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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 130 152
Rank change year-on-year +53 +22 -14
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,011 604 686
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.40% 1.94% 1.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.75% 5.42% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 703 412 478
10th Percentile £360 £313 £413
25th Percentile £413 £423 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £553
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -3.62% -6.27%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £711 £699 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 21 4
10th Percentile £50.58 £51.25 £75.38
25th Percentile £57.44 - £75.94
Median hourly rate £83.75 £70.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% -9.68% +3.33%
75th Percentile £110.00 - £79.06
90th Percentile - - £79.63
UK median hourly rate £83.75 £70.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year +19.64% -9.68% +3.33%

All Cloud 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 11,555 11,141 14,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.82% 35.76% 35.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,829 7,399 10,349
10th Percentile £302 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 142 291
10th Percentile £14.90 £19.35 £14.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £23.80 £18.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.48 £58.75
90th Percentile £70.85 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +16.67% +33.33%

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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 +45 575 £550 - 918
North of England +38 160 £500 +13.64% 356
South East +56 86 £450 - 790
Yorkshire +2 85 £500 +13.64% 92
Midlands +25 72 £573 +6.51% 143
North West +27 65 £430 +3.80% 234
West Midlands +23 65 £575 +9.52% 78
South West -7 62 £650 +1.56% 86
East of England -6 18 £550 +4.76% 100
North East -1 12 £519 - 34
East Midlands -16 7 £466 -25.46% 62
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 90 (8.90%) Confluence
2 60 (5.93%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (1.78%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.48%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.38%) nginx
6 8 (0.79%) Apache
7 6 (0.59%) Mule
8 5 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.49%) SAS
8 5 (0.49%) WordPress
9 3 (0.30%) CMS
9 3 (0.30%) JBoss
9 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.20%) CICS
10 2 (0.20%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.20%) Traefik
10 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 26 (2.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.20%) Trello
5 1 (0.099%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.099%) InDesign
5 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.099%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.099%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.099%) Endur
3 1 (0.099%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.099%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.099%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.099%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.099%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.099%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.099%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.099%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.099%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 501 (49.55%) AWS
2 467 (46.19%) GitHub Actions
3 424 (41.94%) Azure
4 192 (18.99%) Azure DevOps
5 180 (17.80%) GCP
6 144 (14.24%) Serverless
7 111 (10.98%) Amazon S3
8 96 (9.50%) AWS Lambda
9 84 (8.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 72 (7.12%) Amazon ECS
11 62 (6.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 54 (5.34%) OpenShift
13 52 (5.14%) Power Platform
14 51 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
15 50 (4.95%) Entra ID
16 44 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
17 42 (4.15%) GitHub Copilot
18 40 (3.96%) Datadog
18 40 (3.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 39 (3.86%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 40 (3.96%) DNS
2 34 (3.36%) Firewall
3 27 (2.67%) VPN
4 18 (1.78%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.38%) Network Security
6 11 (1.09%) HTTP
6 11 (1.09%) SSL
6 11 (1.09%) WAN
7 7 (0.69%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.49%) Internet
8 5 (0.49%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.49%) OpenLDAP
8 5 (0.49%) SSH
9 4 (0.40%) LAN
9 4 (0.40%) Multicast
9 4 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.20%) BGP
11 2 (0.20%) OSPF
11 2 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (13.85%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (6.82%) NoSQL
3 65 (6.43%) Amazon RDS
4 46 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 42 (4.15%) DynamoDB
6 41 (4.06%) MongoDB
7 40 (3.96%) SQL Server
8 33 (3.26%) Redis
9 28 (2.77%) MySQL
9 28 (2.77%) Power BI
10 25 (2.47%) Data Lake
11 23 (2.27%) BigQuery
12 21 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (2.08%) Delta Lake
13 18 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
14 17 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (1.68%) Big Data
15 15 (1.48%) RDBMS
16 14 (1.38%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 280 (27.70%) Jenkins
2 219 (21.66%) Git
3 172 (17.01%) GitLab
4 162 (16.02%) JIRA
5 55 (5.44%) SonarQube
6 47 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 45 (4.45%) Bitbucket
7 45 (4.45%) CircleCI
8 44 (4.35%) Cypress.io
9 42 (4.15%) Gradle
9 42 (4.15%) JUnit
10 37 (3.66%) Artifactory
11 30 (2.97%) Cucumber
11 30 (2.97%) Maven
12 25 (2.47%) Selenium
13 23 (2.27%) Postman
14 18 (1.78%) JMeter
14 18 (1.78%) Snyk
14 18 (1.78%) SpecFlow
15 14 (1.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 253 (25.02%) Social Skills
2 150 (14.84%) Finance
3 119 (11.77%) Public Sector
4 78 (7.72%) Banking
5 68 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (1.68%) Military
7 17 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
8 15 (1.48%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.38%) Marketing
10 11 (1.09%) Aerospace
11 10 (0.99%) Front Office
11 10 (0.99%) Retail
12 9 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (0.89%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.79%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.59%) Games
14 6 (0.59%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.49%) Billing
16 4 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 243 (24.04%) Developer
2 153 (15.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 152 (15.03%) Senior
4 87 (8.61%) AWS Engineer
5 77 (7.62%) Architect
6 69 (6.82%) Data Engineer
7 57 (5.64%) Lead
8 52 (5.14%) AWS DevOps
8 52 (5.14%) Software Engineer
9 48 (4.75%) Senior Developer
10 47 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
11 44 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
12 41 (4.06%) Azure Engineer
12 41 (4.06%) Java Developer
13 40 (3.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 40 (3.96%) Full-Stack Developer
14 31 (3.07%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 30 (2.97%) Security Engineer
16 28 (2.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 27 (2.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (11.87%) REST
2 116 (11.47%) React
3 99 (9.79%) Node.js
4 91 (9.00%) RESTful
5 90 (8.90%) .NET
6 86 (8.51%) Kafka
7 73 (7.22%) AngularJS
8 67 (6.63%) HTML
9 60 (5.93%) Spring
10 59 (5.84%) CSS
11 51 (5.04%) OAuth
12 48 (4.75%) Spring Boot
13 44 (4.35%) YAML
14 42 (4.15%) JSON
15 41 (4.06%) Elastic Stack
15 41 (4.06%) Playwright
16 40 (3.96%) FastAPI
17 38 (3.76%) GraphQL
18 33 (3.26%) ARM Templates
19 31 (3.07%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 146 (14.44%) Cloud Native
2 32 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
3 31 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (3.07%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.87%) Public Cloud
5 26 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (1.98%) Algorithms
8 17 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.38%) Clustering
9 14 (1.38%) Life Science
9 14 (1.38%) Mobile App
9 14 (1.38%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.29%) Genomics
10 13 (1.29%) PKI
11 12 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
11 12 (1.19%) Replication
12 11 (1.09%) Security Posture
13 10 (0.99%) NHS
14 9 (0.89%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 131 (12.96%) Linux
2 39 (3.86%) Windows
3 33 (3.26%) Unix
4 25 (2.47%) Android
5 14 (1.38%) Apple iOS
5 14 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.79%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.59%) Solaris
8 5 (0.49%) CentOS
9 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.20%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.20%) VMS
11 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.20%) zOS
12 1 (0.099%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.099%) MVS
12 1 (0.099%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 675 (66.77%) CI/CD
2 568 (56.18%) DevOps
3 362 (35.81%) Agile
4 352 (34.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 247 (24.43%) Containerisation
6 201 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
7 195 (19.29%) Microservices
8 176 (17.41%) Test Automation
9 167 (16.52%) AI
10 130 (12.86%) Observability
11 125 (12.36%) Software Engineering
12 124 (12.27%) Migration
13 112 (11.08%) Full-Stack Development
14 111 (10.98%) Scrum
15 99 (9.79%) Data Pipeline
16 95 (9.40%) TDD
17 91 (9.00%) DevSecOps
18 87 (8.61%) Analytics
19 78 (7.72%) Infrastructure Automation
19 78 (7.72%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 451 (44.61%) Python
2 223 (22.06%) SQL
3 187 (18.50%) Java
4 153 (15.13%) TypeScript
5 143 (14.14%) JavaScript
6 129 (12.76%) Bash
7 90 (8.90%) C#
8 88 (8.70%) PowerShell
9 82 (8.11%) Go
10 39 (3.86%) Bicep
11 31 (3.07%) Shell Script
12 22 (2.18%) Kotlin
13 21 (2.08%) Groovy
14 20 (1.98%) Ruby
15 19 (1.88%) PHP
16 18 (1.78%) C++
17 9 (0.89%) JSX
17 9 (0.89%) Perl
18 8 (0.79%) C
18 8 (0.79%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 287 (28.39%) Security Cleared
2 237 (23.44%) SC Cleared
3 90 (8.90%) Degree
4 48 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (3.86%) DV Cleared
6 37 (3.66%) AWS Certification
7 32 (3.17%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.48%) OSCP
10 14 (1.38%) CREST Certified
10 14 (1.38%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.38%) MCP
11 13 (1.29%) Tigerscheme
12 10 (0.99%) CHECK Team Member
13 7 (0.69%) CISSP
14 6 (0.59%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.59%) OCP
14 6 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.63%) QA
2 40 (3.96%) Data Quality
3 37 (3.66%) Accessibility
4 35 (3.46%) NIST
5 32 (3.17%) GDPR
6 29 (2.87%) NCSC
7 25 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (1.48%) EU AI Act
9 14 (1.38%) WCAG
10 8 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.79%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.69%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.59%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.40%) GRC
14 3 (0.30%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
14 3 (0.30%) ITGC
14 3 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 312 (30.86%) Docker
2 46 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.49%) NFS
8 4 (0.40%) Veritas File System
8 4 (0.40%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 4 (0.40%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.30%) QEMU
9 3 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.30%) vSphere
10 2 (0.20%) Firmware
10 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.20%) KVM
11 1 (0.099%) iptables
11 1 (0.099%) SRDF
11 1 (0.099%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.099%) Xen
Systems Management
1 429 (42.43%) Terraform
2 359 (35.51%) Kubernetes
3 136 (13.45%) Ansible
4 122 (12.07%) Grafana
5 110 (10.88%) Prometheus
6 43 (4.25%) Puppet
7 33 (3.26%) Argo
8 24 (2.37%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.98%) Istio
10 17 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (1.48%) Packer
12 14 (1.38%) Nmap
13 11 (1.09%) Podman
14 7 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.69%) NetBackup
15 6 (0.59%) Sysdig
16 4 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
16 4 (0.40%) QRadar
16 4 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 145 (14.34%) Microsoft
2 86 (8.51%) Google
3 66 (6.53%) Splunk
4 56 (5.54%) Databricks
5 38 (3.76%) Red Hat
6 36 (3.56%) VMware
7 26 (2.57%) Atlassian
8 25 (2.47%) Oracle
9 24 (2.37%) OpenAI
10 18 (1.78%) Veracode
11 17 (1.68%) Salesforce
12 15 (1.48%) Foundry
12 15 (1.48%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.09%) Cisco
14 10 (0.99%) CyberArk
14 10 (0.99%) IBM
14 10 (0.99%) NetApp
14 10 (0.99%) Okta
15 9 (0.89%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.89%) SAP