GitHub Contracts in England

GitHub
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring GitHub skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitHub over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 166 120
Rank change year-on-year +29 -46 +21
Contract jobs citing GitHub 512 531 1,092
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.10% 1.43% 2.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.65% 4.48% 5.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 350 742
10th Percentile £384 £375 £410
25th Percentile £450 £462 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £700
90th Percentile £750 £688 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £600
% change year-on-year -0.94% -11.67% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 7
10th Percentile £25.25 £24.25 £30.00
25th Percentile £25.72 £46.75 £43.50
Median hourly rate £27.38 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.89% +27.27% -1.79%
75th Percentile £58.44 - £78.00
90th Percentile £68.75 - £87.60
UK median hourly rate £27.38 £67.00 £54.50
% change year-on-year -59.14% +22.94% -0.91%

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 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in England

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub in England.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in England

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in England

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitHub in England.

Hourly rate trend for GitHub in England

GitHub
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitHub in England over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 +23 332 £550 +4.76% 489
North of England +8 64 £475 -11.63% 157
South East +34 42 £500 +5.26% 179
Yorkshire -9 31 £510 -9.76% 51
North West +24 30 £475 -4.04% 89
South West +43 17 £563 -6.25% 47
Midlands +31 15 £475 +26.67% 64
East of England +32 14 £550 - 50
West Midlands +21 11 £463 +23.33% 41
East Midlands +12 4 £488 - 15
North East -1 3 £419 -11.84% 18
GitHub
UK

