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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 82 132
Rank change year-on-year -7 +50 +11
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,402 855 611
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.01% 3.05% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.75% 7.98% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 588 405
10th Percentile £381 £360 £313
25th Percentile £431 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -0.98% -8.70%
75th Percentile £630 £636 £625
90th Percentile £712 £700 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -7.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 32
10th Percentile £46.25 £69.00 £66.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £80.63 -
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 16,031 10,713 11,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.46% 38.23% 34.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,669 7,252 7,558
10th Percentile £321 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £530
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -2.75%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 253 165
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.30 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.77% -24.86% +6.06%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +3 826 £550 - 1,018
North of England +9 263 £488 +2.63% 344
Yorkshire +21 170 £500 - 124
Midlands -9 113 £474 -17.21% 182
West Midlands -10 92 £488 -15.22% 90
South East -32 91 £525 +16.67% 256
North West -36 70 £550 +22.22% 158
South West -34 52 £538 -17.31% 142
East of England -8 33 £525 -4.61% 144
North East -32 25 £425 -10.53% 65
East Midlands -6 21 £400 -15.79% 91
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
1 105 (7.49%) Confluence
2 41 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.36%) Apache
3 19 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.64%) nginx
5 8 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (0.50%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.43%) Tuxedo
8 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.29%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.21%) CMS
11 2 (0.14%) Mendix
11 2 (0.14%) SAS
12 1 (0.071%) IIS
12 1 (0.071%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.071%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.071%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.29%) Trello
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.071%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.071%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.071%) Notion
6 1 (0.071%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.071%) Sketch
6 1 (0.071%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.36%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.36%) Sage X3
3 5 (0.36%) Summit
4 4 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.071%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.071%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.071%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 749 (53.42%) GitHub Actions
2 716 (51.07%) Azure
3 655 (46.72%) AWS
4 373 (26.60%) Azure DevOps
5 222 (15.83%) GCP
6 187 (13.34%) Serverless
7 177 (12.62%) GitHub Copilot
8 137 (9.77%) Amazon S3
9 133 (9.49%) Amazon EKS
10 114 (8.13%) AWS Lambda
11 103 (7.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 102 (7.28%) Azure Monitor
13 92 (6.56%) Entra ID
14 90 (6.42%) Power Platform
15 80 (5.71%) Snowflake
16 76 (5.42%) Amazon EC2
17 74 (5.28%) Azure AKS
18 66 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
19 64 (4.56%) Amazon ECS
19 64 (4.56%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 72 (5.14%) DNS
2 70 (4.99%) Firewall
3 45 (3.21%) VPN
4 41 (2.92%) Network Security
5 24 (1.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 24 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 23 (1.64%) VLAN
7 22 (1.57%) BGP
8 17 (1.21%) BIG-IP
8 17 (1.21%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 17 (1.21%) SSL
9 15 (1.07%) DHCP
10 12 (0.86%) Ethernet VPN
10 12 (0.86%) VXLAN
11 11 (0.78%) OSPF
11 11 (0.78%) Wireless
12 10 (0.71%) NX-OS
13 9 (0.64%) TACACS
14 7 (0.50%) HTTP
14 7 (0.50%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (8.49%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.42%) SQL Server
3 82 (5.85%) MongoDB
4 63 (4.49%) NoSQL
5 62 (4.42%) Power BI
6 55 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
7 51 (3.64%) Redis
8 50 (3.57%) Data Lake
9 47 (3.35%) Relational Database
10 33 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 33 (2.35%) DynamoDB
11 32 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (2.14%) MySQL
13 29 (2.07%) Delta Lake
14 28 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
15 25 (1.78%) BigQuery
16 22 (1.57%) Metadata
17 19 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
18 18 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
19 16 (1.14%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 402 (28.67%) Jenkins
2 298 (21.26%) GitLab
3 290 (20.68%) Git
4 166 (11.84%) JIRA
5 78 (5.56%) Selenium
6 67 (4.78%) JUnit
7 63 (4.49%) Cucumber
8 61 (4.35%) SonarQube
9 47 (3.35%) Bitbucket
9 47 (3.35%) Gatling
10 44 (3.14%) Claude Code
11 36 (2.57%) Cypress.io
11 36 (2.57%) Gradle
12 35 (2.50%) JMeter
13 34 (2.43%) Postman
14 33 (2.35%) Maven
15 31 (2.21%) REST Assured
16 26 (1.85%) CircleCI
16 26 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
17 21 (1.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 356 (25.39%) Social Skills
2 297 (21.18%) Finance
3 151 (10.77%) Public Sector
4 147 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (6.92%) Banking
6 50 (3.57%) Retail
7 43 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (1.36%) Legal
9 18 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
9 18 (1.28%) Telecoms
10 17 (1.21%) Law
11 15 (1.07%) Aerospace
11 15 (1.07%) Marketing
11 15 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (0.93%) Local Government
13 13 (0.93%) Military
14 12 (0.86%) Investment Banking
14 12 (0.86%) Manufacturing
15 10 (0.71%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 284 (20.26%) Senior
2 261 (18.62%) Developer
3 178 (12.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 123 (8.77%) Architect
