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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 97 128
Rank change year-on-year +11 +31 +13
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,371 738 620
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.00% 2.68% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.63% 7.16% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 939 509 414
10th Percentile £390 £363 £310
25th Percentile £450 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £625
90th Percentile £705 £725 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 33
10th Percentile £46.25 - £54.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.03% +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% -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 15,878 10,301 11,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.77% 37.35% 34.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,601 6,975 7,846
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 268 196
10th Percentile £15.46 £15.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £18.42
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £59.66
90th Percentile £82.49 £68.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +19 805 £550 - 860
North of England +11 254 £490 +3.16% 225
Yorkshire +22 174 £500 - 78
Midlands +1 112 £488 -6.25% 94
West Midlands -5 95 £500 -9.09% 46
South East -30 86 £525 +15.01% 176
South West -12 63 £500 -16.67% 100
North West -45 59 £538 +25.00% 118
East of England -2 32 £505 -6.48% 82
North East -30 23 £450 -2.70% 33
East Midlands -3 17 £400 -19.19% 48
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
1 110 (8.02%) Confluence
2 48 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (2.55%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 21 (1.53%) Apache
6 9 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.58%) nginx
8 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.44%) Tuxedo
10 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.15%) CMS
12 2 (0.15%) Mendix
12 2 (0.15%) SAS
13 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.073%) IIS
13 1 (0.073%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 7 (0.51%) Chatbot
1 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.29%) Trello
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.073%) Notion
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.36%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.22%) Findur
3 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.15%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.15%) Summit
5 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.073%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 744 (54.27%) GitHub Actions
2 708 (51.64%) Azure
3 635 (46.32%) AWS
4 394 (28.74%) Azure DevOps
5 205 (14.95%) GCP
6 184 (13.42%) Serverless
7 135 (9.85%) GitHub Copilot
8 134 (9.77%) Amazon S3
9 126 (9.19%) AWS Lambda
10 113 (8.24%) Amazon EKS
11 104 (7.59%) Azure Monitor
12 98 (7.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 87 (6.35%) Power Platform
14 82 (5.98%) Entra ID
15 79 (5.76%) Azure AKS
16 72 (5.25%) Amazon EC2
17 68 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
18 67 (4.89%) AWS CloudFormation
18 67 (4.89%) Snowflake
19 52 (3.79%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 68 (4.96%) Firewall
2 65 (4.74%) DNS
3 50 (3.65%) VPN
4 31 (2.26%) Network Security
5 21 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 20 (1.46%) VLAN
7 17 (1.24%) BGP
7 17 (1.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 14 (1.02%) SSL
9 13 (0.95%) DHCP
10 10 (0.73%) Wireless
11 9 (0.66%) BIG-IP
11 9 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
11 9 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 9 (0.66%) OSPF
11 9 (0.66%) VXLAN
11 9 (0.66%) WAN
12 8 (0.58%) IPsec
12 8 (0.58%) NX-OS
13 7 (0.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (8.17%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (6.42%) SQL Server
3 75 (5.47%) NoSQL
4 66 (4.81%) Power BI
5 65 (4.74%) MongoDB
6 55 (4.01%) Data Lake
7 51 (3.72%) Redis
8 50 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
9 48 (3.50%) DynamoDB
9 48 (3.50%) Relational Database
10 35 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 35 (2.55%) Delta Lake
11 34 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
12 29 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
13 27 (1.97%) MySQL
14 26 (1.90%) Metadata
15 24 (1.75%) BigQuery
16 22 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
17 21 (1.53%) Big Data
18 17 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 405 (29.54%) Jenkins
2 297 (21.66%) GitLab
3 269 (19.62%) Git
4 162 (11.82%) JIRA
5 71 (5.18%) Selenium
6 67 (4.89%) JUnit
7 51 (3.72%) SonarQube
8 49 (3.57%) Cucumber
9 46 (3.36%) Bitbucket
10 40 (2.92%) Cypress.io
10 40 (2.92%) Gatling
11 36 (2.63%) JMeter
12 35 (2.55%) Gradle
13 33 (2.41%) Maven
14 32 (2.33%) Claude Code
15 30 (2.19%) Postman
16 27 (1.97%) CircleCI
16 27 (1.97%) REST Assured
17 23 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
18 17 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 335 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 277 (20.20%) Finance
3 154 (11.23%) Public Sector
4 124 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (6.05%) Banking
6 39 (2.84%) Retail
7 36 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.75%) Legal
9 18 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.17%) Law
11 14 (1.02%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.95%) Investment Banking
13 12 (0.88%) Aerospace
13 12 (0.88%) Military
14 11 (0.80%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.73%) Local Government
15 10 (0.73%) Marketing
16 9 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 260 (18.96%) Senior
2 244 (17.80%) Developer
3 172 (12.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 126 (9.19%) Architect
5 119 (8.68%) Lead
6 105 (7.66%) Data Engineer
