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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 125 168
Rank change year-on-year +45 +43 -46
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,229 526 533
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.00% 2.17% 1.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.51% 5.84% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 858 362 348
10th Percentile £363 £389 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £622
90th Percentile £700 £750 £679
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -3.05% -0.94% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 19
10th Percentile £48.00 £25.25 £29.50
25th Percentile £58.43 £25.72 £66.63
Median hourly rate £63.14 £27.38 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.63% -60.89% +28.44%
75th Percentile £74.00 £58.44 -
90th Percentile £74.20 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £27.38 £70.00
% change year-on-year +130.63% -60.89% +28.44%

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 14,439 9,014 11,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.20% 37.16% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,893 6,249 8,391
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 199 325
10th Percentile £15.52 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.96 £15.85
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% +21.43% -34.98%
75th Percentile £67.50 £38.13 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.31 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +35.67% +28.69% -38.94%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +41 714 £550 - 230
North of England +26 214 £488 -0.51% 176
Yorkshire +13 140 £478 -8.03% 66
Midlands +1 90 £500 +1.01% 58
South West +20 77 £500 -6.98% 64
West Midlands -3 74 £505 +2.02% 21
South East -38 73 £500 - 130
North West -6 63 £538 +13.16% 91
East of England -18 27 £500 -9.09% 41
East Midlands -14 15 £402 -17.54% 37
North East -12 14 £475 +13.43% 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
1 106 (8.62%) Confluence
2 39 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 29 (2.36%) SharePoint
5 16 (1.30%) Apache
6 12 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.57%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
9 2 (0.16%) SAS
10 1 (0.081%) Appian
10 1 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.081%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.081%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.081%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.081%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (0.33%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.24%) Findur
2 3 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.081%) Actimize
4 1 (0.081%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.081%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.081%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.081%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 647 (52.64%) GitHub Actions
2 577 (46.95%) Azure
3 552 (44.91%) AWS
4 306 (24.90%) Azure DevOps
5 185 (15.05%) GCP
6 184 (14.97%) Serverless
7 126 (10.25%) AWS Lambda
8 113 (9.19%) Amazon S3
9 102 (8.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 101 (8.22%) Amazon EKS
11 92 (7.49%) Power Platform
12 86 (7.00%) Amazon ECS
13 78 (6.35%) Azure Data Factory
13 78 (6.35%) GitHub Copilot
14 77 (6.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 77 (6.27%) Azure AKS
15 71 (5.78%) Azure Monitor
16 65 (5.29%) Amazon EC2
17 55 (4.48%) Entra ID
18 54 (4.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 60 (4.88%) DNS
1 60 (4.88%) Firewall
2 36 (2.93%) VPN
3 25 (2.03%) Network Security
4 10 (0.81%) HTTP
5 8 (0.65%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.57%) Ethernet
6 7 (0.57%) Modbus
6 7 (0.57%) RS-232
6 7 (0.57%) RS-485
6 7 (0.57%) SSL
7 4 (0.33%) DSL
7 4 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.33%) WAN
8 3 (0.24%) BGP
8 3 (0.24%) DHCP
8 3 (0.24%) Internet
8 3 (0.24%) NAS
8 3 (0.24%) SAN
8 3 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (9.19%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (6.35%) Data Lake
3 76 (6.18%) SQL Server
4 63 (5.13%) Power BI
5 62 (5.04%) NoSQL
6 54 (4.39%) MongoDB
7 46 (3.74%) DynamoDB
8 43 (3.50%) Relational Database
9 42 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 41 (3.34%) Redis
11 40 (3.25%) Delta Lake
12 38 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
13 27 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
14 26 (2.12%) Big Data
15 24 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
16 21 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
16 21 (1.71%) Metadata
17 19 (1.55%) MySQL
18 16 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
19 14 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 372 (30.27%) Jenkins
2 250 (20.34%) GitLab
3 235 (19.12%) Git
4 152 (12.37%) JIRA
5 73 (5.94%) JUnit
6 52 (4.23%) Selenium
7 44 (3.58%) Cucumber
8 35 (2.85%) CircleCI
8 35 (2.85%) Cypress.io
8 35 (2.85%) Gatling
8 35 (2.85%) Gradle
9 34 (2.77%) SonarQube
10 33 (2.69%) JMeter
10 33 (2.69%) Maven
11 32 (2.60%) Bitbucket
12 29 (2.36%) Artifactory
12 29 (2.36%) Postman
13 27 (2.20%) REST Assured
14 21 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
15 20 (1.63%) MLflow
General
1 290 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 206 (16.76%) Finance
3 143 (11.64%) Public Sector
4 97 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (6.27%) Banking
6 22 (1.79%) Retail
7 21 (1.71%) Military
8 18 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.22%) Legal
10 14 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.06%) Front Office
11 13 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (1.06%) Investment Banking
12 10 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.57%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.57%) Marketing
15 6 (0.49%) Law
16 4 (0.33%) Automotive
16 4 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 237 (19.28%) Developer
2 198 (16.11%) Senior
3 168 (13.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 111 (9.03%) Data Engineer
5 102 (8.30%) Architect
6 90 (7.32%) Lead
