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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 131 169
Rank change year-on-year +66 +38 -45
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,227 525 535
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.45% 2.04% 1.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.21% 5.43% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 882 364 370
10th Percentile £356 £324 £406
25th Percentile £413 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% -9.17%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £625
90th Percentile £700 £718 £688
UK median daily rate £517 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -4.53% -1.59% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 3
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 £27.35
25th Percentile £46.00 £26.19 £34.63
Median hourly rate £62.00 £27.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +125.45% -43.30% -21.77%
75th Percentile £74.00 £61.25 £58.63
90th Percentile £81.20 £68.75 £63.65
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £27.50 £44.25
% change year-on-year +103.64% -37.85% -28.63%

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 13,318 9,669 12,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.48% 37.65% 32.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,188 6,547 8,966
10th Percentile £309 £313 £275
25th Percentile £408 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £605 £638 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 150 322
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.42 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.32 £21.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.42
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +28.41% -14.34%
75th Percentile £60.00 £46.30 £45.57
90th Percentile £79.90 £73.93 £65.63
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £27.35 £21.46
% change year-on-year +45.34% +27.45% -14.16%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 28 February 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 +36 699 £550 - 205
North of England +37 193 £500 +5.26% 153
Yorkshire +11 112 £491 -1.80% 58
South East +34 110 £450 -10.00% 154
Midlands +23 91 £550 +11.11% 60
South West +12 78 £550 -15.38% 62
West Midlands +15 72 £550 +18.73% 23
North West +5 70 £525 +10.53% 70
East of England -14 20 £550 +72.41% 62
East Midlands -4 18 £402 -19.60% 37
North East -1 15 £560 +54.48% 27
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
1 117 (9.54%) Confluence
2 47 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (2.12%) SharePoint
4 24 (1.96%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.73%) Apache
5 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.73%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.65%) nginx
7 4 (0.33%) CMS
7 4 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.16%) Traefik
8 2 (0.16%) WordPress
9 1 (0.081%) Appian
9 1 (0.081%) Luigi
9 1 (0.081%) SAS
9 1 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.081%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.081%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.16%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.081%) InDesign
6 1 (0.081%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (0.57%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.33%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.081%) Actimize
4 1 (0.081%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.081%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.081%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.081%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.081%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.081%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.081%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 611 (49.80%) GitHub Actions
2 554 (45.15%) Azure
3 552 (44.99%) AWS
4 266 (21.68%) Azure DevOps
5 195 (15.89%) GCP
6 186 (15.16%) Serverless
7 116 (9.45%) AWS Lambda
8 100 (8.15%) Amazon EKS
8 100 (8.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 97 (7.91%) Amazon S3
10 88 (7.17%) Power Platform
11 84 (6.85%) Amazon ECS
12 81 (6.60%) OpenShift
13 73 (5.95%) Azure Data Factory
14 72 (5.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 70 (5.70%) Azure AKS
16 67 (5.46%) GitHub Copilot
17 66 (5.38%) Azure Monitor
18 62 (5.05%) Entra ID
