Hackathon
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hackathon in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Hackathon over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 863 613 502
Rank change year-on-year -250 -111 +134
Permanent jobs citing Hackathon 45 422 1,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.40% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.92% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 36 99 212
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £36,625
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,625 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +14.81% -6.15%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £99,500 £100,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +23.81%

All Generic Skills
UK

Hackathon is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,504 45,865 71,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.49% 43.06% 46.98%
Number of salaries quoted 22,893 24,449 34,260
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Hackathon
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Hackathon as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Hackathon in the UK

Hackathon
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Hackathon.

Salary trend for Hackathon in the UK

Hackathon
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hackathon over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Hackathon in the UK

Hackathon
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hackathon within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
England -188 45 £60,000 -22.58% 14
Work from Home +11 25 £60,000 -15.37% 5
UK excluding London +7 24 £57,500 -4.17% 7
London -134 21 £85,000 +2.63% 7
South West -1 10 £57,500 +12.75%
South East +2 6 - - 2
North of England +38 5 £60,000 -11.11% 4
North West +4 5 £60,000 -5.88% 4
East of England - 3 - -

Hackathon
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 17 (37.78%) Azure
2 11 (24.44%) AWS
3 6 (13.33%) SaaS
4 5 (11.11%) Datadog
5 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.44%) GCP
6 2 (4.44%) Serverless
7 1 (2.22%) Google Container Engine
7 1 (2.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.67%) Big Data
2 3 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.67%) Redis
3 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) JMeter
1 6 (13.33%) JUnit
1 6 (13.33%) Selenium
1 6 (13.33%) WebDriver
2 3 (6.67%) Git
2 3 (6.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (6.67%) Visual Studio
2 3 (6.67%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (2.22%) Appium
3 1 (2.22%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.22%) XCUITest
General
1 9 (20.00%) Finance
2 5 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Front Office
4 1 (2.22%) Law
Job Titles
1 24 (53.33%) Software Engineer
2 20 (44.44%) Senior
3 14 (31.11%) Senior Software Engineer
4 10 (22.22%) Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (11.11%) Lead
5 5 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Principal Software Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Junior
6 4 (8.89%) Junior Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Junior Software Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Python Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Senior Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Software Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Big Data Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Data Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Python Software Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.00%) React
2 4 (8.89%) CSS
2 4 (8.89%) HTML
3 3 (6.67%) .NET
3 3 (6.67%) .NET Framework
3 3 (6.67%) ASP.NET
3 3 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (6.67%) HTML5
3 3 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (6.67%) REST
3 3 (6.67%) XML
3 3 (6.67%) XSLT
4 2 (4.44%) FastAPI
4 2 (4.44%) Flask
5 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.22%) Spring
5 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.22%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Embedded Systems
2 6 (13.33%) Social Media
3 3 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.22%) Windows
2 2 (4.44%) Linux
3 1 (2.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (37.78%) CI/CD
3 15 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 13 (28.89%) Code Quality
5 12 (26.67%) Agile
5 12 (26.67%) TDD
6 10 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 10 (22.22%) Multithreading
6 10 (22.22%) Technology Roadmap
7 9 (20.00%) DevOps
8 8 (17.78%) Mentoring
9 7 (15.56%) Line Management
10 6 (13.33%) BDD
10 6 (13.33%) Front End Development
10 6 (13.33%) Pair Programming
10 6 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (13.33%) Software Testing
11 5 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (11.11%) Mathematics
11 5 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (24.44%) Java
1 11 (24.44%) Python
2 10 (22.22%) C++
3 8 (17.78%) JavaScript
4 6 (13.33%) SQL
5 4 (8.89%) C#
6 2 (4.44%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.22%) C
7 1 (2.22%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Degree
2 5 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.22%) Google
2 1 (2.22%) YouTube