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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 127 173
Rank change year-on-year +60 +46 -43
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,175 552 524
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.52% 2.10% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.33% 5.63% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 847 375 377
10th Percentile £354 £350 £413
25th Percentile £412 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% -1.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £630
90th Percentile £700 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 1
10th Percentile £40.00 £22.33 -
25th Percentile £44.50 £25.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £56.25 £27.38 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +105.48% -43.56% -10.19%
75th Percentile £74.00 £57.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £84.80 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £27.38 £44.25
% change year-on-year +105.48% -38.14% -18.06%

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 12,595 9,812 12,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.70% 37.35% 33.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,716 6,521 9,167
10th Percentile £305 £313 £270
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £601 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 143 303
10th Percentile £14.39 £15.45 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £16.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.75 £47.47
90th Percentile £77.75 £68.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -6.25%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 6 February 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 +44 674 £550 -0.68% 236
North of England +31 190 £480 +1.05% 145
South East +38 104 £450 -4.26% 148
Yorkshire +4 104 £482 -0.10% 69
Midlands +16 83 £550 - 60
North West +18 72 £405 -14.74% 64
South West +11 72 £550 -10.20% 56
West Midlands +17 68 £588 +12.44% 29
East of England -15 19 £550 +72.41% 60
North East +2 18 £545 +50.34% 14
East Midlands -14 15 £402 -35.63% 31
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
1 101 (8.60%) Confluence
2 50 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (2.21%) SharePoint
4 21 (1.79%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.94%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.68%) nginx
7 6 (0.51%) Apache
8 5 (0.43%) CMS
9 3 (0.26%) SAS
9 3 (0.26%) WordPress
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.17%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.17%) Mule
10 2 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.17%) Traefik
11 1 (0.085%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.085%) Appian
11 1 (0.085%) Luigi
11 1 (0.085%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 30 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.17%) Trello
6 1 (0.085%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (0.60%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.17%) Shopify
3 1 (0.085%) Actimize
3 1 (0.085%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.085%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.085%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.085%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.085%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.085%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.085%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 592 (50.38%) GitHub Actions
2 528 (44.94%) Azure
3 524 (44.60%) AWS
4 248 (21.11%) Azure DevOps
5 184 (15.66%) GCP
6 179 (15.23%) Serverless
7 113 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
8 105 (8.94%) Amazon S3
9 102 (8.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 93 (7.91%) Amazon EKS
11 86 (7.32%) Power Platform
12 82 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
13 75 (6.38%) OpenShift
14 69 (5.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 67 (5.70%) Azure AKS
16 64 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
16 64 (5.45%) Entra ID
17 63 (5.36%) GitHub Copilot
18 60 (5.11%) Azure Monitor
19 50 (4.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.26%) Firewall
2 46 (3.91%) DNS
3 25 (2.13%) Network Security
4 24 (2.04%) VPN
5 11 (0.94%) HTTP
5 11 (0.94%) SSL
5 11 (0.94%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.68%) Kerberos
6 8 (0.68%) SD-WAN
6 8 (0.68%) WAN
7 7 (0.60%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.60%) Modbus
7 7 (0.60%) RS-232
7 7 (0.60%) RS-485
8 5 (0.43%) Internet
8 5 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.17%) Calico
9 2 (0.17%) DSL
9 2 (0.17%) SNMP
9 2 (0.17%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (13.45%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (6.47%) NoSQL
3 61 (5.19%) MongoDB
4 58 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
5 54 (4.60%) SQL Server
6 52 (4.43%) Data Lake
7 49 (4.17%) Power BI
7 49 (4.17%) Relational Database
8 47 (4.00%) DynamoDB
9 40 (3.40%) Redis
10 37 (3.15%) MySQL
11 36 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
12 27 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
13 23 (1.96%) Delta Lake
14 20 (1.70%) BigQuery
15 17 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
16 15 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (1.28%) Amazon QuickSight
16 15 (1.28%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 342 (29.11%) Jenkins
2 224 (19.06%) Git
3 208 (17.70%) GitLab
4 163 (13.87%) JIRA
5 69 (5.87%) JUnit
6 59 (5.02%) Sonatype Nexus
7 45 (3.83%) Artifactory
8 39 (3.32%) CircleCI
8 39 (3.32%) Cucumber
9 38 (3.23%) Cypress.io
10 37 (3.15%) Gradle
10 37 (3.15%) SonarQube
11 35 (2.98%) Bitbucket
12 33 (2.81%) Postman
12 33 (2.81%) Selenium
13 27 (2.30%) Maven
14 26 (2.21%) JMeter
15 15 (1.28%) Snyk
16 14 (1.19%) SpecFlow
17 13 (1.11%) Mockito
General
1 285 (24.26%) Social Skills
2 179 (15.23%) Finance
3 149 (12.68%) Public Sector
4 87 (7.40%) Banking
5 81 (6.89%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (1.79%) Military
7 18 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (1.36%) Retail
9 15 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.28%) Investment Banking
9 15 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (1.11%) Front Office
10 13 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (0.85%) Marketing
12 9 (0.77%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.51%) Games
14 5 (0.43%) Billing
