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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 130 165
Rank change year-on-year +60 +35 -24
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,108 546 566
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.54% 2.02% 1.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.29% 5.50% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 805 379 409
10th Percentile £358 £325 £413
25th Percentile £413 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £638
90th Percentile £708 £685 £695
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 0
10th Percentile £40.00 £21.35 -
25th Percentile £41.50 £26.19 -
Median hourly rate £54.25 £28.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +90.35% - -
75th Percentile £98.44 £61.25 -
90th Percentile £110.00 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £28.50 -
% change year-on-year +90.35% - -

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 11,923 9,924 12,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.08% 36.69% 34.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,251 6,616 9,068
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £425 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £644 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 131 235
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.26 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.41 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +26.27% -0.03%
75th Percentile £56.50 £46.18 £50.79
90th Percentile £78.45 £65.00 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year -0.53% +18.46% +3.18%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 10 January 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 +42 637 £550 - 219
North of England +33 164 £481 +5.42% 187
South East +50 104 £450 - 279
Midlands +26 85 £550 - 101
Yorkshire -3 82 £500 +12.36% 81
West Midlands +21 68 £575 +16.16% 38
North West +12 67 £402 -15.37% 78
South West +1 63 £637 +4.99% 122
North East +8 17 £545 +50.34% 29
East Midlands -6 17 £407 -38.51% 60
East of England -11 16 £570 +79.25% 127
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 96 (8.66%) Confluence
2 50 (4.51%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (2.17%) SharePoint
4 21 (1.90%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.08%) nginx
5 12 (1.08%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.54%) Mule
8 5 (0.45%) Apache
9 4 (0.36%) SAS
10 3 (0.27%) CMS
10 3 (0.27%) WordPress
11 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.18%) Traefik
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.090%) Luigi
Applications
1 23 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.18%) Trello
5 1 (0.090%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.090%) InDesign
5 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.090%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.090%) Actimize
3 1 (0.090%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.090%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.090%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.090%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.090%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.090%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 575 (51.90%) GitHub Actions
2 530 (47.83%) AWS
3 502 (45.31%) Azure
4 233 (21.03%) Azure DevOps
5 190 (17.15%) GCP
6 187 (16.88%) Serverless
7 127 (11.46%) AWS Lambda
8 118 (10.65%) Amazon S3
9 98 (8.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 84 (7.58%) Amazon ECS
11 83 (7.49%) Amazon EKS
12 80 (7.22%) Power Platform
13 77 (6.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 69 (6.23%) OpenShift
15 65 (5.87%) Azure AKS
16 60 (5.42%) Entra ID
17 58 (5.23%) GitHub Copilot
18 57 (5.14%) Amazon EC2
19 51 (4.60%) Datadog
20 50 (4.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.51%) Firewall
2 47 (4.24%) DNS
3 23 (2.08%) VPN
4 20 (1.81%) Network Security
5 16 (1.44%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.08%) HTTP
6 12 (1.08%) SSL
7 9 (0.81%) WAN
8 8 (0.72%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.72%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.54%) Ethernet
9 6 (0.54%) Modbus
9 6 (0.54%) RS-232
9 6 (0.54%) RS-485
10 5 (0.45%) Internet
10 5 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
10 5 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.45%) SSH
11 2 (0.18%) Calico
11 2 (0.18%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (15.70%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (7.85%) NoSQL
3 64 (5.78%) Amazon RDS
4 60 (5.42%) MongoDB
5 53 (4.78%) Relational Database
5 53 (4.78%) SQL Server
6 52 (4.69%) DynamoDB
7 49 (4.42%) Redis
8 44 (3.97%) Power BI
9 43 (3.88%) Data Lake
10 38 (3.43%) MySQL
11 28 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
12 25 (2.26%) BigQuery
12 25 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
13 21 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
14 20 (1.81%) Delta Lake
15 19 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
16 18 (1.62%) Big Data
17 14 (1.26%) Amazon QuickSight
18 13 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 317 (28.61%) Jenkins
2 221 (19.95%) Git
3 200 (18.05%) GitLab
4 168 (15.16%) JIRA
5 57 (5.14%) Sonatype Nexus
6 56 (5.05%) JUnit
7 50 (4.51%) CircleCI
8 47 (4.24%) SonarQube
9 43 (3.88%) Artifactory
9 43 (3.88%) Bitbucket
10 39 (3.52%) Cypress.io
11 37 (3.34%) Gradle
12 36 (3.25%) Cucumber
13 29 (2.62%) Postman
13 29 (2.62%) Selenium
14 25 (2.26%) Maven
15 24 (2.17%) JMeter
16 23 (2.08%) Snyk
17 16 (1.44%) SpecFlow
18 13 (1.17%) MLflow
General
1 272 (24.55%) Social Skills
2 168 (15.16%) Finance
3 136 (12.27%) Public Sector
4 82 (7.40%) Banking
5 65 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (1.71%) Military
7 18 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
8 15 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.35%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.26%) Retail
10 13 (1.17%) Front Office
11 11 (0.99%) Marketing
11 11 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.54%) Games
12 6 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.45%) Billing
13 5 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.45%) Law
13 5 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 262 (23.65%) Developer
2 178 (16.06%) DevOps Engineer
3 171 (15.43%) Senior
4 86 (7.76%) Data Engineer
5 83 (7.49%) AWS Engineer
