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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 93 134
Rank change year-on-year +3 +41 +8
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,390 756 613
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.01% 2.72% 1.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.72% 7.25% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 944 520 408
10th Percentile £382 £360 £312
25th Percentile £447 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £625
90th Percentile £710 £725 £691
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -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 15,946 10,424 11,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.52% 37.57% 34.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,641 7,046 7,788
10th Percentile £320 £307 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% -4.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 257 182
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.40 £14.27
25th Percentile £17.92 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £62.14
90th Percentile £82.81 £69.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.88
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -11.79%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +11 830 £550 - 730
North of England +17 258 £488 +2.63% 209
Yorkshire +26 172 £500 - 73
Midlands +3 107 £488 -6.70% 77
West Midlands -9 90 £492 -12.88% 33
South East -24 88 £525 +20.69% 181
North West -41 63 £550 +27.91% 103
South West -20 60 £518 -13.75% 83
East of England -1 30 £510 -3.32% 72
North East -26 25 £425 -5.56% 35
East Midlands -6 17 £400 -15.79% 44
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
1 107 (7.70%) Confluence
2 48 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (2.81%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 17 (1.22%) Apache
6 8 (0.58%) nginx
6 8 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.50%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.43%) Tuxedo
9 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.22%) CMS
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 2 (0.14%) SAS
13 1 (0.072%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.072%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.072%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.072%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.072%) MQSeries
Applications
1 8 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.29%) Trello
6 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.072%) Notion
7 1 (0.072%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.36%) Front Arena
2 5 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.36%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.36%) Summit
3 4 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.22%) Findur
4 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.072%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.072%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.072%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 759 (54.60%) GitHub Actions
2 710 (51.08%) Azure
3 642 (46.19%) AWS
4 383 (27.55%) Azure DevOps
5 209 (15.04%) GCP
6 186 (13.38%) Serverless
7 153 (11.01%) GitHub Copilot
8 137 (9.86%) Amazon S3
9 124 (8.92%) AWS Lambda
10 122 (8.78%) Amazon EKS
11 102 (7.34%) Azure Monitor
12 101 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 87 (6.26%) Power Platform
14 84 (6.04%) Entra ID
15 78 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
16 75 (5.40%) Snowflake
17 74 (5.32%) Azure AKS
18 69 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
19 67 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
20 54 (3.88%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.82%) DNS
2 64 (4.60%) Firewall
3 48 (3.45%) VPN
4 34 (2.45%) Network Security
5 21 (1.51%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.51%) VLAN
6 19 (1.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 18 (1.29%) BGP
8 15 (1.08%) SSL
9 14 (1.01%) DHCP
10 11 (0.79%) BIG-IP
10 11 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 11 (0.79%) Wireless
11 10 (0.72%) OSPF
12 9 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
12 9 (0.65%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.65%) WAN
13 8 (0.58%) IPsec
13 8 (0.58%) NX-OS
14 7 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (8.35%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (6.33%) SQL Server
3 76 (5.47%) MongoDB
4 67 (4.82%) NoSQL
5 63 (4.53%) Power BI
6 51 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (3.53%) Data Lake
7 49 (3.53%) Redis
8 44 (3.17%) Relational Database
9 43 (3.09%) DynamoDB
10 33 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
11 32 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 32 (2.30%) Delta Lake
12 31 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
13 29 (2.09%) MySQL
14 25 (1.80%) BigQuery
15 23 (1.65%) Metadata
16 20 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
17 18 (1.29%) Big Data
18 17 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 405 (29.14%) Jenkins
2 297 (21.37%) GitLab
3 275 (19.78%) Git
4 159 (11.44%) JIRA
5 64 (4.60%) Selenium
6 63 (4.53%) JUnit
7 57 (4.10%) SonarQube
8 47 (3.38%) Bitbucket
8 47 (3.38%) Cucumber
9 40 (2.88%) Gatling
10 37 (2.66%) Claude Code
10 37 (2.66%) Cypress.io
10 37 (2.66%) Gradle
11 36 (2.59%) Maven
12 32 (2.30%) JMeter
13 28 (2.01%) Postman
14 27 (1.94%) CircleCI
15 26 (1.87%) REST Assured
16 24 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
17 23 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 345 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 289 (20.79%) Finance
3 151 (10.86%) Public Sector
4 133 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (6.19%) Banking
6 45 (3.24%) Retail
7 43 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
8 22 (1.58%) Legal
9 17 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.15%) Law
11 15 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.94%) Aerospace
12 13 (0.94%) Marketing
13 12 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (0.72%) Investment Banking
14 10 (0.72%) Local Government
14 10 (0.72%) Military
15 9 (0.65%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 278 (20.00%) Senior
