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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 121 148
Rank change year-on-year +36 +27 -26
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,325 632 598
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.96% 2.33% 1.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.47% 6.23% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 904 423 381
10th Percentile £390 £374 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £626
90th Percentile £700 £748 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 34
10th Percentile £46.25 £25.48 £52.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £25.81 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £26.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +138.25% -62.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £75.00 £27.06 -
90th Percentile - £27.33 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £26.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +138.25% -62.14% -6.67%

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 15,640 10,152 12,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.94% 37.35% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,495 6,858 8,574
10th Percentile £325 £311 £312
25th Percentile £420 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 270 321
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.09 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.12 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.98% +24.15% -36.71%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +35 753 £550 - 196
North of England +38 262 £500 +2.04% 98
Yorkshire +24 183 £500 -3.80% 27
Midlands +8 105 £500 +5.26% 42
West Midlands +6 93 £500 +11.11% 23
South East -43 76 £525 +10.18% 112
South West +16 74 £488 -18.75% 36
North West -12 69 £563 +19.94% 54
East of England -3 33 £500 -9.09% 28
North East -28 15 £450 -5.26% 18
East Midlands -6 11 £470 -7.39% 19
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
1 122 (9.21%) Confluence
2 42 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (2.49%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.74%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.21%) Apache
6 13 (0.98%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.45%) Tuxedo
9 5 (0.38%) nginx
10 4 (0.30%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.23%) CMS
11 3 (0.23%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.15%) SAS
12 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.075%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.075%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.075%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.075%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.075%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.075%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.075%) Notion
6 1 (0.075%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.075%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.38%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.23%) Findur
4 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.23%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.075%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 703 (53.06%) GitHub Actions
2 637 (48.08%) Azure
3 601 (45.36%) AWS
4 360 (27.17%) Azure DevOps
5 190 (14.34%) GCP
6 162 (12.23%) Serverless
7 132 (9.96%) Amazon S3
8 120 (9.06%) AWS Lambda
9 100 (7.55%) Amazon EKS
10 98 (7.40%) GitHub Copilot
11 92 (6.94%) Azure Monitor
12 86 (6.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 82 (6.19%) Power Platform
14 71 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
15 70 (5.28%) Amazon ECS
16 68 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
17 67 (5.06%) Entra ID
18 66 (4.98%) Azure AKS
19 54 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
20 51 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 66 (4.98%) Firewall
2 60 (4.53%) DNS
3 52 (3.92%) VPN
4 26 (1.96%) Network Security
5 17 (1.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 15 (1.13%) VLAN
7 14 (1.06%) TCP/IP
8 11 (0.83%) SSL
9 9 (0.68%) BGP
9 9 (0.68%) BIG-IP
9 9 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (0.68%) Wireless
10 8 (0.60%) IPsec
10 8 (0.60%) OSPF
11 7 (0.53%) HTTP
11 7 (0.53%) Internet
12 6 (0.45%) WAN
13 4 (0.30%) DHCP
13 4 (0.30%) NAS
13 4 (0.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (7.70%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (6.94%) SQL Server
3 62 (4.68%) NoSQL
4 59 (4.45%) Data Lake
5 57 (4.30%) Power BI
6 54 (4.08%) MongoDB
7 47 (3.55%) Relational Database
8 42 (3.17%) DynamoDB
9 41 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
10 38 (2.87%) Delta Lake
11 37 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
12 33 (2.49%) Redis
13 32 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
14 31 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
15 25 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
16 21 (1.58%) Big Data
16 21 (1.58%) Metadata
17 18 (1.36%) BigQuery
18 16 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
18 16 (1.21%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 417 (31.47%) Jenkins
2 264 (19.92%) GitLab
3 252 (19.02%) Git
4 177 (13.36%) JIRA
5 82 (6.19%) JUnit
6 75 (5.66%) Selenium
7 55 (4.15%) Cucumber
8 43 (3.25%) Gradle
9 41 (3.09%) Cypress.io
10 40 (3.02%) Bitbucket
10 40 (3.02%) JMeter
11 38 (2.87%) Gatling
11 38 (2.87%) REST Assured
12 35 (2.64%) Maven
12 35 (2.64%) SonarQube
13 32 (2.42%) CircleCI
13 32 (2.42%) Postman
14 23 (1.74%) Mockito
14 23 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
15 21 (1.58%) WebDriver
General
1 325 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 240 (18.11%) Finance
3 155 (11.70%) Public Sector
4 110 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (6.26%) Banking
6 35 (2.64%) Retail
7 29 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (1.74%) Legal
10 17 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.21%) Military
12 15 (1.13%) Investment Banking
12 15 (1.13%) Law
13 10 (0.75%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.53%) Front Office
16 7 (0.53%) Marketing
