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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 95 126
Rank change year-on-year +9 +31 +18
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,392 739 612
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.03% 2.70% 1.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.74% 7.21% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 951 511 412
10th Percentile £388 £363 £310
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £706 £725 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 32
10th Percentile £46.25 - £66.25
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 15,928 10,256 11,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.71% 37.44% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,663 6,930 7,715
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 £719 £734 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 541 262 188
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.28 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.60 £19.10
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.38 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.38% -12.08% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £44.01 £60.11
90th Percentile £82.37 £71.43 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.75 £29.07 £30.00
% change year-on-year +16.08% -3.10% -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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +19 823 £550 - 830
North of England +9 256 £500 +5.26% 206
Yorkshire +20 173 £500 - 71
Midlands -2 110 £488 -6.25% 88
West Midlands -6 93 £496 -9.80% 39
South East -36 86 £525 +16.67% 183
South West -13 62 £525 -12.50% 91
North West -43 62 £550 +25.00% 104
East of England -1 33 £500 -7.41% 75
North East -25 23 £450 - 33
East Midlands -7 17 £400 -19.19% 49
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
1 112 (8.05%) Confluence
2 53 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (2.59%) SharePoint
4 25 (1.80%) Apache Spark
5 22 (1.58%) Apache
6 9 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.57%) nginx
8 7 (0.50%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.43%) Tuxedo
10 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.22%) CMS
11 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 2 (0.14%) SAS
13 1 (0.072%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.072%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.072%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.072%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.072%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.43%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.43%) 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 (0.072%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.072%) Notion
6 1 (0.072%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.43%) 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 4 (0.29%) Front Arena
3 4 (0.29%) Summit
4 3 (0.22%) Findur
4 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.072%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.072%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 751 (53.95%) GitHub Actions
2 718 (51.58%) Azure
3 641 (46.05%) AWS
4 398 (28.59%) Azure DevOps
5 208 (14.94%) GCP
6 187 (13.43%) Serverless
7 140 (10.06%) GitHub Copilot
8 138 (9.91%) Amazon S3
9 126 (9.05%) AWS Lambda
10 114 (8.19%) Amazon EKS
11 105 (7.54%) Azure Monitor
12 98 (7.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 89 (6.39%) Power Platform
14 85 (6.11%) Entra ID
15 75 (5.39%) Azure AKS
16 73 (5.24%) Amazon EC2
17 70 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
17 70 (5.03%) Snowflake
18 66 (4.74%) AWS CloudFormation
19 52 (3.74%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 69 (4.96%) DNS
2 68 (4.89%) Firewall
3 51 (3.66%) VPN
4 34 (2.44%) Network Security
5 21 (1.51%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.51%) VLAN
6 19 (1.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 18 (1.29%) BGP
8 15 (1.08%) SSL
9 14 (1.01%) DHCP
10 11 (0.79%) BIG-IP
10 11 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 11 (0.79%) Wireless
11 10 (0.72%) OSPF
12 9 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
12 9 (0.65%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.65%) WAN
13 8 (0.57%) IPsec
13 8 (0.57%) NX-OS
14 7 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (8.48%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (6.18%) SQL Server
3 73 (5.24%) NoSQL
4 72 (5.17%) MongoDB
5 68 (4.89%) Power BI
6 58 (4.17%) Data Lake
7 52 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
8 51 (3.66%) Redis
9 47 (3.38%) DynamoDB
10 46 (3.30%) Relational Database
11 38 (2.73%) Delta Lake
12 35 (2.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 35 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
13 32 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
14 28 (2.01%) MySQL
15 26 (1.87%) Metadata
16 25 (1.80%) BigQuery
17 22 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
18 20 (1.44%) Big Data
19 17 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 405 (29.09%) Jenkins
2 303 (21.77%) GitLab
3 281 (20.19%) Git
4 166 (11.93%) JIRA
5 71 (5.10%) Selenium
6 68 (4.89%) JUnit
7 54 (3.88%) SonarQube
8 50 (3.59%) Cucumber
9 47 (3.38%) Bitbucket
10 40 (2.87%) Gatling
11 39 (2.80%) Cypress.io
12 38 (2.73%) JMeter
13 36 (2.59%) Gradle
14 35 (2.51%) Maven
15 33 (2.37%) Claude Code
16 29 (2.08%) Postman
17 27 (1.94%) CircleCI
17 27 (1.94%) REST Assured
18 24 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
19 19 (1.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 337 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 282 (20.26%) Finance
3 156 (11.21%) Public Sector
4 125 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (6.11%) Banking
6 42 (3.02%) Retail
7 38 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (1.58%) Legal
10 18 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.15%) Law
12 15 (1.08%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.93%) Aerospace
13 13 (0.93%) Investment Banking
13 13 (0.93%) Marketing
14 12 (0.86%) Military
15 11 (0.79%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.72%) Local Government
17 9 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 273 (19.61%) Senior