7 79 (6.43%) Cloud Engineer
8 74 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
9 62 (5.04%) Azure Engineer
10 61 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
11 56 (4.56%) Java Developer
12 52 (4.23%) Software Engineer
13 51 (4.15%) Full-Stack Developer
14 48 (3.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 47 (3.82%) Senior Developer
16 44 (3.58%) GCP Engineer
17 40 (3.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 34 (2.77%) Test Engineer
19 32 (2.60%) Tester
20 30 (2.44%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (10.82%) REST
2 132 (10.74%) Kafka
3 131 (10.66%) Spring
4 110 (8.95%) .NET
5 106 (8.62%) React
6 104 (8.46%) Spring Boot
7 93 (7.57%) Node.js
8 81 (6.59%) RESTful
9 71 (5.78%) Playwright
10 63 (5.13%) PySpark
11 41 (3.34%) AngularJS
11 41 (3.34%) OpenTelemetry
12 35 (2.85%) .NET Framework
13 33 (2.69%) JSON
14 32 (2.60%) HTML
15 31 (2.52%) YAML
16 29 (2.36%) FastAPI
17 28 (2.28%) GraphQL
17 28 (2.28%) Jest
18 27 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 231 (18.80%) Cloud Native
2 84 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (5.37%) Product Ownership
4 27 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (2.12%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.03%) Public Cloud
7 22 (1.79%) AI Agents
8 19 (1.55%) Mobile App
9 18 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.30%) Security Posture
11 15 (1.22%) Data Centre
11 15 (1.22%) Private Cloud
12 14 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.06%) NHS
14 12 (0.98%) Virtual Team
15 11 (0.90%) Data Structures
16 10 (0.81%) Replication
17 9 (0.73%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 136 (11.07%) Linux
2 54 (4.39%) Windows
3 29 (2.36%) Unix
4 25 (2.03%) Android
5 19 (1.55%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.30%) VMS
7 14 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.81%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.57%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.41%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.33%) Debian
11 4 (0.33%) Rocky
12 3 (0.24%) CentOS
13 2 (0.16%) AIX
13 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.081%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.081%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.081%) MVS
14 1 (0.081%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 919 (74.78%) CI/CD
2 711 (57.85%) DevOps
3 473 (38.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 371 (30.19%) Agile
5 289 (23.52%) Containerisation
6 277 (22.54%) Test Automation
7 246 (20.02%) Observability
8 214 (17.41%) Microservices
9 204 (16.60%) AI
10 186 (15.13%) Platform Engineering
11 183 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
12 163 (13.26%) Analytics
13 161 (13.10%) Migration
14 153 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
15 144 (11.72%) Software Engineering
16 125 (10.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 122 (9.93%) Data Engineering
18 121 (9.85%) Data Pipeline
19 111 (9.03%) Data Modelling
20 108 (8.79%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 540 (43.94%) Python
2 292 (23.76%) SQL
3 244 (19.85%) Java
4 156 (12.69%) Bash
5 144 (11.72%) JavaScript
6 135 (10.98%) C#
7 128 (10.41%) PowerShell
8 108 (8.79%) TypeScript
9 65 (5.29%) Bicep
10 47 (3.82%) Go
11 34 (2.77%) Scala
11 34 (2.77%) Shell Script
12 26 (2.12%) Kotlin
13 25 (2.03%) Ruby
14 13 (1.06%) Swift
15 12 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (0.81%) C++
17 8 (0.65%) C
17 8 (0.65%) Groovy
18 7 (0.57%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 374 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 302 (24.57%) SC Cleared
3 52 (4.23%) Degree
4 40 (3.25%) Azure Certification
5 37 (3.01%) DV Cleared
6 35 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 33 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (2.28%) AWS Certification
9 20 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.06%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 8 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (0.57%) CISSP
14 7 (0.57%) OCP
14 7 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (9.03%) QA
2 67 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 52 (4.23%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.95%) GDPR
5 21 (1.71%) WCAG
6 20 (1.63%) PCI DSS
7 19 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.06%) NIST
9 9 (0.73%) NCSC
10 7 (0.57%) GRC
11 6 (0.49%) SLA
12 4 (0.33%) PSD2
12 4 (0.33%) SEPA
13 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 375 (30.51%) Docker
2 31 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
3 28 (2.28%) Active Directory
4 22 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (1.55%) VMware NSX
5 19 (1.55%) vSphere
6 9 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.57%) Firmware
8 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.24%) HDFS
10 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.16%) NFS
10 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.081%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.081%) IAG
11 1 (0.081%) ISA Server
11 1 (0.081%) SRDF
11 1 (0.081%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 575 (46.79%) Terraform
2 444 (36.13%) Kubernetes
3 186 (15.13%) Ansible
4 134 (10.90%) Grafana
5 108 (8.79%) Prometheus
6 62 (5.04%) Argo
7 35 (2.85%) Istio
8 27 (2.20%) Puppet
9 19 (1.55%) vCenter Server
10 15 (1.22%) Packer
11 14 (1.14%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.90%) Kibana
13 10 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.73%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.73%) NetBackup
15 8 (0.65%) linkerd
16 5 (0.41%) Podman
17 4 (0.33%) Rancher
18 3 (0.24%) FortiGate
18 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 228 (18.55%) Microsoft
2 99 (8.06%) Databricks
3 87 (7.08%) Google
4 77 (6.27%) Splunk
5 51 (4.15%) Oracle
6 43 (3.50%) VMware
7 35 (2.85%) OpenAI
8 32 (2.60%) Red Hat
9 26 (2.12%) Dynatrace
10 19 (1.55%) Pure Storage
11 18 (1.46%) Salesforce
12 15 (1.22%) Atlassian
12 15 (1.22%) Informatica
13 14 (1.14%) ServiceNow
14 13 (1.06%) Checkmarx
15 12 (0.98%) SAP
16 11 (0.90%) Sonatype
17 10 (0.81%) Cisco
18 9 (0.73%) AppDynamics
18 9 (0.73%) IBM