19 57 (4.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 56 (4.56%) Firewall
2 52 (4.24%) DNS
3 30 (2.44%) VPN
4 27 (2.20%) Network Security
5 13 (1.06%) HTTP
6 10 (0.81%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.73%) SSL
8 8 (0.65%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.65%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.65%) WAN
9 7 (0.57%) Ethernet
9 7 (0.57%) Modbus
9 7 (0.57%) RS-232
9 7 (0.57%) RS-485
10 5 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.33%) Internet
12 2 (0.16%) Calico
12 2 (0.16%) DSL
13 1 (0.081%) BGP
13 1 (0.081%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (13.69%) PostgreSQL
2 79 (6.44%) NoSQL
3 65 (5.30%) MongoDB
4 58 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (4.73%) Data Lake
5 56 (4.56%) SQL Server
6 51 (4.16%) Power BI
7 49 (3.99%) Relational Database
8 46 (3.75%) DynamoDB
9 41 (3.34%) Redis
10 37 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
11 35 (2.85%) MySQL
12 31 (2.53%) Delta Lake
13 26 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
14 18 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (1.47%) Big Data
14 18 (1.47%) BigQuery
15 17 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
16 15 (1.22%) DocumentDB
17 13 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 377 (30.73%) Jenkins
2 231 (18.83%) Git
3 224 (18.26%) GitLab
4 176 (14.34%) JIRA
5 83 (6.76%) JUnit
6 57 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 54 (4.40%) Cucumber
8 47 (3.83%) Selenium
9 42 (3.42%) Artifactory
10 40 (3.26%) CircleCI
10 40 (3.26%) Cypress.io
11 37 (3.02%) Bitbucket
11 37 (3.02%) JMeter
12 36 (2.93%) Gradle
12 36 (2.93%) Postman
13 32 (2.61%) SonarQube
14 29 (2.36%) Maven
15 18 (1.47%) MLflow
15 18 (1.47%) REST Assured
16 17 (1.39%) Gatling
General
1 307 (25.02%) Social Skills
2 182 (14.83%) Finance
3 151 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 86 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (6.93%) Banking
6 22 (1.79%) Military
7 21 (1.71%) Retail
8 17 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.14%) Front Office
11 12 (0.98%) Investment Banking
12 9 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.65%) Marketing
13 8 (0.65%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.49%) Law
15 5 (0.41%) Billing
15 5 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.33%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 273 (22.25%) Developer
2 189 (15.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 188 (15.32%) Senior
4 95 (7.74%) Lead
5 92 (7.50%) Data Engineer
6 82 (6.68%) Cloud Engineer
7 79 (6.44%) Architect
8 78 (6.36%) AWS Engineer
9 75 (6.11%) Full-Stack Developer
10 67 (5.46%) Platform Engineer
11 63 (5.13%) Java Developer
12 58 (4.73%) Azure Engineer
13 48 (3.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 48 (3.91%) Software Engineer
14 47 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
15 42 (3.42%) Senior Developer
16 40 (3.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 38 (3.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 33 (2.69%) GCP Engineer
19 32 (2.61%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (12.14%) REST
2 148 (12.06%) Kafka
3 127 (10.35%) React
3 127 (10.35%) Spring
4 125 (10.19%) Node.js
5 109 (8.88%) .NET
6 89 (7.25%) Spring Boot
7 87 (7.09%) RESTful
8 70 (5.70%) AngularJS
9 67 (5.46%) Playwright
10 61 (4.97%) CSS
11 54 (4.40%) HTML
12 49 (3.99%) Elastic Stack
13 45 (3.67%) OAuth
14 44 (3.59%) PySpark
15 43 (3.50%) PyTorch
16 40 (3.26%) JSON
17 39 (3.18%) FastAPI
18 38 (3.10%) Jest
19 37 (3.02%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 201 (16.38%) Cloud Native
2 51 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (3.67%) Product Ownership
4 32 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.20%) Public Cloud
6 21 (1.71%) Algorithms
7 18 (1.47%) Virtual Team
8 17 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.30%) AI Agents
9 16 (1.30%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.30%) Security Posture
10 15 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.22%) Replication
11 14 (1.14%) Life Science
11 14 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (1.14%) NHS
12 12 (0.98%) Data Structures
12 12 (0.98%) Genomics
12 12 (0.98%) Private Cloud
13 11 (0.90%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 157 (12.80%) Linux
2 36 (2.93%) Windows
3 24 (1.96%) Unix
4 23 (1.87%) Android
5 16 (1.30%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.22%) VMS
