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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 110 140
Rank change year-on-year +24 +30 -12
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,355 669 601
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 2.43% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.54% 6.52% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 932 461 395
10th Percentile £395 £364 £311
25th Percentile £450 £425 £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 14 1 34
10th Percentile £46.25 - £41.75
25th Percentile £52.11 £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 15,864 10,262 11,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.29% 33.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,589 6,956 8,088
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £718 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 267 250
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.24 £26.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.23% +18.18% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £51.43
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.15
% change year-on-year +29.09% +18.79% -33.86%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +29 783 £550 - 365
North of England +40 258 £500 +5.26% 143
Yorkshire +28 179 £493 -1.50% 52
Midlands +15 110 £500 +5.26% 62
West Midlands 0 98 £500 +5.26% 37
South East -47 79 £525 +10.53% 130
South West +2 70 £500 -16.67% 55
North West -22 65 £589 +27.45% 73
East of England +1 33 £500 -9.09% 43
North East -32 16 £450 -5.26% 19
East Midlands -7 11 £470 -5.05% 25
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
1 125 (9.23%) Confluence
2 47 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (2.80%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.62%) Apache Spark
5 19 (1.40%) Apache
6 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.52%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.52%) nginx
8 6 (0.44%) Tuxedo
9 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.15%) CMS
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
10 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.074%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.074%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.074%) Mendix
11 1 (0.074%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.074%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Chatbot
1 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.22%) Trello
6 1 (0.074%) Notion
6 1 (0.074%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.37%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.22%) Findur
4 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.22%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.074%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.074%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.074%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 721 (53.21%) GitHub Actions
2 668 (49.30%) Azure
3 623 (45.98%) AWS
4 386 (28.49%) Azure DevOps
5 205 (15.13%) GCP
6 157 (11.59%) Serverless
7 130 (9.59%) Amazon S3
8 114 (8.41%) AWS Lambda
8 114 (8.41%) GitHub Copilot
9 111 (8.19%) Amazon EKS
10 96 (7.08%) Azure Monitor
11 92 (6.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 86 (6.35%) Power Platform
13 73 (5.39%) Amazon EC2
13 73 (5.39%) Azure AKS
13 73 (5.39%) Entra ID
14 70 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
15 68 (5.02%) Amazon ECS
16 60 (4.43%) Snowflake
17 51 (3.76%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 71 (5.24%) Firewall
2 67 (4.94%) DNS
3 57 (4.21%) VPN
4 29 (2.14%) Network Security
5 17 (1.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 17 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.11%) VLAN
7 13 (0.96%) SSL
8 10 (0.74%) BGP
9 9 (0.66%) BIG-IP
9 9 (0.66%) DHCP
9 9 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (0.66%) OSPF
9 9 (0.66%) Wireless
10 8 (0.59%) IPsec
10 8 (0.59%) WAN
11 7 (0.52%) HTTP
11 7 (0.52%) Internet
12 5 (0.37%) SD-WAN
13 4 (0.30%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.64%) SQL Server
3 73 (5.39%) NoSQL
4 61 (4.50%) MongoDB
4 61 (4.50%) Power BI
5 55 (4.06%) Data Lake
6 46 (3.39%) DynamoDB
6 46 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 40 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
8 39 (2.88%) Redis
9 37 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
10 36 (2.66%) Delta Lake
11 33 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
12 31 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
14 22 (1.62%) Metadata
15 21 (1.55%) Big Data
16 20 (1.48%) BigQuery
17 16 (1.18%) MySQL
17 16 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 428 (31.59%) Jenkins
2 279 (20.59%) GitLab
3 256 (18.89%) Git
4 180 (13.28%) JIRA
5 76 (5.61%) JUnit
6 74 (5.46%) Selenium
7 55 (4.06%) Cucumber
8 45 (3.32%) Bitbucket
9 43 (3.17%) SonarQube
10 40 (2.95%) Cypress.io
11 38 (2.80%) Gatling
11 38 (2.80%) Gradle
11 38 (2.80%) JMeter
12 34 (2.51%) REST Assured
13 33 (2.44%) Maven
14 31 (2.29%) CircleCI
14 31 (2.29%) Postman
15 23 (1.70%) Claude Code
16 21 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
16 21 (1.55%) WebDriver
General
1 328 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 253 (18.67%) Finance
3 156 (11.51%) Public Sector
4 113 (8.34%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (5.98%) Banking
6 41 (3.03%) Retail
7 27 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (1.70%) Legal
9 18 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.18%) Law
11 15 (1.11%) Investment Banking
11 15 (1.11%) Military
12 13 (0.96%) Telecoms
13 12 (0.89%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.59%) Marketing
15 8 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.59%) Publishing
16 7 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 246 (18.15%) Senior
2 244 (18.01%) Developer
