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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 128 174
Rank change year-on-year +63 +46 -46
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,264 520 526
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.46% 2.11% 1.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.34% 5.57% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 362 362
10th Percentile £356 £350 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.09% -10.21%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £540 £540
% change year-on-year -5.05% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 5
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 -
25th Percentile £44.50 £25.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 £27.38 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +104.57% -15.77% -47.58%
75th Percentile £66.31 £58.44 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 £60.30
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +82.65% -15.77% -39.81%

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 13,531 9,337 12,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.04% 37.85% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,305 6,474 8,855
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £712 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 403 157 330
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.19 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £18.74 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £42.06
90th Percentile £79.90 £75.80 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.54 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +47.22% +19.33% -14.52%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 +37 712 £538 -4.02% 246
North of England +37 199 £500 +5.26% 149
Yorkshire +18 119 £481 -3.80% 73
South East +24 116 £456 -8.85% 144
Midlands +21 98 £550 +11.11% 64
South West +31 82 £550 +2.33% 60
West Midlands +7 79 £550 +18.73% 25
North West +2 67 £550 +15.79% 57
East of England -20 21 £525 +63.36% 60
East Midlands -16 18 £402 -19.60% 39
North East 0 15 £545 +50.34% 21
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
1 117 (9.26%) Confluence
2 48 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (2.37%) Apache Spark
3 30 (2.37%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.11%) Apache
4 14 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.71%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.63%) nginx
7 5 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.32%) CMS
9 2 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
9 2 (0.16%) WordPress
10 1 (0.079%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.079%) Appian
10 1 (0.079%) Luigi
10 1 (0.079%) SAS
10 1 (0.079%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.079%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.079%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.16%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.079%) InDesign
6 1 (0.079%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (0.55%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.32%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.079%) Actimize
5 1 (0.079%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.079%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.079%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.079%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 630 (49.84%) GitHub Actions
2 584 (46.20%) Azure
3 578 (45.73%) AWS
4 293 (23.18%) Azure DevOps
5 198 (15.66%) GCP
6 194 (15.35%) Serverless
7 125 (9.89%) AWS Lambda
8 106 (8.39%) Amazon S3
9 103 (8.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 101 (7.99%) Amazon EKS
11 90 (7.12%) Power Platform
12 85 (6.72%) Amazon ECS
13 84 (6.65%) Azure Data Factory
14 82 (6.49%) Azure AKS
15 79 (6.25%) OpenShift
16 77 (6.09%) Azure Monitor
17 75 (5.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 70 (5.54%) GitHub Copilot
19 69 (5.46%) Entra ID
20 54 (4.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 64 (5.06%) Firewall
2 55 (4.35%) DNS
3 33 (2.61%) VPN
4 28 (2.22%) Network Security
5 13 (1.03%) HTTP
6 9 (0.71%) SSL
7 8 (0.63%) Kerberos
7 8 (0.63%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.63%) WAN
8 7 (0.55%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.55%) Modbus
8 7 (0.55%) RS-232
8 7 (0.55%) RS-485
9 6 (0.47%) Internet
10 5 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.24%) DSL
12 1 (0.079%) BGP
12 1 (0.079%) Intranet
12 1 (0.079%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (13.45%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (7.04%) NoSQL
3 71 (5.62%) Data Lake
4 61 (4.83%) MongoDB
5 60 (4.75%) SQL Server
6 57 (4.51%) Amazon RDS
7 54 (4.27%) Power BI
8 52 (4.11%) Relational Database
9 51 (4.03%) DynamoDB
10 43 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 42 (3.32%) Redis
12 39 (3.09%) Delta Lake
13 35 (2.77%) MySQL
14 27 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
15 23 (1.82%) Big Data
16 21 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
17 17 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
18 16 (1.27%) BigQuery
19 15 (1.19%) DocumentDB
20 14 (1.11%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 388 (30.70%) Jenkins
2 249 (19.70%) Git
3 241 (19.07%) GitLab
4 173 (13.69%) JIRA
5 87 (6.88%) JUnit
6 56 (4.43%) Cucumber
7 55 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
8 52 (4.11%) Selenium
9 42 (3.32%) Cypress.io
10 40 (3.16%) Artifactory
10 40 (3.16%) JMeter
11 38 (3.01%) Bitbucket
12 36 (2.85%) CircleCI
13 35 (2.77%) Gradle
13 35 (2.77%) Postman
14 31 (2.45%) SonarQube
15 28 (2.22%) Maven
16 19 (1.50%) MLflow
16 19 (1.50%) REST Assured
17 18 (1.42%) Mockito
General
1 313 (24.76%) Social Skills
2 191 (15.11%) Finance
3 162 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 92 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (6.88%) Banking
6 25 (1.98%) Military
7 21 (1.66%) Retail
8 18 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.19%) Front Office
9 15 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (1.03%) Investment Banking
11 12 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.63%) Marketing
