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

 6 months to
14 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 91 127
Rank change year-on-year +3 +36 +15
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,378 754 616
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.00% 2.74% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.70% 7.28% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 937 518 410
10th Percentile £381 £360 £310
25th Percentile £447 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £625
90th Percentile £710 £725 £689
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 32
10th Percentile £46.25 - £66.25
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 15,846 10,363 11,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.45% 37.60% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,572 7,003 7,768
10th Percentile £320 £307 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 252 180
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.24
25th Percentile £17.81 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £62.81
90th Percentile £82.94 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.16 £30.88
% change year-on-year +11.45% -5.55% -11.79%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +12 822 £550 - 1,049
North of England +8 255 £500 +5.26% 253
Yorkshire +30 172 £500 - 88
Midlands 0 107 £488 -7.14% 94
West Midlands -4 90 £492 -13.45% 39
South East -17 88 £525 +20.69% 216
South West -26 60 £518 -13.75% 97
North West -40 60 £550 +27.91% 129
East of England -10 29 £500 -4.76% 83
North East -24 25 £425 -5.56% 38
East Midlands -6 17 £400 -15.79% 55
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 (7.76%) Confluence
2 46 (3.34%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (2.83%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.38%) Apache Spark
5 17 (1.23%) Apache
6 8 (0.58%) nginx
6 8 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.44%) Tuxedo
9 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.22%) CMS
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.15%) Mendix
12 2 (0.15%) SAS
13 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.073%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.073%) MQSeries
Applications
1 8 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.29%) Trello
4 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.073%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.073%) Notion
5 1 (0.073%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.36%) Front Arena
2 5 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.36%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.36%) Summit
3 4 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.15%) Findur
5 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.15%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.073%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.073%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 750 (54.43%) GitHub Actions
2 703 (51.02%) Azure
3 636 (46.15%) AWS
4 376 (27.29%) Azure DevOps
5 207 (15.02%) GCP
6 184 (13.35%) Serverless
7 153 (11.10%) GitHub Copilot
8 135 (9.80%) Amazon S3
9 122 (8.85%) AWS Lambda
10 121 (8.78%) Amazon EKS
11 102 (7.40%) Azure Monitor
12 100 (7.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 87 (6.31%) Power Platform
14 83 (6.02%) Entra ID
15 76 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
16 74 (5.37%) Azure AKS
16 74 (5.37%) Snowflake
17 68 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
18 64 (4.64%) AWS CloudFormation
19 54 (3.92%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.86%) DNS
2 62 (4.50%) Firewall
3 48 (3.48%) VPN
4 33 (2.39%) Network Security
5 21 (1.52%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.52%) VLAN
6 19 (1.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 18 (1.31%) BGP
8 15 (1.09%) SSL
9 14 (1.02%) DHCP
10 11 (0.80%) BIG-IP
10 11 (0.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 11 (0.80%) Wireless
11 10 (0.73%) OSPF
12 9 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
12 9 (0.65%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.65%) WAN
13 8 (0.58%) IPsec
13 8 (0.58%) NX-OS
14 7 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (6.39%) SQL Server
3 76 (5.52%) MongoDB
4 67 (4.86%) NoSQL
5 63 (4.57%) Power BI
6 51 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (3.56%) Data Lake
7 49 (3.56%) Redis
8 44 (3.19%) Relational Database
9 42 (3.05%) DynamoDB
10 32 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
10 32 (2.32%) Delta Lake
11 31 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
11 31 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 29 (2.10%) MySQL
13 25 (1.81%) BigQuery
14 23 (1.67%) Metadata
15 19 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (1.31%) Big Data
17 17 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 402 (29.17%) Jenkins
2 294 (21.34%) GitLab
3 270 (19.59%) Git
4 158 (11.47%) JIRA
5 64 (4.64%) Selenium
6 60 (4.35%) JUnit
7 55 (3.99%) SonarQube
8 47 (3.41%) Bitbucket
9 46 (3.34%) Cucumber
10 40 (2.90%) Gatling
11 37 (2.69%) Gradle
12 36 (2.61%) Claude Code
12 36 (2.61%) Cypress.io
12 36 (2.61%) Maven
13 32 (2.32%) JMeter
14 27 (1.96%) Postman
15 26 (1.89%) CircleCI
15 26 (1.89%) REST Assured
16 24 (1.74%) Visual Studio Code
17 23 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 343 (24.89%) Social Skills
2 283 (20.54%) Finance
3 149 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 132 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (6.02%) Banking
6 45 (3.27%) Retail
7 43 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
8 22 (1.60%) Legal
9 17 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.16%) Law
11 15 (1.09%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.94%) Aerospace
12 13 (0.94%) Marketing
13 12 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (0.73%) Local Government
14 10 (0.73%) Military
15 9 (0.65%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.65%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 278 (20.17%) Senior
2 252 (18.29%) Developer
