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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 93 133
Rank change year-on-year +6 +40 +5
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,403 755 610
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.03% 2.72% 1.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.76% 7.24% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 956 521 406
10th Percentile £388 £363 £311
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £705 £725 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 32
10th Percentile £46.25 - £66.25
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% -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 16,025 10,431 11,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.61% 37.53% 34.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,701 7,044 7,727
10th Percentile £322 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £729 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 259 186
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.45 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.92 £18.87 £19.96
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £30.73
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -14.42% -6.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £45.14 £60.95
90th Percentile £83.13 £71.56 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.63 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.70% -1.25% -14.29%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +18 834 £550 - 514
North of England +9 259 £500 +5.26% 181
Yorkshire +23 174 £500 - 66
Midlands -10 108 £488 -7.14% 67
West Midlands -5 91 £492 -12.88% 28
South East -28 88 £525 +18.64% 158
North West -43 63 £550 +27.91% 84
South West -20 61 £518 -13.75% 75
East of England -8 33 £500 -7.41% 61
North East -31 24 £450 - 33
East Midlands -6 17 £400 -19.19% 39
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
1 111 (7.91%) Confluence
2 53 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (2.57%) SharePoint
4 25 (1.78%) Apache Spark
5 22 (1.57%) Apache
6 9 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.57%) nginx
8 7 (0.50%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.43%) Tuxedo
10 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.21%) CMS
11 3 (0.21%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 2 (0.14%) SAS
13 1 (0.071%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.071%) IIS
13 1 (0.071%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.071%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.071%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.43%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.29%) Trello
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.071%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.071%) Notion
6 1 (0.071%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.36%) Sage X3
3 4 (0.29%) Front Arena
3 4 (0.29%) Summit
4 3 (0.21%) Findur
4 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 760 (54.17%) GitHub Actions
2 719 (51.25%) Azure
3 650 (46.33%) AWS
4 390 (27.80%) Azure DevOps
5 209 (14.90%) GCP
6 187 (13.33%) Serverless
7 146 (10.41%) GitHub Copilot
8 143 (10.19%) Amazon S3
9 127 (9.05%) AWS Lambda
10 119 (8.48%) Amazon EKS
11 104 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
12 100 (7.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 87 (6.20%) Power Platform
14 86 (6.13%) Entra ID
15 79 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
16 73 (5.20%) Azure AKS
16 73 (5.20%) Snowflake
17 71 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
18 66 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
19 52 (3.71%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 70 (4.99%) DNS
2 66 (4.70%) Firewall
3 50 (3.56%) VPN
4 35 (2.49%) Network Security
5 21 (1.50%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.50%) VLAN
6 19 (1.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 18 (1.28%) BGP
8 15 (1.07%) SSL
9 14 (1.00%) DHCP
10 11 (0.78%) BIG-IP
10 11 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 11 (0.78%) Wireless
11 10 (0.71%) OSPF
12 9 (0.64%) Ethernet VPN
12 9 (0.64%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.64%) WAN
13 8 (0.57%) IPsec
13 8 (0.57%) NX-OS
14 7 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (8.48%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.41%) SQL Server
3 75 (5.35%) MongoDB
4 69 (4.92%) NoSQL
5 66 (4.70%) Power BI
6 57 (4.06%) Data Lake
7 52 (3.71%) Data Warehouse
8 50 (3.56%) Redis
9 46 (3.28%) DynamoDB
9 46 (3.28%) Relational Database
10 35 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
10 35 (2.49%) Delta Lake
11 34 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 33 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
13 29 (2.07%) MySQL
14 26 (1.85%) Metadata
15 25 (1.78%) BigQuery
16 22 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
17 20 (1.43%) Big Data
18 18 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 406 (28.94%) Jenkins
2 305 (21.74%) GitLab
3 278 (19.81%) Git
4 165 (11.76%) JIRA
5 70 (4.99%) Selenium
6 68 (4.85%) JUnit
7 55 (3.92%) SonarQube
8 50 (3.56%) Cucumber
9 48 (3.42%) Bitbucket
10 40 (2.85%) Gatling
11 38 (2.71%) Cypress.io
12 37 (2.64%) Gradle
12 37 (2.64%) JMeter
13 36 (2.57%) Maven
14 35 (2.49%) Claude Code
15 29 (2.07%) Postman
16 27 (1.92%) CircleCI
16 27 (1.92%) REST Assured
17 24 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
18 20 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 345 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 291 (20.74%) Finance
3 156 (11.12%) Public Sector
4 127 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (6.27%) Banking
6 44 (3.14%) Retail
7 42 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (1.64%) Legal
9 18 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.14%) Law
11 15 (1.07%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.93%) Aerospace
12 13 (0.93%) Investment Banking
12 13 (0.93%) Marketing
13 11 (0.78%) Financial Institution
13 11 (0.78%) Military
13 11 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (0.71%) Local Government
15 9 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 280 (19.96%) Senior
2 256 (18.25%) Developer
3 172 (12.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 123 (8.77%) Architect