5 121 (8.63%) Lead
6 97 (6.92%) Data Engineer
7 75 (5.35%) AWS Engineer
8 71 (5.06%) Platform Engineer
9 70 (4.99%) Azure Engineer
10 69 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
11 64 (4.56%) Senior Developer
12 63 (4.49%) Java Developer
12 63 (4.49%) Software Engineer
13 54 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
14 51 (3.64%) Full-Stack Developer
15 50 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 49 (3.50%) Test Engineer
17 47 (3.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 46 (3.28%) Automation Engineer
19 42 (3.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 652 (46.50%) Terraform
2 251 (17.90%) REST
3 155 (11.06%) Kafka
4 143 (10.20%) RESTful
5 126 (8.99%) Spring
6 117 (8.35%) .NET
7 111 (7.92%) React
8 105 (7.49%) Spring Boot
9 90 (6.42%) Playwright
10 62 (4.42%) Node.js
11 59 (4.21%) HTML
12 58 (4.14%) OAuth
13 56 (3.99%) JSON
14 50 (3.57%) FastAPI
15 47 (3.35%) YAML
16 44 (3.14%) AngularJS
16 44 (3.14%) OAuth2
17 43 (3.07%) pytest
18 40 (2.85%) PySpark
19 39 (2.78%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 293 (20.90%) Cloud Native
2 98 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
3 92 (6.56%) AI Agents
4 71 (5.06%) Product Ownership
5 57 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (3.50%) Data Centre
7 47 (3.35%) Onboarding
8 37 (2.64%) Mobile App
9 32 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
10 29 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.85%) Data Structures
11 26 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (1.78%) Security Posture
13 23 (1.64%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
15 21 (1.50%) Low-Code
16 20 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
17 17 (1.21%) Algorithms
17 17 (1.21%) Private Cloud
18 16 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 129 (9.20%) Linux
2 62 (4.42%) Windows
3 28 (2.00%) Android
3 28 (2.00%) Unix
4 27 (1.93%) Apple iOS
5 19 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.57%) VMS
7 6 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.29%) CentOS
9 2 (0.14%) AIX
9 2 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.14%) Debian
9 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.14%) MVS
9 2 (0.14%) Rocky
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.14%) zOS
10 1 (0.071%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,069 (76.25%) CI/CD
2 810 (57.77%) DevOps
3 567 (40.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 525 (37.45%) Agile
5 365 (26.03%) AI
6 358 (25.53%) Observability
6 358 (25.53%) Test Automation
7 286 (20.40%) Containerisation
8 278 (19.83%) Microservices
9 248 (17.69%) Software Engineering
10 217 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 207 (14.76%) Platform Engineering
12 184 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
13 183 (13.05%) Stakeholder Management
14 177 (12.62%) Event-Driven
15 148 (10.56%) Analytics
16 147 (10.49%) Scrum
17 144 (10.27%) Technical Leadership
18 129 (9.20%) Deployment Automation
18 129 (9.20%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 625 (44.58%) Python
2 310 (22.11%) SQL
3 282 (20.11%) Java
4 190 (13.55%) Bash
5 180 (12.84%) PowerShell
6 156 (11.13%) TypeScript
7 152 (10.84%) JavaScript
8 126 (8.99%) C#
9 98 (6.99%) Bicep
10 51 (3.64%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.07%) Go
12 33 (2.35%) Shell Script
13 30 (2.14%) Scala
14 21 (1.50%) Swift
15 18 (1.28%) ActionScript
16 15 (1.07%) Ruby
17 12 (0.86%) C
17 12 (0.86%) Objective-C
18 11 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
19 10 (0.71%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 409 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 352 (25.11%) SC Cleared
3 63 (4.49%) Azure Certification
4 61 (4.35%) Degree
5 51 (3.64%) AWS Certification
6 49 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 41 (2.92%) DV Cleared
8 35 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 10 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (0.64%) CISSP
15 8 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
15 8 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 7 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (14.62%) QA
2 87 (6.21%) Accessibility
3 78 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.57%) WCAG
5 27 (1.93%) GDPR
6 26 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (1.71%) NIST
8 11 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.78%) NCSC
9 8 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.43%) GRC
10 6 (0.43%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.43%) PSD2
11 5 (0.36%) HL7
11 5 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.36%) SEPA
12 4 (0.29%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.071%) IFRS
System Software
1 447 (31.88%) Docker
2 45 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.71%) IAG
7 7 (0.50%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.36%) vSphere
9 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.29%) NFS
9 4 (0.29%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.14%) Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.14%) SRDF
10 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 505 (36.02%) Kubernetes
2 202 (14.41%) Ansible
3 185 (13.20%) Grafana
4 143 (10.20%) Prometheus
5 54 (3.85%) Argo
6 21 (1.50%) Puppet
7 18 (1.28%) Progress Chef
7 18 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.07%) Packer
9 14 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
10 13 (0.93%) Control-M
11 11 (0.78%) Istio
11 11 (0.78%) Kibana
12 9 (0.64%) Karpenter
13 7 (0.50%) SCCM
14 5 (0.36%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.36%) HAProxy
14 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.36%) Kustomize
15 4 (0.29%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 269 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 103 (7.35%) Databricks
3 93 (6.63%) Splunk
4 91 (6.49%) Google
5 66 (4.71%) Dynatrace
6 55 (3.92%) OpenAI
7 53 (3.78%) Oracle
8 50 (3.57%) ServiceNow
9 37 (2.64%) VMware
10 34 (2.43%) Cisco
11 30 (2.14%) Foundry
11 30 (2.14%) Red Hat
12 28 (2.00%) IBM
13 26 (1.85%) Salesforce
14 25 (1.78%) F5
15 22 (1.57%) New Relic
16 17 (1.21%) Palo Alto
17 15 (1.07%) SAP
18 14 (1.00%) Informatica
19 13 (0.93%) CyberArk