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 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 637 693
Rank change year-on-year +26 +56 -148
Permanent jobs citing Hackathon 14 34 41
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.025% 0.073% 0.066%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.074% 0.19% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2 15 27
10th Percentile £49,800 - £55,500
25th Percentile £50,250 - £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £45,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.89% -47.06% +19.89%
75th Percentile £56,750 £71,250 £142,500
90th Percentile £57,200 £83,000 £200,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -47.06% +13.33%

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 19,004 17,491 22,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.86% 37.36% 35.92%
Number of salaries quoted 9,663 8,160 16,888
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,981 £101,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.84% +6.09% -11.54%

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
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 31 January 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
London +50 7 £55,000 - 11
South East - 5 - - 5
North of England -19 2 £52,000 +15.56% 4
Yorkshire -21 2 £52,000 +15.56% 1
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 4 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (28.57%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) GitHub
2 4 (28.57%) Datadog
2 4 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (28.57%) Prefect
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure
4 1 (7.14%) Pulumi
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Pinecone
1 4 (28.57%) Weaviate
2 1 (7.14%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JMeter
1 1 (7.14%) LoadRunner
1 1 (7.14%) Selenium
1 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Associate Director
2 4 (28.57%) Development Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) React Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) GraphQL
1 5 (35.71%) REST
2 4 (28.57%) Django
2 4 (28.57%) FastAPI
2 4 (28.57%) Node.js
2 4 (28.57%) PyTorch
2 4 (28.57%) React
2 4 (28.57%) scikit-learn
2 4 (28.57%) TensorFlow
3 1 (7.14%) CSS
3 1 (7.14%) HTML
3 1 (7.14%) Kafka
3 1 (7.14%) Middleware
3 1 (7.14%) NestJS
3 1 (7.14%) React Native
3 1 (7.14%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Life Science
1 5 (35.71%) Low-Code
2 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 4 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) e-Learning
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Code
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) AI
2 11 (78.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (71.43%) Machine Learning
4 9 (64.29%) Analytics
4 9 (64.29%) MLOps
5 5 (35.71%) Agile
5 5 (35.71%) Biotechnology
5 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
5 5 (35.71%) Data Science
5 5 (35.71%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (35.71%) DevOps
5 5 (35.71%) Hematology
5 5 (35.71%) Immunology
5 5 (35.71%) Model Validation
5 5 (35.71%) Open Source
5 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (35.71%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (35.71%) Use Case
5 5 (35.71%) Validation
5 5 (35.71%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (42.86%) TypeScript
4 4 (28.57%) Go
4 4 (28.57%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) Perl
5 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
1 5 (35.71%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CISSP
2 1 (7.14%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) SLA
2 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Control-M
3 1 (7.14%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) OpenAI
2 1 (7.14%) IBM
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle