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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 133 167
Rank change year-on-year +66 +34 -43
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,257 519 527
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.45% 2.03% 1.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.27% 5.37% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 357 364
10th Percentile £356 £348 £413
25th Percentile £413 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £628 £625
90th Percentile £700 £729 £688
UK median daily rate £514 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.81% -1.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 4
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 -
25th Percentile £44.50 £25.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 £27.38 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year +104.57% -25.51% -40.73%
75th Percentile £66.31 £58.44 £54.44
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 £61.98
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £40.00
% change year-on-year +82.65% -31.56% -25.93%

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 13,553 9,661 12,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.24% 37.81% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,318 6,593 8,883
10th Percentile £310 £313 £275
25th Percentile £409 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £607 £638 £638
90th Percentile £712 £738 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 148 327
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.27 £14.20
25th Percentile £20.41 £21.03 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.58 £27.38 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +37.28% +28.10% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.06 £43.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.25 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.13 £21.37
% change year-on-year +38.25% +26.93% -14.52%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +39 715 £540 -1.82% 247
North of England +40 202 £500 +2.62% 168
Yorkshire +16 118 £481 -3.80% 68
South East +28 113 £462 -7.70% 163
Midlands +24 92 £550 +11.11% 85
South West +22 80 £550 - 73
West Midlands +14 73 £550 +18.73% 31
North West +22 72 £525 +10.53% 72
East of England -18 19 £550 +71.88% 73
East Midlands -6 18 £402 -19.60% 51
North East 0 16 £545 +50.34% 32
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
1 118 (9.39%) Confluence
2 46 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (2.63%) SharePoint
4 24 (1.91%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.72%) Apache
6 9 (0.72%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.64%) nginx
8 4 (0.32%) CMS
8 4 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
9 2 (0.16%) Traefik
9 2 (0.16%) WordPress
10 1 (0.080%) Appian
10 1 (0.080%) Luigi
10 1 (0.080%) SAS
10 1 (0.080%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.080%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.080%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.64%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.16%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.080%) InDesign
6 1 (0.080%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (0.56%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.32%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.080%) Actimize
4 1 (0.080%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.080%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.080%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.080%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.080%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.080%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 631 (50.20%) GitHub Actions
2 572 (45.51%) Azure
3 567 (45.11%) AWS
4 276 (21.96%) Azure DevOps
5 199 (15.83%) GCP
6 189 (15.04%) Serverless
7 119 (9.47%) AWS Lambda
8 102 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 101 (8.04%) Amazon EKS
10 100 (7.96%) Amazon S3
11 89 (7.08%) Power Platform
12 85 (6.76%) Amazon ECS
13 82 (6.52%) OpenShift
14 77 (6.13%) Azure AKS
15 76 (6.05%) Azure Monitor
16 73 (5.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 73 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
17 69 (5.49%) Entra ID
18 67 (5.33%) GitHub Copilot
19 58 (4.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 58 (4.61%) Firewall
2 53 (4.22%) DNS
3 31 (2.47%) VPN
4 27 (2.15%) Network Security
5 13 (1.03%) HTTP
6 9 (0.72%) SSL
6 9 (0.72%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.64%) Kerberos
7 8 (0.64%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.64%) WAN
8 7 (0.56%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.56%) Modbus
8 7 (0.56%) RS-232
8 7 (0.56%) RS-485
9 5 (0.40%) Internet
9 5 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.24%) DSL
11 2 (0.16%) Calico
12 1 (0.080%) Intranet
12 1 (0.080%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (13.68%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (6.68%) NoSQL
3 67 (5.33%) MongoDB
4 62 (4.93%) SQL Server
5 61 (4.85%) Data Lake
6 59 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (4.06%) Power BI
7 51 (4.06%) Relational Database
8 47 (3.74%) DynamoDB
9 42 (3.34%) Redis
10 39 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
11 35 (2.78%) MySQL
12 33 (2.63%) Delta Lake
13 27 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
14 19 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (1.51%) Big Data
15 18 (1.43%) BigQuery
16 17 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
17 15 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
17 15 (1.19%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 388 (30.87%) Jenkins
2 238 (18.93%) Git
3 232 (18.46%) GitLab
4 177 (14.08%) JIRA
5 85 (6.76%) JUnit
6 57 (4.53%) Sonatype Nexus
7 55 (4.38%) Cucumber
8 46 (3.66%) Selenium
9 42 (3.34%) Artifactory
10 41 (3.26%) Cypress.io
11 38 (3.02%) Bitbucket
11 38 (3.02%) CircleCI
12 36 (2.86%) JMeter
12 36 (2.86%) Postman
13 35 (2.78%) Gradle
14 32 (2.55%) SonarQube
15 29 (2.31%) Maven
16 19 (1.51%) MLflow
17 18 (1.43%) Mockito
17 18 (1.43%) REST Assured
General
1 315 (25.06%) Social Skills
2 189 (15.04%) Finance
3 154 (12.25%) Public Sector
4 88 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (7.00%) Banking
5 22 (1.75%) Military
5 22 (1.75%) Retail
6 18 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.19%) Front Office
7 15 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
7 15 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (0.95%) Investment Banking
10 9 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (0.64%) Marketing
11 8 (0.64%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.48%) Law
13 5 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.40%) Legal
14 4 (0.32%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 281 (22.35%) Developer
2 195 (15.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 193 (15.35%) Senior
4 95 (7.56%) Lead
5 94 (7.48%) Data Engineer
6 87 (6.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 81 (6.44%) Architect
8 80 (6.36%) AWS Engineer
9 75 (5.97%) Full-Stack Developer
10 70 (5.57%) Platform Engineer
11 64 (5.09%) Java Developer
12 61 (4.85%) Azure Engineer
13 48 (3.82%) AWS DevOps
13 48 (3.82%) Software Engineer
14 47 (3.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 45 (3.58%) Senior Developer
16 40 (3.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 39 (3.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 35 (2.78%) GCP Engineer
19 33 (2.63%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (12.65%) REST
2 149 (11.85%) Kafka
3 131 (10.42%) React
3 131 (10.42%) Spring
4 127 (10.10%) Node.js
5 116 (9.23%) .NET
6 93 (7.40%) Spring Boot
7 89 (7.08%) RESTful
8 73 (5.81%) AngularJS
9 67 (5.33%) Playwright
10 63 (5.01%) CSS
11 56 (4.46%) HTML
12 49 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
13 46 (3.66%) PySpark
14 45 (3.58%) OAuth
15 43 (3.42%) PyTorch
16 41 (3.26%) JSON
17 39 (3.10%) FastAPI
17 39 (3.10%) GraphQL
17 39 (3.10%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 204 (16.23%) Cloud Native
2 50 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (3.58%) Product Ownership
4 32 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.15%) Public Cloud
6 21 (1.67%) Algorithms
7 19 (1.51%) Virtual Team
8 17 (1.35%) AI Agents
8 17 (1.35%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.27%) Security Posture
10 15 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.11%) Life Science
11 14 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (1.11%) NHS
11 14 (1.11%) Replication
12 12 (0.95%) Genomics
12 12 (0.95%) Private Cloud
13 11 (0.88%) Data Structures
13 11 (0.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 157 (12.49%) Linux
2 43 (3.42%) Windows
3 24 (1.91%) Unix
4 22 (1.75%) Android
5 17 (1.35%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.19%) VMS
7 12 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.56%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.24%) CentOS
10 3 (0.24%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.24%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.24%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.16%) Debian
11 2 (0.16%) Rocky
12 1 (0.080%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.080%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 904 (71.92%) CI/CD
2 742 (59.03%) DevOps
3 443 (35.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 393 (31.26%) Agile
5 324 (25.78%) Containerisation
6 271 (21.56%) Test Automation
7 244 (19.41%) AI
8 235 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
9 228 (18.14%) Microservices
10 223 (17.74%) Observability
11 170 (13.52%) Migration
12 164 (13.05%) Analytics
13 149 (11.85%) Platform Engineering
14 145 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 139 (11.06%) Full-Stack Development
16 123 (9.79%) Software Engineering
17 122 (9.71%) Data Pipeline
18 106 (8.43%) Data Engineering
18 106 (8.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 105 (8.35%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 582 (46.30%) Python
2 286 (22.75%) SQL
3 253 (20.13%) Java
4 167 (13.29%) JavaScript
5 154 (12.25%) Bash
6 139 (11.06%) TypeScript
7 120 (9.55%) PowerShell
8 114 (9.07%) C#
9 70 (5.57%) Go
10 53 (4.22%) Bicep
11 29 (2.31%) Shell Script
12 25 (1.99%) Ruby
13 18 (1.43%) Scala
14 16 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (1.19%) Kotlin
16 13 (1.03%) Groovy
16 13 (1.03%) PHP
17 11 (0.88%) C++
17 11 (0.88%) Swift
18 9 (0.72%) C
Qualifications
1 370 (29.44%) Security Cleared
2 284 (22.59%) SC Cleared
3 76 (6.05%) Degree
4 49 (3.90%) DV Cleared
5 46 (3.66%) Azure Certification
6 44 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (3.18%) AWS Certification
8 26 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (1.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 15 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (0.80%) OCP
12 10 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
13 9 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.56%) CISSP
14 7 (0.56%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.32%) CCNP
15 4 (0.32%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (6.68%) QA
2 52 (4.14%) Accessibility
3 51 (4.06%) Data Quality
4 26 (2.07%) NIST
5 25 (1.99%) WCAG
6 20 (1.59%) NCSC
7 19 (1.51%) GDPR
8 15 (1.19%) PCI DSS
9 14 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 12 (0.95%) EU AI Act
11 8 (0.64%) GRC
12 7 (0.56%) SLA
13 4 (0.32%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.24%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.16%) MiFID
15 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 400 (31.82%) Docker
2 36 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
3 35 (2.78%) Active Directory
4 20 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.19%) VMware NSX
5 15 (1.19%) vSphere
6 7 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.56%) Firmware
7 3 (0.24%) HDFS
7 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.080%) etcd
8 1 (0.080%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.080%) NFS
8 1 (0.080%) QEMU
8 1 (0.080%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.080%) Veritas File System
8 1 (0.080%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 552 (43.91%) Terraform
2 491 (39.06%) Kubernetes
3 189 (15.04%) Ansible
4 142 (11.30%) Grafana
5 102 (8.11%) Prometheus
6 74 (5.89%) Argo
7 42 (3.34%) Istio
8 24 (1.91%) Progress Chef
9 23 (1.83%) Puppet
10 15 (1.19%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.95%) Kibana
12 11 (0.88%) NetBackup
12 11 (0.88%) Packer
12 11 (0.88%) Podman
13 9 (0.72%) linkerd
13 9 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.56%) Sysdig
15 6 (0.48%) Rancher
16 5 (0.40%) logstash
17 4 (0.32%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 210 (16.71%) Microsoft
2 102 (8.11%) Google
3 92 (7.32%) Databricks
4 79 (6.28%) Splunk
5 51 (4.06%) VMware
6 46 (3.66%) Red Hat
7 44 (3.50%) OpenAI
8 40 (3.18%) Oracle
9 22 (1.75%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.51%) Foundry
10 19 (1.51%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.51%) Sonatype
11 15 (1.19%) Pure Storage
12 14 (1.11%) Dynatrace
12 14 (1.11%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.88%) SAP
14 10 (0.80%) Commvault
15 9 (0.72%) New Relic
16 7 (0.56%) Veracode
16 7 (0.56%) Veritas