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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 130 171
Rank change year-on-year +60 +41 -44
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,210 541 527
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.49% 2.09% 1.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.27% 5.57% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 873 370 371
10th Percentile £355 £324 £413
25th Percentile £411 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% -1.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 2
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 £48.78
25th Percentile £46.00 £26.19 £51.81
Median hourly rate £62.00 £27.50 £57.75
Median % change year-on-year +125.45% -52.38% +6.94%
75th Percentile £74.00 £61.25 £62.81
90th Percentile £81.20 £68.75 £65.33
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £27.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +103.64% -43.30% -10.19%

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 13,054 9,716 12,348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.60% 37.50% 32.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,995 6,527 8,939
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 143 307
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.60 £14.08
25th Percentile £19.05 £21.25 £16.20
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +27.08% -13.44%
75th Percentile £60.00 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.15 £66.25
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +34.55% +25.00% -12.00%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 19 February 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 +38 689 £539 -2.05% 217
North of England +27 192 £500 +5.26% 164
Yorkshire +5 110 £480 +1.05% 65
South East +41 107 £450 -4.26% 160
Midlands +15 90 £550 +11.11% 81
South West +15 78 £550 -15.38% 77
West Midlands +7 73 £575 +24.12% 34
North West +17 70 £500 +5.26% 74
East of England -16 19 £550 +72.41% 70
North East -1 16 £545 +50.34% 26
East Midlands -10 16 £402 -19.60% 47
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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 43 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.90%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.83%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.74%) Apache
6 9 (0.74%) nginx
7 8 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.33%) CMS
9 3 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.17%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.17%) Mule
10 2 (0.17%) SAS
10 2 (0.17%) Traefik
10 2 (0.17%) WordPress
11 1 (0.083%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.083%) Appian
11 1 (0.083%) Luigi
11 1 (0.083%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 26 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.50%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.083%) InDesign
6 1 (0.083%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.58%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.083%) Actimize
3 1 (0.083%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.083%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.083%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.083%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.083%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.083%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 603 (49.83%) GitHub Actions
2 551 (45.54%) Azure
3 539 (44.55%) AWS
4 259 (21.40%) Azure DevOps
5 192 (15.87%) GCP
6 182 (15.04%) Serverless
7 115 (9.50%) AWS Lambda
8 100 (8.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 97 (8.02%) Amazon S3
10 96 (7.93%) Amazon EKS
11 90 (7.44%) Power Platform
12 83 (6.86%) Amazon ECS
13 80 (6.61%) OpenShift
14 71 (5.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 70 (5.79%) Azure Data Factory
16 69 (5.70%) Azure AKS
17 66 (5.45%) GitHub Copilot
18 65 (5.37%) Azure Monitor
18 65 (5.37%) Entra ID
19 51 (4.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 53 (4.38%) Firewall
2 48 (3.97%) DNS
3 29 (2.40%) Network Security
4 25 (2.07%) VPN
5 12 (0.99%) HTTP
6 10 (0.83%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.74%) SSL
8 8 (0.66%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.66%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.66%) WAN
9 7 (0.58%) Ethernet
9 7 (0.58%) Modbus
9 7 (0.58%) RS-232
9 7 (0.58%) RS-485
10 5 (0.41%) Internet
10 5 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.17%) Calico
11 2 (0.17%) DSL
12 1 (0.083%) Intranet
12 1 (0.083%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (13.72%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (6.36%) NoSQL
3 66 (5.45%) MongoDB
4 58 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
5 57 (4.71%) Data Lake
5 57 (4.71%) SQL Server
6 51 (4.21%) Power BI
7 49 (4.05%) Relational Database
8 45 (3.72%) DynamoDB
9 41 (3.39%) Redis
10 38 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
11 36 (2.98%) MySQL
12 28 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
12 28 (2.31%) Delta Lake
13 18 (1.49%) BigQuery
14 17 (1.40%) Big Data
14 17 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
15 16 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (1.24%) DocumentDB
17 13 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 363 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 226 (18.68%) Git
3 215 (17.77%) GitLab
4 173 (14.30%) JIRA
5 78 (6.45%) JUnit
6 59 (4.88%) Sonatype Nexus
7 48 (3.97%) Cucumber
8 45 (3.72%) Artifactory
9 43 (3.55%) Selenium
10 40 (3.31%) CircleCI
10 40 (3.31%) Cypress.io
11 39 (3.22%) Bitbucket
11 39 (3.22%) Gradle
12 35 (2.89%) Postman
12 35 (2.89%) SonarQube
13 33 (2.73%) JMeter
14 29 (2.40%) Maven
15 16 (1.32%) REST Assured
16 15 (1.24%) MLflow
16 15 (1.24%) Snyk
General
1 304 (25.12%) Social Skills
2 181 (14.96%) Finance
3 153 (12.64%) Public Sector
4 86 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (6.94%) Banking
6 21 (1.74%) Military
7 18 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (1.40%) Retail
9 15 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
10 14 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (0.99%) Front Office
11 12 (0.99%) Investment Banking
12 9 (0.74%) Marketing
12 9 (0.74%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.41%) Billing
15 5 (0.41%) Games
15 5 (0.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 278 (22.98%) Developer
