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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 132 172
Rank change year-on-year +59 +40 -50
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,270 515 517
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.25% 2.11% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.94% 5.61% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 358 351
10th Percentile £359 £379 £390
25th Percentile £413 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £619 £630 £623
90th Percentile £700 £741 £675
UK median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 -
25th Percentile £46.00 £25.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £27.38 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +126.48% -15.77% -48.00%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.44 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 £60.30
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +104.57% -15.77% -40.91%

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 14,208 9,180 12,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.33% 37.69% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,809 6,465 8,638
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £714 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 185 322
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.50 £15.92
Median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.87
Median % change year-on-year +61.08% +26.98% -21.19%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.30 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.43 £21.00
% change year-on-year +45.85% +30.60% -26.32%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 +41 720 £538 -4.87% 226
North of England +43 211 £500 +1.06% 145
Yorkshire +19 134 £481 -12.55% 64
South East +12 107 £480 -4.00% 123
Midlands +14 93 £504 +3.92% 55
South West +28 78 £525 -2.33% 55
West Midlands +7 76 £525 +10.53% 22
North West +3 65 £525 +10.53% 61
East of England -24 26 £500 -9.09% 53
East Midlands -18 16 £402 -19.60% 33
North East -4 14 £535 +47.59% 20
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
1 108 (8.50%) Confluence
2 43 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (2.68%) SharePoint
4 28 (2.20%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.10%) Apache
5 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.63%) nginx
7 7 (0.55%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.31%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.16%) SAS
10 2 (0.16%) WordPress
11 1 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.079%) Appian
11 1 (0.079%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.079%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.079%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.079%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.079%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.39%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.31%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.24%) Findur
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.079%) Actimize
5 1 (0.079%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.079%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.079%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 645 (50.79%) GitHub Actions
2 592 (46.61%) Azure
3 569 (44.80%) AWS
4 314 (24.72%) Azure DevOps
5 199 (15.67%) Serverless
6 179 (14.09%) GCP
7 138 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
8 114 (8.98%) Amazon S3
9 106 (8.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 98 (7.72%) Power Platform
11 95 (7.48%) Amazon EKS
12 86 (6.77%) Amazon ECS
12 86 (6.77%) Azure Data Factory
13 81 (6.38%) Azure Monitor
14 79 (6.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 77 (6.06%) Azure AKS
16 73 (5.75%) GitHub Copilot
17 68 (5.35%) Entra ID
18 66 (5.20%) OpenShift
19 57 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.80%) Firewall
2 57 (4.49%) DNS
3 32 (2.52%) VPN
4 30 (2.36%) Network Security
5 14 (1.10%) HTTP
6 9 (0.71%) SSL
7 7 (0.55%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.55%) Modbus
7 7 (0.55%) RS-232
7 7 (0.55%) RS-485
8 6 (0.47%) Internet
8 6 (0.47%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.39%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.31%) DSL
10 4 (0.31%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.31%) WAN
11 3 (0.24%) NAS
11 3 (0.24%) SAN
12 2 (0.16%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (11.73%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (6.61%) NoSQL
3 76 (5.98%) Data Lake
4 63 (4.96%) SQL Server
5 59 (4.65%) Power BI
6 58 (4.57%) DynamoDB
7 51 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
8 50 (3.94%) Relational Database
9 49 (3.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 47 (3.70%) MongoDB
11 42 (3.31%) Delta Lake
12 36 (2.83%) Redis
13 33 (2.60%) MySQL
14 31 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
15 25 (1.97%) Big Data
16 23 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
17 19 (1.50%) Metadata
18 18 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
19 15 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
20 13 (1.02%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 383 (30.16%) Jenkins
2 247 (19.45%) Git
3 238 (18.74%) GitLab
4 167 (13.15%) JIRA
5 88 (6.93%) JUnit
6 54 (4.25%) Cucumber
7 52 (4.09%) Selenium
8 42 (3.31%) Sonatype Nexus
9 40 (3.15%) Artifactory
10 39 (3.07%) JMeter
11 38 (2.99%) Cypress.io
12 34 (2.68%) Bitbucket
13 33 (2.60%) SonarQube
14 32 (2.52%) CircleCI
14 32 (2.52%) Gradle
14 32 (2.52%) Postman
15 26 (2.05%) Maven
16 21 (1.65%) Gatling
16 21 (1.65%) MLflow
17 19 (1.50%) REST Assured
General
1 309 (24.33%) Social Skills
2 214 (16.85%) Finance
3 151 (11.89%) Public Sector
4 94 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (6.85%) Banking
6 21 (1.65%) Military
7 20 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (1.57%) Retail
8 16 (1.26%) Front Office
9 15 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.10%) Investment Banking
11 12 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (0.94%) Legal
12 9 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.63%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.55%) Law
14 7 (0.55%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.47%) Marketing
16 5 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 260 (20.47%) Developer
2 200 (15.75%) Senior
3 177 (13.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 115 (9.06%) Data Engineer
5 98 (7.72%) Architect
6 97 (7.64%) Lead
7 86 (6.77%) Cloud Engineer
8 83 (6.54%) Platform Engineer
9 75 (5.91%) AWS Engineer
10 67 (5.28%) Azure Engineer
11 65 (5.12%) Full-Stack Developer
12 64 (5.04%) Java Developer
13 51 (4.02%) Software Engineer
14 46 (3.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 43 (3.39%) GCP Engineer
16 42 (3.31%) Senior Developer
17 41 (3.23%) AWS DevOps
18 37 (2.91%) Tester
19 33 (2.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 33 (2.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (11.10%) REST
2 140 (11.02%) Kafka
3 137 (10.79%) Spring
4 127 (10.00%) React
5 116 (9.13%) .NET
6 115 (9.06%) Node.js
7 102 (8.03%) Spring Boot
8 89 (7.01%) RESTful
9 64 (5.04%) Playwright
10 59 (4.65%) AngularJS
11 58 (4.57%) PySpark
12 43 (3.39%) JSON
13 42 (3.31%) OAuth
14 41 (3.23%) CSS
14 41 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
15 38 (2.99%) Jest
16 37 (2.91%) HTML
17 35 (2.76%) OpenTelemetry
18 31 (2.44%) .NET Framework
18 31 (2.44%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 218 (17.17%) Cloud Native
2 74 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 38 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (1.97%) Public Cloud
6 24 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 23 (1.81%) AI Agents
8 18 (1.42%) Security Posture
8 18 (1.42%) Virtual Team
9 16 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.26%) Mobile App
10 15 (1.18%) NHS
11 14 (1.10%) Algorithms
12 13 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (0.87%) Data Centre
13 11 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (0.87%) Private Cloud
13 11 (0.87%) Replication
13 11 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 146 (11.50%) Linux
2 43 (3.39%) Windows
3 28 (2.20%) Unix
4 22 (1.73%) Android
5 19 (1.50%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.10%) VMS
7 11 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
8 7 (0.55%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.31%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.24%) Debian
10 3 (0.24%) Rocky
11 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.079%) CentOS
12 1 (0.079%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 934 (73.54%) CI/CD
2 746 (58.74%) DevOps
3 455 (35.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 393 (30.94%) Agile
5 303 (23.86%) Containerisation
6 275 (21.65%) Test Automation
7 244 (19.21%) AI
8 240 (18.90%) Observability
9 224 (17.64%) Microservices
10 207 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
11 183 (14.41%) Platform Engineering
12 181 (14.25%) Analytics
13 172 (13.54%) Migration
14 150 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 136 (10.71%) Software Engineering
16 132 (10.39%) Data Pipeline
17 127 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
18 126 (9.92%) Data Engineering
19 120 (9.45%) Data Modelling
20 117 (9.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 589 (46.38%) Python
2 304 (23.94%) SQL
3 252 (19.84%) Java
4 159 (12.52%) Bash
5 150 (11.81%) JavaScript
6 129 (10.16%) C#
7 126 (9.92%) TypeScript
8 124 (9.76%) PowerShell
9 62 (4.88%) Bicep
10 55 (4.33%) Go
11 32 (2.52%) Shell Script
12 26 (2.05%) Scala
13 24 (1.89%) Ruby
14 18 (1.42%) Kotlin
15 15 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
16 13 (1.02%) Swift
17 10 (0.79%) C++
17 10 (0.79%) Groovy
18 9 (0.71%) C
19 7 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 387 (30.47%) Security Cleared
2 304 (23.94%) SC Cleared
3 59 (4.65%) Degree
4 48 (3.78%) Azure Certification
5 39 (3.07%) DV Cleared
6 38 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (2.83%) AWS Certification
8 31 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 11 (0.87%) OCP
12 11 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
13 10 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (0.71%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 8 (0.63%) CISSP
16 5 (0.39%) CCNP
17 4 (0.31%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (8.11%) QA
2 68 (5.35%) Data Quality
3 46 (3.62%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.97%) GDPR
4 25 (1.97%) WCAG
5 19 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 17 (1.34%) NIST
8 12 (0.94%) NCSC
9 6 (0.47%) GRC
9 6 (0.47%) SLA
10 5 (0.39%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.24%) EU AI Act
11 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 378 (29.76%) Docker
2 36 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.65%) VMware NSX
5 21 (1.65%) vSphere
6 7 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.55%) Firmware
7 4 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.24%) HDFS
9 1 (0.079%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.079%) IAG
9 1 (0.079%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.079%) NFS
9 1 (0.079%) SRDF
9 1 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 567 (44.65%) Terraform
2 465 (36.61%) Kubernetes
3 189 (14.88%) Ansible
4 132 (10.39%) Grafana
5 96 (7.56%) Prometheus
6 66 (5.20%) Argo
7 38 (2.99%) Istio
8 23 (1.81%) Puppet
9 21 (1.65%) Progress Chef
9 21 (1.65%) vCenter Server
10 13 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.94%) Packer
12 10 (0.79%) Kibana
12 10 (0.79%) NetBackup
13 9 (0.71%) linkerd
14 8 (0.63%) Podman
15 7 (0.55%) Sysdig
16 4 (0.31%) HAProxy
16 4 (0.31%) Kubeflow
16 4 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 237 (18.66%) Microsoft
2 114 (8.98%) Databricks
3 91 (7.17%) Google
4 78 (6.14%) Splunk
5 49 (3.86%) VMware
6 47 (3.70%) Oracle
7 44 (3.46%) OpenAI
8 39 (3.07%) Red Hat
9 21 (1.65%) Pure Storage
10 19 (1.50%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.50%) ServiceNow
11 16 (1.26%) Salesforce
11 16 (1.26%) Sonatype
12 15 (1.18%) Dynatrace
13 14 (1.10%) SAP
14 13 (1.02%) Checkmarx
15 12 (0.94%) Informatica
16 11 (0.87%) Foundry
17 8 (0.63%) Cloudera
17 8 (0.63%) New Relic