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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 134 174
Rank change year-on-year +64 +40 -51
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,280 505 515
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.35% 2.08% 1.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.18% 5.51% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 915 355 350
10th Percentile £360 £375 £389
25th Percentile £413 £455 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £622 £630 £625
90th Percentile £700 £745 £679
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -11.67%
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% -40.91%
75th Percentile £69.38 £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% -40.37%

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 13,949 9,173 12,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.54% 37.84% 32.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,617 6,471 8,724
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
25th Percentile £413 £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 £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.42% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 180 328
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.43 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.64 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.13% +26.19% -18.69%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.23 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.14 £75.05 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 +35 726 £550 -2.44% 226
North of England +50 216 £500 +3.63% 145
Yorkshire +24 138 £481 -8.38% 64
South East +18 110 £450 -10.00% 123
Midlands +9 94 £514 +8.21% 55
South West +31 80 £525 - 55
West Midlands +8 78 £550 +18.92% 22
North West -3 67 £525 +10.53% 61
East of England -20 20 £488 -11.32% 53
East Midlands -18 15 £402 -19.60% 33
North East -1 13 £545 +50.34% 20
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
1 112 (8.75%) Confluence
2 48 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 28 (2.19%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.25%) Apache
6 14 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.63%) nginx
7 8 (0.63%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.31%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.16%) WordPress
11 1 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.078%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.078%) Appian
11 1 (0.078%) SAS
11 1 (0.078%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.078%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.078%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.078%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.39%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.23%) Findur
3 3 (0.23%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.078%) Actimize
5 1 (0.078%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.078%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 651 (50.86%) GitHub Actions
2 590 (46.09%) AWS
2 590 (46.09%) Azure
3 315 (24.61%) Azure DevOps
4 199 (15.55%) Serverless
5 187 (14.61%) GCP
6 139 (10.86%) AWS Lambda
7 116 (9.06%) Amazon S3
8 111 (8.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 98 (7.66%) Amazon EKS
10 94 (7.34%) Power Platform
11 89 (6.95%) Amazon ECS
12 87 (6.80%) Azure Data Factory
13 79 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 79 (6.17%) Azure Monitor
14 74 (5.78%) Azure AKS
15 70 (5.47%) OpenShift
16 68 (5.31%) Entra ID
17 66 (5.16%) GitHub Copilot
18 59 (4.61%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 65 (5.08%) Firewall
2 60 (4.69%) DNS
3 37 (2.89%) VPN
4 30 (2.34%) Network Security
5 14 (1.09%) HTTP
6 10 (0.78%) SD-WAN
6 10 (0.78%) WAN
7 9 (0.70%) SSL
8 8 (0.63%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.55%) Ethernet
9 7 (0.55%) Modbus
9 7 (0.55%) RS-232
9 7 (0.55%) RS-485
10 6 (0.47%) Internet
10 6 (0.47%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.23%) DSL
13 2 (0.16%) BGP
13 2 (0.16%) NAS
13 2 (0.16%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (12.19%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (6.56%) NoSQL
3 78 (6.09%) Data Lake
4 63 (4.92%) SQL Server
5 57 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
5 57 (4.45%) DynamoDB
5 57 (4.45%) Power BI
6 52 (4.06%) MongoDB
7 50 (3.91%) Relational Database
8 48 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 42 (3.28%) Delta Lake
10 38 (2.97%) Redis
11 33 (2.58%) MySQL
12 27 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
13 23 (1.80%) Big Data
14 21 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
15 18 (1.41%) Metadata
16 14 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
16 14 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 397 (31.02%) Jenkins
2 255 (19.92%) GitLab
3 251 (19.61%) Git
4 173 (13.52%) JIRA
5 86 (6.72%) JUnit
6 55 (4.30%) Cucumber
7 52 (4.06%) Selenium
8 44 (3.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 41 (3.20%) Artifactory
9 41 (3.20%) Cypress.io
10 39 (3.05%) JMeter
11 35 (2.73%) Bitbucket
12 33 (2.58%) Postman
13 32 (2.50%) CircleCI
14 31 (2.42%) Gradle
15 28 (2.19%) Maven
15 28 (2.19%) SonarQube
16 23 (1.80%) MLflow
17 21 (1.64%) Gatling
18 19 (1.48%) REST Assured
General
1 311 (24.30%) Social Skills
2 202 (15.78%) Finance
3 161 (12.58%) Public Sector
4 92 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (6.64%) Banking
6 21 (1.64%) Military
6 21 (1.64%) Retail
7 18 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.17%) Front Office
8 15 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (1.02%) Investment Banking
10 11 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (0.78%) Legal
12 9 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.55%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.55%) Law
13 7 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 260 (20.31%) Developer
2 201 (15.70%) Senior
3 183 (14.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 115 (8.98%) Data Engineer
5 99 (7.73%) Architect
5 99 (7.73%) Lead
6 87 (6.80%) Cloud Engineer
7 82 (6.41%) Platform Engineer
8 78 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
9 64 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 62 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
10 62 (4.84%) Java Developer
11 46 (3.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 46 (3.59%) Software Engineer
12 45 (3.52%) AWS DevOps
13 43 (3.36%) Senior Developer
14 39 (3.05%) GCP Engineer
15 37 (2.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 37 (2.89%) Tester
16 35 (2.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (11.41%) Kafka
2 143 (11.17%) REST
3 131 (10.23%) Spring
4 129 (10.08%) React
5 114 (8.91%) Node.js
6 107 (8.36%) .NET
7 99 (7.73%) Spring Boot
8 90 (7.03%) RESTful
9 67 (5.23%) Playwright
10 57 (4.45%) AngularJS
10 57 (4.45%) PySpark
11 48 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
12 45 (3.52%) CSS
13 44 (3.44%) JSON
14 41 (3.20%) OAuth
15 40 (3.13%) Jest
16 37 (2.89%) HTML
17 36 (2.81%) FastAPI
18 34 (2.66%) OpenTelemetry
18 34 (2.66%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 208 (16.25%) Cloud Native
2 71 (5.55%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (4.38%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (2.27%) Public Cloud
6 20 (1.56%) Onboarding
7 19 (1.48%) Virtual Team
8 18 (1.41%) AI Agents
9 16 (1.25%) Security Posture
10 15 (1.17%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.09%) NHS
12 13 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.02%) Mobile App
13 12 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
14 11 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (0.86%) Life Science
14 11 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
14 11 (0.86%) Replication
14 11 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 151 (11.80%) Linux
2 43 (3.36%) Windows
3 30 (2.34%) Unix
4 20 (1.56%) Android
5 17 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.09%) VMS
7 11 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
9 6 (0.47%) Windows Server
10 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.23%) Debian
12 3 (0.23%) Rocky
12 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.078%) Alpine Linux
14 1 (0.078%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 932 (72.81%) CI/CD
2 768 (60.00%) DevOps
3 459 (35.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 395 (30.86%) Agile
5 318 (24.84%) Containerisation
6 281 (21.95%) Test Automation
7 245 (19.14%) Observability
8 241 (18.83%) AI
9 221 (17.27%) Microservices
10 213 (16.64%) Problem-Solving
11 180 (14.06%) Analytics
12 177 (13.83%) Migration
13 175 (13.67%) Platform Engineering
14 151 (11.80%) Continuous Improvement
15 134 (10.47%) Data Pipeline
16 128 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
16 128 (10.00%) Software Engineering
17 127 (9.92%) Data Engineering
18 117 (9.14%) Data Modelling
19 114 (8.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 603 (47.11%) Python
2 307 (23.98%) SQL
3 252 (19.69%) Java
4 162 (12.66%) Bash
5 154 (12.03%) JavaScript
6 132 (10.31%) TypeScript
7 122 (9.53%) PowerShell
8 119 (9.30%) C#
9 60 (4.69%) Go
10 59 (4.61%) Bicep
11 34 (2.66%) Shell Script
12 26 (2.03%) Scala
13 23 (1.80%) Ruby
14 16 (1.25%) Kotlin
15 15 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (0.94%) Swift
17 10 (0.78%) C++
17 10 (0.78%) Groovy
18 9 (0.70%) C
19 7 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 404 (31.56%) Security Cleared
2 318 (24.84%) SC Cleared
3 59 (4.61%) Degree
4 45 (3.52%) Azure Certification
5 43 (3.36%) DV Cleared
6 37 (2.89%) AWS Certification
7 35 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.09%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.94%) OCP
11 12 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
12 11 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 10 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.70%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 8 (0.63%) CISSP
16 5 (0.39%) CCNP
17 4 (0.31%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (7.58%) QA
2 68 (5.31%) Data Quality
3 45 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.03%) GDPR
5 25 (1.95%) WCAG
6 19 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.41%) NIST
7 18 (1.41%) PCI DSS
8 14 (1.09%) NCSC
9 7 (0.55%) GRC
10 6 (0.47%) SLA
11 5 (0.39%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.31%) EU AI Act
13 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.23%) Def Stans
13 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 392 (30.63%) Docker
2 34 (2.66%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (1.64%) VMware NSX
3 21 (1.64%) vSphere
4 20 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.55%) Firmware
6 6 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.23%) HDFS
8 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.078%) IAG
9 1 (0.078%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 574 (44.84%) Terraform
2 474 (37.03%) Kubernetes
3 194 (15.16%) Ansible
4 146 (11.41%) Grafana
5 106 (8.28%) Prometheus
6 67 (5.23%) Argo
7 38 (2.97%) Istio
8 27 (2.11%) Puppet
9 22 (1.72%) Progress Chef
10 21 (1.64%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.94%) NetBackup
11 12 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
12 11 (0.86%) Kibana
12 11 (0.86%) Packer
13 9 (0.70%) linkerd
14 8 (0.63%) Podman
15 7 (0.55%) Sysdig
16 4 (0.31%) HAProxy
16 4 (0.31%) logstash
16 4 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 232 (18.13%) Microsoft
2 108 (8.44%) Databricks
3 93 (7.27%) Google
4 82 (6.41%) Splunk
5 50 (3.91%) VMware
6 47 (3.67%) Oracle
7 42 (3.28%) OpenAI
7 42 (3.28%) Red Hat
8 21 (1.64%) Pure Storage
9 20 (1.56%) ServiceNow
10 18 (1.41%) Atlassian
11 16 (1.25%) Salesforce
11 16 (1.25%) Sonatype
12 15 (1.17%) Dynatrace
13 13 (1.02%) SAP
14 12 (0.94%) Foundry
15 11 (0.86%) Commvault
15 11 (0.86%) Informatica
16 10 (0.78%) New Relic
17 9 (0.70%) Cisco