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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 132 154
Rank change year-on-year +60 +22 -13
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,083 570 622
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.45% 1.95% 1.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.05% 5.33% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 796 390 450
10th Percentile £360 £318 £413
25th Percentile £413 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -1.18% -3.41% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 3
10th Percentile £40.00 £24.28 £75.25
25th Percentile £41.50 £27.28 £75.63
Median hourly rate £54.25 £60.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% -22.58% +40.91%
75th Percentile £98.44 £69.69 £78.75
90th Percentile £110.00 £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £60.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -9.58% -22.58% +40.91%

All Cloud 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 11,972 10,701 12,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.11% 36.67% 34.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,223 7,155 9,492
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 £640
90th Percentile £708 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 139 249
10th Percentile £14.85 £17.35 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.50 £30.88 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +32.85% +3.29%
75th Percentile £55.00 £54.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.00 £69.70 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £26.40 £28.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.17% +15.00% +11.11%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 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 +45 615 £550 - 216
North of England +34 166 £476 +8.18% 150
South East +55 99 £450 - 176
Midlands +34 86 £550 +4.76% 82
Yorkshire 0 84 £500 +11.11% 57
West Midlands +24 72 £575 +12.20% 54
North West +24 67 £405 +18.94% 74
South West +4 60 £650 +0.58% 58
North East +6 17 £545 +50.34% 23
East of England -10 16 £560 +6.67% 55
East Midlands -13 14 £418 -33.15% 28
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 90 (8.31%) Confluence
2 60 (5.54%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 20 (1.85%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.20%) nginx
5 11 (1.02%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.55%) Mule
8 5 (0.46%) Apache
8 5 (0.46%) WordPress
9 4 (0.37%) SAS
10 3 (0.28%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.18%) Traefik
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.092%) Luigi
Applications
1 23 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.18%) Trello
5 1 (0.092%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.092%) InDesign
5 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.092%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.37%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.092%) Actimize
3 1 (0.092%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.092%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.092%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.092%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.092%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.092%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.092%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.092%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 552 (50.97%) GitHub Actions
2 534 (49.31%) AWS
3 475 (43.86%) Azure
4 223 (20.59%) Azure DevOps
5 185 (17.08%) GCP
6 168 (15.51%) Serverless
7 119 (10.99%) AWS Lambda
8 117 (10.80%) Amazon S3
9 95 (8.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 83 (7.66%) Amazon ECS
11 76 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 71 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
13 67 (6.19%) OpenShift
14 61 (5.63%) Entra ID
14 61 (5.63%) Power Platform
15 59 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
15 59 (5.45%) Azure AKS
16 53 (4.89%) GitHub Copilot
17 50 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
18 48 (4.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.25%) DNS
2 42 (3.88%) Firewall
3 27 (2.49%) VPN
4 15 (1.39%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.29%) HTTP
5 14 (1.29%) Network Security
6 12 (1.11%) SSL
7 9 (0.83%) WAN
8 8 (0.74%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.74%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.46%) Internet
9 5 (0.46%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.46%) SSH
10 4 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.18%) Modbus
11 2 (0.18%) RS-232
11 2 (0.18%) RS-485
11 2 (0.18%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (15.51%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (7.48%) NoSQL
3 63 (5.82%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (5.36%) MongoDB
5 51 (4.71%) Relational Database
6 45 (4.16%) DynamoDB
6 45 (4.16%) SQL Server
7 42 (3.88%) Redis
8 34 (3.14%) MySQL
9 31 (2.86%) Data Lake
10 30 (2.77%) Power BI
11 21 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
11 21 (1.94%) Delta Lake
12 20 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
13 19 (1.75%) BigQuery
13 19 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (1.66%) Big Data
15 17 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
16 14 (1.29%) Amazon QuickSight
17 13 (1.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 308 (28.44%) Jenkins
2 231 (21.33%) Git
3 192 (17.73%) GitLab
4 167 (15.42%) JIRA
5 57 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 54 (4.99%) JUnit
7 53 (4.89%) SonarQube
8 46 (4.25%) Bitbucket
9 44 (4.06%) CircleCI
10 41 (3.79%) Artifactory
10 41 (3.79%) Cucumber
11 40 (3.69%) Cypress.io
12 35 (3.23%) Gradle
13 30 (2.77%) Postman
14 28 (2.59%) Selenium
15 26 (2.40%) Maven
16 23 (2.12%) JMeter
17 21 (1.94%) Snyk
18 18 (1.66%) SpecFlow
19 13 (1.20%) webpack
General
1 280 (25.85%) Social Skills
2 170 (15.70%) Finance
3 132 (12.19%) Public Sector
4 83 (7.66%) Banking
5 77 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.66%) Military
7 18 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
8 17 (1.57%) Investment Banking
9 16 (1.48%) Front Office
10 14 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (1.11%) Marketing
12 11 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 9 (0.83%) Retail
14 8 (0.74%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.55%) Games