5 122 (8.70%) Lead
6 114 (8.13%) Data Engineer
7 82 (5.84%) Platform Engineer
8 78 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
9 73 (5.20%) Azure Engineer
10 68 (4.85%) Senior Developer
11 67 (4.78%) Cloud Engineer
12 64 (4.56%) Java Developer
12 64 (4.56%) Software Engineer
13 51 (3.64%) Full-Stack Developer
14 49 (3.49%) Senior DevOps
14 49 (3.49%) Test Engineer
15 45 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 40 (2.85%) Python Developer
17 39 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 35 (2.49%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 665 (47.40%) Terraform
2 224 (15.97%) REST
3 153 (10.91%) Kafka
4 144 (10.26%) RESTful
5 129 (9.19%) Spring
6 123 (8.77%) React
7 120 (8.55%) .NET
8 110 (7.84%) Spring Boot
9 85 (6.06%) Playwright
10 70 (4.99%) Node.js
11 57 (4.06%) OAuth
12 53 (3.78%) PySpark
13 51 (3.64%) YAML
14 50 (3.56%) HTML
15 48 (3.42%) JSON
16 46 (3.28%) OAuth2
17 45 (3.21%) FastAPI
18 41 (2.92%) AngularJS
19 40 (2.85%) OpenTelemetry
20 36 (2.57%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 307 (21.88%) Cloud Native
2 108 (7.70%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (5.70%) Product Ownership
4 71 (5.06%) AI Agents
5 46 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
6 44 (3.14%) Data Centre
7 39 (2.78%) Mobile App
8 38 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 37 (2.64%) Onboarding
10 28 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
11 25 (1.78%) Security Posture
12 24 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.57%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
14 20 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
15 19 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
16 18 (1.28%) Algorithms
16 18 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
17 17 (1.21%) Public Cloud
18 16 (1.14%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 131 (9.34%) Linux
2 58 (4.13%) Windows
3 37 (2.64%) Unix
4 28 (2.00%) Android
5 25 (1.78%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (1.43%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.57%) VMS
9 7 (0.50%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.29%) CentOS
11 3 (0.21%) Debian
11 3 (0.21%) Rocky
12 2 (0.14%) AIX
12 2 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.14%) MVS
12 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.14%) zOS
13 1 (0.071%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,061 (75.62%) CI/CD
2 828 (59.02%) DevOps
3 574 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 518 (36.92%) Agile
5 355 (25.30%) Observability
6 352 (25.09%) Test Automation
7 318 (22.67%) AI
8 302 (21.53%) Containerisation
9 271 (19.32%) Microservices
10 237 (16.89%) Software Engineering
11 220 (15.68%) Platform Engineering
12 197 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 181 (12.90%) Event-Driven
14 163 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
15 154 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
16 152 (10.83%) Analytics
17 143 (10.19%) Technical Leadership
18 139 (9.91%) Scrum
19 138 (9.84%) DevSecOps
20 134 (9.55%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 624 (44.48%) Python
2 325 (23.16%) SQL
3 282 (20.10%) Java
4 192 (13.68%) Bash
5 174 (12.40%) PowerShell
6 157 (11.19%) TypeScript
7 147 (10.48%) JavaScript
8 130 (9.27%) C#
9 101 (7.20%) Bicep
10 48 (3.42%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.06%) Go
12 38 (2.71%) Shell Script
13 33 (2.35%) Scala
14 21 (1.50%) Ruby
15 19 (1.35%) Swift
16 12 (0.86%) ActionScript
17 10 (0.71%) Groovy
17 10 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.64%) C
18 9 (0.64%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 428 (30.51%) Security Cleared
2 375 (26.73%) SC Cleared
3 65 (4.63%) Azure Certification
4 63 (4.49%) Degree
5 44 (3.14%) AWS Certification
6 38 (2.71%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.78%) CISSP
13 11 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (0.78%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 9 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 8 (0.57%) Master's Degree
17 7 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (14.33%) QA
2 83 (5.92%) Data Quality
3 74 (5.27%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.07%) GDPR
5 28 (2.00%) WCAG
6 27 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.50%) NIST
8 12 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.71%) NCSC
10 8 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.43%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.36%) GRC
12 5 (0.36%) HL7
12 5 (0.36%) PSD2
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.29%) SEPA
13 4 (0.29%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 452 (32.22%) Docker
2 49 (3.49%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (0.78%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.78%) IAG
6 11 (0.78%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.78%) vSphere
7 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (0.29%) NFS
8 3 (0.21%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.14%) Firmware
9 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.14%) SRDF
9 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 500 (35.64%) Kubernetes
2 210 (14.97%) Ansible
3 190 (13.54%) Grafana
4 148 (10.55%) Prometheus
5 57 (4.06%) Argo
6 24 (1.71%) Puppet
7 23 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (1.43%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.28%) Packer
10 13 (0.93%) Control-M
11 11 (0.78%) Kibana
11 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.64%) HAProxy
13 8 (0.57%) Istio
13 8 (0.57%) Karpenter
13 8 (0.57%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.50%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.50%) SCCM
15 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.36%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 269 (19.17%) Microsoft
2 106 (7.56%) Databricks
3 96 (6.84%) Splunk
4 94 (6.70%) Google
5 57 (4.06%) Oracle
6 56 (3.99%) Dynatrace
7 43 (3.06%) ServiceNow
8 42 (2.99%) OpenAI
9 38 (2.71%) VMware
10 34 (2.42%) Red Hat
11 32 (2.28%) Cisco
12 29 (2.07%) Salesforce
13 23 (1.64%) Foundry
13 23 (1.64%) Informatica
14 22 (1.57%) IBM
15 20 (1.43%) F5
16 19 (1.35%) New Relic
17 18 (1.28%) Checkmarx
18 16 (1.14%) Palo Alto
19 14 (1.00%) SAP