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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 127 174
Rank change year-on-year +59 +47 -47
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,284 504 510
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.41% 2.08% 1.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.29% 5.48% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 357 346
10th Percentile £360 £360 £395
25th Percentile £416 £454 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £623 £630 £625
90th Percentile £701 £743 £683
UK median daily rate £507 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.38% -2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 5
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 -
25th Percentile £44.50 £25.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 £27.38 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +104.57% -15.77% -40.91%
75th Percentile £69.38 £58.44 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 £60.30
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +82.65% -15.77% -40.37%

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 13,826 9,192 12,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.71% 37.94% 32.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,507 6,489 8,726
10th Percentile £313 £313 £279
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -4.58% -0.19% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 182 326
10th Percentile £15.74 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.81 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.18% +27.68% -16.00%
75th Percentile £66.56 £43.29 £38.13
90th Percentile £80.14 £74.88 £62.00
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -18.64%

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 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 27 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 27 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 +42 728 £550 -2.65% 226
North of England +47 211 £500 +5.26% 145
Yorkshire +25 128 £490 -2.00% 64
South East +17 112 £462 -7.70% 123
Midlands +16 98 £525 +10.53% 55
South West +38 82 £538 +2.38% 55
West Midlands +8 80 £550 +18.92% 22
North West +9 72 £525 +10.53% 61
East of England -22 23 £500 -7.41% 53
East Midlands -15 17 £402 -19.60% 33
North East -1 13 £545 +50.34% 20
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
1 117 (9.11%) Confluence
2 49 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (2.49%) SharePoint
4 28 (2.18%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.25%) Apache
6 14 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.62%) nginx
7 8 (0.62%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.31%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.16%) WordPress
11 1 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.078%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.078%) Appian
11 1 (0.078%) SAS
11 1 (0.078%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.078%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.62%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.078%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.078%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (0.47%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.23%) Findur
3 3 (0.23%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.078%) Actimize
5 1 (0.078%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.078%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 650 (50.62%) GitHub Actions
2 599 (46.65%) Azure
3 585 (45.56%) AWS
4 318 (24.77%) Azure DevOps
5 199 (15.50%) Serverless
6 186 (14.49%) GCP
7 134 (10.44%) AWS Lambda
8 114 (8.88%) Amazon S3
9 111 (8.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 101 (7.87%) Amazon EKS
11 93 (7.24%) Power Platform
12 92 (7.17%) Amazon ECS
13 88 (6.85%) Azure Data Factory
14 80 (6.23%) Azure Monitor
15 79 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 77 (6.00%) Azure AKS
17 68 (5.30%) Entra ID
17 68 (5.30%) OpenShift
18 67 (5.22%) GitHub Copilot
19 59 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 66 (5.14%) Firewall
2 60 (4.67%) DNS
3 37 (2.88%) VPN
4 30 (2.34%) Network Security
5 14 (1.09%) HTTP
6 11 (0.86%) SD-WAN
6 11 (0.86%) WAN
7 9 (0.70%) SSL
8 8 (0.62%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.62%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.55%) Ethernet
9 7 (0.55%) Modbus
9 7 (0.55%) RS-232
9 7 (0.55%) RS-485
10 6 (0.47%) Internet
11 5 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.23%) DSL
13 2 (0.16%) BGP
14 1 (0.078%) Intranet
14 1 (0.078%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (12.46%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (7.01%) NoSQL
3 79 (6.15%) Data Lake
4 63 (4.91%) SQL Server
5 56 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
5 56 (4.36%) DynamoDB
5 56 (4.36%) MongoDB
5 56 (4.36%) Power BI
6 48 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 48 (3.74%) Relational Database
7 41 (3.19%) Delta Lake
8 39 (3.04%) Redis
9 33 (2.57%) MySQL
10 27 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
11 23 (1.79%) Big Data
12 21 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
13 16 (1.25%) Metadata
14 15 (1.17%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 401 (31.23%) Jenkins
2 255 (19.86%) GitLab
3 248 (19.31%) Git
4 179 (13.94%) JIRA
5 88 (6.85%) JUnit
6 57 (4.44%) Cucumber
7 52 (4.05%) Selenium
8 48 (3.74%) Sonatype Nexus
9 43 (3.35%) Artifactory
10 41 (3.19%) Cypress.io
11 39 (3.04%) JMeter
12 36 (2.80%) Bitbucket
13 35 (2.73%) Gradle
14 33 (2.57%) Postman
15 31 (2.41%) CircleCI
16 30 (2.34%) Maven
17 28 (2.18%) SonarQube
18 22 (1.71%) MLflow
19 21 (1.64%) Gatling
20 19 (1.48%) Mockito
General
1 314 (24.45%) Social Skills
2 205 (15.97%) Finance
3 159 (12.38%) Public Sector
4 96 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (6.78%) Banking
6 22 (1.71%) Military
7 21 (1.64%) Retail
8 16 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (1.25%) Front Office
9 15 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.09%) Investment Banking
11 12 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (0.78%) Legal
