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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 113 160
Rank change year-on-year +34 +47 -35
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,257 574 555
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.98% 2.35% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.51% 6.22% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 854 390 350
10th Percentile £369 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £426 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.91% -10.79%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £625
90th Percentile £699 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 28
10th Percentile £50.84 £25.93 £42.10
25th Percentile £58.43 £26.94 £69.25
Median hourly rate £66.57 £47.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.14% -32.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £47.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +32.92% -32.14% +27.27%

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 14,777 9,235 11,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.74% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,038 6,295 8,585
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £510 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 507 225 331
10th Percentile £15.97 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.36 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +58.00% +16.50% -38.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.75 £41.63
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +28.41% +30.23% -41.89%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +30 725 £550 - 188
North of England +24 231 £493 -0.06% 120
Yorkshire +19 168 £483 -7.12% 41
Midlands +4 92 £488 +2.63% 51
West Midlands +4 78 £500 +5.26% 26
South West +27 75 £450 -25.00% 55
South East -44 74 £500 +4.60% 112
North West -19 56 £550 +15.79% 65
East of England -9 31 £500 -9.09% 40
East Midlands -18 13 £425 -12.82% 25
North East -16 12 £450 -5.26% 15
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
1 107 (8.51%) Confluence
2 46 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (2.39%) SharePoint
4 27 (2.15%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.27%) Apache
6 10 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.32%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.16%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) nginx
8 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.080%) Appian
9 1 (0.080%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.080%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.080%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.080%) SAS
9 1 (0.080%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.080%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.080%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.080%) Notion
6 1 (0.080%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.080%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.24%) Findur
2 3 (0.24%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.16%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.16%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.080%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.080%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 670 (53.30%) GitHub Actions
2 576 (45.82%) Azure
3 558 (44.39%) AWS
4 317 (25.22%) Azure DevOps
5 190 (15.12%) GCP
6 175 (13.92%) Serverless
7 122 (9.71%) AWS Lambda
8 116 (9.23%) Amazon S3
9 94 (7.48%) Amazon EKS
10 92 (7.32%) Power Platform
11 85 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 84 (6.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 79 (6.28%) GitHub Copilot
14 76 (6.05%) Amazon ECS
15 75 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
16 70 (5.57%) Azure Data Factory
17 68 (5.41%) Azure AKS
18 62 (4.93%) Amazon EC2
19 56 (4.46%) Entra ID
20 49 (3.90%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 67 (5.33%) Firewall
2 63 (5.01%) DNS
3 38 (3.02%) VPN
4 25 (1.99%) Network Security
5 12 (0.95%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.80%) SSL
7 9 (0.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (0.64%) HTTP
9 7 (0.56%) BIG-IP
9 7 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 7 (0.56%) VLAN
10 6 (0.48%) WAN
11 5 (0.40%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.40%) Internet
11 5 (0.40%) Modbus
11 5 (0.40%) RS-232
11 5 (0.40%) RS-485
12 4 (0.32%) DHCP
12 4 (0.32%) NAS
12 4 (0.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (9.07%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (6.76%) SQL Server
3 76 (6.05%) Data Lake
4 63 (5.01%) Power BI
5 58 (4.61%) NoSQL
6 55 (4.38%) MongoDB
7 46 (3.66%) DynamoDB
8 45 (3.58%) Relational Database
9 44 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 43 (3.42%) Delta Lake
11 40 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
12 39 (3.10%) Redis
13 30 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
14 29 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
15 24 (1.91%) Big Data
16 22 (1.75%) Metadata
17 21 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
18 19 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
18 19 (1.51%) BigQuery
19 18 (1.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 386 (30.71%) Jenkins
2 257 (20.45%) GitLab
3 233 (18.54%) Git
4 155 (12.33%) JIRA
5 79 (6.28%) JUnit
6 59 (4.69%) Selenium
7 47 (3.74%) Cucumber
8 41 (3.26%) JMeter
9 39 (3.10%) Gatling
10 38 (3.02%) Cypress.io
10 38 (3.02%) Gradle
11 37 (2.94%) CircleCI
12 33 (2.63%) Bitbucket
12 33 (2.63%) SonarQube
13 32 (2.55%) Maven
14 31 (2.47%) REST Assured
15 28 (2.23%) Postman
16 25 (1.99%) Artifactory
17 21 (1.67%) Mockito
18 20 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 296 (23.55%) Social Skills
2 205 (16.31%) Finance
3 137 (10.90%) Public Sector
4 94 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (6.28%) Banking
6 27 (2.15%) Retail
7 22 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (1.59%) Military
9 17 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (1.35%) Legal
10 14 (1.11%) Law
11 13 (1.03%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (0.72%) Front Office
13 9 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.56%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.56%) Marketing
15 6 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.32%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 237 (18.85%) Developer
2 218 (17.34%) Senior
3 171 (13.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 112 (8.91%) Data Engineer
5 105 (8.35%) Architect
6 94 (7.48%) Lead
7 84 (6.68%) Cloud Engineer
8 75 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
9 70 (5.57%) AWS Engineer
10 62 (4.93%) Azure Engineer
11 59 (4.69%) Java Developer
12 53 (4.22%) Senior Developer
12 53 (4.22%) Software Engineer
13 47 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
13 47 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 42 (3.34%) GCP Engineer
15 41 (3.26%) Test Engineer
16 38 (3.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 35 (2.78%) AWS DevOps
17 35 (2.78%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (11.46%) REST
2 130 (10.34%) Spring
3 128 (10.18%) Kafka
4 107 (8.51%) React
5 105 (8.35%) .NET
6 102 (8.11%) Spring Boot
7 93 (7.40%) RESTful
8 74 (5.89%) Node.js
9 69 (5.49%) Playwright
10 66 (5.25%) PySpark
11 48 (3.82%) OpenTelemetry
12 37 (2.94%) OAuth
13 36 (2.86%) AngularJS
13 36 (2.86%) GraphQL
14 34 (2.70%) .NET Framework
14 34 (2.70%) YAML
15 31 (2.47%) HTML
15 31 (2.47%) WireMock
16 30 (2.39%) FastAPI
16 30 (2.39%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 241 (19.17%) Cloud Native
2 96 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (5.25%) Product Ownership
4 33 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 28 (2.23%) Data Centre
6 27 (2.15%) Mobile App
7 26 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 26 (2.07%) Public Cloud
8 23 (1.83%) AI Agents
9 18 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
10 17 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.03%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.03%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.95%) NHS
15 11 (0.88%) Private Cloud
15 11 (0.88%) Replication
16 10 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 128 (10.18%) Linux
2 61 (4.85%) Windows
3 28 (2.23%) Android
3 28 (2.23%) Unix
4 26 (2.07%) Apple iOS
5 18 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (1.11%) VMS
7 12 (0.95%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.40%) FreeRTOS
8 5 (0.40%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.32%) Debian
9 4 (0.32%) Rocky
10 3 (0.24%) CentOS
11 2 (0.16%) AIX
11 2 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.16%) MVS
11 2 (0.16%) zOS
12 1 (0.080%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.080%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 942 (74.94%) CI/CD
2 723 (57.52%) DevOps
3 486 (38.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 385 (30.63%) Agile
5 283 (22.51%) Test Automation
6 270 (21.48%) Containerisation
7 265 (21.08%) Observability
8 223 (17.74%) Microservices
9 208 (16.55%) AI
10 201 (15.99%) Platform Engineering
11 162 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 160 (12.73%) Analytics
12 160 (12.73%) Software Engineering
13 159 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
14 154 (12.25%) Migration
15 123 (9.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 121 (9.63%) Data Pipeline
17 118 (9.39%) Data Engineering
18 117 (9.31%) Event-Driven
19 112 (8.91%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 539 (42.88%) Python
2 313 (24.90%) SQL
3 240 (19.09%) Java
4 158 (12.57%) Bash
5 137 (10.90%) PowerShell
6 131 (10.42%) JavaScript
7 128 (10.18%) C#
8 111 (8.83%) TypeScript
9 66 (5.25%) Bicep
10 39 (3.10%) Go
11 35 (2.78%) Scala
12 33 (2.63%) Kotlin
12 33 (2.63%) Shell Script
13 22 (1.75%) Ruby
14 20 (1.59%) Swift
15 10 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.64%) Groovy
17 7 (0.56%) ActionScript
17 7 (0.56%) C
17 7 (0.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 376 (29.91%) Security Cleared
2 308 (24.50%) SC Cleared
3 52 (4.14%) Degree
4 43 (3.42%) Azure Certification
5 42 (3.34%) DV Cleared
6 34 (2.70%) AWS Certification
7 33 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.88%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 10 (0.80%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.56%) CISSP
13 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 7 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 6 (0.48%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.48%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (10.50%) QA
2 77 (6.13%) Data Quality
3 61 (4.85%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.47%) GDPR
5 27 (2.15%) WCAG
6 21 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.59%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.19%) NIST
9 9 (0.72%) NCSC
10 8 (0.64%) GRC
11 6 (0.48%) SLA
12 5 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.40%) PSD2
13 4 (0.32%) SEPA
14 3 (0.24%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
15 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 353 (28.08%) Docker
2 30 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.59%) vSphere
6 19 (1.51%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.48%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.40%) Firmware
10 4 (0.32%) NFS
11 2 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.16%) SRDF
11 2 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.080%) HDFS
12 1 (0.080%) IAG
Systems Management
1 584 (46.46%) Terraform
2 430 (34.21%) Kubernetes
3 190 (15.12%) Ansible
4 157 (12.49%) Grafana
5 134 (10.66%) Prometheus
6 58 (4.61%) Argo
7 32 (2.55%) Istio
8 25 (1.99%) Puppet
9 20 (1.59%) vCenter Server
10 16 (1.27%) Packer
11 13 (1.03%) Kibana
11 13 (1.03%) Progress Chef
11 13 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.72%) HAProxy
12 9 (0.72%) NetBackup
13 7 (0.56%) linkerd
14 5 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.32%) Rancher
16 3 (0.24%) Consul
Vendors
1 220 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 100 (7.96%) Databricks
3 91 (7.24%) Google
4 81 (6.44%) Splunk
5 55 (4.38%) Oracle
6 43 (3.42%) VMware
7 37 (2.94%) Red Hat
8 28 (2.23%) OpenAI
9 25 (1.99%) Dynatrace
10 20 (1.59%) Pure Storage
11 19 (1.51%) ServiceNow
12 16 (1.27%) Informatica
13 15 (1.19%) Salesforce
14 14 (1.11%) Atlassian
14 14 (1.11%) IBM
15 13 (1.03%) Checkmarx
15 13 (1.03%) Foundry
16 11 (0.88%) Cisco
16 11 (0.88%) SAP
17 10 (0.80%) Palantir