3 175 (12.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 120 (8.71%) Architect
4 120 (8.71%) Lead
5 103 (7.47%) Data Engineer
6 78 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
7 77 (5.59%) AWS Engineer
8 70 (5.08%) Senior Developer
9 68 (4.93%) Azure Engineer
10 67 (4.86%) Cloud Engineer
11 64 (4.64%) Software Engineer
12 61 (4.43%) Java Developer
13 50 (3.63%) Full-Stack Developer
14 49 (3.56%) Senior DevOps
15 46 (3.34%) Test Engineer
16 45 (3.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 39 (2.83%) Python Developer
18 36 (2.61%) AWS DevOps
18 36 (2.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 662 (48.04%) Terraform
2 227 (16.47%) REST
3 148 (10.74%) Kafka
4 144 (10.45%) RESTful
5 121 (8.78%) .NET
5 121 (8.78%) Spring
6 118 (8.56%) React
7 106 (7.69%) Spring Boot
8 85 (6.17%) Playwright
9 67 (4.86%) Node.js
10 56 (4.06%) OAuth
11 50 (3.63%) HTML
12 48 (3.48%) JSON
12 48 (3.48%) YAML
13 47 (3.41%) FastAPI
14 45 (3.27%) PySpark
15 44 (3.19%) OAuth2
16 41 (2.98%) AngularJS
17 40 (2.90%) OpenTelemetry
18 36 (2.61%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 292 (21.19%) Cloud Native
2 102 (7.40%) Distributed Systems
3 81 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 77 (5.59%) AI Agents
5 50 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
6 43 (3.12%) Data Centre
7 37 (2.69%) Mobile App
7 37 (2.69%) Onboarding
8 36 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 29 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
10 24 (1.74%) Security Posture
11 22 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.52%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
14 19 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
15 18 (1.31%) Public Cloud
16 17 (1.23%) Algorithms
16 17 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
16 17 (1.23%) Low-Code
16 17 (1.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 132 (9.58%) Linux
2 61 (4.43%) Windows
3 33 (2.39%) Unix
4 26 (1.89%) Android
5 23 (1.67%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (1.45%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.58%) VMS
9 7 (0.51%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.29%) CentOS
11 3 (0.22%) Debian
11 3 (0.22%) Rocky
12 2 (0.15%) AIX
12 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.15%) MVS
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.15%) zOS
13 1 (0.073%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,037 (75.25%) CI/CD
2 816 (59.22%) DevOps
3 570 (41.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 506 (36.72%) Agile
5 349 (25.33%) Observability
6 339 (24.60%) Test Automation
7 326 (23.66%) AI
8 296 (21.48%) Containerisation
9 267 (19.38%) Microservices
10 235 (17.05%) Software Engineering
11 215 (15.60%) Platform Engineering
12 197 (14.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 178 (12.92%) Event-Driven
14 168 (12.19%) Problem-Solving
15 162 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
16 149 (10.81%) Analytics
17 145 (10.52%) Technical Leadership
18 139 (10.09%) Scrum
19 130 (9.43%) DevSecOps
20 125 (9.07%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 606 (43.98%) Python
2 310 (22.50%) SQL
3 269 (19.52%) Java
4 191 (13.86%) Bash
5 178 (12.92%) PowerShell
6 155 (11.25%) TypeScript
7 141 (10.23%) JavaScript
8 129 (9.36%) C#
9 98 (7.11%) Bicep
10 46 (3.34%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.12%) Go
12 35 (2.54%) Shell Script
13 31 (2.25%) Scala
14 19 (1.38%) Ruby
15 17 (1.23%) Swift
16 12 (0.87%) ActionScript
17 10 (0.73%) C
17 10 (0.73%) Groovy
17 10 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.65%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 413 (29.97%) Security Cleared
2 361 (26.20%) SC Cleared
3 68 (4.93%) Azure Certification
4 61 (4.43%) Degree
5 42 (3.05%) AWS Certification
6 40 (2.90%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.80%) CISSP
11 11 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
11 11 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 7 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (14.73%) QA
2 77 (5.59%) Data Quality
3 75 (5.44%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.10%) WCAG
5 28 (2.03%) GDPR
6 25 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.52%) NIST
8 12 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.73%) NCSC
10 7 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.44%) PSD2
12 5 (0.36%) GRC
12 5 (0.36%) HL7
12 5 (0.36%) SEPA
13 4 (0.29%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.15%) ISO 20022
16 1 (0.073%) IFRS
System Software
1 442 (32.08%) Docker
2 48 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (0.80%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.80%) IAG
7 10 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.73%) vSphere
8 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.29%) NFS
9 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.15%) Firmware
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.15%) SRDF
10 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 495 (35.92%) Kubernetes
2 215 (15.60%) Ansible
3 189 (13.72%) Grafana
4 147 (10.67%) Prometheus
5 56 (4.06%) Argo
6 26 (1.89%) Puppet
7 22 (1.60%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.31%) Packer
10 13 (0.94%) Control-M
10 13 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (0.80%) Kibana
12 9 (0.65%) HAProxy
13 8 (0.58%) Istio
13 8 (0.58%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.51%) SCCM
14 7 (0.51%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.36%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 262 (19.01%) Microsoft
2 100 (7.26%) Databricks
3 95 (6.89%) Splunk
4 92 (6.68%) Google
5 59 (4.28%) Dynatrace
6 56 (4.06%) Oracle
7 45 (3.27%) ServiceNow
8 44 (3.19%) OpenAI
9 39 (2.83%) VMware
10 33 (2.39%) Red Hat
11 32 (2.32%) Cisco
12 29 (2.10%) Salesforce
13 24 (1.74%) Foundry
14 22 (1.60%) Informatica
15 21 (1.52%) IBM
16 20 (1.45%) F5
17 19 (1.38%) New Relic
18 16 (1.16%) Palo Alto
18 16 (1.16%) SAP
19 14 (1.02%) Checkmarx
1,739 GitHub jobs in England