 (11.11%) Figma
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) Internet
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
1 1 (5.56%) Postman
1 1 (5.56%) Selenium
General
1 14 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Advertising
3 4 (22.22%) Marketing
4 3 (16.67%) Law
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Finance
5 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Head of Engineering
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) Senior Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Designer
3 2 (11.11%) Product Designer
3 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Android Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Android Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (5.56%) Junior
4 1 (5.56%) Junior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (5.56%) Manual Test Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) React Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Next.js
1 5 (27.78%) React
2 4 (22.22%) Django
2 4 (22.22%) Express.js
2 4 (22.22%) Flask
2 4 (22.22%) MACH
2 4 (22.22%) Node.js
3 3 (16.67%) Hugging Face
3 3 (16.67%) Loki
4 2 (11.11%) REST
5 1 (5.56%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (5.56%) Android SDK
5 1 (5.56%) CSS
5 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.56%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (5.56%) Playwright
5 1 (5.56%) React Native
5 1 (5.56%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) e-Learning
3 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.56%) Online Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Agile
2 9 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (44.44%) Software Engineering
4 7 (38.89%) Collaborative Culture
4 7 (38.89%) Community of Practice
4 7 (38.89%) Generative AI
5 6 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
5 6 (33.33%) Prototyping
5 6 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
6 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (22.22%) Clean Code
7 4 (22.22%) Content Management
7 4 (22.22%) Customer Engagement
7 4 (22.22%) E-Commerce
7 4 (22.22%) Information Management
7 4 (22.22%) SDLC
7 4 (22.22%) Service Delivery
7 4 (22.22%) Software Architecture
7 4 (22.22%) Web Development
7 4 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Go
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) CISSP
2 1 (5.56%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Grafana
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Google
2 3 (16.67%) OpenAI
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft