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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 119 159
Rank change year-on-year +34 +40 -34
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,274 616 572
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.91% 2.40% 1.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.31% 6.38% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 862 416 361
10th Percentile £380 £386 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 33
10th Percentile £47.75 £25.48 £50.65
25th Percentile £54.22 £25.81 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £26.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +138.25% -62.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £75.00 £27.06 -
90th Percentile - £27.33 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £26.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +138.25% -62.14% +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 15,339 9,656 12,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.67% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,333 6,518 8,597
10th Percentile £325 £310 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 250 331
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.21 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.09 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.20 £67.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +19 729 £550 - 315
North of England +33 248 £500 +3.09% 140
Yorkshire +26 178 £493 -5.24% 53
Midlands +9 94 £492 +3.63% 59
West Midlands +7 82 £492 +3.63% 29
South West +15 76 £463 -22.92% 64
South East -50 72 £525 +9.83% 147
North West -12 61 £550 +17.27% 65
East of England -6 31 £500 -9.09% 49
North East -22 14 £450 -12.20% 22
East Midlands -5 11 £470 -3.59% 30
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
1 108 (8.48%) Confluence
2 43 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (2.35%) SharePoint
4 24 (1.88%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.18%) Apache
6 13 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.47%) Tuxedo
9 3 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) SAS
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.078%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.078%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.078%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.078%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.078%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.55%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.078%) Notion
6 1 (0.078%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.078%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.39%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.39%) Sage X3
3 4 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.24%) Findur
4 3 (0.24%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.078%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.078%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.078%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 679 (53.30%) GitHub Actions
2 595 (46.70%) Azure
3 571 (44.82%) AWS
4 342 (26.84%) Azure DevOps
5 188 (14.76%) GCP
6 172 (13.50%) Serverless
7 124 (9.73%) Amazon S3
8 121 (9.50%) AWS Lambda
9 90 (7.06%) Amazon EKS
10 89 (6.99%) Azure Monitor
11 84 (6.59%) Power Platform
12 82 (6.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 79 (6.20%) AWS CloudFormation
13 79 (6.20%) GitHub Copilot
14 75 (5.89%) Amazon ECS
15 70 (5.49%) Azure AKS
16 65 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
17 63 (4.95%) Entra ID
18 62 (4.87%) Azure Data Factory
19 49 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 63 (4.95%) Firewall
2 60 (4.71%) DNS
3 46 (3.61%) VPN
4 30 (2.35%) Network Security
5 13 (1.02%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 12 (0.94%) SSL
7 11 (0.86%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.86%) VLAN
8 9 (0.71%) BIG-IP
8 9 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 8 (0.63%) HTTP
10 7 (0.55%) Internet
10 7 (0.55%) Wireless
11 6 (0.47%) WAN
12 5 (0.39%) BGP
13 4 (0.31%) DHCP
13 4 (0.31%) DSL
13 4 (0.31%) IPsec
13 4 (0.31%) OSPF
13 4 (0.31%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (7.93%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (6.83%) SQL Server
3 68 (5.34%) Data Lake
4 63 (4.95%) NoSQL
5 56 (4.40%) Power BI
6 55 (4.32%) MongoDB
7 46 (3.61%) DynamoDB
7 46 (3.61%) Relational Database
8 45 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 40 (3.14%) Delta Lake
10 38 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
11 34 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (2.67%) Redis
12 32 (2.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
14 22 (1.73%) Big Data
15 20 (1.57%) Metadata
16 18 (1.41%) MySQL
17 17 (1.33%) BigQuery
17 17 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 408 (32.03%) Jenkins
2 260 (20.41%) GitLab
3 241 (18.92%) Git
4 165 (12.95%) JIRA
5 83 (6.51%) JUnit
6 65 (5.10%) Selenium
7 50 (3.92%) Cucumber
8 42 (3.30%) Gradle
9 40 (3.14%) JMeter
10 39 (3.06%) Gatling
11 37 (2.90%) Maven
11 37 (2.90%) REST Assured
12 36 (2.83%) Cypress.io
13 35 (2.75%) SonarQube
14 34 (2.67%) Bitbucket
15 31 (2.43%) CircleCI
15 31 (2.43%) Postman
16 27 (2.12%) Sonatype Nexus
17 23 (1.81%) Mockito
18 19 (1.49%) WebDriver
General
1 297 (23.31%) Social Skills
2 221 (17.35%) Finance
3 145 (11.38%) Public Sector
4 99 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (6.44%) Banking
6 29 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (2.04%) Retail
8 24 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
9 18 (1.41%) Legal
10 17 (1.33%) Military
11 15 (1.18%) Investment Banking
11 15 (1.18%) Law
12 12 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (0.78%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.63%) Front Office
16 8 (0.63%) Marketing
17 7 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 235 (18.45%) Developer
2 220 (17.27%) Senior
3 176 (13.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 117 (9.18%) Architect
5 108 (8.48%) Data Engineer
6 93 (7.30%) Lead
7 83 (6.51%) Platform Engineer
8 82 (6.44%) Cloud Engineer
9 76 (5.97%) AWS Engineer
10 63 (4.95%) Java Developer
11 58 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
12 57 (4.47%) Software Engineer
13 50 (3.92%) Senior Developer
14 49 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 44 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
16 41 (3.22%) Test Engineer
17 40 (3.14%) GCP Engineer
18 38 (2.98%) Senior DevOps
19 37 (2.90%) AWS DevOps
20 34 (2.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (12.24%) REST
2 128 (10.05%) Spring
3 123 (9.65%) Kafka
4 109 (8.56%) .NET
5 103 (8.08%) RESTful
6 99 (7.77%) Spring Boot
7 97 (7.61%) React
8 73 (5.73%) Playwright
9 63 (4.95%) Node.js
9 63 (4.95%) PySpark
10 43 (3.38%) OpenTelemetry
11 41 (3.22%) OAuth
12 37 (2.90%) AngularJS
12 37 (2.90%) GraphQL
12 37 (2.90%) YAML
13 36 (2.83%) .NET Framework
14 33 (2.59%) HTML
14 33 (2.59%) OAuth2
15 31 (2.43%) FastAPI
15 31 (2.43%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 262 (20.57%) Cloud Native
2 107 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (5.02%) Product Ownership
4 33 (2.59%) Data Centre
5 32 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 29 (2.28%) Onboarding
7 26 (2.04%) Mobile App
8 25 (1.96%) AI Agents
8 25 (1.96%) Public Cloud
9 20 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
11 18 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.02%) NHS
13 13 (1.02%) Replication
13 13 (1.02%) Security Posture
14 12 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
14 12 (0.94%) Low-Code
14 12 (0.94%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 123 (9.65%) Linux
2 59 (4.63%) Windows
3 27 (2.12%) Android
4 26 (2.04%) Apple iOS
5 24 (1.88%) Unix
6 18 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.94%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.47%) VMS
9 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.31%) Debian
10 4 (0.31%) Rocky
11 3 (0.24%) CentOS
12 2 (0.16%) AIX
12 2 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.16%) MVS
12 2 (0.16%) zOS
13 1 (0.078%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.078%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 962 (75.51%) CI/CD
2 746 (58.56%) DevOps
3 491 (38.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 406 (31.87%) Agile
5 306 (24.02%) Test Automation
6 275 (21.59%) Containerisation
7 270 (21.19%) Observability
8 234 (18.37%) Microservices
9 217 (17.03%) Platform Engineering
10 208 (16.33%) AI
11 168 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 166 (13.03%) Analytics
12 166 (13.03%) Software Engineering
13 154 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
14 146 (11.46%) Migration
15 128 (10.05%) Event-Driven
16 121 (9.50%) Data Pipeline
17 112 (8.79%) Data Engineering
18 111 (8.71%) Data Modelling
19 109 (8.56%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 539 (42.31%) Python
2 312 (24.49%) SQL
3 237 (18.60%) Java
4 164 (12.87%) Bash
5 146 (11.46%) PowerShell
6 132 (10.36%) C#
7 130 (10.20%) JavaScript
8 116 (9.11%) TypeScript
9 76 (5.97%) Bicep
10 36 (2.83%) Go
11 34 (2.67%) Scala
12 32 (2.51%) Kotlin
13 29 (2.28%) Shell Script
14 23 (1.81%) Ruby
15 20 (1.57%) Swift
16 14 (1.10%) Groovy
17 10 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.71%) ActionScript
19 8 (0.63%) VB
20 7 (0.55%) C
Qualifications
1 375 (29.43%) Security Cleared
2 311 (24.41%) SC Cleared
3 54 (4.24%) Degree
4 46 (3.61%) DV Cleared
5 44 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 34 (2.67%) AWS Certification
7 30 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (0.94%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.86%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.63%) CISSP
14 7 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 6 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.47%) OCP
15 6 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (10.83%) QA
2 72 (5.65%) Data Quality
3 60 (4.71%) Accessibility
4 33 (2.59%) GDPR
5 24 (1.88%) WCAG
6 20 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.33%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.18%) NIST
9 8 (0.63%) GRC
10 6 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.47%) NCSC
11 5 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.31%) PSD2
13 3 (0.24%) HL7
13 3 (0.24%) SEPA
13 3 (0.24%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 1 (0.078%) IFRS
System Software
1 363 (28.49%) Docker
2 34 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.57%) vSphere
6 19 (1.49%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.47%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.31%) IAG
9 4 (0.31%) NFS
10 2 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.16%) Firmware
10 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.16%) SRDF
10 2 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 595 (46.70%) Terraform
2 445 (34.93%) Kubernetes
3 193 (15.15%) Ansible
4 161 (12.64%) Grafana
5 142 (11.15%) Prometheus
6 49 (3.85%) Argo
7 24 (1.88%) Puppet
8 22 (1.73%) Istio
9 20 (1.57%) vCenter Server
10 17 (1.33%) Packer
11 15 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (1.10%) Progress Chef
13 13 (1.02%) Kibana
14 9 (0.71%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.71%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.39%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
16 4 (0.31%) Rancher
17 3 (0.24%) Consul
Vendors
1 222 (17.43%) Microsoft
2 97 (7.61%) Databricks
3 84 (6.59%) Google
4 83 (6.51%) Splunk
5 47 (3.69%) Oracle
6 39 (3.06%) VMware
7 36 (2.83%) Dynatrace
8 33 (2.59%) Red Hat
9 28 (2.20%) OpenAI
10 22 (1.73%) Salesforce
11 20 (1.57%) Pure Storage
12 17 (1.33%) ServiceNow
13 16 (1.26%) Checkmarx
13 16 (1.26%) Informatica
14 15 (1.18%) Cisco
14 15 (1.18%) Foundry
15 14 (1.10%) F5
15 14 (1.10%) IBM
16 13 (1.02%) Palantir
16 13 (1.02%) SAP