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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 126 173
Rank change year-on-year +58 +47 -43
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,187 550 525
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.50% 2.12% 1.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.28% 5.66% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 857 371 377
10th Percentile £354 £345 £413
25th Percentile £411 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £682
UK median daily rate £520 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -3.70% -1.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 1
10th Percentile £40.00 £22.33 -
25th Percentile £44.50 £25.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £56.25 £27.38 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +105.48% -43.56% -10.19%
75th Percentile £74.00 £57.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £84.80 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £44.25
% change year-on-year +82.65% -38.14% -18.06%

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 12,793 9,716 12,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.77% 37.49% 33.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,847 6,481 9,111
10th Percentile £305 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 141 299
10th Percentile £14.45 £15.44 £14.10
25th Percentile £18.98 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% +24.15% -11.40%
75th Percentile £58.99 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £66.11
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £27.43 £22.50
% change year-on-year +30.21% +21.89% -10.00%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 11 February 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 +40 679 £550 - 230
North of England +30 190 £478 +0.63% 144
South East +35 106 £450 -4.26% 151
Yorkshire +2 105 £481 +1.26% 66
Midlands +17 84 £550 +10.00% 61
South West +9 74 £550 -15.38% 62
North West +15 71 £405 -14.74% 64
West Midlands +12 68 £584 +11.72% 28
East of England -11 19 £550 +72.96% 60
North East +2 18 £545 +50.34% 15
East Midlands -9 16 £402 -19.60% 34
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
1 105 (8.85%) Confluence
2 50 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (2.19%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.85%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.76%) nginx
7 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.59%) Apache
9 5 (0.42%) CMS
10 3 (0.25%) SAS
10 3 (0.25%) WordPress
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.17%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.17%) Mule
11 2 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.17%) Traefik
12 1 (0.084%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.084%) Appian
12 1 (0.084%) Luigi
12 1 (0.084%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 29 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.42%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.17%) Trello
6 1 (0.084%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (0.59%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.084%) Actimize
3 1 (0.084%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.084%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.084%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.084%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 595 (50.13%) GitHub Actions
2 533 (44.90%) AWS
3 532 (44.82%) Azure
4 253 (21.31%) Azure DevOps
5 184 (15.50%) GCP
6 176 (14.83%) Serverless
7 112 (9.44%) AWS Lambda
8 108 (9.10%) Amazon S3
9 103 (8.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 94 (7.92%) Amazon EKS
11 86 (7.25%) Power Platform
12 82 (6.91%) Amazon ECS
13 76 (6.40%) OpenShift
14 69 (5.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 67 (5.64%) Azure AKS
16 65 (5.48%) Azure Data Factory
16 65 (5.48%) Entra ID
16 65 (5.48%) GitHub Copilot
17 61 (5.14%) Azure Monitor
18 48 (4.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 52 (4.38%) Firewall
2 46 (3.88%) DNS
3 27 (2.27%) Network Security
4 25 (2.11%) VPN
5 12 (1.01%) HTTP
6 11 (0.93%) SSL
7 10 (0.84%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.67%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.67%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.67%) WAN
9 7 (0.59%) Ethernet
9 7 (0.59%) Modbus
9 7 (0.59%) RS-232
9 7 (0.59%) RS-485
10 5 (0.42%) Internet
10 5 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.17%) Calico
11 2 (0.17%) DSL
11 2 (0.17%) SNMP
11 2 (0.17%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (13.65%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (6.40%) NoSQL
3 63 (5.31%) MongoDB
4 59 (4.97%) Amazon RDS
5 54 (4.55%) Data Lake
6 53 (4.47%) SQL Server
7 49 (4.13%) Power BI
8 48 (4.04%) Relational Database
9 46 (3.88%) DynamoDB
10 39 (3.29%) Redis
11 37 (3.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 36 (3.03%) MySQL
13 28 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
14 24 (2.02%) Delta Lake
15 19 (1.60%) BigQuery
16 17 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
17 16 (1.35%) Big Data
18 15 (1.26%) Amazon QuickSight
18 15 (1.26%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 345 (29.06%) Jenkins
2 223 (18.79%) Git
3 213 (17.94%) GitLab
4 167 (14.07%) JIRA
5 71 (5.98%) JUnit
6 59 (4.97%) Sonatype Nexus
7 45 (3.79%) Artifactory
8 40 (3.37%) CircleCI
9 39 (3.29%) Cucumber
9 39 (3.29%) Gradle
10 38 (3.20%) Cypress.io
11 35 (2.95%) Bitbucket
11 35 (2.95%) SonarQube
12 34 (2.86%) Selenium
13 33 (2.78%) Postman
14 28 (2.36%) JMeter
15 27 (2.27%) Maven
16 15 (1.26%) Snyk
17 13 (1.10%) Gatling
17 13 (1.10%) MLflow
General
1 288 (24.26%) Social Skills
2 183 (15.42%) Finance
3 150 (12.64%) Public Sector
4 83 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (6.99%) Banking
5 21 (1.77%) Military
6 18 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (1.35%) Retail
8 15 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (1.10%) Front Office
10 13 (1.10%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (0.84%) Marketing
12 9 (0.76%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.51%) Games
13 6 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.42%) Billing
14 5 (0.42%) Law
15 4 (0.34%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 278 (23.42%) Developer
2 191 (16.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 178 (15.00%) Senior
4 97 (8.17%) Data Engineer
5 82 (6.91%) AWS Engineer
5 82 (6.91%) Lead
6 80 (6.74%) Cloud Engineer
