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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 136 153
Rank change year-on-year +66 +17 -16
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,102 559 613
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.47% 1.95% 1.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.13% 5.34% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 806 384 439
10th Percentile £358 £319 £413
25th Percentile £413 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £635 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 3
10th Percentile £40.00 £22.33 £75.25
25th Percentile £41.50 £26.66 £75.63
Median hourly rate £54.25 £40.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.95% -47.74% +40.91%
75th Percentile £98.44 £68.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £110.00 £69.13 -
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £40.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year +33.95% -47.74% +40.91%

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 12,076 10,467 12,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.00% 36.57% 34.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,308 7,004 9,386
10th Percentile £304 £313 £276
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £526 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +0.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £648 £638
90th Percentile £710 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 136 246
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.88 £14.43
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.20 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.21 £29.00 £24.31
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +19.32% +8.02%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.06 £53.75
90th Percentile £77.25 £68.75 £77.75
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £26.24
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.80% +16.62%

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 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 26 December 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 +44 627 £550 - 363
North of England +30 166 £480 +9.09% 420
South East +59 104 £450 - 486
Midlands +21 85 £550 +4.76% 308
Yorkshire +3 85 £500 +11.11% 185
West Midlands +26 71 £575 +9.52% 162
North West +22 65 £402 +12.92% 203
South West 0 61 £649 +0.43% 187
North East +6 18 £516 +42.41% 36
East of England -15 17 £560 +32.54% 244
East Midlands -9 14 £418 -33.15% 131
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 88 (7.99%) Confluence
2 57 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.18%) nginx
5 12 (1.09%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.54%) Mule
8 5 (0.45%) WordPress
9 4 (0.36%) SAS
10 3 (0.27%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.18%) Traefik
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.091%) Luigi
Applications
1 23 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.18%) Trello
5 1 (0.091%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.091%) InDesign
5 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.091%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.091%) Actimize
3 1 (0.091%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.091%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.091%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.091%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.091%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.091%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.091%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.091%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 576 (52.27%) GitHub Actions
2 541 (49.09%) AWS
3 495 (44.92%) Azure
4 233 (21.14%) Azure DevOps
5 190 (17.24%) GCP
6 177 (16.06%) Serverless
7 122 (11.07%) AWS Lambda
8 119 (10.80%) Amazon S3
9 97 (8.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 85 (7.71%) Amazon ECS
11 77 (6.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 75 (6.81%) Amazon EKS
13 71 (6.44%) Power Platform
14 69 (6.26%) OpenShift
15 61 (5.54%) Azure AKS
16 59 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
17 57 (5.17%) Entra ID
17 57 (5.17%) GitHub Copilot
18 50 (4.54%) Azure Monitor
18 50 (4.54%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.26%) DNS
2 46 (4.17%) Firewall
3 26 (2.36%) VPN
4 17 (1.54%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.27%) Network Security
6 13 (1.18%) HTTP
6 13 (1.18%) SSL
7 9 (0.82%) WAN
8 8 (0.73%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.73%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.45%) Internet
9 5 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.45%) SSH
10 4 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (0.27%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.27%) Modbus
11 3 (0.27%) RS-232
11 3 (0.27%) RS-485
12 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (15.70%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (7.44%) NoSQL
3 65 (5.90%) Amazon RDS
4 60 (5.44%) MongoDB
5 52 (4.72%) Relational Database
6 50 (4.54%) SQL Server
7 45 (4.08%) DynamoDB
8 42 (3.81%) Redis
9 37 (3.36%) Data Lake
9 37 (3.36%) Power BI
10 34 (3.09%) MySQL
11 25 (2.27%) BigQuery
12 24 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
13 22 (2.00%) Delta Lake
14 21 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
15 19 (1.72%) Big Data
15 19 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
16 17 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
17 14 (1.27%) Amazon QuickSight
18 13 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 312 (28.31%) Jenkins
2 223 (20.24%) Git
3 196 (17.79%) GitLab
4 161 (14.61%) JIRA
5 57 (5.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 52 (4.72%) JUnit
7 48 (4.36%) CircleCI
7 48 (4.36%) SonarQube
8 43 (3.90%) Bitbucket
9 42 (3.81%) Artifactory
9 42 (3.81%) Cypress.io
10 37 (3.36%) Gradle
11 35 (3.18%) Cucumber
12 31 (2.81%) Postman
13 29 (2.63%) Selenium
14 26 (2.36%) Maven
15 23 (2.09%) JMeter
16 22 (2.00%) Snyk
17 16 (1.45%) SpecFlow
18 13 (1.18%) MLflow
General
1 273 (24.77%) Social Skills
2 167 (15.15%) Finance
3 136 (12.34%) Public Sector
4 84 (7.62%) Banking
5 66 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (1.72%) Military
7 18 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
8 17 (1.54%) Investment Banking
9 15 (1.36%) Front Office
9 15 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.18%) Retail
11 12 (1.09%) Marketing
12 11 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.64%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.54%) Games
