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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 98 134
Rank change year-on-year +12 +36 -1
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,367 725 607
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 2.63% 1.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.57% 7.06% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 934 499 402
10th Percentile £400 £364 £310
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £630
90th Percentile £705 £734 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 34
10th Percentile £46.25 - £28.80
25th Percentile £58.43 £100.00 -
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% -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 15,947 10,270 11,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.92% 37.27% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,653 6,955 7,908
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £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 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 276 214
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.17 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -22.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.18 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.15%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +18 794 £550 - 206
North of England +21 260 £500 +2.30% 125
Yorkshire +23 176 £493 -1.50% 47
Midlands +7 110 £490 -2.54% 51
West Midlands -5 94 £500 -0.50% 26
South East -36 85 £525 +10.53% 120
South West -21 66 £500 -16.67% 59
North West -24 64 £563 +24.38% 58
East of England +8 33 £505 -8.18% 39
North East -21 22 £450 -5.26% 24
East Midlands -8 16 £400 -19.19% 25
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
1 116 (8.49%) Confluence
2 46 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 21 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.46%) Apache
6 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.51%) nginx
9 6 (0.44%) Tuxedo
10 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.15%) CMS
11 2 (0.15%) Mendix
11 2 (0.15%) SAS
12 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.073%) IIS
12 1 (0.073%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.51%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.44%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.29%) Trello
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.073%) Notion
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
4 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.073%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.073%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.073%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 744 (54.43%) GitHub Actions
2 702 (51.35%) Azure
3 627 (45.87%) AWS
4 402 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
5 212 (15.51%) GCP
6 171 (12.51%) Serverless
7 130 (9.51%) Amazon S3
8 122 (8.92%) AWS Lambda
9 118 (8.63%) GitHub Copilot
10 114 (8.34%) Amazon EKS
11 104 (7.61%) Azure Monitor
12 95 (6.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 86 (6.29%) Power Platform
14 83 (6.07%) Azure AKS
15 82 (6.00%) Entra ID
16 71 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
17 68 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
18 67 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
19 62 (4.54%) Snowflake
20 51 (3.73%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 69 (5.05%) Firewall
2 64 (4.68%) DNS
3 55 (4.02%) VPN
4 30 (2.19%) Network Security
5 20 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.32%) VLAN
7 17 (1.24%) BGP
7 17 (1.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 14 (1.02%) SSL
9 11 (0.80%) DHCP
10 9 (0.66%) BIG-IP
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%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (0.59%) IPsec
11 8 (0.59%) NX-OS
11 8 (0.59%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (8.34%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (6.51%) SQL Server
3 70 (5.12%) NoSQL
4 65 (4.75%) Power BI
5 64 (4.68%) MongoDB
6 50 (3.66%) Redis
7 49 (3.58%) Data Lake
8 46 (3.37%) Relational Database
9 44 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
10 43 (3.15%) DynamoDB
11 37 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
12 33 (2.41%) Delta Lake
13 32 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
14 31 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
15 25 (1.83%) Metadata
16 24 (1.76%) BigQuery
17 23 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
18 22 (1.61%) MySQL
19 21 (1.54%) Big Data
20 16 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 411 (30.07%) Jenkins
2 301 (22.02%) GitLab
3 265 (19.39%) Git
4 171 (12.51%) JIRA
5 68 (4.97%) Selenium
6 67 (4.90%) JUnit
7 49 (3.58%) Cucumber
8 46 (3.37%) Bitbucket
9 45 (3.29%) SonarQube
10 40 (2.93%) Cypress.io
11 38 (2.78%) JMeter
12 37 (2.71%) Gatling
13 36 (2.63%) Gradle
14 32 (2.34%) Maven
15 30 (2.19%) Postman
16 29 (2.12%) CircleCI
17 28 (2.05%) Claude Code
17 28 (2.05%) REST Assured
18 23 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
19 18 (1.32%) Snyk
General
1 332 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 270 (19.75%) Finance
3 154 (11.27%) Public Sector
4 116 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (6.22%) Banking
6 39 (2.85%) Retail
7 35 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (1.76%) Legal
10 17 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.17%) Law
12 14 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.95%) Investment Banking
14 12 (0.88%) Aerospace
15 11 (0.80%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.80%) Military
16 9 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.59%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.59%) Marketing
17 8 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 258 (18.87%) Senior
2 248 (18.14%) Developer
3 179 (13.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 124 (9.07%) Architect
5 121 (8.85%) Lead
