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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 131 155
Rank change year-on-year +56 +24 -15
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,062 598 640
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.41% 1.96% 1.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.95% 5.38% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 773 406 458
10th Percentile £360 £313 £413
25th Percentile £413 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 4
10th Percentile £40.00 £26.00 £75.38
25th Percentile £41.50 £39.50 £75.94
Median hourly rate £54.25 £70.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% -9.68% +47.62%
75th Percentile £98.44 - £79.06
90th Percentile £110.00 - £79.63
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £70.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -22.50% -9.68% +47.62%

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 11,868 11,106 13,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.15% 36.32% 35.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,137 7,413 9,823
10th Percentile £305 £313 £291
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 147 269
10th Percentile £15.05 £17.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.47 £31.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.14% +26.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £51.00 £56.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.50 £70.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £26.15 £30.00 £25.38
% change year-on-year -12.83% +18.20% +12.80%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +43 598 £550 - 292
North of England +23 162 £480 +9.09% 240
South East +63 97 £450 - 281
Midlands +32 85 £550 +4.76% 171
Yorkshire 0 83 £500 +12.36% 91
West Midlands +33 72 £575 +12.20% 102
South West +2 68 £650 - 104
North West +19 64 £405 +23.10% 127
North East +11 17 £545 - 26
East of England -8 16 £560 +6.67% 128
East Midlands -6 13 £418 -33.15% 64
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 92 (8.66%) Confluence
2 59 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (1.88%) Apache Spark
3 20 (1.88%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.22%) nginx
5 10 (0.94%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.56%) Apache
7 6 (0.56%) Mule
8 5 (0.47%) SAS
8 5 (0.47%) WordPress
9 3 (0.28%) CMS
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.19%) Traefik
10 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.094%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.094%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 26 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.47%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.19%) Trello
5 1 (0.094%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.094%) InDesign
5 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.094%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.38%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.19%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.094%) Actimize
3 1 (0.094%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.094%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.094%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.094%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.094%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.094%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.094%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 526 (49.53%) AWS
2 523 (49.25%) GitHub Actions
3 447 (42.09%) Azure
4 214 (20.15%) Azure DevOps
5 170 (16.01%) GCP
6 164 (15.44%) Serverless
7 115 (10.83%) Amazon S3
8 109 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
9 88 (8.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 80 (7.53%) Amazon ECS
11 69 (6.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 64 (6.03%) Amazon EKS
13 61 (5.74%) Entra ID
13 61 (5.74%) OpenShift
14 58 (5.46%) Azure AKS
15 57 (5.37%) Power Platform
16 54 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
17 52 (4.90%) GitHub Copilot
18 50 (4.71%) Azure Monitor
19 46 (4.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 40 (3.77%) DNS
2 37 (3.48%) Firewall
3 27 (2.54%) VPN
4 15 (1.41%) Network Security
5 13 (1.22%) HTTP
5 13 (1.22%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.04%) SSL
7 9 (0.85%) WAN
8 8 (0.75%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.66%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.47%) Internet
10 5 (0.47%) OpenLDAP
10 5 (0.47%) SSH
11 4 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
12 2 (0.19%) Calico
12 2 (0.19%) Modbus
12 2 (0.19%) RS-232
12 2 (0.19%) RS-485
12 2 (0.19%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (14.78%) PostgreSQL
2 79 (7.44%) NoSQL
3 64 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
4 52 (4.90%) MongoDB
5 50 (4.71%) Relational Database
6 43 (4.05%) DynamoDB
7 38 (3.58%) Redis
7 38 (3.58%) SQL Server
8 34 (3.20%) MySQL
9 32 (3.01%) Data Lake
10 28 (2.64%) Power BI
11 22 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
13 20 (1.88%) Delta Lake
14 19 (1.79%) BigQuery
14 19 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
15 17 (1.60%) Big Data
16 15 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
17 14 (1.32%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 295 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 223 (21.00%) Git
3 185 (17.42%) GitLab
4 174 (16.38%) JIRA
5 56 (5.27%) Sonatype Nexus
6 52 (4.90%) JUnit
7 47 (4.43%) SonarQube
8 44 (4.14%) Bitbucket
8 44 (4.14%) Cypress.io
9 42 (3.95%) Cucumber
10 39 (3.67%) CircleCI
11 37 (3.48%) Artifactory
12 35 (3.30%) Gradle
13 29 (2.73%) Postman
13 29 (2.73%) Selenium
14 26 (2.45%) Maven
15 22 (2.07%) JMeter
16 19 (1.79%) SpecFlow
17 18 (1.69%) Snyk
18 13 (1.22%) MLflow
General
1 266 (25.05%) Social Skills
2 160 (15.07%) Finance
3 136 (12.81%) Public Sector
4 78 (7.34%) Banking
5 71 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
8 17 (1.60%) Military
9 14 (1.32%) Front Office
9 14 (1.32%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.22%) Marketing
11 11 (1.04%) Telecoms
12 8 (0.75%) Aerospace
13 7 (0.66%) Retail
14 6 (0.56%) Games
15 5 (0.47%) Billing
15 5 (0.47%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.47%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 245 (23.07%) Developer
2 168 (15.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 166 (15.63%) Senior
