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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 128 156
Rank change year-on-year +55 +28 -21
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,067 597 639
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.42% 1.94% 1.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.96% 5.36% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 778 404 457
10th Percentile £360 £313 £413
25th Percentile £413 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 4
10th Percentile £40.00 £26.00 £75.38
25th Percentile £41.50 £39.50 £75.94
Median hourly rate £54.25 £70.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% -9.68% +47.62%
75th Percentile £98.44 - £79.06
90th Percentile £110.00 - £79.63
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £70.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -22.50% -9.68% +47.62%

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 11,904 11,137 13,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.20% 36.28% 35.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,167 7,430 9,768
10th Percentile £305 £313 £293
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 £645
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 291 147 269
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.00 £31.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.46% +26.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £51.25 £56.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £25.38
% change year-on-year -12.33% +18.20% +13.66%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +43 599 £550 - 265
North of England +25 162 £481 +9.32% 178
South East +59 98 £450 - 204
Midlands +36 85 £550 +4.76% 115
Yorkshire +3 82 £500 +12.36% 60
West Midlands +33 72 £575 +12.20% 74
South West 0 71 £649 -0.15% 71
North West +23 64 £405 +23.10% 98
North East +9 18 £545 - 24
East of England -13 16 £560 +6.67% 80
East Midlands -4 13 £418 -33.15% 40
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 92 (8.62%) Confluence
2 59 (5.53%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.87%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.22%) nginx
6 10 (0.94%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.66%) Apache
7 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.56%) Mule
9 5 (0.47%) SAS
9 5 (0.47%) WordPress
10 3 (0.28%) CMS
11 2 (0.19%) CICS
11 2 (0.19%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.19%) Traefik
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.094%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.094%) Luigi
Applications
1 26 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.47%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.19%) Trello
5 1 (0.094%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.094%) InDesign
5 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.094%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.37%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.19%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.094%) Actimize
3 1 (0.094%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.094%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.094%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.094%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.094%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.094%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.094%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 528 (49.48%) AWS
2 523 (49.02%) GitHub Actions
3 447 (41.89%) Azure
4 214 (20.06%) Azure DevOps
5 170 (15.93%) GCP
6 163 (15.28%) Serverless
7 114 (10.68%) Amazon S3
8 108 (10.12%) AWS Lambda
9 87 (8.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 79 (7.40%) Amazon ECS
11 68 (6.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 63 (5.90%) OpenShift
13 62 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
14 61 (5.72%) Entra ID
15 58 (5.44%) Azure AKS
16 57 (5.34%) Power Platform
17 53 (4.97%) Amazon EC2
18 52 (4.87%) GitHub Copilot
19 50 (4.69%) Azure Monitor
20 46 (4.31%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.66%) DNS
2 36 (3.37%) Firewall
3 26 (2.44%) VPN
4 15 (1.41%) Network Security
5 12 (1.12%) HTTP
5 12 (1.12%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.03%) SSL
7 9 (0.84%) WAN
8 8 (0.75%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.66%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.47%) Internet
10 5 (0.47%) OpenLDAP
10 5 (0.47%) SSH
11 4 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
12 2 (0.19%) Calico
12 2 (0.19%) Modbus
12 2 (0.19%) RS-232
12 2 (0.19%) RS-485
12 2 (0.19%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (14.90%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (7.50%) NoSQL
3 64 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
4 52 (4.87%) MongoDB
5 50 (4.69%) Relational Database
6 43 (4.03%) DynamoDB
7 39 (3.66%) Redis
8 38 (3.56%) SQL Server
9 34 (3.19%) MySQL
10 32 (3.00%) Data Lake
11 28 (2.62%) Power BI
12 22 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
13 21 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
14 20 (1.87%) BigQuery
14 20 (1.87%) Delta Lake
15 18 (1.69%) Big Data
15 18 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
16 17 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
17 15 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
18 14 (1.31%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 294 (27.55%) Jenkins
2 223 (20.90%) Git
3 186 (17.43%) GitLab
4 173 (16.21%) JIRA
5 56 (5.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 52 (4.87%) JUnit
7 47 (4.40%) SonarQube
8 44 (4.12%) Bitbucket
8 44 (4.12%) Cypress.io
9 42 (3.94%) Cucumber
10 38 (3.56%) Artifactory
10 38 (3.56%) CircleCI
11 35 (3.28%) Gradle
12 29 (2.72%) Postman
12 29 (2.72%) Selenium
13 26 (2.44%) Maven
14 22 (2.06%) JMeter
15 19 (1.78%) SpecFlow
16 18 (1.69%) Snyk
17 13 (1.22%) MLflow
General
1 266 (24.93%) Social Skills
2 163 (15.28%) Finance
3 136 (12.75%) Public Sector
4 78 (7.31%) Banking
5 70 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
8 17 (1.59%) Military
9 14 (1.31%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.22%) Front Office
10 13 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.22%) Marketing
11 11 (1.03%) Telecoms
12 8 (0.75%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.75%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.66%) Retail
14 6 (0.56%) Games
