Mercurial Contracts

Mercurial
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Mercurial skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mercurial over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 639 797
Rank change year-on-year +75 +158 -126
Contract jobs citing Mercurial 15 55 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.096% 0.075%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.29% 0.65% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 48 39
10th Percentile £479 £348 £402
25th Percentile £522 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £500 £585
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -14.53% +11.43%
75th Percentile £698 £725 £620
90th Percentile £745 £757 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £550 £581
% change year-on-year -12.27% -5.38% +27.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 £71.50 £66.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £73.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.38% +8.15% +22.73%
75th Percentile £66.25 £74.50 £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £73.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -14.38% +8.15% -

All Development Application Skills
UK

Mercurial is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,125 8,436 15,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.05% 14.73% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 5,951 11,155
10th Percentile £353 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £458 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.83%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 231 207
10th Percentile £32.48 £42.81 £37.15
25th Percentile £46.50 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +14.13%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.89 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.30 £82.50 £76.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +19.57%

Mercurial
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mercurial in the UK

Mercurial
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mercurial.

Daily rate trend for Mercurial in the UK

Mercurial
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mercurial over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mercurial in the UK

Mercurial
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mercurial.

Hourly rate trend for Mercurial in the UK

Mercurial
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mercurial within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +78 14 £629 +4.40% 3
London +79 8 £685 +40.56% 1
UK excluding London +33 5 £483 -12.27% 2
East of England +13 4 £465 -
Work from Home +101 3 £525 +10.53% 1
North of England +18 1 £500 -30.56% 1
North West - 1 £500 -

Mercurial
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
3 5 (33.33%) GitHub
3 5 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon ECR
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (13.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DHCP
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (26.67%) DynamoDB
3 2 (13.33%) MySQL
3 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (6.67%) CouchDB
4 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.67%) Redis
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (93.33%) Git
2 5 (33.33%) CircleCI
3 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (20.00%) TeamCity
4 2 (13.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (13.33%) Darcs
4 2 (13.33%) JIRA
4 2 (13.33%) Subversion
5 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
5 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (6.67%) Jaeger
5 1 (6.67%) JMeter
5 1 (6.67%) Postman
5 1 (6.67%) Selenium
5 1 (6.67%) SoapUI
5 1 (6.67%) SpecFlow
5 1 (6.67%) Travis CI
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
1 4 (26.67%) Multimedia
2 2 (13.33%) Retail
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Python Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) C# Developer
4 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Energy Trading Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) React Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) REST
2 5 (33.33%) React
3 4 (26.67%) Django
3 4 (26.67%) NumPy
3 4 (26.67%) Pandas
3 4 (26.67%) pytest
3 4 (26.67%) RESTful
3 4 (26.67%) SciPy
3 4 (26.67%) Web Services
4 3 (20.00%) .NET
5 2 (13.33%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (13.33%) TensorFlow
6 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
6 1 (6.67%) CSS
6 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (6.67%) HTML
6 1 (6.67%) Kafka
6 1 (6.67%) Node.js
6 1 (6.67%) Playwright
6 1 (6.67%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Social Media
2 2 (13.33%) CBDC
3 1 (6.67%) Digital Currency
3 1 (6.67%) PKI
3 1 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (6.67%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 8 (53.33%) Software Engineering
3 7 (46.67%) Code Quality
3 7 (46.67%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 6 (40.00%) TDD
5 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
6 4 (26.67%) Agile
6 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (26.67%) Data Collection
6 4 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (26.67%) Microservices
6 4 (26.67%) Open Source
6 4 (26.67%) Signal Processing
6 4 (26.67%) Unit Testing
7 3 (20.00%) OO
7 3 (20.00%) OOP
7 3 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) Python
2 9 (60.00%) C#
3 8 (53.33%) JavaScript
4 5 (33.33%) Java
4 5 (33.33%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) C
5 2 (13.33%) C++
5 2 (13.33%) Go
5 2 (13.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) ISO 20022
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Kibana
3 1 (6.67%) logstash
3 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.67%) Puppet
3 1 (6.67%) SCOM
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Google
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk