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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 117 140
Rank change year-on-year +32 +23 -12
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,323 652 611
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.95% 2.39% 1.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.45% 6.40% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 444 396
10th Percentile £390 £375 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £627
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 34
10th Percentile £46.25 - £52.60
25th Percentile £54.22 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - £70.00
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 15,661 10,188 11,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.38% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,470 6,885 8,378
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 268 287
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.04 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.27 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.14% +14.32% -36.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £47.47
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.49% +25.00% -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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +25 754 £550 - 250
North of England +45 261 £500 +4.71% 100
Yorkshire +23 180 £496 -2.67% 33
Midlands +19 106 £500 +5.26% 45
West Midlands +9 94 £500 +11.11% 24
South West +5 73 £500 -16.67% 32
South East -61 73 £529 +11.32% 96
North West -8 69 £577 +26.95% 51
East of England -5 32 £500 -9.09% 28
North East -30 17 £450 -5.26% 17
East Midlands -7 11 £470 -7.39% 21
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
1 123 (9.30%) Confluence
2 41 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (2.65%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.74%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.21%) Apache
6 11 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.45%) nginx
7 6 (0.45%) Tuxedo
8 5 (0.38%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) CMS
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
10 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.076%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.076%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.076%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.076%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.15%) Trello
8 1 (0.076%) Notion
8 1 (0.076%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.38%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.23%) Findur
4 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.23%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.076%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 702 (53.06%) GitHub Actions
2 647 (48.90%) Azure
3 601 (45.43%) AWS
4 360 (27.21%) Azure DevOps
5 191 (14.44%) GCP
6 154 (11.64%) Serverless
7 127 (9.60%) Amazon S3
8 115 (8.69%) AWS Lambda
9 105 (7.94%) GitHub Copilot
10 98 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
11 94 (7.11%) Azure Monitor
12 85 (6.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 81 (6.12%) Power Platform
14 69 (5.22%) Amazon EC2
14 69 (5.22%) Amazon ECS
14 69 (5.22%) Azure AKS
15 67 (5.06%) Entra ID
16 66 (4.99%) AWS CloudFormation
17 53 (4.01%) Azure Data Factory
17 53 (4.01%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 66 (4.99%) Firewall
2 61 (4.61%) DNS
3 52 (3.93%) VPN
4 29 (2.19%) Network Security
5 17 (1.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 15 (1.13%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.13%) VLAN
7 11 (0.83%) SSL
8 9 (0.68%) BGP
8 9 (0.68%) BIG-IP
8 9 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 9 (0.68%) Wireless
9 8 (0.60%) IPsec
9 8 (0.60%) OSPF
10 7 (0.53%) HTTP
10 7 (0.53%) Internet
11 6 (0.45%) WAN
12 5 (0.38%) DHCP
13 4 (0.30%) SAN
13 4 (0.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (7.86%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (6.95%) SQL Server
3 65 (4.91%) NoSQL
4 60 (4.54%) MongoDB
5 58 (4.38%) Data Lake
6 56 (4.23%) Power BI
7 48 (3.63%) Relational Database
8 44 (3.33%) DynamoDB
9 39 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
10 38 (2.87%) Delta Lake
11 34 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
11 34 (2.57%) Redis
12 33 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
13 31 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
14 24 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
15 21 (1.59%) Big Data
15 21 (1.59%) Metadata
16 18 (1.36%) BigQuery
17 17 (1.28%) MySQL
18 16 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 415 (31.37%) Jenkins
2 263 (19.88%) GitLab
3 249 (18.82%) Git
4 176 (13.30%) JIRA
5 75 (5.67%) JUnit
6 74 (5.59%) Selenium
7 55 (4.16%) Cucumber
8 41 (3.10%) Bitbucket
8 41 (3.10%) Cypress.io
9 39 (2.95%) Gatling
9 39 (2.95%) JMeter
10 38 (2.87%) Gradle
11 37 (2.80%) REST Assured
12 35 (2.65%) SonarQube
13 30 (2.27%) CircleCI
13 30 (2.27%) Maven
13 30 (2.27%) Postman
14 22 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
15 21 (1.59%) WebDriver
16 20 (1.51%) Mockito
General
1 327 (24.72%) Social Skills
2 239 (18.07%) Finance
3 155 (11.72%) Public Sector
4 110 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (6.05%) Banking
6 36 (2.72%) Retail
7 29 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.81%) Legal
9 17 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.21%) Military
11 15 (1.13%) Law
12 14 (1.06%) Investment Banking
13 10 (0.76%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (0.68%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.60%) Marketing
15 8 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.53%) Front Office
16 7 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 238 (17.99%) Developer
2 233 (17.61%) Senior
3 177 (13.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 116 (8.77%) Architect
4 116 (8.77%) Lead
5 101 (7.63%) Data Engineer
6 82 (6.20%) Platform Engineer
7 79 (5.97%) AWS Engineer
