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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 96 134
Rank change year-on-year +11 +38 +7
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,382 740 615
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.01% 2.67% 1.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.66% 7.14% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 947 510 410
10th Percentile £393 £363 £310
25th Percentile £450 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -0.98% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £625
90th Percentile £706 £725 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 33
10th Percentile £46.25 - £54.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.03% +50.00% -9.68%
75th Percentile £75.00 £110.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £105.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -39.87% +50.00% -9.68%

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 15,959 10,359 11,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.77% 37.33% 34.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,663 7,014 7,872
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 268 196
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.13 £18.51 £18.07
Median hourly rate £34.23 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.15% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £58.39
90th Percentile £82.62 £68.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +18.23% -4.17% -14.29%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 +19 811 £550 - 850
North of England +12 258 £488 +2.63% 209
Yorkshire +21 176 £488 -2.50% 76
Midlands +7 113 £488 -6.25% 91
West Midlands +5 96 £500 -9.09% 48
South East -34 87 £529 +15.83% 176
South West -14 63 £510 -15.00% 103
North West -46 61 £550 +27.91% 104
East of England -4 32 £505 -8.18% 77
North East -22 23 £450 -2.70% 32
East Midlands -3 17 £400 -19.19% 43
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
1 110 (7.96%) Confluence
2 48 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (2.82%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.66%) Apache Spark
5 21 (1.52%) Apache
6 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.58%) nginx
9 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.43%) Tuxedo
11 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.14%) CMS
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 2 (0.14%) SAS
13 1 (0.072%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.072%) IIS
13 1 (0.072%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.072%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.072%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (0.51%) Chatbot
1 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.29%) Trello
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.072%) Notion
Business Applications
1 6 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.36%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.22%) Findur
3 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.14%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.14%) Summit
5 1 (0.072%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.072%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 755 (54.63%) GitHub Actions
2 716 (51.81%) Azure
3 638 (46.16%) AWS
4 403 (29.16%) Azure DevOps
5 206 (14.91%) GCP
6 181 (13.10%) Serverless
7 134 (9.70%) Amazon S3
8 130 (9.41%) GitHub Copilot
9 126 (9.12%) AWS Lambda
10 114 (8.25%) Amazon EKS
11 111 (8.03%) Azure Monitor
12 97 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 89 (6.44%) Power Platform
14 87 (6.30%) Entra ID
15 83 (6.01%) Azure AKS
16 72 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
17 67 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
17 67 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
17 67 (4.85%) Snowflake
18 52 (3.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 68 (4.92%) Firewall
2 65 (4.70%) DNS
3 50 (3.62%) VPN
4 31 (2.24%) Network Security
5 21 (1.52%) TCP/IP
6 20 (1.45%) VLAN
7 17 (1.23%) BGP
7 17 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 14 (1.01%) SSL
9 13 (0.94%) DHCP
10 10 (0.72%) Wireless
11 9 (0.65%) BIG-IP
11 9 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
11 9 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 9 (0.65%) OSPF
11 9 (0.65%) VXLAN
11 9 (0.65%) WAN
12 8 (0.58%) IPsec
12 8 (0.58%) NX-OS
13 7 (0.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (6.66%) SQL Server
3 74 (5.35%) NoSQL
4 67 (4.85%) MongoDB
4 67 (4.85%) Power BI
5 55 (3.98%) Data Lake
6 51 (3.69%) Redis
7 50 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
8 48 (3.47%) Relational Database
9 47 (3.40%) DynamoDB
10 36 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
11 35 (2.53%) Delta Lake
12 34 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
13 30 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
14 26 (1.88%) Metadata
15 25 (1.81%) MySQL
16 24 (1.74%) BigQuery
17 22 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
18 21 (1.52%) Big Data
19 16 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 407 (29.45%) Jenkins
2 299 (21.64%) GitLab
3 270 (19.54%) Git
4 162 (11.72%) JIRA
5 71 (5.14%) Selenium
6 70 (5.07%) JUnit
7 51 (3.69%) SonarQube
8 50 (3.62%) Cucumber
9 47 (3.40%) Bitbucket
10 40 (2.89%) Cypress.io
10 40 (2.89%) Gatling
11 36 (2.60%) JMeter
12 35 (2.53%) Gradle
13 33 (2.39%) Maven
14 30 (2.17%) Claude Code
14 30 (2.17%) Postman
15 27 (1.95%) CircleCI
15 27 (1.95%) REST Assured
16 23 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
17 17 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 337 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 277 (20.04%) Finance
3 157 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 123 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (6.08%) Banking
6 39 (2.82%) Retail
7 36 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (1.74%) Legal
10 18 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.09%) Law
12 14 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.94%) Investment Banking
14 12 (0.87%) Aerospace
14 12 (0.87%) Military
15 11 (0.80%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.72%) Local Government
16 10 (0.72%) Marketing
