GitHub Contract Job Trends in England

GitHub
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 121 164
Rank change year-on-year +40 +43 -42
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,248 554 548
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.98% 2.29% 1.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.50% 6.07% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 853 371 350
10th Percentile £369 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 24
10th Percentile £50.00 £25.93 £35.90
25th Percentile £58.43 £26.94 £66.81
Median hourly rate £63.14 £47.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.92% -32.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £74.50 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £75.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £47.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +32.92% -32.14% +27.27%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

GitHub 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 14,682 9,122 11,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.10% 37.63% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,999 6,249 8,504
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £509 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.34% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 505 217 324
10th Percentile £15.55 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.33 £17.80 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +58.00% +16.99% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.50 £39.13
90th Percentile £81.15 £68.00 £69.85
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £27.76 £21.46
% change year-on-year +29.36% +29.36% -43.15%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in England

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in England

GitHub
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GitHub.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GitHub

GitHub
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitHub in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for GitHub in England

GitHub
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +34 714 £550 - 278
North of England +32 234 £488 +2.63% 140
Yorkshire +19 167 £478 -6.25% 45
Midlands +10 86 £488 +2.63% 52
South East -31 76 £500 - 102
South West +26 73 £450 -20.00% 71
West Midlands -2 73 £500 +5.26% 23
North West -18 60 £550 +15.79% 75
East of England -17 31 £500 -9.09% 40
North East -18 12 £450 +7.46% 21
East Midlands -19 12 £413 -15.38% 29
GitHub
UK

