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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 132 165
Rank change year-on-year +58 +33 -46
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,248 512 518
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.18% 2.10% 1.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.84% 5.57% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 894 358 349
10th Percentile £358 £386 £388
25th Percentile £413 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.77% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £619 £630 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £676
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 -
25th Percentile £46.00 £25.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £27.38 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +126.48% -15.77% -40.91%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.44 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 £60.30
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +104.57% -15.77% -40.37%

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 14,115 9,184 11,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.01% 37.65% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,742 6,440 8,523
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 187 318
10th Percentile £15.77 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.86
Median hourly rate £43.61 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +64.57% +27.59% -24.47%
75th Percentile £67.84 £42.49 £32.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.20 £59.97
UK median hourly rate £40.64 £27.50 £20.99
% change year-on-year +47.78% +31.05% -30.91%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 +38 712 £545 -2.90% 211
North of England +41 205 £500 +0.10% 121
Yorkshire +22 129 £477 -13.27% 44
South East +8 101 £454 -9.20% 98
Midlands +14 88 £500 +5.26% 43
South West +26 76 £525 -2.33% 46
West Midlands -1 71 £525 +13.51% 16
North West -6 66 £525 +10.53% 58
East of England -18 26 £500 -9.09% 45
East Midlands -15 16 £402 -19.60% 27
North East -9 12 £525 +44.83% 19
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
1 107 (8.57%) Confluence
2 43 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (2.64%) SharePoint
4 28 (2.24%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.12%) Apache
5 14 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.64%) nginx
7 7 (0.56%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.32%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.16%) SAS
10 2 (0.16%) WordPress
11 1 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.080%) Appian
11 1 (0.080%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.080%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.080%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.080%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.080%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.080%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.32%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.24%) Findur
4 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.080%) Actimize
5 1 (0.080%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.080%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.080%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 638 (51.12%) GitHub Actions
2 578 (46.31%) Azure
3 562 (45.03%) AWS
4 307 (24.60%) Azure DevOps
5 195 (15.63%) Serverless
6 177 (14.18%) GCP
7 136 (10.90%) AWS Lambda
8 114 (9.13%) Amazon S3
9 104 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 99 (7.93%) Power Platform
11 94 (7.53%) Amazon EKS
12 84 (6.73%) Amazon ECS
12 84 (6.73%) Azure Data Factory
13 80 (6.41%) Azure Monitor
14 77 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 75 (6.01%) Azure AKS
16 73 (5.85%) GitHub Copilot
17 67 (5.37%) Entra ID
18 60 (4.81%) OpenShift
19 54 (4.33%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 58 (4.65%) Firewall
2 55 (4.41%) DNS
3 31 (2.48%) VPN
4 30 (2.40%) Network Security
5 14 (1.12%) HTTP
6 9 (0.72%) SSL
7 7 (0.56%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.56%) Modbus
7 7 (0.56%) RS-232
7 7 (0.56%) RS-485
8 6 (0.48%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.40%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.32%) DSL
10 4 (0.32%) Internet
10 4 (0.32%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.32%) WAN
11 3 (0.24%) NAS
11 3 (0.24%) SAN
12 2 (0.16%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (11.38%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (6.49%) NoSQL
3 75 (6.01%) Data Lake
4 63 (5.05%) SQL Server
5 60 (4.81%) Power BI
6 59 (4.73%) DynamoDB
7 49 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 48 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
9 47 (3.77%) MongoDB
10 46 (3.69%) Relational Database
11 41 (3.29%) Delta Lake
12 36 (2.88%) Redis
13 30 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
13 30 (2.40%) MySQL
14 25 (2.00%) Big Data
15 23 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
16 19 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (1.52%) Metadata
17 15 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
18 13 (1.04%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 374 (29.97%) Jenkins
2 244 (19.55%) Git
3 235 (18.83%) GitLab
4 164 (13.14%) JIRA
5 87 (6.97%) JUnit
6 52 (4.17%) Cucumber
6 52 (4.17%) Selenium
7 40 (3.21%) Cypress.io
7 40 (3.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 38 (3.04%) Artifactory
9 37 (2.96%) JMeter
10 34 (2.72%) SonarQube
11 33 (2.64%) Bitbucket
12 32 (2.56%) CircleCI
12 32 (2.56%) Postman
13 31 (2.48%) Gradle
14 25 (2.00%) Maven
15 21 (1.68%) MLflow
16 20 (1.60%) Gatling
17 19 (1.52%) Mockito
General
1 297 (23.80%) Social Skills
2 211 (16.91%) Finance
3 150 (12.02%) Public Sector
4 92 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (6.73%) Banking
6 21 (1.68%) Military
7 20 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (1.60%) Retail
8 17 (1.36%) Front Office
9 15 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.12%) Investment Banking
11 12 (0.96%) Legal
12 11 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.64%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.56%) Law
