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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 122 172
Rank change year-on-year +56 +50 -47
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,148 544 533
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.53% 2.07% 1.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.33% 5.59% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 831 369 384
10th Percentile £356 £344 £413
25th Percentile £412 £450 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £704 £690 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 1
10th Percentile £40.00 £22.33 -
25th Percentile £41.50 £25.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £48.00 £27.38 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.34% -43.56% -10.19%
75th Percentile £60.31 £57.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £86.88 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £27.38 £48.50
% change year-on-year +75.34% -43.56% -10.19%

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 12,305 9,732 12,598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.80% 37.02% 33.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,543 6,444 9,195
10th Percentile £304 £313 £274
25th Percentile £406 £425 £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 £700 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 136 289
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.51 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.41 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.93 £27.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +16.11% +18.46% -3.27%
75th Percentile £58.75 £44.71 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.07 £68.75 £66.11
UK median hourly rate £31.65 £27.43 £23.43
% change year-on-year +15.41% +17.08% +1.19%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 27 January 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 +47 668 £550 - 236
North of England +24 177 £482 +1.47% 191
South East +42 105 £450 -0.55% 268
Yorkshire +1 89 £500 +3.63% 92
Midlands +14 78 £550 - 98
North West +13 73 £405 -14.74% 79
South West +11 71 £550 -10.20% 112
West Midlands +22 64 £575 +10.05% 37
North East 0 17 £545 +50.34% 23
East of England -5 17 £560 +76.10% 114
East Midlands -14 14 £402 -35.63% 59
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 96 (8.36%) Confluence
2 49 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (2.18%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.66%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.13%) nginx
6 12 (1.05%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.52%) Apache
9 5 (0.44%) CMS
10 4 (0.35%) SAS
11 3 (0.26%) Mule
11 3 (0.26%) WordPress
12 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.17%) CICS
12 2 (0.17%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.17%) Traefik
12 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.087%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.087%) Appian
Applications
1 28 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.17%) Trello
6 1 (0.087%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (0.61%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.17%) Shopify
3 1 (0.087%) Actimize
3 1 (0.087%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.087%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.087%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.087%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.087%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 586 (51.05%) GitHub Actions
2 528 (45.99%) AWS
3 526 (45.82%) Azure
4 246 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 197 (17.16%) GCP
6 191 (16.64%) Serverless
7 127 (11.06%) AWS Lambda
8 115 (10.02%) Amazon S3
9 106 (9.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 93 (8.10%) Amazon EKS
11 88 (7.67%) Amazon ECS
12 85 (7.40%) Power Platform
13 76 (6.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 70 (6.10%) OpenShift
15 68 (5.92%) Azure AKS
16 62 (5.40%) Azure Data Factory
16 62 (5.40%) Entra ID
17 59 (5.14%) GitHub Copilot
18 56 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
19 52 (4.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.36%) Firewall
2 43 (3.75%) DNS
3 25 (2.18%) Network Security
4 23 (2.00%) VPN
5 12 (1.05%) HTTP
5 12 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.96%) SSL
7 9 (0.78%) WAN
8 8 (0.70%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.70%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.61%) Ethernet
9 7 (0.61%) Modbus
9 7 (0.61%) RS-232
9 7 (0.61%) RS-485
10 5 (0.44%) Internet
10 5 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.17%) Calico
11 2 (0.17%) SNMP
11 2 (0.17%) SSH
12 1 (0.087%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (14.37%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 65 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (4.97%) MongoDB
5 54 (4.70%) Relational Database
6 53 (4.62%) DynamoDB
7 52 (4.53%) SQL Server
8 49 (4.27%) Data Lake
8 49 (4.27%) Power BI
9 43 (3.75%) Redis
10 40 (3.48%) MySQL
11 35 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
12 29 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
13 26 (2.26%) BigQuery
14 19 (1.66%) Amazon Aurora
14 19 (1.66%) Delta Lake
15 18 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
16 15 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (1.31%) DocumentDB
17 14 (1.22%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 328 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 227 (19.77%) Git
3 207 (18.03%) GitLab
4 164 (14.29%) JIRA
5 67 (5.84%) JUnit
6 59 (5.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 47 (4.09%) Artifactory
8 44 (3.83%) SonarQube
9 43 (3.75%) CircleCI
9 43 (3.75%) Gradle
10 38 (3.31%) Cypress.io
11 37 (3.22%) Bitbucket
12 36 (3.14%) Cucumber
13 32 (2.79%) Maven
14 31 (2.70%) Postman
14 31 (2.70%) Selenium
15 27 (2.35%) JMeter
16 16 (1.39%) Snyk
17 14 (1.22%) SpecFlow
18 13 (1.13%) MLflow
General
1 280 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 175 (15.24%) Finance
3 145 (12.63%) Public Sector
4 84 (7.32%) Banking
5 75 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.57%) Military
7 18 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
8 17 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.39%) Retail
10 15 (1.31%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.13%) Front Office
11 13 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (0.96%) Marketing
13 10 (0.87%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.52%) Games
15 5 (0.44%) Billing
15 5 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.44%) Law
16 4 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 279 (24.30%) Developer
