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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 129 174
Rank change year-on-year +62 +45 -42
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,142 548 540
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.52% 2.06% 1.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.30% 5.57% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 829 373 389
10th Percentile £356 £345 £413
25th Percentile £411 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% -1.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £701 £687 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 1
10th Percentile £40.00 £22.33 -
25th Percentile £41.50 £25.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £48.00 £27.38 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.34% -43.56% -10.19%
75th Percentile £60.31 £57.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £86.88 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £27.38 £48.50
% change year-on-year +75.34% -43.56% -10.19%

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 12,285 9,844 12,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.91% 36.92% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,551 6,529 9,214
10th Percentile £304 £313 £271
25th Percentile £406 £423 £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 £700 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 137 285
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.55 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +16.48% +1.86%
75th Percentile £58.00 £45.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.40 £68.75 £66.84
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.86
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.64% +7.71%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +41 663 £550 - 230
North of England +25 178 £482 +1.47% 216
South East +53 104 £450 -0.55% 306
Yorkshire -2 89 £500 +3.63% 103
Midlands +22 78 £550 - 115
North West +18 74 £405 -14.74% 87
South West +11 70 £563 -8.16% 134
West Midlands +12 64 £575 +10.05% 41
North East +2 17 £545 +50.34% 29
East of England -7 17 £560 +76.10% 145
East Midlands -15 14 £402 -35.63% 70
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 (8.41%) Confluence
2 48 (4.20%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (2.19%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.66%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.14%) nginx
6 12 (1.05%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.53%) Apache
9 5 (0.44%) CMS
9 5 (0.44%) Mule
10 4 (0.35%) SAS
11 3 (0.26%) WordPress
12 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.18%) CICS
12 2 (0.18%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.18%) Traefik
12 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.088%) Appian
13 1 (0.088%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 26 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.18%) Trello
5 1 (0.088%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (0.61%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.18%) Shopify
3 1 (0.088%) Actimize
3 1 (0.088%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.088%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.088%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.088%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.088%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 581 (50.88%) GitHub Actions
2 526 (46.06%) AWS
3 522 (45.71%) Azure
4 245 (21.45%) Azure DevOps
5 197 (17.25%) GCP
6 191 (16.73%) Serverless
7 127 (11.12%) AWS Lambda
8 115 (10.07%) Amazon S3
9 106 (9.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 92 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
11 88 (7.71%) Amazon ECS
12 85 (7.44%) Power Platform
13 76 (6.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 70 (6.13%) OpenShift
15 68 (5.95%) Azure AKS
16 62 (5.43%) Entra ID
17 61 (5.34%) Azure Data Factory
18 59 (5.17%) GitHub Copilot
19 55 (4.82%) Azure Monitor
20 52 (4.55%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.38%) Firewall
2 43 (3.77%) DNS
3 25 (2.19%) Network Security
4 23 (2.01%) VPN
5 13 (1.14%) HTTP
6 12 (1.05%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.96%) SSL
8 9 (0.79%) WAN
9 8 (0.70%) Kerberos
9 8 (0.70%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.61%) Ethernet
10 7 (0.61%) Modbus
10 7 (0.61%) RS-232
10 7 (0.61%) RS-485
11 5 (0.44%) Internet
11 5 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
12 2 (0.18%) Calico
12 2 (0.18%) SNMP
12 2 (0.18%) SSH
13 1 (0.088%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (14.36%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (7.27%) NoSQL
3 65 (5.69%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (4.99%) MongoDB
5 53 (4.64%) DynamoDB
5 53 (4.64%) Relational Database
6 52 (4.55%) SQL Server
7 49 (4.29%) Power BI
8 48 (4.20%) Data Lake
9 43 (3.77%) Redis
10 40 (3.50%) MySQL
11 34 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
12 29 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
13 25 (2.19%) BigQuery
14 19 (1.66%) Amazon Aurora
15 18 (1.58%) Delta Lake
15 18 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
16 15 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (1.31%) DocumentDB
17 14 (1.23%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 327 (28.63%) Jenkins
2 226 (19.79%) Git
3 208 (18.21%) GitLab
4 166 (14.54%) JIRA
5 66 (5.78%) JUnit
6 60 (5.25%) Sonatype Nexus
7 47 (4.12%) Artifactory
8 43 (3.77%) CircleCI
8 43 (3.77%) Gradle
8 43 (3.77%) SonarQube
9 39 (3.42%) Cypress.io
10 37 (3.24%) Bitbucket
11 36 (3.15%) Cucumber
12 32 (2.80%) Maven
13 31 (2.71%) Postman
13 31 (2.71%) Selenium
14 27 (2.36%) JMeter
15 16 (1.40%) Snyk
16 15 (1.31%) SpecFlow
17 12 (1.05%) MLflow
General
1 280 (24.52%) Social Skills
2 173 (15.15%) Finance
3 144 (12.61%) Public Sector
4 85 (7.44%) Banking
5 74 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.58%) Military
7 18 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
8 17 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.31%) Investment Banking
9 15 (1.31%) Retail
10 13 (1.14%) Front Office
10 13 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (0.96%) Marketing
12 10 (0.88%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.53%) Games
14 5 (0.44%) Billing
14 5 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.44%) Law
15 4 (0.35%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 278 (24.34%) Developer
