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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 123 162
Rank change year-on-year +53 +39 -21
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,100 544 559
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.55% 2.04% 1.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.33% 5.55% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 377 403
10th Percentile £358 £325 £413
25th Percentile £413 £440 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £635 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £685 £693
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 0
10th Percentile £40.00 £21.35 -
25th Percentile £41.50 £26.19 -
Median hourly rate £54.25 £28.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +90.35% - -
75th Percentile £98.44 £61.25 -
90th Percentile £110.00 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £28.50 -
% change year-on-year +90.35% - -

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 11,786 9,808 12,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.00% 36.72% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,146 6,531 9,054
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £423 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £640 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £735
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 130 239
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.18 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.21 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +25.36% -
75th Percentile £56.50 £45.89 £50.79
90th Percentile £78.45 £64.78 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £27.43 £23.11
% change year-on-year +0.27% +18.68% +2.70%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 12 January 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 +40 632 £550 - 226
North of England +31 164 £481 +4.00% 236
South East +57 104 £450 - 365
Midlands +25 83 £565 -1.74% 138
Yorkshire +6 82 £500 +13.64% 104
North West +11 67 £402 -15.37% 94
West Midlands +23 66 £575 +10.05% 48
South West +2 63 £637 +10.70% 164
North East +7 17 £545 +50.34% 39
East Midlands -6 17 £407 -38.51% 87
East of England -9 16 £570 +79.25% 187
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 96 (8.73%) Confluence
2 47 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (2.18%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.73%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.09%) nginx
5 12 (1.09%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.55%) Mule
8 5 (0.45%) Apache
9 4 (0.36%) SAS
10 3 (0.27%) CMS
10 3 (0.27%) WordPress
11 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.18%) Traefik
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.091%) Appian
12 1 (0.091%) Luigi
Applications
1 23 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.18%) Trello
5 1 (0.091%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.091%) InDesign
5 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.091%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.091%) Actimize
3 1 (0.091%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.091%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.091%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.091%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.091%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.091%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.091%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 568 (51.64%) GitHub Actions
2 525 (47.73%) AWS
3 503 (45.73%) Azure
4 234 (21.27%) Azure DevOps
5 188 (17.09%) GCP
6 187 (17.00%) Serverless
7 127 (11.55%) AWS Lambda
8 116 (10.55%) Amazon S3
9 98 (8.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 84 (7.64%) Amazon ECS
11 83 (7.55%) Amazon EKS
12 80 (7.27%) Power Platform
13 77 (7.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 68 (6.18%) OpenShift
15 65 (5.91%) Azure AKS
16 60 (5.45%) Entra ID
17 58 (5.27%) GitHub Copilot
18 57 (5.18%) Amazon EC2
19 51 (4.64%) Azure Data Factory
20 50 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.55%) Firewall
2 46 (4.18%) DNS
3 23 (2.09%) VPN
4 20 (1.82%) Network Security
5 14 (1.27%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.09%) HTTP
7 11 (1.00%) SSL
8 9 (0.82%) WAN
9 8 (0.73%) Kerberos
9 8 (0.73%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.55%) Ethernet
10 6 (0.55%) Modbus
10 6 (0.55%) RS-232
10 6 (0.55%) RS-485
11 5 (0.45%) Internet
11 5 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
11 5 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.27%) SSH
13 2 (0.18%) Calico
13 2 (0.18%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (15.45%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (7.73%) NoSQL
3 64 (5.82%) Amazon RDS
4 60 (5.45%) MongoDB
5 53 (4.82%) Relational Database
6 52 (4.73%) DynamoDB
7 51 (4.64%) SQL Server
8 47 (4.27%) Redis
9 44 (4.00%) Power BI
10 43 (3.91%) Data Lake
11 38 (3.45%) MySQL
12 29 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
13 25 (2.27%) BigQuery
13 25 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
14 21 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
15 19 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
16 18 (1.64%) Delta Lake
17 16 (1.45%) Big Data
18 14 (1.27%) Amazon QuickSight
19 13 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 315 (28.64%) Jenkins
2 219 (19.91%) Git
3 200 (18.18%) GitLab
4 168 (15.27%) JIRA
5 56 (5.09%) JUnit
6 55 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 48 (4.36%) CircleCI
8 45 (4.09%) SonarQube
9 43 (3.91%) Artifactory
10 42 (3.82%) Bitbucket
11 39 (3.55%) Cypress.io
12 37 (3.36%) Gradle
13 36 (3.27%) Cucumber
14 29 (2.64%) Postman
14 29 (2.64%) Selenium
15 25 (2.27%) Maven
16 24 (2.18%) JMeter
17 23 (2.09%) Snyk
18 16 (1.45%) SpecFlow
19 12 (1.09%) TeamCity
General
1 271 (24.64%) Social Skills
2 167 (15.18%) Finance
3 135 (12.27%) Public Sector
4 82 (7.45%) Banking
5 65 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (1.73%) Military
7 18 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
8 15 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.36%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.27%) Retail
10 13 (1.18%) Front Office
11 11 (1.00%) Marketing
11 11 (1.00%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.55%) Games
12 6 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.45%) Billing
13 5 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.45%) Law
13 5 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 262 (23.82%) Developer
2 177 (16.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 169 (15.36%) Senior
4 83 (7.55%) Data Engineer
5 82 (7.45%) AWS Engineer
6 71 (6.45%) Architect
7 70 (6.36%) Cloud Engineer
7 70 (6.36%) Lead
8 66 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 56 (5.09%) Platform Engineer
10 54 (4.91%) Azure Engineer
10 54 (4.91%) Java Developer
10 54 (4.91%) Software Engineer
11 51 (4.64%) AWS DevOps
12 49 (4.45%) Senior Developer
13 47 (4.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 41 (3.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 39 (3.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 34 (3.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
17 32 (2.91%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (13.45%) REST
2 134 (12.18%) Kafka
3 133 (12.09%) React
4 131 (11.91%) Node.js
5 109 (9.91%) .NET
6 90 (8.18%) Spring
7 88 (8.00%) RESTful
8 76 (6.91%) Spring Boot
9 70 (6.36%) AngularJS
10 59 (5.36%) OAuth
11 58 (5.27%) HTML
12 55 (5.00%) CSS
13 50 (4.55%) Playwright
14 49 (4.45%) Elastic Stack
15 45 (4.09%) JSON
16 41 (3.73%) FastAPI
16 41 (3.73%) GraphQL
17 40 (3.64%) pytest
18 39 (3.55%) YAML
19 35 (3.18%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 191 (17.36%) Cloud Native
2 39 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (3.36%) Product Ownership
4 25 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 23 (2.09%) Onboarding
6 21 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.73%) Algorithms
7 19 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (1.73%) Public Cloud
8 17 (1.55%) AI Agents
9 15 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.36%) Life Science
9 15 (1.36%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.27%) Genomics
10 14 (1.27%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.27%) Private Cloud
11 13 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
11 13 (1.18%) NHS
11 13 (1.18%) PKI
11 13 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 144 (13.09%) Linux
2 42 (3.82%) Windows
3 27 (2.45%) Unix
4 21 (1.91%) Android
5 15 (1.36%) VMS
6 13 (1.18%) Apple iOS
6 13 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.64%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
8 6 (0.55%) Solaris
9 5 (0.45%) CentOS
10 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.18%) zOS
13 1 (0.091%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.091%) MVS
13 1 (0.091%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 787 (71.55%) CI/CD
2 670 (60.91%) DevOps
3 395 (35.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 369 (33.55%) Agile
5 295 (26.82%) Containerisation
6 221 (20.09%) Microservices
7 220 (20.00%) AI
8 211 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
9 209 (19.00%) Test Automation
10 178 (16.18%) Observability
11 141 (12.82%) Migration
12 135 (12.27%) Full-Stack Development
13 129 (11.73%) Software Engineering
14 113 (10.27%) Data Pipeline
15 111 (10.09%) Analytics
16 103 (9.36%) Platform Engineering
17 98 (8.91%) Continuous Improvement
18 97 (8.82%) DevSecOps
19 92 (8.36%) Machine Learning
20 90 (8.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 509 (46.27%) Python
2 242 (22.00%) SQL
3 222 (20.18%) Java
4 152 (13.82%) JavaScript
5 146 (13.27%) TypeScript
6 127 (11.55%) Bash
7 101 (9.18%) C#
8 96 (8.73%) PowerShell
9 79 (7.18%) Go
10 48 (4.36%) Bicep
11 31 (2.82%) Shell Script
12 30 (2.73%) Ruby
13 18 (1.64%) PHP
14 11 (1.00%) C++
14 11 (1.00%) Groovy
14 11 (1.00%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.82%) C
15 9 (0.82%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.73%) Korn
16 8 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 316 (28.73%) Security Cleared
2 253 (23.00%) SC Cleared
3 82 (7.45%) Degree
4 48 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (3.73%) DV Cleared
6 39 (3.55%) Azure Certification
7 29 (2.64%) AWS Certification
8 22 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (1.91%) MCP
10 17 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.18%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.73%) OCP
12 8 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (0.64%) CISSP
13 7 (0.64%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.36%) CTC Cleared
15 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.18%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (7.09%) QA
2 43 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 42 (3.82%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.73%) NIST
5 24 (2.18%) NCSC
6 22 (2.00%) GDPR
7 21 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.82%) WCAG
9 15 (1.36%) EU AI Act
10 8 (0.73%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.64%) SLA
12 5 (0.45%) GRC
13 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.27%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.18%) FIPS 140-2
15 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.18%) ISO 8583
15 2 (0.18%) MiFID
15 2 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 374 (34.00%) Docker
2 45 (4.09%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.55%) Firmware
5 6 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.45%) NFS
7 4 (0.36%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.36%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.36%) vSphere
8 3 (0.27%) QEMU
8 3 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.18%) HDFS
9 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.18%) KVM
10 1 (0.091%) SRDF
10 1 (0.091%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.091%) Xen
Systems Management
1 485 (44.09%) Terraform
2 437 (39.73%) Kubernetes
3 157 (14.27%) Ansible
4 128 (11.64%) Grafana
5 100 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 59 (5.36%) Argo
7 32 (2.91%) Istio
8 28 (2.55%) Puppet
9 27 (2.45%) Progress Chef
10 13 (1.18%) Podman
11 10 (0.91%) Kibana
11 10 (0.91%) Packer
12 8 (0.73%) NetBackup
12 8 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.64%) linkerd
13 7 (0.64%) Sysdig
14 5 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.45%) logstash
15 4 (0.36%) QRadar
15 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 185 (16.82%) Microsoft
2 98 (8.91%) Google
3 66 (6.00%) Databricks
4 64 (5.82%) Splunk
5 47 (4.27%) VMware
6 42 (3.82%) OpenAI
7 37 (3.36%) Oracle
7 37 (3.36%) Red Hat
8 24 (2.18%) Atlassian
8 24 (2.18%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.45%) Foundry
10 14 (1.27%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.91%) Sonatype
12 9 (0.82%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.82%) MuleSoft
12 9 (0.82%) NetApp
12 9 (0.82%) Okta
12 9 (0.82%) SAP
13 8 (0.73%) Commvault
14 7 (0.64%) Cisco