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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 129 172
Rank change year-on-year +58 +43 -50
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,264 518 516
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.27% 2.12% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.99% 5.62% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 361 350
10th Percentile £358 £375 £389
25th Percentile £413 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £622 £630 £623
90th Percentile £700 £738 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 5
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 -
25th Percentile £44.50 £25.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 £27.38 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +104.57% -15.77% -48.00%
75th Percentile £69.38 £58.44 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 £60.30
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +82.65% -15.77% -40.91%

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 14,062 9,221 11,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.37% 37.83% 32.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,696 6,498 8,621
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £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 429 182 321
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.50 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.69 £26.48 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +61.23% +27.47% -21.56%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.74 £33.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.45 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.18% +27.68% -25.43%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +38 715 £538 -4.23% 226
North of England +41 215 £500 +1.06% 145
Yorkshire +26 136 £482 -12.36% 64
South East +7 105 £473 -5.40% 123
Midlands +14 93 £514 +5.98% 55
South West +32 80 £538 - 55
West Midlands +9 77 £550 +15.79% 22
North West -2 68 £525 +10.53% 61
East of England -24 21 £500 -9.09% 53
East Midlands -19 15 £402 -19.60% 33
North East -3 13 £545 +50.34% 20
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
1 109 (8.62%) Confluence
2 46 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (2.69%) SharePoint
4 27 (2.14%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.27%) Apache
6 14 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.63%) nginx
8 7 (0.55%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.32%) CMS
11 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.16%) WordPress
12 1 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.079%) Appian
12 1 (0.079%) SAS
12 1 (0.079%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.079%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.079%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.079%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.079%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.32%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.24%) Findur
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.079%) Actimize
5 1 (0.079%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.079%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.079%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 648 (51.27%) GitHub Actions
2 586 (46.36%) Azure
3 573 (45.33%) AWS
4 311 (24.60%) Azure DevOps
5 200 (15.82%) Serverless
6 177 (14.00%) GCP
7 141 (11.16%) AWS Lambda
8 115 (9.10%) Amazon S3
9 108 (8.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 96 (7.59%) Power Platform
11 94 (7.44%) Amazon EKS
12 88 (6.96%) Amazon ECS
13 86 (6.80%) Azure Data Factory
14 82 (6.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 81 (6.41%) Azure Monitor
16 75 (5.93%) Azure AKS
17 70 (5.54%) GitHub Copilot
18 69 (5.46%) Entra ID
19 65 (5.14%) OpenShift
20 57 (4.51%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.83%) Firewall
2 58 (4.59%) DNS
3 31 (2.45%) VPN
4 29 (2.29%) Network Security
5 14 (1.11%) HTTP
6 9 (0.71%) SSL
7 7 (0.55%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.55%) Modbus
7 7 (0.55%) RS-232
7 7 (0.55%) RS-485
8 6 (0.47%) Internet
8 6 (0.47%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.40%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.32%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.32%) WAN
11 3 (0.24%) DSL
12 2 (0.16%) BGP
12 2 (0.16%) NAS
12 2 (0.16%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (12.18%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (6.65%) NoSQL
3 76 (6.01%) Data Lake
4 63 (4.98%) SQL Server
5 59 (4.67%) DynamoDB
6 58 (4.59%) Power BI
7 57 (4.51%) Amazon RDS
8 50 (3.96%) Relational Database
9 49 (3.88%) MongoDB
10 48 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 41 (3.24%) Delta Lake
12 37 (2.93%) Redis
13 34 (2.69%) MySQL
14 29 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
15 24 (1.90%) Big Data
16 22 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
17 19 (1.50%) Metadata
18 18 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
19 14 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
20 13 (1.03%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 387 (30.62%) Jenkins
2 247 (19.54%) Git
3 244 (19.30%) GitLab
4 167 (13.21%) JIRA
5 85 (6.72%) JUnit
6 54 (4.27%) Cucumber
7 52 (4.11%) Selenium
8 42 (3.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 39 (3.09%) Artifactory
9 39 (3.09%) Cypress.io
9 39 (3.09%) JMeter
10 33 (2.61%) Bitbucket
11 32 (2.53%) CircleCI
11 32 (2.53%) Postman
12 31 (2.45%) Gradle
13 29 (2.29%) SonarQube
14 26 (2.06%) Maven
15 21 (1.66%) Gatling
15 21 (1.66%) MLflow
16 19 (1.50%) REST Assured
General
1 309 (24.45%) Social Skills
2 206 (16.30%) Finance
3 157 (12.42%) Public Sector
4 92 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (6.80%) Banking
6 21 (1.66%) Military
7 19 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (1.50%) Retail
8 16 (1.27%) Front Office
9 15 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.11%) Investment Banking
11 11 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (0.87%) Legal
