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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 123 169
Rank change year-on-year +57 +46 -43
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,171 549 528
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.55% 2.07% 1.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.37% 5.57% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 372 382
10th Percentile £355 £345 £413
25th Percentile £411 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -1.14% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £630
90th Percentile £700 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 1
10th Percentile £40.00 £22.33 -
25th Percentile £43.00 £25.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.65% -43.56% -10.19%
75th Percentile £68.88 £57.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £88.40 £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 12,495 9,848 12,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.83% 37.06% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,670 6,536 9,169
10th Percentile £304 £313 £272
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £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 310 139 293
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.65 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.67
Median hourly rate £33.09 £27.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.31% +19.57% -6.12%
75th Percentile £58.75 £46.84 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.28 £69.75 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +18.18% +18.46% -3.27%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 30 January 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 +45 675 £550 - 224
North of England +28 190 £482 +1.47% 164
South East +44 105 £450 -0.55% 205
Yorkshire +1 99 £500 +3.63% 81
Midlands +16 80 £550 - 79
North West +20 77 £405 -14.74% 67
South West +9 72 £550 -10.20% 86
West Midlands +19 66 £575 +10.05% 28
North East +3 18 £545 +50.34% 18
East of England -10 17 £560 +76.10% 90
East Midlands -16 14 £402 -35.63% 50
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
1 100 (8.54%) Confluence
2 49 (4.18%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (2.13%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.62%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.11%) nginx
6 12 (1.02%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.51%) Apache
9 5 (0.43%) CMS
10 3 (0.26%) Mule
10 3 (0.26%) SAS
10 3 (0.26%) WordPress
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.17%) CICS
11 2 (0.17%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.17%) Traefik
11 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.085%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 31 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.17%) Trello
6 1 (0.085%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (0.60%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.17%) Shopify
3 1 (0.085%) Actimize
3 1 (0.085%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.085%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.085%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.085%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.085%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.085%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.085%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 589 (50.30%) GitHub Actions
2 536 (45.77%) AWS
3 532 (45.43%) Azure
4 249 (21.26%) Azure DevOps
5 195 (16.65%) GCP
6 193 (16.48%) Serverless
7 128 (10.93%) AWS Lambda
8 113 (9.65%) Amazon S3
9 107 (9.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 95 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
11 90 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
12 85 (7.26%) Power Platform
13 76 (6.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 72 (6.15%) OpenShift
15 68 (5.81%) Azure AKS
16 64 (5.47%) Azure Data Factory
17 63 (5.38%) Entra ID
18 61 (5.21%) GitHub Copilot
19 58 (4.95%) Azure Monitor
20 51 (4.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.27%) Firewall
2 42 (3.59%) DNS
3 25 (2.13%) Network Security
4 22 (1.88%) VPN
5 12 (1.02%) HTTP
6 11 (0.94%) SSL
6 11 (0.94%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.77%) WAN
8 8 (0.68%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.68%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.60%) Ethernet
9 7 (0.60%) Modbus
9 7 (0.60%) RS-232
9 7 (0.60%) RS-485
10 5 (0.43%) Internet
10 5 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.17%) Calico
11 2 (0.17%) NAS
11 2 (0.17%) SAN
11 2 (0.17%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (14.18%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (7.00%) NoSQL
3 65 (5.55%) Amazon RDS
4 61 (5.21%) MongoDB
5 58 (4.95%) Relational Database
6 54 (4.61%) SQL Server
7 53 (4.53%) DynamoDB
8 50 (4.27%) Data Lake
9 49 (4.18%) Power BI
10 44 (3.76%) Redis
11 41 (3.50%) MySQL
12 36 (3.07%) Azure SQL Database
13 28 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
14 26 (2.22%) BigQuery
15 21 (1.79%) Delta Lake
16 19 (1.62%) Amazon Aurora
17 18 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
18 15 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (1.28%) DocumentDB
19 14 (1.20%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 338 (28.86%) Jenkins
2 228 (19.47%) Git
3 209 (17.85%) GitLab
4 168 (14.35%) JIRA
5 68 (5.81%) JUnit
6 62 (5.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 47 (4.01%) Artifactory
8 44 (3.76%) SonarQube
9 43 (3.67%) Gradle
10 42 (3.59%) CircleCI
11 39 (3.33%) Cucumber
12 37 (3.16%) Bitbucket
12 37 (3.16%) Cypress.io
13 32 (2.73%) Maven
13 32 (2.73%) Selenium
14 31 (2.65%) Postman
15 26 (2.22%) JMeter
16 16 (1.37%) Snyk
17 14 (1.20%) SpecFlow
18 13 (1.11%) Storybook
General
1 287 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 179 (15.29%) Finance
3 150 (12.81%) Public Sector
4 87 (7.43%) Banking
5 76 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (1.62%) Military
7 18 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
9 16 (1.37%) Retail
10 15 (1.28%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.11%) Front Office
11 13 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (0.94%) Marketing
13 9 (0.77%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.51%) Games
15 5 (0.43%) Billing
15 5 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.43%) Law
