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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 131 154
Rank change year-on-year +51 +23 -13
Contract jobs citing GitHub 906 609 703
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.22% 1.91% 1.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.34% 5.42% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 405 486
10th Percentile £360 £314 £425
25th Percentile £413 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £635 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £685 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 32 4
10th Percentile £69.00 £66.25 £75.38
25th Percentile £80.63 - £75.94
Median hourly rate £105.00 £70.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -9.68% +10.71%
75th Percentile £110.00 - £79.06
90th Percentile - - £79.63
UK median hourly rate £105.00 £70.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year +50.00% -9.68% +10.71%

All Cloud 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 10,867 11,238 14,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.63% 35.17% 35.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,349 7,492 10,591
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 158 293
10th Percentile £14.99 £16.21 £14.54
25th Percentile £18.51 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £67.03 £70.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.41
% change year-on-year -28.14% +7.99% +44.04%

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 14 October 2025.

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 14 October 2025.

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 14 October 2025. 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 +52 528 £550 - 335
North of England +18 140 £478 +6.11% 167
Yorkshire -6 72 £500 +8.11% 53
Midlands +38 69 £575 +6.98% 100
South East +46 67 £450 - 218
West Midlands +30 59 £578 +10.17% 67
North West +27 57 £430 +30.70% 96
South West -6 53 £650 +1.96% 62
East of England -6 15 £550 - 56
North East +1 13 £481 - 21
East Midlands -3 10 £475 -23.94% 33
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 76 (8.39%) Confluence
2 61 (6.73%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (1.66%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.99%) nginx
4 9 (0.99%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.88%) Apache
6 6 (0.66%) Mule
7 5 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.55%) SAS
8 4 (0.44%) CMS
9 3 (0.33%) JBoss
9 3 (0.33%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.33%) WordPress
10 2 (0.22%) CICS
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.22%) Traefik
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Luigi
Applications
1 17 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.22%) Trello
5 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.11%) InDesign
5 1 (0.11%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.11%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (0.33%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.22%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.11%) Endur
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.11%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 455 (50.22%) AWS
2 413 (45.58%) GitHub Actions
3 364 (40.18%) Azure
4 175 (19.32%) GCP
5 154 (17.00%) Azure DevOps
6 121 (13.36%) Serverless
7 90 (9.93%) Amazon S3
8 81 (8.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 76 (8.39%) AWS Lambda
10 59 (6.51%) Amazon ECS
11 49 (5.41%) OpenShift
12 48 (5.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 42 (4.64%) Amazon EC2
14 39 (4.30%) Amazon EKS
14 39 (4.30%) Datadog
15 35 (3.86%) GitHub Copilot
15 35 (3.86%) Power Platform
16 34 (3.75%) Entra ID
17 33 (3.64%) Azure AKS
17 33 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.19%) DNS
2 32 (3.53%) Firewall
3 25 (2.76%) VPN
4 18 (1.99%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.21%) WAN
6 10 (1.10%) Network Security
7 8 (0.88%) SSL
8 7 (0.77%) HTTP
8 7 (0.77%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (0.55%) OpenLDAP
10 5 (0.55%) SSH
11 4 (0.44%) BGP
11 4 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
11 4 (0.44%) LAN
11 4 (0.44%) Multicast
11 4 (0.44%) OSPF
12 3 (0.33%) Fibre Channel
12 3 (0.33%) Internet
12 3 (0.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (12.14%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (5.96%) Amazon RDS
2 54 (5.96%) NoSQL
3 38 (4.19%) MongoDB
4 37 (4.08%) SQL Server
5 34 (3.75%) Relational Database
6 32 (3.53%) Redis
7 29 (3.20%) DynamoDB
8 27 (2.98%) Power BI
9 25 (2.76%) BigQuery
10 23 (2.54%) Delta Lake
10 23 (2.54%) MySQL
11 22 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
12 19 (2.10%) Data Lake
13 17 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
14 16 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
15 15 (1.66%) Big Data
16 12 (1.32%) RDBMS
17 11 (1.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 248 (27.37%) Jenkins
2 208 (22.96%) Git
3 154 (17.00%) GitLab
4 141 (15.56%) JIRA
5 52 (5.74%) SonarQube
6 45 (4.97%) CircleCI
7 42 (4.64%) Gradle
8 39 (4.30%) Cypress.io
9 35 (3.86%) Bitbucket
10 34 (3.75%) Sonatype Nexus
11 33 (3.64%) JUnit
12 32 (3.53%) Artifactory
13 30 (3.31%) Maven
14 28 (3.09%) Cucumber
15 22 (2.43%) Selenium
16 20 (2.21%) Postman
17 17 (1.88%) Snyk
18 16 (1.77%) SpecFlow
19 15 (1.66%) TeamCity
20 14 (1.55%) Metasploit
General
1 230 (25.39%) Social Skills
2 139 (15.34%) Finance
3 101 (11.15%) Public Sector
4 68 (7.51%) Banking
5 66 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (1.77%) Investment Banking
8 15 (1.66%) Marketing
8 15 (1.66%) Military
9 14 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (1.21%) Aerospace
11 9 (0.99%) Front Office
11 9 (0.99%) Retail
12 8 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (0.88%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.77%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.55%) Games
14 5 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.55%) Legal
15 4 (0.44%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 214 (23.62%) Developer
2 139 (15.34%) Senior
3 132 (14.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 80 (8.83%) Architect
5 70 (7.73%) AWS Engineer
6 62 (6.84%) Data Engineer
7 50 (5.52%) Lead
