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 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 756 619 592
Rank change year-on-year -137 -27 +29
Permanent jobs citing nginx 48 47 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.040% 0.096% 0.22%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.99% 1.17% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 30 20 81
10th Percentile £53,850 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,188 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -2.80%
75th Percentile £68,750 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £95,125 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.66% -4.60%

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 4,859 4,013 5,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.09% 8.16% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,251 2,641 3,575
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £105,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -

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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

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Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for nginx in the UK

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Top 12 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 October 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 -125 47 £65,000 -7.14% 31
UK excluding London -119 37 £65,000 -7.14% 21
Work from Home -37 22 £67,500 -3.57% 16
South East -27 16 £67,500 -3.57% 6
West Midlands -36 9 £60,000 -35.14% 1
Midlands -51 9 £60,000 -35.14% 1
London -75 9 £58,000 -35.56% 14
North of England -57 7 £57,500 +9.52% 6
South West - 5 - - 3
North West -29 4 - - 4
Yorkshire - 3 £57,500 - 2
North East - 3 £57,500 -

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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 27 (56.25%) Apache
2 13 (27.08%) IIS
3 8 (16.67%) SharePoint
4 5 (10.42%) JBoss
5 2 (4.17%) Confluence
6 1 (2.08%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (2.08%) Tomcat
6 1 (2.08%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 23 (47.92%) Azure
2 20 (41.67%) AWS
3 10 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (18.75%) Cloudflare
5 8 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 8 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
5 8 (16.67%) Power Automate
6 7 (14.58%) Route 53
7 5 (10.42%) Amazon ECR
7 5 (10.42%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (10.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (10.42%) Azure AKS
7 5 (10.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (10.42%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (10.42%) Azure Pipelines
7 5 (10.42%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (10.42%) Datadog
8 4 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (35.42%) DNS
2 15 (31.25%) Firewall
3 8 (16.67%) SSL
4 3 (6.25%) OpenVPN
4 3 (6.25%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (6.25%) VPN
5 1 (2.08%) BIG-IP
5 1 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (2.08%) HTTP
5 1 (2.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (10.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (8.33%) MySQL
5 3 (6.25%) Redis
6 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.08%) GIS
Development Applications
1 11 (22.92%) Git
2 7 (14.58%) Bitbucket
2 7 (14.58%) GitLab
2 7 (14.58%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.42%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (8.33%) Subversion
5 3 (6.25%) Vite
6 2 (4.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (4.17%) git-flow
6 2 (4.17%) JIRA
7 1 (2.08%) Robot Framework
7 1 (2.08%) Selenium
7 1 (2.08%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (29.17%) Finance
3 11 (22.92%) Manufacturing
3 11 (22.92%) Retail
4 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.42%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.17%) Police
7 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.08%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (22.92%) NOC Manager
2 11 (22.92%) Operations Manager
3 8 (16.67%) Developer
3 8 (16.67%) Technical Support
4 6 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Senior
4 6 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Senior Support Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Senior Technical Support
5 5 (10.42%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Technical Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Technical Support Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Applications Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Citrix Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Senior Citrix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.17%) React
2 11 (22.92%) Terraform
3 10 (20.83%) .NET
4 8 (16.67%) REST
5 6 (12.50%) CSS
5 6 (12.50%) HTML
5 6 (12.50%) Sass
5 6 (12.50%) Web Services
6 5 (10.42%) ARM Templates
6 5 (10.42%) CSS3
6 5 (10.42%) HTML5
6 5 (10.42%) Keycloak
6 5 (10.42%) Loki
6 5 (10.42%) Node.js
6 5 (10.42%) OAuth
6 5 (10.42%) OAuth2
6 5 (10.42%) OpenID
7 4 (8.33%) LAMP
8 3 (6.25%) Playwright
8 3 (6.25%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 6 (12.50%) Driving Licence
2 5 (10.42%) Private Cloud
2 5 (10.42%) Social Media
3 4 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.17%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 33 (68.75%) Linux
2 29 (60.42%) Windows
3 19 (39.58%) Windows Server
4 8 (16.67%) Ubuntu
4 8 (16.67%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.08%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (58.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 20 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 19 (39.58%) Disaster Recovery
4 18 (37.50%) DevOps
5 17 (35.42%) Load Balancing
6 16 (33.33%) High Availability
7 15 (31.25%) Agile
8 14 (29.17%) AI
8 14 (29.17%) Deployment Automation
8 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (27.08%) Systems Engineering
10 12 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 11 (22.92%) Migration
11 11 (22.92%) Observability
12 10 (20.83%) Microservices
13 9 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
13 9 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (18.75%) Test Automation
14 8 (16.67%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 18 (37.50%) Python
2 15 (31.25%) PowerShell
3 13 (27.08%) SQL
4 12 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 10 (20.83%) C#
6 9 (18.75%) Bash
7 5 (10.42%) Bicep
8 4 (8.33%) PHP
9 3 (6.25%) Java
10 2 (4.17%) Groovy
11 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
11 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 15 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.92%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (22.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 6 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.67%) SLA
2 5 (10.42%) QA
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.08%) SOC 1
System Software
1 20 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (35.42%) Docker
3 12 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (14.58%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (12.50%) Squid
6 5 (10.42%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (6.25%) Active Directory
8 1 (2.08%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) Grafana
2 8 (16.67%) Ansible
2 8 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 7 (14.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 7 (14.58%) Kubernetes
3 7 (14.58%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (10.42%) HAProxy
5 5 (10.42%) Nagios
6 3 (6.25%) Kibana
6 3 (6.25%) Puppet
7 1 (2.08%) Argo
7 1 (2.08%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 27 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 20 (41.67%) VMware
3 11 (22.92%) Veeam
4 8 (16.67%) Citrix
4 8 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 8 (16.67%) SonicWALL
5 7 (14.58%) Atlassian
6 5 (10.42%) New Relic
6 5 (10.42%) Splunk
7 1 (2.08%) Broadcom
7 1 (2.08%) F5
7 1 (2.08%) Oracle
7 1 (2.08%) Rackspace