16 4 (0.34%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 283 (24.17%) Developer
2 188 (16.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 174 (14.86%) Senior
4 92 (7.86%) Data Engineer
5 85 (7.26%) AWS Engineer
6 81 (6.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 78 (6.66%) Lead
8 77 (6.58%) Full-Stack Developer
9 72 (6.15%) Architect
10 62 (5.29%) Platform Engineer
11 61 (5.21%) Java Developer
12 57 (4.87%) Azure Engineer
13 56 (4.78%) Software Engineer
14 51 (4.36%) AWS DevOps
15 45 (3.84%) Senior Developer
15 45 (3.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 42 (3.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 40 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 32 (2.73%) Senior Data Engineer
19 28 (2.39%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (12.47%) REST
2 144 (12.30%) Kafka
3 130 (11.10%) React
4 125 (10.67%) Node.js
5 112 (9.56%) .NET
5 112 (9.56%) Spring
6 97 (8.28%) RESTful
7 91 (7.77%) Spring Boot
8 71 (6.06%) AngularJS
9 61 (5.21%) OAuth
10 60 (5.12%) CSS
10 60 (5.12%) HTML
11 56 (4.78%) Playwright
12 52 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
13 46 (3.93%) JSON
14 41 (3.50%) GraphQL
15 40 (3.42%) FastAPI
16 37 (3.16%) Jest
17 36 (3.07%) PyTorch
17 36 (3.07%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 195 (16.65%) Cloud Native
2 43 (3.67%) Product Ownership
3 40 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (2.31%) Public Cloud
5 26 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (1.79%) Algorithms
7 20 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 19 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.45%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.37%) Life Science
10 16 (1.37%) Replication
10 16 (1.37%) Virtual Team
11 14 (1.20%) Genomics
11 14 (1.20%) NHS
11 14 (1.20%) Private Cloud
12 13 (1.11%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.11%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
13 12 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 153 (13.07%) Linux
2 40 (3.42%) Windows
3 25 (2.13%) Unix
4 22 (1.88%) Android
5 15 (1.28%) Apple iOS
5 15 (1.28%) VMS
6 13 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
8 5 (0.43%) Solaris
8 5 (0.43%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.34%) CentOS
9 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.17%) zOS
12 1 (0.085%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.085%) Debian
12 1 (0.085%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 838 (71.56%) CI/CD
2 700 (59.78%) DevOps
3 410 (35.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 371 (31.68%) Agile
5 310 (26.47%) Containerisation
6 233 (19.90%) AI
7 230 (19.64%) Test Automation
8 226 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
9 220 (18.79%) Microservices
10 193 (16.48%) Observability
11 161 (13.75%) Migration
12 145 (12.38%) Full-Stack Development
13 130 (11.10%) Software Engineering
14 129 (11.02%) Analytics
15 126 (10.76%) Platform Engineering
16 119 (10.16%) Data Pipeline
17 113 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
18 101 (8.63%) DevSecOps
19 96 (8.20%) Machine Learning
20 94 (8.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 536 (45.77%) Python
2 261 (22.29%) SQL
3 248 (21.18%) Java
4 162 (13.83%) JavaScript
5 151 (12.89%) TypeScript
6 128 (10.93%) Bash
7 101 (8.63%) C#
8 97 (8.28%) PowerShell
9 74 (6.32%) Go
10 50 (4.27%) Bicep
11 30 (2.56%) Shell Script
12 26 (2.22%) Ruby
13 15 (1.28%) PHP
14 12 (1.02%) C++
14 12 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.77%) Groovy
15 9 (0.77%) Scala
16 8 (0.68%) C
16 8 (0.68%) Korn
16 8 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 346 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 269 (22.97%) SC Cleared
3 82 (7.00%) Degree
4 50 (4.27%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 33 (2.82%) AWS Certification
8 24 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 14 (1.20%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.77%) CISSP
12 8 (0.68%) OCP
12 8 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (0.60%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
15 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.34%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (6.23%) QA
2 50 (4.27%) Data Quality
3 49 (4.18%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.48%) NIST
5 24 (2.05%) NCSC
6 22 (1.88%) GDPR
6 22 (1.88%) WCAG
7 16 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (1.28%) EU AI Act
9 13 (1.11%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.60%) SLA
11 5 (0.43%) GRC
11 5 (0.43%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.26%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.17%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.17%) PSD2
13 2 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 388 (33.13%) Docker
2 34 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.60%) Firmware
6 6 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.51%) vSphere
7 5 (0.43%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.34%) NFS
9 3 (0.26%) QEMU
9 3 (0.26%) Veritas File System
9 3 (0.26%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 3 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.17%) HDFS
10 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.17%) KVM
11 1 (0.085%) etcd
11 1 (0.085%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.085%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 511 (43.64%) Terraform
2 451 (38.51%) Kubernetes
3 168 (14.35%) Ansible
4 133 (11.36%) Grafana
5 102 (8.71%) Prometheus
6 61 (5.21%) Argo
7 35 (2.99%) Istio
8 27 (2.31%) Progress Chef
9 23 (1.96%) Puppet
10 13 (1.11%) Podman
11 10 (0.85%) Packer
12 9 (0.77%) Kibana
12 9 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.60%) NetBackup
13 7 (0.60%) Sysdig
14 6 (0.51%) linkerd
15 5 (0.43%) logstash
15 5 (0.43%) vCenter Server
16 4 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
16 4 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 202 (17.25%) Microsoft
2 104 (8.88%) Google
3 76 (6.49%) Databricks
4 73 (6.23%) Splunk
5 47 (4.01%) VMware
6 45 (3.84%) OpenAI
7 40 (3.42%) Oracle
8 36 (3.07%) Red Hat
9 21 (1.79%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.62%) Foundry
11 18 (1.54%) Sonatype
12 17 (1.45%) Atlassian
13 13 (1.11%) Salesforce
14 10 (0.85%) NetApp
15 9 (0.77%) Dynatrace
15 9 (0.77%) SAP
16 8 (0.68%) Cisco
16 8 (0.68%) New Relic
16 8 (0.68%) Okta
17 7 (0.60%) Commvault