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 38 (7.42%) Confluence
2 30 (5.86%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.54%) Apache
4 12 (2.34%) Apache Spark
5 11 (2.15%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.17%) CMS
7 3 (0.59%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.59%) WordPress
8 2 (0.39%) Camunda
8 2 (0.39%) IIS
9 1 (0.20%) Gunicorn
9 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.20%) nginx
9 1 (0.20%) SAS
9 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.78%) Trello
2 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (0.39%) SAP ERP
1 2 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.39%) Shopify
2 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 237 (46.29%) AWS
2 188 (36.72%) Azure
3 184 (35.94%) GitHub Actions
4 83 (16.21%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (12.30%) Serverless
6 55 (10.74%) GCP
7 52 (10.16%) AWS Lambda
8 41 (8.01%) AWS CloudFormation
9 38 (7.42%) dbt
10 36 (7.03%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (6.84%) Power Platform
12 28 (5.47%) Amazon S3
13 25 (4.88%) SaaS
14 23 (4.49%) Azure Monitor
14 23 (4.49%) Entra ID
15 21 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 21 (4.10%) Snowflake
16 19 (3.71%) Azure AKS
17 18 (3.52%) Cloud Computing
18 17 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (8.40%) DNS
2 20 (3.91%) Firewall
3 19 (3.71%) TCP/IP
4 17 (3.32%) SMTP
5 15 (2.93%) HTTP
6 12 (2.34%) Network Security
7 10 (1.95%) VPN
8 7 (1.37%) DHCP
9 6 (1.17%) VSAN
10 5 (0.98%) SSL
11 4 (0.78%) BGP
11 4 (0.78%) FTP
11 4 (0.78%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.78%) OSPF
12 3 (0.59%) Cisco ISE
13 2 (0.39%) DSL
13 2 (0.39%) LAN
13 2 (0.39%) Spanning Tree
13 2 (0.39%) TACACS
13 2 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (9.77%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (7.62%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (7.03%) SQL Server
4 30 (5.86%) Power BI
5 23 (4.49%) NoSQL
6 21 (4.10%) DynamoDB
7 17 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (2.54%) BigQuery
8 13 (2.54%) MongoDB
8 13 (2.54%) MySQL
9 12 (2.34%) Big Data
9 12 (2.34%) Data Lake
9 12 (2.34%) Metadata
10 10 (1.95%) Redis
11 9 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (1.76%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (1.17%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (1.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 112 (21.88%) Jenkins
2 91 (17.77%) Git
3 70 (13.67%) JIRA
4 56 (10.94%) GitLab
5 20 (3.91%) Subversion
6 18 (3.52%) CircleCI
7 17 (3.32%) Cucumber
8 16 (3.13%) Bitbucket
9 14 (2.73%) Postman
9 14 (2.73%) Selenium
10 13 (2.54%) Cypress.io
10 13 (2.54%) TeamCity
11 11 (2.15%) git-flow
12 10 (1.95%) JUnit
12 10 (1.95%) Terragrunt
13 9 (1.76%) Gradle
13 9 (1.76%) JMeter
14 8 (1.56%) Artifactory
14 8 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
15 7 (1.37%) SonarQube
General
1 150 (29.30%) Social Skills
2 89 (17.38%) Finance
3 56 (10.94%) Public Sector
4 43 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (6.25%) Banking
6 12 (2.34%) Marketing
7 11 (2.15%) Investment Banking
7 11 (2.15%) Retail
8 10 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.17%) Front Office
9 6 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.98%) Military
10 5 (0.98%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.59%) Legal
13 1 (0.20%) Advertising
13 1 (0.20%) Automotive
13 1 (0.20%) Law
Job Titles
1 121 (23.63%) Developer
2 76 (14.84%) Senior
3 59 (11.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 51 (9.96%) Architect
5 49 (9.57%) Lead
6 42 (8.20%) Data Engineer
7 40 (7.81%) AWS Engineer
8 34 (6.64%) Azure Engineer
9 31 (6.05%) Cloud Engineer
10 30 (5.86%) Software Engineer
11 27 (5.27%) Python Developer
12 26 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
13 20 (3.91%) Full-Stack Developer
13 20 (3.91%) Senior Developer
14 19 (3.71%) AWS DevOps
14 19 (3.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 18 (3.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 15 (2.93%) Python Engineer
17 13 (2.54%) Data Architect
17 13 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (13.87%) REST
2 55 (10.74%) React
3 52 (10.16%) Node.js
4 47 (9.18%) Kafka
5 34 (6.64%) RESTful
6 28 (5.47%) HTML
7 27 (5.27%) .NET
8 26 (5.08%) OAuth
9 25 (4.88%) CSS
10 21 (4.10%) Jinja
10 21 (4.10%) JSON
10 21 (4.10%) Pandas
11 20 (3.91%) NumPy
12 19 (3.71%) FastAPI
12 19 (3.71%) OAuth2
12 19 (3.71%) OpenTelemetry
12 19 (3.71%) pytest
12 19 (3.71%) Spring Boot
13 17 (3.32%) AngularJS
13 17 (3.32%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.27%) Cloud Native
2 19 (3.71%) Public Cloud
3 16 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (2.34%) Algorithms
5 12 (2.34%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.15%) Clustering
6 11 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.76%) Mobile App
7 9 (1.76%) Replication
8 7 (1.37%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.17%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.78%) Life Science
10 4 (0.78%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.78%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.78%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 58 (11.33%) Linux
2 34 (6.64%) Windows
3 18 (3.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (3.32%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.95%) Unix
6 9 (1.76%) Solaris
7 8 (1.56%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.56%) VMS
8 7 (1.37%) Android
9 6 (1.17%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.59%) CentOS
12 2 (0.39%) SUSE
12 2 (0.39%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (57.81%) CI/CD
2 218 (42.58%) DevOps
3 168 (32.81%) Agile
4 120 (23.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 90 (17.58%) Analytics
6 87 (16.99%) Test Automation
7 82 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (13.87%) Software Engineering
9 70 (13.67%) Containerisation
10 54 (10.55%) Microservices
11 46 (8.98%) Continuous Integration
11 46 (8.98%) Data Pipeline
12 44 (8.59%) Data Modelling
12 44 (8.59%) Scrum
13 41 (8.01%) Business Intelligence
14 40 (7.81%) Artificial Intelligence
15 38 (7.42%) Data Engineering
15 38 (7.42%) High Availability
16 35 (6.84%) Data Science
16 35 (6.84%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 240 (46.88%) Python
2 114 (22.27%) SQL
3 77 (15.04%) JavaScript
4 73 (14.26%) Java
5 63 (12.30%) PowerShell
6 49 (9.57%) Bash
7 48 (9.38%) TypeScript
8 31 (6.05%) C#
9 21 (4.10%) Kotlin
10 17 (3.32%) Go
11 16 (3.13%) Perl
12 14 (2.73%) Bicep
13 13 (2.54%) C++
14 11 (2.15%) Scala
14 11 (2.15%) Shell Script
15 9 (1.76%) Groovy
15 9 (1.76%) PHP
15 9 (1.76%) R
16 8 (1.56%) T-SQL
17 7 (1.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 106 (20.70%) Security Cleared
2 85 (16.60%) SC Cleared
3 34 (6.64%) Degree
4 15 (2.93%) AWS Certification
5 12 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (1.56%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.56%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.98%) OCP
9 5 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.59%) VCAP
11 3 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.39%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.39%) SAFe Agilist
12 2 (0.39%) Sun Certification
12 2 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (8.59%) QA
2 18 (3.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 15 (2.93%) GDPR
4 14 (2.73%) Data Quality
5 11 (2.15%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.98%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.78%) GxP
7 4 (0.78%) WCAG
8 3 (0.59%) NCSC
8 3 (0.59%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.20%) HL7
10 1 (0.20%) NIST
10 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 101 (19.73%) Docker
2 26 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.15%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.98%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.98%) vSphere
7 4 (0.78%) NFS
7 4 (0.78%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.78%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 3 (0.59%) Lustre
8 3 (0.59%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.39%) Ceph
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 189 (36.91%) Terraform
2 144 (28.13%) Kubernetes
3 77 (15.04%) Ansible
4 36 (7.03%) Grafana
5 24 (4.69%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.73%) Puppet
7 10 (1.95%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (1.76%) Progress Chef
8 9 (1.76%) QRadar
9 8 (1.56%) Argo
10 7 (1.37%) Tivoli
11 5 (0.98%) Control-M
11 5 (0.98%) EMC NetWorker
11 5 (0.98%) Istio
11 5 (0.98%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 5 (0.98%) VxRail
12 4 (0.78%) PowerCLI
12 4 (0.78%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.59%) Packer
13 3 (0.59%) Podman
Vendors
1 44 (8.59%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.84%) Google
3 30 (5.86%) Databricks
4 26 (5.08%) Splunk
5 25 (4.88%) VMware
6 23 (4.49%) Red Hat
7 17 (3.32%) Salesforce
8 12 (2.34%) Oracle
9 11 (2.15%) Qualys
9 11 (2.15%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.95%) CyberArk
11 9 (1.76%) Dell
11 9 (1.76%) IBM
11 9 (1.76%) SAP
12 8 (1.56%) Atlassian
12 8 (1.56%) SaltStack
13 7 (1.37%) Cisco
14 6 (1.17%) Adobe
14 6 (1.17%) New Relic
14 6 (1.17%) SolarWinds