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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 129 168
Rank change year-on-year +59 +39 -46
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,280 507 516
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.35% 2.09% 1.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.15% 5.53% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 915 355 352
10th Percentile £360 £368 £391
25th Percentile £414 £455 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £623 £630 £625
90th Percentile £700 £745 £678
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -3.81% -0.94% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 5
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 -
25th Percentile £44.50 £25.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 £27.38 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +104.57% -15.77% -40.91%
75th Percentile £69.38 £58.44 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 £60.30
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +82.65% -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 13,995 9,174 12,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.58% 37.84% 32.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,640 6,466 8,691
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 180 323
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.43 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.73% +26.19% -18.75%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.23 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.76 £75.05 £61.20
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +41 727 £538 -4.87% 226
North of England +48 218 £500 +2.04% 145
Yorkshire +26 139 £481 -8.38% 64
South East +13 108 £473 -5.40% 123
Midlands +16 94 £514 +8.21% 55
South West +29 78 £538 +2.38% 55
West Midlands +4 78 £550 +18.92% 22
North West +5 68 £525 +10.53% 61
East of England -24 20 £500 -9.09% 53
East Midlands -20 15 £402 -19.60% 33
North East -2 13 £545 +50.34% 20
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
1 113 (8.83%) Confluence
2 47 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 29 (2.27%) Apache Spark
5 17 (1.33%) Apache
6 14 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.63%) nginx
7 8 (0.63%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.31%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.16%) WordPress
11 1 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.078%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.078%) Appian
11 1 (0.078%) SAS
11 1 (0.078%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.078%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.078%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.078%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.39%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.31%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.23%) Findur
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.078%) Actimize
5 1 (0.078%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.078%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 651 (50.86%) GitHub Actions
2 593 (46.33%) Azure
3 586 (45.78%) AWS
4 316 (24.69%) Azure DevOps
5 197 (15.39%) Serverless
6 188 (14.69%) GCP
7 140 (10.94%) AWS Lambda
8 116 (9.06%) Amazon S3
9 109 (8.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 97 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
11 95 (7.42%) Power Platform
12 89 (6.95%) Amazon ECS
13 86 (6.72%) Azure Data Factory
14 80 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 79 (6.17%) Azure Monitor
16 75 (5.86%) Azure AKS
17 69 (5.39%) Entra ID
18 68 (5.31%) OpenShift
19 67 (5.23%) GitHub Copilot
20 59 (4.61%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 66 (5.16%) Firewall
2 60 (4.69%) DNS
3 36 (2.81%) VPN
4 30 (2.34%) Network Security
5 14 (1.09%) HTTP
6 9 (0.70%) SD-WAN
6 9 (0.70%) SSL
6 9 (0.70%) WAN
7 8 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.55%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.55%) Modbus
8 7 (0.55%) RS-232
8 7 (0.55%) RS-485
9 6 (0.47%) Internet
9 6 (0.47%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.23%) DSL
12 2 (0.16%) BGP
12 2 (0.16%) NAS
12 2 (0.16%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (12.19%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (6.72%) NoSQL
3 76 (5.94%) Data Lake
4 63 (4.92%) SQL Server
5 59 (4.61%) DynamoDB
6 57 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
6 57 (4.45%) Power BI
7 51 (3.98%) MongoDB
8 50 (3.91%) Relational Database
9 48 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 41 (3.20%) Delta Lake
11 36 (2.81%) Redis
12 33 (2.58%) MySQL
13 28 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
14 24 (1.88%) Big Data
15 22 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
16 18 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (1.41%) Metadata
17 15 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
18 14 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 395 (30.86%) Jenkins
2 254 (19.84%) Git
3 252 (19.69%) GitLab
4 172 (13.44%) JIRA
5 87 (6.80%) JUnit
6 55 (4.30%) Cucumber
7 52 (4.06%) Selenium
8 44 (3.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 41 (3.20%) Artifactory
9 41 (3.20%) Cypress.io
10 39 (3.05%) JMeter
11 35 (2.73%) Bitbucket
12 33 (2.58%) Postman
13 32 (2.50%) CircleCI
13 32 (2.50%) Gradle
14 30 (2.34%) SonarQube
15 27 (2.11%) Maven
16 21 (1.64%) Gatling
16 21 (1.64%) MLflow
17 19 (1.48%) REST Assured
General
1 309 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 204 (15.94%) Finance
3 158 (12.34%) Public Sector
4 91 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (6.64%) Banking
6 21 (1.64%) Military
7 19 (1.48%) Retail
8 18 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.17%) Front Office
9 15 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (1.02%) Investment Banking
11 11 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (0.86%) Legal
12 9 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.55%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.55%) Law
