Hackathon Job Trends in London

Hackathon
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hackathon in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Hackathon over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 426 420
Rank change year-on-year +59 -6 -106
Permanent jobs citing Hackathon 7 2 23
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.050% 0.013% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.030% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 16
10th Percentile - - £81,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £112,500 £85,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £115,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.17% +4.55% +57.14%
75th Percentile £57,500 £117,500 £200,000
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £53,500 £45,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +18.89% -52.63% +35.71%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,789 6,772 7,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.05% 43.65% 40.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,424 3,529 5,596
10th Percentile £35,750 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £79,566
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +0.55% +2.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £127,500 £127,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Hackathon
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Hackathon job vacancy trend in London

Hackathon
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Hackathon.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Hackathon

Hackathon
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (57.14%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (57.14%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) GitHub
2 4 (57.14%) Datadog
2 4 (57.14%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (57.14%) Prefect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Pinecone
1 4 (57.14%) Weaviate
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Development Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) React Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) GraphQL
1 5 (71.43%) REST
2 4 (57.14%) Django
2 4 (57.14%) FastAPI
2 4 (57.14%) Node.js
2 4 (57.14%) PyTorch
2 4 (57.14%) React
2 4 (57.14%) scikit-learn
2 4 (57.14%) TensorFlow
3 1 (14.29%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
1 4 (57.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) e-Learning
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) AI
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (71.43%) LLM
2 5 (71.43%) Machine Learning
2 5 (71.43%) Open Source
2 5 (71.43%) Roadmaps
2 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (71.43%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (71.43%) Workshop Facilitation
3 4 (57.14%) Business Strategy
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 4 (57.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (57.14%) Intelligent Automation
3 4 (57.14%) MLOps
3 4 (57.14%) Observability
3 4 (57.14%) Prompt Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 4 (57.14%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
1 5 (71.43%) TypeScript
2 4 (57.14%) Go
2 4 (57.14%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) OpenAI