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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 91 131
Rank change year-on-year +3 +40 +9
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,393 750 615
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.01% 2.74% 1.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.73% 7.29% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 948 515 409
10th Percentile £381 £360 £310
25th Percentile £447 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -10.64%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £625
90th Percentile £711 £720 £690
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.43% -8.65%
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 15,948 10,289 11,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.49% 37.60% 34.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,643 6,957 7,707
10th Percentile £320 £306 £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 £638
90th Percentile £720 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 545 249 180
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.45 £14.24
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £62.81
90th Percentile £82.75 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.88
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -11.79%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +15 828 £550 - 1,237
North of England +15 260 £500 +5.26% 308
Yorkshire +27 175 £500 - 103
Midlands 0 108 £488 -7.14% 119
West Midlands -11 90 £492 -13.45% 49
South East -27 88 £525 +20.69% 237
North West -31 62 £550 +27.91% 164
South West -28 60 £518 -13.75% 108
East of England -8 30 £500 -4.76% 101
North East -23 25 £425 -5.56% 43
East Midlands 0 18 £394 -17.11% 70
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
1 107 (7.68%) Confluence
2 46 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (2.80%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 17 (1.22%) Apache
6 8 (0.57%) nginx
6 8 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.50%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.43%) Tuxedo
9 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.22%) CMS
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 2 (0.14%) SAS
13 1 (0.072%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.072%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.072%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.072%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.072%) MQSeries
Applications
1 8 (0.57%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.29%) Trello
4 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.072%) Notion
5 1 (0.072%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.36%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.36%) Sage X3
3 5 (0.36%) Summit
4 4 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.14%) Findur
6 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.072%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.072%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.072%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 754 (54.13%) GitHub Actions
2 707 (50.75%) Azure
3 643 (46.16%) AWS
4 377 (27.06%) Azure DevOps
5 210 (15.08%) GCP
6 186 (13.35%) Serverless
7 156 (11.20%) GitHub Copilot
8 137 (9.83%) Amazon S3
9 124 (8.90%) AWS Lambda
10 122 (8.76%) Amazon EKS
11 102 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 102 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
12 87 (6.25%) Power Platform
13 83 (5.96%) Entra ID
14 77 (5.53%) Amazon EC2
15 75 (5.38%) Snowflake
16 74 (5.31%) Azure AKS
17 68 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
18 64 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
19 54 (3.88%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 70 (5.03%) DNS
2 67 (4.81%) Firewall
3 49 (3.52%) VPN
4 35 (2.51%) Network Security
5 22 (1.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 22 (1.58%) VLAN
6 21 (1.51%) TCP/IP
7 19 (1.36%) BGP
8 16 (1.15%) SSL
9 14 (1.01%) BIG-IP
9 14 (1.01%) DHCP
9 14 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 12 (0.86%) Wireless
11 11 (0.79%) OSPF
12 9 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
12 9 (0.65%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.65%) WAN
13 8 (0.57%) IPsec
13 8 (0.57%) NX-OS
14 7 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.46%) SQL Server
3 76 (5.46%) MongoDB
4 67 (4.81%) NoSQL
5 63 (4.52%) Power BI
6 52 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (3.52%) Data Lake
7 49 (3.52%) Redis
8 45 (3.23%) Relational Database
9 43 (3.09%) DynamoDB
10 33 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
11 32 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 32 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 32 (2.30%) Delta Lake
12 29 (2.08%) MySQL
13 26 (1.87%) BigQuery
14 23 (1.65%) Metadata
15 20 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (1.29%) Big Data
16 18 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 406 (29.15%) Jenkins
2 295 (21.18%) GitLab
3 275 (19.74%) Git
4 161 (11.56%) JIRA
5 64 (4.59%) Selenium
6 60 (4.31%) JUnit
7 56 (4.02%) SonarQube
8 48 (3.45%) Bitbucket
9 46 (3.30%) Cucumber
10 41 (2.94%) Gatling
11 37 (2.66%) Claude Code
11 37 (2.66%) Gradle
12 36 (2.58%) Cypress.io
12 36 (2.58%) Maven
13 33 (2.37%) JMeter
14 28 (2.01%) Postman
15 26 (1.87%) CircleCI
15 26 (1.87%) REST Assured
16 24 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
16 24 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 347 (24.91%) Social Skills
2 287 (20.60%) Finance
3 149 (10.70%) Public Sector
4 134 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (5.96%) Banking
6 46 (3.30%) Retail
7 43 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
8 22 (1.58%) Legal
9 17 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.15%) Law
11 15 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.93%) Aerospace
12 13 (0.93%) Marketing
12 13 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (0.72%) Local Government
13 10 (0.72%) Military
14 9 (0.65%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.65%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 279 (20.03%) Senior
2 254 (18.23%) Developer
3 176 (12.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 121 (8.69%) Lead
5 120 (8.61%) Architect
6 106 (7.61%) Data Engineer
7 79 (5.67%) Platform Engineer
8 77 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
9 70 (5.03%) Senior Developer
10 68 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
10 68 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 65 (4.67%) Software Engineer
12 61 (4.38%) Java Developer
13 51 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
14 49 (3.52%) Senior DevOps
15 46 (3.30%) Test Engineer
16 45 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 39 (2.80%) Python Developer
18 37 (2.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 36 (2.58%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 668 (47.95%) Terraform
2 227 (16.30%) REST
3 149 (10.70%) Kafka
4 145 (10.41%) RESTful
5 123 (8.83%) .NET
6 121 (8.69%) Spring
7 119 (8.54%) React
8 106 (7.61%) Spring Boot
9 85 (6.10%) Playwright
10 68 (4.88%) Node.js
11 57 (4.09%) OAuth
12 51 (3.66%) JSON
13 50 (3.59%) HTML
13 50 (3.59%) YAML
14 48 (3.45%) FastAPI
15 45 (3.23%) PySpark
16 44 (3.16%) OAuth2
17 41 (2.94%) AngularJS
17 41 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
18 36 (2.58%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 296 (21.25%) Cloud Native
2 103 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
3 81 (5.81%) Product Ownership
4 77 (5.53%) AI Agents
5 51 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
6 46 (3.30%) Data Centre
7 39 (2.80%) Onboarding
8 37 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
8 37 (2.66%) Mobile App
9 29 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
10 25 (1.79%) Security Posture
11 23 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.51%) Data Structures
12 21 (1.51%) Public Cloud
13 20 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (1.22%) Algorithms
14 17 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
14 17 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (1.22%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 133 (9.55%) Linux
2 62 (4.45%) Windows
3 33 (2.37%) Unix
4 26 (1.87%) Android
5 23 (1.65%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (1.44%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.57%) VMS
9 7 (0.50%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.29%) CentOS
11 3 (0.22%) Debian
11 3 (0.22%) Rocky
12 2 (0.14%) AIX
12 2 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.14%) MVS
12 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.14%) zOS
13 1 (0.072%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,048 (75.23%) CI/CD
2 823 (59.08%) DevOps
3 574 (41.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 512 (36.76%) Agile
5 351 (25.20%) Observability
6 342 (24.55%) Test Automation
7 330 (23.69%) AI
8 297 (21.32%) Containerisation
9 268 (19.24%) Microservices
10 238 (17.09%) Software Engineering
11 216 (15.51%) Platform Engineering
12 199 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 179 (12.85%) Event-Driven
14 173 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
15 163 (11.70%) Stakeholder Management
16 150 (10.77%) Analytics
17 145 (10.41%) Technical Leadership
18 139 (9.98%) Scrum
19 130 (9.33%) DevSecOps
20 128 (9.19%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 618 (44.36%) Python
2 312 (22.40%) SQL
3 269 (19.31%) Java
4 192 (13.78%) Bash
5 180 (12.92%) PowerShell
6 156 (11.20%) TypeScript
7 142 (10.19%) JavaScript
8 131 (9.40%) C#
9 99 (7.11%) Bicep
10 46 (3.30%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.09%) Go
12 35 (2.51%) Shell Script
13 31 (2.23%) Scala
14 19 (1.36%) Ruby
15 17 (1.22%) Swift
16 15 (1.08%) ActionScript
17 10 (0.72%) C
17 10 (0.72%) Groovy
17 10 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.65%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 414 (29.72%) Security Cleared
2 362 (25.99%) SC Cleared
3 68 (4.88%) Azure Certification
4 61 (4.38%) Degree
5 42 (3.02%) AWS Certification
6 40 (2.87%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.79%) CISSP
11 11 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
11 11 (0.79%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 7 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (14.57%) QA
2 79 (5.67%) Data Quality
3 75 (5.38%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.08%) WCAG
5 28 (2.01%) GDPR
6 25 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.51%) NIST
8 12 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.72%) NCSC
10 7 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.43%) PSD2
12 5 (0.36%) GRC
12 5 (0.36%) HL7
12 5 (0.36%) SEPA
13 4 (0.29%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
16 1 (0.072%) IFRS
System Software
1 444 (31.87%) Docker
2 48 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.79%) IAG
7 10 (0.72%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.72%) vSphere
8 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.29%) NFS
9 3 (0.22%) 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
1 497 (35.68%) Kubernetes
2 217 (15.58%) Ansible
3 190 (13.64%) Grafana
4 147 (10.55%) Prometheus
5 56 (4.02%) Argo
6 26 (1.87%) Puppet
7 22 (1.58%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.29%) Packer
10 13 (0.93%) Control-M
10 13 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (0.79%) Kibana
12 9 (0.65%) HAProxy
13 8 (0.57%) Istio
13 8 (0.57%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.50%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.50%) SCCM
14 7 (0.50%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.36%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 265 (19.02%) Microsoft
2 101 (7.25%) Databricks
3 96 (6.89%) Splunk
4 92 (6.60%) Google
5 60 (4.31%) Dynatrace
6 57 (4.09%) Oracle
7 45 (3.23%) ServiceNow
8 44 (3.16%) OpenAI
9 39 (2.80%) VMware
10 34 (2.44%) Cisco
11 33 (2.37%) Red Hat
12 29 (2.08%) Salesforce
13 25 (1.79%) Foundry
14 23 (1.65%) F5
15 22 (1.58%) IBM
15 22 (1.58%) Informatica
16 20 (1.44%) New Relic
17 17 (1.22%) Palo Alto
18 16 (1.15%) SAP
19 14 (1.01%) Checkmarx