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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 125 171
Rank change year-on-year +57 +46 -40
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,179 545 527
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.51% 2.11% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.30% 5.63% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 852 367 379
10th Percentile £355 £348 £413
25th Percentile £412 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £693 £684
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 1
10th Percentile £40.00 £22.33 -
25th Percentile £44.50 £25.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £56.25 £27.38 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +105.48% -43.56% -10.19%
75th Percentile £74.00 £57.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £84.80 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £44.25
% change year-on-year +82.65% -38.14% -18.06%

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 12,675 9,682 12,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.74% 37.46% 33.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,765 6,433 9,183
10th Percentile £305 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 140 305
10th Percentile £14.49 £15.44 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.95 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.91 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +30.58% +24.15% -11.40%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.25 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £35.61 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.47% +22.22% -9.09%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +39 675 £550 - 227
North of England +27 190 £478 +0.63% 150
South East +47 105 £450 -4.26% 154
Yorkshire +4 105 £481 +1.26% 69
Midlands +14 83 £550 +10.00% 59
South West +13 72 £550 -15.38% 59
North West +15 71 £405 -14.74% 67
West Midlands +12 67 £584 +11.72% 28
East of England -6 19 £550 +72.41% 58
North East +4 18 £545 +50.34% 15
East Midlands -16 16 £402 -19.60% 32
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
1 105 (8.91%) Confluence
2 50 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (2.21%) SharePoint
4 21 (1.78%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.76%) nginx
7 8 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.51%) Apache
9 5 (0.42%) CMS
10 3 (0.25%) SAS
10 3 (0.25%) WordPress
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.17%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.17%) Mule
11 2 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.17%) Traefik
12 1 (0.085%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.085%) Appian
12 1 (0.085%) Luigi
12 1 (0.085%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 29 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.42%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.17%) Trello
6 1 (0.085%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (0.59%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.085%) Actimize
3 1 (0.085%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.085%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.085%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.085%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.085%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.085%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.085%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 590 (50.04%) GitHub Actions
2 530 (44.95%) Azure
3 528 (44.78%) AWS
4 250 (21.20%) Azure DevOps
5 182 (15.44%) GCP
6 177 (15.01%) Serverless
7 112 (9.50%) AWS Lambda
8 108 (9.16%) Amazon S3
9 103 (8.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 94 (7.97%) Amazon EKS
11 86 (7.29%) Power Platform
12 82 (6.96%) Amazon ECS
13 76 (6.45%) OpenShift
14 69 (5.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 68 (5.77%) Azure AKS
16 65 (5.51%) Azure Data Factory
16 65 (5.51%) GitHub Copilot
17 64 (5.43%) Entra ID
18 61 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
19 48 (4.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 51 (4.33%) Firewall
2 46 (3.90%) DNS
3 26 (2.21%) Network Security
4 24 (2.04%) VPN
5 12 (1.02%) HTTP
6 11 (0.93%) SSL
7 10 (0.85%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.68%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.68%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.68%) WAN
9 7 (0.59%) Ethernet
9 7 (0.59%) Modbus
9 7 (0.59%) RS-232
9 7 (0.59%) RS-485
10 5 (0.42%) Internet
10 5 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.17%) Calico
11 2 (0.17%) DSL
11 2 (0.17%) SNMP
11 2 (0.17%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (13.66%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (6.45%) NoSQL
3 63 (5.34%) MongoDB
4 58 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
5 54 (4.58%) Data Lake
6 52 (4.41%) SQL Server
7 49 (4.16%) Power BI
8 47 (3.99%) Relational Database
9 46 (3.90%) DynamoDB
10 39 (3.31%) Redis
11 37 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
12 36 (3.05%) MySQL
13 28 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
14 24 (2.04%) Delta Lake
15 19 (1.61%) BigQuery
16 17 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
17 15 (1.27%) Amazon QuickSight
17 15 (1.27%) Big Data
17 15 (1.27%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 343 (29.09%) Jenkins
2 221 (18.74%) Git
3 210 (17.81%) GitLab
4 166 (14.08%) JIRA
5 71 (6.02%) JUnit
6 59 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 45 (3.82%) Artifactory
8 39 (3.31%) CircleCI
8 39 (3.31%) Cucumber
9 38 (3.22%) Cypress.io
9 38 (3.22%) Gradle
10 35 (2.97%) Bitbucket
10 35 (2.97%) SonarQube
11 34 (2.88%) Postman
11 34 (2.88%) Selenium
12 27 (2.29%) JMeter
13 26 (2.21%) Maven
14 15 (1.27%) Snyk
15 13 (1.10%) MLflow
15 13 (1.10%) Mockito
General
1 286 (24.26%) Social Skills
2 181 (15.35%) Finance
3 150 (12.72%) Public Sector
4 83 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (6.96%) Banking
6 21 (1.78%) Military
7 18 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (1.36%) Retail
9 15 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
11 13 (1.10%) Front Office
11 13 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.02%) Investment Banking
13 10 (0.85%) Marketing
14 9 (0.76%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.51%) Games
15 6 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.42%) Billing
16 5 (0.42%) Law
17 4 (0.34%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 277 (23.49%) Developer
2 189 (16.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 175 (14.84%) Senior
4 97 (8.23%) Data Engineer
5 82 (6.96%) AWS Engineer
5 82 (6.96%) Lead
6 80 (6.79%) Cloud Engineer
7 76 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
8 73 (6.19%) Architect
9 67 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
10 62 (5.26%) Java Developer
11 56 (4.75%) Azure Engineer
12 52 (4.41%) Software Engineer
13 48 (4.07%) AWS DevOps
14 44 (3.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 42 (3.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 41 (3.48%) Senior Developer
17 39 (3.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 33 (2.80%) Senior Data Engineer
19 28 (2.37%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (12.38%) Kafka
2 140 (11.87%) REST
3 125 (10.60%) React
4 121 (10.26%) Node.js
5 113 (9.58%) Spring
6 105 (8.91%) .NET
7 86 (7.29%) Spring Boot
8 85 (7.21%) RESTful
9 69 (5.85%) AngularJS
10 60 (5.09%) CSS
11 56 (4.75%) Playwright
12 53 (4.50%) HTML
13 52 (4.41%) OAuth
14 51 (4.33%) Elastic Stack
15 41 (3.48%) PyTorch
16 40 (3.39%) JSON
16 40 (3.39%) PySpark
17 39 (3.31%) FastAPI
18 37 (3.14%) GraphQL
18 37 (3.14%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 189 (16.03%) Cloud Native
2 41 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
2 41 (3.48%) Product Ownership
3 32 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 26 (2.21%) Public Cloud
5 21 (1.78%) Algorithms
6 20 (1.70%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.44%) AI Agents
8 17 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.36%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.19%) Life Science
10 14 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (1.19%) Replication
11 13 (1.10%) NHS
11 13 (1.10%) Private Cloud
11 13 (1.10%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.02%) Genomics
12 12 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
12 12 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 160 (13.57%) Linux
2 41 (3.48%) Windows
3 27 (2.29%) Android
4 25 (2.12%) Unix
5 16 (1.36%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.27%) VMS
7 13 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.59%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (0.42%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.34%) CentOS
10 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.25%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.17%) Solaris
12 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.085%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.085%) Debian
13 1 (0.085%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 836 (70.91%) CI/CD
2 696 (59.03%) DevOps
3 413 (35.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 365 (30.96%) Agile
5 297 (25.19%) Containerisation
6 232 (19.68%) AI
7 228 (19.34%) Test Automation
8 225 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
9 208 (17.64%) Microservices
10 197 (16.71%) Observability
11 169 (14.33%) Migration
12 139 (11.79%) Analytics
13 137 (11.62%) Full-Stack Development
14 133 (11.28%) Platform Engineering
15 120 (10.18%) Software Engineering
16 118 (10.01%) Data Pipeline
17 116 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
18 99 (8.40%) DevSecOps
19 98 (8.31%) Machine Learning
20 97 (8.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 547 (46.40%) Python
2 269 (22.82%) SQL
3 237 (20.10%) Java
4 162 (13.74%) JavaScript
5 144 (12.21%) TypeScript
6 134 (11.37%) Bash
7 102 (8.65%) PowerShell
8 96 (8.14%) C#
9 73 (6.19%) Go
10 50 (4.24%) Bicep
11 28 (2.37%) Shell Script
12 24 (2.04%) Ruby
13 15 (1.27%) PHP
14 14 (1.19%) Kotlin
15 12 (1.02%) C++
15 12 (1.02%) Scala
16 10 (0.85%) Groovy
17 9 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.68%) Korn
18 8 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 351 (29.77%) Security Cleared
2 271 (22.99%) SC Cleared
3 76 (6.45%) Degree
4 52 (4.41%) DV Cleared
5 42 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (3.22%) Azure Certification
7 32 (2.71%) AWS Certification
8 27 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 18 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.10%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.85%) CISSP
13 9 (0.76%) OCP
13 9 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
14 7 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.59%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 4 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
16 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.34%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (6.45%) QA
2 51 (4.33%) Data Quality
3 49 (4.16%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.46%) NIST
5 23 (1.95%) NCSC
6 22 (1.87%) WCAG
7 21 (1.78%) GDPR
8 16 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (1.27%) EU AI Act
10 13 (1.10%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.59%) SLA
12 5 (0.42%) GRC
12 5 (0.42%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.25%) Def Stans
13 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.17%) ISO 8583
14 2 (0.17%) MiFID
14 2 (0.17%) PSD2
14 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 370 (31.38%) Docker
2 33 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (2.71%) Active Directory
4 19 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.02%) vSphere
6 11 (0.93%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.59%) Firmware
8 6 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.25%) QEMU
10 2 (0.17%) HDFS
10 2 (0.17%) NFS
10 2 (0.17%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.085%) etcd
11 1 (0.085%) ISA Server
11 1 (0.085%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 510 (43.26%) Terraform
2 450 (38.17%) Kubernetes
3 172 (14.59%) Ansible
4 133 (11.28%) Grafana
5 97 (8.23%) Prometheus
6 67 (5.68%) Argo
7 35 (2.97%) Istio
8 26 (2.21%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.70%) Puppet
10 12 (1.02%) Kibana
10 12 (1.02%) Podman
11 11 (0.93%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.85%) Packer
13 9 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.59%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.59%) Sysdig
15 6 (0.51%) linkerd
16 5 (0.42%) logstash
17 4 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
17 4 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 197 (16.71%) Microsoft
2 98 (8.31%) Google
3 80 (6.79%) Databricks
4 73 (6.19%) Splunk
5 51 (4.33%) VMware
6 45 (3.82%) OpenAI
7 41 (3.48%) Oracle
8 40 (3.39%) Red Hat
9 21 (1.78%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.61%) Atlassian
11 18 (1.53%) Foundry
11 18 (1.53%) Sonatype
12 13 (1.10%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.93%) Pure Storage
14 10 (0.85%) Dynatrace
15 8 (0.68%) NetApp
15 8 (0.68%) New Relic
15 8 (0.68%) Okta
15 8 (0.68%) SAP
16 7 (0.59%) Commvault