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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 75 131
Rank change year-on-year -12 +56 +20
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,417 887 612
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.06% 3.16% 1.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.89% 8.23% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 979 611 406
10th Percentile £381 £360 £314
25th Percentile £431 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £710 £700 £686
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -1.00% -7.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 32
10th Percentile £46.25 £69.00 £66.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £80.63 -
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 15,937 10,784 11,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.45% 38.44% 35.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 7,280 7,554
10th Percentile £323 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -3.49%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 256 162
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.12 £16.03
25th Percentile £17.60 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 0 831 £550 - 966
North of England +7 274 £478 +0.53% 182
Yorkshire +28 177 £483 -3.50% 69
Midlands -7 114 £473 -17.56% 82
West Midlands -13 94 £488 -15.22% 40
South East -39 91 £525 +16.67% 146
North West -33 75 £550 +27.91% 90
South West -30 52 £530 -18.46% 68
East of England -20 28 £475 -13.64% 70
North East -30 24 £425 -10.53% 23
East Midlands -3 20 £394 -17.11% 42
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 (7.34%) Confluence
2 41 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.34%) Apache
4 18 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.64%) nginx
6 8 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.49%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.42%) Tuxedo
9 4 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.21%) CMS
11 2 (0.14%) IIS
11 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 1 (0.071%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.071%) Camunda
12 1 (0.071%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.071%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.071%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 10 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.49%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.28%) Trello
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.071%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.071%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.071%) Notion
6 1 (0.071%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.071%) Sketch
6 1 (0.071%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.35%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.35%) Sage X3
3 5 (0.35%) Summit
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.071%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.071%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.071%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.071%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 767 (54.13%) GitHub Actions
2 727 (51.31%) Azure
3 665 (46.93%) AWS
4 384 (27.10%) Azure DevOps
5 225 (15.88%) GCP
6 189 (13.34%) Serverless
7 177 (12.49%) GitHub Copilot
8 136 (9.60%) Amazon S3
9 134 (9.46%) Amazon EKS
10 115 (8.12%) AWS Lambda
11 108 (7.62%) Azure Monitor
12 104 (7.34%) Entra ID
13 102 (7.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 92 (6.49%) Power Platform
15 80 (5.65%) Snowflake
16 76 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
16 76 (5.36%) Azure AKS
17 67 (4.73%) Amazon ECS
17 67 (4.73%) AWS CloudFormation
18 63 (4.45%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 76 (5.36%) DNS
2 73 (5.15%) Firewall
3 43 (3.03%) VPN
4 42 (2.96%) Network Security
5 25 (1.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 24 (1.69%) TCP/IP
7 23 (1.62%) VLAN
8 22 (1.55%) BGP
9 18 (1.27%) BIG-IP
9 18 (1.27%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 17 (1.20%) DHCP
10 17 (1.20%) SSL
11 13 (0.92%) Wireless
12 12 (0.85%) Ethernet VPN
12 12 (0.85%) VXLAN
13 11 (0.78%) OSPF
14 10 (0.71%) NX-OS
15 9 (0.64%) TACACS
16 8 (0.56%) WAN
17 7 (0.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (8.61%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (6.63%) SQL Server
3 83 (5.86%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.59%) NoSQL
5 62 (4.38%) Power BI
6 53 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
7 52 (3.67%) Redis
8 49 (3.46%) Data Lake
8 49 (3.46%) Relational Database
9 33 (2.33%) DynamoDB
10 32 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
10 32 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 30 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 29 (2.05%) MySQL
13 28 (1.98%) BigQuery
13 28 (1.98%) Delta Lake
14 25 (1.76%) Metadata
15 19 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
17 16 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 412 (29.08%) Jenkins
2 302 (21.31%) Git
3 299 (21.10%) GitLab
4 164 (11.57%) JIRA
5 81 (5.72%) Selenium
6 68 (4.80%) JUnit
7 66 (4.66%) Cucumber
8 57 (4.02%) SonarQube
9 49 (3.46%) Gatling
10 48 (3.39%) Bitbucket
11 46 (3.25%) Claude Code
12 37 (2.61%) Cypress.io
12 37 (2.61%) Gradle
13 36 (2.54%) JMeter
14 35 (2.47%) Postman
15 34 (2.40%) Maven
16 31 (2.19%) REST Assured
17 28 (1.98%) CircleCI
18 27 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
19 19 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 377 (26.61%) Social Skills
2 297 (20.96%) Finance
3 160 (11.29%) Public Sector
4 148 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (6.85%) Banking
6 51 (3.60%) Retail
7 42 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (1.27%) Legal
8 18 (1.27%) Telecoms
9 17 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (1.20%) Law
10 15 (1.06%) Aerospace
10 15 (1.06%) Marketing
10 15 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
11 14 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (0.92%) Local Government
12 13 (0.92%) Military
13 12 (0.85%) Investment Banking
13 12 (0.85%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.71%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 291 (20.54%) Senior
2 261 (18.42%) Developer
3 179 (12.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 129 (9.10%) Architect
5 124 (8.75%) Lead
6 95 (6.70%) Data Engineer
7 79 (5.58%) AWS Engineer
8 73 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
9 70 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
10 69 (4.87%) Azure Engineer
11 64 (4.52%) Java Developer
11 64 (4.52%) Senior Developer
12 57 (4.02%) Software Engineer
13 54 (3.81%) Senior DevOps
14 51 (3.60%) Test Engineer
15 50 (3.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 49 (3.46%) Full-Stack Developer
17 48 (3.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 46 (3.25%) Automation Engineer
19 41 (2.89%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 664 (46.86%) Terraform
2 268 (18.91%) REST
3 159 (11.22%) Kafka
4 146 (10.30%) RESTful
5 124 (8.75%) Spring
6 117 (8.26%) React
7 113 (7.97%) .NET
8 103 (7.27%) Spring Boot
9 100 (7.06%) Playwright
10 66 (4.66%) Node.js
11 62 (4.38%) HTML
12 61 (4.30%) OAuth
13 58 (4.09%) JSON
14 52 (3.67%) AngularJS
15 48 (3.39%) FastAPI
16 47 (3.32%) OAuth2
17 46 (3.25%) YAML
18 43 (3.03%) pytest
19 40 (2.82%) CSS
19 40 (2.82%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 289 (20.40%) Cloud Native
2 102 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (6.21%) AI Agents
4 77 (5.43%) Product Ownership
5 65 (4.59%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (3.53%) Data Centre
7 47 (3.32%) Onboarding
8 40 (2.82%) Mobile App
9 36 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
10 28 (1.98%) Data Structures
11 27 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
12 23 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (1.62%) Public Cloud
12 23 (1.62%) Security Posture
13 22 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
14 21 (1.48%) Low-Code
15 17 (1.20%) Algorithms
15 17 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
16 16 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 131 (9.24%) Linux
2 63 (4.45%) Windows
3 28 (1.98%) Android
3 28 (1.98%) Unix
4 27 (1.91%) Apple iOS
5 20 (1.41%) Windows Server
6 18 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.56%) VMS
8 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.21%) CentOS
10 2 (0.14%) AIX
10 2 (0.14%) Debian
10 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.14%) MVS
10 2 (0.14%) Rocky
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.14%) zOS
11 1 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.071%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,085 (76.57%) CI/CD
2 828 (58.43%) DevOps
3 573 (40.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 530 (37.40%) Agile
5 373 (26.32%) Test Automation
6 368 (25.97%) Observability
7 360 (25.41%) AI
8 293 (20.68%) Microservices
9 284 (20.04%) Containerisation
10 246 (17.36%) Software Engineering
11 226 (15.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 212 (14.96%) Platform Engineering
13 197 (13.90%) Stakeholder Management
14 186 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
15 185 (13.06%) Event-Driven
16 154 (10.87%) Analytics
17 149 (10.52%) Scrum
18 145 (10.23%) Technical Leadership
19 141 (9.95%) Deployment Automation
20 133 (9.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 627 (44.25%) Python
2 316 (22.30%) SQL
3 284 (20.04%) Java
4 193 (13.62%) Bash
5 183 (12.91%) PowerShell
6 166 (11.71%) TypeScript
7 158 (11.15%) JavaScript
8 119 (8.40%) C#
9 104 (7.34%) Bicep
10 53 (3.74%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.03%) Go
12 34 (2.40%) Shell Script
13 30 (2.12%) Scala
14 22 (1.55%) Swift
15 19 (1.34%) ActionScript
16 14 (0.99%) Ruby
17 13 (0.92%) C
17 13 (0.92%) Objective-C
18 11 (0.78%) Groovy
18 11 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 420 (29.64%) Security Cleared
2 365 (25.76%) SC Cleared
3 67 (4.73%) Azure Certification
4 62 (4.38%) Degree
5 55 (3.88%) AWS Certification
6 52 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 41 (2.89%) DV Cleared
8 35 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 10 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (0.64%) CISSP
14 9 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
15 8 (0.56%) SAFe Agilist
16 7 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.42%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (14.89%) QA
2 89 (6.28%) Accessibility
3 81 (5.72%) Data Quality
4 37 (2.61%) WCAG
5 29 (2.05%) GDPR
6 26 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.62%) NIST
8 11 (0.78%) NCSC
9 10 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.42%) HL7
11 6 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.42%) PSD2
12 5 (0.35%) GRC
12 5 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.35%) SEPA
13 4 (0.28%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
16 1 (0.071%) IFRS
System Software
1 450 (31.76%) Docker
2 47 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.71%) IAG
7 8 (0.56%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.49%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.35%) vSphere
10 4 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.28%) VirtualBox
11 3 (0.21%) Firmware
11 3 (0.21%) NFS
12 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.071%) SRDF
13 1 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 513 (36.20%) Kubernetes
2 198 (13.97%) Ansible
3 189 (13.34%) Grafana
4 141 (9.95%) Prometheus
5 51 (3.60%) Argo
6 22 (1.55%) Puppet
7 19 (1.34%) Progress Chef
7 19 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (0.99%) Packer
10 13 (0.92%) Control-M
10 13 (0.92%) Istio
11 11 (0.78%) Kibana
12 9 (0.64%) Karpenter
13 8 (0.56%) SCCM
14 6 (0.42%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.35%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.35%) HAProxy
15 5 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
16 4 (0.28%) Cilium
Vendors
1 282 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 100 (7.06%) Databricks
3 94 (6.63%) Google
4 93 (6.56%) Splunk
5 75 (5.29%) Dynatrace
6 59 (4.16%) Oracle
7 55 (3.88%) OpenAI
8 52 (3.67%) ServiceNow
9 36 (2.54%) VMware
10 34 (2.40%) Cisco
11 31 (2.19%) Red Hat
12 30 (2.12%) Foundry
13 28 (1.98%) IBM
14 26 (1.83%) F5
14 26 (1.83%) Salesforce
15 22 (1.55%) New Relic
16 17 (1.20%) Palo Alto
17 15 (1.06%) SAP
18 14 (0.99%) CyberArk
19 13 (0.92%) AppDynamics