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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 134 152
Rank change year-on-year +62 +18 -18
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,103 562 612
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.47% 1.97% 1.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.12% 5.38% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 805 389 438
10th Percentile £359 £323 £413
25th Percentile £413 £440 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £635 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 3
10th Percentile £40.00 £22.33 £75.25
25th Percentile £41.50 £26.66 £75.63
Median hourly rate £54.25 £40.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.95% -47.74% +40.91%
75th Percentile £98.44 £68.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £110.00 £69.13 -
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £40.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year +33.95% -47.74% +40.91%

All Cloud 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 12,091 10,441 12,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.03% 36.60% 34.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,329 6,994 9,348
10th Percentile £304 £313 £281
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £710 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 136 248
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.88 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.20 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.21 £29.00 £23.43
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +23.80% +4.11%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.06 £53.75
90th Percentile £77.25 £68.75 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £25.19
% change year-on-year -3.64% +9.17% +11.96%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 +44 628 £550 - 516
North of England +31 166 £480 +5.21% 408
South East +55 103 £450 - 437
Midlands +31 86 £550 +4.76% 284
Yorkshire +3 85 £500 +11.11% 167
West Midlands +32 71 £575 +9.52% 153
North West +24 65 £402 -15.37% 210
South West +5 61 £649 +0.43% 177
North East +9 18 £516 +42.41% 35
East of England -14 17 £560 +75.00% 226
East Midlands -9 15 £415 -37.33% 116
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 90 (8.16%) Confluence
2 54 (4.90%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (1.99%) Apache Spark
3 22 (1.99%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.18%) nginx
5 12 (1.09%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.54%) Mule
8 5 (0.45%) WordPress
9 4 (0.36%) SAS
10 3 (0.27%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.18%) Traefik
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.091%) Appian
Applications
1 23 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.18%) Trello
5 1 (0.091%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.091%) InDesign
5 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.091%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.091%) Actimize
3 1 (0.091%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.091%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.091%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.091%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.091%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.091%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.091%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.091%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 575 (52.13%) GitHub Actions
2 537 (48.69%) AWS
3 497 (45.06%) Azure
4 233 (21.12%) Azure DevOps
5 191 (17.32%) GCP
6 177 (16.05%) Serverless
7 122 (11.06%) AWS Lambda
8 119 (10.79%) Amazon S3
9 96 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 85 (7.71%) Amazon ECS
11 77 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 75 (6.80%) Amazon EKS
13 71 (6.44%) Power Platform
14 68 (6.17%) OpenShift
15 61 (5.53%) Azure AKS
16 59 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
17 57 (5.17%) Entra ID
17 57 (5.17%) GitHub Copilot
18 50 (4.53%) Azure Monitor
18 50 (4.53%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.44%) Firewall
2 47 (4.26%) DNS
3 26 (2.36%) VPN
4 17 (1.54%) Network Security
4 17 (1.54%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.18%) HTTP
5 13 (1.18%) SSL
6 9 (0.82%) WAN
7 8 (0.73%) Kerberos
7 8 (0.73%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.45%) Internet
8 5 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
8 5 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (0.45%) SSH
9 4 (0.36%) Ethernet
9 4 (0.36%) Modbus
9 4 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (0.36%) RS-232
9 4 (0.36%) RS-485
10 2 (0.18%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (15.68%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (7.43%) NoSQL
3 65 (5.89%) Amazon RDS
4 60 (5.44%) MongoDB
5 52 (4.71%) Relational Database
6 50 (4.53%) SQL Server
7 46 (4.17%) DynamoDB
8 42 (3.81%) Redis
9 37 (3.35%) Data Lake
9 37 (3.35%) Power BI
10 34 (3.08%) MySQL
11 25 (2.27%) BigQuery
12 24 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
13 22 (1.99%) Delta Lake
14 21 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
15 19 (1.72%) Big Data
15 19 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
16 17 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
17 14 (1.27%) Amazon QuickSight
18 13 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 314 (28.47%) Jenkins
2 223 (20.22%) Git
3 198 (17.95%) GitLab
4 163 (14.78%) JIRA
5 57 (5.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 53 (4.81%) JUnit
7 48 (4.35%) CircleCI
7 48 (4.35%) SonarQube
8 43 (3.90%) Bitbucket
9 42 (3.81%) Cypress.io
10 41 (3.72%) Artifactory
11 37 (3.35%) Gradle
12 36 (3.26%) Cucumber
13 32 (2.90%) Postman
14 30 (2.72%) Selenium
15 26 (2.36%) Maven
16 24 (2.18%) JMeter
17 22 (1.99%) Snyk
18 16 (1.45%) SpecFlow
19 13 (1.18%) MLflow
General
1 273 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 168 (15.23%) Finance
3 136 (12.33%) Public Sector
4 84 (7.62%) Banking
5 66 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (1.63%) Military
6 18 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 17 (1.54%) Investment Banking
8 15 (1.36%) Front Office
8 15 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.18%) Retail
10 12 (1.09%) Marketing
11 11 (1.00%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.63%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.54%) Games
14 5 (0.45%) Billing
14 5 (0.45%) Law
