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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 98 129
Rank change year-on-year +12 +31 +4
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,370 718 602
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.00% 2.60% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.59% 6.99% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 936 492 403
10th Percentile £400 £374 £311
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £633
90th Percentile £706 £734 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -7.49%
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 15,947 10,275 11,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.94% 37.23% 33.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,657 6,963 7,911
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 273 216
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.12 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -22.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.23 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.57%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +22 794 £550 -1.35% 547
North of England +26 260 £500 +2.30% 165
Yorkshire +25 175 £490 -2.00% 59
Midlands +3 111 £488 -2.50% 61
West Midlands -1 94 £500 - 34
South East -27 87 £525 +10.53% 145
South West -8 67 £500 -14.89% 69
North West -16 65 £563 +24.38% 84
East of England +3 33 £505 -8.18% 52
North East -23 22 £450 -5.26% 26
East Midlands -6 17 £413 -16.67% 27
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
1 116 (8.47%) Confluence
2 47 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (2.77%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.46%) 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
12 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.073%) IIS
12 1 (0.073%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 8 (0.58%) Chatbot
1 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.29%) Trello
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.073%) Notion
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.36%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.22%) Findur
3 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.15%) SAP BPC
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
1 748 (54.60%) GitHub Actions
2 706 (51.53%) Azure
3 630 (45.99%) AWS
4 404 (29.49%) Azure DevOps
5 213 (15.55%) GCP
6 171 (12.48%) Serverless
7 131 (9.56%) Amazon S3
8 122 (8.91%) AWS Lambda
9 118 (8.61%) GitHub Copilot
10 114 (8.32%) Amazon EKS
11 105 (7.66%) Azure Monitor
12 96 (7.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 85 (6.20%) Power Platform
14 84 (6.13%) Azure AKS
15 82 (5.99%) Entra ID
16 71 (5.18%) Amazon EC2
17 68 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
18 67 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
19 61 (4.45%) Snowflake
20 51 (3.72%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 69 (5.04%) Firewall
2 63 (4.60%) DNS
3 55 (4.01%) VPN
4 30 (2.19%) Network Security
5 20 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.31%) 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 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (0.58%) IPsec
11 8 (0.58%) NX-OS
11 8 (0.58%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (8.32%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.57%) SQL Server
3 71 (5.18%) NoSQL
4 65 (4.74%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.74%) Power BI
5 50 (3.65%) Redis
6 48 (3.50%) Data Lake
7 46 (3.36%) Relational Database
8 44 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
9 43 (3.14%) DynamoDB
10 37 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
11 33 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 33 (2.41%) Delta Lake
12 31 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
13 25 (1.82%) Metadata
14 24 (1.75%) BigQuery
15 23 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
16 22 (1.61%) MySQL
17 21 (1.53%) Big Data
18 16 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 411 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 303 (22.12%) GitLab
3 266 (19.42%) Git
4 170 (12.41%) JIRA
5 68 (4.96%) Selenium
6 67 (4.89%) JUnit
7 49 (3.58%) Cucumber
8 46 (3.36%) Bitbucket
8 46 (3.36%) SonarQube
9 40 (2.92%) Cypress.io
10 37 (2.70%) Gatling
10 37 (2.70%) JMeter
11 36 (2.63%) Gradle
12 32 (2.34%) Maven
13 30 (2.19%) Postman
14 29 (2.12%) CircleCI
15 28 (2.04%) Claude Code
15 28 (2.04%) REST Assured
16 23 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
17 18 (1.31%) Snyk
General
1 331 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 268 (19.56%) Finance
3 154 (11.24%) Public Sector
4 117 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (6.13%) Banking
6 40 (2.92%) Retail
7 35 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (1.82%) 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 (0.58%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.58%) Marketing
16 8 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 255 (18.61%) Senior
2 247 (18.03%) Developer
3 179 (13.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 124 (9.05%) Architect
5 122 (8.91%) Lead
6 104 (7.59%) Data Engineer
7 82 (5.99%) AWS Engineer
8 80 (5.84%) Platform Engineer
9 73 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
10 67 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
11 64 (4.67%) Software Engineer
12 63 (4.60%) Senior Developer
13 62 (4.53%) Java Developer
14 48 (3.50%) Test Engineer
15 47 (3.43%) Senior DevOps
