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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 93 129
Rank change year-on-year +4 +36 +10
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,385 778 618
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.00% 2.80% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.69% 7.41% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 942 530 409
10th Percentile £381 £360 £310
25th Percentile £448 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -10.64%
75th Percentile £626 £632 £625
90th Percentile £710 £703 £686
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 32
10th Percentile £46.25 £69.00 £66.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £80.63 -
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 15,929 10,493 11,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.50% 37.73% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,624 7,098 7,761
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £720 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 247 174
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.40 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.92 £64.48
90th Percentile £82.34 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +8 820 £550 - 945
North of England +15 259 £500 +5.26% 265
Yorkshire +27 175 £500 - 87
Midlands -3 107 £477 -13.27% 104
South East -26 89 £525 +20.69% 210
West Midlands -11 87 £492 -14.06% 41
North West -36 61 £550 +27.91% 141
South West -19 57 £525 -14.29% 97
East of England -8 32 £500 -4.76% 88
North East -31 25 £425 -5.56% 38
East Midlands -2 20 £400 -15.79% 63
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
1 102 (7.36%) Confluence
2 43 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (2.82%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.16%) Apache
6 8 (0.58%) nginx
6 8 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.43%) Tuxedo
9 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.22%) CMS
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 2 (0.14%) SAS
13 1 (0.072%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.072%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.072%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.072%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.072%) MQSeries
Applications
1 8 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.29%) Trello
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.072%) Notion
5 1 (0.072%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.36%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.36%) Sage X3
3 5 (0.36%) Summit
4 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.072%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.072%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.072%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 750 (54.15%) GitHub Actions
2 694 (50.11%) Azure
3 645 (46.57%) AWS
4 370 (26.71%) Azure DevOps
5 214 (15.45%) GCP
6 181 (13.07%) Serverless
7 162 (11.70%) GitHub Copilot
8 136 (9.82%) Amazon S3
9 122 (8.81%) Amazon EKS
10 120 (8.66%) AWS Lambda
11 104 (7.51%) Azure Monitor
12 101 (7.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 87 (6.28%) Power Platform
14 85 (6.14%) Entra ID
15 75 (5.42%) Azure AKS
15 75 (5.42%) Snowflake
16 74 (5.34%) Amazon EC2
17 65 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
18 61 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
19 55 (3.97%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.84%) DNS
2 66 (4.77%) Firewall
3 48 (3.47%) VPN
4 36 (2.60%) Network Security
5 23 (1.66%) VLAN
6 22 (1.59%) BGP
6 22 (1.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 22 (1.59%) TCP/IP
7 16 (1.16%) SSL
8 14 (1.01%) BIG-IP
8 14 (1.01%) DHCP
8 14 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 12 (0.87%) OSPF
9 12 (0.87%) Wireless
10 11 (0.79%) Ethernet VPN
10 11 (0.79%) VXLAN
11 10 (0.72%) NX-OS
12 8 (0.58%) IPsec
12 8 (0.58%) TACACS
12 8 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (8.52%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.50%) SQL Server
3 77 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 66 (4.77%) NoSQL
5 63 (4.55%) Power BI
6 55 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
7 50 (3.61%) Redis
8 47 (3.39%) Data Lake
9 46 (3.32%) Relational Database
10 43 (3.10%) DynamoDB
11 35 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 34 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
13 31 (2.24%) Delta Lake
14 29 (2.09%) MySQL
15 28 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
16 27 (1.95%) BigQuery
17 24 (1.73%) Metadata
18 22 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
19 18 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
19 18 (1.30%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 396 (28.59%) Jenkins
2 298 (21.52%) GitLab
3 278 (20.07%) Git
4 157 (11.34%) JIRA
5 66 (4.77%) Selenium
6 62 (4.48%) JUnit
7 59 (4.26%) SonarQube
8 49 (3.54%) Cucumber
9 46 (3.32%) Bitbucket
10 44 (3.18%) Gatling
11 38 (2.74%) Claude Code
12 37 (2.67%) Gradle
13 36 (2.60%) Cypress.io
13 36 (2.60%) Maven
14 33 (2.38%) JMeter
15 29 (2.09%) Postman
16 27 (1.95%) CircleCI
16 27 (1.95%) REST Assured
17 24 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
18 23 (1.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 346 (24.98%) Social Skills
2 286 (20.65%) Finance
3 149 (10.76%) Public Sector
4 134 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (6.28%) Banking
6 47 (3.39%) Retail
7 43 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (1.52%) Legal
10 17 (1.23%) Law
10 17 (1.23%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (0.94%) Aerospace
12 13 (0.94%) Marketing
12 13 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (0.79%) Local Government
14 10 (0.72%) Investment Banking
14 10 (0.72%) Military
15 9 (0.65%) Back Office
15 9 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 277 (20.00%) Senior
