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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 83 131
Rank change year-on-year -6 +48 +18
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,405 850 604
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.03% 3.06% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.81% 8.01% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 584 402
10th Percentile £381 £360 £313
25th Percentile £432 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -8.70%
75th Percentile £630 £634 £625
90th Percentile £711 £700 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -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 15,949 10,616 11,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.43% 38.24% 34.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,607 7,183 7,470
10th Percentile £320 £304 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -3.67%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £640
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 254 165
10th Percentile £15.42 £15.50 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +15.38% -24.56% +4.44%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +7 831 £550 - 1,010
North of England +8 263 £488 +2.63% 282
Yorkshire +21 169 £494 -1.25% 109
Midlands -5 113 £474 -17.21% 128
West Midlands -14 92 £488 -15.22% 61
South East -28 91 £525 +16.67% 217
North West -29 71 £550 +22.22% 131
South West -35 50 £530 -18.46% 112
East of England -7 32 £525 -4.61% 117
North East -24 25 £425 -10.53% 42
East Midlands +3 21 £400 -15.79% 66
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
1 104 (7.40%) Confluence
2 41 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (2.85%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.35%) Apache
4 19 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.64%) nginx
6 8 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.50%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.43%) Tuxedo
9 4 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.21%) CMS
11 2 (0.14%) IIS
11 2 (0.14%) Mendix
11 2 (0.14%) SAS
12 1 (0.071%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.071%) Camunda
12 1 (0.071%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.071%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 10 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.28%) Trello
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.071%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.071%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.071%) Notion
6 1 (0.071%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.071%) Sketch
6 1 (0.071%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.64%) 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 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.071%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.071%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.071%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.071%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 749 (53.31%) GitHub Actions
2 724 (51.53%) Azure
3 656 (46.69%) AWS
4 383 (27.26%) Azure DevOps
5 222 (15.80%) GCP
6 188 (13.38%) Serverless
7 175 (12.46%) GitHub Copilot
8 136 (9.68%) Amazon S3
9 133 (9.47%) Amazon EKS
10 113 (8.04%) AWS Lambda
11 107 (7.62%) Azure Monitor
12 101 (7.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 99 (7.05%) Entra ID
14 92 (6.55%) Power Platform
15 80 (5.69%) Snowflake
16 76 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
17 75 (5.34%) Azure AKS
18 66 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
19 64 (4.56%) Anthropic Claude
20 63 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (5.20%) DNS
2 72 (5.12%) Firewall
3 45 (3.20%) VPN
4 43 (3.06%) Network Security
5 25 (1.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 24 (1.71%) TCP/IP
7 23 (1.64%) VLAN
8 22 (1.57%) BGP
9 18 (1.28%) BIG-IP
9 18 (1.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 17 (1.21%) SSL
11 16 (1.14%) DHCP
12 12 (0.85%) Ethernet VPN
12 12 (0.85%) VXLAN
12 12 (0.85%) Wireless
13 11 (0.78%) OSPF
14 10 (0.71%) NX-OS
15 9 (0.64%) TACACS
16 8 (0.57%) WAN
17 7 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (6.62%) SQL Server
3 81 (5.77%) MongoDB
4 62 (4.41%) NoSQL
4 62 (4.41%) Power BI
5 54 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
6 52 (3.70%) Redis
7 51 (3.63%) Data Lake
8 48 (3.42%) Relational Database
9 33 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 32 (2.28%) DynamoDB
11 31 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
11 31 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 30 (2.14%) Delta Lake
13 29 (2.06%) MySQL
14 25 (1.78%) BigQuery
15 23 (1.64%) Metadata
16 19 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
17 18 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
18 16 (1.14%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 403 (28.68%) Jenkins
2 297 (21.14%) GitLab
3 289 (20.57%) Git
4 165 (11.74%) JIRA
5 78 (5.55%) Selenium
6 67 (4.77%) JUnit
7 64 (4.56%) Cucumber
8 61 (4.34%) SonarQube
9 47 (3.35%) Bitbucket
9 47 (3.35%) Gatling
10 45 (3.20%) Claude Code
11 35 (2.49%) Cypress.io
11 35 (2.49%) Gradle
11 35 (2.49%) JMeter
12 34 (2.42%) Postman
13 32 (2.28%) Maven
14 31 (2.21%) REST Assured
15 26 (1.85%) CircleCI
15 26 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
16 21 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 360 (25.62%) Social Skills
2 299 (21.28%) Finance
3 159 (11.32%) Public Sector
4 147 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
5 96 (6.83%) Banking
6 50 (3.56%) Retail
7 43 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (1.35%) Legal
9 18 (1.28%) Telecoms
10 17 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (1.21%) Law
11 15 (1.07%) Aerospace
11 15 (1.07%) Marketing
11 15 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (0.93%) Local Government
13 13 (0.93%) Military
14 12 (0.85%) Manufacturing
15 11 (0.78%) Investment Banking
16 10 (0.71%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 288 (20.50%) Senior
2 259 (18.43%) Developer
3 180 (12.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 131 (9.32%) Architect
5 121 (8.61%) Lead
6 97 (6.90%) Data Engineer
7 76 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
