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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 125 165
Rank change year-on-year +44 +40 -40
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,215 528 535
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.96% 2.17% 1.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.45% 5.85% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 361 349
10th Percentile £366 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £623
90th Percentile £700 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £510 £520 £530
% change year-on-year -2.02% -1.89% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 20
10th Percentile £48.00 - £30.38
25th Percentile £58.43 £25.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £27.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +129.58% -60.71% +28.44%
75th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £74.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £27.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +129.58% -60.71% +28.44%

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 14,385 9,028 11,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.18% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,853 6,245 8,435
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 467 203 327
10th Percentile £15.40 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.90 £17.96 £15.87
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -35.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £37.63 £35.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.25 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +34.55% +28.69% -38.94%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +38 700 £550 - 198
North of England +27 214 £488 -0.51% 135
Yorkshire +13 144 £478 -8.03% 50
Midlands +1 86 £488 -1.52% 42
South West +21 78 £500 -6.98% 59
South East -30 77 £500 - 104
West Midlands +3 70 £500 +1.01% 18
North West -14 61 £550 +15.79% 70
East of England -17 28 £500 -9.09% 32
East Midlands -18 15 £402 -17.54% 24
North East -15 13 £463 +10.45% 16
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
1 103 (8.48%) Confluence
2 39 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (2.39%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.30%) SharePoint
5 16 (1.32%) Apache
6 10 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
9 2 (0.16%) SAS
10 1 (0.082%) Appian
10 1 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.082%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.082%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.082%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.082%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.33%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.25%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.25%) Findur
3 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.082%) Actimize
4 1 (0.082%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.082%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.082%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.082%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 636 (52.35%) GitHub Actions
2 568 (46.75%) Azure
3 555 (45.68%) AWS
4 304 (25.02%) Azure DevOps
5 186 (15.31%) Serverless
6 185 (15.23%) GCP
7 128 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
8 111 (9.14%) Amazon S3
9 98 (8.07%) Amazon EKS
10 97 (7.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 91 (7.49%) Power Platform
12 81 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
13 77 (6.34%) Azure Data Factory
14 76 (6.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 74 (6.09%) Azure AKS
15 74 (6.09%) GitHub Copilot
16 68 (5.60%) Azure Monitor
17 64 (5.27%) Amazon EC2
18 54 (4.44%) AWS CodePipeline
19 53 (4.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 60 (4.94%) DNS
2 57 (4.69%) Firewall
3 35 (2.88%) VPN
4 24 (1.98%) Network Security
5 10 (0.82%) HTTP
6 8 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.58%) SSL
8 6 (0.49%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.49%) Modbus
8 6 (0.49%) RS-232
8 6 (0.49%) RS-485
9 4 (0.33%) DSL
9 4 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.33%) WAN
10 3 (0.25%) BGP
10 3 (0.25%) DHCP
10 3 (0.25%) Internet
10 3 (0.25%) NAS
10 3 (0.25%) SAN
10 3 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (6.34%) SQL Server
3 75 (6.17%) Data Lake
4 63 (5.19%) NoSQL
5 61 (5.02%) Power BI
6 55 (4.53%) MongoDB
7 46 (3.79%) DynamoDB
8 43 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 41 (3.37%) Redis
9 41 (3.37%) Relational Database
10 40 (3.29%) Delta Lake
11 39 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
12 27 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
13 24 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (1.98%) Big Data
14 22 (1.81%) Metadata
15 21 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
16 18 (1.48%) MySQL
17 14 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 372 (30.62%) Jenkins
2 246 (20.25%) GitLab
3 233 (19.18%) Git
4 144 (11.85%) JIRA
5 73 (6.01%) JUnit
6 56 (4.61%) Selenium
7 42 (3.46%) Cucumber
8 38 (3.13%) Cypress.io
9 36 (2.96%) Gatling
10 35 (2.88%) Gradle
11 34 (2.80%) CircleCI
11 34 (2.80%) JMeter
12 33 (2.72%) Bitbucket
12 33 (2.72%) Maven
12 33 (2.72%) SonarQube
13 29 (2.39%) REST Assured
14 27 (2.22%) Artifactory
14 27 (2.22%) Postman
15 20 (1.65%) MLflow
16 19 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 286 (23.54%) Social Skills
2 204 (16.79%) Finance
3 142 (11.69%) Public Sector
4 96 (7.90%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (6.26%) Banking
6 22 (1.81%) Retail
7 20 (1.65%) Military
8 17 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.23%) Legal
10 14 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (1.07%) Front Office
11 13 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (0.99%) Investment Banking
13 10 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.58%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.58%) Marketing
16 6 (0.49%) Law
17 5 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
18 4 (0.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 238 (19.59%) Developer
2 198 (16.30%) Senior
3 166 (13.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 109 (8.97%) Data Engineer
