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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 93 130
Rank change year-on-year +2 +37 +13
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,395 768 615
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.00% 2.77% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.69% 7.35% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 949 527 408
10th Percentile £381 £360 £310
25th Percentile £447 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -10.83%
75th Percentile £626 £635 £625
90th Percentile £710 £711 £686
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.90% -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 16,052 10,455 11,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.58% 37.65% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,713 7,071 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 551 252 177
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.35
25th Percentile £17.99 £18.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.37 £67.23 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £31.00
% change year-on-year +11.80% -6.23% -11.43%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +5 826 £550 - 1,036
North of England +13 260 £500 +5.26% 277
Yorkshire +20 177 £500 - 92
Midlands -5 108 £479 -13.00% 112
West Midlands -16 89 £492 -14.06% 43
South East -33 89 £525 +20.69% 220
South West -24 60 £518 -15.51% 101
North West -29 60 £563 +30.81% 146
East of England -6 32 £500 -4.76% 99
North East -26 25 £425 -5.56% 40
East Midlands +5 19 £400 -15.79% 69
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 (7.46%) Confluence
2 44 (3.15%) 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%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.072%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.072%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.072%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.072%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (0.57%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.29%) Trello
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
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%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.072%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.072%) Findur
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
1 753 (53.98%) GitHub Actions
2 701 (50.25%) Azure
3 645 (46.24%) AWS
4 371 (26.59%) Azure DevOps
5 212 (15.20%) GCP
6 182 (13.05%) Serverless
7 159 (11.40%) GitHub Copilot
8 136 (9.75%) Amazon S3
9 122 (8.75%) Amazon EKS
10 121 (8.67%) AWS Lambda
11 104 (7.46%) Azure Monitor
12 101 (7.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 86 (6.16%) Power Platform
14 85 (6.09%) Entra ID
15 76 (5.45%) Snowflake
16 75 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
17 74 (5.30%) Azure AKS
18 66 (4.73%) Amazon ECS
19 62 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
20 55 (3.94%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 71 (5.09%) DNS
2 66 (4.73%) Firewall
3 48 (3.44%) VPN
4 36 (2.58%) Network Security
5 23 (1.65%) VLAN
6 22 (1.58%) BGP
6 22 (1.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 22 (1.58%) TCP/IP
7 16 (1.15%) SSL
8 14 (1.00%) BIG-IP
8 14 (1.00%) DHCP
8 14 (1.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 12 (0.86%) OSPF
9 12 (0.86%) Wireless
10 11 (0.79%) Ethernet VPN
10 11 (0.79%) VXLAN
11 10 (0.72%) NX-OS
12 8 (0.57%) IPsec
12 8 (0.57%) TACACS
12 8 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (8.53%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 77 (5.52%) MongoDB
4 66 (4.73%) NoSQL
5 62 (4.44%) Power BI
6 54 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
7 50 (3.58%) Redis
8 48 (3.44%) Data Lake
9 45 (3.23%) Relational Database
10 43 (3.08%) DynamoDB
11 34 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
11 34 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 32 (2.29%) Delta Lake
13 29 (2.08%) MySQL
14 28 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
15 27 (1.94%) BigQuery
16 24 (1.72%) Metadata
17 22 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
18 18 (1.29%) Big Data
18 18 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 405 (29.03%) Jenkins
2 301 (21.58%) GitLab
3 279 (20.00%) Git
4 158 (11.33%) JIRA
5 66 (4.73%) Selenium
6 62 (4.44%) JUnit
7 58 (4.16%) SonarQube
8 48 (3.44%) Cucumber
9 47 (3.37%) Bitbucket
10 43 (3.08%) Gatling
11 38 (2.72%) Claude Code
12 37 (2.65%) Gradle
13 36 (2.58%) Cypress.io
13 36 (2.58%) Maven
14 33 (2.37%) JMeter
15 28 (2.01%) Postman
16 27 (1.94%) CircleCI
17 26 (1.86%) REST Assured
18 24 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
18 24 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 354 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 286 (20.50%) Finance
3 151 (10.82%) Public Sector
4 134 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (6.16%) Banking
6 47 (3.37%) Retail
7 43 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
8 22 (1.58%) Legal
9 17 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (1.22%) Law
9 17 (1.22%) Telecoms
10 13 (0.93%) Aerospace
10 13 (0.93%) Marketing
10 13 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (0.79%) Local Government
12 10 (0.72%) Investment Banking
12 10 (0.72%) Military
13 9 (0.65%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 281 (20.14%) Senior
2 254 (18.21%) Developer
3 178 (12.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 124 (8.89%) Architect
5 120 (8.60%) Lead
6 104 (7.46%) Data Engineer
7 79 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
8 78 (5.59%) AWS Engineer
9 70 (5.02%) Senior Developer
10 69 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
11 68 (4.87%) Cloud Engineer
12 65 (4.66%) Software Engineer
13 62 (4.44%) Java Developer
14 51 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
15 50 (3.58%) Senior DevOps
16 46 (3.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 45 (3.23%) Test Engineer
18 39 (2.80%) Python Developer
19 36 (2.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 36 (2.58%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 669 (47.96%) Terraform
2 235 (16.85%) REST
3 149 (10.68%) Kafka
4 143 (10.25%) RESTful
5 124 (8.89%) Spring
6 120 (8.60%) .NET
7 118 (8.46%) React
8 107 (7.67%) Spring Boot
9 85 (6.09%) Playwright
10 69 (4.95%) Node.js
11 57 (4.09%) OAuth
12 52 (3.73%) JSON
13 51 (3.66%) YAML
14 49 (3.51%) HTML
15 47 (3.37%) FastAPI
16 46 (3.30%) PySpark
17 44 (3.15%) OAuth2
18 41 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
19 40 (2.87%) AngularJS
20 35 (2.51%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 298 (21.36%) Cloud Native
2 104 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (5.66%) Product Ownership
4 77 (5.52%) AI Agents
5 53 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
6 48 (3.44%) Data Centre
7 39 (2.80%) Onboarding
8 38 (2.72%) Mobile App
9 37 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
10 28 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
11 25 (1.79%) Security Posture
12 24 (1.72%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.51%) Public Cloud
15 20 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
15 20 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
16 17 (1.22%) Algorithms
16 17 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
16 17 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
16 17 (1.22%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 131 (9.39%) Linux
2 63 (4.52%) Windows
3 32 (2.29%) Unix
4 26 (1.86%) Android
5 24 (1.72%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (1.43%) 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 1,053 (75.48%) CI/CD
2 817 (58.57%) DevOps
3 577 (41.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 508 (36.42%) Agile
5 352 (25.23%) Observability
6 341 (24.44%) Test Automation
7 337 (24.16%) AI
8 295 (21.15%) Containerisation
9 269 (19.28%) Microservices
10 241 (17.28%) Software Engineering
11 216 (15.48%) Platform Engineering
12 201 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 180 (12.90%) Event-Driven
14 177 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
15 167 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
16 150 (10.75%) Analytics
17 145 (10.39%) Technical Leadership
18 139 (9.96%) Scrum
19 132 (9.46%) Data Modelling
20 128 (9.18%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 627 (44.95%) Python
2 307 (22.01%) SQL
3 273 (19.57%) Java
4 191 (13.69%) Bash
5 181 (12.97%) PowerShell
6 158 (11.33%) TypeScript
7 143 (10.25%) JavaScript
8 127 (9.10%) C#
9 99 (7.10%) Bicep
10 46 (3.30%) Kotlin
11 44 (3.15%) Go
12 34 (2.44%) Shell Script
13 31 (2.22%) Scala
14 19 (1.36%) Ruby
15 18 (1.29%) Swift
16 15 (1.08%) ActionScript
17 11 (0.79%) C
18 10 (0.72%) Groovy
18 10 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
18 10 (0.72%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 411 (29.46%) Security Cleared
2 359 (25.73%) SC Cleared
3 69 (4.95%) Azure Certification
4 62 (4.44%) Degree
5 44 (3.15%) AWS Certification
6 40 (2.87%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 36 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.79%) CISSP
13 11 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 9 (0.65%) SAFe Agilist
14 9 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 8 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 7 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (14.34%) QA
2 80 (5.73%) Data Quality
3 77 (5.52%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.22%) WCAG
5 28 (2.01%) GDPR
6 24 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.51%) NIST
8 12 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.79%) 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%) JSP 440
System Software
1 443 (31.76%) Docker
2 46 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.86%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.79%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.79%) IAG
8 10 (0.72%) vSphere
9 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.29%) NFS
10 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.14%) Firmware
11 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.14%) SRDF
11 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 502 (35.99%) Kubernetes
2 220 (15.77%) Ansible
3 192 (13.76%) Grafana
4 148 (10.61%) Prometheus
5 56 (4.01%) Argo
6 26 (1.86%) 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
1 259 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 103 (7.38%) Databricks
3 97 (6.95%) Splunk
4 92 (6.59%) Google
5 61 (4.37%) Dynatrace
6 54 (3.87%) Oracle
7 48 (3.44%) ServiceNow
8 45 (3.23%) OpenAI
9 41 (2.94%) VMware
10 37 (2.65%) Cisco
11 35 (2.51%) Red Hat
12 29 (2.08%) Salesforce
13 25 (1.79%) Foundry
14 23 (1.65%) F5
15 22 (1.58%) IBM
16 21 (1.51%) New Relic
17 17 (1.22%) Informatica
17 17 (1.22%) Palo Alto
18 15 (1.08%) SAP
19 14 (1.00%) Checkmarx