6 102 (7.46%) Data Engineer
7 81 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
8 80 (5.85%) AWS Engineer
9 73 (5.34%) Cloud Engineer
10 67 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
11 64 (4.68%) Senior Developer
11 64 (4.68%) Software Engineer
12 62 (4.54%) Java Developer
13 48 (3.51%) Test Engineer
14 47 (3.44%) Senior DevOps
15 46 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
16 44 (3.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 43 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 39 (2.85%) Python Developer
19 38 (2.78%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 657 (48.06%) Terraform
2 226 (16.53%) REST
3 142 (10.39%) Kafka
4 134 (9.80%) RESTful
5 123 (9.00%) Spring
6 115 (8.41%) .NET
7 113 (8.27%) React
8 102 (7.46%) Spring Boot
9 82 (6.00%) Playwright
10 63 (4.61%) Node.js
11 52 (3.80%) OAuth
12 50 (3.66%) PySpark
13 48 (3.51%) YAML
14 46 (3.37%) JSON
15 41 (3.00%) FastAPI
15 41 (3.00%) HTML
16 40 (2.93%) AngularJS
16 40 (2.93%) OAuth2
17 39 (2.85%) .NET Framework
18 37 (2.71%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 291 (21.29%) Cloud Native
2 115 (8.41%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (4.97%) Product Ownership
4 54 (3.95%) AI Agents
5 41 (3.00%) Data Centre
6 39 (2.85%) Mobile App
7 38 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 37 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (2.49%) Onboarding
10 29 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
11 25 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
13 21 (1.54%) Security Posture
14 19 (1.39%) Data Structures
15 18 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
15 18 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
15 18 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
16 15 (1.10%) Private Cloud
16 15 (1.10%) Public Cloud
17 14 (1.02%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 125 (9.14%) Linux
2 63 (4.61%) Windows
3 34 (2.49%) Unix
4 28 (2.05%) Android
5 26 (1.90%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.39%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.59%) VMS
9 3 (0.22%) CentOS
9 3 (0.22%) Debian
9 3 (0.22%) Rocky
10 2 (0.15%) AIX
10 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.15%) MVS
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.15%) zOS
11 1 (0.073%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,033 (75.57%) CI/CD
2 818 (59.84%) DevOps
3 560 (40.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 491 (35.92%) Agile
5 351 (25.68%) Test Automation
6 345 (25.24%) Observability
7 299 (21.87%) Containerisation
8 284 (20.78%) AI
9 262 (19.17%) Microservices
10 219 (16.02%) Platform Engineering
10 219 (16.02%) Software Engineering
11 199 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 165 (12.07%) Event-Driven
13 159 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
14 156 (11.41%) Analytics
15 136 (9.95%) DevSecOps
15 136 (9.95%) Technical Leadership
16 130 (9.51%) Stakeholder Management
17 122 (8.92%) Validation
18 118 (8.63%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 580 (42.43%) Python
2 321 (23.48%) SQL
3 265 (19.39%) Java
4 192 (14.05%) Bash
5 182 (13.31%) PowerShell
6 139 (10.17%) TypeScript
7 138 (10.10%) C#
8 132 (9.66%) JavaScript
9 97 (7.10%) Bicep
10 45 (3.29%) Kotlin
11 42 (3.07%) Go
12 31 (2.27%) Shell Script
13 29 (2.12%) Scala
14 22 (1.61%) Ruby
15 20 (1.46%) Swift
16 12 (0.88%) Groovy
16 12 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
17 10 (0.73%) ActionScript
18 9 (0.66%) C
18 9 (0.66%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 426 (31.16%) Security Cleared
2 375 (27.43%) SC Cleared
3 64 (4.68%) Azure Certification
4 55 (4.02%) Degree
5 44 (3.22%) AWS Certification
6 40 (2.93%) DV Cleared
7 30 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 14 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.73%) CISSP
14 10 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 8 (0.59%) Master's Degree
17 6 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (13.46%) QA
2 74 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 65 (4.75%) Accessibility
4 33 (2.41%) GDPR
5 26 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.54%) WCAG
7 16 (1.17%) NIST
8 10 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.59%) GRC
9 8 (0.59%) NCSC
9 8 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.37%) HL7
11 5 (0.37%) PSD2
12 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.29%) SEPA
13 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.073%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 424 (31.02%) Docker
2 46 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.80%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.80%) vSphere
6 10 (0.73%) IAG
7 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (0.29%) NFS
8 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.15%) Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.15%) SRDF
9 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 490 (35.84%) Kubernetes
2 206 (15.07%) Ansible
3 190 (13.90%) Grafana
4 154 (11.27%) Prometheus
5 57 (4.17%) Argo
6 27 (1.98%) Puppet
7 23 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (1.32%) Packer
8 18 (1.32%) Progress Chef
9 13 (0.95%) Istio
10 12 (0.88%) Control-M
11 10 (0.73%) Kibana
12 9 (0.66%) HAProxy
12 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.59%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.44%) NetBackup
15 6 (0.44%) SCCM
16 5 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.37%) Podman
Vendors
1 261 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 100 (7.32%) Databricks
3 95 (6.95%) Google
4 93 (6.80%) Splunk
5 54 (3.95%) Oracle
6 53 (3.88%) Dynatrace
7 42 (3.07%) ServiceNow
8 36 (2.63%) VMware
9 34 (2.49%) Red Hat
10 31 (2.27%) OpenAI
10 31 (2.27%) Salesforce
11 29 (2.12%) Cisco
12 25 (1.83%) Informatica
13 20 (1.46%) IBM
14 19 (1.39%) F5
14 19 (1.39%) New Relic
15 18 (1.32%) Checkmarx
15 18 (1.32%) Palo Alto
16 16 (1.17%) Foundry
17 15 (1.10%) SAP