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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 96 132
Rank change year-on-year +10 +36 +5
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,407 755 612
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.03% 2.71% 1.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.77% 7.24% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 956 520 408
10th Percentile £386 £361 £312
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -2.14% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £708 £725 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £517 £525
% change year-on-year +1.47% -1.45% -8.70%
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 16,045 10,434 11,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.58% 37.50% 34.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,714 7,046 7,784
10th Percentile £320 £308 £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 £644
90th Percentile £718 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 550 259 186
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.45 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £19.96
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £30.73
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -14.42% -6.87%
75th Percentile £69.96 £45.14 £60.95
90th Percentile £82.43 £71.56 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.50% -14.29%

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 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 11 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 11 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 +20 840 £550 - 615
North of England +7 258 £500 +5.26% 191
Yorkshire +20 172 £500 - 67
Midlands -3 108 £488 -7.14% 72
West Midlands -7 92 £492 -12.88% 28
South East -21 89 £525 +20.69% 172
North West -30 63 £550 +27.91% 95
South West -24 61 £518 -13.75% 76
East of England -13 32 £505 -6.48% 72
North East -31 25 £450 - 31
East Midlands -3 16 £400 -19.19% 44
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
1 110 (7.82%) Confluence
2 53 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.63%) Apache Spark
5 21 (1.49%) 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 3 (0.21%) CMS
10 3 (0.21%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.14%) Mendix
11 2 (0.14%) SAS
12 1 (0.071%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.071%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.071%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.071%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.071%) MQSeries
Applications
1 8 (0.57%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.28%) Trello
6 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.071%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.071%) Notion
7 1 (0.071%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.36%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.28%) Front Arena
4 4 (0.28%) Summit
5 3 (0.21%) Findur
5 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.071%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 765 (54.37%) GitHub Actions
2 722 (51.31%) Azure
3 651 (46.27%) AWS
4 391 (27.79%) Azure DevOps
5 212 (15.07%) GCP
6 189 (13.43%) Serverless
7 150 (10.66%) GitHub Copilot
8 142 (10.09%) Amazon S3
9 127 (9.03%) AWS Lambda
10 121 (8.60%) Amazon EKS
11 104 (7.39%) Azure Monitor
12 102 (7.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 87 (6.18%) Power Platform
14 86 (6.11%) Entra ID
15 79 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
16 75 (5.33%) Azure AKS
17 74 (5.26%) Snowflake
18 71 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
19 68 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
20 54 (3.84%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 69 (4.90%) DNS
2 66 (4.69%) Firewall
3 49 (3.48%) VPN
4 35 (2.49%) Network Security
5 21 (1.49%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.49%) VLAN
6 19 (1.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 18 (1.28%) BGP
8 15 (1.07%) SSL
9 14 (1.00%) DHCP
10 11 (0.78%) BIG-IP
10 11 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 11 (0.78%) Wireless
11 10 (0.71%) OSPF
12 9 (0.64%) Ethernet VPN
12 9 (0.64%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.64%) WAN
13 8 (0.57%) IPsec
13 8 (0.57%) NX-OS
14 7 (0.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (8.32%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (6.33%) SQL Server
3 75 (5.33%) MongoDB
4 69 (4.90%) NoSQL
5 64 (4.55%) Power BI
6 57 (4.05%) Data Lake
7 53 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
8 49 (3.48%) Redis
9 46 (3.27%) Relational Database
10 45 (3.20%) DynamoDB
11 35 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 34 (2.42%) Delta Lake
13 33 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
13 33 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
14 29 (2.06%) MySQL
15 26 (1.85%) Metadata
16 25 (1.78%) BigQuery
17 22 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
18 20 (1.42%) Big Data
19 17 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 408 (29.00%) Jenkins
2 306 (21.75%) GitLab
3 280 (19.90%) Git
4 163 (11.58%) JIRA
5 67 (4.76%) Selenium
6 66 (4.69%) JUnit
7 57 (4.05%) SonarQube
8 48 (3.41%) Cucumber
9 47 (3.34%) Bitbucket
10 40 (2.84%) Gatling
11 38 (2.70%) Cypress.io
12 37 (2.63%) Gradle
13 36 (2.56%) Maven
14 35 (2.49%) Claude Code
15 34 (2.42%) JMeter
16 29 (2.06%) Postman
17 27 (1.92%) CircleCI
17 27 (1.92%) REST Assured
18 24 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
19 20 (1.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 346 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 294 (20.90%) Finance
3 154 (10.95%) Public Sector
4 132 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (6.40%) Banking
6 45 (3.20%) Retail
7 42 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (1.63%) Legal
9 19 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.14%) Law
11 15 (1.07%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.92%) Aerospace
12 13 (0.92%) Investment Banking
12 13 (0.92%) Marketing
13 12 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (0.78%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.78%) Military
