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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 131 178
Rank change year-on-year +64 +47 -52
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,192 556 520
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.51% 2.13% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.31% 5.69% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 858 376 372
10th Percentile £354 £331 £413
25th Percentile £411 £448 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £694 £687
UK median daily rate £520 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -3.70% -1.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 1
10th Percentile £40.00 £22.33 -
25th Percentile £44.50 £25.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £56.25 £27.38 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +105.48% -43.56% -10.19%
75th Percentile £74.00 £57.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £84.80 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £44.25
% change year-on-year +82.65% -38.14% -18.06%

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 12,808 9,780 12,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.70% 37.51% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,847 6,532 9,040
10th Percentile £305 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 141 299
10th Percentile £14.47 £15.44 £14.10
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%
75th Percentile £59.86 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £66.11
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.43 £22.50
% change year-on-year +31.27% +21.89% -10.00%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 12 February 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 +44 684 £550 - 232
North of England +25 188 £481 +1.26% 143
South East +40 107 £450 -4.26% 152
Yorkshire -2 104 £480 +1.05% 66
Midlands +19 85 £550 +10.55% 62
South West +8 74 £550 -15.38% 62
North West +19 71 £405 -14.74% 63
West Midlands +10 69 £580 +17.17% 28
East of England -14 19 £550 +72.96% 60
North East 0 17 £545 +50.34% 15
East Midlands -8 16 £402 -19.60% 35
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
1 104 (8.72%) Confluence
2 50 (4.19%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (2.18%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.85%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.92%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.76%) nginx
7 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.59%) Apache
9 5 (0.42%) CMS
10 3 (0.25%) WordPress
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.17%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.17%) Mule
11 2 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.17%) SAS
11 2 (0.17%) Traefik
12 1 (0.084%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.084%) Appian
12 1 (0.084%) Luigi
12 1 (0.084%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 28 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.42%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.17%) Trello
6 1 (0.084%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (0.59%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.084%) Actimize
3 1 (0.084%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.084%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.084%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.084%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 596 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 538 (45.13%) AWS
3 534 (44.80%) Azure
4 252 (21.14%) Azure DevOps
5 186 (15.60%) GCP
6 179 (15.02%) Serverless
7 114 (9.56%) AWS Lambda
8 107 (8.98%) Amazon S3
9 103 (8.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 96 (8.05%) Amazon EKS
11 86 (7.21%) Power Platform
12 82 (6.88%) Amazon ECS
13 76 (6.38%) OpenShift
14 69 (5.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 68 (5.70%) Azure AKS
16 65 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
16 65 (5.45%) Entra ID
16 65 (5.45%) GitHub Copilot
17 61 (5.12%) Azure Monitor
18 48 (4.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 52 (4.36%) Firewall
2 46 (3.86%) DNS
3 27 (2.27%) Network Security
4 25 (2.10%) VPN
5 12 (1.01%) HTTP
6 10 (0.84%) SSL
6 10 (0.84%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.67%) Kerberos
7 8 (0.67%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.67%) WAN
8 7 (0.59%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.59%) Modbus
8 7 (0.59%) RS-232
8 7 (0.59%) RS-485
9 5 (0.42%) Internet
9 5 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.17%) Calico
10 2 (0.17%) DSL
11 1 (0.084%) Intranet
11 1 (0.084%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (13.59%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (6.38%) NoSQL
3 63 (5.29%) MongoDB
4 61 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
5 54 (4.53%) Data Lake
6 53 (4.45%) SQL Server
7 49 (4.11%) Power BI
8 48 (4.03%) DynamoDB
8 48 (4.03%) Relational Database
9 39 (3.27%) Redis
10 37 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
11 36 (3.02%) MySQL
12 28 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
13 24 (2.01%) Delta Lake
14 19 (1.59%) BigQuery
15 17 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
16 16 (1.34%) Big Data
17 15 (1.26%) Amazon QuickSight
17 15 (1.26%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 344 (28.86%) Jenkins
2 222 (18.62%) Git
3 213 (17.87%) GitLab
4 167 (14.01%) JIRA
5 72 (6.04%) JUnit
6 59 (4.95%) Sonatype Nexus
7 45 (3.78%) Artifactory
8 40 (3.36%) CircleCI
9 39 (3.27%) Cucumber
9 39 (3.27%) Gradle
10 38 (3.19%) Cypress.io
11 35 (2.94%) Bitbucket
11 35 (2.94%) SonarQube
12 34 (2.85%) Selenium
13 33 (2.77%) Postman
14 28 (2.35%) JMeter
15 27 (2.27%) Maven
16 15 (1.26%) Snyk
17 13 (1.09%) Gatling
17 13 (1.09%) MLflow
General
1 288 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 182 (15.27%) Finance
3 152 (12.75%) Public Sector
4 83 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (6.96%) Banking
5 21 (1.76%) Military
6 18 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (1.34%) Retail
8 15 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (1.09%) Front Office
10 13 (1.09%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (0.84%) Marketing
12 9 (0.76%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.50%) Games
13 6 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.42%) Billing
14 5 (0.42%) Law
15 4 (0.34%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 280 (23.49%) Developer
2 190 (15.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 182 (15.27%) Senior
