GitHub Copilot Contract Job Trends in England

GitHub Copilot
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring GitHub Copilot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 - 564
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub Copilot 52 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% - 0.003%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% - 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 0 0
10th Percentile £351 - -
25th Percentile £445 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 - -
75th Percentile £668 - -
90th Percentile £700 - -
UK median daily rate £560 - -

All Cloud Skills
England

GitHub Copilot falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,871 10,637 13,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.17% 36.58% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,151 7,109 9,616
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 138 250
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.31 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.94 £23.43
Median % change year-on-year -14.99% +32.07% +4.11%
75th Percentile £55.00 £54.69 £53.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £69.71 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -9.31% +16.00% +11.11%

GitHub Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitHub Copilot relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

GitHub Copilot job vacancy trend in England

GitHub Copilot
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GitHub Copilot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Copilot in England over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Copilot in England

GitHub Copilot
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub Copilot within the England region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. 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
London - 31 £620 - 26
East of England - 10 £550 - 23
North of England - 6 £356 - 28
North West - 6 £356 - 15
East Midlands - 3 £515 - 9
Midlands - 3 £515 - 25
South West - 1 - - 25
GitHub Copilot
UK

GitHub Copilot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 6 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 52 (100.00%) GitHub
2 32 (61.54%) Azure
3 18 (34.62%) AWS
4 17 (32.69%) ChatGPT
5 15 (28.85%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (26.92%) PaaS
6 14 (26.92%) Serverless
7 12 (23.08%) Azure AKS
8 11 (21.15%) Azure Functions
9 8 (15.38%) Azure AI
10 7 (13.46%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (11.54%) Amazon S3
11 6 (11.54%) dbt
11 6 (11.54%) Google Gemini
11 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (11.54%) Power Platform
12 4 (7.69%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (5.77%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (5.77%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 6 (11.54%) Amazon QuickSight
3 6 (11.54%) Star Schema
4 5 (9.62%) MySQL
5 4 (7.69%) Pinecone
5 4 (7.69%) Weaviate
6 2 (3.85%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.85%) Neo4j
6 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.85%) Redis
7 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.92%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.92%) Power BI
7 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (34.62%) Git
2 5 (9.62%) GitLab
2 5 (9.62%) JIRA
3 4 (7.69%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.85%) MLflow
5 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.23%) Finance
3 7 (13.46%) Banking
4 6 (11.54%) Investment Banking
4 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.77%) Front Office
6 1 (1.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (36.54%) Senior
2 15 (28.85%) Developer
3 8 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) Data Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Senior Data Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Senior Developer
5 4 (7.69%) .NET Developer
5 4 (7.69%) C# Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Evangelist
6 3 (5.77%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Senior C# .NET Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (46.15%) .NET
2 17 (32.69%) PyTorch
2 17 (32.69%) RESTful
3 15 (28.85%) TensorFlow
4 12 (23.08%) Semantic Kernel
5 7 (13.46%) LangChain
6 5 (9.62%) GraphQL
6 5 (9.62%) Hibernate
6 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Graph
6 5 (9.62%) REST
6 5 (9.62%) Spring
6 5 (9.62%) Spring Boot
7 4 (7.69%) Faiss
7 4 (7.69%) Spring MVC
7 4 (7.69%) Spring Security
8 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
8 3 (5.77%) OAuth
8 3 (5.77%) React
9 2 (3.85%) FastAPI
9 2 (3.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (26.92%) Cloud Native
2 12 (23.08%) Algorithms
3 5 (9.62%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.77%) Blog
4 3 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.85%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.92%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (92.31%) AI
2 26 (50.00%) Agile
3 25 (48.08%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (44.23%) LLM
5 22 (42.31%) CI/CD
5 22 (42.31%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 20 (38.46%) Prompt Engineering
7 19 (36.54%) Containerisation
7 19 (36.54%) Test Automation
8 17 (32.69%) DevOps
8 17 (32.69%) Machine Learning
9 16 (30.77%) API Design
9 16 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
10 15 (28.85%) Data Privacy
10 15 (28.85%) Software Engineering
11 14 (26.92%) Microservices
12 13 (25.00%) API Management
12 13 (25.00%) Generative AI
13 12 (23.08%) Deep Learning
14 11 (21.15%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 37 (71.15%) Python
2 22 (42.31%) SQL
3 15 (28.85%) Java
4 9 (17.31%) C#
5 8 (15.38%) Go
5 8 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 5 (9.62%) PHP
7 4 (7.69%) PL/SQL
8 3 (5.77%) Bicep
8 3 (5.77%) C++
8 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
8 3 (5.77%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (5.77%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.85%) Bash
10 1 (1.92%) Korn
10 1 (1.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (26.92%) MCP
2 12 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 8 (15.38%) Degree
3 8 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 7 (13.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.92%) MCT
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (23.08%) EU AI Act
2 11 (21.15%) NIST
3 5 (9.62%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 20 (38.46%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (36.54%) Kubernetes
2 10 (19.23%) Terraform
3 2 (3.85%) Knative
Vendors
1 25 (48.08%) Microsoft
2 15 (28.85%) Foundry
3 10 (19.23%) OpenAI
3 10 (19.23%) Oracle
4 3 (5.77%) Google
4 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.85%) Databricks
5 2 (3.85%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.92%) SAP
168 GitHub Copilot jobs in England