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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 131 149
Rank change year-on-year +58 +18 -11
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,071 593 656
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.49% 1.91% 1.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.06% 5.30% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 772 402 466
10th Percentile £360 £313 £413
25th Percentile £413 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £718
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 4
10th Percentile £42.40 £26.38 £75.38
25th Percentile £46.00 £51.25 £75.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -9.68% +47.62%
75th Percentile £110.00 - £79.06
90th Percentile - - £79.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -10.71% -9.68% +47.62%

All Cloud 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 11,826 11,181 13,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.50% 36.09% 35.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,083 7,436 10,014
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £650 £649
90th Percentile £715 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 152 276
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.04 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.75 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.23% +23.58% +17.78%
75th Percentile £51.13 £58.95 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% +22.73%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 +49 602 £550 - 289
North of England +29 167 £494 +12.22% 144
South East +70 99 £450 - 219
Midlands +34 85 £550 +4.76% 106
Yorkshire +8 84 £508 +14.04% 49
West Midlands +33 72 £575 +9.52% 68
South West +13 69 £650 - 58
North West +23 67 £415 +26.14% 77
North East +8 18 £545 - 21
East of England -12 16 £560 +6.67% 69
East Midlands -3 13 £418 -33.15% 38
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 91 (8.50%) Confluence
2 60 (5.60%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 21 (1.96%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.40%) nginx
5 9 (0.84%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.75%) Apache
7 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.56%) Mule
9 5 (0.47%) SAS
9 5 (0.47%) WordPress
10 3 (0.28%) CMS
11 2 (0.19%) CICS
11 2 (0.19%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.19%) Traefik
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.093%) JBoss
12 1 (0.093%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 26 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.47%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.19%) Trello
5 1 (0.093%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.093%) InDesign
5 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.093%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.093%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (0.37%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.19%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.093%) Actimize
3 1 (0.093%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.093%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.093%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.093%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.093%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.093%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.093%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 522 (48.74%) AWS
2 520 (48.55%) GitHub Actions
3 447 (41.74%) Azure
4 215 (20.07%) Azure DevOps
5 176 (16.43%) GCP
6 157 (14.66%) Serverless
7 117 (10.92%) Amazon S3
8 106 (9.90%) AWS Lambda
9 86 (8.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 80 (7.47%) Amazon ECS
11 68 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 61 (5.70%) OpenShift
13 60 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
14 59 (5.51%) Entra ID
15 57 (5.32%) Azure AKS
16 55 (5.14%) Power Platform
17 53 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
18 49 (4.58%) Azure Monitor
18 49 (4.58%) GitHub Copilot
19 45 (4.20%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.55%) DNS
1 38 (3.55%) Firewall
2 27 (2.52%) VPN
3 14 (1.31%) Network Security
3 14 (1.31%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.12%) WAN
5 11 (1.03%) HTTP
6 10 (0.93%) SSL
7 8 (0.75%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.65%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.47%) Internet
9 5 (0.47%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.47%) SSH
10 4 (0.37%) LAN
10 4 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (0.28%) Multicast
12 2 (0.19%) RS-232
12 2 (0.19%) RS-485
12 2 (0.19%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (15.03%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (7.19%) NoSQL
3 67 (6.26%) Amazon RDS
4 50 (4.67%) MongoDB
4 50 (4.67%) Relational Database
5 43 (4.01%) DynamoDB
6 38 (3.55%) Redis
6 38 (3.55%) SQL Server
7 35 (3.27%) MySQL
8 31 (2.89%) Data Lake
9 28 (2.61%) Power BI
10 23 (2.15%) BigQuery
11 22 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (1.96%) Big Data
13 20 (1.87%) Delta Lake
14 18 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
15 17 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
16 14 (1.31%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 297 (27.73%) Jenkins
2 228 (21.29%) Git
3 195 (18.21%) GitLab
4 169 (15.78%) JIRA
5 55 (5.14%) Sonatype Nexus
6 51 (4.76%) JUnit
7 47 (4.39%) Bitbucket
7 47 (4.39%) SonarQube
8 44 (4.11%) Cypress.io
9 40 (3.73%) Artifactory
10 39 (3.64%) CircleCI
10 39 (3.64%) Cucumber
11 36 (3.36%) Gradle
12 28 (2.61%) Maven
13 27 (2.52%) Postman
13 27 (2.52%) Selenium
14 22 (2.05%) JMeter
15 18 (1.68%) Snyk
16 17 (1.59%) SpecFlow
17 14 (1.31%) TeamCity
General
1 265 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 160 (14.94%) Finance
3 131 (12.23%) Public Sector
4 78 (7.28%) Banking
5 69 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
8 16 (1.49%) Military
9 14 (1.31%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.21%) Front Office
10 13 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.21%) Marketing
11 12 (1.12%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.03%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.75%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.65%) Retail