13 9 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.55%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.55%) Law
14 7 (0.55%) Marketing
14 7 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 257 (20.02%) Developer
2 206 (16.04%) Senior
3 186 (14.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 115 (8.96%) Data Engineer
5 100 (7.79%) Lead
6 98 (7.63%) Architect
7 89 (6.93%) Cloud Engineer
8 81 (6.31%) Platform Engineer
9 78 (6.07%) AWS Engineer
10 66 (5.14%) Azure Engineer
11 64 (4.98%) Full-Stack Developer
11 64 (4.98%) Java Developer
12 47 (3.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 47 (3.66%) Software Engineer
13 44 (3.43%) AWS DevOps
13 44 (3.43%) Senior Developer
14 38 (2.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 38 (2.96%) GCP Engineer
15 35 (2.73%) Tester
16 34 (2.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (11.76%) Kafka
2 146 (11.37%) REST
3 133 (10.36%) Spring
4 122 (9.50%) React
5 112 (8.72%) .NET
5 112 (8.72%) Node.js
6 100 (7.79%) Spring Boot
7 89 (6.93%) RESTful
8 66 (5.14%) Playwright
9 59 (4.60%) AngularJS
10 57 (4.44%) PySpark
11 48 (3.74%) Elastic Stack
12 45 (3.50%) CSS
13 42 (3.27%) JSON
14 39 (3.04%) OAuth
15 38 (2.96%) HTML
15 38 (2.96%) Jest
16 36 (2.80%) PyTorch
17 35 (2.73%) FastAPI
17 35 (2.73%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 207 (16.12%) Cloud Native
2 71 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (4.28%) Product Ownership
4 41 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (2.18%) Public Cloud
6 20 (1.56%) Onboarding
7 19 (1.48%) Virtual Team
8 18 (1.40%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.32%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.25%) Security Posture
11 15 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
13 12 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (0.93%) Mobile App
13 12 (0.93%) NHS
14 11 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
14 11 (0.86%) Private Cloud
14 11 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 154 (11.99%) Linux
2 43 (3.35%) Windows
3 28 (2.18%) Unix
4 21 (1.64%) Android
5 17 (1.32%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.09%) VMS
7 11 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
9 6 (0.47%) Windows Server
10 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.23%) Debian
12 3 (0.23%) Rocky
12 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.078%) Alpine Linux
14 1 (0.078%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 927 (72.20%) CI/CD
2 770 (59.97%) DevOps
3 461 (35.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 396 (30.84%) Agile
5 323 (25.16%) Containerisation
6 282 (21.96%) Test Automation
7 245 (19.08%) AI
8 240 (18.69%) Observability
9 229 (17.83%) Microservices
10 220 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
11 180 (14.02%) Analytics
12 177 (13.79%) Migration
13 174 (13.55%) Platform Engineering
14 153 (11.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 136 (10.59%) Data Pipeline
16 127 (9.89%) Data Engineering
16 127 (9.89%) Full-Stack Development
17 126 (9.81%) Software Engineering
18 115 (8.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 113 (8.80%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 609 (47.43%) Python
2 310 (24.14%) SQL
3 256 (19.94%) Java
4 168 (13.08%) Bash
5 152 (11.84%) JavaScript
6 124 (9.66%) PowerShell
7 123 (9.58%) TypeScript
8 118 (9.19%) C#
9 65 (5.06%) Go
10 60 (4.67%) Bicep
11 32 (2.49%) Shell Script
12 26 (2.02%) Scala
13 23 (1.79%) Ruby
14 16 (1.25%) Kotlin
15 15 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (0.93%) Swift
17 11 (0.86%) Groovy
18 10 (0.78%) C++
19 9 (0.70%) PHP
20 8 (0.62%) C
Qualifications
1 403 (31.39%) Security Cleared
2 315 (24.53%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.83%) Degree
4 47 (3.66%) Azure Certification
5 45 (3.50%) DV Cleared
6 40 (3.12%) AWS Certification
7 37 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 13 (1.01%) OCP
11 13 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
12 11 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.70%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.62%) CISSP
16 5 (0.39%) CCNP
17 4 (0.31%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (7.48%) QA
2 68 (5.30%) Data Quality
3 45 (3.50%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.02%) GDPR
5 25 (1.95%) WCAG
6 20 (1.56%) NIST
7 19 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (1.40%) PCI DSS
9 15 (1.17%) NCSC
10 7 (0.55%) EU AI Act
10 7 (0.55%) GRC
11 6 (0.47%) SLA
12 5 (0.39%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.23%) Def Stans
13 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 397 (30.92%) Docker
2 35 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
3 34 (2.65%) Active Directory
4 21 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.56%) VMware NSX
5 20 (1.56%) vSphere
6 7 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.55%) Firmware
7 6 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.23%) HDFS
9 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.078%) IAG
10 1 (0.078%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 573 (44.63%) Terraform
2 483 (37.62%) Kubernetes
3 197 (15.34%) Ansible
4 148 (11.53%) Grafana
5 108 (8.41%) Prometheus
6 66 (5.14%) Argo
7 38 (2.96%) Istio
8 28 (2.18%) Puppet
9 23 (1.79%) Progress Chef
10 20 (1.56%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.93%) NetBackup
12 11 (0.86%) Kibana
12 11 (0.86%) Packer
12 11 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.70%) linkerd
13 9 (0.70%) Podman
14 7 (0.55%) Sysdig
15 5 (0.39%) Rancher
16 4 (0.31%) Kubeflow
16 4 (0.31%) logstash
Vendors
1 237 (18.46%) Microsoft
2 105 (8.18%) Databricks
3 92 (7.17%) Google
4 84 (6.54%) Splunk
5 50 (3.89%) VMware
6 48 (3.74%) Oracle
7 42 (3.27%) OpenAI
8 41 (3.19%) Red Hat
9 21 (1.64%) Atlassian
10 20 (1.56%) Pure Storage
10 20 (1.56%) ServiceNow
11 16 (1.25%) Dynatrace
11 16 (1.25%) Sonatype
12 15 (1.17%) Foundry
12 15 (1.17%) Salesforce
13 13 (1.01%) SAP
14 11 (0.86%) Commvault
14 11 (0.86%) Informatica
15 10 (0.78%) New Relic
16 9 (0.70%) Checkmarx