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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 107 136
Rank change year-on-year +21 +29 -6
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,363 694 590
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 2.52% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.53% 6.76% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 924 478 392
10th Percentile £400 £363 £310
25th Percentile £450 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -8.70%
75th Percentile £627 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £699
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 34
10th Percentile £46.25 - £41.75
25th Percentile £56.32 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.87% +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% -8.20%

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 15,974 10,263 11,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.01% 37.20% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,659 6,965 7,964
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £422 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 267 239
10th Percentile £16.30 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.71 £26.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +37.35% +9.24% -27.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £52.45
90th Percentile £83.67 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.15
% change year-on-year +26.67% +14.41% -31.00%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +24 794 £550 - 536
North of England +22 255 £500 +2.04% 179
Yorkshire +24 176 £500 - 62
Midlands +4 109 £496 +4.45% 70
West Midlands -3 99 £492 +3.63% 43
South East -46 82 £525 +10.53% 159
South West +4 71 £500 -16.67% 66
North West -19 64 £589 +25.48% 93
East of England -2 32 £505 -8.18% 54
North East -30 17 £450 -5.26% 25
East Midlands -10 9 £500 +1.01% 27
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
1 125 (9.17%) Confluence
2 47 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (2.71%) SharePoint
4 21 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.47%) Apache
6 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.51%) nginx
8 6 (0.44%) Tuxedo
9 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.15%) CMS
10 2 (0.15%) Mendix
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
10 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.073%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (0.66%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.29%) Trello
6 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.073%) Notion
7 1 (0.073%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.37%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.22%) Findur
3 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.22%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 733 (53.78%) GitHub Actions
2 691 (50.70%) Azure
3 623 (45.71%) AWS
4 402 (29.49%) Azure DevOps
5 209 (15.33%) GCP
6 161 (11.81%) Serverless
7 132 (9.68%) Amazon S3
8 118 (8.66%) AWS Lambda
9 113 (8.29%) Amazon EKS
9 113 (8.29%) GitHub Copilot
10 100 (7.34%) Azure Monitor
11 97 (7.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 86 (6.31%) Power Platform
13 81 (5.94%) Azure AKS
14 76 (5.58%) Entra ID
15 75 (5.50%) Amazon EC2
16 72 (5.28%) Amazon ECS
17 70 (5.14%) AWS CloudFormation
18 58 (4.26%) Snowflake
19 53 (3.89%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 70 (5.14%) Firewall
2 65 (4.77%) DNS
3 57 (4.18%) VPN
4 30 (2.20%) Network Security
5 18 (1.32%) TCP/IP
6 17 (1.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 16 (1.17%) VLAN
8 14 (1.03%) SSL
9 10 (0.73%) BGP
10 9 (0.66%) BIG-IP
10 9 (0.66%) DHCP
10 9 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 9 (0.66%) OSPF
10 9 (0.66%) WAN
10 9 (0.66%) Wireless
11 8 (0.59%) IPsec
12 7 (0.51%) HTTP
12 7 (0.51%) Internet
13 6 (0.44%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (8.07%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (6.68%) SQL Server
3 74 (5.43%) NoSQL
4 63 (4.62%) Power BI
5 61 (4.48%) MongoDB
6 54 (3.96%) Data Lake
7 46 (3.37%) DynamoDB
7 46 (3.37%) Relational Database
8 40 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
9 39 (2.86%) Redis
10 37 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 37 (2.71%) Delta Lake
11 35 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
12 32 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 26 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
14 24 (1.76%) Metadata
15 21 (1.54%) Big Data
15 21 (1.54%) BigQuery
16 16 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
16 16 (1.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 419 (30.74%) Jenkins
2 288 (21.13%) GitLab
3 260 (19.08%) Git
4 179 (13.13%) JIRA
5 74 (5.43%) Selenium
6 73 (5.36%) JUnit
7 55 (4.04%) Cucumber
8 47 (3.45%) Bitbucket
8 47 (3.45%) SonarQube
9 41 (3.01%) Cypress.io
10 37 (2.71%) Gatling
10 37 (2.71%) JMeter
11 36 (2.64%) Gradle
12 33 (2.42%) REST Assured
13 32 (2.35%) Maven
14 31 (2.27%) CircleCI
15 28 (2.05%) Postman
16 26 (1.91%) Claude Code
17 23 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
18 21 (1.54%) WebDriver
General
1 336 (24.65%) Social Skills
2 257 (18.86%) Finance
3 154 (11.30%) Public Sector
4 111 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (5.87%) Banking
6 42 (3.08%) Retail
7 29 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.76%) Legal
9 23 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.17%) Law
12 15 (1.10%) Investment Banking
13 14 (1.03%) Telecoms
14 13 (0.95%) Military
15 12 (0.88%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.66%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.59%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.59%) Marketing
17 8 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 254 (18.64%) Senior
2 242 (17.75%) Developer
3 174 (12.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 122 (8.95%) Architect
4 122 (8.95%) Lead
5 100 (7.34%) Data Engineer
6 80 (5.87%) AWS Engineer