15 7 (0.56%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.48%) Marketing
16 6 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 257 (20.59%) Developer
2 196 (15.71%) Senior
3 174 (13.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 112 (8.97%) Data Engineer
5 98 (7.85%) Architect
6 97 (7.77%) Lead
7 84 (6.73%) Cloud Engineer
8 82 (6.57%) Platform Engineer
9 77 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
10 65 (5.21%) Azure Engineer
10 65 (5.21%) Full-Stack Developer
10 65 (5.21%) Java Developer
11 51 (4.09%) Software Engineer
12 47 (3.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 44 (3.53%) GCP Engineer
14 41 (3.29%) Senior Developer
15 38 (3.04%) AWS DevOps
16 36 (2.88%) Tester
17 33 (2.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 32 (2.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (10.98%) REST
2 136 (10.90%) Kafka
2 136 (10.90%) Spring
3 126 (10.10%) React
4 114 (9.13%) .NET
5 112 (8.97%) Node.js
6 104 (8.33%) Spring Boot
7 88 (7.05%) RESTful
8 64 (5.13%) Playwright
9 58 (4.65%) PySpark
10 57 (4.57%) AngularJS
11 43 (3.45%) JSON
12 41 (3.29%) OAuth
13 39 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
14 37 (2.96%) Jest
15 36 (2.88%) CSS
16 35 (2.80%) OpenTelemetry
17 33 (2.64%) HTML
18 30 (2.40%) .NET Framework
18 30 (2.40%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 217 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 75 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.16%) Public Cloud
6 24 (1.92%) AI Agents
6 24 (1.92%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.44%) Virtual Team
8 17 (1.36%) Security Posture
9 16 (1.28%) Mobile App
10 15 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.20%) NHS
11 12 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (0.96%) Private Cloud
12 11 (0.88%) Data Centre
12 11 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (0.88%) Replication
12 11 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.80%) Algorithms
13 10 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 140 (11.22%) Linux
2 43 (3.45%) Windows
3 28 (2.24%) Unix
4 22 (1.76%) Android
5 19 (1.52%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.12%) VMS
7 12 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.56%) FreeRTOS
8 7 (0.56%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.32%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.24%) Debian
10 3 (0.24%) Rocky
11 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.080%) CentOS
12 1 (0.080%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 918 (73.56%) CI/CD
2 727 (58.25%) DevOps
3 450 (36.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 386 (30.93%) Agile
5 299 (23.96%) Containerisation
6 273 (21.88%) Test Automation
7 239 (19.15%) Observability
8 236 (18.91%) AI
9 220 (17.63%) Microservices
10 200 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
11 183 (14.66%) Platform Engineering
12 179 (14.34%) Analytics
13 169 (13.54%) Migration
14 145 (11.62%) Continuous Improvement
15 133 (10.66%) Software Engineering
16 126 (10.10%) Data Pipeline
17 125 (10.02%) Data Engineering
17 125 (10.02%) Full-Stack Development
18 118 (9.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 117 (9.38%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 580 (46.47%) Python
2 301 (24.12%) SQL
3 250 (20.03%) Java
4 156 (12.50%) Bash
5 152 (12.18%) JavaScript
6 128 (10.26%) C#
7 126 (10.10%) TypeScript
8 118 (9.46%) PowerShell
9 62 (4.97%) Bicep
10 52 (4.17%) Go
11 32 (2.56%) Shell Script
12 25 (2.00%) Scala
13 23 (1.84%) Ruby
14 18 (1.44%) Kotlin
15 15 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
16 13 (1.04%) Swift
17 10 (0.80%) C++
18 9 (0.72%) C
19 8 (0.64%) Groovy
20 7 (0.56%) Korn
Qualifications
1 379 (30.37%) Security Cleared
2 302 (24.20%) SC Cleared
3 56 (4.49%) Degree
4 46 (3.69%) Azure Certification
5 37 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (2.80%) AWS Certification
6 35 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 33 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.12%) Master's Degree
10 12 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.88%) OCP
11 11 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
12 10 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (0.72%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (0.64%) CISSP
15 5 (0.40%) CCNP
16 4 (0.32%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (8.25%) QA
2 69 (5.53%) Data Quality
3 45 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 25 (2.00%) GDPR
5 24 (1.92%) WCAG
6 19 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.44%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.20%) NIST
9 11 (0.88%) NCSC
10 6 (0.48%) GRC
10 6 (0.48%) SLA
11 5 (0.40%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 372 (29.81%) Docker
2 35 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.68%) VMware NSX
5 21 (1.68%) vSphere
6 7 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.56%) Firmware
7 4 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.24%) HDFS
9 1 (0.080%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.080%) IAG
9 1 (0.080%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.080%) NFS
9 1 (0.080%) SRDF
9 1 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 559 (44.79%) Terraform
2 455 (36.46%) Kubernetes
3 184 (14.74%) Ansible
4 128 (10.26%) Grafana
5 92 (7.37%) Prometheus
6 64 (5.13%) Argo
7 38 (3.04%) Istio
8 22 (1.76%) Puppet
9 21 (1.68%) vCenter Server
10 19 (1.52%) Progress Chef
11 13 (1.04%) Packer
11 13 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (0.80%) Kibana
13 9 (0.72%) linkerd
13 9 (0.72%) NetBackup
14 5 (0.40%) Sysdig
15 4 (0.32%) HAProxy
15 4 (0.32%) Kubeflow
15 4 (0.32%) Podman
15 4 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 232 (18.59%) Microsoft
2 112 (8.97%) Databricks
3 92 (7.37%) Google
4 77 (6.17%) Splunk
5 47 (3.77%) VMware
6 46 (3.69%) Oracle
7 44 (3.53%) OpenAI
8 37 (2.96%) Red Hat
9 21 (1.68%) Pure Storage
10 20 (1.60%) Atlassian
10 20 (1.60%) ServiceNow
11 16 (1.28%) Salesforce
11 16 (1.28%) Sonatype
12 15 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 14 (1.12%) Checkmarx
13 14 (1.12%) SAP
14 12 (0.96%) Informatica
15 10 (0.80%) Foundry
16 8 (0.64%) Cloudera
16 8 (0.64%) New Relic