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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 133 162
Rank change year-on-year +51 +29 -36
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,211 528 535
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.95% 2.17% 1.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.42% 5.84% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 361 349
10th Percentile £363 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £623
90th Percentile £700 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 20
10th Percentile £48.00 £25.25 £30.38
25th Percentile £58.43 £25.72 £66.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £27.38 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.63% -60.89% +28.44%
75th Percentile £74.00 £58.44 -
90th Percentile £74.20 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £27.38 £70.00
% change year-on-year +130.63% -60.89% +28.44%

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 14,379 9,041 11,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.17% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,853 6,260 8,438
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 463 202 327
10th Percentile £15.30 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.13 £15.87
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -35.73%
75th Percentile £66.25 £37.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.38 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £36.36 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +32.20% +28.69% -38.94%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +41 703 £550 - 220
North of England +27 212 £488 -0.51% 162
Yorkshire +13 142 £478 -8.03% 60
Midlands +4 86 £488 -1.52% 47
South West +31 77 £500 -6.98% 69
South East -31 74 £500 - 120
West Midlands -2 70 £500 +1.01% 17
North West -13 61 £550 +15.79% 84
East of England -15 27 £500 -9.09% 35
East Midlands -19 15 £402 -17.54% 30
North East -13 13 £463 +10.45% 18
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
1 103 (8.51%) Confluence
2 39 (3.22%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (2.39%) Apache Spark
3 29 (2.39%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.32%) Apache
5 12 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.17%) CMS
8 2 (0.17%) nginx
8 2 (0.17%) SAS
9 1 (0.083%) Appian
9 1 (0.083%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.083%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.083%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.083%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.083%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.083%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (0.33%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.25%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.25%) Findur
2 3 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.17%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.083%) Actimize
4 1 (0.083%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.083%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.083%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.083%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 635 (52.44%) GitHub Actions
2 571 (47.15%) Azure
3 548 (45.25%) AWS
4 305 (25.19%) Azure DevOps
5 185 (15.28%) GCP
6 180 (14.86%) Serverless
7 123 (10.16%) AWS Lambda
8 111 (9.17%) Amazon S3
9 98 (8.09%) AWS CloudFormation
10 96 (7.93%) Amazon EKS
11 90 (7.43%) Power Platform
12 81 (6.69%) Amazon ECS
13 77 (6.36%) Azure Data Factory
14 76 (6.28%) Azure AKS
15 74 (6.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 74 (6.11%) GitHub Copilot
16 70 (5.78%) Azure Monitor
17 64 (5.28%) Amazon EC2
18 55 (4.54%) Entra ID
19 54 (4.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 60 (4.95%) DNS
2 59 (4.87%) Firewall
3 35 (2.89%) VPN
4 25 (2.06%) Network Security
5 10 (0.83%) HTTP
6 8 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.58%) SSL
8 6 (0.50%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.50%) Modbus
8 6 (0.50%) RS-232
8 6 (0.50%) RS-485
9 4 (0.33%) DSL
9 4 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.33%) WAN
10 3 (0.25%) BGP
10 3 (0.25%) DHCP
10 3 (0.25%) Internet
10 3 (0.25%) NAS
10 3 (0.25%) SAN
10 3 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (9.08%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (6.36%) SQL Server
3 76 (6.28%) Data Lake
4 63 (5.20%) NoSQL
5 61 (5.04%) Power BI
6 55 (4.54%) MongoDB
7 46 (3.80%) DynamoDB
8 43 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 41 (3.39%) Redis
9 41 (3.39%) Relational Database
10 40 (3.30%) Delta Lake
11 37 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
12 27 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
13 24 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (1.98%) Big Data
14 22 (1.82%) Metadata
15 21 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (1.49%) MySQL
17 16 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
18 14 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 368 (30.39%) Jenkins
2 243 (20.07%) GitLab
3 233 (19.24%) Git
4 143 (11.81%) JIRA
5 73 (6.03%) JUnit
6 53 (4.38%) Selenium
7 42 (3.47%) Cucumber
8 36 (2.97%) Gatling
9 35 (2.89%) Cypress.io
9 35 (2.89%) Gradle
10 34 (2.81%) JMeter
11 33 (2.73%) CircleCI
11 33 (2.73%) Maven
11 33 (2.73%) SonarQube
12 32 (2.64%) Bitbucket
13 28 (2.31%) REST Assured
14 27 (2.23%) Artifactory
15 26 (2.15%) Postman
16 20 (1.65%) MLflow
17 19 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 284 (23.45%) Social Skills
2 203 (16.76%) Finance
3 141 (11.64%) Public Sector
4 96 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (6.28%) Banking
6 22 (1.82%) Retail
7 20 (1.65%) Military
8 17 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.24%) Legal
10 13 (1.07%) Front Office
10 13 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (0.99%) Investment Banking
12 10 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.58%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.58%) Marketing
15 6 (0.50%) Law
16 4 (0.33%) Automotive
16 4 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 237 (19.57%) Developer
2 199 (16.43%) Senior