12 9 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.55%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.55%) Law
13 7 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.47%) Marketing
14 6 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 258 (20.41%) Developer
2 194 (15.35%) Senior
3 179 (14.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 114 (9.02%) Data Engineer
5 98 (7.75%) Lead
6 97 (7.67%) Architect
7 85 (6.72%) Cloud Engineer
8 84 (6.65%) Platform Engineer
9 79 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
10 65 (5.14%) Full-Stack Developer
11 64 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
12 62 (4.91%) Java Developer
13 46 (3.64%) Software Engineer
14 45 (3.56%) AWS DevOps
14 45 (3.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 42 (3.32%) Senior Developer
16 41 (3.24%) GCP Engineer
17 37 (2.93%) Tester
18 35 (2.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 33 (2.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (11.31%) Kafka
2 142 (11.23%) REST
3 134 (10.60%) Spring
4 128 (10.13%) React
5 116 (9.18%) Node.js
6 110 (8.70%) .NET
7 99 (7.83%) Spring Boot
8 90 (7.12%) RESTful
9 64 (5.06%) Playwright
10 58 (4.59%) AngularJS
11 57 (4.51%) PySpark
12 44 (3.48%) CSS
13 43 (3.40%) Elastic Stack
14 42 (3.32%) JSON
14 42 (3.32%) OAuth
15 41 (3.24%) Jest
16 37 (2.93%) HTML
17 35 (2.77%) OpenTelemetry
18 31 (2.45%) PyTorch
19 30 (2.37%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 211 (16.69%) Cloud Native
2 74 (5.85%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (1.90%) Public Cloud
6 21 (1.66%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.42%) AI Agents
7 18 (1.42%) Virtual Team
8 17 (1.34%) Security Posture
9 16 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.27%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.11%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.11%) NHS
11 12 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
12 11 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.79%) Data Centre
13 10 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 147 (11.63%) Linux
2 41 (3.24%) Windows
3 28 (2.22%) Unix
4 21 (1.66%) Android
5 19 (1.50%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.11%) VMS
7 11 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
9 6 (0.47%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.32%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.24%) Debian
11 3 (0.24%) Rocky
12 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.079%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 926 (73.26%) CI/CD
2 754 (59.65%) DevOps
3 446 (35.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 386 (30.54%) Agile
5 307 (24.29%) Containerisation
6 275 (21.76%) Test Automation
7 241 (19.07%) Observability
8 234 (18.51%) AI
9 223 (17.64%) Microservices
10 208 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
11 179 (14.16%) Analytics
12 178 (14.08%) Platform Engineering
13 173 (13.69%) Migration
14 149 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 135 (10.68%) Data Pipeline
16 128 (10.13%) Software Engineering
17 126 (9.97%) Full-Stack Development
18 125 (9.89%) Data Engineering
19 118 (9.34%) Data Modelling
20 113 (8.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 588 (46.52%) Python
2 306 (24.21%) SQL
3 251 (19.86%) Java
4 162 (12.82%) Bash
5 152 (12.03%) JavaScript
6 128 (10.13%) TypeScript
7 122 (9.65%) C#
8 121 (9.57%) PowerShell
9 60 (4.75%) Bicep
9 60 (4.75%) Go
10 32 (2.53%) Shell Script
11 26 (2.06%) Scala
12 23 (1.82%) Ruby
13 17 (1.34%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (1.03%) Swift
16 10 (0.79%) C++
16 10 (0.79%) Groovy
17 9 (0.71%) C
18 7 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 393 (31.09%) Security Cleared
2 309 (24.45%) SC Cleared
3 59 (4.67%) Degree
4 47 (3.72%) Azure Certification
5 40 (3.16%) DV Cleared
6 38 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (2.85%) AWS Certification
8 31 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.87%) OCP
11 11 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
12 10 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (0.71%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (0.63%) CISSP
15 5 (0.40%) CCNP
16 4 (0.32%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (7.99%) QA
2 68 (5.38%) Data Quality
3 45 (3.56%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.98%) GDPR
4 25 (1.98%) WCAG
5 18 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (1.42%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.27%) NIST
7 14 (1.11%) NCSC
8 6 (0.47%) SLA
9 5 (0.40%) GRC
9 5 (0.40%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.24%) EU AI Act
10 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 381 (30.14%) Docker
2 36 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.66%) VMware NSX
5 20 (1.58%) vSphere
6 7 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.55%) Firmware
7 3 (0.24%) HDFS
7 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.079%) IAG
9 1 (0.079%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 560 (44.30%) Terraform
2 468 (37.03%) Kubernetes
3 188 (14.87%) Ansible
4 135 (10.68%) Grafana
5 99 (7.83%) Prometheus
6 64 (5.06%) Argo
7 38 (3.01%) Istio
8 25 (1.98%) Puppet
9 21 (1.66%) Progress Chef
10 20 (1.58%) vCenter Server
11 13 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (0.95%) Packer
13 11 (0.87%) NetBackup
14 10 (0.79%) Kibana
15 9 (0.71%) linkerd
16 7 (0.55%) Podman
16 7 (0.55%) Sysdig
17 4 (0.32%) HAProxy
17 4 (0.32%) Kubeflow
17 4 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 234 (18.51%) Microsoft
2 111 (8.78%) Databricks
3 89 (7.04%) Google
4 79 (6.25%) Splunk
5 47 (3.72%) Oracle
5 47 (3.72%) VMware
6 42 (3.32%) OpenAI
7 40 (3.16%) Red Hat
8 20 (1.58%) Pure Storage
9 19 (1.50%) ServiceNow
10 18 (1.42%) Atlassian
11 16 (1.27%) Salesforce
11 16 (1.27%) Sonatype
12 15 (1.19%) Dynatrace
13 14 (1.11%) SAP
14 11 (0.87%) Foundry
14 11 (0.87%) Informatica
15 10 (0.79%) Checkmarx
15 10 (0.79%) Commvault
16 8 (0.63%) Veritas