15 5 (0.45%) Billing
15 5 (0.45%) Law
15 5 (0.45%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 255 (23.14%) Developer
2 179 (16.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 177 (16.06%) Senior
4 92 (8.35%) AWS Engineer
5 87 (7.89%) Data Engineer
6 71 (6.44%) Lead
7 70 (6.35%) Architect
8 64 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
9 63 (5.72%) Full-Stack Developer
10 58 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
11 55 (4.99%) AWS DevOps
12 53 (4.81%) Java Developer
13 52 (4.72%) Software Engineer
14 51 (4.63%) Senior Developer
15 49 (4.45%) Azure Engineer
16 45 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 42 (3.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 36 (3.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 35 (3.18%) Senior Data Engineer
20 33 (2.99%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (13.07%) REST
2 134 (12.16%) React
3 129 (11.71%) Node.js
4 126 (11.43%) Kafka
5 106 (9.62%) .NET
6 86 (7.80%) RESTful
7 84 (7.62%) Spring
8 73 (6.62%) AngularJS
9 72 (6.53%) Spring Boot
10 59 (5.35%) HTML
11 55 (4.99%) CSS
11 55 (4.99%) OAuth
12 54 (4.90%) Elastic Stack
13 50 (4.54%) Playwright
14 44 (3.99%) JSON
14 44 (3.99%) YAML
15 43 (3.90%) GraphQL
16 42 (3.81%) FastAPI
17 38 (3.45%) pytest
18 33 (2.99%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 179 (16.24%) Cloud Native
2 37 (3.36%) Product Ownership
3 35 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 25 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 19 (1.72%) Algorithms
8 18 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (1.54%) Public Cloud
10 16 (1.45%) AI Agents
11 15 (1.36%) Life Science
11 15 (1.36%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.27%) Genomics
12 14 (1.27%) Mobile App
12 14 (1.27%) NHS
12 14 (1.27%) Private Cloud
12 14 (1.27%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
13 13 (1.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 149 (13.52%) Linux
2 41 (3.72%) Windows
3 28 (2.54%) Unix
4 20 (1.81%) Android
5 13 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.91%) VMS
7 7 (0.64%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.54%) Solaris
9 5 (0.45%) CentOS
10 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
11 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.18%) zOS
13 1 (0.091%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.091%) MVS
13 1 (0.091%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 789 (71.60%) CI/CD
2 673 (61.07%) DevOps
3 406 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 367 (33.30%) Agile
5 305 (27.68%) Containerisation
6 218 (19.78%) Microservices
7 217 (19.69%) AI
7 217 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
8 206 (18.69%) Test Automation
9 174 (15.79%) Observability
10 134 (12.16%) Migration
11 132 (11.98%) Full-Stack Development
12 129 (11.71%) Software Engineering
13 117 (10.62%) Data Pipeline
14 109 (9.89%) Analytics
15 106 (9.62%) Platform Engineering
16 98 (8.89%) DevSecOps
17 96 (8.71%) Machine Learning
18 93 (8.44%) Data Engineering
19 91 (8.26%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 517 (46.91%) Python
2 241 (21.87%) SQL
3 221 (20.05%) Java
4 149 (13.52%) TypeScript
5 148 (13.43%) JavaScript
6 133 (12.07%) Bash
7 99 (8.98%) PowerShell
8 98 (8.89%) C#
9 86 (7.80%) Go
10 49 (4.45%) Bicep
11 31 (2.81%) Shell Script
12 30 (2.72%) Ruby
13 20 (1.81%) PHP
14 15 (1.36%) Groovy
15 10 (0.91%) C
15 10 (0.91%) C++
15 10 (0.91%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.82%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.73%) Korn
17 8 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 319 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 257 (23.32%) SC Cleared
3 90 (8.17%) Degree
4 55 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (3.81%) Azure Certification
6 39 (3.54%) DV Cleared
7 32 (2.90%) AWS Certification
8 20 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.63%) MCP
10 15 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.18%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.73%) OCP
13 8 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
14 7 (0.64%) CISSP
14 7 (0.64%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 4 (0.36%) CTC Cleared
16 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 2 (0.18%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (6.26%) QA
2 41 (3.72%) Accessibility
3 38 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 32 (2.90%) NIST
5 25 (2.27%) GDPR
6 23 (2.09%) NCSC
7 22 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (1.72%) WCAG
9 15 (1.36%) EU AI Act
10 7 (0.64%) SLA
11 5 (0.45%) GRC
12 4 (0.36%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.27%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.18%) FIPS 140-2
14 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 2 (0.18%) ITGC
14 2 (0.18%) MiFID
15 1 (0.091%) PSD2
System Software
1 380 (34.48%) Docker
2 43 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.45%) NFS
7 4 (0.36%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.36%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.36%) vSphere
8 3 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.27%) Firmware
8 3 (0.27%) QEMU
8 3 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.18%) HDFS
9 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.18%) KVM
10 1 (0.091%) etcd
10 1 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.091%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 499 (45.28%) Terraform
2 441 (40.02%) Kubernetes
3 156 (14.16%) Ansible
4 133 (12.07%) Grafana
5 106 (9.62%) Prometheus
6 60 (5.44%) Argo
7 33 (2.99%) Istio
8 29 (2.63%) Progress Chef
8 29 (2.63%) Puppet
9 13 (1.18%) Podman
10 12 (1.09%) Packer
11 10 (0.91%) Kibana
12 9 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
13 8 (0.73%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.64%) linkerd
14 7 (0.64%) Sysdig
15 5 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.45%) logstash
16 4 (0.36%) QRadar
16 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 177 (16.06%) Microsoft
2 94 (8.53%) Google
3 68 (6.17%) Splunk
4 64 (5.81%) Databricks
5 47 (4.26%) VMware
6 42 (3.81%) OpenAI
7 40 (3.63%) Red Hat
8 39 (3.54%) Oracle
9 24 (2.18%) Atlassian
10 21 (1.91%) ServiceNow
11 17 (1.54%) Foundry
12 14 (1.27%) Salesforce
13 10 (0.91%) Dynatrace
13 10 (0.91%) Sonatype
14 9 (0.82%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.82%) NetApp
14 9 (0.82%) Okta
14 9 (0.82%) SAP
15 8 (0.73%) Commvault
16 7 (0.64%) Cisco