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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 116 139
Rank change year-on-year +30 +23 -14
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,324 657 611
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.95% 2.41% 1.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.44% 6.44% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 904 449 396
10th Percentile £390 £375 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £627
90th Percentile £700 £735 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 34
10th Percentile £46.25 - £52.60
25th Percentile £56.32 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - £70.00
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 15,680 10,198 11,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.36% 33.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,494 6,890 8,381
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 266 286
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.27 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.14% +14.32% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.66 £48.11
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.31 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.04% +25.00% -37.14%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +23 752 £550 - 292
North of England +35 261 £500 +4.17% 123
Yorkshire +32 181 £500 -1.94% 46
Midlands +9 107 £500 - 52
West Midlands +3 95 £500 +5.26% 28
South East -50 75 £525 +10.53% 114
South West +5 73 £500 -16.67% 38
North West -11 68 £564 +22.04% 60
East of England -3 32 £500 -9.09% 31
North East -24 17 £450 -5.26% 18
East Midlands -7 11 £470 -7.39% 24
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
1 123 (9.29%) Confluence
2 40 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (2.64%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.74%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.21%) Apache
6 11 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.45%) nginx
7 6 (0.45%) Tuxedo
8 5 (0.38%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) CMS
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
10 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.076%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.076%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.076%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.076%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.076%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.15%) Trello
8 1 (0.076%) Notion
8 1 (0.076%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.38%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.23%) Findur
4 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.23%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.076%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 704 (53.17%) GitHub Actions
2 644 (48.64%) Azure
3 602 (45.47%) AWS
4 361 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
5 196 (14.80%) GCP
6 153 (11.56%) Serverless
7 125 (9.44%) Amazon S3
8 114 (8.61%) AWS Lambda
9 104 (7.85%) GitHub Copilot
10 100 (7.55%) Amazon EKS
11 94 (7.10%) Azure Monitor
12 85 (6.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 81 (6.12%) Power Platform
14 70 (5.29%) Azure AKS
15 69 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
15 69 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
16 68 (5.14%) Entra ID
17 67 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
18 53 (4.00%) Snowflake
19 51 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 68 (5.14%) Firewall
2 63 (4.76%) DNS
3 55 (4.15%) VPN
4 30 (2.27%) Network Security
5 17 (1.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 17 (1.28%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.13%) VLAN
7 11 (0.83%) SSL
8 10 (0.76%) BGP
9 9 (0.68%) BIG-IP
9 9 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (0.68%) OSPF
9 9 (0.68%) Wireless
10 8 (0.60%) IPsec
10 8 (0.60%) WAN
11 7 (0.53%) HTTP
11 7 (0.53%) Internet
12 6 (0.45%) DHCP
13 5 (0.38%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (7.85%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (6.87%) SQL Server
3 67 (5.06%) NoSQL
4 61 (4.61%) MongoDB
5 56 (4.23%) Data Lake
5 56 (4.23%) Power BI
6 49 (3.70%) Relational Database
7 44 (3.32%) DynamoDB
8 38 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
9 37 (2.79%) Delta Lake
10 34 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
10 34 (2.57%) Redis
11 33 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
12 30 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
14 21 (1.59%) Big Data
14 21 (1.59%) Metadata
15 19 (1.44%) BigQuery
16 18 (1.36%) MySQL
17 16 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 421 (31.80%) Jenkins
2 268 (20.24%) GitLab
3 250 (18.88%) Git
4 176 (13.29%) JIRA
5 76 (5.74%) JUnit
5 76 (5.74%) Selenium
6 55 (4.15%) Cucumber
7 42 (3.17%) Bitbucket
7 42 (3.17%) Cypress.io
8 39 (2.95%) Gatling
8 39 (2.95%) Gradle
8 39 (2.95%) JMeter
9 37 (2.79%) REST Assured
10 36 (2.72%) SonarQube
11 31 (2.34%) CircleCI
11 31 (2.34%) Maven
11 31 (2.34%) Postman
12 24 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
13 21 (1.59%) WebDriver
14 20 (1.51%) Mockito
General
1 327 (24.70%) Social Skills
2 237 (17.90%) Finance
3 154 (11.63%) Public Sector
4 110 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (5.97%) Banking
6 36 (2.72%) Retail
7 28 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.81%) Legal
9 18 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.21%) Military
11 15 (1.13%) Law
12 14 (1.06%) Investment Banking
13 10 (0.76%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.68%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.60%) Marketing
15 8 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.53%) Front Office
16 7 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 239 (18.05%) Developer
2 237 (17.90%) Senior
3 178 (13.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 118 (8.91%) Architect