2 255 (18.35%) Developer
3 175 (12.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 122 (8.78%) Lead
5 121 (8.71%) Architect
6 103 (7.41%) Data Engineer
7 79 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
8 77 (5.54%) AWS Engineer
9 70 (5.04%) Senior Developer
10 69 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
11 68 (4.89%) Cloud Engineer
12 63 (4.53%) Java Developer
12 63 (4.53%) Software Engineer
13 50 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
14 49 (3.53%) Senior DevOps
15 47 (3.38%) Test Engineer
16 45 (3.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 39 (2.81%) Python Developer
18 38 (2.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 36 (2.59%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 667 (47.99%) Terraform
2 227 (16.33%) REST
3 149 (10.72%) Kafka
4 144 (10.36%) RESTful
5 124 (8.92%) Spring
6 122 (8.78%) .NET
7 119 (8.56%) React
8 109 (7.84%) Spring Boot
9 85 (6.12%) Playwright
10 69 (4.96%) Node.js
11 56 (4.03%) OAuth
12 49 (3.53%) HTML
12 49 (3.53%) JSON
12 49 (3.53%) YAML
13 47 (3.38%) FastAPI
14 45 (3.24%) PySpark
15 44 (3.17%) OAuth2
16 41 (2.95%) AngularJS
17 40 (2.88%) OpenTelemetry
18 35 (2.52%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 294 (21.15%) Cloud Native
2 102 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (5.90%) Product Ownership
4 76 (5.47%) AI Agents
5 51 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
6 44 (3.17%) Data Centre
7 37 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 37 (2.66%) Mobile App
7 37 (2.66%) Onboarding
8 29 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (1.73%) Security Posture
10 23 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (1.51%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
13 19 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
14 18 (1.29%) Algorithms
14 18 (1.29%) Public Cloud
15 17 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
15 17 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (1.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 133 (9.57%) Linux
2 61 (4.39%) Windows
3 33 (2.37%) Unix
4 26 (1.87%) Android
5 23 (1.65%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (1.44%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.58%) VMS
9 7 (0.50%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.29%) CentOS
11 3 (0.22%) Debian
11 3 (0.22%) 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 (0.072%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,048 (75.40%) CI/CD
2 826 (59.42%) DevOps
3 574 (41.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 511 (36.76%) Agile
5 351 (25.25%) Observability
6 341 (24.53%) Test Automation
7 325 (23.38%) AI
8 299 (21.51%) Containerisation
9 267 (19.21%) Microservices
10 234 (16.83%) Software Engineering
11 217 (15.61%) Platform Engineering
12 197 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 180 (12.95%) Event-Driven
14 168 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
15 163 (11.73%) Stakeholder Management
16 150 (10.79%) Analytics
17 145 (10.43%) Technical Leadership
18 139 (10.00%) Scrum
19 132 (9.50%) DevSecOps
20 125 (8.99%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 613 (44.10%) Python
2 314 (22.59%) SQL
3 273 (19.64%) Java
4 193 (13.88%) Bash
5 179 (12.88%) PowerShell
6 155 (11.15%) TypeScript
7 142 (10.22%) JavaScript
8 130 (9.35%) C#
9 100 (7.19%) Bicep
10 46 (3.31%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.09%) Go
12 35 (2.52%) Shell Script
13 31 (2.23%) Scala
14 19 (1.37%) Ruby
15 17 (1.22%) Swift
16 12 (0.86%) ActionScript
17 10 (0.72%) C
17 10 (0.72%) Groovy
17 10 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.65%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 415 (29.86%) Security Cleared
2 362 (26.04%) SC Cleared
3 68 (4.89%) Azure Certification
4 64 (4.60%) Degree
5 43 (3.09%) AWS Certification
6 40 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 36 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.79%) CISSP
12 11 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (0.79%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 9 (0.65%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 9 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 7 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (14.53%) QA
2 77 (5.54%) Data Quality
3 75 (5.40%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.09%) WCAG
5 28 (2.01%) GDPR
6 26 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.51%) NIST
8 12 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.72%) NCSC
10 7 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.43%) PSD2
12 5 (0.36%) GRC
12 5 (0.36%) HL7
12 5 (0.36%) SEPA
13 4 (0.29%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
16 1 (0.072%) IFRS
System Software
1 449 (32.30%) Docker
2 49 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.79%) IAG
7 10 (0.72%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.72%) vSphere
8 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.29%) NFS
9 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.14%) Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.14%) SRDF
10 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 500 (35.97%) Kubernetes
2 217 (15.61%) Ansible
3 191 (13.74%) Grafana
4 149 (10.72%) Prometheus
5 56 (4.03%) Argo
6 26 (1.87%) Puppet
7 22 (1.58%) Progress Chef
7 22 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (1.29%) Packer
9 13 (0.94%) Control-M
9 13 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.79%) Kibana
11 9 (0.65%) HAProxy
12 8 (0.58%) Istio
12 8 (0.58%) Karpenter
13 7 (0.50%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.50%) SCCM
13 7 (0.50%) vCenter Server
14 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.36%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 265 (19.06%) Microsoft
2 100 (7.19%) Databricks
3 96 (6.91%) Splunk
4 94 (6.76%) Google
5 60 (4.32%) Dynatrace
6 56 (4.03%) Oracle
7 45 (3.24%) ServiceNow
8 44 (3.17%) OpenAI
9 39 (2.81%) VMware
10 34 (2.45%) Red Hat
11 32 (2.30%) Cisco
12 29 (2.09%) Salesforce
13 24 (1.73%) Foundry
14 22 (1.58%) Informatica
15 21 (1.51%) IBM
16 20 (1.44%) F5
17 19 (1.37%) New Relic
18 16 (1.15%) Checkmarx
18 16 (1.15%) Palo Alto
18 16 (1.15%) SAP