5 104 (8.56%) Architect
6 90 (7.41%) Lead
7 79 (6.50%) Cloud Engineer
8 73 (6.01%) Platform Engineer
9 60 (4.94%) AWS Engineer
9 60 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
10 57 (4.69%) Java Developer
11 50 (4.12%) Full-Stack Developer
12 49 (4.03%) Software Engineer
13 48 (3.95%) Senior Developer
14 44 (3.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 43 (3.54%) GCP Engineer
16 41 (3.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 36 (2.96%) Test Engineer
18 32 (2.63%) Tester
19 30 (2.47%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (10.78%) REST
2 130 (10.70%) Spring
3 129 (10.62%) Kafka
4 106 (8.72%) .NET
5 105 (8.64%) React
6 104 (8.56%) Spring Boot
7 89 (7.33%) Node.js
8 83 (6.83%) RESTful
9 70 (5.76%) Playwright
10 63 (5.19%) PySpark
11 42 (3.46%) OpenTelemetry
12 40 (3.29%) AngularJS
13 33 (2.72%) .NET Framework
13 33 (2.72%) GraphQL
13 33 (2.72%) HTML
14 32 (2.63%) YAML
15 31 (2.55%) FastAPI
15 31 (2.55%) JSON
16 28 (2.30%) OAuth
17 27 (2.22%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 225 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 83 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (4.94%) Product Ownership
4 27 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (2.14%) Onboarding
6 23 (1.89%) Public Cloud
7 21 (1.73%) AI Agents
8 19 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.23%) Data Centre
10 15 (1.23%) Security Posture
11 14 (1.15%) Private Cloud
11 14 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.07%) NHS
13 12 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (0.91%) Data Structures
14 11 (0.91%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.82%) Replication
16 9 (0.74%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 132 (10.86%) Linux
2 52 (4.28%) Windows
3 29 (2.39%) Unix
4 25 (2.06%) Android
5 20 (1.65%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.32%) VMS
7 13 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.82%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.41%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.33%) Debian
11 4 (0.33%) Rocky
12 3 (0.25%) CentOS
13 2 (0.16%) AIX
13 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.082%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.082%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.082%) MVS
14 1 (0.082%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 908 (74.73%) CI/CD
2 702 (57.78%) DevOps
3 466 (38.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 363 (29.88%) Agile
5 279 (22.96%) Containerisation
6 276 (22.72%) Test Automation
7 250 (20.58%) Observability
8 213 (17.53%) Microservices
9 202 (16.63%) AI
10 190 (15.64%) Platform Engineering
11 175 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
12 158 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 157 (12.92%) Analytics
14 156 (12.84%) Migration
15 142 (11.69%) Software Engineering
16 122 (10.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 119 (9.79%) Data Engineering
18 118 (9.71%) Data Pipeline
19 111 (9.14%) Data Modelling
20 110 (9.05%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 533 (43.87%) Python
2 292 (24.03%) SQL
3 244 (20.08%) Java
4 156 (12.84%) Bash
5 141 (11.60%) JavaScript
6 134 (11.03%) C#
7 128 (10.53%) PowerShell
8 108 (8.89%) TypeScript
9 66 (5.43%) Bicep
10 42 (3.46%) Go
11 35 (2.88%) Scala
12 34 (2.80%) Shell Script
13 27 (2.22%) Kotlin
14 24 (1.98%) Ruby
15 14 (1.15%) Swift
16 10 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.66%) C++
17 8 (0.66%) Groovy
18 7 (0.58%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 370 (30.45%) Security Cleared
2 298 (24.53%) SC Cleared
3 48 (3.95%) Degree
4 40 (3.29%) Azure Certification
4 40 (3.29%) DV Cleared
5 33 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 31 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (2.39%) AWS Certification
8 20 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (0.91%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.82%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 8 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (0.58%) OCP
14 7 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.49%) CISSP
15 6 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (9.22%) QA
2 68 (5.60%) Data Quality
3 53 (4.36%) Accessibility
4 23 (1.89%) GDPR
5 21 (1.73%) WCAG
6 19 (1.56%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.99%) NIST
9 8 (0.66%) NCSC
10 6 (0.49%) GRC
10 6 (0.49%) SLA
11 4 (0.33%) PSD2
11 4 (0.33%) SEPA
12 3 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 368 (30.29%) Docker
2 29 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (1.56%) VMware NSX
5 19 (1.56%) vSphere
6 10 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.49%) Firmware
8 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.16%) HDFS
9 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.16%) NFS
9 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.082%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.082%) IAG
10 1 (0.082%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.082%) SRDF
10 1 (0.082%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 565 (46.50%) Terraform
2 440 (36.21%) Kubernetes
3 180 (14.81%) Ansible
4 135 (11.11%) Grafana
5 113 (9.30%) Prometheus
6 58 (4.77%) Argo
7 34 (2.80%) Istio
8 27 (2.22%) Puppet
9 19 (1.56%) vCenter Server
10 15 (1.23%) Packer
11 14 (1.15%) Progress Chef
12 13 (1.07%) Kibana
13 11 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.74%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.74%) NetBackup
15 8 (0.66%) linkerd
16 4 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
16 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
16 4 (0.33%) Podman
16 4 (0.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 222 (18.27%) Microsoft
2 98 (8.07%) Databricks
3 87 (7.16%) Google
4 78 (6.42%) Splunk
5 52 (4.28%) Oracle
6 43 (3.54%) VMware
7 34 (2.80%) OpenAI
8 31 (2.55%) Red Hat
9 25 (2.06%) Dynatrace
10 19 (1.56%) Pure Storage
11 18 (1.48%) Salesforce
12 16 (1.32%) Informatica
13 14 (1.15%) Atlassian
13 14 (1.15%) ServiceNow
14 13 (1.07%) Checkmarx
15 12 (0.99%) SAP
16 10 (0.82%) Cisco
16 10 (0.82%) IBM
16 10 (0.82%) Sonatype
17 9 (0.74%) AppDynamics