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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 129 166
Rank change year-on-year +52 +37 -46
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,242 516 535
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.08% 2.12% 1.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.68% 5.69% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 876 358 353
10th Percentile £363 £386 £380
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £623
90th Percentile £700 £750 £685
UK median daily rate £507 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -3.43% -0.94% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 13
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 £24.25
25th Percentile £48.00 £25.72 £46.75
Median hourly rate £63.14 £27.38 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.63% -60.89% +27.27%
75th Percentile £70.92 £58.44 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £62.57 £27.38 £67.00
% change year-on-year +128.56% -59.14% +22.94%

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 14,314 9,067 11,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.50% 37.27% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,862 6,351 8,548
10th Percentile £318 £313 £290
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £740 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 194 323
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.11 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.87
Median hourly rate £45.25 £25.98 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +74.21% +25.06% -35.70%
75th Percentile £67.75 £41.85 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.38 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £40.78 £27.43 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.70% +30.60% -40.00%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +41 717 £550 - 179
North of England +31 209 £496 +4.47% 86
Yorkshire +17 139 £480 -5.86% 29
Midlands +7 92 £500 +5.26% 32
South East -5 89 £500 - 104
South West +26 77 £525 -6.67% 41
West Midlands +2 74 £525 +13.51% 13
North West -9 60 £538 +13.16% 43
East of England -26 27 £500 -9.09% 39
East Midlands -14 17 £402 -19.60% 19
North East -8 12 £475 +13.43% 14
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
1 113 (9.10%) Confluence
2 40 (3.22%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 29 (2.33%) SharePoint
5 17 (1.37%) Apache
6 14 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.64%) nginx
8 7 (0.56%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.16%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) SAS
11 1 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.081%) Appian
11 1 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.081%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.081%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.081%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.081%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.32%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.24%) Findur
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.081%) Actimize
5 1 (0.081%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.081%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.081%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 648 (52.17%) GitHub Actions
2 574 (46.22%) Azure
3 566 (45.57%) AWS
4 299 (24.07%) Azure DevOps
5 191 (15.38%) Serverless
6 187 (15.06%) GCP
7 135 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
8 113 (9.10%) Amazon S3
9 105 (8.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 101 (8.13%) Amazon EKS
11 91 (7.33%) Power Platform
12 88 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
13 81 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
14 80 (6.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 80 (6.44%) Azure AKS
15 77 (6.20%) Azure Monitor
16 74 (5.96%) GitHub Copilot
17 60 (4.83%) Amazon EC2
18 59 (4.75%) Entra ID
19 57 (4.59%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 63 (5.07%) Firewall
2 60 (4.83%) DNS
3 38 (3.06%) VPN
4 27 (2.17%) Network Security
5 11 (0.89%) HTTP
6 7 (0.56%) Ethernet
6 7 (0.56%) Modbus
6 7 (0.56%) RS-232
6 7 (0.56%) RS-485
6 7 (0.56%) SSL
6 7 (0.56%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.32%) DSL
8 4 (0.32%) Internet
8 4 (0.32%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.32%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.32%) WAN
9 3 (0.24%) BGP
9 3 (0.24%) NAS
9 3 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (6.04%) Data Lake
3 70 (5.64%) NoSQL
3 70 (5.64%) SQL Server
4 62 (4.99%) Power BI
5 51 (4.11%) DynamoDB
6 46 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
7 44 (3.54%) MongoDB
8 43 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 42 (3.38%) Relational Database
10 40 (3.22%) Delta Lake
11 38 (3.06%) Redis
12 28 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
13 27 (2.17%) MySQL
14 26 (2.09%) Big Data
15 21 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
16 20 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
16 20 (1.61%) Metadata
17 15 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
18 13 (1.05%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 376 (30.27%) Jenkins
2 244 (19.65%) Git
2 244 (19.65%) GitLab
3 163 (13.12%) JIRA
4 84 (6.76%) JUnit
5 52 (4.19%) Cucumber
6 50 (4.03%) Selenium
7 40 (3.22%) Cypress.io
8 37 (2.98%) Artifactory
8 37 (2.98%) Bitbucket
9 34 (2.74%) CircleCI
10 33 (2.66%) JMeter
10 33 (2.66%) SonarQube
10 33 (2.66%) Sonatype Nexus
11 31 (2.50%) Gradle
12 30 (2.42%) Maven
12 30 (2.42%) Postman
13 26 (2.09%) Gatling
14 20 (1.61%) MLflow
14 20 (1.61%) REST Assured
General
1 292 (23.51%) Social Skills
2 207 (16.67%) Finance
3 148 (11.92%) Public Sector
4 94 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (6.12%) Banking
6 20 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (1.61%) Retail
7 19 (1.53%) Military
8 15 (1.21%) Front Office
9 14 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.05%) Legal
11 10 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.64%) Law
14 7 (0.56%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.48%) Marketing
15 6 (0.48%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 246 (19.81%) Developer
2 190 (15.30%) Senior
3 171 (13.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 108 (8.70%) Data Engineer
5 100 (8.05%) Architect
6 90 (7.25%) Lead
7 87 (7.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 84 (6.76%) Platform Engineer
9 74 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
10 65 (5.23%) Azure Engineer
10 65 (5.23%) Java Developer
11 62 (4.99%) Full-Stack Developer
12 51 (4.11%) Software Engineer
13 50 (4.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 43 (3.46%) GCP Engineer
15 41 (3.30%) Senior Developer
16 40 (3.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 34 (2.74%) AWS DevOps
17 34 (2.74%) Tester
18 33 (2.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (10.87%) Spring
2 130 (10.47%) Kafka
3 129 (10.39%) REST
4 116 (9.34%) React
5 109 (8.78%) .NET
6 103 (8.29%) Node.js
6 103 (8.29%) Spring Boot
7 81 (6.52%) RESTful
8 66 (5.31%) Playwright
9 58 (4.67%) PySpark
10 46 (3.70%) AngularJS
11 38 (3.06%) OpenTelemetry
12 35 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
13 34 (2.74%) .NET Framework
13 34 (2.74%) HTML
14 33 (2.66%) Jest
14 33 (2.66%) JSON
15 31 (2.50%) CSS
15 31 (2.50%) OAuth
16 29 (2.33%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 229 (18.44%) Cloud Native
2 79 (6.36%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (4.75%) Product Ownership
4 32 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (2.01%) Onboarding
5 25 (2.01%) Public Cloud
6 23 (1.85%) AI Agents
7 20 (1.61%) Security Posture
8 18 (1.45%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.29%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.21%) NHS
11 15 (1.21%) Private Cloud
12 13 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.05%) Data Centre
12 13 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (0.89%) Replication
14 10 (0.81%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 149 (12.00%) Linux
2 51 (4.11%) Windows
3 32 (2.58%) Unix
4 22 (1.77%) Android
5 18 (1.45%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.13%) VMS
7 13 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.81%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.56%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.40%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.32%) Debian
11 4 (0.32%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.32%) Rocky
12 2 (0.16%) AIX
12 2 (0.16%) CentOS
13 1 (0.081%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.081%) MVS
13 1 (0.081%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 922 (74.24%) CI/CD
2 720 (57.97%) DevOps
3 474 (38.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 384 (30.92%) Agile
5 305 (24.56%) Containerisation
6 271 (21.82%) Test Automation
7 241 (19.40%) Observability
8 212 (17.07%) AI
9 211 (16.99%) Microservices
10 191 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
11 188 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
12 171 (13.77%) Analytics
13 166 (13.37%) Migration
14 148 (11.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 142 (11.43%) Software Engineering
16 127 (10.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 122 (9.82%) Data Pipeline
18 121 (9.74%) Data Engineering
19 118 (9.50%) Full-Stack Development
20 113 (9.10%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 574 (46.22%) Python
2 295 (23.75%) SQL
3 248 (19.97%) Java
4 159 (12.80%) Bash
5 154 (12.40%) JavaScript
6 136 (10.95%) C#
7 122 (9.82%) PowerShell
8 116 (9.34%) TypeScript
9 63 (5.07%) Bicep
10 54 (4.35%) Go
11 34 (2.74%) Shell Script
12 33 (2.66%) Scala
13 26 (2.09%) Ruby
14 22 (1.77%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (0.97%) Swift
17 10 (0.81%) C++
18 8 (0.64%) C
18 8 (0.64%) Groovy
19 7 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 387 (31.16%) Security Cleared
2 316 (25.44%) SC Cleared
3 55 (4.43%) Degree
4 42 (3.38%) Azure Certification
5 37 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (2.98%) DV Cleared
6 36 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 30 (2.42%) AWS Certification
8 16 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 9 (0.72%) OCP
11 9 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (0.56%) CISSP
13 7 (0.56%) SAFe Agilist
14 6 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (8.45%) QA
2 66 (5.31%) Data Quality
3 44 (3.54%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.93%) GDPR
5 19 (1.53%) PCI DSS
5 19 (1.53%) WCAG
6 18 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.97%) NIST
8 10 (0.81%) NCSC
9 7 (0.56%) GRC
10 6 (0.48%) SLA
11 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.16%) PSD2
12 2 (0.16%) SEPA
12 2 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 381 (30.68%) Docker
2 33 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
3 28 (2.25%) Active Directory
4 24 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.69%) VMware NSX
5 21 (1.69%) vSphere
6 7 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.56%) Firmware
7 5 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.24%) HDFS
10 2 (0.16%) NFS
11 1 (0.081%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.081%) IAG
11 1 (0.081%) ISA Server
11 1 (0.081%) SRDF
11 1 (0.081%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 581 (46.78%) Terraform
2 470 (37.84%) Kubernetes
3 187 (15.06%) Ansible
4 135 (10.87%) Grafana
5 102 (8.21%) Prometheus
6 65 (5.23%) Argo
7 36 (2.90%) Istio
8 25 (2.01%) Puppet
9 21 (1.69%) vCenter Server
10 18 (1.45%) Progress Chef
11 16 (1.29%) Packer
12 15 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
13 12 (0.97%) Kibana
14 9 (0.72%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.72%) linkerd
14 9 (0.72%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.40%) Podman
15 5 (0.40%) Rancher
16 3 (0.24%) Karpenter
16 3 (0.24%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 229 (18.44%) Microsoft
2 102 (8.21%) Databricks
3 90 (7.25%) Google
4 83 (6.68%) Splunk
5 50 (4.03%) Oracle
6 49 (3.95%) VMware
7 39 (3.14%) OpenAI
8 34 (2.74%) Red Hat
9 21 (1.69%) Dynatrace
9 21 (1.69%) Pure Storage
10 20 (1.61%) Atlassian
11 16 (1.29%) ServiceNow
12 15 (1.21%) Salesforce
13 13 (1.05%) Checkmarx
13 13 (1.05%) Informatica
13 13 (1.05%) Sonatype
14 12 (0.97%) SAP
15 10 (0.81%) Cisco
16 9 (0.72%) AppDynamics
16 9 (0.72%) IBM