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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 81 135
Rank change year-on-year -6 +54 +16
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,463 907 611
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.12% 3.22% 1.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.04% 8.33% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,013 625 407
10th Percentile £381 £360 £313
25th Percentile £429 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £705 £700 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 32
10th Percentile £46.25 £69.00 £66.25
25th Percentile £52.48 £80.63 -
Median hourly rate £66.61 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.56% +50.00% -9.68%
75th Percentile £74.00 £110.00 -
90th Percentile £75.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £105.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -39.87% +50.00% -9.68%

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 16,178 10,882 11,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.54% 38.66% 35.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,769 7,357 7,545
10th Percentile £322 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 581 264 160
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.07 £16.27
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.18 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +3 853 £550 - 842
North of England +7 282 £480 +0.52% 187
Yorkshire +19 185 £485 -3.00% 64
Midlands -9 122 £466 -18.91% 70
South East -37 100 £513 +13.89% 137
West Midlands -15 97 £488 -17.02% 38
North West -32 75 £550 +27.91% 100
South West -38 53 £550 -15.38% 70
East of England -15 28 £475 -13.64% 72
East Midlands +4 25 £402 -15.37% 32
North East -26 24 £425 -11.69% 23
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
1 105 (7.18%) Confluence
2 43 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (2.87%) SharePoint
4 20 (1.37%) Apache
5 19 (1.30%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.62%) nginx
7 8 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.48%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.41%) Tuxedo
10 5 (0.34%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.21%) CMS
12 2 (0.14%) IIS
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
13 1 (0.068%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.068%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.068%) SAS
13 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.27%) Trello
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.068%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.068%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.068%) Notion
6 1 (0.068%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.068%) Sketch
6 1 (0.068%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.34%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.34%) Sage X3
3 5 (0.34%) Summit
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.068%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.068%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.068%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.068%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.068%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.068%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 790 (54.00%) GitHub Actions
2 747 (51.06%) Azure
3 670 (45.80%) AWS
4 394 (26.93%) Azure DevOps
5 233 (15.93%) GCP
6 194 (13.26%) Serverless
7 188 (12.85%) GitHub Copilot
8 137 (9.36%) Amazon EKS
9 135 (9.23%) Amazon S3
10 116 (7.93%) AWS Lambda
11 109 (7.45%) Azure Monitor
12 107 (7.31%) Entra ID
13 106 (7.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 94 (6.43%) Power Platform
15 82 (5.60%) Snowflake
16 77 (5.26%) Azure AKS
17 76 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
18 71 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
19 67 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
20 64 (4.37%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 78 (5.33%) DNS
2 74 (5.06%) Firewall
3 43 (2.94%) Network Security
4 42 (2.87%) VPN
5 25 (1.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 24 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.64%) VLAN
7 22 (1.50%) BGP
8 18 (1.23%) BIG-IP
8 18 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 17 (1.16%) DHCP
9 17 (1.16%) SSL
10 13 (0.89%) Wireless
11 12 (0.82%) Ethernet VPN
11 12 (0.82%) VXLAN
12 11 (0.75%) OSPF
13 10 (0.68%) HTTP
13 10 (0.68%) NX-OS
14 9 (0.62%) TACACS
15 8 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (6.49%) SQL Server
3 86 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.44%) NoSQL
5 63 (4.31%) Power BI
6 53 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
6 53 (3.62%) Redis
7 50 (3.42%) Data Lake
7 50 (3.42%) Relational Database
8 32 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
8 32 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 32 (2.19%) DynamoDB
9 31 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 30 (2.05%) BigQuery
11 29 (1.98%) Delta Lake
11 29 (1.98%) MySQL
12 25 (1.71%) Metadata
13 18 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
14 17 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 418 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 316 (21.60%) Git
3 310 (21.19%) GitLab
4 169 (11.55%) JIRA
5 86 (5.88%) Selenium
6 75 (5.13%) JUnit
7 69 (4.72%) Cucumber
8 57 (3.90%) SonarQube
9 53 (3.62%) Claude Code
10 50 (3.42%) Gatling
11 48 (3.28%) Bitbucket
12 44 (3.01%) Gradle
13 38 (2.60%) Cypress.io
13 38 (2.60%) JMeter
14 37 (2.53%) Maven
15 36 (2.46%) Postman
16 35 (2.39%) CircleCI
17 33 (2.26%) REST Assured
18 29 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
19 19 (1.30%) Artifactory
General
1 394 (26.93%) Social Skills
2 317 (21.67%) Finance
3 164 (11.21%) Public Sector
4 154 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 107 (7.31%) Banking
6 53 (3.62%) Retail
7 42 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (1.23%) Legal
8 18 (1.23%) Telecoms
9 17 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (1.16%) Law
10 15 (1.03%) Aerospace
10 15 (1.03%) Marketing
11 14 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (0.89%) Local Government
12 13 (0.89%) Military
12 13 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
13 12 (0.82%) Investment Banking
13 12 (0.82%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.68%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 298 (20.37%) Senior