6 73 (6.59%) Architect
7 72 (6.50%) Lead
8 70 (6.32%) Cloud Engineer
9 66 (5.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 57 (5.14%) Platform Engineer
11 54 (4.87%) Java Developer
12 53 (4.78%) Azure Engineer
12 53 (4.78%) Software Engineer
13 51 (4.60%) AWS DevOps
14 49 (4.42%) Senior Developer
15 47 (4.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 41 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 39 (3.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 34 (3.07%) DevSecOps Engineer
19 33 (2.98%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (13.36%) REST
2 135 (12.18%) Kafka
2 135 (12.18%) React
3 132 (11.91%) Node.js
4 108 (9.75%) .NET
5 90 (8.12%) Spring
6 88 (7.94%) RESTful
7 77 (6.95%) Spring Boot
8 71 (6.41%) AngularJS
9 59 (5.32%) HTML
9 59 (5.32%) OAuth
10 56 (5.05%) CSS
11 52 (4.69%) Elastic Stack
12 50 (4.51%) Playwright
13 45 (4.06%) JSON
14 41 (3.70%) FastAPI
14 41 (3.70%) GraphQL
15 40 (3.61%) pytest
15 40 (3.61%) YAML
16 35 (3.16%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 190 (17.15%) Cloud Native
2 39 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (3.34%) Product Ownership
4 25 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 23 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 21 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.71%) Algorithms
7 19 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (1.71%) Public Cloud
8 17 (1.53%) AI Agents
8 17 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.35%) Life Science
9 15 (1.35%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.26%) Genomics
10 14 (1.26%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.26%) Private Cloud
11 13 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
11 13 (1.17%) NHS
11 13 (1.17%) PKI
11 13 (1.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 147 (13.27%) Linux
2 42 (3.79%) Windows
3 27 (2.44%) Unix
4 21 (1.90%) Android
5 15 (1.35%) VMS
6 13 (1.17%) Apple iOS
6 13 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.63%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.54%) FreeRTOS
8 6 (0.54%) Solaris
9 5 (0.45%) CentOS
10 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.18%) zOS
13 1 (0.090%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.090%) MVS
13 1 (0.090%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 794 (71.66%) CI/CD
2 672 (60.65%) DevOps
3 399 (36.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 372 (33.57%) Agile
5 298 (26.90%) Containerisation
6 223 (20.13%) Microservices
7 220 (19.86%) AI
8 215 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
9 210 (18.95%) Test Automation
10 180 (16.25%) Observability
11 141 (12.73%) Migration
12 137 (12.36%) Full-Stack Development
13 129 (11.64%) Software Engineering
14 114 (10.29%) Data Pipeline
15 111 (10.02%) Analytics
16 105 (9.48%) Platform Engineering
17 98 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
18 97 (8.75%) DevSecOps
19 92 (8.30%) Machine Learning
20 90 (8.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 512 (46.21%) Python
2 244 (22.02%) SQL
3 223 (20.13%) Java
4 151 (13.63%) JavaScript
4 151 (13.63%) TypeScript
5 130 (11.73%) Bash
6 100 (9.03%) C#
7 96 (8.66%) PowerShell
8 80 (7.22%) Go
9 48 (4.33%) Bicep
10 31 (2.80%) Shell Script
11 30 (2.71%) Ruby
12 18 (1.62%) PHP
13 13 (1.17%) Groovy
14 11 (0.99%) C++
14 11 (0.99%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.81%) C
15 9 (0.81%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.72%) Korn
16 8 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 317 (28.61%) Security Cleared
2 254 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 83 (7.49%) Degree
4 48 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 39 (3.52%) Azure Certification
7 29 (2.62%) AWS Certification
8 22 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (1.90%) MCP
10 17 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.17%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.72%) OCP
12 8 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (0.63%) CISSP
13 7 (0.63%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.36%) CTC Cleared
15 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.18%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (7.04%) QA
2 43 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 42 (3.79%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.71%) NIST
5 24 (2.17%) NCSC
6 22 (1.99%) GDPR
7 21 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.81%) WCAG
9 15 (1.35%) EU AI Act
10 8 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.63%) SLA
12 5 (0.45%) GRC
13 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.27%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.18%) FIPS 140-2
15 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.18%) ISO 8583
15 2 (0.18%) MiFID
15 2 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 377 (34.03%) Docker
2 45 (4.06%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.54%) Firmware
5 6 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.45%) NFS
7 4 (0.36%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.36%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.36%) vSphere
8 3 (0.27%) QEMU
8 3 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.18%) HDFS
9 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.18%) KVM
10 1 (0.090%) SRDF
10 1 (0.090%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.090%) Xen
Systems Management
1 490 (44.22%) Terraform
2 443 (39.98%) Kubernetes
3 158 (14.26%) Ansible
4 131 (11.82%) Grafana
5 103 (9.30%) Prometheus
6 61 (5.51%) Argo
7 34 (3.07%) Istio
8 28 (2.53%) Puppet
9 27 (2.44%) Progress Chef
10 13 (1.17%) Podman
11 11 (0.99%) Packer
12 10 (0.90%) Kibana
13 8 (0.72%) NetBackup
13 8 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.63%) linkerd
14 7 (0.63%) Sysdig
15 5 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.45%) logstash
16 4 (0.36%) QRadar
16 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 185 (16.70%) Microsoft
2 98 (8.84%) Google
3 65 (5.87%) Databricks
3 65 (5.87%) Splunk
4 47 (4.24%) VMware
5 42 (3.79%) OpenAI
6 39 (3.52%) Oracle
6 39 (3.52%) Red Hat
7 24 (2.17%) Atlassian
7 24 (2.17%) ServiceNow
8 16 (1.44%) Foundry
9 14 (1.26%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.90%) Sonatype
11 9 (0.81%) Dynatrace
11 9 (0.81%) MuleSoft
11 9 (0.81%) NetApp
11 9 (0.81%) Okta
11 9 (0.81%) SAP
12 8 (0.72%) Commvault
13 7 (0.63%) Cisco