Mercurial
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Mercurial skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 799 673 772
Rank change year-on-year -126 +99 -12
Permanent jobs citing Mercurial 5 2 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.004% 0.024%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.11% 0.053% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 12
10th Percentile - £48,087 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,490 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,562 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.14% -4.06% +9.09%
75th Percentile £52,500 £64,066 £67,500
90th Percentile - £66,126 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,124 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.25% -22.89% +18.18%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Mercurial falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,635 3,779 6,677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.02% 7.65% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,918 2,254 3,885
10th Percentile £37,425 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,175 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.77% +2.73% -5.17%

Mercurial
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Mercurial job vacancy trend in the UK

Mercurial
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mercurial.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mercurial

Mercurial
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mercurial within the UK over the 6 months to 18 September 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
England -100 5 £50,000 -23.08% 7
Work from Home -23 3 - - 6
London - 3 - - 6
UK excluding London -130 2 £50,000 -0.25% 5
East of England - 2 £50,000 -

Mercurial
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (60.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (60.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (60.00%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Defence
1 3 (60.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (40.00%) Analogue Electronics
2 2 (40.00%) FPGA
2 2 (40.00%) Verilog
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (60.00%) Kanban
2 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) CAD
3 2 (40.00%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) C
3 2 (40.00%) C++
3 2 (40.00%) Embedded C
3 2 (40.00%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
1 3 (60.00%) Perforce
2 2 (40.00%) EMC