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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 134 172
Rank change year-on-year +62 +38 -47
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,267 516 516
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.24% 2.12% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.92% 5.61% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 359 350
10th Percentile £359 £373 £389
25th Percentile £414 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £619 £630 £623
90th Percentile £700 £740 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 -
25th Percentile £46.00 £25.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £27.38 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +126.48% -15.77% -48.00%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.44 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 £60.30
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +104.57% -15.77% -40.91%

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 14,201 9,200 11,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.33% 37.78% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,803 6,477 8,620
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
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 436 185 321
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.50 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +60.73% +27.59% -23.07%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.97 £33.75
90th Percentile £80.60 £75.30 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +46.25% +30.24% -27.59%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +37 718 £538 -4.23% 226
North of England +47 212 £500 +1.06% 145
Yorkshire +23 135 £482 -12.36% 64
South East +19 107 £480 -4.00% 123
Midlands +17 92 £503 +3.71% 55
South West +23 78 £525 -2.33% 55
West Midlands -1 76 £525 +10.53% 22
North West +5 66 £525 +10.53% 61
East of England -23 23 £488 -11.32% 53
East Midlands -16 15 £402 -19.60% 33
North East -6 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
1 108 (8.52%) Confluence
2 45 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (2.68%) SharePoint
4 28 (2.21%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.18%) Apache
6 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.63%) nginx
8 7 (0.55%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.32%) CMS
11 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.16%) SAS
11 2 (0.16%) WordPress
12 1 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.079%) Appian
12 1 (0.079%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.079%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.079%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.079%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.079%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.39%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.32%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.24%) Findur
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.079%) Actimize
5 1 (0.079%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.079%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.079%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 648 (51.14%) GitHub Actions
2 589 (46.49%) Azure
3 572 (45.15%) AWS
4 311 (24.55%) Azure DevOps
5 199 (15.71%) Serverless
6 177 (13.97%) GCP
7 138 (10.89%) AWS Lambda
8 114 (9.00%) Amazon S3
9 107 (8.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 97 (7.66%) Power Platform
11 94 (7.42%) Amazon EKS
12 87 (6.87%) Amazon ECS
13 85 (6.71%) Azure Data Factory
14 81 (6.39%) Azure Monitor
15 80 (6.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 76 (6.00%) Azure AKS
17 72 (5.68%) GitHub Copilot
18 69 (5.45%) Entra ID
19 66 (5.21%) OpenShift
20 58 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.81%) Firewall
2 58 (4.58%) DNS
3 32 (2.53%) VPN
4 29 (2.29%) Network Security
5 14 (1.10%) HTTP
6 9 (0.71%) SSL
7 7 (0.55%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.55%) Modbus
7 7 (0.55%) RS-232
7 7 (0.55%) RS-485
8 6 (0.47%) Internet
8 6 (0.47%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.39%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.32%) DSL
10 4 (0.32%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.32%) WAN
11 3 (0.24%) NAS
11 3 (0.24%) SAN
12 2 (0.16%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (6.63%) NoSQL
3 76 (6.00%) Data Lake
4 63 (4.97%) SQL Server
5 59 (4.66%) DynamoDB
6 58 (4.58%) Power BI
7 53 (4.18%) Amazon RDS
8 50 (3.95%) Relational Database
9 49 (3.87%) MongoDB
10 48 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 41 (3.24%) Delta Lake
12 36 (2.84%) Redis
13 34 (2.68%) MySQL
14 30 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
15 24 (1.89%) Big Data
16 23 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
17 19 (1.50%) Metadata
18 18 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
19 15 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
20 13 (1.03%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 387 (30.54%) Jenkins
2 245 (19.34%) Git
3 240 (18.94%) GitLab
4 166 (13.10%) JIRA
5 85 (6.71%) JUnit
6 54 (4.26%) Cucumber
7 52 (4.10%) Selenium
8 42 (3.31%) Sonatype Nexus
9 39 (3.08%) Artifactory
9 39 (3.08%) JMeter
10 38 (3.00%) Cypress.io
11 34 (2.68%) Bitbucket
12 32 (2.53%) CircleCI
12 32 (2.53%) Gradle
12 32 (2.53%) Postman
13 28 (2.21%) SonarQube
14 26 (2.05%) Maven
15 21 (1.66%) Gatling
15 21 (1.66%) MLflow
16 19 (1.50%) REST Assured
General
1 308 (24.31%) Social Skills
2 212 (16.73%) Finance
3 152 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 94 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (6.79%) Banking
6 21 (1.66%) Military
7 20 (1.58%) Retail
8 19 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (1.26%) Front Office
10 15 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.10%) Investment Banking
12 12 (0.95%) Legal
13 11 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.63%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.55%) Law
16 7 (0.55%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.47%) Marketing
17 6 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 261 (20.60%) Developer
