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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 80 131
Rank change year-on-year -6 +51 +23
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,457 906 609
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.11% 3.22% 1.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.00% 8.34% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,011 627 405
10th Percentile £381 £360 £314
25th Percentile £430 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £625
90th Percentile £706 £700 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 32
10th Percentile £46.25 £69.00 £66.25
25th Percentile £52.48 £80.63 -
Median hourly rate £66.61 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.56% +50.00% -9.68%
75th Percentile £74.00 £110.00 -
90th Percentile £75.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £105.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -39.87% +50.00% -9.68%

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 16,181 10,869 11,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.55% 38.64% 35.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,776 7,351 7,492
10th Percentile £323 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 584 260 159
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £16.24
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.03 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +4 847 £550 - 844
North of England +8 280 £478 - 177
Yorkshire +21 182 £480 -4.00% 63
Midlands -8 120 £463 -19.57% 68
South East -30 101 £525 +16.67% 139
West Midlands -13 95 £484 -16.36% 37
North West -31 76 £550 +27.91% 92
South West -33 53 £550 -15.38% 67
East of England -14 29 £475 -13.64% 72
East Midlands -2 25 £402 -15.37% 31
North East -30 24 £425 -11.69% 22
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
1 106 (7.28%) Confluence
2 42 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.30%) Apache
3 19 (1.30%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.62%) nginx
5 8 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (0.48%) ArcGIS
6 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.41%) Tuxedo
8 5 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.21%) CMS
10 2 (0.14%) IIS
10 2 (0.14%) Mendix
11 1 (0.069%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.069%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.069%) Camunda
11 1 (0.069%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.069%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (0.69%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.27%) Trello
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.069%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.069%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.069%) Notion
6 1 (0.069%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.069%) Sketch
6 1 (0.069%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.34%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.34%) Sage X3
3 5 (0.34%) Summit
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.069%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.069%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.069%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.069%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.069%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.069%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 790 (54.22%) GitHub Actions
2 737 (50.58%) Azure
3 673 (46.19%) AWS
4 391 (26.84%) Azure DevOps
5 232 (15.92%) GCP
6 193 (13.25%) Serverless
7 185 (12.70%) GitHub Copilot
8 136 (9.33%) Amazon EKS
8 136 (9.33%) Amazon S3
9 116 (7.96%) AWS Lambda
10 109 (7.48%) Azure Monitor
11 106 (7.28%) Entra ID
12 105 (7.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 92 (6.31%) Power Platform
14 82 (5.63%) Snowflake
15 76 (5.22%) Amazon EC2
15 76 (5.22%) Azure AKS
16 71 (4.87%) AWS CloudFormation
17 67 (4.60%) Amazon ECS
18 63 (4.32%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 77 (5.28%) DNS
2 74 (5.08%) Firewall
3 43 (2.95%) Network Security
3 43 (2.95%) VPN
4 25 (1.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 24 (1.65%) TCP/IP
5 24 (1.65%) VLAN
6 22 (1.51%) BGP
7 18 (1.24%) BIG-IP
7 18 (1.24%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 17 (1.17%) DHCP
8 17 (1.17%) SSL
9 13 (0.89%) Wireless
10 12 (0.82%) Ethernet VPN
10 12 (0.82%) VXLAN
11 11 (0.75%) OSPF
12 10 (0.69%) HTTP
12 10 (0.69%) NX-OS
13 9 (0.62%) TACACS
14 8 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (8.72%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 85 (5.83%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.46%) NoSQL
5 61 (4.19%) Power BI
6 53 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
7 52 (3.57%) Redis
8 50 (3.43%) Data Lake
9 49 (3.36%) Relational Database
10 33 (2.26%) DynamoDB
11 32 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
11 32 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
12 31 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
13 30 (2.06%) BigQuery
14 29 (1.99%) Delta Lake
14 29 (1.99%) MySQL
15 25 (1.72%) Metadata
16 19 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
17 17 (1.17%) Snowflake Schema
18 16 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 420 (28.83%) Jenkins
2 313 (21.48%) Git
3 309 (21.21%) GitLab
4 168 (11.53%) JIRA
5 84 (5.77%) Selenium
6 75 (5.15%) JUnit
7 68 (4.67%) Cucumber
8 58 (3.98%) SonarQube
9 53 (3.64%) Claude Code
10 50 (3.43%) Gatling
11 48 (3.29%) Bitbucket
12 44 (3.02%) Gradle
13 39 (2.68%) Cypress.io
14 37 (2.54%) JMeter
14 37 (2.54%) Maven
15 35 (2.40%) CircleCI
15 35 (2.40%) Postman
16 32 (2.20%) REST Assured
17 29 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
18 19 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 389 (26.70%) Social Skills
2 313 (21.48%) Finance
3 164 (11.26%) Public Sector
4 153 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (7.28%) Banking
6 52 (3.57%) Retail
7 42 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (1.24%) Legal
8 18 (1.24%) Telecoms
9 17 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (1.17%) Law
10 15 (1.03%) Aerospace
10 15 (1.03%) Marketing
10 15 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
11 14 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (0.89%) Local Government
12 13 (0.89%) Military
13 12 (0.82%) Investment Banking
