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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 106 136
Rank change year-on-year +21 +30 -8
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,370 690 598
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.01% 2.49% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.59% 6.71% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 930 475 401
10th Percentile £400 £375 £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 £629
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 34
10th Percentile £46.25 - £41.75
25th Percentile £58.43 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.87% +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 15,950 10,289 11,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.17% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,644 6,980 7,945
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% -2.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 270 232
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.68 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.15 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +35.76% +6.34% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.66 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.64 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.84
% change year-on-year +25.00% +12.72% -29.03%

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 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 12 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 12 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 +22 797 £550 - 885
North of England +31 263 £500 +2.04% 225
Yorkshire +26 182 £488 -2.50% 73
Midlands +10 108 £500 +2.56% 95
West Midlands +12 98 £496 +1.77% 56
South East -43 82 £525 +10.53% 185
South West -2 70 £500 -16.67% 88
North West -23 65 £575 +24.53% 123
East of England +2 32 £505 -8.18% 72
North East -30 18 £450 -2.70% 32
East Midlands -4 9 £500 +1.01% 39
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
1 122 (8.91%) Confluence
2 50 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.61%) Apache
4 22 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
6 7 (0.51%) nginx
7 6 (0.44%) Tuxedo
8 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.15%) CMS
9 2 (0.15%) Mendix
9 2 (0.15%) SAS
9 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
10 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.073%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (0.66%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.29%) Trello
6 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.073%) Notion
7 1 (0.073%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.36%) 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%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 747 (54.53%) GitHub Actions
2 701 (51.17%) Azure
3 627 (45.77%) AWS
4 401 (29.27%) Azure DevOps
5 217 (15.84%) GCP
6 163 (11.90%) Serverless
7 133 (9.71%) Amazon S3
8 120 (8.76%) AWS Lambda
9 115 (8.39%) GitHub Copilot
10 113 (8.25%) Amazon EKS
11 102 (7.45%) Azure Monitor
12 98 (7.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 86 (6.28%) Power Platform
14 81 (5.91%) Azure AKS
15 78 (5.69%) Entra ID
16 74 (5.40%) Amazon EC2
17 73 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
18 71 (5.18%) AWS CloudFormation
19 62 (4.53%) Snowflake
20 56 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 71 (5.18%) Firewall
2 67 (4.89%) DNS
3 57 (4.16%) VPN
4 29 (2.12%) Network Security
5 20 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.31%) VLAN
7 17 (1.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 14 (1.02%) SSL
9 13 (0.95%) BGP
10 11 (0.80%) DHCP
11 9 (0.66%) BIG-IP
11 9 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 9 (0.66%) OSPF
11 9 (0.66%) WAN
11 9 (0.66%) Wireless
12 8 (0.58%) IPsec
13 7 (0.51%) HTTP
13 7 (0.51%) Internet
14 6 (0.44%) SD-WAN
15 5 (0.36%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (6.50%) SQL Server
3 74 (5.40%) NoSQL
4 64 (4.67%) Power BI
5 61 (4.45%) MongoDB
6 56 (4.09%) Data Lake
7 46 (3.36%) Relational Database
8 44 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
8 44 (3.21%) DynamoDB
9 41 (2.99%) Redis
10 38 (2.77%) Azure SQL Database
11 37 (2.70%) Delta Lake
12 32 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 31 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
14 25 (1.82%) Metadata
15 24 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
16 22 (1.61%) Big Data
17 21 (1.53%) BigQuery
18 17 (1.24%) MySQL
19 16 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 433 (31.61%) Jenkins
2 300 (21.90%) GitLab
3 269 (19.64%) Git
4 175 (12.77%) JIRA
5 77 (5.62%) Selenium
6 71 (5.18%) JUnit
7 58 (4.23%) Cucumber
8 47 (3.43%) Bitbucket
8 47 (3.43%) SonarQube
9 42 (3.07%) JMeter
10 41 (2.99%) Cypress.io
11 39 (2.85%) Gatling
12 34 (2.48%) Gradle
13 32 (2.34%) Maven
13 32 (2.34%) Postman
13 32 (2.34%) REST Assured
14 28 (2.04%) CircleCI
14 28 (2.04%) Claude Code
15 23 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
16 22 (1.61%) WebDriver
General
1 336 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 258 (18.83%) Finance
3 152 (11.09%) Public Sector
4 113 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (6.20%) Banking
6 43 (3.14%) Retail
7 29 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.75%) Legal
9 22 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.17%) Law
12 14 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 14 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.95%) Military
14 11 (0.80%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.73%) Aerospace
15 10 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.58%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 254 (18.54%) Senior
2 238 (17.37%) Developer
3 175 (12.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 125 (9.12%) Lead