16 46 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
17 44 (3.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 43 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 38 (2.77%) Network Engineer
19 38 (2.77%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 658 (48.03%) Terraform
2 224 (16.35%) REST
3 144 (10.51%) Kafka
4 134 (9.78%) RESTful
5 123 (8.98%) Spring
6 116 (8.47%) .NET
7 113 (8.25%) React
8 102 (7.45%) Spring Boot
9 83 (6.06%) Playwright
10 64 (4.67%) Node.js
11 51 (3.72%) OAuth
11 51 (3.72%) PySpark
12 48 (3.50%) YAML
13 44 (3.21%) JSON
14 41 (2.99%) FastAPI
14 41 (2.99%) HTML
15 40 (2.92%) AngularJS
15 40 (2.92%) OAuth2
16 39 (2.85%) .NET Framework
17 38 (2.77%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 292 (21.31%) Cloud Native
2 117 (8.54%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (4.96%) Product Ownership
4 55 (4.01%) AI Agents
5 41 (2.99%) Data Centre
6 39 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 38 (2.77%) Mobile App
8 37 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
9 35 (2.55%) Onboarding
10 29 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
11 25 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (1.61%) Security Posture
13 21 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
14 20 (1.46%) Data Structures
15 18 (1.31%) Distributed Architecture
15 18 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
15 18 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
16 15 (1.09%) Private Cloud
17 14 (1.02%) Algorithms
17 14 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 126 (9.20%) Linux
2 63 (4.60%) Windows
3 34 (2.48%) Unix
4 27 (1.97%) Android
5 25 (1.82%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.39%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.58%) VMS
9 3 (0.22%) CentOS
9 3 (0.22%) Debian
9 3 (0.22%) Rocky
10 2 (0.15%) AIX
10 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.15%) MVS
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.15%) zOS
11 1 (0.073%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,037 (75.69%) CI/CD
2 820 (59.85%) DevOps
3 561 (40.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 489 (35.69%) Agile
5 352 (25.69%) Test Automation
6 346 (25.26%) Observability
7 300 (21.90%) Containerisation
8 285 (20.80%) AI
9 263 (19.20%) Microservices
10 218 (15.91%) Platform Engineering
10 218 (15.91%) Software Engineering
11 198 (14.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 167 (12.19%) Event-Driven
13 161 (11.75%) Analytics
13 161 (11.75%) Problem-Solving
14 137 (10.00%) DevSecOps
15 134 (9.78%) Technical Leadership
16 129 (9.42%) Stakeholder Management
17 121 (8.83%) Data Pipeline
17 121 (8.83%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 584 (42.63%) Python
2 321 (23.43%) SQL
3 265 (19.34%) Java
4 194 (14.16%) Bash
5 184 (13.43%) PowerShell
6 139 (10.15%) C#
7 138 (10.07%) TypeScript
8 131 (9.56%) JavaScript
9 96 (7.01%) Bicep
10 45 (3.28%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.14%) Go
12 31 (2.26%) Shell Script
13 29 (2.12%) Scala
14 22 (1.61%) Ruby
15 20 (1.46%) Swift
16 12 (0.88%) Groovy
16 12 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.66%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.66%) C
17 9 (0.66%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 427 (31.17%) Security Cleared
2 375 (27.37%) SC Cleared
3 63 (4.60%) Azure Certification
4 56 (4.09%) Degree
5 44 (3.21%) AWS Certification
6 40 (2.92%) DV Cleared
7 31 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 14 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.73%) CISSP
14 10 (0.73%) 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
1 184 (13.43%) QA
2 75 (5.47%) Data Quality
3 66 (4.82%) Accessibility
4 35 (2.55%) 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%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.58%) GRC
10 8 (0.58%) NCSC
11 7 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.36%) HL7
12 5 (0.36%) 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
1 427 (31.17%) Docker
2 47 (3.43%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.80%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.80%) vSphere
6 10 (0.73%) IAG
7 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (0.29%) NFS
8 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.15%) Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.15%) SRDF
9 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 494 (36.06%) Kubernetes
2 207 (15.11%) Ansible
3 191 (13.94%) Grafana
4 155 (11.31%) Prometheus
5 57 (4.16%) Argo
6 27 (1.97%) Puppet
7 23 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (1.31%) Progress Chef
9 17 (1.24%) Packer
10 14 (1.02%) Istio
11 12 (0.88%) Control-M
12 10 (0.73%) Kibana
13 9 (0.66%) HAProxy
13 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (0.58%) vCenter Server
15 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
16 6 (0.44%) NetBackup
16 6 (0.44%) SCCM
17 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
17 5 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 262 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 101 (7.37%) Databricks
3 95 (6.93%) Google
4 93 (6.79%) Splunk
5 54 (3.94%) Oracle
6 53 (3.87%) Dynatrace
7 42 (3.07%) ServiceNow
8 36 (2.63%) VMware
9 34 (2.48%) Red Hat
10 32 (2.34%) Salesforce
11 30 (2.19%) OpenAI
12 29 (2.12%) Cisco
13 25 (1.82%) Informatica
14 20 (1.46%) IBM
15 19 (1.39%) F5
15 19 (1.39%) New Relic
16 18 (1.31%) Checkmarx
16 18 (1.31%) Palo Alto
17 16 (1.17%) Foundry
17 16 (1.17%) SAP