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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 130 173
Rank change year-on-year +60 +43 -45
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,198 536 533
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.49% 2.09% 1.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.28% 5.59% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 866 366 377
10th Percentile £356 £325 £413
25th Percentile £411 £443 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% -1.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 2
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 £48.78
25th Percentile £46.00 £26.19 £51.81
Median hourly rate £62.00 £27.50 £57.75
Median % change year-on-year +125.45% -52.38% +6.94%
75th Percentile £74.00 £61.25 £62.81
90th Percentile £81.20 £68.75 £65.33
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £27.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +103.64% -43.30% -10.19%

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 12,911 9,595 12,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.65% 37.42% 33.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,917 6,420 9,080
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £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 356 140 308
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.18 £14.09
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.08
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +24.58% -11.70%
75th Percentile £58.75 £48.19 £48.83
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.93 £67.17
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
% change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -10.80%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +42 687 £540 -1.82% 224
North of England +32 191 £500 +5.26% 164
Yorkshire +11 110 £482 +1.47% 71
South East +41 106 £450 -5.26% 166
Midlands +18 85 £550 +11.11% 85
South West +12 76 £550 -15.38% 80
North West +14 69 £488 +2.63% 70
West Midlands +11 68 £575 +24.12% 35
East of England -14 19 £550 +72.96% 65
North East +1 16 £545 +50.34% 24
East Midlands -8 16 £402 -19.60% 50
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
1 104 (8.68%) Confluence
2 42 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (2.09%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.84%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.83%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.75%) nginx
7 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.58%) Apache
9 4 (0.33%) CMS
10 3 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.17%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.17%) Mule
11 2 (0.17%) SAS
11 2 (0.17%) Traefik
11 2 (0.17%) WordPress
12 1 (0.083%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.083%) Appian
12 1 (0.083%) Luigi
12 1 (0.083%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 27 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.50%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.083%) InDesign
6 1 (0.083%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.58%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.083%) Actimize
3 1 (0.083%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.083%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.083%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.083%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.083%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.083%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 598 (49.92%) GitHub Actions
2 538 (44.91%) Azure
3 531 (44.32%) AWS
4 256 (21.37%) Azure DevOps
5 186 (15.53%) GCP
6 182 (15.19%) Serverless
7 116 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
8 99 (8.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 97 (8.10%) Amazon EKS
9 97 (8.10%) Amazon S3
10 88 (7.35%) Power Platform
11 84 (7.01%) Amazon ECS
12 80 (6.68%) OpenShift
13 71 (5.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 69 (5.76%) Azure AKS
15 66 (5.51%) Azure Data Factory
16 64 (5.34%) Azure Monitor
16 64 (5.34%) Entra ID
16 64 (5.34%) GitHub Copilot
17 51 (4.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 52 (4.34%) Firewall
2 48 (4.01%) DNS
3 28 (2.34%) Network Security
4 25 (2.09%) VPN
5 12 (1.00%) HTTP
6 10 (0.83%) SSL
6 10 (0.83%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.67%) Kerberos
7 8 (0.67%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.67%) WAN
8 7 (0.58%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.58%) Modbus
8 7 (0.58%) RS-232
8 7 (0.58%) RS-485
9 5 (0.42%) Internet
9 5 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.17%) Calico
10 2 (0.17%) DSL
11 1 (0.083%) Intranet
11 1 (0.083%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (13.36%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (6.34%) NoSQL
3 65 (5.43%) MongoDB
4 59 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
5 55 (4.59%) Data Lake
6 54 (4.51%) SQL Server
7 49 (4.09%) Power BI
8 48 (4.01%) Relational Database
9 45 (3.76%) DynamoDB
10 40 (3.34%) Redis
11 37 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
12 36 (3.01%) MySQL
13 28 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
14 27 (2.25%) Delta Lake
15 18 (1.50%) BigQuery
16 17 (1.42%) Big Data
16 17 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
17 16 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (1.25%) DocumentDB
19 12 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 357 (29.80%) Jenkins
2 220 (18.36%) Git
3 212 (17.70%) GitLab
4 167 (13.94%) JIRA
5 73 (6.09%) JUnit
6 59 (4.92%) Sonatype Nexus
7 45 (3.76%) Artifactory
8 43 (3.59%) Cucumber
9 41 (3.42%) CircleCI
10 40 (3.34%) Cypress.io
11 39 (3.26%) Gradle
12 38 (3.17%) Bitbucket
12 38 (3.17%) Selenium
13 35 (2.92%) Postman
13 35 (2.92%) SonarQube
14 29 (2.42%) Maven
15 28 (2.34%) JMeter
16 16 (1.34%) REST Assured
17 15 (1.25%) MLflow
17 15 (1.25%) Snyk
General
1 300 (25.04%) Social Skills
2 181 (15.11%) Finance
3 151 (12.60%) Public Sector
4 84 (7.01%) Banking
5 81 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (1.75%) Military
7 18 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (1.34%) Retail
9 15 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
10 14 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.09%) Front Office
11 13 (1.09%) Investment Banking
12 9 (0.75%) Marketing
12 9 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.42%) Billing
14 5 (0.42%) Games
14 5 (0.42%) Law
Job Titles
1 279 (23.29%) Developer
2 189 (15.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 175 (14.61%) Senior
