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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 96 131
Rank change year-on-year +11 +35 +6
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,404 745 610
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.03% 2.70% 1.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.74% 7.21% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 959 515 406
10th Percentile £389 £362 £311
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £705 £725 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 32
10th Percentile £46.25 - £66.25
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% -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 16,069 10,338 11,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.69% 37.46% 34.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,741 6,981 7,683
10th Percentile £322 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £645
90th Percentile £719 £733 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 548 258 185
10th Percentile £15.44 £15.43 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £19.95
Median hourly rate £34.06 £26.38 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year +29.13% -13.78% -7.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £45.66 £61.06
90th Percentile £83.08 £71.62 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -14.29%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +19 832 £550 - 901
North of England +14 257 £500 +5.26% 230
Yorkshire +28 173 £500 - 84
Midlands 0 112 £488 -6.25% 94
West Midlands 0 95 £496 -9.80% 38
South East -34 87 £525 +16.67% 184
South West -21 63 £525 -12.50% 89
North West -39 62 £550 +27.91% 112
East of England -3 33 £500 -7.41% 75
North East -31 24 £450 - 36
East Midlands -4 17 £400 -19.19% 56
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
1 112 (7.98%) Confluence
2 53 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 25 (1.78%) Apache Spark
5 22 (1.57%) Apache
6 9 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.57%) nginx
8 7 (0.50%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.43%) Tuxedo
10 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.21%) CMS
11 3 (0.21%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 2 (0.14%) SAS
13 1 (0.071%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.071%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.071%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.071%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.071%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.43%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.28%) Trello
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.071%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.071%) Notion
6 1 (0.071%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.36%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.28%) Front Arena
3 4 (0.28%) Summit
4 3 (0.21%) Findur
4 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 761 (54.20%) GitHub Actions
2 720 (51.28%) Azure
3 652 (46.44%) AWS
4 397 (28.28%) Azure DevOps
5 209 (14.89%) GCP
6 191 (13.60%) Serverless
7 145 (10.33%) Amazon S3
8 141 (10.04%) GitHub Copilot
9 130 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
10 119 (8.48%) Amazon EKS
11 104 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
12 101 (7.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 89 (6.34%) Power Platform
14 86 (6.13%) Entra ID
15 80 (5.70%) Amazon EC2
16 75 (5.34%) Azure AKS
17 73 (5.20%) Snowflake
18 72 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
19 67 (4.77%) AWS CloudFormation
20 52 (3.70%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 69 (4.91%) DNS
2 68 (4.84%) Firewall
3 51 (3.63%) VPN
4 34 (2.42%) Network Security
5 21 (1.50%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.50%) VLAN
6 19 (1.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 18 (1.28%) BGP
8 15 (1.07%) SSL
9 14 (1.00%) DHCP
10 11 (0.78%) BIG-IP
10 11 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 11 (0.78%) Wireless
11 10 (0.71%) OSPF
12 9 (0.64%) Ethernet VPN
12 9 (0.64%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.64%) WAN
13 8 (0.57%) IPsec
13 8 (0.57%) NX-OS
14 7 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (8.48%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (6.13%) SQL Server
3 74 (5.27%) MongoDB
3 74 (5.27%) NoSQL
4 68 (4.84%) Power BI
5 57 (4.06%) Data Lake
6 52 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
7 51 (3.63%) Redis
8 47 (3.35%) DynamoDB
9 46 (3.28%) Relational Database
10 37 (2.64%) Delta Lake
11 35 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 34 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
12 34 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
13 28 (1.99%) MySQL
14 26 (1.85%) Metadata
15 25 (1.78%) BigQuery
16 23 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
17 20 (1.42%) Big Data
18 18 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 408 (29.06%) Jenkins
2 305 (21.72%) GitLab
3 282 (20.09%) Git
4 166 (11.82%) JIRA
5 71 (5.06%) Selenium
6 69 (4.91%) JUnit
7 54 (3.85%) SonarQube
8 51 (3.63%) Cucumber
9 48 (3.42%) Bitbucket
10 40 (2.85%) Gatling
11 39 (2.78%) Cypress.io
12 38 (2.71%) JMeter
13 37 (2.64%) Gradle
14 36 (2.56%) Maven
15 34 (2.42%) Claude Code
16 29 (2.07%) Postman
17 27 (1.92%) CircleCI
17 27 (1.92%) REST Assured
18 24 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
19 19 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 339 (24.15%) Social Skills
2 284 (20.23%) Finance
3 158 (11.25%) Public Sector
4 126 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (6.13%) Banking
6 43 (3.06%) Retail
7 40 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (1.57%) Legal
10 18 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.14%) Law
12 15 (1.07%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.93%) Aerospace
13 13 (0.93%) Investment Banking
13 13 (0.93%) Marketing
14 12 (0.85%) Military
15 11 (0.78%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.71%) Local Government
16 10 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 279 (19.87%) Senior
2 254 (18.09%) Developer
3 174 (12.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 127 (9.05%) Architect
5 122 (8.69%) Lead
6 114 (8.12%) Data Engineer