7 83 (6.05%) Platform Engineer
8 77 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
9 72 (5.25%) Azure Engineer
9 72 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
10 64 (4.67%) Senior Developer
10 64 (4.67%) Software Engineer
11 62 (4.52%) Java Developer
12 49 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
12 49 (3.57%) Test Engineer
13 46 (3.36%) Senior DevOps
14 43 (3.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 42 (3.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 37 (2.70%) Python Developer
17 35 (2.55%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 664 (48.43%) Terraform
2 217 (15.83%) REST
3 146 (10.65%) Kafka
4 140 (10.21%) RESTful
5 128 (9.34%) Spring
6 118 (8.61%) React
7 116 (8.46%) .NET
8 104 (7.59%) Spring Boot
9 85 (6.20%) Playwright
10 68 (4.96%) Node.js
11 56 (4.08%) OAuth
12 49 (3.57%) YAML
13 48 (3.50%) PySpark
14 47 (3.43%) HTML
14 47 (3.43%) JSON
15 45 (3.28%) OAuth2
16 42 (3.06%) AngularJS
16 42 (3.06%) FastAPI
17 38 (2.77%) OpenTelemetry
18 34 (2.48%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 299 (21.81%) Cloud Native
2 112 (8.17%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (5.32%) Product Ownership
4 66 (4.81%) AI Agents
5 42 (3.06%) Data Centre
6 41 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 38 (2.77%) Mobile App
9 36 (2.63%) Onboarding
10 28 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
11 24 (1.75%) Security Posture
12 23 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
14 20 (1.46%) Data Structures
14 20 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
15 19 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
16 17 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
17 16 (1.17%) Algorithms
18 15 (1.09%) Private Cloud
18 15 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 129 (9.41%) Linux
2 59 (4.30%) Windows
3 34 (2.48%) Unix
4 27 (1.97%) Android
5 25 (1.82%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (1.46%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.58%) VMS
9 3 (0.22%) CentOS
9 3 (0.22%) Debian
9 3 (0.22%) Rocky
10 2 (0.15%) AIX
10 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.15%) MVS
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.15%) zOS
11 1 (0.073%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,043 (76.08%) CI/CD
2 814 (59.37%) DevOps
3 564 (41.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 513 (37.42%) Agile
5 351 (25.60%) Observability
6 346 (25.24%) Test Automation
7 305 (22.25%) AI
8 296 (21.59%) Containerisation
9 267 (19.47%) Microservices
10 230 (16.78%) Software Engineering
11 223 (16.27%) Platform Engineering
12 197 (14.37%) Continuous Improvement
13 171 (12.47%) Event-Driven
14 161 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
15 152 (11.09%) Analytics
16 146 (10.65%) Stakeholder Management
17 141 (10.28%) DevSecOps
18 138 (10.07%) Technical Leadership
19 129 (9.41%) Scrum
20 123 (8.97%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 604 (44.06%) Python
2 323 (23.56%) SQL
3 279 (20.35%) Java
4 195 (14.22%) Bash
5 175 (12.76%) PowerShell
6 150 (10.94%) TypeScript
7 138 (10.07%) JavaScript
8 129 (9.41%) C#
9 101 (7.37%) Bicep
10 46 (3.36%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.14%) Go
12 33 (2.41%) Shell Script
13 30 (2.19%) Scala
14 21 (1.53%) Ruby
15 20 (1.46%) Swift
16 12 (0.88%) Groovy
17 10 (0.73%) ActionScript
18 9 (0.66%) Apex Code
18 9 (0.66%) Objective-C
19 8 (0.58%) C
Qualifications
1 421 (30.71%) Security Cleared
2 368 (26.84%) SC Cleared
3 65 (4.74%) Azure Certification
4 60 (4.38%) Degree
5 43 (3.14%) AWS Certification
6 39 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 36 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.80%) CISSP
13 11 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 8 (0.58%) Master's Degree
17 7 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 6 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (13.93%) QA
2 78 (5.69%) Data Quality
3 72 (5.25%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.26%) GDPR
5 29 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (2.04%) WCAG
7 21 (1.53%) NIST
8 12 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.73%) NCSC
10 8 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.44%) GRC
13 5 (0.36%) HL7
13 5 (0.36%) PSD2
14 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.29%) SEPA
14 4 (0.29%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 1 (0.073%) IFRS
System Software
1 438 (31.95%) Docker
2 48 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.80%) IAG
6 11 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (0.80%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.80%) vSphere
7 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (0.29%) NFS
8 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.15%) Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.15%) SRDF
9 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 501 (36.54%) Kubernetes
2 210 (15.32%) Ansible
3 189 (13.79%) Grafana
4 151 (11.01%) Prometheus
5 57 (4.16%) Argo
6 25 (1.82%) Puppet
7 23 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (1.46%) Progress Chef
9 19 (1.39%) Packer
10 12 (0.88%) Control-M
11 11 (0.80%) Istio
12 10 (0.73%) Kibana
12 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (0.66%) HAProxy
14 8 (0.58%) vCenter Server
15 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
15 7 (0.51%) SCCM
16 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.36%) Kustomize
16 5 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 268 (19.55%) Microsoft
2 103 (7.51%) Databricks
3 93 (6.78%) Splunk
4 92 (6.71%) Google
5 57 (4.16%) Oracle
6 56 (4.08%) Dynatrace
7 43 (3.14%) ServiceNow
8 39 (2.84%) VMware
9 38 (2.77%) OpenAI
10 35 (2.55%) Red Hat
11 30 (2.19%) Cisco
11 30 (2.19%) Salesforce
12 25 (1.82%) Informatica
13 22 (1.60%) IBM
14 20 (1.46%) Foundry
15 19 (1.39%) New Relic
16 18 (1.31%) Checkmarx
16 18 (1.31%) F5
17 15 (1.09%) Palo Alto
18 14 (1.02%) SAP