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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 131 169
Rank change year-on-year +61 +38 -42
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,185 541 534
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.48% 2.10% 1.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.25% 5.60% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 854 370 377
10th Percentile £355 £325 £413
25th Percentile £411 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% -0.50% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £626
90th Percentile £700 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.57% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 2
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 £48.78
25th Percentile £46.00 £26.19 £51.81
Median hourly rate £62.00 £27.50 £57.75
Median % change year-on-year +125.45% -52.38% +6.94%
75th Percentile £74.00 £61.25 £62.81
90th Percentile £81.20 £68.75 £65.33
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £27.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +103.64% -43.30% -10.19%

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 12,806 9,658 12,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.65% 37.44% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,843 6,464 9,116
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £419 £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 354 140 299
10th Percentile £14.65 £16.18 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -10.80%
75th Percentile £58.75 £48.19 £49.54
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.93 £67.11
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +30.91% +22.22% -10.00%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +42 679 £540 -1.82% 193
North of England +32 189 £491 +3.37% 146
Yorkshire +3 107 £480 +1.05% 63
South East +38 106 £450 -5.26% 151
Midlands +19 84 £550 +11.11% 68
South West +12 74 £550 -15.38% 61
North West +12 70 £488 +2.63% 65
West Midlands +14 68 £575 +24.12% 31
East of England -12 19 £550 +72.96% 62
North East +1 16 £545 +50.34% 19
East Midlands -6 16 £402 -19.60% 37
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 (8.78%) Confluence
2 42 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (2.11%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.86%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.84%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.76%) nginx
7 8 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.59%) Apache
9 4 (0.34%) CMS
10 3 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.17%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.17%) Mule
11 2 (0.17%) SAS
11 2 (0.17%) Traefik
11 2 (0.17%) WordPress
12 1 (0.084%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.084%) Appian
12 1 (0.084%) Luigi
12 1 (0.084%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 27 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.42%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.084%) InDesign
6 1 (0.084%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.59%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.084%) Actimize
3 1 (0.084%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.084%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.084%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.084%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 595 (50.21%) GitHub Actions
2 535 (45.15%) Azure
3 527 (44.47%) AWS
4 255 (21.52%) Azure DevOps
5 186 (15.70%) GCP
6 181 (15.27%) Serverless
7 115 (9.70%) AWS Lambda
8 99 (8.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 96 (8.10%) Amazon EKS
10 95 (8.02%) Amazon S3
11 86 (7.26%) Power Platform
12 82 (6.92%) Amazon ECS
13 79 (6.67%) OpenShift
14 70 (5.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 69 (5.82%) Azure AKS
16 65 (5.49%) Azure Data Factory
17 64 (5.40%) Entra ID
18 63 (5.32%) Azure Monitor
19 62 (5.23%) GitHub Copilot
20 50 (4.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 52 (4.39%) Firewall
2 47 (3.97%) DNS
3 27 (2.28%) Network Security
4 25 (2.11%) VPN
5 12 (1.01%) HTTP
6 10 (0.84%) SSL
6 10 (0.84%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.68%) Kerberos
7 8 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.68%) WAN
8 7 (0.59%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.59%) Modbus
8 7 (0.59%) RS-232
8 7 (0.59%) RS-485
9 5 (0.42%) Internet
9 5 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.17%) Calico
10 2 (0.17%) DSL
11 1 (0.084%) Intranet
11 1 (0.084%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (13.42%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (6.41%) NoSQL
3 63 (5.32%) MongoDB
4 59 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
5 53 (4.47%) Data Lake
5 53 (4.47%) SQL Server
6 49 (4.14%) Power BI
7 47 (3.97%) Relational Database
8 45 (3.80%) DynamoDB
9 40 (3.38%) Redis
10 36 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
10 36 (3.04%) MySQL
11 28 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
12 25 (2.11%) Delta Lake
13 18 (1.52%) BigQuery
14 17 (1.43%) Big Data
14 17 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
15 16 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (1.27%) DocumentDB
17 12 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 350 (29.54%) Jenkins
2 217 (18.31%) Git
3 210 (17.72%) GitLab
4 167 (14.09%) JIRA
5 73 (6.16%) JUnit
6 59 (4.98%) Sonatype Nexus
7 45 (3.80%) Artifactory
8 41 (3.46%) Cucumber
9 40 (3.38%) CircleCI
10 39 (3.29%) Cypress.io
10 39 (3.29%) Gradle
11 37 (3.12%) Bitbucket
11 37 (3.12%) Selenium
12 35 (2.95%) SonarQube
13 33 (2.78%) Postman
14 28 (2.36%) JMeter
15 27 (2.28%) Maven
16 15 (1.27%) MLflow
16 15 (1.27%) Snyk
17 14 (1.18%) Gatling
General
1 293 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 180 (15.19%) Finance
3 149 (12.57%) Public Sector
4 85 (7.17%) Banking
5 81 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (1.69%) Military
7 18 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (1.35%) Retail
9 15 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
10 14 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.10%) Front Office
11 13 (1.10%) Investment Banking
12 9 (0.76%) Marketing
12 9 (0.76%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.51%) Games
13 6 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.42%) Billing
14 5 (0.42%) Law
14 5 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 278 (23.46%) Developer
2 188 (15.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 174 (14.68%) Senior
4 87 (7.34%) Data Engineer
4 87 (7.34%) Lead
5 79 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 78 (6.58%) Full-Stack Developer
7 75 (6.33%) Architect
8 74 (6.24%) AWS Engineer
9 69 (5.82%) Platform Engineer
10 61 (5.15%) Java Developer
11 57 (4.81%) Azure Engineer
12 49 (4.14%) Software Engineer
13 46 (3.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 45 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
15 42 (3.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 41 (3.46%) Senior Developer
17 36 (3.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 30 (2.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 29 (2.45%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (12.24%) Kafka
2 143 (12.07%) REST
3 127 (10.72%) React
4 122 (10.30%) Node.js
5 115 (9.70%) Spring
6 108 (9.11%) .NET
7 85 (7.17%) Spring Boot
8 84 (7.09%) RESTful
9 71 (5.99%) AngularJS
10 62 (5.23%) CSS
11 60 (5.06%) Playwright
12 55 (4.64%) HTML
13 52 (4.39%) Elastic Stack
14 51 (4.30%) OAuth
15 41 (3.46%) PySpark
15 41 (3.46%) PyTorch
16 40 (3.38%) JSON
17 39 (3.29%) FastAPI
18 37 (3.12%) GraphQL
18 37 (3.12%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 186 (15.70%) Cloud Native
2 42 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
2 42 (3.54%) Product Ownership
3 32 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 27 (2.28%) Public Cloud
5 22 (1.86%) Algorithms
6 20 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.43%) AI Agents
8 17 (1.43%) Virtual Team
9 16 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.27%) Life Science
11 14 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (1.18%) Replication
12 13 (1.10%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.10%) Private Cloud
13 12 (1.01%) Genomics
13 12 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
13 12 (1.01%) NHS
13 12 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 162 (13.67%) Linux
2 41 (3.46%) Windows
3 29 (2.45%) Android
4 26 (2.19%) Unix
5 18 (1.52%) 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%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.34%) CentOS
10 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
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 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.084%) Debian
13 1 (0.084%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 849 (71.65%) CI/CD
2 705 (59.49%) DevOps
3 419 (35.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 376 (31.73%) Agile
5 306 (25.82%) Containerisation
6 240 (20.25%) Test Automation
7 228 (19.24%) AI
8 227 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
9 215 (18.14%) Microservices
10 202 (17.05%) Observability
11 172 (14.51%) Migration
12 142 (11.98%) Analytics
13 141 (11.90%) Full-Stack Development
14 138 (11.65%) Platform Engineering
15 122 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
16 119 (10.04%) Software Engineering
17 111 (9.37%) Data Pipeline
18 100 (8.44%) Machine Learning
18 100 (8.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 99 (8.35%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 556 (46.92%) Python
2 258 (21.77%) SQL
3 242 (20.42%) Java
4 167 (14.09%) JavaScript
5 142 (11.98%) TypeScript
6 139 (11.73%) Bash
7 104 (8.78%) PowerShell
8 100 (8.44%) C#
9 71 (5.99%) Go
10 52 (4.39%) Bicep
11 31 (2.62%) Shell Script
12 25 (2.11%) Ruby
13 17 (1.43%) Kotlin
14 14 (1.18%) PHP
15 12 (1.01%) Groovy
15 12 (1.01%) Scala
16 11 (0.93%) C++
17 9 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.68%) C
18 8 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 345 (29.11%) Security Cleared
2 264 (22.28%) SC Cleared
3 79 (6.67%) Degree
4 51 (4.30%) DV Cleared
5 45 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (3.29%) Azure Certification
7 34 (2.87%) AWS Certification
8 26 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 15 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.76%) OCP
11 9 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (0.68%) CISSP
12 8 (0.68%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 7 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
14 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.34%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.84%) QA
2 51 (4.30%) Accessibility
3 47 (3.97%) Data Quality
4 29 (2.45%) NIST
5 22 (1.86%) NCSC
5 22 (1.86%) WCAG
6 21 (1.77%) GDPR
7 16 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (1.27%) EU AI Act
9 12 (1.01%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.59%) SLA
11 5 (0.42%) GRC
11 5 (0.42%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.25%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.17%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.17%) MiFID
13 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 380 (32.07%) Docker
2 34 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
3 33 (2.78%) Active Directory
4 20 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (1.18%) vSphere
6 13 (1.10%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.59%) Firmware
8 6 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.25%) HDFS
10 2 (0.17%) NFS
10 2 (0.17%) QEMU
10 2 (0.17%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.084%) etcd
11 1 (0.084%) ISA Server
11 1 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 520 (43.88%) Terraform
2 461 (38.90%) Kubernetes
3 175 (14.77%) Ansible
4 131 (11.05%) Grafana
5 94 (7.93%) Prometheus
6 69 (5.82%) Argo
7 37 (3.12%) Istio
8 25 (2.11%) Progress Chef
9 21 (1.77%) Puppet
10 13 (1.10%) vCenter Server
11 12 (1.01%) Kibana
11 12 (1.01%) Podman
12 11 (0.93%) Packer
13 9 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.68%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.59%) Sysdig
16 6 (0.51%) linkerd
17 5 (0.42%) logstash
18 4 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
18 4 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 197 (16.62%) Microsoft
2 99 (8.35%) Google
3 81 (6.84%) Databricks
4 72 (6.08%) Splunk
5 52 (4.39%) VMware
6 45 (3.80%) OpenAI
7 43 (3.63%) Red Hat
8 41 (3.46%) Oracle
9 20 (1.69%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.60%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.60%) Foundry
11 18 (1.52%) Sonatype
12 13 (1.10%) Dynatrace
12 13 (1.10%) Pure Storage
13 12 (1.01%) Salesforce
14 8 (0.68%) Commvault
14 8 (0.68%) NetApp
14 8 (0.68%) New Relic
14 8 (0.68%) Okta
14 8 (0.68%) SAP