15 5 (0.47%) Billing
15 5 (0.47%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 246 (23.06%) Developer
2 169 (15.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 167 (15.65%) Senior
4 99 (9.28%) AWS Engineer
5 79 (7.40%) Data Engineer
6 67 (6.28%) Architect
7 58 (5.44%) Lead
7 58 (5.44%) Platform Engineer
8 56 (5.25%) AWS DevOps
9 55 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
9 55 (5.15%) Java Developer
10 53 (4.97%) Full-Stack Developer
11 51 (4.78%) Software Engineer
12 47 (4.40%) Senior Developer
13 45 (4.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 44 (4.12%) Azure Engineer
15 39 (3.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 34 (3.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 31 (2.91%) DevSecOps Engineer
17 31 (2.91%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (12.84%) REST
2 126 (11.81%) React
3 115 (10.78%) Kafka
4 111 (10.40%) Node.js
5 97 (9.09%) .NET
6 95 (8.90%) RESTful
7 80 (7.50%) Spring
8 77 (7.22%) AngularJS
9 68 (6.37%) Spring Boot
10 61 (5.72%) HTML
11 57 (5.34%) OAuth
12 55 (5.15%) CSS
13 48 (4.50%) Elastic Stack
14 46 (4.31%) Playwright
15 44 (4.12%) YAML
16 42 (3.94%) FastAPI
16 42 (3.94%) JSON
17 41 (3.84%) GraphQL
18 35 (3.28%) pytest
19 30 (2.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 169 (15.84%) Cloud Native
2 38 (3.56%) Product Ownership
3 33 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
6 26 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (1.87%) Public Cloud
8 19 (1.78%) Algorithms
9 18 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.41%) Life Science
10 15 (1.41%) Onboarding
11 14 (1.31%) AI Agents
11 14 (1.31%) Genomics
11 14 (1.31%) PKI
12 12 (1.12%) Clustering
12 12 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
12 12 (1.12%) Mobile App
12 12 (1.12%) Private Cloud
12 12 (1.12%) Replication
12 12 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 146 (13.68%) Linux
2 39 (3.66%) Windows
3 31 (2.91%) Unix
4 18 (1.69%) Android
5 15 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (1.12%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.66%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.56%) Solaris
9 5 (0.47%) CentOS
9 5 (0.47%) VMS
10 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.19%) zOS
13 1 (0.094%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.094%) MVS
13 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 738 (69.17%) CI/CD
2 624 (58.48%) DevOps
3 376 (35.24%) Agile
4 375 (35.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 289 (27.09%) Containerisation
6 212 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
7 211 (19.78%) Microservices
8 203 (19.03%) Test Automation
9 194 (18.18%) AI
10 147 (13.78%) Observability
11 130 (12.18%) Migration
11 130 (12.18%) Software Engineering
12 125 (11.72%) Full-Stack Development
13 111 (10.40%) Data Pipeline
14 104 (9.75%) Scrum
15 100 (9.37%) Analytics
16 97 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
17 92 (8.62%) Machine Learning
18 86 (8.06%) TDD
19 85 (7.97%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 500 (46.86%) Python
2 233 (21.84%) SQL
3 209 (19.59%) Java
4 148 (13.87%) JavaScript
4 148 (13.87%) TypeScript
5 137 (12.84%) Bash
6 98 (9.18%) C#
6 98 (9.18%) PowerShell
7 90 (8.43%) Go
8 45 (4.22%) Bicep
9 28 (2.62%) Ruby
10 25 (2.34%) Shell Script
11 21 (1.97%) PHP
12 16 (1.50%) Groovy
13 14 (1.31%) C++
14 8 (0.75%) C
14 8 (0.75%) Korn
14 8 (0.75%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.75%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 304 (28.49%) Security Cleared
2 249 (23.34%) SC Cleared
3 87 (8.15%) Degree
4 50 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (3.56%) DV Cleared
6 36 (3.37%) Azure Certification
7 33 (3.09%) AWS Certification
8 16 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.50%) MCP
9 15 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.22%) Master's Degree
11 12 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (0.84%) OCP
12 9 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.66%) OSCP
14 6 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 6 (0.56%) CISSP
14 6 (0.56%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.47%) CREST Certified
15 5 (0.47%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.28%) QA
2 37 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 33 (3.09%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.09%) NIST
4 27 (2.53%) GDPR
5 23 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (2.16%) NCSC
6 15 (1.41%) EU AI Act
7 14 (1.31%) WCAG
8 6 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.47%) GRC
9 5 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.37%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.37%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.28%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.28%) ITGC
11 3 (0.28%) SLA
12 2 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 356 (33.36%) Docker
2 46 (4.31%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.47%) NFS
6 5 (0.47%) 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 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.19%) Firmware
9 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.19%) KVM
9 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.094%) SRDF
10 1 (0.094%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.094%) Xen
Systems Management
1 467 (43.77%) Terraform
2 417 (39.08%) Kubernetes
3 138 (12.93%) Ansible
4 128 (12.00%) Grafana
5 106 (9.93%) Prometheus
6 46 (4.31%) Argo
7 36 (3.37%) Puppet
8 29 (2.72%) Progress Chef
9 22 (2.06%) Istio
10 14 (1.31%) Packer
10 14 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (1.12%) Podman
12 8 (0.75%) NetBackup
13 7 (0.66%) Sysdig
14 5 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.47%) Kibana
14 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.47%) Nmap
15 4 (0.37%) logstash
15 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 167 (15.65%) Microsoft
2 89 (8.34%) Google
3 66 (6.19%) Splunk
4 63 (5.90%) Databricks
5 43 (4.03%) VMware
6 39 (3.66%) Red Hat
7 37 (3.47%) OpenAI
8 26 (2.44%) Atlassian
9 25 (2.34%) Oracle
10 16 (1.50%) Foundry
10 16 (1.50%) ServiceNow
11 14 (1.31%) Salesforce
12 11 (1.03%) CyberArk
12 11 (1.03%) Okta
13 10 (0.94%) Sonatype
13 10 (0.94%) Veracode
14 9 (0.84%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.84%) NetApp
14 9 (0.84%) SAP
15 8 (0.75%) Cisco