8 70 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
9 59 (4.46%) Java Developer
10 58 (4.38%) Software Engineer
11 57 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
12 56 (4.23%) Senior Developer
13 48 (3.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 46 (3.48%) Test Engineer
15 45 (3.40%) Full-Stack Developer
16 42 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
17 38 (2.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 36 (2.72%) GCP Engineer
19 35 (2.65%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (14.06%) REST
2 125 (9.45%) Kafka
3 123 (9.30%) Spring
4 116 (8.77%) RESTful
5 109 (8.24%) .NET
6 107 (8.09%) React
7 97 (7.33%) Spring Boot
8 84 (6.35%) Playwright
9 64 (4.84%) Node.js
10 55 (4.16%) PySpark
11 43 (3.25%) OpenTelemetry
12 41 (3.10%) OAuth
13 40 (3.02%) AngularJS
14 39 (2.95%) .NET Framework
15 36 (2.72%) OAuth2
16 35 (2.65%) HTML
17 34 (2.57%) GraphQL
17 34 (2.57%) JSON
18 33 (2.49%) FastAPI
18 33 (2.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 271 (20.48%) Cloud Native
2 112 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (5.22%) Product Ownership
4 38 (2.87%) AI Agents
5 36 (2.72%) Data Centre
5 36 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (2.72%) Mobile App
6 35 (2.65%) Onboarding
7 25 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
11 17 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (1.21%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.21%) Public Cloud
12 16 (1.21%) Security Posture
13 14 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
13 14 (1.06%) Replication
14 13 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 120 (9.07%) Linux
2 56 (4.23%) Windows
3 33 (2.49%) Android
4 27 (2.04%) Apple iOS
5 25 (1.89%) Unix
6 20 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.98%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.38%) VMS
9 4 (0.30%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.23%) CentOS
10 3 (0.23%) Debian
10 3 (0.23%) Rocky
11 2 (0.15%) AIX
11 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.15%) MVS
11 2 (0.15%) zOS
12 1 (0.076%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.076%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.076%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 989 (74.75%) CI/CD
2 771 (58.28%) DevOps
3 507 (38.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 457 (34.54%) Agile
5 331 (25.02%) Test Automation
6 311 (23.51%) Observability
7 281 (21.24%) Containerisation
8 253 (19.12%) Microservices
9 239 (18.07%) AI
10 214 (16.18%) Platform Engineering
11 190 (14.36%) Software Engineering
12 186 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 165 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
14 154 (11.64%) Analytics
15 144 (10.88%) Event-Driven
16 134 (10.13%) Migration
17 120 (9.07%) Data Pipeline
18 118 (8.92%) Technical Leadership
19 114 (8.62%) DevSecOps
20 113 (8.54%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 554 (41.87%) Python
2 311 (23.51%) SQL
3 243 (18.37%) Java
4 184 (13.91%) Bash
5 153 (11.56%) PowerShell
6 134 (10.13%) C#
7 130 (9.83%) JavaScript
7 130 (9.83%) TypeScript
8 75 (5.67%) Bicep
9 42 (3.17%) Kotlin
10 38 (2.87%) Go
11 32 (2.42%) Scala
12 27 (2.04%) Shell Script
13 24 (1.81%) Ruby
14 20 (1.51%) Swift
15 14 (1.06%) Groovy
16 10 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.68%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.68%) C
18 8 (0.60%) VB
Qualifications
1 400 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 341 (25.77%) SC Cleared
3 55 (4.16%) Degree
4 52 (3.93%) Azure Certification
5 42 (3.17%) DV Cleared
6 40 (3.02%) AWS Certification
7 32 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (0.91%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.53%) CISSP
14 7 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 6 (0.45%) OCP
15 6 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (12.32%) QA
2 71 (5.37%) Data Quality
3 64 (4.84%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.27%) GDPR
5 22 (1.66%) WCAG
6 19 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.83%) NIST
7 11 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.60%) GRC
9 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.30%) HL7
11 4 (0.30%) NCSC
12 3 (0.23%) PSD2
13 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.15%) SEPA
13 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.076%) SLA
14 1 (0.076%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 383 (28.95%) Docker
2 37 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (1.59%) vSphere
6 19 (1.44%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.53%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.53%) IAG
9 4 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.30%) NFS
10 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.15%) Firmware
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.15%) SRDF
10 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.15%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 612 (46.26%) Terraform
2 450 (34.01%) Kubernetes
3 200 (15.12%) Ansible
4 179 (13.53%) Grafana
5 150 (11.34%) Prometheus
6 64 (4.84%) Argo
7 26 (1.97%) Puppet
8 20 (1.51%) vCenter Server
9 18 (1.36%) Istio
9 18 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (1.21%) Packer
10 16 (1.21%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.98%) Kibana
12 9 (0.68%) HAProxy
12 9 (0.68%) NetBackup
13 7 (0.53%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.45%) Control-M
14 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
16 3 (0.23%) SELinux
Vendors
1 230 (17.38%) Microsoft
2 90 (6.80%) Databricks
3 89 (6.73%) Splunk
4 86 (6.50%) Google
5 56 (4.23%) Oracle
6 41 (3.10%) Dynatrace
7 39 (2.95%) VMware
8 37 (2.80%) Red Hat
9 28 (2.12%) Salesforce
10 27 (2.04%) OpenAI
11 24 (1.81%) ServiceNow
12 20 (1.51%) Cisco
12 20 (1.51%) Pure Storage
13 18 (1.36%) F5
13 18 (1.36%) Informatica
14 17 (1.28%) Palo Alto
15 16 (1.21%) Checkmarx
15 16 (1.21%) SAP
16 15 (1.13%) Foundry
16 15 (1.13%) IBM