4 89 (7.43%) Lead
5 88 (7.35%) Data Engineer
6 80 (6.68%) Cloud Engineer
7 78 (6.51%) Full-Stack Developer
8 76 (6.34%) Architect
9 74 (6.18%) AWS Engineer
10 68 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
11 61 (5.09%) Java Developer
12 57 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
13 49 (4.09%) Software Engineer
14 46 (3.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 45 (3.76%) AWS DevOps
16 42 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 41 (3.42%) Senior Developer
18 36 (3.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 30 (2.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 30 (2.50%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (12.19%) Kafka
2 143 (11.94%) REST
3 129 (10.77%) React
4 124 (10.35%) Node.js
5 116 (9.68%) Spring
6 108 (9.02%) .NET
7 86 (7.18%) Spring Boot
8 84 (7.01%) RESTful
9 72 (6.01%) AngularJS
10 62 (5.18%) CSS
10 62 (5.18%) Playwright
11 55 (4.59%) HTML
12 51 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
12 51 (4.26%) OAuth
13 42 (3.51%) PySpark
14 41 (3.42%) PyTorch
15 40 (3.34%) FastAPI
15 40 (3.34%) JSON
16 38 (3.17%) Jest
17 37 (3.09%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 188 (15.69%) Cloud Native
2 42 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
2 42 (3.51%) Product Ownership
3 33 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 27 (2.25%) Public Cloud
5 22 (1.84%) Algorithms
6 20 (1.67%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.42%) AI Agents
8 17 (1.42%) Virtual Team
9 16 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.25%) Life Science
11 14 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (1.17%) Mobile App
11 14 (1.17%) Replication
11 14 (1.17%) Security Posture
12 13 (1.09%) Private Cloud
13 12 (1.00%) Genomics
13 12 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
13 12 (1.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 161 (13.44%) Linux
2 41 (3.42%) Windows
3 29 (2.42%) Android
4 26 (2.17%) Unix
5 20 (1.67%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.25%) VMS
7 13 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.58%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (0.42%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.33%) CentOS
10 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.25%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.17%) Solaris
12 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.083%) Debian
13 1 (0.083%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 859 (71.70%) CI/CD
2 711 (59.35%) DevOps
3 424 (35.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 379 (31.64%) Agile
5 308 (25.71%) Containerisation
6 246 (20.53%) Test Automation
7 231 (19.28%) AI
8 227 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
9 216 (18.03%) Microservices
10 202 (16.86%) Observability
11 173 (14.44%) Migration
12 144 (12.02%) Analytics
13 143 (11.94%) Full-Stack Development
14 139 (11.60%) Platform Engineering
15 124 (10.35%) Continuous Improvement
16 120 (10.02%) Software Engineering
17 112 (9.35%) Data Pipeline
18 101 (8.43%) Machine Learning
19 99 (8.26%) DevSecOps
19 99 (8.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 562 (46.91%) Python
2 259 (21.62%) SQL
3 244 (20.37%) Java
4 170 (14.19%) JavaScript
5 144 (12.02%) TypeScript
6 139 (11.60%) Bash
7 104 (8.68%) PowerShell
8 101 (8.43%) C#
9 70 (5.84%) Go
10 52 (4.34%) Bicep
11 32 (2.67%) Shell Script
12 25 (2.09%) Ruby
13 17 (1.42%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.25%) PHP
15 14 (1.17%) Scala
16 12 (1.00%) Groovy
17 11 (0.92%) C++
18 9 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.75%) Swift
19 8 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 350 (29.22%) Security Cleared
2 267 (22.29%) SC Cleared
3 79 (6.59%) Degree
4 51 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 45 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (3.26%) Azure Certification
7 34 (2.84%) AWS Certification
8 26 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 15 (1.25%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.83%) OCP
11 10 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (0.67%) CISSP
12 8 (0.67%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 7 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.33%) CTC Cleared
14 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (6.84%) QA
2 53 (4.42%) Accessibility
3 49 (4.09%) Data Quality
4 29 (2.42%) NIST
5 22 (1.84%) NCSC
5 22 (1.84%) WCAG
6 21 (1.75%) GDPR
7 16 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (1.25%) EU AI Act
9 12 (1.00%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.58%) SLA
11 5 (0.42%) GRC
11 5 (0.42%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.25%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.17%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.17%) MiFID
13 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 383 (31.97%) Docker
2 34 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
3 33 (2.75%) Active Directory
4 21 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.25%) vSphere
6 14 (1.17%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.58%) Firmware
8 6 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.25%) HDFS
10 2 (0.17%) NFS
10 2 (0.17%) QEMU
10 2 (0.17%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.083%) etcd
11 1 (0.083%) ISA Server
11 1 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 526 (43.91%) Terraform
2 464 (38.73%) Kubernetes
3 177 (14.77%) Ansible
4 132 (11.02%) Grafana
5 94 (7.85%) Prometheus
6 70 (5.84%) Argo
7 37 (3.09%) Istio
8 25 (2.09%) Progress Chef
9 21 (1.75%) Puppet
10 14 (1.17%) vCenter Server
11 12 (1.00%) Kibana
11 12 (1.00%) Podman
12 11 (0.92%) Packer
13 9 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.67%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.58%) Sysdig
16 6 (0.50%) linkerd
17 5 (0.42%) logstash
18 4 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
18 4 (0.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 199 (16.61%) Microsoft
2 100 (8.35%) Google
3 83 (6.93%) Databricks
4 74 (6.18%) Splunk
5 53 (4.42%) VMware
6 46 (3.84%) OpenAI
7 44 (3.67%) Red Hat
8 41 (3.42%) Oracle
9 20 (1.67%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.59%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.59%) Foundry
11 18 (1.50%) Sonatype
12 14 (1.17%) Dynatrace
12 14 (1.17%) Pure Storage
13 12 (1.00%) Salesforce
14 8 (0.67%) Commvault
14 8 (0.67%) NetApp
14 8 (0.67%) New Relic
14 8 (0.67%) Okta
14 8 (0.67%) SAP