16 5 (0.46%) Billing
16 5 (0.46%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.37%) Law
17 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 251 (23.18%) Developer
2 177 (16.34%) DevOps Engineer
3 170 (15.70%) Senior
4 89 (8.22%) AWS Engineer
5 80 (7.39%) Data Engineer
6 71 (6.56%) Architect
7 65 (6.00%) Lead
8 57 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 56 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 56 (5.17%) Java Developer
9 56 (5.17%) Platform Engineer
10 54 (4.99%) AWS DevOps
11 51 (4.71%) Software Engineer
12 49 (4.52%) Senior Developer
13 47 (4.34%) Azure Engineer
14 45 (4.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 44 (4.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 34 (3.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 32 (2.95%) DevSecOps Engineer
17 32 (2.95%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (13.02%) REST
2 130 (12.00%) React
3 128 (11.82%) Kafka
4 121 (11.17%) Node.js
5 103 (9.51%) .NET
6 95 (8.77%) RESTful
7 83 (7.66%) Spring
8 71 (6.56%) AngularJS
8 71 (6.56%) Spring Boot
9 62 (5.72%) HTML
10 57 (5.26%) OAuth
11 56 (5.17%) CSS
12 53 (4.89%) Elastic Stack
13 49 (4.52%) Playwright
14 45 (4.16%) YAML
15 43 (3.97%) GraphQL
15 43 (3.97%) JSON
16 40 (3.69%) FastAPI
17 37 (3.42%) pytest
18 33 (3.05%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 175 (16.16%) Cloud Native
2 38 (3.51%) Product Ownership
3 35 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
6 25 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.75%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.57%) Public Cloud
10 16 (1.48%) Onboarding
11 15 (1.39%) AI Agents
11 15 (1.39%) Life Science
12 14 (1.29%) Genomics
12 14 (1.29%) NHS
12 14 (1.29%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
13 13 (1.20%) PKI
13 13 (1.20%) Private Cloud
13 13 (1.20%) Replication
13 13 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 148 (13.67%) Linux
2 39 (3.60%) Windows
3 28 (2.59%) Unix
4 18 (1.66%) Android
5 13 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (1.11%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.83%) VMS
8 7 (0.65%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.55%) Solaris
10 5 (0.46%) CentOS
11 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.18%) zOS
14 1 (0.092%) Alpine Linux
14 1 (0.092%) MVS
14 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 763 (70.45%) CI/CD
2 648 (59.83%) DevOps
3 391 (36.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 372 (34.35%) Agile
5 297 (27.42%) Containerisation
6 222 (20.50%) Problem-Solving
7 219 (20.22%) Microservices
8 205 (18.93%) AI
9 203 (18.74%) Test Automation
10 162 (14.96%) Observability
11 138 (12.74%) Migration
12 126 (11.63%) Software Engineering
13 125 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
14 114 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
15 104 (9.60%) Analytics
16 101 (9.33%) Scrum
17 100 (9.23%) Platform Engineering
18 96 (8.86%) Machine Learning
19 94 (8.68%) DevSecOps
20 88 (8.13%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 509 (47.00%) Python
2 244 (22.53%) SQL
3 221 (20.41%) Java
4 147 (13.57%) TypeScript
5 145 (13.39%) JavaScript
6 139 (12.83%) Bash
7 98 (9.05%) PowerShell
8 97 (8.96%) C#
9 93 (8.59%) Go
10 45 (4.16%) Bicep
11 30 (2.77%) Shell Script
12 29 (2.68%) Ruby
13 21 (1.94%) PHP
14 15 (1.39%) Groovy
15 13 (1.20%) C++
16 8 (0.74%) C
16 8 (0.74%) Korn
16 8 (0.74%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.65%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 314 (28.99%) Security Cleared
2 255 (23.55%) SC Cleared
3 90 (8.31%) Degree
4 52 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (3.79%) Azure Certification
5 41 (3.79%) DV Cleared
6 31 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 20 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.48%) MCP
9 15 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.20%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (0.83%) OCP
12 9 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.65%) CISSP
13 7 (0.65%) OSCP
14 6 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 6 (0.55%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.46%) CREST Certified
15 5 (0.46%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (6.65%) QA
2 38 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 33 (3.05%) Data Quality
4 32 (2.95%) NIST
5 27 (2.49%) GDPR
6 25 (2.31%) NCSC
7 23 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (1.48%) WCAG
9 15 (1.39%) EU AI Act
10 6 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.46%) GRC
12 4 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.37%) SLA
12 4 (0.37%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.28%) Def Stans
13 3 (0.28%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.28%) ITGC
14 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 369 (34.07%) Docker
2 46 (4.25%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.46%) NFS
6 5 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.37%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.37%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (0.37%) vSphere
8 3 (0.28%) QEMU
8 3 (0.28%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.18%) Firmware
9 2 (0.18%) HDFS
9 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.18%) KVM
10 1 (0.092%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.092%) SRDF
10 1 (0.092%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 482 (44.51%) Terraform
2 434 (40.07%) Kubernetes
3 152 (14.04%) Ansible
4 135 (12.47%) Grafana
5 110 (10.16%) Prometheus
6 52 (4.80%) Argo
7 31 (2.86%) Puppet
8 30 (2.77%) Progress Chef
9 25 (2.31%) Istio
10 14 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
11 13 (1.20%) Packer
11 13 (1.20%) Podman
12 10 (0.92%) Kibana
13 8 (0.74%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.65%) Sysdig
15 6 (0.55%) linkerd
16 5 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.46%) logstash
16 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
16 5 (0.46%) Nmap
Vendors
1 172 (15.88%) Microsoft
2 88 (8.13%) Google
3 71 (6.56%) Splunk
4 63 (5.82%) Databricks
5 47 (4.34%) VMware
6 40 (3.69%) Red Hat
7 38 (3.51%) OpenAI
8 33 (3.05%) Oracle
9 24 (2.22%) Atlassian
10 18 (1.66%) ServiceNow
11 17 (1.57%) Foundry
12 16 (1.48%) Salesforce
13 12 (1.11%) Veracode
14 11 (1.02%) CyberArk
14 11 (1.02%) Okta
15 10 (0.92%) Sonatype
16 9 (0.83%) Dynatrace
16 9 (0.83%) MuleSoft
16 9 (0.83%) NetApp
16 9 (0.83%) SAP