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

 6 months to
25 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 126 166
Rank change year-on-year +45 +40 -39
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,225 538 545
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.96% 2.24% 1.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.47% 6.00% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 363 350
10th Percentile £366 £390 £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 £624
90th Percentile £700 £750 £676
UK median daily rate £511 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -2.67% -1.22% -11.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 22
10th Percentile £45.63 - £32.80
25th Percentile £52.11 £25.25 £66.44
Median hourly rate £63.14 £27.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +129.58% -60.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £72.46 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £74.10 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.57 £27.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +127.52% -60.71% +27.27%

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 14,467 8,974 11,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.43% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,878 6,201 8,465
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £747
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 488 198 322
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.90 £18.13 £15.86
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.50 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £66.88
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £27.88 £21.37
% change year-on-year +28.96% +30.46% -40.64%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +37 704 £550 - 166
North of England +27 223 £488 +1.04% 130
Yorkshire +14 152 £482 -7.26% 52
Midlands -1 84 £500 +3.09% 34
South West +25 76 £463 -15.91% 47
South East -27 76 £500 - 77
West Midlands -12 71 £500 +3.09% 16
North West -16 62 £538 +13.16% 62
East of England -17 31 £500 -9.09% 20
North East -16 14 £463 +10.45% 17
East Midlands -16 12 £413 -15.38% 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
1 104 (8.49%) Confluence
2 42 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 26 (2.12%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.31%) Apache
6 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.24%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
9 2 (0.16%) SAS
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.082%) Appian
10 1 (0.082%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.082%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.41%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.082%) Notion
6 1 (0.082%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.082%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.33%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.24%) Findur
3 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.082%) Actimize
4 1 (0.082%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.082%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.082%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.082%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 638 (52.08%) GitHub Actions
2 570 (46.53%) Azure
3 561 (45.80%) AWS
4 305 (24.90%) Azure DevOps
5 184 (15.02%) GCP
5 184 (15.02%) Serverless
6 129 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
7 115 (9.39%) Amazon S3
8 97 (7.92%) Amazon EKS
9 93 (7.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 90 (7.35%) Power Platform
11 80 (6.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 79 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
13 76 (6.20%) Azure Data Factory
14 74 (6.04%) GitHub Copilot
15 69 (5.63%) Azure AKS
16 68 (5.55%) Azure Monitor
17 65 (5.31%) Amazon EC2
18 54 (4.41%) Entra ID
19 53 (4.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.98%) DNS
2 60 (4.90%) Firewall
3 36 (2.94%) VPN
4 24 (1.96%) Network Security
5 11 (0.90%) SSL
6 10 (0.82%) HTTP
7 9 (0.73%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.49%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.49%) Modbus
8 6 (0.49%) RS-232
8 6 (0.49%) RS-485
9 5 (0.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 4 (0.33%) DSL
10 4 (0.33%) Internet
10 4 (0.33%) WAN
11 3 (0.24%) BGP
11 3 (0.24%) DHCP
11 3 (0.24%) SAN
11 3 (0.24%) VLAN
11 3 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (6.37%) SQL Server
3 77 (6.29%) Data Lake
4 63 (5.14%) NoSQL
5 61 (4.98%) Power BI
6 58 (4.73%) MongoDB
7 49 (4.00%) DynamoDB
8 43 (3.51%) Delta Lake
9 42 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 41 (3.35%) Redis
10 41 (3.35%) Relational Database
11 39 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
12 28 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
13 25 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
14 23 (1.88%) Big Data
15 22 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
15 22 (1.80%) Metadata
16 19 (1.55%) MySQL
17 18 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
18 15 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 377 (30.78%) Jenkins
2 251 (20.49%) GitLab
3 232 (18.94%) Git
4 151 (12.33%) JIRA
5 74 (6.04%) JUnit
6 57 (4.65%) Selenium
7 45 (3.67%) Cucumber
8 38 (3.10%) Cypress.io
9 36 (2.94%) Gatling
9 36 (2.94%) Gradle
9 36 (2.94%) SonarQube
10 34 (2.78%) Bitbucket
10 34 (2.78%) CircleCI
10 34 (2.78%) JMeter
11 33 (2.69%) Maven
12 30 (2.45%) Postman
12 30 (2.45%) REST Assured
13 27 (2.20%) Artifactory
14 22 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
15 21 (1.71%) Mockito
General
1 283 (23.10%) Social Skills
2 206 (16.82%) Finance
3 136 (11.10%) Public Sector
4 94 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (6.53%) Banking
6 23 (1.88%) Retail
7 20 (1.63%) Military
8 16 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (1.31%) Legal
9 13 (1.06%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (0.98%) Front Office
11 10 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.73%) Law
13 8 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.57%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.57%) Marketing
15 5 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 241 (19.67%) Developer
2 197 (16.08%) Senior
3 162 (13.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 111 (9.06%) Data Engineer
5 102 (8.33%) Architect
6 96 (7.84%) Lead
7 76 (6.20%) Cloud Engineer
8 71 (5.80%) Platform Engineer
9 60 (4.90%) Java Developer
10 59 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
11 58 (4.73%) Azure Engineer
12 51 (4.16%) Full-Stack Developer
12 51 (4.16%) Senior Developer
13 50 (4.08%) Software Engineer
14 44 (3.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 42 (3.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 41 (3.35%) GCP Engineer
17 37 (3.02%) Test Engineer
18 32 (2.61%) Tester
19 30 (2.45%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (10.86%) REST
1 133 (10.86%) Spring
2 129 (10.53%) Kafka
3 108 (8.82%) Spring Boot
4 106 (8.65%) React
5 103 (8.41%) .NET
6 88 (7.18%) RESTful
7 85 (6.94%) Node.js
8 71 (5.80%) Playwright
9 64 (5.22%) PySpark
10 44 (3.59%) OpenTelemetry
11 40 (3.27%) AngularJS
12 34 (2.78%) HTML
12 34 (2.78%) JSON
12 34 (2.78%) OAuth
13 33 (2.69%) .NET Framework
13 33 (2.69%) GraphQL
13 33 (2.69%) YAML
14 30 (2.45%) FastAPI
15 28 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 221 (18.04%) Cloud Native
2 83 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (5.06%) Product Ownership
4 28 (2.29%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (1.80%) Public Cloud
7 21 (1.71%) AI Agents
8 20 (1.63%) Mobile App
9 19 (1.55%) Data Centre
10 17 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (1.22%) Security Posture
13 14 (1.14%) Private Cloud
13 14 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (1.06%) NHS
15 12 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (0.90%) Data Structures
16 11 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
16 11 (0.90%) Virtual Team
17 10 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 128 (10.45%) Linux
2 54 (4.41%) Windows
3 28 (2.29%) Unix
4 25 (2.04%) Android
5 21 (1.71%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (1.22%) VMS
7 11 (0.90%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (0.41%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.33%) Debian
10 4 (0.33%) Rocky
11 3 (0.24%) CentOS
12 2 (0.16%) AIX
12 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.082%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.082%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.082%) MVS
13 1 (0.082%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 917 (74.86%) CI/CD
2 709 (57.88%) DevOps
3 468 (38.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 363 (29.63%) Agile
5 279 (22.78%) Test Automation
6 275 (22.45%) Containerisation
7 252 (20.57%) Observability
8 216 (17.63%) Microservices
9 199 (16.24%) AI
10 188 (15.35%) Platform Engineering
11 170 (13.88%) Problem-Solving
12 161 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 158 (12.90%) Analytics
14 155 (12.65%) Migration
15 146 (11.92%) Software Engineering
16 122 (9.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 121 (9.88%) Data Pipeline
18 118 (9.63%) Data Engineering
19 114 (9.31%) Event-Driven
20 110 (8.98%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 533 (43.51%) Python
2 301 (24.57%) SQL
3 250 (20.41%) Java
4 153 (12.49%) Bash
5 141 (11.51%) JavaScript
6 129 (10.53%) C#
7 126 (10.29%) PowerShell
8 110 (8.98%) TypeScript
9 65 (5.31%) Bicep
10 42 (3.43%) Go
11 35 (2.86%) Scala
12 34 (2.78%) Shell Script
13 28 (2.29%) Kotlin
14 22 (1.80%) Ruby
15 15 (1.22%) Swift
16 10 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.65%) C++
17 8 (0.65%) Groovy
18 7 (0.57%) C
18 7 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 369 (30.12%) Security Cleared
2 298 (24.33%) SC Cleared
3 51 (4.16%) Degree
4 38 (3.10%) Azure Certification
4 38 (3.10%) DV Cleared
5 32 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (2.29%) AWS Certification
8 20 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (0.90%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.82%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 8 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (0.57%) OCP
14 7 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.49%) CISSP
15 6 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (9.71%) QA
2 72 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 54 (4.41%) Accessibility
4 23 (1.88%) GDPR
5 21 (1.71%) WCAG
6 19 (1.55%) PCI DSS
7 17 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.90%) NIST
9 8 (0.65%) NCSC
10 6 (0.49%) GRC
10 6 (0.49%) SLA
11 4 (0.33%) PSD2
11 4 (0.33%) SEPA
12 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 364 (29.71%) Docker
2 29 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (1.55%) VMware NSX
5 19 (1.55%) vSphere
6 10 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.49%) Firmware
8 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.16%) HDFS
9 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.16%) NFS
9 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.082%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.082%) IAG
10 1 (0.082%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.082%) SRDF
10 1 (0.082%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 569 (46.45%) Terraform
2 434 (35.43%) Kubernetes
3 186 (15.18%) Ansible
4 143 (11.67%) Grafana
5 120 (9.80%) Prometheus
6 58 (4.73%) Argo
7 31 (2.53%) Istio
8 27 (2.20%) Puppet
9 19 (1.55%) vCenter Server
10 15 (1.22%) Packer
11 14 (1.14%) Progress Chef
12 13 (1.06%) Kibana
13 12 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.73%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.73%) NetBackup
15 8 (0.65%) linkerd
16 4 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
16 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
16 4 (0.33%) Podman
16 4 (0.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 219 (17.88%) Microsoft
2 99 (8.08%) Databricks
3 86 (7.02%) Google
4 80 (6.53%) Splunk
5 53 (4.33%) Oracle
6 43 (3.51%) VMware
7 35 (2.86%) Red Hat
8 33 (2.69%) OpenAI
9 23 (1.88%) Dynatrace
10 19 (1.55%) Pure Storage
11 17 (1.39%) Salesforce
12 16 (1.31%) Informatica
13 15 (1.22%) ServiceNow
14 14 (1.14%) Atlassian
14 14 (1.14%) Checkmarx
15 12 (0.98%) SAP
16 11 (0.90%) Cisco
16 11 (0.90%) Foundry
16 11 (0.90%) IBM
17 10 (0.82%) Sonatype
437 GitHub jobs in England