7 81 (5.77%) Platform Engineer
8 79 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
9 73 (5.20%) Azure Engineer
10 68 (4.84%) Senior Developer
11 67 (4.77%) Cloud Engineer
12 64 (4.56%) Java Developer
12 64 (4.56%) Software Engineer
13 49 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
13 49 (3.49%) Senior DevOps
13 49 (3.49%) Test Engineer
14 45 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 41 (2.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 40 (2.85%) Python Developer
17 36 (2.56%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 668 (47.58%) Terraform
2 223 (15.88%) REST
3 152 (10.83%) Kafka
4 143 (10.19%) RESTful
5 133 (9.47%) Spring
6 121 (8.62%) React
7 117 (8.33%) .NET
8 110 (7.83%) Spring Boot
9 85 (6.05%) Playwright
10 68 (4.84%) Node.js
11 57 (4.06%) OAuth
12 53 (3.77%) PySpark
13 52 (3.70%) YAML
14 49 (3.49%) HTML
14 49 (3.49%) JSON
15 46 (3.28%) OAuth2
16 44 (3.13%) FastAPI
17 41 (2.92%) AngularJS
18 40 (2.85%) OpenTelemetry
19 35 (2.49%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 310 (22.08%) Cloud Native
2 112 (7.98%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 69 (4.91%) AI Agents
5 45 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
6 44 (3.13%) Data Centre
7 38 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 38 (2.71%) Mobile App
8 36 (2.56%) Onboarding
9 28 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
10 24 (1.71%) Security Posture
11 23 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
11 23 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (1.57%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
14 19 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
15 18 (1.28%) Algorithms
15 18 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
16 17 (1.21%) Public Cloud
17 16 (1.14%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 130 (9.26%) Linux
2 58 (4.13%) Windows
3 37 (2.64%) Unix
4 27 (1.92%) Android
5 24 (1.71%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (1.50%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.57%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.57%) VMS
9 4 (0.28%) CentOS
10 3 (0.21%) Debian
10 3 (0.21%) Rocky
11 2 (0.14%) AIX
11 2 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.14%) MVS
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.14%) zOS
12 1 (0.071%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,064 (75.78%) CI/CD
2 833 (59.33%) DevOps
3 577 (41.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 523 (37.25%) Agile
5 358 (25.50%) Observability
6 351 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 315 (22.44%) AI
8 303 (21.58%) Containerisation
9 274 (19.52%) Microservices
10 236 (16.81%) Software Engineering
11 221 (15.74%) Platform Engineering
12 196 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 181 (12.89%) Event-Driven
14 162 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
15 156 (11.11%) Analytics
16 152 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
17 142 (10.11%) Technical Leadership
18 140 (9.97%) DevSecOps
19 138 (9.83%) Scrum
20 135 (9.62%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 621 (44.23%) Python
2 328 (23.36%) SQL
3 285 (20.30%) Java
4 192 (13.68%) Bash
5 172 (12.25%) PowerShell
6 154 (10.97%) TypeScript
7 144 (10.26%) JavaScript
8 130 (9.26%) C#
9 103 (7.34%) Bicep
10 48 (3.42%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.06%) Go
12 38 (2.71%) Shell Script
13 33 (2.35%) Scala
14 21 (1.50%) Ruby
15 19 (1.35%) Swift
16 12 (0.85%) ActionScript
17 11 (0.78%) Groovy
18 10 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
19 9 (0.64%) Objective-C
20 8 (0.57%) C
Qualifications
1 432 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 378 (26.92%) SC Cleared
3 65 (4.63%) Azure Certification
4 64 (4.56%) Degree
5 44 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 39 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 36 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.78%) CISSP
13 11 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (0.78%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 8 (0.57%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 7 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (14.10%) QA
2 85 (6.05%) Data Quality
3 74 (5.27%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.21%) GDPR
5 29 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (1.99%) WCAG
7 21 (1.50%) NIST
8 12 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.71%) NCSC
10 8 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.43%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.36%) GRC
12 5 (0.36%) HL7
12 5 (0.36%) PSD2
13 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.28%) SEPA
13 4 (0.28%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 453 (32.26%) Docker
2 48 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.85%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.78%) IAG
7 11 (0.78%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.78%) vSphere
8 4 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.28%) NFS
9 3 (0.21%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.14%) Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.14%) SRDF
10 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 504 (35.90%) Kubernetes
2 209 (14.89%) Ansible
3 192 (13.68%) Grafana
4 151 (10.75%) Prometheus
5 57 (4.06%) Argo
6 24 (1.71%) Puppet
7 23 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (1.42%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.28%) Packer
10 12 (0.85%) Control-M
11 11 (0.78%) Kibana
11 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.64%) HAProxy
12 9 (0.64%) Istio
13 8 (0.57%) Karpenter
13 8 (0.57%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.50%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.50%) SCCM
15 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 272 (19.37%) Microsoft
2 108 (7.69%) Databricks
3 97 (6.91%) Splunk
4 94 (6.70%) Google
5 59 (4.20%) Oracle
6 56 (3.99%) Dynatrace
7 43 (3.06%) ServiceNow
8 41 (2.92%) OpenAI
9 39 (2.78%) VMware
10 34 (2.42%) Red Hat
11 32 (2.28%) Cisco
12 29 (2.07%) Salesforce
13 25 (1.78%) Informatica
14 22 (1.57%) Foundry
14 22 (1.57%) IBM
15 20 (1.42%) F5
16 19 (1.35%) New Relic
17 18 (1.28%) Checkmarx
18 16 (1.14%) Palo Alto
19 15 (1.07%) SAP