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 25 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 613 687 653
Rank change year-on-year +74 -34 -166
Permanent jobs citing Hackathon 13 30 57
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.030% 0.049% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.076% 0.15% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 36
10th Percentile £44,375 £63,625 £56,250
25th Percentile £47,063 £64,688 £79,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £77,500 £88,750
Median % change year-on-year -30.97% -12.68% +28.95%
75th Percentile £77,188 £115,625 £150,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £140,000 £200,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £77,500 £87,492
% change year-on-year -30.97% -11.42% +24.99%

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 17,194 20,286 19,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 40.05% 32.96% 39.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,291 9,901 14,599
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -

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 25 October 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 25 October 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 +75 8 £50,000 -56.52% 17
South East +32 2 £77,500 +19.23% 16
North of England +8 2 £52,000 -22.96% 19
Yorkshire +7 2 £52,000 -22.96% 3
East of England - 1 £47,500 -
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) GCP
2 2 (15.38%) GitHub
2 2 (15.38%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) Pulumi
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (7.69%) MySQL
1 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Selenium
2 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
2 1 (7.69%) JMeter
2 1 (7.69%) LoadRunner
2 1 (7.69%) Postman
2 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Law
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (7.69%) Junior
4 1 (7.69%) Junior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Manual Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) React Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Hugging Face
2 2 (15.38%) CSS
2 2 (15.38%) Loki
2 2 (15.38%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) Middleware
3 1 (7.69%) NestJS
3 1 (7.69%) Next.js
3 1 (7.69%) Playwright
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) React Native
3 1 (7.69%) SvelteKit
3 1 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Onboarding
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) e-Learning
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Code
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) AI
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Generative AI
2 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
2 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
3 3 (23.08%) Co-Creation
3 3 (23.08%) Collaborative Culture
3 3 (23.08%) Community of Practice
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
3 3 (23.08%) Programme Management
3 3 (23.08%) Project Management
3 3 (23.08%) Thought Leadership
3 3 (23.08%) Use Case
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
1 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
2 2 (15.38%) Go
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Grafana
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Control-M
3 1 (7.69%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) OpenAI
2 2 (15.38%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle