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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 107 133
Rank change year-on-year +21 +26 -2
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,362 696 597
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 2.50% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.55% 6.73% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 922 479 401
10th Percentile £400 £364 £310
25th Percentile £450 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £629
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 34
10th Percentile £46.25 - £41.75
25th Percentile £56.32 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.87% +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% -8.20%

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 15,922 10,336 11,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.14% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,615 7,014 7,944
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 269 232
10th Percentile £15.96 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.70 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.84
% change year-on-year +26.67% +11.23% -29.03%

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 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 10 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 10 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 +20 795 £550 - 534
North of England +31 255 £500 +2.04% 175
Yorkshire +25 176 £500 - 62
Midlands +11 109 £496 +4.45% 74
West Midlands +7 99 £492 +3.63% 43
South East -50 82 £525 +10.53% 161
South West -2 71 £500 -16.67% 72
North West -19 64 £589 +25.48% 88
East of England +2 32 £505 -8.18% 54
North East -30 17 £450 -5.26% 27
East Midlands -5 9 £500 +1.01% 31
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
1 122 (8.96%) Confluence
2 48 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (2.72%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.62%) Apache
4 22 (1.62%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
6 7 (0.51%) nginx
7 6 (0.44%) Tuxedo
8 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.15%) CMS
9 2 (0.15%) Mendix
9 2 (0.15%) SAS
9 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
10 1 (0.073%) IIS
10 1 (0.073%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.073%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.66%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.29%) Trello
6 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.073%) Notion
7 1 (0.073%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.37%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.22%) Findur
3 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.22%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 736 (54.04%) GitHub Actions
2 695 (51.03%) Azure
3 624 (45.81%) AWS
4 401 (29.44%) Azure DevOps
5 213 (15.64%) GCP
6 163 (11.97%) Serverless
7 131 (9.62%) Amazon S3
8 119 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
9 113 (8.30%) Amazon EKS
10 112 (8.22%) GitHub Copilot
11 100 (7.34%) Azure Monitor
12 96 (7.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 85 (6.24%) Power Platform
14 82 (6.02%) Azure AKS
15 77 (5.65%) Entra ID
16 74 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
17 71 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
18 70 (5.14%) AWS CloudFormation
19 58 (4.26%) Snowflake
20 54 (3.96%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 70 (5.14%) Firewall
2 66 (4.85%) DNS
3 57 (4.19%) VPN
4 29 (2.13%) Network Security
5 19 (1.40%) TCP/IP
6 17 (1.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 17 (1.25%) VLAN
7 14 (1.03%) SSL
8 12 (0.88%) BGP
9 10 (0.73%) DHCP
10 9 (0.66%) BIG-IP
10 9 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 9 (0.66%) OSPF
10 9 (0.66%) WAN
10 9 (0.66%) Wireless
11 8 (0.59%) IPsec
12 7 (0.51%) HTTP
12 7 (0.51%) Internet
13 6 (0.44%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.29%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (7.93%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.61%) SQL Server
3 73 (5.36%) NoSQL
4 63 (4.63%) Power BI
5 59 (4.33%) MongoDB
6 54 (3.96%) Data Lake
7 46 (3.38%) DynamoDB
7 46 (3.38%) Relational Database
8 42 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
9 39 (2.86%) Redis
10 37 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
11 36 (2.64%) Delta Lake
12 34 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
13 32 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
14 25 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
15 24 (1.76%) Metadata
16 21 (1.54%) Big Data
16 21 (1.54%) BigQuery
17 17 (1.25%) MySQL
18 16 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 421 (30.91%) Jenkins
2 293 (21.51%) GitLab
3 265 (19.46%) Git
4 175 (12.85%) JIRA
5 75 (5.51%) Selenium
6 72 (5.29%) JUnit
7 56 (4.11%) Cucumber
8 47 (3.45%) Bitbucket
8 47 (3.45%) SonarQube
9 41 (3.01%) Cypress.io
10 39 (2.86%) Gatling
10 39 (2.86%) JMeter
11 35 (2.57%) Gradle
12 32 (2.35%) Maven
12 32 (2.35%) REST Assured
13 30 (2.20%) CircleCI
13 30 (2.20%) Postman
14 27 (1.98%) Claude Code
15 23 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
16 21 (1.54%) WebDriver
General
1 332 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 256 (18.80%) Finance
3 153 (11.23%) Public Sector
4 110 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (5.95%) Banking
6 42 (3.08%) Retail
7 29 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.76%) Legal
9 22 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.17%) Law
12 15 (1.10%) Investment Banking
13 14 (1.03%) Telecoms
14 13 (0.95%) Military
15 11 (0.81%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (0.66%) Aerospace
17 9 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.59%) Marketing
18 8 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 255 (18.72%) Senior
2 241 (17.69%) Developer
3 174 (12.78%) DevOps Engineer
4 122 (8.96%) Lead
5 121 (8.88%) Architect
6 100 (7.34%) Data Engineer