7 13 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.57%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.24%) CentOS
10 3 (0.24%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.24%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.16%) Debian
11 2 (0.16%) Rocky
11 2 (0.16%) Solaris
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.081%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 884 (72.05%) CI/CD
2 724 (59.01%) DevOps
3 432 (35.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 387 (31.54%) Agile
5 315 (25.67%) Containerisation
6 261 (21.27%) Test Automation
7 240 (19.56%) AI
8 229 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
9 223 (18.17%) Microservices
10 213 (17.36%) Observability
11 168 (13.69%) Migration
12 153 (12.47%) Analytics
13 144 (11.74%) Platform Engineering
14 139 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 138 (11.25%) Full-Stack Development
16 122 (9.94%) Software Engineering
17 119 (9.70%) Data Pipeline
18 105 (8.56%) Data Engineering
19 104 (8.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 102 (8.31%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 573 (46.70%) Python
2 271 (22.09%) SQL
3 247 (20.13%) Java
4 168 (13.69%) JavaScript
5 147 (11.98%) Bash
6 137 (11.17%) TypeScript
7 104 (8.48%) C#
7 104 (8.48%) PowerShell
8 70 (5.70%) Go
9 50 (4.07%) Bicep
10 30 (2.44%) Shell Script
11 25 (2.04%) Ruby
12 16 (1.30%) Kotlin
12 16 (1.30%) Scala
13 13 (1.06%) PHP
14 12 (0.98%) Groovy
15 11 (0.90%) C++
16 10 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (0.81%) Swift
17 8 (0.65%) C
Qualifications
1 359 (29.26%) Security Cleared
2 274 (22.33%) SC Cleared
3 76 (6.19%) Degree
4 49 (3.99%) DV Cleared
5 44 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (3.50%) Azure Certification
7 39 (3.18%) AWS Certification
8 26 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 15 (1.22%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (0.81%) OCP
11 10 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
12 9 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.65%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.57%) CISSP
15 6 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.33%) CTC Cleared
16 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.60%) QA
2 49 (3.99%) Accessibility
2 49 (3.99%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.12%) NIST
4 23 (1.87%) WCAG
5 20 (1.63%) GDPR
5 20 (1.63%) NCSC
6 14 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.14%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.98%) EU AI Act
8 8 (0.65%) GRC
9 7 (0.57%) SLA
10 4 (0.33%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.24%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.16%) MiFID
12 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 393 (32.03%) Docker
2 34 (2.77%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.22%) VMware NSX
4 15 (1.22%) vSphere
5 7 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.57%) Firmware
6 3 (0.24%) HDFS
6 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.16%) NFS
7 2 (0.16%) Veritas File System
7 2 (0.16%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.081%) etcd
8 1 (0.081%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.081%) QEMU
8 1 (0.081%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 531 (43.28%) Terraform
2 477 (38.88%) Kubernetes
3 185 (15.08%) Ansible
4 139 (11.33%) Grafana
5 100 (8.15%) Prometheus
6 74 (6.03%) Argo
7 41 (3.34%) Istio
8 24 (1.96%) Progress Chef
9 22 (1.79%) Puppet
10 15 (1.22%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.98%) Kibana
12 11 (0.90%) Podman
13 10 (0.81%) NetBackup
14 9 (0.73%) Packer
14 9 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (0.65%) linkerd
16 7 (0.57%) Sysdig
17 6 (0.49%) Rancher
18 5 (0.41%) logstash
19 4 (0.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 199 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 101 (8.23%) Google
3 89 (7.25%) Databricks
4 77 (6.28%) Splunk
5 52 (4.24%) VMware
6 46 (3.75%) Red Hat
7 44 (3.59%) OpenAI
8 41 (3.34%) Oracle
9 22 (1.79%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.55%) Foundry
10 19 (1.55%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.55%) Sonatype
11 16 (1.30%) Salesforce
12 15 (1.22%) Pure Storage
13 14 (1.14%) Dynatrace
14 11 (0.90%) SAP
15 9 (0.73%) Commvault
15 9 (0.73%) New Relic
16 7 (0.57%) Adobe
16 7 (0.57%) Veracode