7 74 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
8 72 (5.28%) Cloud Engineer
9 65 (4.77%) Azure Engineer
10 64 (4.70%) Senior Developer
11 61 (4.48%) Software Engineer
12 60 (4.40%) Java Developer
13 46 (3.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 46 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
14 44 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
15 43 (3.15%) Test Engineer
16 42 (3.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 36 (2.64%) Network Engineer
17 36 (2.64%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (15.11%) REST
2 127 (9.32%) RESTful
3 126 (9.24%) Spring
4 125 (9.17%) Kafka
5 116 (8.51%) .NET
6 113 (8.29%) React
7 96 (7.04%) Spring Boot
8 83 (6.09%) Playwright
9 66 (4.84%) Node.js
10 53 (3.89%) PySpark
11 44 (3.23%) OAuth
12 41 (3.01%) AngularJS
13 40 (2.93%) .NET Framework
13 40 (2.93%) OpenTelemetry
14 37 (2.71%) HTML
14 37 (2.71%) YAML
15 36 (2.64%) FastAPI
15 36 (2.64%) JSON
15 36 (2.64%) OAuth2
16 32 (2.35%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 290 (21.28%) Cloud Native
2 120 (8.80%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 48 (3.52%) AI Agents
5 40 (2.93%) Mobile App
6 37 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 35 (2.57%) Data Centre
8 34 (2.49%) Onboarding
9 29 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
10 25 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
10 25 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (1.54%) Security Posture
12 20 (1.47%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
12 20 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (1.17%) Algorithms
15 15 (1.10%) NHS
15 15 (1.10%) Private Cloud
15 15 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 123 (9.02%) Linux
2 63 (4.62%) Windows
3 33 (2.42%) Android
4 31 (2.27%) Apple iOS
5 29 (2.13%) Unix
6 21 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (1.47%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.66%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.37%) VMS
10 4 (0.29%) Debian
10 4 (0.29%) Rocky
11 3 (0.22%) CentOS
12 2 (0.15%) AIX
12 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.15%) MVS
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,026 (75.28%) CI/CD
2 808 (59.28%) DevOps
3 549 (40.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 485 (35.58%) Agile
5 351 (25.75%) Test Automation
6 329 (24.14%) Observability
7 303 (22.23%) Containerisation
8 275 (20.18%) AI
9 268 (19.66%) Microservices
10 212 (15.55%) Platform Engineering
10 212 (15.55%) Software Engineering
11 200 (14.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 165 (12.11%) Analytics
13 161 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
14 159 (11.67%) Event-Driven
15 128 (9.39%) Technical Leadership
16 126 (9.24%) Data Pipeline
16 126 (9.24%) DevSecOps
17 119 (8.73%) Stakeholder Management
18 118 (8.66%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 576 (42.26%) Python
2 320 (23.48%) SQL
3 257 (18.86%) Java
4 198 (14.53%) Bash
5 172 (12.62%) PowerShell
6 142 (10.42%) C#
7 135 (9.90%) TypeScript
8 134 (9.83%) JavaScript
9 88 (6.46%) Bicep
10 47 (3.45%) Kotlin
11 44 (3.23%) Go
12 30 (2.20%) Shell Script
13 28 (2.05%) Scala
14 23 (1.69%) Ruby
14 23 (1.69%) Swift
15 14 (1.03%) Groovy
16 11 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.66%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.66%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.66%) C
Qualifications
1 425 (31.18%) Security Cleared
2 372 (27.29%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.55%) Azure Certification
3 62 (4.55%) Degree
4 47 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 40 (2.93%) DV Cleared
6 36 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 31 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.81%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 9 (0.66%) CISSP
14 9 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 8 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (0.44%) CCNP
17 5 (0.37%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (12.84%) QA
2 76 (5.58%) Data Quality
3 66 (4.84%) Accessibility
4 34 (2.49%) GDPR
5 24 (1.76%) WCAG
6 23 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.95%) NIST
8 10 (0.73%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.59%) GRC
10 7 (0.51%) NCSC
11 5 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.37%) HL7
11 5 (0.37%) PSD2
12 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.29%) SEPA
13 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.073%) OpenSCAP
14 1 (0.073%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 418 (30.67%) Docker
2 45 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.17%) vSphere
6 13 (0.95%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.81%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.59%) IAG
9 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.29%) NFS
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%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 649 (47.62%) Terraform
2 483 (35.44%) Kubernetes
3 200 (14.67%) Ansible
4 180 (13.21%) Grafana
5 154 (11.30%) Prometheus
6 62 (4.55%) Argo
7 28 (2.05%) Puppet
8 20 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.32%) Packer
9 18 (1.32%) Progress Chef
10 15 (1.10%) Istio
11 13 (0.95%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.73%) Kibana
13 9 (0.66%) Control-M
13 9 (0.66%) HAProxy
13 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (0.66%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.44%) SCCM
16 5 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 248 (18.20%) Microsoft
2 95 (6.97%) Databricks
3 94 (6.90%) Google
4 86 (6.31%) Splunk
5 52 (3.82%) Oracle
6 49 (3.60%) Dynatrace
7 38 (2.79%) VMware
8 33 (2.42%) Red Hat
8 33 (2.42%) Salesforce
9 30 (2.20%) ServiceNow
10 29 (2.13%) OpenAI
11 22 (1.61%) Cisco
11 22 (1.61%) Informatica
12 19 (1.39%) F5
13 18 (1.32%) Palo Alto
14 17 (1.25%) Checkmarx
14 17 (1.25%) Foundry
14 17 (1.25%) SAP
15 14 (1.03%) IBM
15 14 (1.03%) Zscaler