Hackathon Job Trends in the North of England

Hackathon
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hackathon in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Hackathon over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 267 273
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 +123
Permanent jobs citing Hackathon 2 20 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.019% 0.22% 0.082%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.049% 0.71% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - - £48,250
25th Percentile £49,500 - £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -21.74% -17.86%
75th Percentile £54,500 - £66,563
90th Percentile - £55,500 £73,875
England median annual salary £53,500 £45,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +18.89% -52.63% +35.71%

All Generic Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,099 2,805 2,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 38.27% 30.92% 33.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,617 1,260 2,225
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,055 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -8.99% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,389 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,100 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Hackathon
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Hackathon job vacancy trend in the North of England

Hackathon
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Hackathon.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Hackathon

Hackathon
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hackathon within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 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
Yorkshire -19 2 £52,000 +15.56% 2
Hackathon
England

Hackathon
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 (50.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) NestJS
1 1 (50.00%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (50.00%) Case Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) QMS
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Control-M
1 1 (50.00%) HP Fortify
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle