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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 93 129
Rank change year-on-year +4 +36 +10
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,398 778 618
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.00% 2.80% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.70% 7.41% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 953 530 409
10th Percentile £381 £360 £310
25th Percentile £447 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -10.64%
75th Percentile £626 £632 £625
90th Percentile £710 £703 £686
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 32
10th Percentile £46.25 £69.00 £66.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £80.63 -
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 16,068 10,493 11,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.52% 37.73% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,724 7,098 7,761
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 247 174
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.40 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £20.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.92 £64.48
90th Percentile £82.30 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +9 830 £550 - 988
North of England +13 260 £500 +5.26% 256
Yorkshire +27 176 £500 - 84
Midlands -4 108 £476 -13.45% 105
South East -23 89 £525 +20.69% 210
West Midlands -14 88 £490 -14.45% 44
North West -42 61 £550 +27.91% 135
South West -19 58 £536 -12.57% 102
East of England -4 32 £500 -4.76% 92
North East -35 25 £425 -5.56% 38
East Midlands -1 20 £400 -15.79% 61
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
1 102 (7.30%) Confluence
2 43 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (2.79%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.14%) Apache
6 8 (0.57%) nginx
6 8 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.50%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.43%) Tuxedo
9 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.21%) CMS
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 2 (0.14%) SAS
13 1 (0.072%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.072%) Camunda
13 1 (0.072%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.072%) IIS
13 1 (0.072%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 8 (0.57%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.29%) Trello
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.072%) Notion
5 1 (0.072%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.36%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.36%) Sage X3
3 5 (0.36%) Summit
4 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.072%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.072%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.072%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 755 (54.01%) GitHub Actions
2 702 (50.21%) Azure
3 654 (46.78%) AWS
4 374 (26.75%) Azure DevOps
5 219 (15.67%) GCP
6 188 (13.45%) Serverless
7 163 (11.66%) GitHub Copilot
8 138 (9.87%) Amazon S3
9 124 (8.87%) Amazon EKS
10 122 (8.73%) AWS Lambda
11 104 (7.44%) Azure Monitor
12 101 (7.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 88 (6.29%) Entra ID
13 88 (6.29%) Power Platform
14 77 (5.51%) Snowflake
15 75 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
15 75 (5.36%) Azure AKS
16 65 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
17 64 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
18 56 (4.01%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.79%) DNS
2 66 (4.72%) Firewall
3 48 (3.43%) VPN
4 37 (2.65%) Network Security
5 23 (1.65%) VLAN
6 22 (1.57%) BGP
6 22 (1.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 22 (1.57%) TCP/IP
7 16 (1.14%) SSL
8 14 (1.00%) BIG-IP
8 14 (1.00%) DHCP
8 14 (1.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 12 (0.86%) OSPF
9 12 (0.86%) Wireless
10 11 (0.79%) Ethernet VPN
10 11 (0.79%) VXLAN
11 10 (0.72%) NX-OS
12 8 (0.57%) IPsec
12 8 (0.57%) TACACS
12 8 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (6.51%) SQL Server
3 80 (5.72%) MongoDB
4 67 (4.79%) NoSQL
5 63 (4.51%) Power BI
6 55 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
7 50 (3.58%) Redis
8 48 (3.43%) Data Lake
9 46 (3.29%) Relational Database
10 43 (3.08%) DynamoDB
11 35 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
11 35 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 31 (2.22%) Delta Lake
13 29 (2.07%) MySQL
14 28 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
15 27 (1.93%) BigQuery
16 24 (1.72%) Metadata
17 22 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
18 18 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
18 18 (1.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 399 (28.54%) Jenkins
2 301 (21.53%) GitLab
3 284 (20.31%) Git
4 159 (11.37%) JIRA
5 68 (4.86%) Selenium
6 64 (4.58%) JUnit
7 60 (4.29%) SonarQube
8 52 (3.72%) Cucumber
9 46 (3.29%) Bitbucket
10 45 (3.22%) Gatling
11 38 (2.72%) Claude Code
11 38 (2.72%) Gradle
12 37 (2.65%) Maven
13 36 (2.58%) Cypress.io
14 33 (2.36%) JMeter
15 30 (2.15%) Postman
16 28 (2.00%) CircleCI
17 27 (1.93%) REST Assured
18 24 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
19 23 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 350 (25.04%) Social Skills
2 288 (20.60%) Finance
3 149 (10.66%) Public Sector
4 136 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (6.37%) Banking
6 47 (3.36%) Retail
7 44 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (1.50%) Legal
10 17 (1.22%) Law
10 17 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (0.93%) Aerospace
12 13 (0.93%) Marketing
12 13 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (0.79%) Local Government
13 11 (0.79%) Military
14 10 (0.72%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.64%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 280 (20.03%) Senior
2 258 (18.45%) Developer
3 174 (12.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 125 (8.94%) Architect
5 118 (8.44%) Lead
6 103 (7.37%) Data Engineer
7 80 (5.72%) Platform Engineer
