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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 97 129
Rank change year-on-year +11 +32 +11
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,372 735 619
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.01% 2.69% 1.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.65% 7.19% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 943 509 414
10th Percentile £389 £363 £310
25th Percentile £450 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £705 £725 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 33
10th Percentile £46.25 - £54.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.03% +50.00% -9.68%
75th Percentile £75.00 £110.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £105.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -39.87% +50.00% -9.68%

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 15,864 10,226 11,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.77% 37.36% 34.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,627 6,924 7,781
10th Percentile £323 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -4.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 541 267 194
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.19 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £18.25
Median hourly rate £34.23 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.15% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £59.18
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.33 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.88 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.71% -3.75% -14.29%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 +23 808 £550 - 870
North of England +13 253 £500 +5.26% 221
Yorkshire +22 172 £500 - 79
Midlands -1 111 £488 -6.25% 94
West Midlands -7 94 £500 -9.09% 40
South East -34 85 £525 +16.67% 180
South West -12 63 £525 -12.50% 97
North West -33 60 £550 +27.91% 111
East of England 0 33 £500 -7.41% 80
North East -27 23 £450 -2.70% 33
East Midlands -8 17 £400 -19.19% 54
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
1 112 (8.16%) Confluence
2 48 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (2.55%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 21 (1.53%) Apache
6 9 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.58%) nginx
8 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.44%) Tuxedo
10 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.15%) CMS
12 2 (0.15%) Mendix
12 2 (0.15%) SAS
13 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.073%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.073%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.29%) Trello
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.073%) Notion
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.36%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.22%) Findur
3 3 (0.22%) Front Arena
3 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.22%) Summit
4 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.073%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 746 (54.37%) GitHub Actions
2 702 (51.17%) Azure
3 634 (46.21%) AWS
4 390 (28.43%) Azure DevOps
5 205 (14.94%) GCP
6 184 (13.41%) Serverless
7 139 (10.13%) Amazon S3
8 138 (10.06%) GitHub Copilot
9 127 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
10 115 (8.38%) Amazon EKS
11 99 (7.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 99 (7.22%) Azure Monitor
12 88 (6.41%) Power Platform
13 81 (5.90%) Entra ID
14 75 (5.47%) Azure AKS
15 73 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
16 68 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
16 68 (4.96%) Snowflake
17 66 (4.81%) AWS CloudFormation
18 52 (3.79%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 66 (4.81%) Firewall
2 65 (4.74%) DNS
3 50 (3.64%) VPN
4 31 (2.26%) Network Security
5 21 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 20 (1.46%) VLAN
7 17 (1.24%) BGP
7 17 (1.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 14 (1.02%) DHCP
8 14 (1.02%) SSL
9 10 (0.73%) Wireless
10 9 (0.66%) BIG-IP
10 9 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
10 9 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 9 (0.66%) OSPF
10 9 (0.66%) VXLAN
10 9 (0.66%) WAN
11 8 (0.58%) IPsec
11 8 (0.58%) NX-OS
12 7 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (6.20%) SQL Server
3 72 (5.25%) NoSQL
4 71 (5.17%) MongoDB
5 67 (4.88%) Power BI
6 54 (3.94%) Data Lake
7 50 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
7 50 (3.64%) Redis
8 47 (3.43%) DynamoDB
9 46 (3.35%) Relational Database
10 35 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 35 (2.55%) Delta Lake
11 33 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 30 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
13 27 (1.97%) MySQL
14 26 (1.90%) Metadata
15 25 (1.82%) BigQuery
16 22 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
17 20 (1.46%) Big Data
18 17 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 402 (29.30%) Jenkins
2 299 (21.79%) GitLab
3 273 (19.90%) Git
4 165 (12.03%) JIRA
5 71 (5.17%) Selenium
6 68 (4.96%) JUnit
7 51 (3.72%) SonarQube
8 50 (3.64%) Cucumber
9 47 (3.43%) Bitbucket
10 40 (2.92%) Gatling
11 39 (2.84%) Cypress.io
12 37 (2.70%) JMeter
13 36 (2.62%) Gradle
14 34 (2.48%) Maven
15 32 (2.33%) Claude Code
16 29 (2.11%) Postman
17 27 (1.97%) CircleCI
17 27 (1.97%) REST Assured
18 23 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
19 17 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 333 (24.27%) Social Skills
2 277 (20.19%) Finance
3 156 (11.37%) Public Sector
4 123 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (5.90%) Banking
6 38 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (2.77%) Retail
7 23 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
8 22 (1.60%) Legal
9 18 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.17%) Law
11 15 (1.09%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.95%) Investment Banking
13 12 (0.87%) Aerospace
13 12 (0.87%) Military
14 11 (0.80%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.80%) Marketing
15 10 (0.73%) Local Government
16 9 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 263 (19.17%) Senior