13 8 (0.63%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.47%) Law
15 6 (0.47%) Legal
16 5 (0.40%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 270 (21.36%) Developer
2 196 (15.51%) Senior
3 187 (14.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 106 (8.39%) Data Engineer
5 94 (7.44%) Lead
6 91 (7.20%) Architect
7 89 (7.04%) Cloud Engineer
8 81 (6.41%) AWS Engineer
9 76 (6.01%) Platform Engineer
10 72 (5.70%) Full-Stack Developer
11 62 (4.91%) Azure Engineer
11 62 (4.91%) Java Developer
12 48 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
12 48 (3.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 48 (3.80%) Software Engineer
13 41 (3.24%) Senior Developer
14 40 (3.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 39 (3.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 35 (2.77%) GCP Engineer
17 34 (2.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (12.42%) REST
2 151 (11.95%) Kafka
3 137 (10.84%) Spring
4 132 (10.44%) React
5 122 (9.65%) Node.js
6 112 (8.86%) .NET
7 94 (7.44%) Spring Boot
8 90 (7.12%) RESTful
9 67 (5.30%) AngularJS
10 61 (4.83%) Playwright
11 60 (4.75%) CSS
12 54 (4.27%) PySpark
13 53 (4.19%) HTML
14 49 (3.88%) Elastic Stack
15 45 (3.56%) OAuth
16 43 (3.40%) JSON
16 43 (3.40%) PyTorch
17 40 (3.16%) Jest
18 39 (3.09%) FastAPI
19 36 (2.85%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 220 (17.41%) Cloud Native
2 62 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (3.56%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.14%) Public Cloud
6 21 (1.66%) Algorithms
7 20 (1.58%) Onboarding
8 19 (1.50%) Virtual Team
9 18 (1.42%) AI Agents
9 18 (1.42%) Security Posture
10 16 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.19%) NHS
12 14 (1.11%) Life Science
13 13 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
14 12 (0.95%) Data Structures
14 12 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
14 12 (0.95%) Genomics
14 12 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (0.95%) Mobile App
14 12 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 154 (12.18%) Linux
2 43 (3.40%) Windows
3 26 (2.06%) Unix
4 24 (1.90%) Android
5 19 (1.50%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.11%) VMS
7 10 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.32%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.24%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.16%) CentOS
11 2 (0.16%) Debian
11 2 (0.16%) Rocky
12 1 (0.079%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 910 (71.99%) CI/CD
2 752 (59.49%) DevOps
3 447 (35.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 399 (31.57%) Agile
5 324 (25.63%) Containerisation
6 281 (22.23%) Test Automation
7 255 (20.17%) AI
8 235 (18.59%) Observability
8 235 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
9 233 (18.43%) Microservices
10 180 (14.24%) Analytics
11 179 (14.16%) Migration
12 159 (12.58%) Platform Engineering
13 151 (11.95%) Continuous Improvement
14 133 (10.52%) Full-Stack Development
15 132 (10.44%) Software Engineering
16 130 (10.28%) Data Pipeline
17 118 (9.34%) Data Engineering
18 111 (8.78%) Machine Learning
18 111 (8.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 598 (47.31%) Python
2 303 (23.97%) SQL
3 257 (20.33%) Java
4 166 (13.13%) JavaScript
5 156 (12.34%) Bash
6 133 (10.52%) TypeScript
7 119 (9.41%) PowerShell
8 109 (8.62%) C#
9 68 (5.38%) Go
10 57 (4.51%) Bicep
11 31 (2.45%) Shell Script
12 27 (2.14%) Ruby
13 22 (1.74%) Scala
14 17 (1.34%) Kotlin
15 16 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
16 13 (1.03%) Swift
17 12 (0.95%) PHP
18 11 (0.87%) Groovy
19 10 (0.79%) C++
20 8 (0.63%) C
Qualifications
1 388 (30.70%) Security Cleared
2 300 (23.73%) SC Cleared
3 75 (5.93%) Degree
4 48 (3.80%) DV Cleared
5 46 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (3.56%) Azure Certification
7 40 (3.16%) AWS Certification
8 28 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 17 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.11%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (0.79%) OCP
12 10 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
13 9 (0.71%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (0.55%) CISSP
16 5 (0.40%) CCNP
17 4 (0.32%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (6.65%) QA
2 61 (4.83%) Data Quality
3 48 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.06%) NIST
5 25 (1.98%) WCAG
6 22 (1.74%) GDPR
7 18 (1.42%) NCSC
7 18 (1.42%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 12 (0.95%) EU AI Act
10 7 (0.55%) GRC
11 6 (0.47%) SLA
12 5 (0.40%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.24%) Def Stans
13 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 393 (31.09%) Docker
2 35 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
3 33 (2.61%) Active Directory
4 17 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.27%) VMware NSX
5 16 (1.27%) vSphere
6 7 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.55%) Firmware
7 3 (0.24%) HDFS
7 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.079%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.079%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.079%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 555 (43.91%) Terraform
2 493 (39.00%) Kubernetes
3 185 (14.64%) Ansible
4 142 (11.23%) Grafana
5 104 (8.23%) Prometheus
6 72 (5.70%) Argo
7 40 (3.16%) Istio
8 23 (1.82%) Puppet
9 21 (1.66%) Progress Chef
10 16 (1.27%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.95%) Kibana
12 11 (0.87%) NetBackup
13 10 (0.79%) Packer
13 10 (0.79%) Podman
13 10 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.71%) linkerd
15 7 (0.55%) Sysdig
16 5 (0.40%) logstash
16 5 (0.40%) Rancher
17 4 (0.32%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 220 (17.41%) Microsoft
2 103 (8.15%) Databricks
3 100 (7.91%) Google
4 80 (6.33%) Splunk
5 47 (3.72%) VMware
6 45 (3.56%) Red Hat
7 44 (3.48%) OpenAI
8 41 (3.24%) Oracle
9 22 (1.74%) Atlassian
10 20 (1.58%) Foundry
11 19 (1.50%) ServiceNow
11 19 (1.50%) Sonatype
12 16 (1.27%) Pure Storage
13 14 (1.11%) Dynatrace
13 14 (1.11%) Salesforce
14 13 (1.03%) SAP
15 10 (0.79%) Commvault
16 9 (0.71%) Checkmarx
16 9 (0.71%) New Relic
17 8 (0.63%) Cloudera