8 79 (5.65%) AWS Engineer
9 71 (5.08%) Senior Developer
10 69 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
11 68 (4.86%) Cloud Engineer
12 66 (4.72%) Software Engineer
13 63 (4.51%) Java Developer
14 50 (3.58%) Full-Stack Developer
15 48 (3.43%) Senior DevOps
16 44 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 44 (3.15%) Test Engineer
17 40 (2.86%) Automation Engineer
17 40 (2.86%) Python Developer
18 39 (2.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 666 (47.64%) Terraform
2 241 (17.24%) REST
3 151 (10.80%) Kafka
4 144 (10.30%) RESTful
5 126 (9.01%) Spring
6 121 (8.66%) .NET
7 118 (8.44%) React
8 108 (7.73%) Spring Boot
9 88 (6.29%) Playwright
10 69 (4.94%) Node.js
11 57 (4.08%) OAuth
12 52 (3.72%) JSON
13 51 (3.65%) HTML
13 51 (3.65%) YAML
14 48 (3.43%) FastAPI
15 46 (3.29%) PySpark
16 44 (3.15%) OAuth2
17 39 (2.79%) AngularJS
17 39 (2.79%) GraphQL
18 38 (2.72%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 297 (21.24%) Cloud Native
2 102 (7.30%) Distributed Systems
3 84 (6.01%) AI Agents
4 76 (5.44%) Product Ownership
5 54 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
6 48 (3.43%) Data Centre
7 41 (2.93%) Onboarding
8 39 (2.79%) Mobile App
9 33 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 29 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
11 25 (1.79%) Security Posture
12 24 (1.72%) Data Structures
12 24 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.57%) Public Cloud
14 20 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
14 20 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
14 20 (1.43%) Low-Code
15 18 (1.29%) Private Cloud
16 17 (1.22%) Algorithms
17 16 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 130 (9.30%) Linux
2 64 (4.58%) Windows
3 32 (2.29%) Unix
4 28 (2.00%) Android
5 25 (1.79%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.50%) Windows Server
7 20 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.57%) VMS
9 6 (0.43%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.29%) CentOS
11 2 (0.14%) AIX
11 2 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.14%) Debian
11 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
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 (0.072%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,057 (75.61%) CI/CD
2 815 (58.30%) DevOps
3 576 (41.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 509 (36.41%) Agile
5 355 (25.39%) Observability
6 346 (24.75%) AI
7 344 (24.61%) Test Automation
8 291 (20.82%) Containerisation
9 270 (19.31%) Microservices
10 243 (17.38%) Software Engineering
11 216 (15.45%) Platform Engineering
12 206 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 184 (13.16%) Event-Driven
14 178 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
15 172 (12.30%) Stakeholder Management
16 152 (10.87%) Analytics
17 146 (10.44%) Technical Leadership
18 141 (10.09%) Scrum
19 132 (9.44%) Data Modelling
20 128 (9.16%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 624 (44.64%) Python
2 310 (22.17%) SQL
3 280 (20.03%) Java
4 185 (13.23%) Bash
5 181 (12.95%) PowerShell
6 160 (11.44%) TypeScript
7 145 (10.37%) JavaScript
8 129 (9.23%) C#
9 99 (7.08%) Bicep
10 50 (3.58%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.08%) Go
12 34 (2.43%) Shell Script
13 32 (2.29%) Scala
14 19 (1.36%) Swift
15 18 (1.29%) Ruby
16 15 (1.07%) ActionScript
17 12 (0.86%) C
18 11 (0.79%) Objective-C
19 10 (0.72%) Groovy
19 10 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 408 (29.18%) Security Cleared
2 355 (25.39%) SC Cleared
3 69 (4.94%) Azure Certification
4 62 (4.43%) Degree
5 46 (3.29%) AWS Certification
6 42 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (2.79%) DV Cleared
8 36 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.79%) CISSP
12 11 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 9 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 8 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
16 7 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 7 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (14.52%) QA
2 81 (5.79%) Accessibility
3 80 (5.72%) Data Quality
4 33 (2.36%) WCAG
5 28 (2.00%) GDPR
6 24 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 22 (1.57%) NIST
8 12 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.79%) NCSC
10 7 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.43%) PSD2
12 5 (0.36%) GRC
12 5 (0.36%) HL7
12 5 (0.36%) SEPA
13 4 (0.29%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.21%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
16 1 (0.072%) JSP 440
System Software
1 445 (31.83%) Docker
2 46 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.79%) IAG
7 8 (0.57%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.43%) vSphere
9 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.29%) NFS
10 3 (0.21%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.14%) Firmware
11 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.14%) SRDF
11 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 502 (35.91%) Kubernetes
2 213 (15.24%) Ansible
3 188 (13.45%) Grafana
4 148 (10.59%) Prometheus
5 51 (3.65%) Argo
6 26 (1.86%) Puppet
7 22 (1.57%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.29%) Packer
10 13 (0.93%) Control-M
10 13 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (0.79%) Kibana
12 9 (0.64%) HAProxy
13 8 (0.57%) Istio
13 8 (0.57%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.50%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.50%) SCCM
15 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.36%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 264 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 107 (7.65%) Databricks
3 95 (6.80%) Google
4 93 (6.65%) Splunk
5 62 (4.43%) Dynatrace
6 54 (3.86%) Oracle
7 49 (3.51%) OpenAI
8 48 (3.43%) ServiceNow
9 38 (2.72%) VMware
10 37 (2.65%) Cisco
11 29 (2.07%) Red Hat
12 28 (2.00%) Foundry
12 28 (2.00%) Salesforce
13 26 (1.86%) IBM
14 23 (1.65%) F5
15 21 (1.50%) New Relic
16 17 (1.22%) Informatica
16 17 (1.22%) Palo Alto
17 15 (1.07%) SAP
18 14 (1.00%) Checkmarx