7 76 (6.40%) Full-Stack Developer
8 74 (6.23%) Architect
9 68 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
10 62 (5.22%) Java Developer
11 56 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
12 52 (4.38%) Software Engineer
13 48 (4.04%) AWS DevOps
14 44 (3.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 42 (3.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 41 (3.45%) Senior Developer
17 39 (3.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 33 (2.78%) Senior Data Engineer
19 28 (2.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (12.30%) Kafka
2 141 (11.88%) REST
3 126 (10.61%) React
4 120 (10.11%) Node.js
5 114 (9.60%) Spring
6 106 (8.93%) .NET
7 86 (7.25%) Spring Boot
8 84 (7.08%) RESTful
9 69 (5.81%) AngularJS
10 60 (5.05%) CSS
11 58 (4.89%) Playwright
12 53 (4.47%) HTML
13 52 (4.38%) OAuth
14 51 (4.30%) Elastic Stack
15 41 (3.45%) PyTorch
16 40 (3.37%) JSON
16 40 (3.37%) PySpark
17 39 (3.29%) FastAPI
18 37 (3.12%) GraphQL
18 37 (3.12%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 190 (16.01%) Cloud Native
2 42 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
2 42 (3.54%) Product Ownership
3 32 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 27 (2.27%) Public Cloud
5 22 (1.85%) Algorithms
6 20 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.43%) AI Agents
8 17 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.35%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.18%) Life Science
10 14 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (1.18%) Replication
11 13 (1.10%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.10%) NHS
11 13 (1.10%) Private Cloud
11 13 (1.10%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
12 12 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 161 (13.56%) Linux
2 42 (3.54%) Windows
3 28 (2.36%) Android
4 25 (2.11%) Unix
5 18 (1.52%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.26%) VMS
7 13 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.59%) FreeRTOS
9 6 (0.51%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.34%) CentOS
10 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.25%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.17%) Solaris
12 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.084%) Debian
13 1 (0.084%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 842 (70.94%) CI/CD
2 700 (58.97%) DevOps
3 415 (34.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 371 (31.26%) Agile
5 300 (25.27%) Containerisation
6 233 (19.63%) AI
7 232 (19.55%) Test Automation
8 225 (18.96%) Problem-Solving
9 209 (17.61%) Microservices
10 199 (16.76%) Observability
11 169 (14.24%) Migration
12 140 (11.79%) Analytics
13 137 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
14 135 (11.37%) Platform Engineering
15 120 (10.11%) Software Engineering
16 119 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
16 119 (10.03%) Data Pipeline
17 99 (8.34%) DevSecOps
18 98 (8.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 97 (8.17%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 549 (46.25%) Python
2 269 (22.66%) SQL
3 238 (20.05%) Java
4 163 (13.73%) JavaScript
5 145 (12.22%) TypeScript
6 134 (11.29%) Bash
7 103 (8.68%) PowerShell
8 98 (8.26%) C#
9 74 (6.23%) Go
10 51 (4.30%) Bicep
11 28 (2.36%) Shell Script
12 24 (2.02%) Ruby
13 15 (1.26%) Kotlin
13 15 (1.26%) PHP
14 13 (1.10%) Scala
15 12 (1.01%) C++
16 10 (0.84%) Groovy
17 9 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.67%) C
18 8 (0.67%) Korn
Qualifications
1 352 (29.65%) Security Cleared
2 271 (22.83%) SC Cleared
3 78 (6.57%) Degree
4 53 (4.47%) DV Cleared
5 44 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (3.20%) Azure Certification
7 32 (2.70%) AWS Certification
8 27 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 18 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.18%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.84%) CISSP
13 9 (0.76%) OCP
13 9 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
14 8 (0.67%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 6 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 4 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
17 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 4 (0.34%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (6.49%) QA
2 52 (4.38%) Data Quality
3 49 (4.13%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.44%) NIST
5 23 (1.94%) NCSC
6 22 (1.85%) WCAG
7 21 (1.77%) GDPR
8 16 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (1.26%) EU AI Act
10 13 (1.10%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.59%) SLA
12 5 (0.42%) GRC
12 5 (0.42%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.25%) Def Stans
13 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.17%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.17%) MiFID
14 2 (0.17%) PSD2
14 2 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 373 (31.42%) Docker
2 33 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 33 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.01%) vSphere
5 11 (0.93%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.59%) Firmware
7 6 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.25%) HDFS
8 3 (0.25%) QEMU
9 2 (0.17%) NFS
9 2 (0.17%) Veritas File System
9 2 (0.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.084%) etcd
10 1 (0.084%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 512 (43.13%) Terraform
2 453 (38.16%) Kubernetes
3 173 (14.57%) Ansible
4 133 (11.20%) Grafana
5 97 (8.17%) Prometheus
6 67 (5.64%) Argo
7 35 (2.95%) Istio
8 26 (2.19%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.68%) Puppet
10 12 (1.01%) Kibana
10 12 (1.01%) Podman
11 11 (0.93%) Packer
11 11 (0.93%) vCenter Server
12 9 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.59%) NetBackup
13 7 (0.59%) Sysdig
14 6 (0.51%) linkerd
15 5 (0.42%) logstash
16 4 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
16 4 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 196 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 98 (8.26%) Google
3 80 (6.74%) Databricks
4 73 (6.15%) Splunk
5 51 (4.30%) VMware
6 44 (3.71%) OpenAI
7 41 (3.45%) Oracle
8 40 (3.37%) Red Hat
9 21 (1.77%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.60%) Atlassian
11 18 (1.52%) Foundry
11 18 (1.52%) Sonatype
12 13 (1.10%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.93%) Dynatrace
13 11 (0.93%) Pure Storage
14 8 (0.67%) NetApp
14 8 (0.67%) New Relic
14 8 (0.67%) Okta
14 8 (0.67%) SAP
15 7 (0.59%) Commvault