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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 88 132
Rank change year-on-year -2 +44 +4
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,377 780 609
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.97% 2.84% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.64% 7.52% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 938 532 403
10th Percentile £381 £360 £310
25th Percentile £447 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -10.83%
75th Percentile £629 £631 £625
90th Percentile £711 £702 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -8.70%
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 15,934 10,377 11,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.42% 37.85% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,619 7,014 7,631
10th Percentile £320 £306 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 244 172
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.33 £15.55
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.13
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.73% -21.21% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £64.73
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.18 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% -7.14%

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 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 22 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 22 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 +8 816 £550 +0.64% 831
North of England +13 254 £500 +5.26% 241
Yorkshire +23 170 £494 -1.25% 80
Midlands -7 108 £476 -13.45% 96
West Midlands -15 88 £490 -14.45% 41
South East -28 88 £525 +20.69% 191
North West -39 61 £575 +30.68% 124
South West -21 57 £525 -16.00% 98
East of England -11 32 £500 -4.76% 82
North East -22 25 £425 -10.53% 38
East Midlands -1 20 £400 -15.79% 55
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 (7.26%) Confluence
2 43 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (2.83%) SharePoint
4 20 (1.45%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.16%) Apache
6 8 (0.58%) nginx
6 8 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.44%) Tuxedo
9 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.22%) CMS
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
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%) Camunda
13 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.073%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 8 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.29%) Trello
5 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.073%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.073%) Notion
6 1 (0.073%) Sketch
6 1 (0.073%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.44%) 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 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.15%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.073%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.073%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.073%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 743 (53.96%) GitHub Actions
2 690 (50.11%) Azure
3 641 (46.55%) AWS
4 367 (26.65%) Azure DevOps
5 215 (15.61%) GCP
6 184 (13.36%) Serverless
7 162 (11.76%) GitHub Copilot
8 134 (9.73%) Amazon S3
9 125 (9.08%) Amazon EKS
10 120 (8.71%) AWS Lambda
11 103 (7.48%) Azure Monitor
12 101 (7.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 88 (6.39%) Entra ID
14 87 (6.32%) Power Platform
15 76 (5.52%) Snowflake
16 75 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
17 72 (5.23%) Azure AKS
18 64 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
19 63 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
20 56 (4.07%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 69 (5.01%) DNS
2 67 (4.87%) Firewall
3 47 (3.41%) VPN
4 37 (2.69%) Network Security
5 23 (1.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 23 (1.67%) VLAN
6 22 (1.60%) BGP
6 22 (1.60%) TCP/IP
7 16 (1.16%) SSL
8 15 (1.09%) BIG-IP
8 15 (1.09%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 14 (1.02%) DHCP
10 12 (0.87%) OSPF
10 12 (0.87%) Wireless
11 11 (0.80%) Ethernet VPN
11 11 (0.80%) VXLAN
12 10 (0.73%) NX-OS
13 8 (0.58%) IPsec
13 8 (0.58%) TACACS
14 7 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (6.32%) SQL Server
3 79 (5.74%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.72%) NoSQL
5 61 (4.43%) Power BI
6 56 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
7 50 (3.63%) Redis
8 49 (3.56%) Data Lake
9 45 (3.27%) Relational Database
10 39 (2.83%) DynamoDB
11 34 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
11 34 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
12 31 (2.25%) Delta Lake
13 28 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
13 28 (2.03%) MySQL
14 27 (1.96%) BigQuery
15 24 (1.74%) Metadata
16 20 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
17 19 (1.38%) Big Data
18 18 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 389 (28.25%) Jenkins
2 291 (21.13%) GitLab
3 281 (20.41%) Git
4 155 (11.26%) JIRA
5 68 (4.94%) Selenium
6 63 (4.58%) JUnit
7 60 (4.36%) SonarQube
8 51 (3.70%) Cucumber
9 46 (3.34%) Bitbucket
10 42 (3.05%) Gatling
11 38 (2.76%) Claude Code
12 36 (2.61%) Gradle
13 34 (2.47%) Cypress.io
13 34 (2.47%) JMeter
14 32 (2.32%) Maven
15 30 (2.18%) Postman
16 28 (2.03%) CircleCI
17 27 (1.96%) REST Assured
18 24 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
19 23 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 342 (24.84%) Social Skills
2 284 (20.62%) Finance
3 146 (10.60%) Public Sector
4 136 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (6.39%) Banking
6 48 (3.49%) Retail
7 43 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (1.53%) Legal
10 17 (1.23%) Law
10 17 (1.23%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.02%) Aerospace
13 13 (0.94%) Marketing
13 13 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (0.80%) Local Government
14 11 (0.80%) Military
15 10 (0.73%) Investment Banking
15 10 (0.73%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 277 (20.12%) Senior
2 254 (18.45%) Developer