8 48 (5.30%) Software Engineer
9 46 (5.08%) Senior Developer
10 42 (4.64%) AWS DevOps
11 40 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
11 40 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
12 35 (3.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 32 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
13 32 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
14 31 (3.42%) Java Developer
15 30 (3.31%) DevSecOps Engineer
16 29 (3.20%) Python Developer
16 29 (3.20%) Security Engineer
17 26 (2.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (12.36%) REST
2 97 (10.71%) React
3 89 (9.82%) Node.js
4 75 (8.28%) Kafka
5 74 (8.17%) RESTful
6 71 (7.84%) .NET
7 64 (7.06%) HTML
8 57 (6.29%) AngularJS
9 49 (5.41%) CSS
10 45 (4.97%) Spring
11 43 (4.75%) YAML
12 39 (4.30%) Playwright
13 37 (4.08%) FastAPI
13 37 (4.08%) OAuth
14 35 (3.86%) GraphQL
14 35 (3.86%) Spring Boot
15 32 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
15 32 (3.53%) JSON
16 28 (3.09%) pytest
17 27 (2.98%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 140 (15.45%) Cloud Native
2 32 (3.53%) Public Cloud
3 29 (3.20%) Data Protection Act
4 28 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 23 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (1.99%) Algorithms
8 17 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.88%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.55%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.43%) PKI
11 12 (1.32%) Clustering
12 11 (1.21%) Genomics
12 11 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
12 11 (1.21%) Life Science
12 11 (1.21%) Replication
13 10 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (0.99%) Private Cloud
15 8 (0.88%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 113 (12.47%) Linux
2 39 (4.30%) Windows
3 28 (3.09%) Unix
4 25 (2.76%) Android
5 13 (1.43%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.88%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.66%) Solaris
8 5 (0.55%) CentOS
9 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.22%) VMS
10 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.22%) zOS
11 1 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.11%) MVS
11 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 601 (66.34%) CI/CD
2 485 (53.53%) DevOps
3 322 (35.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 320 (35.32%) Agile
5 215 (23.73%) Containerisation
6 180 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
7 168 (18.54%) Microservices
8 147 (16.23%) Test Automation
9 134 (14.79%) AI
10 120 (13.25%) Migration
11 117 (12.91%) Software Engineering
12 103 (11.37%) Scrum
13 101 (11.15%) Observability
14 98 (10.82%) Full-Stack Development
15 88 (9.71%) TDD
16 85 (9.38%) Data Pipeline
17 80 (8.83%) DevSecOps
18 78 (8.61%) Analytics
19 70 (7.73%) Infrastructure Automation
20 67 (7.40%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 394 (43.49%) Python
2 189 (20.86%) SQL
3 159 (17.55%) Java
4 135 (14.90%) TypeScript
5 133 (14.68%) JavaScript
6 113 (12.47%) Bash
7 77 (8.50%) PowerShell
8 76 (8.39%) Go
9 75 (8.28%) C#
10 39 (4.30%) Bicep
11 34 (3.75%) Shell Script
12 25 (2.76%) Kotlin
13 23 (2.54%) Groovy
14 20 (2.21%) Ruby
15 18 (1.99%) C++
16 16 (1.77%) PHP
17 9 (0.99%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.99%) Perl
17 9 (0.99%) Scala
18 8 (0.88%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 241 (26.60%) Security Cleared
2 196 (21.63%) SC Cleared
3 86 (9.49%) Degree
4 47 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (3.97%) DV Cleared
6 30 (3.31%) AWS Certification
7 26 (2.87%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.66%) OSCP
9 14 (1.55%) CREST Certified
10 13 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.43%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.43%) Tigerscheme
11 12 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.21%) MCP
13 10 (1.10%) CHECK Team Member
14 6 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 6 (0.66%) CISSP
15 4 (0.44%) OCP
15 4 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.51%) QA
2 40 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.64%) GDPR
4 32 (3.53%) NIST
5 30 (3.31%) Accessibility
6 27 (2.98%) NCSC
7 26 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.43%) EU AI Act
9 10 (1.10%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.99%) WCAG
11 8 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.77%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.55%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.44%) GRC
16 3 (0.33%) Def Stans
16 3 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.33%) ITGC
16 3 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 273 (30.13%) Docker
2 34 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.55%) NFS
8 4 (0.44%) Veritas File System
8 4 (0.44%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 3 (0.33%) QEMU
9 3 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.33%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.22%) Ceph
10 2 (0.22%) Firmware
10 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.22%) KVM
10 2 (0.22%) vSphere
11 1 (0.11%) SRDF
11 1 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 385 (42.49%) Terraform
2 323 (35.65%) Kubernetes
3 117 (12.91%) Ansible
4 110 (12.14%) Grafana
5 103 (11.37%) Prometheus
6 45 (4.97%) Puppet
7 31 (3.42%) Argo
8 21 (2.32%) Progress Chef
9 16 (1.77%) Istio
10 15 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (1.55%) Nmap
12 11 (1.21%) Packer
13 10 (1.10%) Podman
14 7 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.77%) NetBackup
15 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
16 4 (0.44%) HP Fortify
16 4 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
16 4 (0.44%) QRadar
16 4 (0.44%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 120 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 84 (9.27%) Google
3 57 (6.29%) Splunk
4 47 (5.19%) Databricks
5 36 (3.97%) Red Hat
6 32 (3.53%) VMware
7 27 (2.98%) Oracle
8 21 (2.32%) Atlassian
9 19 (2.10%) Salesforce
10 17 (1.88%) Veracode
11 15 (1.66%) OpenAI
12 13 (1.43%) Cisco
12 13 (1.43%) Foundry
13 10 (1.10%) CyberArk
13 10 (1.10%) IBM
13 10 (1.10%) NetApp
13 10 (1.10%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.99%) Okta
15 8 (0.88%) Qualys
16 7 (0.77%) Commvault