8 70 (4.98%) Azure Engineer
8 70 (4.98%) Platform Engineer
9 69 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
10 63 (4.48%) Senior Developer
10 63 (4.48%) Software Engineer
11 62 (4.41%) Java Developer
12 54 (3.84%) Senior DevOps
13 50 (3.56%) Full-Stack Developer
13 50 (3.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 49 (3.49%) Test Engineer
15 48 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 46 (3.27%) Automation Engineer
17 42 (2.99%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 659 (46.90%) Terraform
2 256 (18.22%) REST
3 154 (10.96%) Kafka
4 141 (10.04%) RESTful
5 125 (8.90%) Spring
6 117 (8.33%) .NET
7 109 (7.76%) React
8 104 (7.40%) Spring Boot
9 90 (6.41%) Playwright
10 61 (4.34%) Node.js
11 59 (4.20%) HTML
11 59 (4.20%) OAuth
12 57 (4.06%) JSON
13 49 (3.49%) FastAPI
14 47 (3.35%) YAML
15 45 (3.20%) OAuth2
16 44 (3.13%) AngularJS
17 43 (3.06%) pytest
18 41 (2.92%) PySpark
19 39 (2.78%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 291 (20.71%) Cloud Native
2 100 (7.12%) Distributed Systems
3 93 (6.62%) AI Agents
4 71 (5.05%) Product Ownership
5 63 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (3.56%) Data Centre
7 47 (3.35%) Onboarding
8 36 (2.56%) Mobile App
9 33 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 27 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (1.92%) Data Structures
10 27 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (1.71%) Public Cloud
11 24 (1.71%) Security Posture
12 22 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
12 22 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
13 21 (1.49%) Low-Code
14 17 (1.21%) Algorithms
14 17 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
14 17 (1.21%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 131 (9.32%) Linux
2 64 (4.56%) Windows
3 28 (1.99%) Unix
4 27 (1.92%) Android
5 25 (1.78%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.42%) Windows Server
7 19 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.57%) VMS
9 6 (0.43%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.28%) CentOS
11 2 (0.14%) AIX
11 2 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.14%) Debian
11 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.14%) MVS
11 2 (0.14%) Rocky
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.14%) zOS
12 1 (0.071%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,073 (76.37%) CI/CD
2 819 (58.29%) DevOps
3 575 (40.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 526 (37.44%) Agile
5 366 (26.05%) AI
6 363 (25.84%) Observability
7 357 (25.41%) Test Automation
8 287 (20.43%) Containerisation
9 281 (20.00%) Microservices
10 252 (17.94%) Software Engineering
11 223 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 209 (14.88%) Platform Engineering
13 190 (13.52%) Stakeholder Management
14 185 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
15 181 (12.88%) Event-Driven
16 154 (10.96%) Analytics
17 146 (10.39%) Scrum
18 145 (10.32%) Technical Leadership
19 134 (9.54%) Deployment Automation
20 131 (9.32%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 625 (44.48%) Python
2 311 (22.14%) SQL
3 281 (20.00%) Java
4 191 (13.59%) Bash
5 181 (12.88%) PowerShell
6 157 (11.17%) TypeScript
7 152 (10.82%) JavaScript
8 126 (8.97%) C#
9 104 (7.40%) Bicep
10 50 (3.56%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.06%) Go
12 34 (2.42%) Shell Script
13 30 (2.14%) Scala
14 20 (1.42%) Swift
15 19 (1.35%) ActionScript
16 15 (1.07%) Ruby
17 12 (0.85%) C
17 12 (0.85%) Objective-C
18 11 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
19 10 (0.71%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 419 (29.82%) Security Cleared
2 362 (25.77%) SC Cleared
3 67 (4.77%) Azure Certification
4 60 (4.27%) Degree
5 53 (3.77%) AWS Certification
6 50 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 41 (2.92%) DV Cleared
8 34 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 10 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (0.64%) CISSP
15 8 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
15 8 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
15 8 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 7 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (14.52%) QA
2 87 (6.19%) Accessibility
3 80 (5.69%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.56%) WCAG
5 28 (1.99%) GDPR
6 26 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (1.71%) NIST
8 11 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.78%) NCSC
9 8 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.43%) GRC
10 6 (0.43%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.43%) PSD2
11 5 (0.36%) HL7
11 5 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.36%) SEPA
12 4 (0.28%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.071%) JSP 440
System Software
1 448 (31.89%) Docker
2 45 (3.20%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.71%) IAG
7 7 (0.50%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.36%) vSphere
9 4 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.28%) NFS
9 4 (0.28%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.14%) Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.14%) SRDF
10 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 508 (36.16%) Kubernetes
2 201 (14.31%) Ansible
3 190 (13.52%) Grafana
4 142 (10.11%) Prometheus
5 54 (3.84%) Argo
6 21 (1.49%) Puppet
7 18 (1.28%) Progress Chef
7 18 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (1.07%) Packer
9 13 (0.93%) Control-M
10 11 (0.78%) Istio
10 11 (0.78%) Kibana
11 9 (0.64%) Karpenter
12 7 (0.50%) SCCM
13 5 (0.36%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.36%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.36%) Kustomize
14 4 (0.28%) Podman
Vendors
1 275 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 104 (7.40%) Databricks
3 93 (6.62%) Splunk
4 91 (6.48%) Google
5 72 (5.12%) Dynatrace
6 56 (3.99%) OpenAI
7 55 (3.91%) Oracle
8 51 (3.63%) ServiceNow
9 37 (2.63%) VMware
10 36 (2.56%) Cisco
11 30 (2.14%) Foundry
11 30 (2.14%) Red Hat
12 28 (1.99%) IBM
13 26 (1.85%) F5
13 26 (1.85%) Salesforce
14 22 (1.57%) New Relic
15 17 (1.21%) Palo Alto
16 15 (1.07%) SAP
17 14 (1.00%) CyberArk
17 14 (1.00%) Informatica