3 169 (12.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 124 (9.01%) Architect
5 117 (8.50%) Lead
6 99 (7.19%) Data Engineer
7 78 (5.66%) AWS Engineer
8 74 (5.37%) Platform Engineer
9 69 (5.01%) Azure Engineer
10 67 (4.87%) Cloud Engineer
10 67 (4.87%) Senior Developer
11 64 (4.65%) Software Engineer
12 62 (4.50%) Java Developer
13 50 (3.63%) Senior DevOps
14 49 (3.56%) Full-Stack Developer
15 46 (3.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 44 (3.20%) Test Engineer
17 40 (2.90%) Automation Engineer
18 39 (2.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 38 (2.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 649 (47.13%) Terraform
2 241 (17.50%) REST
3 150 (10.89%) Kafka
4 140 (10.17%) RESTful
5 125 (9.08%) Spring
6 120 (8.71%) .NET
7 115 (8.35%) React
8 107 (7.77%) Spring Boot
9 84 (6.10%) Playwright
10 67 (4.87%) Node.js
11 57 (4.14%) OAuth
12 53 (3.85%) JSON
13 51 (3.70%) HTML
14 49 (3.56%) FastAPI
15 48 (3.49%) YAML
16 44 (3.20%) OAuth2
16 44 (3.20%) PySpark
17 39 (2.83%) GraphQL
18 38 (2.76%) AngularJS
18 38 (2.76%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 292 (21.21%) Cloud Native
2 101 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
3 84 (6.10%) AI Agents
4 73 (5.30%) Product Ownership
5 54 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (3.56%) Data Centre
7 41 (2.98%) Onboarding
8 38 (2.76%) Mobile App
9 33 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 29 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
11 25 (1.82%) Security Posture
11 25 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.74%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.60%) Public Cloud
14 20 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
14 20 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
14 20 (1.45%) Low-Code
15 17 (1.23%) Algorithms
15 17 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (1.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 127 (9.22%) Linux
2 62 (4.50%) Windows
3 31 (2.25%) Unix
4 27 (1.96%) Android
5 25 (1.82%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.45%) Windows Server
7 19 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.58%) VMS
9 6 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.29%) CentOS
11 2 (0.15%) AIX
11 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.15%) Debian
11 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.15%) MVS
11 2 (0.15%) Rocky
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 (75.67%) CI/CD
2 800 (58.10%) DevOps
3 563 (40.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 504 (36.60%) Agile
5 353 (25.64%) Observability
6 347 (25.20%) AI
7 339 (24.62%) Test Automation
8 281 (20.41%) Containerisation
9 266 (19.32%) Microservices
10 240 (17.43%) Software Engineering
11 205 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 205 (14.89%) Platform Engineering
12 181 (13.14%) Event-Driven
13 175 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
14 172 (12.49%) Stakeholder Management
15 151 (10.97%) Analytics
16 146 (10.60%) Technical Leadership
17 139 (10.09%) Scrum
18 131 (9.51%) Data Modelling
19 126 (9.15%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 613 (44.52%) Python
2 307 (22.29%) SQL
3 270 (19.61%) Java
4 178 (12.93%) Bash
5 176 (12.78%) PowerShell
6 156 (11.33%) TypeScript
7 144 (10.46%) JavaScript
8 128 (9.30%) C#
9 96 (6.97%) Bicep
10 48 (3.49%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.12%) Go
12 33 (2.40%) Shell Script
13 28 (2.03%) Scala
14 19 (1.38%) Swift
15 17 (1.23%) Ruby
16 16 (1.16%) ActionScript
17 12 (0.87%) C
18 11 (0.80%) Objective-C
19 10 (0.73%) Groovy
19 10 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 402 (29.19%) Security Cleared
2 348 (25.27%) SC Cleared
3 65 (4.72%) Azure Certification
4 62 (4.50%) Degree
5 46 (3.34%) AWS Certification
6 40 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 40 (2.90%) DV Cleared
7 36 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
12 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (0.65%) CISSP
13 9 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 8 (0.58%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 6 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (14.52%) QA
2 80 (5.81%) Accessibility
3 79 (5.74%) Data Quality
4 32 (2.32%) WCAG
5 27 (1.96%) GDPR
6 25 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.67%) NIST
8 12 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.80%) NCSC
10 8 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.44%) GRC
11 6 (0.44%) PSD2
12 5 (0.36%) HL7
12 5 (0.36%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.36%) SEPA
13 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.15%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.073%) IFRS
System Software
1 432 (31.37%) Docker
2 45 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.80%) IAG
5 11 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.44%) vSphere
8 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.29%) NFS
9 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.15%) Firmware
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.15%) SRDF
10 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 488 (35.44%) Kubernetes
2 207 (15.03%) Ansible
3 184 (13.36%) Grafana
4 143 (10.38%) Prometheus
5 51 (3.70%) Argo
6 22 (1.60%) Puppet
7 20 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (1.31%) Progress Chef
9 16 (1.16%) Packer
10 13 (0.94%) Control-M
10 13 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (0.80%) Kibana
12 8 (0.58%) Istio
12 8 (0.58%) Karpenter
13 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.51%) SCCM
14 5 (0.36%) HAProxy
14 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.36%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 257 (18.66%) Microsoft
2 106 (7.70%) Databricks
3 93 (6.75%) Splunk
4 92 (6.68%) Google
5 62 (4.50%) Dynatrace
6 53 (3.85%) Oracle
7 49 (3.56%) OpenAI
8 48 (3.49%) ServiceNow
9 38 (2.76%) VMware
10 37 (2.69%) Cisco
11 29 (2.11%) Red Hat
12 28 (2.03%) Foundry
12 28 (2.03%) Salesforce
13 27 (1.96%) IBM
14 24 (1.74%) F5
15 23 (1.67%) New Relic
16 17 (1.23%) Informatica
16 17 (1.23%) Palo Alto
17 15 (1.09%) SAP
18 14 (1.02%) Checkmarx