4 97 (8.14%) Data Engineer
5 84 (7.05%) Lead
6 82 (6.88%) AWS Engineer
7 80 (6.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 77 (6.46%) Full-Stack Developer
9 74 (6.21%) Architect
10 67 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
11 62 (5.20%) Java Developer
12 56 (4.70%) Azure Engineer
13 53 (4.45%) Software Engineer
14 47 (3.94%) AWS DevOps
15 44 (3.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 42 (3.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 42 (3.52%) Senior Developer
17 38 (3.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 33 (2.77%) Senior Data Engineer
19 28 (2.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (12.33%) Kafka
2 142 (11.91%) REST
3 126 (10.57%) React
4 124 (10.40%) Node.js
5 114 (9.56%) Spring
6 110 (9.23%) .NET
7 86 (7.21%) Spring Boot
8 85 (7.13%) RESTful
9 69 (5.79%) AngularJS
10 62 (5.20%) CSS
11 58 (4.87%) Playwright
12 55 (4.61%) HTML
13 52 (4.36%) Elastic Stack
13 52 (4.36%) OAuth
14 41 (3.44%) JSON
14 41 (3.44%) PyTorch
15 40 (3.36%) PySpark
16 39 (3.27%) FastAPI
17 37 (3.10%) GraphQL
17 37 (3.10%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 188 (15.77%) Cloud Native
2 43 (3.61%) Product Ownership
3 42 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.27%) Public Cloud
6 21 (1.76%) Algorithms
7 20 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.43%) AI Agents
9 17 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.43%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.17%) Life Science
10 14 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (1.17%) Replication
11 13 (1.09%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.09%) Private Cloud
11 13 (1.09%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.01%) Genomics
12 12 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
12 12 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 162 (13.59%) Linux
2 41 (3.44%) Windows
3 29 (2.43%) Android
4 27 (2.27%) Unix
5 18 (1.51%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.26%) VMS
7 13 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.59%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (0.42%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.34%) CentOS
10 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.25%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.17%) Solaris
12 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.084%) Debian
13 1 (0.084%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 848 (71.14%) CI/CD
2 698 (58.56%) DevOps
3 419 (35.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 376 (31.54%) Agile
5 306 (25.67%) Containerisation
6 237 (19.88%) Test Automation
7 233 (19.55%) AI
8 224 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
9 214 (17.95%) Microservices
10 199 (16.69%) Observability
11 169 (14.18%) Migration
12 140 (11.74%) Analytics
12 140 (11.74%) Full-Stack Development
13 134 (11.24%) Platform Engineering
14 122 (10.23%) Software Engineering
15 119 (9.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 119 (9.98%) Data Pipeline
16 100 (8.39%) DevSecOps
17 98 (8.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 97 (8.14%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 552 (46.31%) Python
2 269 (22.57%) SQL
3 241 (20.22%) Java
4 168 (14.09%) JavaScript
5 144 (12.08%) TypeScript
6 134 (11.24%) Bash
7 102 (8.56%) PowerShell
8 99 (8.31%) C#
9 74 (6.21%) Go
10 52 (4.36%) Bicep
11 29 (2.43%) Shell Script
12 25 (2.10%) Ruby
13 17 (1.43%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.26%) PHP
15 13 (1.09%) Scala
16 12 (1.01%) C++
17 10 (0.84%) Groovy
18 9 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
19 8 (0.67%) Korn
19 8 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 355 (29.78%) Security Cleared
2 273 (22.90%) SC Cleared
3 79 (6.63%) Degree
4 53 (4.45%) DV Cleared
5 45 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (3.19%) Azure Certification
7 33 (2.77%) AWS Certification
8 28 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 18 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.17%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.76%) CISSP
12 9 (0.76%) OCP
12 9 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
13 8 (0.67%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 4 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
16 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.34%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (6.63%) QA
2 53 (4.45%) Data Quality
3 50 (4.19%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.43%) NIST
5 23 (1.93%) NCSC
6 21 (1.76%) GDPR
6 21 (1.76%) WCAG
7 16 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (1.26%) EU AI Act
9 12 (1.01%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.59%) SLA
11 5 (0.42%) GRC
11 5 (0.42%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.25%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.17%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.17%) MiFID
13 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 379 (31.80%) Docker
2 33 (2.77%) Active Directory
2 33 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.01%) vSphere
5 11 (0.92%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.59%) Firmware
7 6 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.25%) HDFS
8 3 (0.25%) QEMU
9 2 (0.17%) NFS
9 2 (0.17%) Veritas File System
9 2 (0.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.084%) etcd
10 1 (0.084%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 517 (43.37%) Terraform
2 457 (38.34%) Kubernetes
3 173 (14.51%) Ansible
4 132 (11.07%) Grafana
5 96 (8.05%) Prometheus
6 67 (5.62%) Argo
7 35 (2.94%) Istio
8 26 (2.18%) Progress Chef
9 19 (1.59%) Puppet
10 12 (1.01%) Kibana
10 12 (1.01%) Podman
11 11 (0.92%) Packer
11 11 (0.92%) vCenter Server
12 9 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.59%) Sysdig
14 6 (0.50%) linkerd
14 6 (0.50%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.42%) logstash
16 4 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
16 4 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 195 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 98 (8.22%) Google
3 80 (6.71%) Databricks
4 72 (6.04%) Splunk
5 51 (4.28%) VMware
6 44 (3.69%) OpenAI
7 41 (3.44%) Oracle
8 40 (3.36%) Red Hat
9 20 (1.68%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.59%) Atlassian
11 18 (1.51%) Foundry
11 18 (1.51%) Sonatype
12 13 (1.09%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.92%) Dynatrace
13 11 (0.92%) Pure Storage
14 8 (0.67%) NetApp
14 8 (0.67%) New Relic
14 8 (0.67%) Okta
14 8 (0.67%) SAP
15 7 (0.59%) Adobe