3 171 (12.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 120 (8.86%) Lead
5 119 (8.78%) Architect
6 101 (7.45%) Data Engineer
7 82 (6.05%) Platform Engineer
8 78 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
9 71 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
10 63 (4.65%) Java Developer
11 62 (4.58%) Senior Developer
12 59 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
12 59 (4.35%) Software Engineer
13 47 (3.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 44 (3.25%) Senior DevOps
14 44 (3.25%) Test Engineer
15 43 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
16 40 (2.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 36 (2.66%) GCP Engineer
17 36 (2.66%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (14.83%) REST
2 125 (9.23%) Spring
3 124 (9.15%) Kafka
3 124 (9.15%) RESTful
4 112 (8.27%) .NET
5 109 (8.04%) React
6 96 (7.08%) Spring Boot
7 82 (6.05%) Playwright
8 67 (4.94%) Node.js
9 54 (3.99%) PySpark
10 43 (3.17%) OpenTelemetry
11 41 (3.03%) .NET Framework
11 41 (3.03%) AngularJS
11 41 (3.03%) OAuth
12 37 (2.73%) JSON
12 37 (2.73%) YAML
13 36 (2.66%) HTML
14 35 (2.58%) OAuth2
15 34 (2.51%) FastAPI
16 33 (2.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 287 (21.18%) Cloud Native
2 122 (9.00%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (5.09%) Product Ownership
4 46 (3.39%) AI Agents
5 40 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 38 (2.80%) Mobile App
7 36 (2.66%) Data Centre
8 35 (2.58%) Onboarding
9 27 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.48%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
12 20 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
13 18 (1.33%) Security Posture
14 16 (1.18%) Algorithms
14 16 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.11%) Private Cloud
15 15 (1.11%) Public Cloud
15 15 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 127 (9.37%) Linux
2 62 (4.58%) Windows
3 36 (2.66%) Android
4 30 (2.21%) Apple iOS
5 28 (2.07%) Unix
6 20 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (1.48%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.37%) VMS
9 3 (0.22%) CentOS
9 3 (0.22%) Debian
9 3 (0.22%) Rocky
10 2 (0.15%) AIX
10 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.15%) MVS
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,015 (74.91%) CI/CD
2 792 (58.45%) DevOps
3 538 (39.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 484 (35.72%) Agile
5 341 (25.17%) Test Automation
6 327 (24.13%) Observability
7 294 (21.70%) Containerisation
8 266 (19.63%) AI
9 263 (19.41%) Microservices
10 212 (15.65%) Platform Engineering
11 202 (14.91%) Software Engineering
12 197 (14.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 163 (12.03%) Analytics
13 163 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
14 154 (11.37%) Event-Driven
15 125 (9.23%) Technical Leadership
16 123 (9.08%) DevSecOps
17 122 (9.00%) Data Pipeline
18 117 (8.63%) Migration
19 116 (8.56%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 578 (42.66%) Python
2 319 (23.54%) SQL
3 259 (19.11%) Java
4 198 (14.61%) Bash
5 167 (12.32%) PowerShell
6 134 (9.89%) C#
7 131 (9.67%) JavaScript
8 130 (9.59%) TypeScript
9 84 (6.20%) Bicep
10 47 (3.47%) Kotlin
11 42 (3.10%) Go
12 29 (2.14%) Scala
13 28 (2.07%) Shell Script
14 23 (1.70%) Ruby
15 22 (1.62%) Swift
16 14 (1.03%) Groovy
17 10 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.66%) ActionScript
18 9 (0.66%) Apex Code
18 9 (0.66%) C
Qualifications
1 420 (31.00%) Security Cleared
2 365 (26.94%) SC Cleared
3 60 (4.43%) Degree
4 59 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 45 (3.32%) AWS Certification
6 42 (3.10%) DV Cleared
7 33 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.81%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 8 (0.59%) CISSP
15 7 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (0.44%) OCP
16 6 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (12.77%) QA
2 77 (5.68%) Data Quality
3 68 (5.02%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.21%) GDPR
5 24 (1.77%) WCAG
6 21 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.81%) NIST
8 10 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.59%) GRC
10 7 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.44%) NCSC
12 5 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.37%) PSD2
13 4 (0.30%) HL7
13 4 (0.30%) SEPA
14 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.074%) IFRS 17
15 1 (0.074%) ITGC
System Software
1 403 (29.74%) Docker
2 43 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (1.55%) vSphere
6 18 (1.33%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.81%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.52%) IAG
9 4 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.30%) NFS
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%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 638 (47.08%) Terraform
2 475 (35.06%) Kubernetes
3 203 (14.98%) Ansible
4 183 (13.51%) Grafana
5 153 (11.29%) Prometheus
6 68 (5.02%) Argo
7 28 (2.07%) Puppet
8 18 (1.33%) Progress Chef
8 18 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (1.33%) vCenter Server
9 16 (1.18%) Istio
9 16 (1.18%) Packer
10 13 (0.96%) Kibana
11 9 (0.66%) Control-M
11 9 (0.66%) HAProxy
11 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.66%) NetBackup
12 7 (0.52%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.44%) SCCM
14 5 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 239 (17.64%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.86%) Databricks
3 91 (6.72%) Google
4 88 (6.49%) Splunk
5 54 (3.99%) Oracle
6 47 (3.47%) Dynatrace
7 43 (3.17%) VMware
8 36 (2.66%) Red Hat
9 33 (2.44%) Salesforce
10 28 (2.07%) OpenAI
10 28 (2.07%) ServiceNow
11 21 (1.55%) Cisco
11 21 (1.55%) Informatica
12 19 (1.40%) F5
13 18 (1.33%) Palo Alto
13 18 (1.33%) Pure Storage
14 16 (1.18%) Checkmarx
14 16 (1.18%) Foundry
14 16 (1.18%) SAP
15 15 (1.11%) IBM