5 114 (8.61%) Lead
6 98 (7.40%) Data Engineer
7 78 (5.89%) AWS Engineer
7 78 (5.89%) Platform Engineer
8 68 (5.14%) Cloud Engineer
9 60 (4.53%) Java Developer
10 58 (4.38%) Senior Developer
10 58 (4.38%) Software Engineer
11 56 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
12 46 (3.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 46 (3.47%) Test Engineer
13 42 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
13 42 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
14 38 (2.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 36 (2.72%) GCP Engineer
15 36 (2.72%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (14.43%) REST
2 125 (9.44%) Kafka
3 124 (9.37%) Spring
4 117 (8.84%) RESTful
5 108 (8.16%) .NET
6 106 (8.01%) React
7 98 (7.40%) Spring Boot
8 84 (6.34%) Playwright
9 65 (4.91%) Node.js
10 53 (4.00%) PySpark
11 43 (3.25%) OpenTelemetry
12 41 (3.10%) OAuth
13 38 (2.87%) .NET Framework
13 38 (2.87%) AngularJS
14 36 (2.72%) JSON
14 36 (2.72%) OAuth2
15 35 (2.64%) HTML
15 35 (2.64%) YAML
16 34 (2.57%) GraphQL
17 33 (2.49%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 271 (20.47%) Cloud Native
2 113 (8.53%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 42 (3.17%) AI Agents
5 38 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 36 (2.72%) Data Centre
6 36 (2.72%) Mobile App
7 35 (2.64%) Onboarding
8 26 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
10 23 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
12 17 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (1.21%) Data Structures
13 16 (1.21%) Public Cloud
13 16 (1.21%) Security Posture
14 14 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.06%) Private Cloud
14 14 (1.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 125 (9.44%) Linux
2 58 (4.38%) Windows
3 33 (2.49%) Android
4 27 (2.04%) Apple iOS
5 26 (1.96%) Unix
6 20 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (1.13%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.38%) VMS
10 3 (0.23%) CentOS
10 3 (0.23%) Debian
10 3 (0.23%) 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%) zOS
12 1 (0.076%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.076%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.076%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 995 (75.15%) CI/CD
2 772 (58.31%) DevOps
3 509 (38.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 459 (34.67%) Agile
5 332 (25.08%) Test Automation
6 312 (23.56%) Observability
7 281 (21.22%) Containerisation
8 255 (19.26%) Microservices
9 244 (18.43%) AI
10 209 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
11 192 (14.50%) Software Engineering
12 188 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 167 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
14 152 (11.48%) Analytics
15 146 (11.03%) Event-Driven
16 133 (10.05%) Migration
17 119 (8.99%) Technical Leadership
18 118 (8.91%) Data Pipeline
19 116 (8.76%) DevSecOps
20 114 (8.61%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 554 (41.84%) Python
2 309 (23.34%) SQL
3 246 (18.58%) Java
4 190 (14.35%) Bash
5 156 (11.78%) PowerShell
6 131 (9.89%) C#
7 129 (9.74%) TypeScript
8 127 (9.59%) JavaScript
9 76 (5.74%) Bicep
10 42 (3.17%) Kotlin
11 40 (3.02%) Go
12 31 (2.34%) Scala
13 27 (2.04%) Shell Script
14 24 (1.81%) Ruby
15 20 (1.51%) Swift
16 14 (1.06%) Groovy
17 11 (0.83%) Apex Code
18 10 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
19 9 (0.68%) ActionScript
19 9 (0.68%) C
Qualifications
1 401 (30.29%) Security Cleared
2 342 (25.83%) SC Cleared
3 54 (4.08%) Degree
4 53 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 44 (3.32%) DV Cleared
6 40 (3.02%) AWS Certification
7 32 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.83%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 7 (0.53%) CISSP
15 7 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (0.45%) CCNP
16 6 (0.45%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (12.39%) QA
2 70 (5.29%) Data Quality
3 65 (4.91%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.27%) GDPR
5 23 (1.74%) WCAG
6 20 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.83%) NIST
7 11 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.60%) GRC
9 7 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.30%) HL7
11 4 (0.30%) NCSC
12 3 (0.23%) PSD2
13 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.15%) SEPA
13 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.076%) SLA
14 1 (0.076%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 384 (29.00%) Docker
2 37 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (1.59%) vSphere
6 20 (1.51%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.60%) Hyper-V
9 7 (0.53%) IAG
10 4 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.30%) NFS
11 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.15%) Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.15%) SRDF
11 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.15%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 612 (46.22%) Terraform
2 456 (34.44%) Kubernetes
3 205 (15.48%) Ansible
4 182 (13.75%) Grafana
5 153 (11.56%) Prometheus
6 64 (4.83%) Argo
7 28 (2.11%) Puppet
8 20 (1.51%) vCenter Server
9 18 (1.36%) Istio
9 18 (1.36%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (1.21%) Packer
11 13 (0.98%) Kibana
12 9 (0.68%) HAProxy
12 9 (0.68%) NetBackup
13 7 (0.53%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.45%) Control-M
14 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.38%) Podman
Vendors
1 229 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 90 (6.80%) Splunk
3 89 (6.72%) Databricks
4 88 (6.65%) Google
5 55 (4.15%) Oracle
6 43 (3.25%) VMware
7 41 (3.10%) Dynatrace
8 37 (2.79%) Red Hat
9 31 (2.34%) Salesforce
10 28 (2.11%) OpenAI
11 24 (1.81%) ServiceNow
12 22 (1.66%) Cisco
13 20 (1.51%) Pure Storage
14 19 (1.44%) F5
15 18 (1.36%) Informatica
15 18 (1.36%) Palo Alto
16 16 (1.21%) Checkmarx
16 16 (1.21%) SAP
17 15 (1.13%) Foundry
17 15 (1.13%) IBM