17 9 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 261 (18.89%) Senior
2 252 (18.23%) Developer
3 173 (12.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 126 (9.12%) Architect
5 121 (8.76%) Lead
6 105 (7.60%) Data Engineer
7 82 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
8 78 (5.64%) AWS Engineer
9 73 (5.28%) Cloud Engineer
10 72 (5.21%) Azure Engineer
11 66 (4.78%) Senior Developer
12 64 (4.63%) Software Engineer
13 63 (4.56%) Java Developer
14 49 (3.55%) Full-Stack Developer
14 49 (3.55%) Test Engineer
15 47 (3.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 45 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
17 41 (2.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 38 (2.75%) Python Developer
19 36 (2.60%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 668 (48.34%) Terraform
2 224 (16.21%) REST
3 147 (10.64%) Kafka
4 139 (10.06%) RESTful
5 130 (9.41%) Spring
6 120 (8.68%) .NET
7 118 (8.54%) React
8 106 (7.67%) Spring Boot
9 85 (6.15%) Playwright
10 68 (4.92%) Node.js
11 55 (3.98%) OAuth
12 48 (3.47%) PySpark
12 48 (3.47%) YAML
13 47 (3.40%) HTML
13 47 (3.40%) JSON
14 43 (3.11%) AngularJS
14 43 (3.11%) OAuth2
15 41 (2.97%) FastAPI
16 40 (2.89%) .NET Framework
17 37 (2.68%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 298 (21.56%) Cloud Native
2 112 (8.10%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (5.21%) Product Ownership
4 64 (4.63%) AI Agents
5 42 (3.04%) Data Centre
6 39 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
6 39 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 39 (2.82%) Mobile App
7 37 (2.68%) Onboarding
8 28 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
9 25 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (1.74%) Security Posture
11 22 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (1.45%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
13 19 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
14 18 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (1.16%) Algorithms
15 16 (1.16%) Low-Code
16 15 (1.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 130 (9.41%) Linux
2 63 (4.56%) Windows
3 34 (2.46%) Unix
4 28 (2.03%) Android
5 26 (1.88%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (1.52%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.58%) VMS
8 3 (0.22%) CentOS
8 3 (0.22%) Debian
8 3 (0.22%) Rocky
9 2 (0.14%) AIX
9 2 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.14%) MVS
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.14%) zOS
10 1 (0.072%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,044 (75.54%) CI/CD
2 823 (59.55%) DevOps
3 564 (40.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 513 (37.12%) Agile
5 354 (25.62%) Observability
6 353 (25.54%) Test Automation
7 301 (21.78%) AI
8 298 (21.56%) Containerisation
9 269 (19.46%) Microservices
10 227 (16.43%) Software Engineering
11 222 (16.06%) Platform Engineering
12 199 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 167 (12.08%) Event-Driven
14 164 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
15 161 (11.65%) Analytics
16 145 (10.49%) Stakeholder Management
17 141 (10.20%) DevSecOps
17 141 (10.20%) Technical Leadership
18 127 (9.19%) Scrum
19 123 (8.90%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 600 (43.42%) Python
2 331 (23.95%) SQL
3 280 (20.26%) Java
4 197 (14.25%) Bash
5 188 (13.60%) PowerShell
6 150 (10.85%) TypeScript
7 139 (10.06%) C#
8 138 (9.99%) JavaScript
9 101 (7.31%) Bicep
10 46 (3.33%) Kotlin
11 44 (3.18%) Go
12 32 (2.32%) Shell Script
13 29 (2.10%) Scala
14 21 (1.52%) Ruby
15 20 (1.45%) Swift
16 14 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
17 12 (0.87%) Groovy
18 10 (0.72%) ActionScript
19 9 (0.65%) C
19 9 (0.65%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 431 (31.19%) Security Cleared
2 377 (27.28%) SC Cleared
3 66 (4.78%) Azure Certification
4 60 (4.34%) Degree
5 43 (3.11%) AWS Certification
6 40 (2.89%) DV Cleared
7 34 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 34 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.80%) CISSP
12 11 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 9 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 8 (0.58%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (13.89%) QA
2 77 (5.57%) Data Quality
3 74 (5.35%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.32%) GDPR
5 29 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (2.03%) WCAG
7 21 (1.52%) NIST
8 12 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.72%) NCSC
10 8 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.43%) GRC
12 5 (0.36%) HL7
12 5 (0.36%) PSD2
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.29%) SEPA
13 4 (0.29%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 1 (0.072%) JSP 440
System Software
1 438 (31.69%) Docker
2 48 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.80%) IAG
6 11 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (0.80%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.80%) vSphere
7 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (0.29%) NFS
8 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.14%) Firmware
9 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.14%) SRDF
9 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 505 (36.54%) Kubernetes
2 211 (15.27%) Ansible
3 191 (13.82%) Grafana
4 153 (11.07%) Prometheus
5 58 (4.20%) Argo
6 25 (1.81%) Puppet
7 23 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (1.45%) Packer
8 20 (1.45%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.87%) Control-M
10 11 (0.80%) Istio
11 10 (0.72%) Kibana
11 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.65%) HAProxy
13 8 (0.58%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.51%) SCCM
15 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.36%) Podman
16 4 (0.29%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 272 (19.68%) Microsoft
2 102 (7.38%) Databricks
3 95 (6.87%) Splunk
4 91 (6.58%) Google
5 57 (4.12%) Oracle
6 56 (4.05%) Dynatrace
7 43 (3.11%) ServiceNow
8 39 (2.82%) VMware
9 36 (2.60%) OpenAI
10 35 (2.53%) Red Hat
11 30 (2.17%) Cisco
11 30 (2.17%) Salesforce
12 25 (1.81%) Informatica
13 22 (1.59%) IBM
14 19 (1.37%) Foundry
14 19 (1.37%) New Relic
15 18 (1.30%) Checkmarx
15 18 (1.30%) F5
16 15 (1.09%) Palo Alto
17 14 (1.01%) SAP