2 260 (17.77%) Developer
3 184 (12.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 129 (8.82%) Architect
5 126 (8.61%) Lead
6 98 (6.70%) Data Engineer
7 82 (5.60%) Platform Engineer
8 77 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
9 73 (4.99%) Azure Engineer
10 71 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
11 64 (4.37%) Senior Developer
12 63 (4.31%) Java Developer
13 59 (4.03%) Software Engineer
14 54 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
15 51 (3.49%) Test Engineer
16 50 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 50 (3.42%) Full-Stack Developer
16 50 (3.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 47 (3.21%) Automation Engineer
18 39 (2.67%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 690 (47.16%) Terraform
2 281 (19.21%) REST
3 165 (11.28%) Kafka
4 153 (10.46%) RESTful
5 133 (9.09%) Spring
6 121 (8.27%) React
7 119 (8.13%) .NET
8 109 (7.45%) Spring Boot
9 106 (7.25%) Playwright
10 71 (4.85%) Node.js
11 65 (4.44%) OAuth
12 62 (4.24%) HTML
12 62 (4.24%) JSON
13 55 (3.76%) AngularJS
14 51 (3.49%) OAuth2
15 49 (3.35%) FastAPI
16 47 (3.21%) pytest
17 46 (3.14%) YAML
18 41 (2.80%) CSS
19 40 (2.73%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 296 (20.23%) Cloud Native
2 109 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (6.22%) AI Agents
4 82 (5.60%) Product Ownership
5 68 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (3.42%) Data Centre
6 50 (3.42%) Onboarding
7 46 (3.14%) Mobile App
8 36 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 30 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (1.91%) Data Structures
11 27 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
12 23 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (1.57%) Security Posture
13 22 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
13 22 (1.50%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.44%) Low-Code
15 19 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
15 19 (1.30%) Virtual Team
16 17 (1.16%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 137 (9.36%) Linux
2 65 (4.44%) Windows
3 33 (2.26%) Apple iOS
4 32 (2.19%) Android
5 28 (1.91%) Unix
6 20 (1.37%) Windows Server
7 19 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.55%) VMS
9 6 (0.41%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.21%) CentOS
11 2 (0.14%) AIX
11 2 (0.14%) Debian
11 2 (0.14%) macOS
11 2 (0.14%) MVS
11 2 (0.14%) Rocky
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.14%) zOS
12 1 (0.068%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.068%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,120 (76.56%) CI/CD
2 853 (58.30%) DevOps
3 592 (40.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 545 (37.25%) Agile
5 388 (26.52%) Test Automation
6 385 (26.32%) Observability
7 373 (25.50%) AI
8 304 (20.78%) Microservices
9 289 (19.75%) Containerisation
10 259 (17.70%) Software Engineering
11 235 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 230 (15.72%) Platform Engineering
13 204 (13.94%) Stakeholder Management
14 194 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
15 193 (13.19%) Event-Driven
16 160 (10.94%) Analytics
17 155 (10.59%) Scrum
18 151 (10.32%) Technical Leadership
19 148 (10.12%) Deployment Automation
20 139 (9.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 637 (43.54%) Python
2 322 (22.01%) SQL
3 295 (20.16%) Java
4 199 (13.60%) Bash
5 189 (12.92%) PowerShell
6 175 (11.96%) TypeScript
7 165 (11.28%) JavaScript
8 125 (8.54%) C#
9 108 (7.38%) Bicep
10 59 (4.03%) Kotlin
11 44 (3.01%) Go
12 34 (2.32%) Shell Script
13 30 (2.05%) Scala
14 26 (1.78%) Swift
15 19 (1.30%) ActionScript
16 17 (1.16%) Objective-C
17 14 (0.96%) Ruby
18 13 (0.89%) C
19 12 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
20 11 (0.75%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 423 (28.91%) Security Cleared
2 364 (24.88%) SC Cleared
3 71 (4.85%) Azure Certification
4 66 (4.51%) Degree
5 58 (3.96%) AWS Certification
6 52 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 41 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 41 (2.80%) DV Cleared
8 22 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 10 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (0.62%) CISSP
13 9 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 6 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (14.90%) QA
2 94 (6.43%) Accessibility
3 83 (5.67%) Data Quality
4 39 (2.67%) WCAG
5 31 (2.12%) GDPR
6 26 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.57%) NIST
8 11 (0.75%) NCSC
9 10 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.41%) HL7
11 6 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.41%) PSD2
12 5 (0.34%) GRC
12 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.34%) SEPA
13 4 (0.27%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
16 1 (0.068%) JSP 440
System Software
1 466 (31.85%) Docker
2 47 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.68%) IAG
7 8 (0.55%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.48%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.41%) vSphere
10 4 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.27%) NFS
10 4 (0.27%) VirtualBox
11 3 (0.21%) Firmware
12 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.068%) etcd
13 1 (0.068%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 533 (36.43%) Kubernetes
2 198 (13.53%) Ansible
3 195 (13.33%) Grafana
4 146 (9.98%) Prometheus
5 52 (3.55%) Argo
6 22 (1.50%) Puppet
7 19 (1.30%) Progress Chef
7 19 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
9 15 (1.03%) Packer
10 13 (0.89%) Control-M
10 13 (0.89%) Istio
11 11 (0.75%) Kibana
12 9 (0.62%) Karpenter
13 8 (0.55%) SCCM
14 6 (0.41%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.34%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.34%) HAProxy
15 5 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
16 4 (0.27%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 288 (19.69%) Microsoft
2 105 (7.18%) Databricks
3 97 (6.63%) Google
4 93 (6.36%) Splunk
5 76 (5.19%) Dynatrace
6 59 (4.03%) Oracle
7 57 (3.90%) OpenAI
8 53 (3.62%) ServiceNow
9 37 (2.53%) Red Hat
9 37 (2.53%) VMware
10 34 (2.32%) Cisco
11 30 (2.05%) Foundry
12 27 (1.85%) IBM
13 26 (1.78%) F5
13 26 (1.78%) Salesforce
14 23 (1.57%) New Relic
15 18 (1.23%) Palo Alto
16 15 (1.03%) SAP
17 14 (0.96%) CyberArk
18 13 (0.89%) AppDynamics