14 5 (0.45%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 256 (23.21%) Developer
2 180 (16.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 174 (15.78%) Senior
4 91 (8.25%) AWS Engineer
5 84 (7.62%) Data Engineer
6 71 (6.44%) Architect
6 71 (6.44%) Lead
7 65 (5.89%) Cloud Engineer
8 63 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 57 (5.17%) Platform Engineer
10 55 (4.99%) AWS DevOps
11 53 (4.81%) Java Developer
12 52 (4.71%) Software Engineer
13 51 (4.62%) Senior Developer
14 50 (4.53%) Azure Engineer
15 45 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 44 (3.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 36 (3.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 33 (2.99%) DevSecOps Engineer
19 32 (2.90%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (13.06%) REST
2 134 (12.15%) React
3 130 (11.79%) Node.js
4 126 (11.42%) Kafka
5 106 (9.61%) .NET
6 87 (7.89%) RESTful
7 84 (7.62%) Spring
8 73 (6.62%) AngularJS
9 72 (6.53%) Spring Boot
10 59 (5.35%) HTML
11 55 (4.99%) CSS
11 55 (4.99%) OAuth
12 53 (4.81%) Elastic Stack
13 50 (4.53%) Playwright
14 44 (3.99%) JSON
15 43 (3.90%) GraphQL
15 43 (3.90%) YAML
16 42 (3.81%) FastAPI
17 39 (3.54%) pytest
18 34 (3.08%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 181 (16.41%) Cloud Native
2 37 (3.35%) Product Ownership
3 36 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 25 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (1.99%) Onboarding
7 19 (1.72%) Algorithms
8 18 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (1.63%) Public Cloud
9 16 (1.45%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.36%) Life Science
10 15 (1.36%) Virtual Team
11 14 (1.27%) Genomics
11 14 (1.27%) Mobile App
11 14 (1.27%) NHS
11 14 (1.27%) Private Cloud
11 14 (1.27%) Security Posture
12 13 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
12 13 (1.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 148 (13.42%) Linux
2 41 (3.72%) Windows
3 28 (2.54%) Unix
4 20 (1.81%) Android
5 13 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (1.09%) VMS
7 7 (0.63%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.54%) Solaris
9 5 (0.45%) CentOS
10 4 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.18%) zOS
13 1 (0.091%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.091%) MVS
13 1 (0.091%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 788 (71.44%) CI/CD
2 675 (61.20%) DevOps
3 404 (36.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 367 (33.27%) Agile
5 304 (27.56%) Containerisation
6 219 (19.85%) Microservices
7 217 (19.67%) AI
7 217 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
8 207 (18.77%) Test Automation
9 173 (15.68%) Observability
10 136 (12.33%) Migration
11 132 (11.97%) Full-Stack Development
12 129 (11.70%) Software Engineering
13 114 (10.34%) Data Pipeline
14 108 (9.79%) Analytics
15 104 (9.43%) Platform Engineering
16 98 (8.88%) DevSecOps
17 96 (8.70%) Machine Learning
18 90 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
18 90 (8.16%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 513 (46.51%) Python
2 238 (21.58%) SQL
3 221 (20.04%) Java
4 149 (13.51%) TypeScript
5 148 (13.42%) JavaScript
6 132 (11.97%) Bash
7 98 (8.88%) PowerShell
8 97 (8.79%) C#
9 84 (7.62%) Go
10 49 (4.44%) Bicep
11 31 (2.81%) Ruby
11 31 (2.81%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.81%) PHP
13 14 (1.27%) Groovy
14 10 (0.91%) C
14 10 (0.91%) C++
14 10 (0.91%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.82%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.73%) Korn
16 8 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 317 (28.74%) Security Cleared
2 255 (23.12%) SC Cleared
3 90 (8.16%) Degree
4 55 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (3.81%) Azure Certification
6 39 (3.54%) DV Cleared
7 32 (2.90%) AWS Certification
8 21 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.63%) MCP
10 15 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.18%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.73%) OCP
13 8 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
14 7 (0.63%) CISSP
14 7 (0.63%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 4 (0.36%) CTC Cleared
16 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 2 (0.18%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.44%) QA
2 42 (3.81%) Accessibility
3 38 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 32 (2.90%) NIST
5 25 (2.27%) GDPR
6 23 (2.09%) NCSC
7 22 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (1.72%) WCAG
9 15 (1.36%) EU AI Act
10 7 (0.63%) SLA
11 5 (0.45%) GRC
12 4 (0.36%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.27%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.18%) FIPS 140-2
14 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 2 (0.18%) ITGC
14 2 (0.18%) MiFID
15 1 (0.091%) PSD2
System Software
1 378 (34.27%) Docker
2 43 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 27 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.45%) NFS
7 4 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.36%) Firmware
7 4 (0.36%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.36%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.36%) vSphere
8 3 (0.27%) QEMU
8 3 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.18%) HDFS
9 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.18%) KVM
10 1 (0.091%) etcd
10 1 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.091%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 496 (44.97%) Terraform
2 441 (39.98%) Kubernetes
3 157 (14.23%) Ansible
4 132 (11.97%) Grafana
5 105 (9.52%) Prometheus
6 60 (5.44%) Argo
7 33 (2.99%) Istio
8 29 (2.63%) Progress Chef
9 28 (2.54%) Puppet
10 13 (1.18%) Podman
11 11 (1.00%) Packer
12 10 (0.91%) Kibana
13 9 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.73%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.63%) linkerd
15 7 (0.63%) Sysdig
16 5 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.45%) logstash
17 4 (0.36%) QRadar
17 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 179 (16.23%) Microsoft
2 96 (8.70%) Google
3 67 (6.07%) Splunk
4 65 (5.89%) Databricks
5 47 (4.26%) VMware
6 42 (3.81%) OpenAI
7 39 (3.54%) Oracle
7 39 (3.54%) Red Hat
8 24 (2.18%) Atlassian
9 21 (1.90%) ServiceNow
10 17 (1.54%) Foundry
11 14 (1.27%) Salesforce
12 10 (0.91%) Dynatrace
12 10 (0.91%) Sonatype
13 9 (0.82%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.82%) NetApp
13 9 (0.82%) Okta
13 9 (0.82%) SAP
14 8 (0.73%) Commvault
15 7 (0.63%) Cisco