7 80 (5.87%) AWS Engineer
8 75 (5.51%) Platform Engineer
9 72 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
10 66 (4.85%) Azure Engineer
11 64 (4.70%) Senior Developer
12 62 (4.55%) Software Engineer
13 60 (4.41%) Java Developer
14 47 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
15 46 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 45 (3.30%) Test Engineer
17 44 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
18 43 (3.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 37 (2.72%) AWS DevOps
20 36 (2.64%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (15.20%) REST
2 131 (9.62%) Kafka
3 128 (9.40%) RESTful
4 126 (9.25%) Spring
5 117 (8.59%) .NET
6 112 (8.22%) React
7 96 (7.05%) Spring Boot
8 83 (6.09%) Playwright
9 66 (4.85%) Node.js
10 52 (3.82%) PySpark
11 46 (3.38%) OAuth
12 40 (2.94%) .NET Framework
12 40 (2.94%) AngularJS
12 40 (2.94%) YAML
13 39 (2.86%) OpenTelemetry
14 38 (2.79%) HTML
14 38 (2.79%) JSON
14 38 (2.79%) OAuth2
15 36 (2.64%) FastAPI
16 33 (2.42%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 291 (21.37%) Cloud Native
2 120 (8.81%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (5.29%) Product Ownership
4 50 (3.67%) AI Agents
5 39 (2.86%) Mobile App
6 37 (2.72%) Data Centre
7 36 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 33 (2.42%) Onboarding
9 30 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
10 26 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (1.54%) Data Structures
12 21 (1.54%) Security Posture
13 20 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
13 20 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
14 17 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (1.17%) Algorithms
16 15 (1.10%) NHS
16 15 (1.10%) Private Cloud
16 15 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 123 (9.03%) Linux
2 62 (4.55%) Windows
3 30 (2.20%) Android
3 30 (2.20%) Unix
4 29 (2.13%) Apple iOS
5 21 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (1.47%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.37%) VMS
9 4 (0.29%) Debian
9 4 (0.29%) Rocky
10 3 (0.22%) CentOS
11 2 (0.15%) AIX
11 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.15%) MVS
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,031 (75.70%) CI/CD
2 809 (59.40%) DevOps
3 553 (40.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 487 (35.76%) Agile
5 356 (26.14%) Test Automation
6 334 (24.52%) Observability
7 306 (22.47%) Containerisation
8 276 (20.26%) AI
9 271 (19.90%) Microservices
10 215 (15.79%) Software Engineering
11 213 (15.64%) Platform Engineering
12 201 (14.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 162 (11.89%) Analytics
14 160 (11.75%) Event-Driven
14 160 (11.75%) Problem-Solving
15 127 (9.32%) Technical Leadership
16 126 (9.25%) DevSecOps
17 125 (9.18%) Data Pipeline
18 119 (8.74%) Stakeholder Management
18 119 (8.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 581 (42.66%) Python
2 317 (23.27%) SQL
3 259 (19.02%) Java
4 198 (14.54%) Bash
5 175 (12.85%) PowerShell
6 143 (10.50%) C#
7 137 (10.06%) TypeScript
8 136 (9.99%) JavaScript
9 88 (6.46%) Bicep
10 46 (3.38%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.16%) Go
12 30 (2.20%) Shell Script
13 28 (2.06%) Scala
14 23 (1.69%) Ruby
14 23 (1.69%) Swift
15 14 (1.03%) Groovy
16 12 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.66%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.66%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.66%) C
Qualifications
1 429 (31.50%) Security Cleared
2 373 (27.39%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 59 (4.33%) Degree
5 46 (3.38%) AWS Certification
6 40 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 35 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.81%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 8 (0.59%) CISSP
16 8 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (0.44%) CCNP
18 5 (0.37%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (12.92%) QA
2 74 (5.43%) Data Quality
3 66 (4.85%) Accessibility
4 35 (2.57%) GDPR
5 24 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.76%) WCAG
6 14 (1.03%) NIST
7 10 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (0.59%) GRC
9 7 (0.51%) NCSC
10 6 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.37%) HL7
11 5 (0.37%) PSD2
12 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.29%) SEPA
13 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.073%) IFRS 17
14 1 (0.073%) ITGC
System Software
1 423 (31.06%) Docker
2 46 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.10%) vSphere
6 13 (0.95%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.81%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.59%) IAG
9 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.29%) NFS
10 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.15%) Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.15%) SRDF
11 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 651 (47.80%) Terraform
2 488 (35.83%) Kubernetes
3 202 (14.83%) Ansible
4 183 (13.44%) Grafana
5 156 (11.45%) Prometheus
6 60 (4.41%) Argo
7 29 (2.13%) Puppet
8 20 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.32%) Packer
9 18 (1.32%) Progress Chef
10 16 (1.17%) Istio
11 12 (0.88%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.73%) Control-M
12 10 (0.73%) Kibana
13 9 (0.66%) HAProxy
13 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (0.66%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.44%) SCCM
16 5 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 253 (18.58%) Microsoft
2 96 (7.05%) Databricks
2 96 (7.05%) Google
3 87 (6.39%) Splunk
4 52 (3.82%) Oracle
5 51 (3.74%) Dynatrace
6 38 (2.79%) VMware
7 34 (2.50%) Red Hat
8 33 (2.42%) Salesforce
9 32 (2.35%) ServiceNow
10 30 (2.20%) OpenAI
11 24 (1.76%) Cisco
12 23 (1.69%) Informatica
13 19 (1.40%) F5
14 18 (1.32%) Palo Alto
15 17 (1.25%) Checkmarx
15 17 (1.25%) Foundry
15 17 (1.25%) IBM
15 17 (1.25%) SAP
16 15 (1.10%) New Relic