2 198 (15.63%) Senior
3 178 (14.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 113 (8.92%) Data Engineer
5 98 (7.73%) Lead
6 95 (7.50%) Architect
7 85 (6.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 84 (6.63%) Platform Engineer
9 77 (6.08%) AWS Engineer
10 66 (5.21%) Full-Stack Developer
11 65 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
12 62 (4.89%) Java Developer
13 51 (4.03%) Software Engineer
14 45 (3.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 43 (3.39%) AWS DevOps
15 43 (3.39%) GCP Engineer
16 42 (3.31%) Senior Developer
17 37 (2.92%) Tester
18 33 (2.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 33 (2.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (11.21%) Kafka
2 141 (11.13%) REST
3 134 (10.58%) Spring
4 126 (9.94%) React
5 117 (9.23%) .NET
6 115 (9.08%) Node.js
7 99 (7.81%) Spring Boot
8 89 (7.02%) RESTful
9 64 (5.05%) Playwright
10 58 (4.58%) AngularJS
11 57 (4.50%) PySpark
12 43 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
13 42 (3.31%) JSON
13 42 (3.31%) OAuth
14 41 (3.24%) CSS
15 38 (3.00%) Jest
16 37 (2.92%) HTML
17 35 (2.76%) OpenTelemetry
18 31 (2.45%) .NET Framework
18 31 (2.45%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 213 (16.81%) Cloud Native
2 74 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (4.18%) Product Ownership
4 38 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (1.97%) Public Cloud
6 23 (1.82%) AI Agents
7 22 (1.74%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.42%) Virtual Team
9 17 (1.34%) Security Posture
10 16 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.26%) Mobile App
11 14 (1.10%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.10%) NHS
12 13 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (0.87%) Data Centre
13 11 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (0.87%) Private Cloud
13 11 (0.87%) Replication
13 11 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 148 (11.68%) Linux
2 41 (3.24%) Windows
3 29 (2.29%) Unix
4 22 (1.74%) Android
5 19 (1.50%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.10%) VMS
7 11 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
8 7 (0.55%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.32%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.24%) Debian
10 3 (0.24%) Rocky
11 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.079%) CentOS
12 1 (0.079%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 930 (73.40%) CI/CD
2 747 (58.96%) DevOps
3 450 (35.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 391 (30.86%) Agile
5 304 (23.99%) Containerisation
6 275 (21.70%) Test Automation
7 242 (19.10%) AI
7 242 (19.10%) Observability
8 225 (17.76%) Microservices
9 207 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
10 181 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
11 180 (14.21%) Analytics
12 171 (13.50%) Migration
13 149 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 134 (10.58%) Data Pipeline
15 132 (10.42%) Software Engineering
16 128 (10.10%) Full-Stack Development
17 125 (9.87%) Data Engineering
18 119 (9.39%) Data Modelling
19 115 (9.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 591 (46.65%) Python
2 303 (23.91%) SQL
3 250 (19.73%) Java
4 162 (12.79%) Bash
5 150 (11.84%) JavaScript
6 129 (10.18%) C#
7 125 (9.87%) TypeScript
8 123 (9.71%) PowerShell
9 61 (4.81%) Bicep
10 57 (4.50%) Go
11 33 (2.60%) Shell Script
12 26 (2.05%) Scala
13 24 (1.89%) Ruby
14 18 (1.42%) Kotlin
15 15 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
16 13 (1.03%) Swift
17 10 (0.79%) C++
17 10 (0.79%) Groovy
18 9 (0.71%) C
19 7 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 390 (30.78%) Security Cleared
2 306 (24.15%) SC Cleared
3 59 (4.66%) Degree
4 48 (3.79%) Azure Certification
5 39 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 38 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (2.84%) AWS Certification
8 31 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 11 (0.87%) OCP
12 11 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
13 10 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (0.71%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 8 (0.63%) CISSP
16 5 (0.39%) CCNP
17 4 (0.32%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (7.97%) QA
2 68 (5.37%) Data Quality
3 46 (3.63%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.97%) GDPR
4 25 (1.97%) WCAG
5 19 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.26%) NIST
8 13 (1.03%) NCSC
9 6 (0.47%) SLA
10 5 (0.39%) GRC
10 5 (0.39%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.24%) EU AI Act
11 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 378 (29.83%) Docker
2 36 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.66%) VMware NSX
5 21 (1.66%) vSphere
6 7 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.55%) Firmware
7 4 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.24%) HDFS
9 1 (0.079%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.079%) IAG
9 1 (0.079%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.079%) NFS
9 1 (0.079%) SRDF
9 1 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 565 (44.59%) Terraform
2 465 (36.70%) Kubernetes
3 190 (15.00%) Ansible
4 134 (10.58%) Grafana
5 98 (7.73%) Prometheus
6 67 (5.29%) Argo
7 38 (3.00%) Istio
8 24 (1.89%) Puppet
9 21 (1.66%) Progress Chef
9 21 (1.66%) vCenter Server
10 13 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.95%) Packer
12 11 (0.87%) NetBackup
13 10 (0.79%) Kibana
14 9 (0.71%) linkerd
15 8 (0.63%) Podman
16 7 (0.55%) Sysdig
17 4 (0.32%) HAProxy
17 4 (0.32%) Kubeflow
17 4 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 236 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 112 (8.84%) Databricks
3 88 (6.95%) Google
4 79 (6.24%) Splunk
5 49 (3.87%) VMware
6 47 (3.71%) Oracle
7 43 (3.39%) OpenAI
8 40 (3.16%) Red Hat
9 21 (1.66%) Pure Storage
10 19 (1.50%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.50%) ServiceNow
11 16 (1.26%) Salesforce
11 16 (1.26%) Sonatype
12 15 (1.18%) Dynatrace
13 14 (1.10%) SAP
14 12 (0.95%) Informatica
15 11 (0.87%) Foundry
16 10 (0.79%) Checkmarx
17 9 (0.71%) Commvault
18 8 (0.63%) Veritas