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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 100 133
Rank change year-on-year +14 +33 -1
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,367 708 598
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 2.56% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.56% 6.90% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 928 485 401
10th Percentile £400 £364 £310
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £630
90th Percentile £705 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 34
10th Percentile £46.25 - £28.80
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% -8.20%

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 15,975 10,267 11,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.18% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,666 6,947 7,935
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £723 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 271 219
10th Percentile £15.55 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.31 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +4.00% -22.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £83.54 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £25.00
% change year-on-year +25.54% +11.52% -28.15%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +22 792 £550 - 525
North of England +20 261 £500 +2.56% 158
Yorkshire +18 176 £488 -2.50% 57
Midlands +6 107 £496 -0.78% 61
West Midlands +8 96 £500 - 33
South East -44 86 £525 +10.53% 149
South West -6 69 £500 -16.67% 67
North West -27 65 £575 +27.14% 78
East of England -1 33 £505 -8.18% 51
North East -24 22 £450 -5.26% 26
East Midlands -13 11 £459 -7.37% 28
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 (8.56%) Confluence
2 49 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 22 (1.61%) Apache
6 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.51%) nginx
9 6 (0.44%) Tuxedo
10 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.15%) CMS
11 2 (0.15%) Mendix
11 2 (0.15%) SAS
11 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.073%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Chatbot
1 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.29%) Trello
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.073%) Notion
6 1 (0.073%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.37%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.22%) Findur
3 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.22%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.073%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.073%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 746 (54.57%) GitHub Actions
2 705 (51.57%) Azure
3 630 (46.09%) AWS
4 402 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
5 218 (15.95%) GCP
6 162 (11.85%) Serverless
7 132 (9.66%) Amazon S3
8 119 (8.71%) AWS Lambda
9 117 (8.56%) GitHub Copilot
10 115 (8.41%) Amazon EKS
11 99 (7.24%) Azure Monitor
12 96 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 85 (6.22%) Power Platform
14 80 (5.85%) Azure AKS
14 80 (5.85%) Entra ID
15 73 (5.34%) Amazon EC2
16 69 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
16 69 (5.05%) AWS CloudFormation
17 62 (4.54%) Snowflake
18 53 (3.88%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 71 (5.19%) Firewall
2 66 (4.83%) DNS
3 57 (4.17%) VPN
4 29 (2.12%) Network Security
5 20 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.32%) VLAN
7 17 (1.24%) BGP
7 17 (1.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 14 (1.02%) SSL
9 11 (0.80%) DHCP
10 9 (0.66%) BIG-IP
10 9 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 9 (0.66%) OSPF
10 9 (0.66%) WAN
10 9 (0.66%) Wireless
11 8 (0.59%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (0.59%) IPsec
11 8 (0.59%) NX-OS
11 8 (0.59%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (6.73%) SQL Server
3 73 (5.34%) NoSQL
4 65 (4.75%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.75%) Power BI
5 50 (3.66%) Data Lake
6 46 (3.37%) Relational Database
7 44 (3.22%) DynamoDB
8 43 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
8 43 (3.15%) Redis
9 38 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 33 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 33 (2.41%) Delta Lake
11 32 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
12 25 (1.83%) Metadata
13 23 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
13 23 (1.68%) BigQuery
14 21 (1.54%) Big Data
15 17 (1.24%) MySQL
16 16 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 417 (30.50%) Jenkins
2 304 (22.24%) GitLab
3 267 (19.53%) Git
4 170 (12.44%) JIRA
5 71 (5.19%) JUnit
6 70 (5.12%) Selenium
7 51 (3.73%) Cucumber
8 46 (3.37%) SonarQube
9 44 (3.22%) Bitbucket
10 39 (2.85%) Cypress.io
10 39 (2.85%) JMeter
11 37 (2.71%) Gatling
12 35 (2.56%) Gradle
13 31 (2.27%) Maven
14 30 (2.19%) Postman
15 28 (2.05%) CircleCI
15 28 (2.05%) Claude Code
15 28 (2.05%) REST Assured
16 23 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
17 19 (1.39%) WebDriver
General
1 329 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 265 (19.39%) Finance
3 152 (11.12%) Public Sector
4 113 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (6.22%) Banking
6 43 (3.15%) Retail
7 35 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (1.68%) Legal
10 17 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.17%) Law
12 14 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 14 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 12 (0.88%) Aerospace
13 12 (0.88%) Military
14 11 (0.80%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.59%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.59%) Marketing
16 8 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 259 (18.95%) Senior
2 249 (18.22%) Developer
3 175 (12.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 124 (9.07%) Architect
5 122 (8.92%) Lead
6 103 (7.53%) Data Engineer
7 82 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
8 78 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