GitHub
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
1 104 (8.33%) Confluence
2 44 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (2.24%) SharePoint
4 27 (2.16%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.28%) Apache
6 10 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.16%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) nginx
8 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.080%) Appian
9 1 (0.080%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.080%) SAS
9 1 (0.080%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.080%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.080%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.080%) Notion
6 1 (0.080%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.080%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.24%) Findur
3 3 (0.24%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.080%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.080%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.080%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 659 (52.80%) GitHub Actions
2 583 (46.71%) Azure
3 560 (44.87%) AWS
4 320 (25.64%) Azure DevOps
5 192 (15.38%) GCP
6 185 (14.82%) Serverless
7 128 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
8 118 (9.46%) Amazon S3
9 96 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
10 92 (7.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 91 (7.29%) Power Platform
12 84 (6.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 77 (6.17%) Amazon ECS
14 76 (6.09%) GitHub Copilot
15 74 (5.93%) Azure Monitor
16 72 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
17 69 (5.53%) Azure AKS
18 66 (5.29%) Amazon EC2
19 54 (4.33%) Entra ID
19 54 (4.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 65 (5.21%) DNS
2 64 (5.13%) Firewall
3 37 (2.96%) VPN
4 26 (2.08%) Network Security
5 11 (0.88%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.80%) SSL
7 9 (0.72%) HTTP
8 8 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 6 (0.48%) BIG-IP
9 6 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 5 (0.40%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.40%) Modbus
10 5 (0.40%) RS-232
10 5 (0.40%) RS-485
10 5 (0.40%) VLAN
11 4 (0.32%) DSL
11 4 (0.32%) Internet
11 4 (0.32%) NAS
11 4 (0.32%) SAN
11 4 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (6.49%) SQL Server
3 78 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 62 (4.97%) Power BI
5 57 (4.57%) NoSQL
6 54 (4.33%) MongoDB
7 47 (3.77%) DynamoDB
8 44 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 43 (3.45%) Delta Lake
10 41 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
11 40 (3.21%) Relational Database
12 37 (2.96%) Redis
13 28 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
14 26 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
15 25 (2.00%) Big Data
16 22 (1.76%) Metadata
17 21 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
18 19 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
19 18 (1.44%) MySQL
20 17 (1.36%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 390 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 258 (20.67%) GitLab
3 234 (18.75%) Git
4 154 (12.34%) JIRA
5 78 (6.25%) JUnit
6 60 (4.81%) Selenium
7 46 (3.69%) Cucumber
8 39 (3.13%) Cypress.io
9 38 (3.04%) Gradle
9 38 (3.04%) JMeter
10 37 (2.96%) CircleCI
10 37 (2.96%) Gatling
11 36 (2.88%) SonarQube
12 35 (2.80%) Bitbucket
13 33 (2.64%) Maven
14 31 (2.48%) REST Assured
15 30 (2.40%) Postman
16 27 (2.16%) Artifactory
17 21 (1.68%) Mockito
17 21 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 294 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 210 (16.83%) Finance
3 132 (10.58%) Public Sector
4 98 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (6.49%) Banking
6 25 (2.00%) Retail
7 18 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (1.44%) Military
8 17 (1.36%) Legal
9 15 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (1.12%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (0.88%) Front Office
12 11 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (0.88%) Law
13 9 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.56%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.56%) Marketing
15 5 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.32%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 236 (18.91%) Developer
2 205 (16.43%) Senior
3 168 (13.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 112 (8.97%) Data Engineer
5 107 (8.57%) Architect
6 100 (8.01%) Lead
7 80 (6.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 75 (6.01%) Platform Engineer
9 63 (5.05%) AWS Engineer
10 61 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
11 58 (4.65%) Java Developer
12 51 (4.09%) Senior Developer
13 50 (4.01%) Software Engineer
14 48 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
15 44 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 42 (3.37%) GCP Engineer
17 40 (3.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 38 (3.04%) Test Engineer
19 33 (2.64%) Tester
20 32 (2.56%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (11.14%) REST
2 130 (10.42%) Spring
3 124 (9.94%) Kafka
4 104 (8.33%) .NET
4 104 (8.33%) React
5 102 (8.17%) Spring Boot
6 87 (6.97%) RESTful
7 78 (6.25%) Node.js
8 71 (5.69%) Playwright
9 65 (5.21%) PySpark
10 45 (3.61%) OpenTelemetry
11 38 (3.04%) AngularJS
12 37 (2.96%) OAuth
12 37 (2.96%) YAML
13 35 (2.80%) GraphQL
14 34 (2.72%) JSON
15 33 (2.64%) .NET Framework
16 30 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
16 30 (2.40%) HTML
16 30 (2.40%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 234 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 88 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (5.29%) Product Ownership
4 30 (2.40%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.08%) Data Centre
5 26 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (2.00%) Mobile App
6 25 (2.00%) Public Cloud
7 22 (1.76%) AI Agents
8 18 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.20%) Security Posture
11 14 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.04%) Private Cloud
13 12 (0.96%) NHS
13 12 (0.96%) Replication
13 12 (0.96%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 132 (10.58%) Linux
2 57 (4.57%) Windows
3 27 (2.16%) Android
4 26 (2.08%) Unix
5 23 (1.84%) Apple iOS
6 18 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (1.20%) VMS
8 11 (0.88%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.40%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.32%) Debian
10 4 (0.32%) Rocky
11 3 (0.24%) CentOS
12 2 (0.16%) AIX
12 2 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.16%) MVS
12 2 (0.16%) zOS
13 1 (0.080%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 942 (75.48%) CI/CD
2 725 (58.09%) DevOps
3 484 (38.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 374 (29.97%) Agile
5 285 (22.84%) Test Automation
6 270 (21.63%) Containerisation
7 262 (20.99%) Observability
8 219 (17.55%) Microservices
9 202 (16.19%) AI
10 195 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
11 164 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 164 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
12 161 (12.90%) Analytics
13 156 (12.50%) Migration
14 148 (11.86%) Software Engineering
15 122 (9.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 121 (9.70%) Data Pipeline
17 117 (9.38%) Data Engineering
18 115 (9.21%) Event-Driven
19 110 (8.81%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 539 (43.19%) Python
2 308 (24.68%) SQL
3 242 (19.39%) Java
4 164 (13.14%) Bash
5 137 (10.98%) PowerShell
6 134 (10.74%) JavaScript
7 128 (10.26%) C#
8 107 (8.57%) TypeScript
9 65 (5.21%) Bicep
10 40 (3.21%) Go
11 35 (2.80%) Scala
12 32 (2.56%) Shell Script
13 31 (2.48%) Kotlin
14 23 (1.84%) Ruby
15 17 (1.36%) Swift
16 10 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.64%) Groovy
18 7 (0.56%) C++
18 7 (0.56%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 368 (29.49%) Security Cleared
2 298 (23.88%) SC Cleared
3 52 (4.17%) Degree
4 42 (3.37%) Azure Certification
5 39 (3.13%) DV Cleared
6 33 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.32%) AWS Certification
9 21 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.88%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 7 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 6 (0.48%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.48%) OCP
15 6 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (10.18%) QA
2 76 (6.09%) Data Quality
3 57 (4.57%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.40%) GDPR
5 25 (2.00%) WCAG
6 20 (1.60%) PCI DSS
7 19 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.04%) NIST
9 8 (0.64%) NCSC
10 6 (0.48%) GRC
10 6 (0.48%) SLA
11 5 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.40%) PSD2
12 4 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.32%) SEPA
13 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 357 (28.61%) Docker
2 30 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.60%) vSphere
6 19 (1.52%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.48%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.40%) Firmware
10 4 (0.32%) NFS
11 2 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.16%) HDFS
11 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.16%) SRDF
11 2 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.080%) IAG
12 1 (0.080%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 583 (46.71%) Terraform
2 432 (34.62%) Kubernetes
3 192 (15.38%) Ansible
4 150 (12.02%) Grafana
5 128 (10.26%) Prometheus
6 58 (4.65%) Argo
7 32 (2.56%) Istio
8 27 (2.16%) Puppet
9 20 (1.60%) vCenter Server
10 16 (1.28%) Packer
11 15 (1.20%) Progress Chef
12 14 (1.12%) Kibana
13 12 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.72%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.72%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.56%) linkerd
16 4 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
16 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
16 4 (0.32%) Podman
16 4 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 223 (17.87%) Microsoft
2 99 (7.93%) Databricks
3 88 (7.05%) Google
4 80 (6.41%) Splunk
5 53 (4.25%) Oracle
6 42 (3.37%) VMware
7 36 (2.88%) Red Hat
8 32 (2.56%) OpenAI
9 25 (2.00%) Dynatrace
10 20 (1.60%) Pure Storage
11 17 (1.36%) Salesforce
11 17 (1.36%) ServiceNow
12 16 (1.28%) Informatica
13 14 (1.12%) Atlassian
14 13 (1.04%) Checkmarx
14 13 (1.04%) Foundry
14 13 (1.04%) IBM
15 11 (0.88%) Cisco
15 11 (0.88%) SAP
16 10 (0.80%) Palantir