5 122 (8.91%) Architect
6 102 (7.45%) Data Engineer
7 81 (5.91%) AWS Engineer
8 75 (5.47%) Platform Engineer
9 74 (5.40%) Cloud Engineer
10 67 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
11 63 (4.60%) Senior Developer
12 62 (4.53%) Software Engineer
13 61 (4.45%) Java Developer
14 50 (3.65%) Test Engineer
15 47 (3.43%) Senior DevOps
16 44 (3.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 43 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
17 43 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 38 (2.77%) AWS DevOps
19 36 (2.63%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (15.11%) REST
2 142 (10.36%) Kafka
3 128 (9.34%) RESTful
4 126 (9.20%) Spring
5 115 (8.39%) .NET
6 113 (8.25%) React
7 98 (7.15%) Spring Boot
8 81 (5.91%) Playwright
9 62 (4.53%) Node.js
10 52 (3.80%) PySpark
11 47 (3.43%) OAuth
12 42 (3.07%) YAML
13 40 (2.92%) .NET Framework
13 40 (2.92%) AngularJS
14 39 (2.85%) OpenTelemetry
15 38 (2.77%) HTML
15 38 (2.77%) JSON
15 38 (2.77%) OAuth2
16 37 (2.70%) FastAPI
17 33 (2.41%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 297 (21.68%) Cloud Native
2 121 (8.83%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (5.11%) Product Ownership
4 50 (3.65%) AI Agents
5 38 (2.77%) Data Centre
6 37 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 37 (2.70%) Mobile App
7 34 (2.48%) Onboarding
8 31 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
9 26 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
11 21 (1.53%) Data Structures
11 21 (1.53%) Security Posture
12 20 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
12 20 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
13 18 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (1.09%) Algorithms
14 15 (1.09%) NHS
14 15 (1.09%) Private Cloud
15 14 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 126 (9.20%) Linux
2 62 (4.53%) Windows
3 30 (2.19%) Unix
4 27 (1.97%) Android
5 26 (1.90%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.39%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.66%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.36%) VMS
10 4 (0.29%) Debian
10 4 (0.29%) Rocky
11 3 (0.22%) CentOS
12 2 (0.15%) AIX
12 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.15%) MVS
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,042 (76.06%) CI/CD
2 815 (59.49%) DevOps
3 557 (40.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 487 (35.55%) Agile
5 355 (25.91%) Test Automation
6 343 (25.04%) Observability
7 306 (22.34%) Containerisation
8 281 (20.51%) AI
9 267 (19.49%) Microservices
10 217 (15.84%) Platform Engineering
11 216 (15.77%) Software Engineering
12 201 (14.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 164 (11.97%) Event-Driven
14 163 (11.90%) Analytics
14 163 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
15 130 (9.49%) DevSecOps
16 129 (9.42%) Technical Leadership
17 128 (9.34%) Data Pipeline
18 121 (8.83%) Validation
19 119 (8.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 590 (43.07%) Python
2 321 (23.43%) SQL
3 261 (19.05%) Java
4 201 (14.67%) Bash
5 177 (12.92%) PowerShell
6 141 (10.29%) C#
7 136 (9.93%) TypeScript
8 134 (9.78%) JavaScript
9 88 (6.42%) Bicep
10 44 (3.21%) Go
10 44 (3.21%) Kotlin
11 29 (2.12%) Shell Script
12 28 (2.04%) Scala
13 22 (1.61%) Ruby
14 21 (1.53%) Swift
15 14 (1.02%) 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
1 437 (31.90%) Security Cleared
2 382 (27.88%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.53%) Azure Certification
4 57 (4.16%) Degree
5 45 (3.28%) AWS Certification
6 40 (2.92%) DV Cleared
7 32 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 16 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.73%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.66%) CISSP
15 9 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 6 (0.44%) CCNP
17 5 (0.36%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (12.85%) QA
2 73 (5.33%) Data Quality
3 63 (4.60%) Accessibility
4 35 (2.55%) GDPR
5 25 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.75%) WCAG
7 15 (1.09%) NIST
8 10 (0.73%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.58%) GRC
10 8 (0.58%) NCSC
11 5 (0.36%) HL7
11 5 (0.36%) PSD2
12 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.29%) SEPA
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.073%) IFRS
System Software
1 429 (31.31%) Docker
2 45 (3.28%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.09%) vSphere
6 14 (1.02%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.80%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.66%) IAG
9 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.29%) NFS
10 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.15%) Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.15%) SRDF
11 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 655 (47.81%) Terraform
2 498 (36.35%) Kubernetes
3 206 (15.04%) Ansible
4 189 (13.80%) Grafana
5 158 (11.53%) Prometheus
6 61 (4.45%) Argo
7 30 (2.19%) Puppet
8 21 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.31%) Progress Chef
10 17 (1.24%) Packer
11 16 (1.17%) Istio
12 12 (0.88%) vCenter Server
13 11 (0.80%) Control-M
14 10 (0.73%) Kibana
15 9 (0.66%) HAProxy
15 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
15 9 (0.66%) NetBackup
16 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
17 6 (0.44%) SCCM
18 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 257 (18.76%) Microsoft
2 101 (7.37%) Databricks
3 98 (7.15%) Google
4 91 (6.64%) Splunk
5 55 (4.01%) Dynatrace
6 52 (3.80%) Oracle
7 40 (2.92%) VMware
8 35 (2.55%) Red Hat
8 35 (2.55%) ServiceNow
9 33 (2.41%) Salesforce
10 30 (2.19%) OpenAI
11 25 (1.82%) Cisco
12 24 (1.75%) Informatica
13 22 (1.61%) IBM
14 19 (1.39%) F5
14 19 (1.39%) New Relic
15 18 (1.31%) Palo Alto
16 17 (1.24%) Checkmarx
16 17 (1.24%) Foundry
16 17 (1.24%) SAP