16 7 (0.53%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 236 (17.81%) Developer
2 234 (17.66%) Senior
3 178 (13.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 118 (8.91%) Lead
5 115 (8.68%) Architect
6 102 (7.70%) Data Engineer
7 82 (6.19%) Platform Engineer
8 80 (6.04%) AWS Engineer
9 73 (5.51%) Cloud Engineer
10 60 (4.53%) Java Developer
11 56 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
11 56 (4.23%) Software Engineer
12 55 (4.15%) Senior Developer
13 48 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 46 (3.47%) Test Engineer
15 44 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
16 41 (3.09%) Senior DevOps
17 38 (2.87%) GCP Engineer
18 37 (2.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 36 (2.72%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (13.89%) REST
2 127 (9.58%) Spring
3 122 (9.21%) Kafka
4 112 (8.45%) RESTful
5 108 (8.15%) React
6 107 (8.08%) .NET
7 99 (7.47%) Spring Boot
8 83 (6.26%) Playwright
9 64 (4.83%) Node.js
10 57 (4.30%) PySpark
11 40 (3.02%) OpenTelemetry
12 39 (2.94%) AngularJS
12 39 (2.94%) OAuth
13 37 (2.79%) .NET Framework
14 36 (2.72%) GraphQL
15 34 (2.57%) FastAPI
15 34 (2.57%) HTML
15 34 (2.57%) JSON
16 33 (2.49%) OAuth2
16 33 (2.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 268 (20.23%) Cloud Native
2 113 (8.53%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (4.98%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.72%) Data Centre
5 35 (2.64%) AI Agents
5 35 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 35 (2.64%) Mobile App
6 34 (2.57%) Onboarding
7 24 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (1.58%) Public Cloud
10 18 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
11 17 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.13%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.13%) Security Posture
13 14 (1.06%) NHS
13 14 (1.06%) Replication
13 14 (1.06%) Virtual Team
14 13 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 119 (8.98%) Linux
2 57 (4.30%) Windows
3 32 (2.42%) Android
4 28 (2.11%) Apple iOS
5 25 (1.89%) Unix
6 19 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.91%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.30%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.30%) VMS
9 3 (0.23%) CentOS
9 3 (0.23%) Debian
9 3 (0.23%) 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%) zOS
11 1 (0.075%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.075%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.075%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 984 (74.26%) CI/CD
2 773 (58.34%) DevOps
3 506 (38.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 450 (33.96%) Agile
5 329 (24.83%) Test Automation
6 300 (22.64%) Observability
7 278 (20.98%) Containerisation
8 252 (19.02%) Microservices
9 230 (17.36%) AI
10 215 (16.23%) Platform Engineering
11 182 (13.74%) Software Engineering
12 180 (13.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 159 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
14 155 (11.70%) Analytics
15 143 (10.79%) Event-Driven
16 136 (10.26%) Migration
17 121 (9.13%) Data Pipeline
18 113 (8.53%) Technical Leadership
19 112 (8.45%) Validation
20 110 (8.30%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 559 (42.19%) Python
2 314 (23.70%) SQL
3 247 (18.64%) Java
4 180 (13.58%) Bash
5 152 (11.47%) PowerShell
6 133 (10.04%) C#
7 131 (9.89%) JavaScript
8 127 (9.58%) TypeScript
9 72 (5.43%) Bicep
10 40 (3.02%) Kotlin
11 37 (2.79%) Go
12 33 (2.49%) Scala
13 28 (2.11%) Shell Script
14 24 (1.81%) Ruby
15 21 (1.58%) Swift
16 14 (1.06%) Groovy
17 10 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.68%) ActionScript
18 9 (0.68%) C
19 8 (0.60%) VB
Qualifications
1 399 (30.11%) Security Cleared
2 338 (25.51%) SC Cleared
3 55 (4.15%) Degree
4 49 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 45 (3.40%) DV Cleared
6 40 (3.02%) AWS Certification
7 34 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (0.91%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.53%) CISSP
14 7 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 6 (0.45%) OCP
15 6 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (12.23%) QA
2 70 (5.28%) Data Quality
3 66 (4.98%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.26%) GDPR
5 23 (1.74%) WCAG
6 19 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.83%) NIST
7 11 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.60%) GRC
9 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.30%) HL7
11 4 (0.30%) NCSC
12 3 (0.23%) PSD2
13 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.15%) SEPA
13 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.075%) OpenSCAP
14 1 (0.075%) SLA
System Software
1 378 (28.53%) Docker
2 35 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.51%) vSphere
5 19 (1.43%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.53%) IAG
8 6 (0.45%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.30%) NFS
10 3 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.23%) Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.15%) SRDF
11 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.15%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 613 (46.26%) Terraform
2 447 (33.74%) Kubernetes
3 199 (15.02%) Ansible
4 176 (13.28%) Grafana
5 146 (11.02%) Prometheus
6 61 (4.60%) Argo
7 27 (2.04%) Puppet
8 20 (1.51%) Istio
8 20 (1.51%) vCenter Server
9 17 (1.28%) Progress Chef
9 17 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (1.21%) Packer
11 13 (0.98%) Kibana
12 9 (0.68%) HAProxy
12 9 (0.68%) NetBackup
13 7 (0.53%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.38%) Control-M
14 5 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
15 3 (0.23%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 229 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.94%) Databricks
2 92 (6.94%) Splunk
3 86 (6.49%) Google
4 57 (4.30%) Oracle
5 41 (3.09%) Dynatrace
6 38 (2.87%) VMware
7 36 (2.72%) Red Hat
8 28 (2.11%) Salesforce
9 26 (1.96%) OpenAI
10 21 (1.58%) ServiceNow
11 20 (1.51%) Pure Storage
12 19 (1.43%) Cisco
13 18 (1.36%) F5
13 18 (1.36%) Informatica
14 16 (1.21%) Checkmarx
14 16 (1.21%) Foundry
14 16 (1.21%) Palo Alto
14 16 (1.21%) SAP
15 15 (1.13%) IBM