13 12 (0.82%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.69%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 298 (20.45%) Senior
2 263 (18.05%) Developer
3 182 (12.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 130 (8.92%) Architect
5 125 (8.58%) Lead
6 97 (6.66%) Data Engineer
7 79 (5.42%) AWS Engineer
7 79 (5.42%) Platform Engineer
8 72 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
9 71 (4.87%) Azure Engineer
10 65 (4.46%) Java Developer
10 65 (4.46%) Senior Developer
11 60 (4.12%) Software Engineer
12 55 (3.77%) Senior DevOps
13 51 (3.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 51 (3.50%) Test Engineer
14 49 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
15 48 (3.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 47 (3.23%) Automation Engineer
17 41 (2.81%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 685 (47.01%) Terraform
2 277 (19.01%) REST
3 164 (11.26%) Kafka
4 150 (10.30%) RESTful
5 135 (9.27%) Spring
6 120 (8.24%) React
7 116 (7.96%) .NET
8 111 (7.62%) Spring Boot
9 105 (7.21%) Playwright
10 68 (4.67%) Node.js
11 64 (4.39%) OAuth
12 63 (4.32%) HTML
13 61 (4.19%) JSON
14 53 (3.64%) AngularJS
15 51 (3.50%) FastAPI
16 50 (3.43%) OAuth2
17 46 (3.16%) pytest
17 46 (3.16%) YAML
18 41 (2.81%) CSS
18 41 (2.81%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 298 (20.45%) Cloud Native
2 108 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (6.18%) AI Agents
4 81 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 67 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (3.43%) Data Centre
7 48 (3.29%) Onboarding
8 45 (3.09%) Mobile App
9 36 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 29 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
11 28 (1.92%) Data Structures
12 27 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (1.65%) Public Cloud
14 23 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
14 23 (1.58%) Security Posture
15 22 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
16 21 (1.44%) Low-Code
17 19 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
17 19 (1.30%) Virtual Team
18 17 (1.17%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 136 (9.33%) Linux
2 65 (4.46%) Windows
3 32 (2.20%) Android
3 32 (2.20%) Apple iOS
4 28 (1.92%) Unix
5 20 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.55%) VMS
7 6 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.21%) CentOS
9 2 (0.14%) AIX
9 2 (0.14%) Debian
9 2 (0.14%) macOS
9 2 (0.14%) MVS
9 2 (0.14%) Rocky
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.14%) zOS
10 1 (0.069%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.069%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,115 (76.53%) CI/CD
2 847 (58.13%) DevOps
3 592 (40.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 545 (37.41%) Agile
5 386 (26.49%) Test Automation
6 382 (26.22%) Observability
7 370 (25.39%) AI
8 302 (20.73%) Microservices
9 291 (19.97%) Containerisation
10 255 (17.50%) Software Engineering
11 234 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 227 (15.58%) Platform Engineering
13 201 (13.80%) Stakeholder Management
14 193 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
15 191 (13.11%) Event-Driven
16 158 (10.84%) Analytics
17 155 (10.64%) Scrum
18 148 (10.16%) Technical Leadership
19 147 (10.09%) Deployment Automation
20 138 (9.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 642 (44.06%) Python
2 319 (21.89%) SQL
3 297 (20.38%) Java
4 199 (13.66%) Bash
5 188 (12.90%) PowerShell
6 171 (11.74%) TypeScript
7 163 (11.19%) JavaScript
8 121 (8.30%) C#
9 106 (7.28%) Bicep
10 59 (4.05%) Kotlin
11 44 (3.02%) Go
12 34 (2.33%) Shell Script
13 30 (2.06%) Scala
14 25 (1.72%) Swift
15 19 (1.30%) ActionScript
16 16 (1.10%) Objective-C
17 14 (0.96%) Ruby
18 13 (0.89%) C
19 12 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
20 11 (0.75%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 426 (29.24%) Security Cleared
2 369 (25.33%) SC Cleared
3 68 (4.67%) Azure Certification
4 67 (4.60%) Degree
5 57 (3.91%) AWS Certification
6 54 (3.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 43 (2.95%) DV Cleared
8 40 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 10 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (0.62%) CISSP
14 9 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
15 8 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
16 7 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (14.96%) QA
2 92 (6.31%) Accessibility
3 83 (5.70%) Data Quality
4 39 (2.68%) WCAG
5 31 (2.13%) GDPR
6 26 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.58%) NIST
8 11 (0.75%) NCSC
9 10 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.41%) HL7
11 6 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.41%) PSD2
12 5 (0.34%) GRC
12 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.34%) SEPA
13 4 (0.27%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
16 1 (0.069%) NIST 800
System Software
1 465 (31.91%) Docker
2 47 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.69%) IAG
7 8 (0.55%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.48%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.41%) vSphere
10 4 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.27%) NFS
10 4 (0.27%) VirtualBox
11 3 (0.21%) Firmware
12 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.069%) etcd
13 1 (0.069%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 529 (36.31%) Kubernetes
2 201 (13.80%) Ansible
3 195 (13.38%) Grafana
4 146 (10.02%) Prometheus
5 51 (3.50%) Argo
6 22 (1.51%) Puppet
7 19 (1.30%) Progress Chef
7 19 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
9 15 (1.03%) Packer
10 13 (0.89%) Control-M
10 13 (0.89%) Istio
11 11 (0.75%) Kibana
12 9 (0.62%) Karpenter
13 8 (0.55%) SCCM
14 6 (0.41%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.34%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.34%) HAProxy
15 5 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
16 4 (0.27%) Cilium
Vendors
1 285 (19.56%) Microsoft
2 104 (7.14%) Databricks
3 98 (6.73%) Google
4 93 (6.38%) Splunk
5 75 (5.15%) Dynatrace
6 59 (4.05%) Oracle
7 55 (3.77%) OpenAI
8 54 (3.71%) ServiceNow
9 37 (2.54%) VMware
10 36 (2.47%) Red Hat
11 34 (2.33%) Cisco
12 30 (2.06%) Foundry
13 27 (1.85%) IBM
14 26 (1.78%) F5
14 26 (1.78%) Salesforce
15 23 (1.58%) New Relic
16 18 (1.24%) Palo Alto
17 15 (1.03%) SAP
18 14 (0.96%) CyberArk
19 13 (0.89%) AppDynamics