2 251 (18.03%) Developer
3 174 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 126 (9.05%) Architect
5 119 (8.55%) Lead
6 111 (7.97%) Data Engineer
7 82 (5.89%) Platform Engineer
8 77 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
9 73 (5.24%) Azure Engineer
10 68 (4.89%) Senior Developer
11 67 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
12 64 (4.60%) Software Engineer
13 63 (4.53%) Java Developer
14 49 (3.52%) Full-Stack Developer
14 49 (3.52%) Senior DevOps
14 49 (3.52%) Test Engineer
15 45 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 41 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 39 (2.80%) Python Developer
18 36 (2.59%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 663 (47.63%) Terraform
2 221 (15.88%) REST
3 150 (10.78%) Kafka
4 141 (10.13%) RESTful
5 129 (9.27%) Spring
6 121 (8.69%) React
7 117 (8.41%) .NET
8 106 (7.61%) Spring Boot
9 85 (6.11%) Playwright
10 68 (4.89%) Node.js
11 57 (4.09%) OAuth
12 52 (3.74%) YAML
13 51 (3.66%) PySpark
14 49 (3.52%) HTML
14 49 (3.52%) JSON
15 46 (3.30%) OAuth2
16 44 (3.16%) FastAPI
17 41 (2.95%) AngularJS
18 40 (2.87%) OpenTelemetry
19 35 (2.51%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 306 (21.98%) Cloud Native
2 112 (8.05%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (5.53%) Product Ownership
4 68 (4.89%) AI Agents
5 45 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
6 44 (3.16%) Data Centre
7 38 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 38 (2.73%) Mobile App
8 35 (2.51%) Onboarding
9 28 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
10 23 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (1.65%) Security Posture
10 23 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.58%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
13 19 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
14 18 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (1.22%) Public Cloud
16 16 (1.15%) Algorithms
16 16 (1.15%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 129 (9.27%) Linux
2 57 (4.09%) Windows
3 37 (2.66%) Unix
4 27 (1.94%) Android
5 24 (1.72%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (1.51%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.57%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.57%) VMS
9 4 (0.29%) CentOS
10 3 (0.22%) Debian
10 3 (0.22%) Rocky
11 2 (0.14%) AIX
11 2 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.14%) MVS
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.14%) zOS
12 1 (0.072%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,056 (75.86%) CI/CD
2 827 (59.41%) DevOps
3 571 (41.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 519 (37.28%) Agile
5 354 (25.43%) Observability
6 349 (25.07%) Test Automation
7 313 (22.49%) AI
8 300 (21.55%) Containerisation
9 271 (19.47%) Microservices
10 231 (16.59%) Software Engineering
11 222 (15.95%) Platform Engineering
12 193 (13.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 178 (12.79%) Event-Driven
14 162 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
15 156 (11.21%) Analytics
16 151 (10.85%) Stakeholder Management
17 139 (9.99%) Technical Leadership
18 138 (9.91%) DevSecOps
19 134 (9.63%) Scrum
20 131 (9.41%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 618 (44.40%) Python
2 325 (23.35%) SQL
3 279 (20.04%) Java
4 192 (13.79%) Bash
5 171 (12.28%) PowerShell
6 154 (11.06%) TypeScript
7 142 (10.20%) JavaScript
8 130 (9.34%) C#
9 103 (7.40%) Bicep
10 47 (3.38%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.09%) Go
12 38 (2.73%) Shell Script
13 32 (2.30%) Scala
14 21 (1.51%) Ruby
15 19 (1.36%) Swift
16 12 (0.86%) ActionScript
17 11 (0.79%) Groovy
18 10 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
19 9 (0.65%) Objective-C
20 8 (0.57%) C
Qualifications
1 426 (30.60%) Security Cleared
2 373 (26.80%) SC Cleared
3 65 (4.67%) Azure Certification
4 62 (4.45%) Degree
5 42 (3.02%) AWS Certification
6 39 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.79%) CISSP
13 11 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (0.79%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 8 (0.57%) Master's Degree
17 7 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (14.01%) QA
2 82 (5.89%) Data Quality
3 73 (5.24%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.23%) GDPR
5 29 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (2.01%) WCAG
7 21 (1.51%) NIST
8 12 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.72%) NCSC
10 8 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.43%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.36%) GRC
12 5 (0.36%) HL7
12 5 (0.36%) PSD2
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.29%) SEPA
13 4 (0.29%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 1 (0.072%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 450 (32.33%) Docker
2 48 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.86%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.79%) IAG
7 11 (0.79%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.79%) vSphere
8 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.29%) NFS
9 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.14%) Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.14%) SRDF
10 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 501 (35.99%) Kubernetes
2 209 (15.01%) Ansible
3 190 (13.65%) Grafana
4 150 (10.78%) Prometheus
5 57 (4.09%) Argo
6 24 (1.72%) Puppet
7 23 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (1.44%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.29%) Packer
10 12 (0.86%) Control-M
11 11 (0.79%) Kibana
11 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.65%) HAProxy
12 9 (0.65%) Istio
13 8 (0.57%) Karpenter
13 8 (0.57%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.50%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.50%) SCCM
15 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 271 (19.47%) Microsoft
2 109 (7.83%) Databricks
3 96 (6.90%) Splunk
4 94 (6.75%) Google
5 58 (4.17%) Oracle
6 56 (4.02%) Dynatrace
7 43 (3.09%) ServiceNow
8 40 (2.87%) OpenAI
9 39 (2.80%) VMware
10 34 (2.44%) Red Hat
11 32 (2.30%) Cisco
12 29 (2.08%) Salesforce
13 25 (1.80%) Informatica
14 22 (1.58%) Foundry
14 22 (1.58%) IBM
15 20 (1.44%) F5
16 19 (1.36%) New Relic
17 18 (1.29%) Checkmarx
18 16 (1.15%) Palo Alto
19 15 (1.08%) SAP