2 182 (15.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 174 (15.16%) Senior
4 91 (7.93%) Data Engineer
5 86 (7.49%) AWS Engineer
6 80 (6.97%) Cloud Engineer
7 76 (6.62%) Full-Stack Developer
8 74 (6.45%) Lead
9 71 (6.18%) Architect
10 63 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
11 59 (5.14%) Java Developer
12 57 (4.97%) Azure Engineer
13 54 (4.70%) Software Engineer
14 52 (4.53%) AWS DevOps
15 45 (3.92%) Senior Developer
15 45 (3.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 43 (3.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 39 (3.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 32 (2.79%) Senior Data Engineer
19 28 (2.44%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (12.63%) REST
2 140 (12.20%) Kafka
3 130 (11.32%) React
4 124 (10.80%) Node.js
5 110 (9.58%) .NET
6 106 (9.23%) Spring
7 93 (8.10%) RESTful
8 85 (7.40%) Spring Boot
9 71 (6.18%) AngularJS
10 61 (5.31%) OAuth
11 60 (5.23%) CSS
11 60 (5.23%) HTML
12 51 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
12 51 (4.44%) Playwright
13 45 (3.92%) JSON
14 41 (3.57%) GraphQL
15 40 (3.48%) FastAPI
16 36 (3.14%) ARM Templates
16 36 (3.14%) Jest
16 36 (3.14%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 193 (16.81%) Cloud Native
2 41 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
2 41 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 27 (2.35%) Public Cloud
4 26 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 21 (1.83%) Algorithms
6 20 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (1.66%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.48%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.39%) Life Science
10 16 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.31%) Private Cloud
12 14 (1.22%) Genomics
12 14 (1.22%) NHS
12 14 (1.22%) Replication
13 13 (1.13%) Mobile App
13 13 (1.13%) Security Posture
14 12 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 154 (13.41%) Linux
2 40 (3.48%) Windows
3 25 (2.18%) Unix
4 22 (1.92%) Android
5 15 (1.31%) Apple iOS
5 15 (1.31%) VMS
6 13 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
7 7 (0.61%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.52%) Solaris
9 4 (0.35%) CentOS
9 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.17%) zOS
12 1 (0.087%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.087%) MVS
12 1 (0.087%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 816 (71.08%) CI/CD
2 683 (59.49%) DevOps
3 410 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 367 (31.97%) Agile
5 307 (26.74%) Containerisation
6 229 (19.95%) AI
7 224 (19.51%) Test Automation
8 221 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
9 214 (18.64%) Microservices
10 188 (16.38%) Observability
11 150 (13.07%) Migration
12 143 (12.46%) Full-Stack Development
13 128 (11.15%) Software Engineering
14 127 (11.06%) Analytics
15 122 (10.63%) Platform Engineering
16 118 (10.28%) Data Pipeline
17 112 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
18 102 (8.89%) DevSecOps
19 97 (8.45%) Machine Learning
20 94 (8.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 535 (46.60%) Python
2 257 (22.39%) SQL
3 241 (20.99%) Java
4 161 (14.02%) JavaScript
5 149 (12.98%) TypeScript
6 127 (11.06%) Bash
7 100 (8.71%) C#
8 98 (8.54%) PowerShell
9 74 (6.45%) Go
10 51 (4.44%) Bicep
11 30 (2.61%) Shell Script
12 27 (2.35%) Ruby
13 15 (1.31%) PHP
14 12 (1.05%) C++
14 12 (1.05%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.78%) Groovy
16 8 (0.70%) C
16 8 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.70%) Scala
17 7 (0.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 337 (29.36%) Security Cleared
2 262 (22.82%) SC Cleared
3 83 (7.23%) Degree
4 50 (4.36%) DV Cleared
5 48 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (3.40%) Azure Certification
7 33 (2.87%) AWS Certification
8 23 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.92%) MCP
10 18 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.22%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.78%) CISSP
13 8 (0.70%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.70%) OCP
13 8 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
14 7 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 4 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
16 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.35%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.18%) QA
2 49 (4.27%) Data Quality
3 45 (3.92%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.53%) NIST
5 24 (2.09%) NCSC
6 23 (2.00%) GDPR
7 22 (1.92%) WCAG
8 16 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (1.31%) EU AI Act
10 13 (1.13%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.61%) SLA
12 5 (0.44%) GRC
12 5 (0.44%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.26%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.26%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.17%) FedRAMP
15 2 (0.17%) FIPS 140-2
15 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 385 (33.54%) Docker
2 35 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.61%) Firmware
6 6 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.44%) NFS
8 4 (0.35%) Veritas File System
8 4 (0.35%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 4 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.35%) vSphere
9 3 (0.26%) QEMU
9 3 (0.26%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.17%) HDFS
10 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.17%) KVM
11 1 (0.087%) SRDF
11 1 (0.087%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.087%) Xen
Systems Management
1 503 (43.82%) Terraform
2 446 (38.85%) Kubernetes
3 159 (13.85%) Ansible
4 128 (11.15%) Grafana
5 99 (8.62%) Prometheus
6 59 (5.14%) Argo
7 36 (3.14%) Istio
8 28 (2.44%) Progress Chef
9 26 (2.26%) Puppet
10 13 (1.13%) Podman
11 10 (0.87%) Kibana
11 10 (0.87%) Packer
12 9 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
13 8 (0.70%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.61%) Sysdig
15 6 (0.52%) linkerd
16 5 (0.44%) logstash
17 4 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
17 4 (0.35%) Rancher
17 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 200 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 106 (9.23%) Google
3 74 (6.45%) Databricks
4 67 (5.84%) Splunk
5 44 (3.83%) OpenAI
5 44 (3.83%) VMware
6 38 (3.31%) Oracle
7 35 (3.05%) Red Hat
8 22 (1.92%) ServiceNow
9 19 (1.66%) Foundry
10 17 (1.48%) Atlassian
11 15 (1.31%) Sonatype
12 13 (1.13%) Salesforce
13 9 (0.78%) Dynatrace
13 9 (0.78%) NetApp
13 9 (0.78%) SAP
14 8 (0.70%) Commvault
14 8 (0.70%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.70%) New Relic
14 8 (0.70%) Okta