13 7 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 259 (20.23%) Developer
2 199 (15.55%) Senior
3 182 (14.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 115 (8.98%) Data Engineer
5 99 (7.73%) Architect
6 98 (7.66%) Lead
7 88 (6.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 84 (6.56%) Platform Engineer
9 79 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
10 64 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
10 64 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 62 (4.84%) Java Developer
12 47 (3.67%) Software Engineer
13 46 (3.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 45 (3.52%) AWS DevOps
15 43 (3.36%) Senior Developer
16 40 (3.13%) GCP Engineer
17 37 (2.89%) Tester
18 35 (2.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 34 (2.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (11.33%) Kafka
2 144 (11.25%) REST
3 133 (10.39%) Spring
4 129 (10.08%) React
5 115 (8.98%) Node.js
6 108 (8.44%) .NET
7 99 (7.73%) Spring Boot
8 90 (7.03%) RESTful
9 67 (5.23%) Playwright
10 57 (4.45%) AngularJS
10 57 (4.45%) PySpark
11 48 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
12 45 (3.52%) CSS
13 44 (3.44%) JSON
14 42 (3.28%) OAuth
15 40 (3.13%) Jest
16 37 (2.89%) HTML
17 35 (2.73%) OpenTelemetry
18 33 (2.58%) FastAPI
19 32 (2.50%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 212 (16.56%) Cloud Native
2 73 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (4.45%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (2.27%) Public Cloud
6 20 (1.56%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.41%) AI Agents
7 18 (1.41%) Virtual Team
8 16 (1.25%) Security Posture
9 14 (1.09%) Algorithms
9 14 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.09%) Mobile App
9 14 (1.09%) NHS
10 12 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
11 11 (0.86%) Life Science
11 11 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
11 11 (0.86%) Replication
11 11 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 152 (11.88%) Linux
2 41 (3.20%) Windows
3 30 (2.34%) Unix
4 20 (1.56%) Android
5 17 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.09%) VMS
7 11 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
9 6 (0.47%) Windows Server
10 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.23%) Debian
12 3 (0.23%) Rocky
13 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.078%) Alpine Linux
14 1 (0.078%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 935 (73.05%) CI/CD
2 765 (59.77%) DevOps
3 458 (35.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 393 (30.70%) Agile
5 317 (24.77%) Containerisation
6 282 (22.03%) Test Automation
7 244 (19.06%) Observability
8 240 (18.75%) AI
9 223 (17.42%) Microservices
10 210 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
11 181 (14.14%) Analytics
12 178 (13.91%) Platform Engineering
13 175 (13.67%) Migration
14 150 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 135 (10.55%) Data Pipeline
16 128 (10.00%) Software Engineering
17 127 (9.92%) Full-Stack Development
18 126 (9.84%) Data Engineering
19 119 (9.30%) Data Modelling
20 115 (8.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 604 (47.19%) Python
2 308 (24.06%) SQL
3 252 (19.69%) Java
4 163 (12.73%) Bash
5 154 (12.03%) JavaScript
6 132 (10.31%) TypeScript
7 121 (9.45%) C#
7 121 (9.45%) PowerShell
8 61 (4.77%) Go
9 60 (4.69%) Bicep
10 34 (2.66%) Shell Script
11 26 (2.03%) Scala
12 23 (1.80%) Ruby
13 16 (1.25%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (0.94%) Swift
16 10 (0.78%) C++
16 10 (0.78%) Groovy
17 9 (0.70%) C
18 7 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 398 (31.09%) Security Cleared
2 313 (24.45%) SC Cleared
3 61 (4.77%) Degree
4 46 (3.59%) Azure Certification
5 43 (3.36%) DV Cleared
6 37 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (2.81%) AWS Certification
8 31 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.09%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.94%) OCP
11 12 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
12 11 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 9 (0.70%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 8 (0.63%) CISSP
16 5 (0.39%) CCNP
17 4 (0.31%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (7.73%) QA
2 68 (5.31%) Data Quality
3 45 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.03%) GDPR
5 25 (1.95%) WCAG
6 19 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.41%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.33%) NIST
9 14 (1.09%) NCSC
10 7 (0.55%) GRC
11 6 (0.47%) SLA
12 5 (0.39%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.23%) EU AI Act
13 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.16%) MiFID
14 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 391 (30.55%) Docker
2 35 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (1.72%) VMware NSX
5 21 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.64%) vSphere
6 7 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.55%) Firmware
7 3 (0.23%) HDFS
7 3 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.078%) IAG
9 1 (0.078%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 571 (44.61%) Terraform
2 474 (37.03%) Kubernetes
3 195 (15.23%) Ansible
4 143 (11.17%) Grafana
5 105 (8.20%) Prometheus
6 67 (5.23%) Argo
7 38 (2.97%) Istio
8 27 (2.11%) Puppet
9 22 (1.72%) Progress Chef
10 21 (1.64%) vCenter Server
11 13 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (0.94%) NetBackup
12 12 (0.94%) Packer
13 11 (0.86%) Kibana
14 9 (0.70%) linkerd
15 8 (0.63%) Podman
16 7 (0.55%) Sysdig
17 4 (0.31%) Kubeflow
17 4 (0.31%) logstash
17 4 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 232 (18.13%) Microsoft
2 111 (8.67%) Databricks
3 94 (7.34%) Google
4 82 (6.41%) Splunk
5 49 (3.83%) VMware
6 47 (3.67%) Oracle
7 42 (3.28%) OpenAI
7 42 (3.28%) Red Hat
8 21 (1.64%) Pure Storage
9 19 (1.48%) ServiceNow
10 18 (1.41%) Atlassian
11 16 (1.25%) Salesforce
11 16 (1.25%) Sonatype
12 15 (1.17%) Dynatrace
13 14 (1.09%) SAP
14 11 (0.86%) Commvault
14 11 (0.86%) Foundry
14 11 (0.86%) Informatica
15 10 (0.78%) Checkmarx
15 10 (0.78%) Cisco