2 182 (15.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 170 (14.89%) Senior
4 90 (7.88%) Data Engineer
5 85 (7.44%) AWS Engineer
6 79 (6.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 74 (6.48%) Full-Stack Developer
8 73 (6.39%) Lead
9 70 (6.13%) Architect
10 61 (5.34%) Platform Engineer
11 59 (5.17%) Java Developer
12 57 (4.99%) Azure Engineer
13 55 (4.82%) Software Engineer
14 52 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
15 46 (4.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 45 (3.94%) Senior Developer
17 43 (3.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 39 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 31 (2.71%) Senior Data Engineer
20 28 (2.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (12.70%) REST
2 140 (12.26%) Kafka
3 128 (11.21%) React
4 124 (10.86%) Node.js
5 109 (9.54%) .NET
6 104 (9.11%) Spring
7 94 (8.23%) RESTful
8 83 (7.27%) Spring Boot
9 70 (6.13%) AngularJS
10 62 (5.43%) OAuth
11 59 (5.17%) CSS
11 59 (5.17%) HTML
12 52 (4.55%) Playwright
13 51 (4.47%) Elastic Stack
14 45 (3.94%) JSON
15 42 (3.68%) GraphQL
16 40 (3.50%) FastAPI
17 37 (3.24%) YAML
18 36 (3.15%) ARM Templates
18 36 (3.15%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 192 (16.81%) Cloud Native
2 41 (3.59%) Product Ownership
3 40 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (2.36%) Public Cloud
5 26 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (1.84%) Onboarding
7 20 (1.75%) Algorithms
7 20 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.49%) AI Agents
9 16 (1.40%) Life Science
9 16 (1.40%) Virtual Team
10 15 (1.31%) Private Cloud
11 14 (1.23%) Genomics
11 14 (1.23%) NHS
11 14 (1.23%) Replication
12 13 (1.14%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.14%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
13 12 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 153 (13.40%) Linux
2 39 (3.42%) Windows
3 25 (2.19%) Unix
4 22 (1.93%) Android
5 15 (1.31%) Apple iOS
5 15 (1.31%) VMS
6 13 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
7 7 (0.61%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.53%) Solaris
9 4 (0.35%) CentOS
9 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.18%) zOS
12 1 (0.088%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.088%) Debian
12 1 (0.088%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 812 (71.10%) CI/CD
2 682 (59.72%) DevOps
3 408 (35.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 367 (32.14%) Agile
5 306 (26.80%) Containerisation
6 227 (19.88%) AI
7 224 (19.61%) Test Automation
8 218 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
9 216 (18.91%) Microservices
10 187 (16.37%) Observability
11 148 (12.96%) Migration
12 140 (12.26%) Full-Stack Development
13 127 (11.12%) Software Engineering
14 126 (11.03%) Analytics
15 119 (10.42%) Platform Engineering
16 116 (10.16%) Data Pipeline
17 110 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
18 100 (8.76%) DevSecOps
19 96 (8.41%) Machine Learning
20 94 (8.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 533 (46.67%) Python
2 254 (22.24%) SQL
3 241 (21.10%) Java
4 161 (14.10%) JavaScript
5 147 (12.87%) TypeScript
6 128 (11.21%) Bash
7 99 (8.67%) C#
8 98 (8.58%) PowerShell
9 75 (6.57%) Go
10 51 (4.47%) Bicep
11 30 (2.63%) Shell Script
12 26 (2.28%) Ruby
13 15 (1.31%) PHP
14 12 (1.05%) C++
14 12 (1.05%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.79%) Groovy
16 8 (0.70%) C
16 8 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.61%) JSX
17 7 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 333 (29.16%) Security Cleared
2 259 (22.68%) SC Cleared
3 83 (7.27%) Degree
4 49 (4.29%) DV Cleared
5 48 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (3.42%) Azure Certification
7 32 (2.80%) AWS Certification
8 22 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (1.93%) MCP
9 18 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.79%) CISSP
12 8 (0.70%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.70%) OCP
12 8 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 6 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
14 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.35%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (6.30%) QA
2 48 (4.20%) Data Quality
3 45 (3.94%) Accessibility
4 28 (2.45%) NIST
5 24 (2.10%) NCSC
6 23 (2.01%) GDPR
7 22 (1.93%) WCAG
8 16 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (1.31%) EU AI Act
10 14 (1.23%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.61%) SLA
12 5 (0.44%) GRC
12 5 (0.44%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.26%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.26%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
15 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.18%) PSD2
15 2 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 383 (33.54%) Docker
2 35 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.61%) Firmware
6 6 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.44%) NFS
8 4 (0.35%) Veritas File System
8 4 (0.35%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 4 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.35%) vSphere
9 3 (0.26%) QEMU
9 3 (0.26%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.18%) HDFS
10 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.18%) KVM
11 1 (0.088%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.088%) SRDF
11 1 (0.088%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 502 (43.96%) Terraform
2 447 (39.14%) Kubernetes
3 159 (13.92%) Ansible
4 129 (11.30%) Grafana
5 100 (8.76%) Prometheus
6 58 (5.08%) Argo
7 36 (3.15%) Istio
8 28 (2.45%) Progress Chef
9 27 (2.36%) Puppet
10 13 (1.14%) Podman
11 10 (0.88%) Kibana
11 10 (0.88%) Packer
12 9 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
13 8 (0.70%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.61%) linkerd
14 7 (0.61%) Sysdig
15 5 (0.44%) logstash
16 4 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
16 4 (0.35%) QRadar
16 4 (0.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 199 (17.43%) Microsoft
2 107 (9.37%) Google
3 73 (6.39%) Databricks
4 66 (5.78%) Splunk
5 44 (3.85%) OpenAI
5 44 (3.85%) VMware
6 38 (3.33%) Oracle
7 35 (3.06%) Red Hat
8 22 (1.93%) ServiceNow
9 19 (1.66%) Foundry
10 18 (1.58%) Atlassian
11 14 (1.23%) Sonatype
12 13 (1.14%) Salesforce
13 9 (0.79%) Dynatrace
13 9 (0.79%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.79%) NetApp
13 9 (0.79%) SAP
14 8 (0.70%) Commvault
14 8 (0.70%) New Relic
14 8 (0.70%) Okta