nginx Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring nginx skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 464 506
Rank change year-on-year -22 +42 +174
Permanent jobs citing nginx 23 102 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.28% 0.19%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.14% 3.44% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 17 64 60
10th Percentile - £42,500 £40,647
25th Percentile £26,250 £48,750 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% -18.82%
75th Percentile £67,250 £81,563 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £69,500 £58,350
% change year-on-year -6.47% +19.11% -22.20%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

nginx falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,011 2,969 3,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.74% 8.26% 10.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,369 1,582 2,610
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,775 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £33,000 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,039 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

nginx job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing nginx.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing nginx

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Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing nginx in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for nginx in the UK excluding London

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Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing nginx within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
North of England -20 12 £37,500 -28.57% 1
Midlands +25 7 £66,500 - 1
North West -10 7 £65,000 +23.81% 1
West Midlands - 7 £66,500 - 1
Yorkshire - 5 £27,500 -
South East +12 4 £56,500 -16.30% 5
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UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 5 (21.74%) Drupal
1 5 (21.74%) WordPress
2 4 (17.39%) Confluence
3 3 (13.04%) CMS
4 2 (8.70%) Apache
5 1 (4.35%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (13.04%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (13.04%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) AWS
2 9 (39.13%) Azure
3 5 (21.74%) GCP
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon ELB
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon S3
4 4 (17.39%) AWS KMS
4 4 (17.39%) GitHub
4 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (17.39%) Route 53
4 4 (17.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (8.70%) Azure AKS
5 2 (8.70%) Sentry
6 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Datadog
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) DNS
1 4 (17.39%) Firewall
1 4 (17.39%) FTP
1 4 (17.39%) HTTP
1 4 (17.39%) IMAP
1 4 (17.39%) OpenLDAP
1 4 (17.39%) SMTP
1 4 (17.39%) SSH
2 3 (13.04%) VPN
3 1 (4.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) MySQL
2 5 (21.74%) MariaDB
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (17.39%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (17.39%) NoSQL
3 4 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
4 2 (8.70%) PostHog
4 2 (8.70%) Redis
4 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (52.17%) Git
2 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 4 (17.39%) JIRA
2 4 (17.39%) Vagrant
3 3 (13.04%) Vite
4 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.35%) git-flow
4 1 (4.35%) Subversion
General
1 9 (39.13%) Public Sector
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Local Government
3 5 (21.74%) Police
4 4 (17.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) PHP Developer
3 5 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
3 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Support
3 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
3 5 (21.74%) Security Specialist
3 5 (21.74%) Senior
3 5 (21.74%) Support Specialist
4 4 (17.39%) Backend Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Backend Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior PHP Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Product Owner
5 3 (13.04%) Software Developer
6 2 (8.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) CSS
1 7 (30.43%) HTML
1 7 (30.43%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (26.09%) React
3 5 (21.74%) Laravel
4 4 (17.39%) LDAP
4 4 (17.39%) LEMP Stack
5 3 (13.04%) .NET
5 3 (13.04%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (13.04%) Vue
5 3 (13.04%) YAML
6 2 (8.70%) .NET Framework
6 2 (8.70%) Entity Framework
6 2 (8.70%) jQuery
6 2 (8.70%) Loki
6 2 (8.70%) MassTransit
6 2 (8.70%) Next.js
6 2 (8.70%) REST
7 1 (4.35%) Keycloak
7 1 (4.35%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Replication
2 3 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Amazon Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Ubuntu
2 4 (17.39%) VMS
2 4 (17.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (30.43%) Agile
2 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
3 6 (26.09%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) User Experience
4 5 (21.74%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
4 5 (21.74%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (21.74%) Security Patching
4 5 (21.74%) Web Development
5 4 (17.39%) Change Management
5 4 (17.39%) Client Onboarding
5 4 (17.39%) Cloud Security
5 4 (17.39%) Configuration Management
5 4 (17.39%) Patch Management
5 4 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (17.39%) TDD
6 3 (13.04%) Microservices
6 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
6 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) PHP
2 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
3 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
3 5 (21.74%) Python
4 4 (17.39%) Bash
4 4 (17.39%) Groovy
4 4 (17.39%) SQL
5 2 (8.70%) C#
5 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) AWS Certification
2 4 (17.39%) Azure Certification
2 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (21.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 5 (21.74%) ISO 9001
1 5 (21.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (21.74%) QA
System Software
1 18 (78.26%) Docker
2 4 (17.39%) DFS Replication
2 4 (17.39%) Dovecot
2 4 (17.39%) Postfix
2 4 (17.39%) Squid
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Grafana
1 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
2 5 (21.74%) Terraform
3 4 (17.39%) Nessus
3 4 (17.39%) Proxmox
4 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.35%) Ansible
4 1 (4.35%) Argo
4 1 (4.35%) Nagios
4 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Google
1 4 (17.39%) Jaspersoft
1 4 (17.39%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe
2 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.35%) New Relic
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.35%) Splunk