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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 108 131
Rank change year-on-year +22 +23 -1
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,366 689 601
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.00% 2.49% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.58% 6.70% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 926 474 402
10th Percentile £400 £374 £310
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -8.70%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £628
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 34
10th Percentile £46.25 - £41.75
25th Percentile £58.43 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.87% +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% -8.20%

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 15,926 10,278 11,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.18% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,623 6,965 7,955
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £720 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 273 230
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.01 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.43 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £24.92
% change year-on-year +25.54% +11.88% -28.80%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +22 798 £550 - 579
North of England +27 258 £500 +2.04% 153
Yorkshire +25 178 £488 -2.50% 55
Midlands +8 107 £496 +1.77% 59
West Midlands +11 97 £492 +0.97% 32
South East -38 84 £529 +11.32% 150
South West -1 69 £505 -15.83% 69
North West -22 64 £575 +24.53% 77
East of England 0 32 £505 -8.18% 52
North East -30 18 £450 -2.70% 24
East Midlands -13 9 £500 +1.01% 27
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
1 121 (8.86%) Confluence
2 48 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.61%) Apache
4 22 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.51%) nginx
8 6 (0.44%) Tuxedo
9 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.15%) CMS
10 2 (0.15%) Mendix
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
10 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.073%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (0.66%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.29%) Trello
6 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.073%) Notion
7 1 (0.073%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.37%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.22%) Findur
3 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.22%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.073%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.073%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 745 (54.54%) GitHub Actions
2 704 (51.54%) Azure
3 626 (45.83%) AWS
4 401 (29.36%) Azure DevOps
5 217 (15.89%) GCP
6 162 (11.86%) Serverless
7 132 (9.66%) Amazon S3
8 119 (8.71%) AWS Lambda
9 117 (8.57%) GitHub Copilot
10 112 (8.20%) Amazon EKS
11 103 (7.54%) Azure Monitor
12 97 (7.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 86 (6.30%) Power Platform
14 81 (5.93%) Entra ID
15 80 (5.86%) Azure AKS
16 73 (5.34%) Amazon EC2
17 71 (5.20%) Amazon ECS
18 70 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
19 63 (4.61%) Snowflake
20 56 (4.10%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 72 (5.27%) Firewall
2 67 (4.90%) DNS
3 57 (4.17%) VPN
4 30 (2.20%) Network Security
5 20 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.32%) VLAN
7 17 (1.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 14 (1.02%) SSL
9 13 (0.95%) BGP
10 11 (0.81%) DHCP
11 9 (0.66%) BIG-IP
11 9 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 9 (0.66%) OSPF
11 9 (0.66%) WAN
11 9 (0.66%) Wireless
12 8 (0.59%) IPsec
13 7 (0.51%) HTTP
13 7 (0.51%) Internet
14 6 (0.44%) SD-WAN
15 5 (0.37%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (6.52%) SQL Server
3 72 (5.27%) NoSQL
4 64 (4.69%) Power BI
5 61 (4.47%) MongoDB
6 56 (4.10%) Data Lake
7 47 (3.44%) Relational Database
8 44 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
8 44 (3.22%) DynamoDB
9 42 (3.07%) Redis
10 38 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 37 (2.71%) Delta Lake
12 32 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
12 32 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 25 (1.83%) Metadata
14 24 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
15 21 (1.54%) Big Data
15 21 (1.54%) BigQuery
16 17 (1.24%) MySQL
17 16 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 427 (31.26%) Jenkins
2 298 (21.82%) GitLab
3 264 (19.33%) Git
4 174 (12.74%) JIRA
5 76 (5.56%) Selenium
6 72 (5.27%) JUnit
7 57 (4.17%) Cucumber
8 46 (3.37%) SonarQube
9 45 (3.29%) Bitbucket
10 42 (3.07%) JMeter
11 41 (3.00%) Cypress.io
12 38 (2.78%) Gatling
13 34 (2.49%) Gradle
14 32 (2.34%) Maven
14 32 (2.34%) Postman
14 32 (2.34%) REST Assured
15 28 (2.05%) CircleCI
15 28 (2.05%) Claude Code
16 23 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
17 22 (1.61%) WebDriver
General
1 335 (24.52%) Social Skills
2 261 (19.11%) Finance
3 152 (11.13%) Public Sector
4 116 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (6.15%) Banking
6 43 (3.15%) Retail
7 29 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (1.68%) Legal
10 17 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.17%) Law
12 14 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 14 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.95%) Military
14 11 (0.81%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.73%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.59%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.59%) Marketing
17 8 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 253 (18.52%) Senior
2 241 (17.64%) Developer
3 174 (12.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 124 (9.08%) Architect
4 124 (9.08%) Lead
5 102 (7.47%) Data Engineer
6 81 (5.93%) AWS Engineer
7 74 (5.42%) Cloud Engineer
7 74 (5.42%) Platform Engineer
8 66 (4.83%) Azure Engineer
9 63 (4.61%) Java Developer
9 63 (4.61%) Senior Developer
9 63 (4.61%) Software Engineer
10 50 (3.66%) Test Engineer
11 47 (3.44%) Senior DevOps
12 46 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
13 44 (3.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 43 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 38 (2.78%) AWS DevOps
16 36 (2.64%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (15.30%) REST
2 144 (10.54%) Kafka
3 131 (9.59%) RESTful
4 128 (9.37%) Spring
5 115 (8.42%) .NET
6 113 (8.27%) React
7 102 (7.47%) Spring Boot
8 80 (5.86%) Playwright
9 62 (4.54%) Node.js
10 51 (3.73%) PySpark
11 47 (3.44%) OAuth
12 42 (3.07%) AngularJS
12 42 (3.07%) YAML
13 40 (2.93%) .NET Framework
13 40 (2.93%) HTML
14 39 (2.86%) JSON
15 38 (2.78%) OAuth2
15 38 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
16 37 (2.71%) FastAPI
17 33 (2.42%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 296 (21.67%) Cloud Native
2 120 (8.78%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (5.12%) Product Ownership
4 51 (3.73%) AI Agents
5 38 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 38 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 37 (2.71%) Mobile App
7 35 (2.56%) Onboarding
8 33 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
9 27 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
10 25 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (1.76%) Security Posture
12 21 (1.54%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
13 20 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
14 18 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.10%) NHS
15 15 (1.10%) Private Cloud
16 14 (1.02%) Algorithms
16 14 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 126 (9.22%) Linux
2 62 (4.54%) Windows
3 32 (2.34%) Unix
4 27 (1.98%) Android
5 26 (1.90%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.39%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.66%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.37%) VMS
10 4 (0.29%) Debian
10 4 (0.29%) Rocky
11 3 (0.22%) CentOS
12 2 (0.15%) AIX
12 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.15%) MVS
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.15%) zOS
13 1 (0.073%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,033 (75.62%) CI/CD
2 811 (59.37%) DevOps
3 556 (40.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 486 (35.58%) Agile
5 356 (26.06%) Test Automation
6 342 (25.04%) Observability
7 302 (22.11%) Containerisation
8 282 (20.64%) AI
9 266 (19.47%) Microservices
10 218 (15.96%) Software Engineering
11 213 (15.59%) Platform Engineering
12 202 (14.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 166 (12.15%) Event-Driven
14 163 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
15 162 (11.86%) Analytics
16 131 (9.59%) Technical Leadership
17 129 (9.44%) DevSecOps
18 126 (9.22%) Data Pipeline
19 123 (9.00%) Validation
20 121 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 581 (42.53%) Python
2 320 (23.43%) SQL
3 264 (19.33%) Java
4 196 (14.35%) Bash
5 179 (13.10%) PowerShell
6 141 (10.32%) C#
7 138 (10.10%) TypeScript
8 134 (9.81%) JavaScript
9 90 (6.59%) Bicep
10 44 (3.22%) Go
10 44 (3.22%) Kotlin
11 28 (2.05%) Scala
11 28 (2.05%) Shell Script
12 22 (1.61%) Ruby
13 21 (1.54%) Swift
14 12 (0.88%) Groovy
14 12 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.66%) ActionScript
15 9 (0.66%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.66%) C
Qualifications
1 436 (31.92%) Security Cleared
2 381 (27.89%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.54%) Azure Certification
4 55 (4.03%) Degree
5 45 (3.29%) AWS Certification
6 40 (2.93%) DV Cleared
7 31 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 16 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 9 (0.66%) CISSP
14 9 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (0.66%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 6 (0.44%) CCNP
16 5 (0.37%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (12.96%) QA
2 73 (5.34%) Data Quality
3 63 (4.61%) Accessibility
4 35 (2.56%) GDPR
5 25 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.68%) WCAG
7 15 (1.10%) NIST
8 10 (0.73%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.59%) GRC
10 8 (0.59%) NCSC
11 5 (0.37%) HL7
11 5 (0.37%) PSD2
12 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.29%) SEPA
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.073%) IFRS
System Software
1 424 (31.04%) Docker
2 45 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.95%) vSphere
6 12 (0.88%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.81%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.66%) IAG
9 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.29%) NFS
10 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.15%) Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.15%) SRDF
11 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 652 (47.73%) Terraform
2 492 (36.02%) Kubernetes
3 203 (14.86%) Ansible
4 188 (13.76%) Grafana
5 158 (11.57%) Prometheus
6 59 (4.32%) Argo
7 29 (2.12%) Puppet
8 21 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.32%) Progress Chef
10 17 (1.24%) Packer
11 14 (1.02%) Istio
12 11 (0.81%) Control-M
13 10 (0.73%) Kibana
13 10 (0.73%) vCenter Server
14 9 (0.66%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
15 8 (0.59%) NetBackup
16 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
17 6 (0.44%) SCCM
18 5 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 256 (18.74%) Microsoft
2 100 (7.32%) Databricks
3 96 (7.03%) Google
4 90 (6.59%) Splunk
5 53 (3.88%) Dynatrace
6 52 (3.81%) Oracle
7 38 (2.78%) VMware
8 36 (2.64%) ServiceNow
9 33 (2.42%) Red Hat
9 33 (2.42%) Salesforce
10 30 (2.20%) OpenAI
11 25 (1.83%) Cisco
12 24 (1.76%) Informatica
13 22 (1.61%) IBM
14 19 (1.39%) F5
14 19 (1.39%) New Relic
15 18 (1.32%) Palo Alto
16 17 (1.24%) Checkmarx
16 17 (1.24%) SAP
17 16 (1.17%) Foundry