15 10 (0.71%) Local Government
16 9 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 280 (19.90%) Senior
2 256 (18.19%) Developer
3 175 (12.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 125 (8.88%) Architect
5 122 (8.67%) Lead
6 111 (7.89%) Data Engineer
7 82 (5.83%) Platform Engineer
8 78 (5.54%) AWS Engineer
9 72 (5.12%) Azure Engineer
10 69 (4.90%) Senior Developer
11 67 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
12 64 (4.55%) Java Developer
12 64 (4.55%) Software Engineer
13 51 (3.62%) Full-Stack Developer
14 49 (3.48%) Senior DevOps
15 48 (3.41%) Test Engineer
16 45 (3.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 40 (2.84%) Python Developer
18 38 (2.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 36 (2.56%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 670 (47.62%) Terraform
2 228 (16.20%) REST
3 152 (10.80%) Kafka
4 144 (10.23%) RESTful
5 128 (9.10%) Spring
6 123 (8.74%) React
7 122 (8.67%) .NET
8 111 (7.89%) Spring Boot
9 85 (6.04%) Playwright
10 70 (4.98%) Node.js
11 57 (4.05%) OAuth
12 51 (3.62%) PySpark
12 51 (3.62%) YAML
13 50 (3.55%) HTML
14 49 (3.48%) JSON
15 46 (3.27%) FastAPI
15 46 (3.27%) OAuth2
16 41 (2.91%) AngularJS
17 39 (2.77%) OpenTelemetry
18 36 (2.56%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 305 (21.68%) Cloud Native
2 105 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
3 81 (5.76%) Product Ownership
4 76 (5.40%) AI Agents
5 50 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
6 44 (3.13%) Data Centre
7 39 (2.77%) Mobile App
8 37 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 37 (2.63%) Onboarding
9 29 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
10 26 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (1.78%) Security Posture
12 22 (1.56%) Data Structures
12 22 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
14 19 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
15 18 (1.28%) Algorithms
15 18 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
15 18 (1.28%) Public Cloud
16 17 (1.21%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 134 (9.52%) Linux
2 60 (4.26%) Windows
3 37 (2.63%) Unix
4 28 (1.99%) Android
5 25 (1.78%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (1.42%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.57%) VMS
9 7 (0.50%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.28%) CentOS
11 3 (0.21%) Debian
11 3 (0.21%) 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 (0.071%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,065 (75.69%) CI/CD
2 834 (59.28%) DevOps
3 582 (41.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 517 (36.74%) Agile
5 355 (25.23%) Observability
6 349 (24.80%) Test Automation
7 323 (22.96%) AI
8 303 (21.54%) Containerisation
9 270 (19.19%) Microservices
10 239 (16.99%) Software Engineering
11 221 (15.71%) Platform Engineering
12 200 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 183 (13.01%) Event-Driven
14 168 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
15 160 (11.37%) Stakeholder Management
16 155 (11.02%) Analytics
17 147 (10.45%) Technical Leadership
18 138 (9.81%) Scrum
19 136 (9.67%) DevSecOps
20 130 (9.24%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 625 (44.42%) Python
2 324 (23.03%) SQL
3 281 (19.97%) Java
4 193 (13.72%) Bash
5 180 (12.79%) PowerShell
6 157 (11.16%) TypeScript
7 146 (10.38%) JavaScript
8 130 (9.24%) C#
9 102 (7.25%) Bicep
10 48 (3.41%) Kotlin
11 44 (3.13%) Go
12 38 (2.70%) Shell Script
13 33 (2.35%) Scala
14 21 (1.49%) Ruby
15 19 (1.35%) Swift
16 12 (0.85%) ActionScript
17 10 (0.71%) C
17 10 (0.71%) Groovy
17 10 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.64%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 427 (30.35%) Security Cleared
2 373 (26.51%) SC Cleared
3 67 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 64 (4.55%) Degree
5 45 (3.20%) AWS Certification
6 40 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 36 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.78%) CISSP
13 11 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (0.78%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.64%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 9 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 7 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (14.21%) QA
2 83 (5.90%) Data Quality
3 74 (5.26%) Accessibility
4 28 (1.99%) GDPR
4 28 (1.99%) WCAG
5 26 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.49%) NIST
7 12 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (0.71%) NCSC
9 8 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.43%) PSD2
11 5 (0.36%) GRC
11 5 (0.36%) HL7
11 5 (0.36%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.36%) SEPA
12 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.21%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.071%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 452 (32.13%) Docker
2 49 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (0.78%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.78%) IAG
7 10 (0.71%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.71%) vSphere
8 4 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.28%) NFS
9 3 (0.21%) 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
1 503 (35.75%) Kubernetes
2 216 (15.35%) Ansible
3 189 (13.43%) Grafana
4 149 (10.59%) Prometheus
5 56 (3.98%) Argo
6 26 (1.85%) Puppet
7 23 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.56%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.28%) Packer
10 13 (0.92%) Control-M
10 13 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (0.78%) Kibana
12 9 (0.64%) 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
1 269 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 104 (7.39%) Databricks
3 96 (6.82%) Google
4 95 (6.75%) Splunk
5 58 (4.12%) Dynatrace
5 58 (4.12%) Oracle
6 45 (3.20%) OpenAI
6 45 (3.20%) ServiceNow
7 39 (2.77%) VMware
8 34 (2.42%) Red Hat
9 32 (2.27%) Cisco
10 29 (2.06%) Salesforce
11 24 (1.71%) Foundry
12 23 (1.63%) Informatica
13 22 (1.56%) IBM
14 20 (1.42%) F5
15 19 (1.35%) New Relic
16 17 (1.21%) Checkmarx
17 16 (1.14%) Palo Alto
17 16 (1.14%) SAP