14 5 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.43%) Law
15 4 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 279 (23.74%) Developer
2 188 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 177 (15.06%) Senior
4 96 (8.17%) Data Engineer
5 82 (6.98%) Lead
6 81 (6.89%) AWS Engineer
6 81 (6.89%) Cloud Engineer
7 76 (6.47%) Full-Stack Developer
8 71 (6.04%) Architect
9 65 (5.53%) Platform Engineer
10 63 (5.36%) Java Developer
11 56 (4.77%) Azure Engineer
12 54 (4.60%) Software Engineer
13 48 (4.09%) AWS DevOps
14 45 (3.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 44 (3.74%) Senior Developer
16 41 (3.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 39 (3.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 32 (2.72%) Senior Data Engineer
19 27 (2.30%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (12.51%) Kafka
2 139 (11.83%) REST
3 125 (10.64%) React
4 122 (10.38%) Node.js
5 113 (9.62%) Spring
6 111 (9.45%) .NET
7 88 (7.49%) RESTful
8 87 (7.40%) Spring Boot
9 70 (5.96%) AngularJS
10 61 (5.19%) CSS
11 57 (4.85%) Playwright
12 54 (4.60%) HTML
13 53 (4.51%) OAuth
14 51 (4.34%) Elastic Stack
15 39 (3.32%) FastAPI
15 39 (3.32%) GraphQL
15 39 (3.32%) JSON
15 39 (3.32%) PySpark
16 37 (3.15%) Jest
16 37 (3.15%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 190 (16.17%) Cloud Native
2 42 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (3.40%) Product Ownership
4 30 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.30%) Public Cloud
6 21 (1.79%) Algorithms
7 19 (1.62%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.45%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.28%) Life Science
10 15 (1.28%) Virtual Team
11 14 (1.19%) Replication
12 13 (1.11%) Genomics
12 13 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (1.11%) NHS
12 13 (1.11%) Private Cloud
12 13 (1.11%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
13 12 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 155 (13.19%) Linux
2 38 (3.23%) Windows
3 25 (2.13%) Unix
4 23 (1.96%) Android
5 15 (1.28%) VMS
6 13 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 13 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
8 5 (0.43%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.34%) CentOS
9 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.26%) Solaris
11 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.085%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.085%) Debian
12 1 (0.085%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 837 (71.23%) CI/CD
2 698 (59.40%) DevOps
3 414 (35.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 369 (31.40%) Agile
5 302 (25.70%) Containerisation
6 233 (19.83%) AI
7 230 (19.57%) Test Automation
8 228 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
9 212 (18.04%) Microservices
10 195 (16.60%) Observability
11 168 (14.30%) Migration
12 140 (11.91%) Full-Stack Development
13 134 (11.40%) Analytics
14 131 (11.15%) Platform Engineering
15 123 (10.47%) Software Engineering
16 118 (10.04%) Data Pipeline
17 115 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
18 98 (8.34%) DevSecOps
18 98 (8.34%) Machine Learning
19 97 (8.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 544 (46.30%) Python
2 266 (22.64%) SQL
3 239 (20.34%) Java
4 160 (13.62%) JavaScript
5 145 (12.34%) TypeScript
6 133 (11.32%) Bash
7 100 (8.51%) C#
7 100 (8.51%) PowerShell
8 74 (6.30%) Go
9 51 (4.34%) Bicep
10 29 (2.47%) Shell Script
11 25 (2.13%) Ruby
12 15 (1.28%) PHP
13 13 (1.11%) Kotlin
14 12 (1.02%) C++
15 11 (0.94%) Scala
16 10 (0.85%) Groovy
17 9 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.68%) C
18 8 (0.68%) Korn
Qualifications
1 348 (29.62%) Security Cleared
2 269 (22.89%) SC Cleared
3 75 (6.38%) Degree
4 51 (4.34%) DV Cleared
5 42 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (3.23%) Azure Certification
7 31 (2.64%) AWS Certification
8 25 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 17 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.77%) CISSP
12 9 (0.77%) OCP
12 9 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (0.60%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
15 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.34%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (6.38%) QA
2 52 (4.43%) Data Quality
3 49 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.47%) NIST
5 24 (2.04%) NCSC
6 22 (1.87%) GDPR
6 22 (1.87%) WCAG
7 16 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (1.28%) EU AI Act
9 13 (1.11%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.60%) SLA
11 5 (0.43%) GRC
11 5 (0.43%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.26%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.17%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.17%) FIPS 140-2
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 375 (31.91%) Docker
2 32 (2.72%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.94%) vSphere
5 10 (0.85%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.60%) Firmware
7 6 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.26%) NFS
8 3 (0.26%) QEMU
8 3 (0.26%) Veritas File System
8 3 (0.26%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 3 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.17%) HDFS
10 1 (0.085%) etcd
10 1 (0.085%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.085%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 510 (43.40%) Terraform
2 451 (38.38%) Kubernetes
3 171 (14.55%) Ansible
4 133 (11.32%) Grafana
5 99 (8.43%) Prometheus
6 66 (5.62%) Argo
7 35 (2.98%) Istio
8 26 (2.21%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.70%) Puppet
10 12 (1.02%) Kibana
10 12 (1.02%) Podman
11 10 (0.85%) Packer
11 10 (0.85%) vCenter Server
12 9 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.60%) NetBackup
13 7 (0.60%) Sysdig
14 6 (0.51%) linkerd
15 5 (0.43%) logstash
16 4 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
16 4 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 199 (16.94%) Microsoft
2 101 (8.60%) Google
3 77 (6.55%) Databricks
4 74 (6.30%) Splunk
5 50 (4.26%) VMware
6 46 (3.91%) OpenAI
7 41 (3.49%) Oracle
8 39 (3.32%) Red Hat
9 21 (1.79%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.62%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.62%) Foundry
11 18 (1.53%) Sonatype
12 13 (1.11%) Salesforce
13 10 (0.85%) Dynatrace
13 10 (0.85%) Pure Storage
14 8 (0.68%) NetApp
14 8 (0.68%) New Relic
14 8 (0.68%) Okta
14 8 (0.68%) SAP
15 7 (0.60%) Commvault