2 255 (18.41%) Developer
3 174 (12.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 125 (9.03%) Architect
5 118 (8.52%) Lead
6 102 (7.36%) Data Engineer
7 79 (5.70%) AWS Engineer
7 79 (5.70%) Platform Engineer
8 70 (5.05%) Senior Developer
9 69 (4.98%) Azure Engineer
10 68 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
11 66 (4.77%) Software Engineer
12 62 (4.48%) Java Developer
13 50 (3.61%) Full-Stack Developer
14 48 (3.47%) Senior DevOps
15 44 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 44 (3.18%) Test Engineer
16 39 (2.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 39 (2.82%) Python Developer
17 36 (2.60%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 662 (47.80%) Terraform
2 236 (17.04%) REST
3 149 (10.76%) Kafka
4 143 (10.32%) RESTful
5 124 (8.95%) Spring
6 119 (8.59%) .NET
7 118 (8.52%) React
8 107 (7.73%) Spring Boot
9 87 (6.28%) Playwright
10 69 (4.98%) Node.js
11 57 (4.12%) OAuth
12 51 (3.68%) JSON
12 51 (3.68%) YAML
13 50 (3.61%) HTML
14 46 (3.32%) FastAPI
15 45 (3.25%) PySpark
16 44 (3.18%) OAuth2
17 39 (2.82%) AngularJS
18 37 (2.67%) OpenTelemetry
19 35 (2.53%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 295 (21.30%) Cloud Native
2 102 (7.36%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (5.78%) AI Agents
4 76 (5.49%) Product Ownership
5 53 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
6 48 (3.47%) Data Centre
7 41 (2.96%) Onboarding
8 38 (2.74%) Mobile App
9 33 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 29 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
11 25 (1.81%) Security Posture
12 24 (1.73%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.52%) Public Cloud
15 20 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
15 20 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
16 18 (1.30%) Private Cloud
17 17 (1.23%) Algorithms
17 17 (1.23%) Low-Code
18 16 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 129 (9.31%) Linux
2 63 (4.55%) Windows
3 32 (2.31%) Unix
4 27 (1.95%) Android
5 25 (1.81%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (1.44%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.58%) VMS
8 6 (0.43%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.29%) CentOS
10 2 (0.14%) AIX
10 2 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.14%) Debian
10 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.14%) MVS
10 2 (0.14%) Rocky
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.14%) zOS
11 1 (0.072%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,045 (75.45%) CI/CD
2 809 (58.41%) DevOps
3 572 (41.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 503 (36.32%) Agile
5 352 (25.42%) Observability
6 341 (24.62%) AI
7 340 (24.55%) Test Automation
8 287 (20.72%) Containerisation
9 269 (19.42%) Microservices
10 243 (17.55%) Software Engineering
11 215 (15.52%) Platform Engineering
12 199 (14.37%) Continuous Improvement
13 180 (13.00%) Event-Driven
14 173 (12.49%) Problem-Solving
15 168 (12.13%) Stakeholder Management
16 152 (10.97%) Analytics
17 145 (10.47%) Technical Leadership
18 138 (9.96%) Scrum
19 131 (9.46%) Data Modelling
20 127 (9.17%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 616 (44.48%) Python
2 306 (22.09%) SQL
3 275 (19.86%) Java
4 184 (13.29%) Bash
5 180 (13.00%) PowerShell
6 158 (11.41%) TypeScript
7 143 (10.32%) JavaScript
8 127 (9.17%) C#
9 99 (7.15%) Bicep
10 48 (3.47%) Kotlin
11 42 (3.03%) Go
12 34 (2.45%) Shell Script
13 31 (2.24%) Scala
14 19 (1.37%) Swift
15 18 (1.30%) Ruby
16 15 (1.08%) ActionScript
17 12 (0.87%) C
18 11 (0.79%) Objective-C
19 10 (0.72%) Groovy
19 10 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 404 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 351 (25.34%) SC Cleared
3 68 (4.91%) Azure Certification
4 60 (4.33%) Degree
5 45 (3.25%) AWS Certification
6 41 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (2.82%) DV Cleared
8 35 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.79%) CISSP
12 11 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 8 (0.58%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 6 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (14.51%) QA
2 80 (5.78%) Data Quality
3 79 (5.70%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.31%) WCAG
5 28 (2.02%) GDPR
6 24 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.52%) NIST
8 12 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.79%) NCSC
10 7 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.43%) 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 (0.14%) ISO 20022
16 1 (0.072%) IFRS
System Software
1 438 (31.62%) Docker
2 46 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.79%) IAG
7 8 (0.58%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.43%) vSphere
9 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.29%) NFS
10 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.14%) Firmware
11 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.14%) SRDF
11 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 494 (35.67%) Kubernetes
2 213 (15.38%) Ansible
3 187 (13.50%) Grafana
4 147 (10.61%) Prometheus
5 51 (3.68%) Argo
6 25 (1.81%) Puppet
7 22 (1.59%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.30%) Packer
10 13 (0.94%) Control-M
10 13 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (0.79%) 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
15 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.36%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 258 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 104 (7.51%) Databricks
3 93 (6.71%) Splunk
4 92 (6.64%) Google
5 62 (4.48%) Dynatrace
6 53 (3.83%) Oracle
7 48 (3.47%) ServiceNow
8 45 (3.25%) OpenAI
9 38 (2.74%) VMware
10 37 (2.67%) Cisco
11 29 (2.09%) Red Hat
12 28 (2.02%) Salesforce
13 25 (1.81%) Foundry
14 23 (1.66%) F5
15 22 (1.59%) IBM
16 21 (1.52%) New Relic
17 17 (1.23%) Informatica
17 17 (1.23%) Palo Alto
18 15 (1.08%) SAP
19 14 (1.01%) Checkmarx