2 248 (18.08%) Developer
3 171 (12.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 124 (9.04%) Architect
5 119 (8.67%) Lead
6 108 (7.87%) Data Engineer
7 82 (5.98%) Platform Engineer
8 77 (5.61%) AWS Engineer
9 70 (5.10%) Azure Engineer
10 68 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
10 68 (4.96%) Senior Developer
11 64 (4.66%) Software Engineer
12 63 (4.59%) Java Developer
13 49 (3.57%) Test Engineer
14 48 (3.50%) Full-Stack Developer
15 46 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
16 42 (3.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 41 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 39 (2.84%) Python Developer
19 35 (2.55%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 653 (47.59%) Terraform
2 214 (15.60%) REST
3 147 (10.71%) Kafka
4 139 (10.13%) RESTful
5 129 (9.40%) Spring
6 117 (8.53%) React
7 116 (8.45%) .NET
8 105 (7.65%) Spring Boot
9 85 (6.20%) Playwright
10 67 (4.88%) Node.js
11 56 (4.08%) OAuth
12 49 (3.57%) YAML
13 48 (3.50%) PySpark
14 46 (3.35%) HTML
14 46 (3.35%) JSON
15 45 (3.28%) OAuth2
16 42 (3.06%) FastAPI
17 41 (2.99%) AngularJS
18 38 (2.77%) OpenTelemetry
19 34 (2.48%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 301 (21.94%) Cloud Native
2 111 (8.09%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (5.47%) Product Ownership
4 67 (4.88%) AI Agents
5 42 (3.06%) Data Centre
5 42 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
6 39 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 38 (2.77%) Mobile App
8 37 (2.70%) Onboarding
9 28 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
10 24 (1.75%) Security Posture
11 22 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
11 22 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.46%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
13 19 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
14 17 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (1.17%) Algorithms
16 15 (1.09%) Private Cloud
16 15 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 131 (9.55%) Linux
2 56 (4.08%) Windows
3 37 (2.70%) Unix
4 27 (1.97%) Android
5 24 (1.75%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (1.53%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.58%) VMS
9 4 (0.29%) CentOS
10 3 (0.22%) Debian
10 3 (0.22%) Rocky
11 2 (0.15%) AIX
11 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.15%) MVS
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.15%) zOS
12 1 (0.073%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,042 (75.95%) CI/CD
2 813 (59.26%) DevOps
3 561 (40.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 515 (37.54%) Agile
5 348 (25.36%) Observability
6 344 (25.07%) Test Automation
7 308 (22.45%) AI
8 295 (21.50%) Containerisation
9 267 (19.46%) Microservices
10 230 (16.76%) Software Engineering
11 222 (16.18%) Platform Engineering
12 193 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 173 (12.61%) Event-Driven
14 158 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
15 152 (11.08%) Analytics
16 146 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
17 139 (10.13%) DevSecOps
18 136 (9.91%) Technical Leadership
19 131 (9.55%) Scrum
20 126 (9.18%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 605 (44.10%) Python
2 320 (23.32%) SQL
3 278 (20.26%) Java
4 190 (13.85%) Bash
5 169 (12.32%) PowerShell
6 149 (10.86%) TypeScript
7 138 (10.06%) JavaScript
8 128 (9.33%) C#
9 98 (7.14%) Bicep
10 47 (3.43%) Kotlin
11 44 (3.21%) Go
12 37 (2.70%) Shell Script
13 32 (2.33%) Scala
14 21 (1.53%) Ruby
15 19 (1.38%) Swift
16 11 (0.80%) Groovy
17 10 (0.73%) ActionScript
18 9 (0.66%) Objective-C
19 8 (0.58%) Apex Code
19 8 (0.58%) C
Qualifications
1 425 (30.98%) Security Cleared
2 372 (27.11%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.52%) Azure Certification
3 62 (4.52%) Degree
4 42 (3.06%) AWS Certification
5 39 (2.84%) DV Cleared
6 38 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 35 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.80%) CISSP
12 11 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 9 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 8 (0.58%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (14.07%) QA
2 77 (5.61%) Data Quality
3 71 (5.17%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.26%) GDPR
5 29 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.97%) WCAG
7 21 (1.53%) NIST
8 12 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.73%) NCSC
10 8 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.44%) GRC
13 5 (0.36%) HL7
13 5 (0.36%) PSD2
14 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.29%) SEPA
14 4 (0.29%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 1 (0.073%) IFRS
System Software
1 444 (32.36%) Docker
2 48 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.80%) IAG
6 11 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (0.80%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.80%) vSphere
7 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (0.29%) NFS
8 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.15%) Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.15%) SRDF
9 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 498 (36.30%) Kubernetes
2 207 (15.09%) Ansible
3 190 (13.85%) Grafana
4 151 (11.01%) Prometheus
5 57 (4.15%) Argo
6 24 (1.75%) Puppet
7 23 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (1.46%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.31%) Packer
10 12 (0.87%) Control-M
11 11 (0.80%) Kibana
12 10 (0.73%) Istio
12 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (0.66%) HAProxy
14 8 (0.58%) Karpenter
14 8 (0.58%) vCenter Server
15 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
15 7 (0.51%) SCCM
16 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 267 (19.46%) Microsoft
2 103 (7.51%) Databricks
3 94 (6.85%) Google
3 94 (6.85%) Splunk
4 58 (4.23%) Oracle
5 56 (4.08%) Dynatrace
6 43 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 40 (2.92%) OpenAI
8 39 (2.84%) VMware
9 34 (2.48%) Red Hat
10 30 (2.19%) Cisco
11 29 (2.11%) Salesforce
12 25 (1.82%) Informatica
13 22 (1.60%) IBM
14 21 (1.53%) Foundry
15 19 (1.38%) New Relic
16 18 (1.31%) Checkmarx
16 18 (1.31%) F5
17 15 (1.09%) Palo Alto
18 14 (1.02%) SAP