3 165 (13.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 109 (9.00%) Data Engineer
5 101 (8.34%) Architect
6 90 (7.43%) Lead
7 79 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
8 73 (6.03%) Platform Engineer
9 62 (5.12%) Azure Engineer
10 59 (4.87%) AWS Engineer
11 56 (4.62%) Java Developer
12 50 (4.13%) Full-Stack Developer
13 49 (4.05%) Senior Developer
13 49 (4.05%) Software Engineer
14 47 (3.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 44 (3.63%) GCP Engineer
16 41 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 34 (2.81%) Test Engineer
18 32 (2.64%) Tester
19 30 (2.48%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (10.90%) REST
2 129 (10.65%) Kafka
2 129 (10.65%) Spring
3 107 (8.84%) .NET
4 105 (8.67%) React
5 103 (8.51%) Spring Boot
6 89 (7.35%) Node.js
7 80 (6.61%) RESTful
8 69 (5.70%) Playwright
9 63 (5.20%) PySpark
10 42 (3.47%) OpenTelemetry
11 40 (3.30%) AngularJS
12 35 (2.89%) .NET Framework
13 32 (2.64%) HTML
13 32 (2.64%) JSON
14 31 (2.56%) YAML
15 29 (2.39%) FastAPI
15 29 (2.39%) GraphQL
16 28 (2.31%) OAuth
17 27 (2.23%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 225 (18.58%) Cloud Native
2 83 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (4.95%) Product Ownership
4 27 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (2.15%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.06%) Public Cloud
7 21 (1.73%) AI Agents
8 19 (1.57%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.24%) Data Centre
11 15 (1.24%) Security Posture
12 14 (1.16%) Private Cloud
12 14 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.07%) NHS
14 12 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (0.91%) Data Structures
15 11 (0.91%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.83%) Replication
17 9 (0.74%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 132 (10.90%) Linux
2 52 (4.29%) Windows
3 29 (2.39%) Unix
4 25 (2.06%) Android
5 20 (1.65%) Apple iOS
6 17 (1.40%) VMS
7 13 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.83%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.50%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.41%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.33%) Debian
11 4 (0.33%) Rocky
12 3 (0.25%) CentOS
13 2 (0.17%) AIX
13 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.083%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.083%) MVS
14 1 (0.083%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 904 (74.65%) CI/CD
2 702 (57.97%) DevOps
3 468 (38.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 360 (29.73%) Agile
5 278 (22.96%) Containerisation
6 272 (22.46%) Test Automation
7 248 (20.48%) Observability
8 208 (17.18%) Microservices
9 198 (16.35%) AI
10 187 (15.44%) Platform Engineering
11 175 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
12 159 (13.13%) Analytics
12 159 (13.13%) Migration
13 156 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 138 (11.40%) Software Engineering
15 125 (10.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 120 (9.91%) Data Engineering
17 118 (9.74%) Data Pipeline
18 111 (9.17%) Data Modelling
19 107 (8.84%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 530 (43.77%) Python
2 291 (24.03%) SQL
3 242 (19.98%) Java
4 156 (12.88%) Bash
5 138 (11.40%) JavaScript
6 135 (11.15%) C#
7 130 (10.73%) PowerShell
8 106 (8.75%) TypeScript
9 67 (5.53%) Bicep
10 43 (3.55%) Go
11 35 (2.89%) Scala
12 34 (2.81%) Shell Script
13 26 (2.15%) Kotlin
14 23 (1.90%) Ruby
15 14 (1.16%) Swift
16 12 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.66%) C++
17 8 (0.66%) Groovy
18 7 (0.58%) C
18 7 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 369 (30.47%) Security Cleared
2 297 (24.53%) SC Cleared
3 48 (3.96%) Degree
4 40 (3.30%) Azure Certification
5 37 (3.06%) DV Cleared
6 33 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (2.31%) AWS Certification
9 20 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.91%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 7 (0.58%) OCP
15 7 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (0.50%) CISSP
16 6 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (8.92%) QA
2 68 (5.62%) Data Quality
3 52 (4.29%) Accessibility
4 23 (1.90%) GDPR
5 21 (1.73%) WCAG
6 19 (1.57%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.99%) NIST
9 8 (0.66%) NCSC
10 6 (0.50%) GRC
10 6 (0.50%) SLA
11 4 (0.33%) PSD2
11 4 (0.33%) SEPA
12 3 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.17%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 364 (30.06%) Docker
2 30 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
3 28 (2.31%) Active Directory
4 22 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (1.57%) VMware NSX
5 19 (1.57%) vSphere
6 9 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.50%) Firmware
8 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.17%) HDFS
9 2 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.17%) NFS
9 2 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.083%) IAG
10 1 (0.083%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.083%) SRDF
10 1 (0.083%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.083%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 565 (46.66%) Terraform
2 435 (35.92%) Kubernetes
3 180 (14.86%) Ansible
4 132 (10.90%) Grafana
5 110 (9.08%) Prometheus
6 58 (4.79%) Argo
7 35 (2.89%) Istio
8 27 (2.23%) Puppet
9 19 (1.57%) vCenter Server
10 15 (1.24%) Packer
11 14 (1.16%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.99%) Kibana
13 11 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.74%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.74%) NetBackup
15 8 (0.66%) linkerd
16 4 (0.33%) Podman
16 4 (0.33%) Rancher
17 3 (0.25%) Karpenter
17 3 (0.25%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 224 (18.50%) Microsoft
2 98 (8.09%) Databricks
3 87 (7.18%) Google
4 78 (6.44%) Splunk
5 51 (4.21%) Oracle
6 43 (3.55%) VMware
7 34 (2.81%) OpenAI
8 31 (2.56%) Red Hat
9 25 (2.06%) Dynatrace
10 19 (1.57%) Pure Storage
11 18 (1.49%) Salesforce
12 16 (1.32%) Informatica
13 14 (1.16%) Atlassian
13 14 (1.16%) ServiceNow
14 13 (1.07%) Checkmarx
15 12 (0.99%) SAP
16 10 (0.83%) Cisco
16 10 (0.83%) IBM
16 10 (0.83%) Sonatype
17 9 (0.74%) AppDynamics