15 6 (0.56%) Games
16 5 (0.47%) Billing
16 5 (0.47%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 246 (22.97%) Developer
2 166 (15.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 165 (15.41%) Senior
4 95 (8.87%) AWS Engineer
5 78 (7.28%) Data Engineer
6 70 (6.54%) Architect
7 58 (5.42%) Lead
8 57 (5.32%) AWS DevOps
9 55 (5.14%) Cloud Engineer
10 54 (5.04%) Platform Engineer
11 53 (4.95%) Java Developer
11 53 (4.95%) Software Engineer
12 52 (4.86%) Full-Stack Developer
13 47 (4.39%) Senior Developer
14 46 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
15 45 (4.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 35 (3.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 31 (2.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 31 (2.89%) DevSecOps Engineer
17 31 (2.89%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (12.51%) REST
2 124 (11.58%) React
3 113 (10.55%) Kafka
4 109 (10.18%) Node.js
5 95 (8.87%) .NET
6 93 (8.68%) RESTful
7 79 (7.38%) Spring
8 75 (7.00%) AngularJS
9 65 (6.07%) Spring Boot
10 63 (5.88%) HTML
11 57 (5.32%) OAuth
12 55 (5.14%) CSS
13 49 (4.58%) Elastic Stack
14 45 (4.20%) YAML
15 44 (4.11%) JSON
15 44 (4.11%) Playwright
16 42 (3.92%) GraphQL
17 41 (3.83%) FastAPI
18 35 (3.27%) pytest
19 31 (2.89%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 170 (15.87%) Cloud Native
2 38 (3.55%) Product Ownership
3 34 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
5 31 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 27 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (2.24%) Public Cloud
8 20 (1.87%) Algorithms
9 18 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.40%) Life Science
10 15 (1.40%) Onboarding
11 14 (1.31%) Genomics
11 14 (1.31%) PKI
12 13 (1.21%) AI Agents
12 13 (1.21%) Private Cloud
12 13 (1.21%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.12%) Clustering
13 12 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
13 12 (1.12%) Mobile App
13 12 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 145 (13.54%) Linux
2 42 (3.92%) Windows
3 33 (3.08%) Unix
4 19 (1.77%) Android
5 15 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (1.12%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.75%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.56%) Solaris
9 5 (0.47%) CentOS
10 4 (0.37%) VMS
10 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.19%) zOS
13 1 (0.093%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.093%) MVS
13 1 (0.093%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 732 (68.35%) CI/CD
2 622 (58.08%) DevOps
3 383 (35.76%) Agile
4 373 (34.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 285 (26.61%) Containerisation
6 213 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
7 208 (19.42%) Microservices
8 200 (18.67%) Test Automation
9 188 (17.55%) AI
10 141 (13.17%) Observability
11 138 (12.89%) Migration
12 134 (12.51%) Software Engineering
13 122 (11.39%) Full-Stack Development
14 111 (10.36%) Data Pipeline
15 109 (10.18%) Scrum
16 99 (9.24%) Analytics
17 93 (8.68%) Platform Engineering
18 91 (8.50%) TDD
19 89 (8.31%) Machine Learning
20 87 (8.12%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 494 (46.13%) Python
2 232 (21.66%) SQL
3 209 (19.51%) Java
4 147 (13.73%) JavaScript
5 146 (13.63%) TypeScript
6 131 (12.23%) Bash
7 99 (9.24%) PowerShell
8 97 (9.06%) C#
9 93 (8.68%) Go
10 44 (4.11%) Bicep
11 26 (2.43%) Ruby
11 26 (2.43%) Shell Script
12 21 (1.96%) PHP
13 19 (1.77%) C++
14 18 (1.68%) Groovy
15 11 (1.03%) C
16 10 (0.93%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.75%) Korn
17 8 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.75%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 304 (28.38%) Security Cleared
2 246 (22.97%) SC Cleared
3 91 (8.50%) Degree
4 54 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (3.83%) DV Cleared
6 36 (3.36%) AWS Certification
6 36 (3.36%) Azure Certification
7 17 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.31%) MCP
11 8 (0.75%) OCP
11 8 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
12 7 (0.65%) CISSP
12 7 (0.65%) OSCP
13 6 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 6 (0.56%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.47%) CREST Certified
14 5 (0.47%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (6.16%) QA
2 35 (3.27%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.17%) NIST
4 33 (3.08%) Data Quality
5 27 (2.52%) GDPR
6 24 (2.24%) NCSC
7 23 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (1.40%) EU AI Act
9 14 (1.31%) WCAG
10 6 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.47%) GRC
11 5 (0.47%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.37%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.28%) Def Stans
13 3 (0.28%) ITGC
13 3 (0.28%) SLA
14 2 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 351 (32.77%) Docker
2 46 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.47%) NFS
6 5 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.37%) Firmware
7 4 (0.37%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.37%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (0.37%) vSphere
8 3 (0.28%) QEMU
9 2 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.19%) KVM
9 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.093%) etcd
10 1 (0.093%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.093%) Xen
Systems Management
1 465 (43.42%) Terraform
2 412 (38.47%) Kubernetes
3 147 (13.73%) Ansible
4 128 (11.95%) Grafana
5 106 (9.90%) Prometheus
6 45 (4.20%) Argo
7 40 (3.73%) Puppet
8 29 (2.71%) Progress Chef
9 23 (2.15%) Istio
10 15 (1.40%) Packer
10 15 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (1.12%) Podman
12 8 (0.75%) NetBackup
13 7 (0.65%) Sysdig
14 6 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.47%) Kibana
15 5 (0.47%) Nmap
16 4 (0.37%) logstash
16 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 166 (15.50%) Microsoft
2 92 (8.59%) Google
3 69 (6.44%) Splunk
4 64 (5.98%) Databricks
5 45 (4.20%) VMware
6 41 (3.83%) Red Hat
7 32 (2.99%) OpenAI
8 27 (2.52%) Atlassian
8 27 (2.52%) Oracle
9 17 (1.59%) ServiceNow
10 16 (1.49%) Foundry
11 14 (1.31%) Salesforce
12 11 (1.03%) Cisco
12 11 (1.03%) CyberArk
12 11 (1.03%) Okta
13 10 (0.93%) MuleSoft
13 10 (0.93%) Sonatype
13 10 (0.93%) Veracode
14 9 (0.84%) IBM
14 9 (0.84%) NetApp