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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 103 128
Rank change year-on-year +18 +25 +6
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,368 711 599
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 2.58% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.57% 6.93% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 929 488 401
10th Percentile £400 £371 £310
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £630
90th Percentile £705 £735 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -7.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 34
10th Percentile £46.25 - £28.80
25th Percentile £58.43 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.03% +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 15,971 10,257 11,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.19% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,675 6,951 7,933
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £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 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 548 272 218
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.11 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.04% +4.00% -22.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £83.36 £67.23 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.38 £27.88 £25.00
% change year-on-year +23.30% +11.52% -28.57%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +25 796 £550 -1.35% 521
North of England +14 260 £500 +2.30% 155
Yorkshire +22 176 £488 -2.50% 56
Midlands +12 105 £500 - 59
West Midlands -5 94 £500 - 33
South East -43 87 £525 +10.53% 148
South West -7 68 £500 -16.67% 63
North West -33 64 £575 +27.14% 78
East of England -5 33 £505 -8.18% 53
North East -23 22 £450 -5.26% 25
East Midlands -10 11 £459 -7.37% 26
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
1 115 (8.41%) Confluence
2 50 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.46%) Apache
6 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.51%) nginx
9 6 (0.44%) Tuxedo
10 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.15%) CMS
11 2 (0.15%) Mendix
11 2 (0.15%) SAS
11 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.073%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (0.58%) Chatbot
1 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.29%) Trello
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.073%) Notion
6 1 (0.073%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.37%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.22%) Findur
3 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.22%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.073%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.073%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 747 (54.61%) GitHub Actions
2 702 (51.32%) Azure
3 631 (46.13%) AWS
4 403 (29.46%) Azure DevOps
5 215 (15.72%) GCP
6 167 (12.21%) Serverless
7 133 (9.72%) Amazon S3
8 120 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
9 118 (8.63%) GitHub Copilot
10 115 (8.41%) Amazon EKS
11 102 (7.46%) Azure Monitor
12 97 (7.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 85 (6.21%) Power Platform
14 82 (5.99%) Azure AKS
15 80 (5.85%) Entra ID
16 73 (5.34%) Amazon EC2
17 69 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
17 69 (5.04%) AWS CloudFormation
18 62 (4.53%) Snowflake
19 51 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 71 (5.19%) Firewall
2 66 (4.82%) DNS
3 57 (4.17%) VPN
4 29 (2.12%) Network Security
5 20 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.32%) VLAN
7 17 (1.24%) BGP
7 17 (1.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 14 (1.02%) SSL
9 11 (0.80%) DHCP
10 9 (0.66%) BIG-IP
10 9 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 9 (0.66%) OSPF
10 9 (0.66%) WAN
10 9 (0.66%) Wireless
11 8 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (0.58%) IPsec
11 8 (0.58%) NX-OS
11 8 (0.58%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (7.97%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.58%) SQL Server
3 73 (5.34%) NoSQL
4 65 (4.75%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.75%) Power BI
5 50 (3.65%) Data Lake
6 46 (3.36%) Relational Database
7 45 (3.29%) Redis
8 44 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
8 44 (3.22%) DynamoDB
9 37 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
10 35 (2.56%) Delta Lake
11 34 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 33 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
13 25 (1.83%) Metadata
14 24 (1.75%) BigQuery
15 23 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
16 21 (1.54%) Big Data
17 17 (1.24%) MySQL
18 16 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 414 (30.26%) Jenkins
2 302 (22.08%) GitLab
3 267 (19.52%) Git
4 169 (12.35%) JIRA
5 68 (4.97%) JUnit
5 68 (4.97%) Selenium
6 49 (3.58%) Cucumber
7 46 (3.36%) SonarQube
8 45 (3.29%) Bitbucket
9 40 (2.92%) Cypress.io
10 37 (2.70%) Gatling
10 37 (2.70%) JMeter
11 35 (2.56%) Gradle
12 31 (2.27%) Maven
13 30 (2.19%) Postman
14 28 (2.05%) CircleCI
14 28 (2.05%) Claude Code
14 28 (2.05%) REST Assured
15 23 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
16 18 (1.32%) Snyk
General
1 331 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 267 (19.52%) Finance
3 153 (11.18%) Public Sector
4 115 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (6.14%) Banking
6 42 (3.07%) Retail
7 35 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (1.68%) Legal
10 17 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.17%) Law
12 14 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 14 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 12 (0.88%) Aerospace
13 12 (0.88%) Military
14 11 (0.80%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.58%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.58%) Marketing
16 8 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 258 (18.86%) Senior
2 249 (18.20%) Developer
3 177 (12.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 126 (9.21%) Architect
5 120 (8.77%) Lead
6 104 (7.60%) Data Engineer
