nginx Job Trends

nginx
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs 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 617 538 605
Rank change year-on-year -79 +67 +166
Permanent jobs citing nginx 36 163 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.060% 0.30% 0.21%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.06% 3.34% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 25 102 99
10th Percentile £26,250 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £58,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,500 £58,350
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% +19.11% -22.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,188 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £113,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% -18.82%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,394 4,880 6,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.66% 9.12% 10.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,271 2,859 4,524
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,959 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,039 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.50% +5.56% -5.26%

nginx
Job Vacancy Trend

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

nginx job vacancy trend in the UK

nginx
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing nginx.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing nginx

nginx
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing nginx over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for nginx in the UK

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Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing nginx within the UK 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
England -62 34 £65,000 -7.14% 7
UK excluding London -22 23 £57,500 -14.81% 7
Work from Home +12 15 £65,000 -13.33% 4
North of England -20 12 £37,500 -28.57% 1
London +8 11 £82,500 - 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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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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (22.22%) Apache
2 5 (13.89%) Drupal
2 5 (13.89%) WordPress
3 4 (11.11%) Confluence
4 3 (8.33%) CMS
5 2 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (2.78%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (8.33%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (8.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (55.56%) AWS
2 12 (33.33%) Azure
3 10 (27.78%) GCP
4 5 (13.89%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 4 (11.11%) AWS KMS
5 4 (11.11%) GitHub
5 4 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (11.11%) Route 53
5 4 (11.11%) SaaS
5 4 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (8.33%) Cloudflare
6 3 (8.33%) Sentry
6 3 (8.33%) Serverless
7 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.56%) npm
7 2 (5.56%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.22%) HTTP
2 6 (16.67%) DNS
2 6 (16.67%) Firewall
2 6 (16.67%) Reverse Proxy
3 5 (13.89%) SSL
3 5 (13.89%) VPN
4 4 (11.11%) FTP
4 4 (11.11%) HTTPS
4 4 (11.11%) IMAP
4 4 (11.11%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (11.11%) SMTP
4 4 (11.11%) SSH
4 4 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 4 (11.11%) WAN
5 2 (5.56%) AMQP
5 2 (5.56%) BGP
5 2 (5.56%) NAS
5 2 (5.56%) OSPF
5 2 (5.56%) SAN
5 2 (5.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (36.11%) MySQL
2 8 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (19.44%) MongoDB
4 5 (13.89%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (13.89%) MariaDB
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (11.11%) NoSQL
6 3 (8.33%) PostHog
7 2 (5.56%) Data Lake
7 2 (5.56%) Metadata
7 2 (5.56%) Redis
7 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (33.33%) Git
2 6 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.11%) GitLab
3 4 (11.11%) JIRA
3 4 (11.11%) Vagrant
3 4 (11.11%) Vite
4 2 (5.56%) Cypress.io
4 2 (5.56%) Jaeger
4 2 (5.56%) MLflow
4 2 (5.56%) Mocha
4 2 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (5.56%) webpack
5 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.78%) git-flow
5 1 (2.78%) Subversion
General
1 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.67%) Finance
4 5 (13.89%) Local Government
4 5 (13.89%) Police
5 4 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Developer
2 9 (25.00%) Senior
3 7 (19.44%) PHP Developer
4 5 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
4 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Support
4 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
4 5 (13.89%) Security Specialist
4 5 (13.89%) Support Specialist
5 4 (11.11%) Backend Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Backend Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior PHP Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Cloud Consultant
6 3 (8.33%) Consultant
6 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Product Owner
6 3 (8.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.78%) CSS
1 10 (27.78%) React
2 9 (25.00%) HTML
2 9 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (19.44%) OAuth
4 6 (16.67%) LDAP
5 5 (13.89%) Laravel
5 5 (13.89%) Node.js
6 4 (11.11%) Kafka
6 4 (11.11%) LEMP Stack
6 4 (11.11%) SAML
6 4 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (11.11%) Vue
7 3 (8.33%) .NET
7 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
7 3 (8.33%) FastAPI
7 3 (8.33%) jQuery
7 3 (8.33%) OAuth2
7 3 (8.33%) REST
7 3 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.11%) PKI
2 4 (11.11%) Replication
3 3 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.56%) FPGA
4 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.56%) IoT
4 2 (5.56%) MPEG
4 2 (5.56%) Robotics
4 2 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (41.67%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Amazon Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Ubuntu
2 4 (11.11%) Unix
2 4 (11.11%) VMS
2 4 (11.11%) Windows
3 2 (5.56%) CentOS
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Agile
2 13 (36.11%) DevOps
3 11 (30.56%) CI/CD
4 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (19.44%) User Experience
6 6 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (13.89%) AI
7 5 (13.89%) Containerisation
7 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (13.89%) Decision-Making
7 5 (13.89%) Mentoring
7 5 (13.89%) Microservices
7 5 (13.89%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (13.89%) Security Patching
7 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
7 5 (13.89%) Web Development
8 4 (11.11%) Clean Code
8 4 (11.11%) Cloud Security
8 4 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 18 (50.00%) Python
2 11 (30.56%) PHP
3 10 (27.78%) JavaScript
4 6 (16.67%) Bash
4 6 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 5 (13.89%) Java
5 5 (13.89%) TypeScript
6 4 (11.11%) Groovy
6 4 (11.11%) SQL
7 2 (5.56%) C#
7 2 (5.56%) Perl
8 1 (2.78%) C++
8 1 (2.78%) Go
8 1 (2.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 6 (16.67%) Degree
2 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
4 4 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 4 (11.11%) CISSP
4 4 (11.11%) OSCP
5 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (13.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 5 (13.89%) ISO 9001
1 5 (13.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (13.89%) QA
System Software
1 24 (66.67%) Docker
2 4 (11.11%) DFS Replication
2 4 (11.11%) Dovecot
2 4 (11.11%) Postfix
2 4 (11.11%) Squid
3 2 (5.56%) NFS
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 12 (33.33%) Terraform
2 10 (27.78%) Ansible
2 10 (27.78%) Grafana
3 9 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (11.11%) Nessus
4 4 (11.11%) Proxmox
5 3 (8.33%) Argo
6 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (2.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (2.78%) Nagios
7 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Red Hat
2 4 (11.11%) Google
2 4 (11.11%) Imperva
2 4 (11.11%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.56%) Cisco
3 2 (5.56%) Dell
3 2 (5.56%) HP
3 2 (5.56%) MikroTik
3 2 (5.56%) NETGEAR
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) Sonatype
3 2 (5.56%) Starlink
3 2 (5.56%) Ubiquiti
4 1 (2.78%) Adobe
4 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.78%) New Relic
4 1 (2.78%) Splunk