2 188 (15.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 179 (14.79%) Senior
4 92 (7.60%) Lead
5 88 (7.27%) Data Engineer
6 80 (6.61%) Cloud Engineer
7 78 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
8 77 (6.36%) Architect
9 74 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
10 69 (5.70%) Platform Engineer
11 62 (5.12%) Java Developer
12 57 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
13 50 (4.13%) Software Engineer
14 46 (3.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 45 (3.72%) AWS DevOps
16 42 (3.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 42 (3.47%) Senior Developer
17 36 (2.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 30 (2.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 30 (2.48%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (12.15%) Kafka
2 145 (11.98%) REST
3 130 (10.74%) React
4 123 (10.17%) Node.js
5 122 (10.08%) Spring
6 108 (8.93%) .NET
7 87 (7.19%) Spring Boot
8 85 (7.02%) RESTful
9 72 (5.95%) AngularJS
10 63 (5.21%) CSS
11 62 (5.12%) Playwright
12 56 (4.63%) HTML
13 51 (4.21%) Elastic Stack
13 51 (4.21%) OAuth
14 43 (3.55%) PySpark
15 41 (3.39%) FastAPI
15 41 (3.39%) PyTorch
16 40 (3.31%) JSON
17 38 (3.14%) Jest
18 37 (3.06%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 189 (15.62%) Cloud Native
2 47 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 31 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.23%) Public Cloud
6 21 (1.74%) Algorithms
7 20 (1.65%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.49%) AI Agents
8 18 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.40%) Virtual Team
10 16 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.24%) Life Science
11 15 (1.24%) Replication
11 15 (1.24%) Security Posture
12 14 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
12 14 (1.16%) Mobile App
13 13 (1.07%) NHS
13 13 (1.07%) Private Cloud
14 12 (0.99%) Genomics
14 12 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 160 (13.22%) Linux
2 41 (3.39%) Windows
3 27 (2.23%) Android
4 26 (2.15%) Unix
5 19 (1.57%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.24%) VMS
7 14 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.58%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (0.41%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.33%) CentOS
10 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.25%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.17%) Debian
12 2 (0.17%) Rocky
12 2 (0.17%) Solaris
12 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 867 (71.65%) CI/CD
2 714 (59.01%) DevOps
3 426 (35.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 391 (32.31%) Agile
5 309 (25.54%) Containerisation
6 254 (20.99%) Test Automation
7 234 (19.34%) AI
8 230 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
9 222 (18.35%) Microservices
10 205 (16.94%) Observability
11 174 (14.38%) Migration
12 144 (11.90%) Analytics
13 142 (11.74%) Full-Stack Development
14 141 (11.65%) Platform Engineering
15 130 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
16 123 (10.17%) Software Engineering
17 115 (9.50%) Data Pipeline
18 101 (8.35%) Machine Learning
19 100 (8.26%) DevSecOps
20 99 (8.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 562 (46.45%) Python
2 264 (21.82%) SQL
3 244 (20.17%) Java
4 173 (14.30%) JavaScript
5 145 (11.98%) TypeScript
6 138 (11.40%) Bash
7 104 (8.60%) PowerShell
8 102 (8.43%) C#
9 70 (5.79%) Go
10 51 (4.21%) Bicep
11 32 (2.64%) Shell Script
12 25 (2.07%) Ruby
13 16 (1.32%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.24%) PHP
14 15 (1.24%) Scala
15 12 (0.99%) Groovy
16 11 (0.91%) C++
17 9 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.74%) Swift
17 9 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 356 (29.42%) Security Cleared
2 272 (22.48%) SC Cleared
3 79 (6.53%) Degree
4 51 (4.21%) DV Cleared
5 45 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (3.22%) Azure Certification
7 34 (2.81%) AWS Certification
8 26 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 15 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.83%) OCP
11 10 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (0.66%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 7 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (0.58%) CISSP
14 4 (0.33%) CTC Cleared
14 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (6.78%) QA
2 54 (4.46%) Accessibility
3 50 (4.13%) Data Quality
4 29 (2.40%) NIST
5 23 (1.90%) WCAG
6 22 (1.82%) GDPR
6 22 (1.82%) NCSC
7 16 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (1.24%) EU AI Act
9 12 (0.99%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.58%) SLA
11 5 (0.41%) GRC
11 5 (0.41%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.25%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.17%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.17%) MiFID
13 2 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 388 (32.07%) Docker
2 34 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
3 33 (2.73%) Active Directory
4 21 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.24%) vSphere
6 14 (1.16%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.58%) Firmware
8 6 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.25%) HDFS
10 2 (0.17%) NFS
10 2 (0.17%) QEMU
10 2 (0.17%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.083%) etcd
11 1 (0.083%) ISA Server
11 1 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 528 (43.64%) Terraform
2 472 (39.01%) Kubernetes
3 179 (14.79%) Ansible
4 134 (11.07%) Grafana
5 96 (7.93%) Prometheus
6 70 (5.79%) Argo
7 37 (3.06%) Istio
8 25 (2.07%) Progress Chef
9 22 (1.82%) Puppet
10 14 (1.16%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.99%) Kibana
11 12 (0.99%) Podman
12 11 (0.91%) Packer
13 10 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.74%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.58%) Sysdig
16 6 (0.50%) linkerd
17 5 (0.41%) logstash
18 4 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
18 4 (0.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 199 (16.45%) Microsoft
2 100 (8.26%) Google
3 85 (7.02%) Databricks
4 73 (6.03%) Splunk
5 52 (4.30%) VMware
6 46 (3.80%) OpenAI
7 45 (3.72%) Red Hat
8 41 (3.39%) Oracle
9 20 (1.65%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.57%) ServiceNow
11 18 (1.49%) Foundry
11 18 (1.49%) Sonatype
12 14 (1.16%) Dynatrace
12 14 (1.16%) Pure Storage
13 12 (0.99%) Salesforce
14 9 (0.74%) Commvault
15 8 (0.66%) NetApp
15 8 (0.66%) New Relic
15 8 (0.66%) Okta
15 8 (0.66%) SAP