7 83 (6.07%) AWS Engineer
8 78 (5.70%) Platform Engineer
9 73 (5.34%) Cloud Engineer
10 66 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
11 65 (4.75%) Senior Developer
12 64 (4.68%) Software Engineer
13 63 (4.61%) Java Developer
14 47 (3.44%) Senior DevOps
14 47 (3.44%) Test Engineer
15 46 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
16 44 (3.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 43 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 39 (2.85%) Network Engineer
19 38 (2.78%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (16.15%) REST
2 145 (10.60%) Kafka
3 134 (9.80%) RESTful
4 124 (9.06%) Spring
5 116 (8.48%) .NET
6 113 (8.26%) React
7 103 (7.53%) Spring Boot
8 78 (5.70%) Playwright
9 64 (4.68%) Node.js
10 51 (3.73%) OAuth
10 51 (3.73%) PySpark
11 46 (3.36%) YAML
12 44 (3.22%) JSON
13 40 (2.92%) AngularJS
13 40 (2.92%) HTML
13 40 (2.92%) OAuth2
14 39 (2.85%) .NET Framework
15 38 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
16 36 (2.63%) FastAPI
17 34 (2.49%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 300 (21.93%) Cloud Native
2 117 (8.55%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (4.97%) Product Ownership
4 55 (4.02%) AI Agents
5 42 (3.07%) Data Centre
6 39 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 37 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
7 37 (2.70%) Mobile App
8 35 (2.56%) Onboarding
9 28 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
10 25 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (1.54%) Security Posture
12 20 (1.46%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
13 18 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
15 15 (1.10%) Private Cloud
16 14 (1.02%) Algorithms
16 14 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 126 (9.21%) Linux
2 63 (4.61%) Windows
3 34 (2.49%) Unix
4 27 (1.97%) Android
5 25 (1.83%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.39%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.58%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.44%) VMS
10 3 (0.22%) CentOS
10 3 (0.22%) Debian
10 3 (0.22%) Rocky
11 2 (0.15%) AIX
11 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.15%) MVS
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.15%) zOS
12 1 (0.073%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,041 (76.10%) CI/CD
2 816 (59.65%) DevOps
3 564 (41.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 485 (35.45%) Agile
5 350 (25.58%) Test Automation
6 349 (25.51%) Observability
7 305 (22.30%) Containerisation
8 289 (21.13%) AI
9 264 (19.30%) Microservices
10 218 (15.94%) Platform Engineering
10 218 (15.94%) Software Engineering
11 197 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 169 (12.35%) Event-Driven
13 159 (11.62%) Analytics
13 159 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
14 133 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
15 132 (9.65%) DevSecOps
16 125 (9.14%) Stakeholder Management
17 123 (8.99%) Validation
18 122 (8.92%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 583 (42.62%) Python
2 325 (23.76%) SQL
3 266 (19.44%) Java
4 195 (14.25%) Bash
5 181 (13.23%) PowerShell
6 139 (10.16%) C#
7 138 (10.09%) TypeScript
8 130 (9.50%) JavaScript
9 93 (6.80%) Bicep
10 44 (3.22%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.14%) Go
12 31 (2.27%) Shell Script
13 29 (2.12%) Scala
14 22 (1.61%) Ruby
15 20 (1.46%) Swift
16 12 (0.88%) Groovy
16 12 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.66%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.66%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.66%) C
Qualifications
1 428 (31.29%) Security Cleared
2 377 (27.56%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.53%) Azure Certification
4 56 (4.09%) Degree
5 45 (3.29%) AWS Certification
6 40 (2.92%) DV Cleared
7 31 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.73%) CISSP
14 10 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.66%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 6 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (13.23%) QA
2 75 (5.48%) Data Quality
3 65 (4.75%) Accessibility
4 35 (2.56%) GDPR
5 26 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (1.61%) WCAG
7 16 (1.17%) NIST
8 10 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (0.66%) NCSC
9 9 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.58%) GRC
11 7 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.37%) HL7
12 5 (0.37%) PSD2
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.29%) SEPA
14 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
16 1 (0.073%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 424 (30.99%) Docker
2 46 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.88%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.88%) vSphere
6 11 (0.80%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.73%) IAG
8 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.29%) NFS
9 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
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%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 659 (48.17%) Terraform
2 497 (36.33%) Kubernetes
3 207 (15.13%) Ansible
4 189 (13.82%) Grafana
5 155 (11.33%) Prometheus
6 58 (4.24%) Argo
7 27 (1.97%) Puppet
8 23 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.32%) Progress Chef
10 17 (1.24%) Packer
11 14 (1.02%) Istio
12 12 (0.88%) Control-M
13 10 (0.73%) Kibana
14 9 (0.66%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
14 9 (0.66%) vCenter Server
15 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
16 6 (0.44%) NetBackup
16 6 (0.44%) SCCM
17 5 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 259 (18.93%) Microsoft
2 100 (7.31%) Databricks
3 97 (7.09%) Google
4 93 (6.80%) Splunk
5 54 (3.95%) Oracle
6 53 (3.87%) Dynatrace
7 43 (3.14%) ServiceNow
8 37 (2.70%) VMware
9 34 (2.49%) Red Hat
10 33 (2.41%) Salesforce
11 30 (2.19%) OpenAI
12 29 (2.12%) Cisco
13 25 (1.83%) Informatica
14 21 (1.54%) IBM
15 19 (1.39%) F5
15 19 (1.39%) New Relic
16 18 (1.32%) Palo Alto
17 17 (1.24%) Checkmarx
17 17 (1.24%) SAP
18 16 (1.17%) Foundry