9 73 (5.34%) Cloud Engineer
10 66 (4.83%) Azure Engineer
10 66 (4.83%) Senior Developer
10 66 (4.83%) Software Engineer
11 64 (4.68%) Java Developer
12 47 (3.44%) Senior DevOps
12 47 (3.44%) Test Engineer
13 46 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
14 44 (3.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 43 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 39 (2.85%) Network Engineer
17 38 (2.78%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (15.95%) REST
2 146 (10.68%) Kafka
3 134 (9.80%) RESTful
4 127 (9.29%) Spring
5 117 (8.56%) .NET
6 113 (8.27%) React
7 104 (7.61%) Spring Boot
8 78 (5.71%) Playwright
9 62 (4.54%) Node.js
10 51 (3.73%) PySpark
11 49 (3.58%) OAuth
12 45 (3.29%) YAML
13 44 (3.22%) JSON
14 41 (3.00%) AngularJS
15 40 (2.93%) .NET Framework
15 40 (2.93%) HTML
16 39 (2.85%) OAuth2
17 38 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
18 35 (2.56%) FastAPI
19 33 (2.41%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 296 (21.65%) Cloud Native
2 119 (8.71%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (5.12%) Product Ownership
4 54 (3.95%) AI Agents
5 42 (3.07%) Data Centre
6 39 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 37 (2.71%) Mobile App
8 36 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
9 35 (2.56%) Onboarding
10 28 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
11 25 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.54%) Data Structures
12 21 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
12 21 (1.54%) Security Posture
13 19 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
14 18 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
15 15 (1.10%) Private Cloud
16 14 (1.02%) Algorithms
16 14 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 127 (9.29%) Linux
2 63 (4.61%) Windows
3 34 (2.49%) Unix
4 27 (1.98%) Android
5 25 (1.83%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.39%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.66%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.37%) VMS
10 4 (0.29%) Debian
10 4 (0.29%) Rocky
11 3 (0.22%) CentOS
12 2 (0.15%) AIX
12 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.15%) MVS
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.15%) zOS
13 1 (0.073%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,039 (76.01%) CI/CD
2 812 (59.40%) DevOps
3 560 (40.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 488 (35.70%) Agile
5 351 (25.68%) Test Automation
6 346 (25.31%) Observability
7 304 (22.24%) Containerisation
8 284 (20.78%) AI
9 266 (19.46%) Microservices
10 220 (16.09%) Software Engineering
11 216 (15.80%) Platform Engineering
12 199 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 168 (12.29%) Event-Driven
14 159 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
15 157 (11.49%) Analytics
16 131 (9.58%) DevSecOps
16 131 (9.58%) Technical Leadership
17 125 (9.14%) Validation
18 123 (9.00%) Data Pipeline
19 121 (8.85%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 579 (42.36%) Python
2 325 (23.77%) SQL
3 267 (19.53%) Java
4 194 (14.19%) Bash
5 180 (13.17%) PowerShell
6 140 (10.24%) C#
7 137 (10.02%) TypeScript
8 131 (9.58%) JavaScript
9 91 (6.66%) Bicep
10 44 (3.22%) Go
10 44 (3.22%) Kotlin
11 31 (2.27%) Shell Script
12 30 (2.19%) Scala
13 22 (1.61%) Ruby
14 20 (1.46%) Swift
15 12 (0.88%) Groovy
15 12 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (0.66%) ActionScript
16 9 (0.66%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.66%) C
Qualifications
1 427 (31.24%) Security Cleared
2 377 (27.58%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.54%) Azure Certification
4 56 (4.10%) Degree
5 45 (3.29%) AWS Certification
6 40 (2.93%) DV Cleared
7 31 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.73%) CISSP
15 9 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.66%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 6 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (13.09%) QA
2 72 (5.27%) Data Quality
3 65 (4.75%) Accessibility
4 35 (2.56%) GDPR
5 26 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (1.61%) WCAG
7 16 (1.17%) NIST
8 10 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (0.66%) NCSC
9 9 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.59%) GRC
11 7 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.37%) HL7
12 5 (0.37%) PSD2
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.29%) SEPA
14 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
16 1 (0.073%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 423 (30.94%) Docker
2 46 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.88%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.88%) vSphere
6 11 (0.80%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.66%) IAG
8 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.29%) NFS
9 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.15%) Firmware
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.15%) SRDF
10 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 655 (47.92%) Terraform
2 497 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 206 (15.07%) Ansible
4 190 (13.90%) Grafana
5 157 (11.49%) Prometheus
6 58 (4.24%) Argo
7 27 (1.98%) Puppet
8 22 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.32%) Progress Chef
10 17 (1.24%) Packer
11 14 (1.02%) Istio
12 12 (0.88%) Control-M
13 10 (0.73%) Kibana
14 9 (0.66%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
14 9 (0.66%) vCenter Server
15 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
16 6 (0.44%) NetBackup
16 6 (0.44%) SCCM
17 5 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 256 (18.73%) Microsoft
2 99 (7.24%) Databricks
3 97 (7.10%) Google
4 93 (6.80%) Splunk
5 54 (3.95%) Oracle
6 52 (3.80%) Dynatrace
7 41 (3.00%) ServiceNow
8 38 (2.78%) VMware
9 34 (2.49%) Red Hat
10 33 (2.41%) Salesforce
11 29 (2.12%) Cisco
11 29 (2.12%) OpenAI
12 25 (1.83%) Informatica
13 21 (1.54%) IBM
14 19 (1.39%) F5
14 19 (1.39%) New Relic
15 18 (1.32%) Palo Alto
16 17 (1.24%) Checkmarx
16 17 (1.24%) SAP
17 16 (1.17%) Foundry