4 96 (9.04%) AWS Engineer
5 79 (7.44%) Data Engineer
6 66 (6.21%) Architect
7 58 (5.46%) Lead
7 58 (5.46%) Platform Engineer
8 55 (5.18%) AWS DevOps
8 55 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
8 55 (5.18%) Java Developer
9 52 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
10 51 (4.80%) Software Engineer
11 47 (4.43%) Senior Developer
12 44 (4.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 44 (4.14%) Azure Engineer
13 40 (3.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 34 (3.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 31 (2.92%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 31 (2.92%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (12.81%) REST
2 127 (11.96%) React
3 116 (10.92%) Kafka
4 111 (10.45%) Node.js
5 97 (9.13%) .NET
6 95 (8.95%) RESTful
7 80 (7.53%) Spring
8 77 (7.25%) AngularJS
9 67 (6.31%) Spring Boot
10 61 (5.74%) HTML
11 57 (5.37%) OAuth
12 55 (5.18%) CSS
13 48 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
14 46 (4.33%) Playwright
15 44 (4.14%) YAML
16 43 (4.05%) JSON
17 42 (3.95%) FastAPI
18 41 (3.86%) GraphQL
19 35 (3.30%) pytest
20 30 (2.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 170 (16.01%) Cloud Native
2 38 (3.58%) Product Ownership
3 32 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
6 26 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.79%) Algorithms
7 19 (1.79%) Public Cloud
8 18 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.41%) Life Science
9 15 (1.41%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.32%) AI Agents
10 14 (1.32%) Genomics
10 14 (1.32%) PKI
11 12 (1.13%) Clustering
11 12 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
11 12 (1.13%) Private Cloud
11 12 (1.13%) Replication
11 12 (1.13%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 144 (13.56%) Linux
2 39 (3.67%) Windows
3 29 (2.73%) Unix
4 18 (1.69%) Android
5 15 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (1.13%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.66%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.56%) Solaris
9 5 (0.47%) CentOS
9 5 (0.47%) VMS
10 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.19%) zOS
13 1 (0.094%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.094%) MVS
13 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 736 (69.30%) CI/CD
2 621 (58.47%) DevOps
3 377 (35.50%) Agile
4 372 (35.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 289 (27.21%) Containerisation
6 212 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
7 210 (19.77%) Microservices
8 202 (19.02%) Test Automation
9 193 (18.17%) AI
10 146 (13.75%) Observability
11 130 (12.24%) Software Engineering
12 127 (11.96%) Migration
13 124 (11.68%) Full-Stack Development
14 111 (10.45%) Data Pipeline
15 104 (9.79%) Scrum
16 100 (9.42%) Analytics
17 98 (9.23%) Platform Engineering
18 92 (8.66%) Machine Learning
19 86 (8.10%) DevSecOps
20 85 (8.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 500 (47.08%) Python
2 233 (21.94%) SQL
3 209 (19.68%) Java
4 148 (13.94%) JavaScript
5 147 (13.84%) TypeScript
6 138 (12.99%) Bash
7 100 (9.42%) PowerShell
8 97 (9.13%) C#
9 91 (8.57%) Go
10 45 (4.24%) Bicep
11 28 (2.64%) Ruby
12 25 (2.35%) Shell Script
13 21 (1.98%) PHP
14 16 (1.51%) Groovy
15 13 (1.22%) C++
16 8 (0.75%) C
16 8 (0.75%) Korn
16 8 (0.75%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.75%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 304 (28.63%) Security Cleared
2 249 (23.45%) SC Cleared
3 87 (8.19%) Degree
4 50 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (3.58%) DV Cleared
6 36 (3.39%) Azure Certification
7 32 (3.01%) AWS Certification
8 16 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.51%) MCP
9 15 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.22%) Master's Degree
11 12 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (0.85%) OCP
12 9 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.66%) OSCP
14 6 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 6 (0.56%) CISSP
14 6 (0.56%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.47%) CREST Certified
15 5 (0.47%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.31%) QA
2 37 (3.48%) Accessibility
3 33 (3.11%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.11%) NIST
4 27 (2.54%) GDPR
5 23 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (2.17%) NCSC
6 15 (1.41%) EU AI Act
7 14 (1.32%) WCAG
8 6 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.47%) GRC
9 5 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.38%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.38%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.28%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.28%) ITGC
11 3 (0.28%) SLA
12 2 (0.19%) FIPS 140-2
System Software
1 359 (33.80%) Docker
2 46 (4.33%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.47%) NFS
6 5 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.38%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.38%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (0.38%) vSphere
8 3 (0.28%) QEMU
8 3 (0.28%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.19%) Firmware
9 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.19%) KVM
9 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.094%) SRDF
10 1 (0.094%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.094%) Xen
Systems Management
1 466 (43.88%) Terraform
2 416 (39.17%) Kubernetes
3 138 (12.99%) Ansible
4 128 (12.05%) Grafana
5 106 (9.98%) Prometheus
6 47 (4.43%) Argo
7 34 (3.20%) Puppet
8 30 (2.82%) Progress Chef
9 22 (2.07%) Istio
10 14 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
11 13 (1.22%) Packer
12 12 (1.13%) Podman
13 8 (0.75%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.66%) Sysdig
15 6 (0.56%) Kibana
16 5 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.47%) logstash
16 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
16 5 (0.47%) Nmap
17 4 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 167 (15.73%) Microsoft
2 87 (8.19%) Google
3 66 (6.21%) Splunk
4 63 (5.93%) Databricks
5 43 (4.05%) VMware
6 38 (3.58%) Red Hat
7 37 (3.48%) OpenAI
8 26 (2.45%) Atlassian
9 25 (2.35%) Oracle
10 16 (1.51%) Foundry
10 16 (1.51%) ServiceNow
11 14 (1.32%) Salesforce
12 11 (1.04%) CyberArk
12 11 (1.04%) Okta
13 10 (0.94%) Sonatype
13 10 (0.94%) Veracode
14 9 (0.85%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.85%) NetApp
14 9 (0.85%) SAP
15 8 (0.75%) Cisco