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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 133 174
Rank change year-on-year +65 +41 -48
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,288 519 509
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.47% 2.12% 1.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.38% 5.62% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 929 364 350
10th Percentile £358 £355 £400
25th Percentile £414 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% -12.08%
75th Percentile £623 £630 £625
90th Percentile £700 £731 £688
UK median daily rate £509 £541 £538
% change year-on-year -5.96% +0.70% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 5
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 -
25th Percentile £43.00 £25.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.65% -15.77% -47.58%
75th Percentile £68.50 £58.44 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 £60.30
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +75.34% -15.77% -39.81%

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 13,733 9,237 12,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.97% 37.79% 32.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,472 6,447 8,758
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £710 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 414 169 330
10th Percentile £15.54 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.19
Median % change year-on-year +41.51% +25.09% -16.10%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £40.75
90th Percentile £79.85 £75.10 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £26.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +42.31% +21.67% -17.26%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +37 721 £550 -2.44% 231
North of England +47 216 £500 +5.26% 143
Yorkshire +17 129 £488 -2.50% 64
South East +19 113 £462 -7.70% 122
Midlands +22 101 £525 +10.53% 58
South West +30 83 £542 +0.79% 53
West Midlands +7 82 £550 +18.92% 24
North West +7 74 £525 +10.53% 57
East of England -14 22 £510 +19.81% 51
East Midlands -19 18 £402 -19.60% 34
North East -1 15 £545 +50.34% 22
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
1 121 (9.39%) Confluence
2 49 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (2.41%) SharePoint
4 28 (2.17%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.16%) Apache
6 14 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.62%) nginx
7 8 (0.62%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.31%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.16%) WordPress
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 28 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.62%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.078%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.078%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (0.54%) 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
1 643 (49.92%) GitHub Actions
2 599 (46.51%) Azure
3 591 (45.89%) AWS
4 307 (23.84%) Azure DevOps
5 199 (15.45%) Serverless
6 192 (14.91%) GCP
7 133 (10.33%) AWS Lambda
8 112 (8.70%) Amazon S3
9 110 (8.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 104 (8.07%) Amazon EKS
11 92 (7.14%) Power Platform
12 89 (6.91%) Amazon ECS
13 84 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
14 80 (6.21%) OpenShift
15 79 (6.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 77 (5.98%) Azure Monitor
17 76 (5.90%) Azure AKS
18 69 (5.36%) GitHub Copilot
19 67 (5.20%) Entra ID
20 59 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 65 (5.05%) Firewall
2 60 (4.66%) DNS
3 34 (2.64%) VPN
4 29 (2.25%) Network Security
5 13 (1.01%) HTTP
6 10 (0.78%) SD-WAN
6 10 (0.78%) WAN
7 9 (0.70%) SSL
8 8 (0.62%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.62%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.54%) Ethernet
9 7 (0.54%) Modbus
9 7 (0.54%) RS-232
9 7 (0.54%) RS-485
10 6 (0.47%) Internet
11 5 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.23%) DSL
13 1 (0.078%) BGP
13 1 (0.078%) Intranet
13 1 (0.078%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (13.59%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.99%) NoSQL
3 77 (5.98%) Data Lake
4 64 (4.97%) SQL Server
5 59 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
6 58 (4.50%) MongoDB
7 56 (4.35%) Power BI
8 52 (4.04%) DynamoDB
9 51 (3.96%) Relational Database
10 47 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 41 (3.18%) Delta Lake
11 41 (3.18%) Redis
12 34 (2.64%) MySQL
13 26 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
14 23 (1.79%) Big Data
15 20 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
16 16 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
17 15 (1.16%) DocumentDB
18 14 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
18 14 (1.09%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 405 (31.44%) Jenkins
2 255 (19.80%) Git
3 248 (19.25%) GitLab
4 181 (14.05%) JIRA
5 87 (6.75%) JUnit
6 56 (4.35%) Cucumber
7 52 (4.04%) Selenium
7 52 (4.04%) Sonatype Nexus
8 43 (3.34%) Artifactory
9 41 (3.18%) Cypress.io
10 39 (3.03%) Bitbucket
10 39 (3.03%) JMeter
11 35 (2.72%) Gradle
12 34 (2.64%) CircleCI
13 33 (2.56%) Postman
14 31 (2.41%) Maven
15 30 (2.33%) SonarQube
16 21 (1.63%) Gatling
16 21 (1.63%) MLflow
17 19 (1.48%) REST Assured
General
1 323 (25.08%) Social Skills
2 200 (15.53%) Finance
3 162 (12.58%) Public Sector
4 94 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (6.91%) Banking
6 23 (1.79%) Military
7 20 (1.55%) Retail
8 17 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (1.24%) Front Office
10 15 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.09%) Investment Banking
12 12 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.62%) Marketing
15 7 (0.54%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.54%) Legal
15 7 (0.54%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 273 (21.20%) Developer
2 204 (15.84%) Senior
3 182 (14.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 110 (8.54%) Data Engineer
5 101 (7.84%) Lead
6 91 (7.07%) Architect
7 89 (6.91%) Cloud Engineer
8 80 (6.21%) Platform Engineer
9 79 (6.13%) AWS Engineer
10 73 (5.67%) Full-Stack Developer
11 65 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
12 64 (4.97%) Java Developer
13 48 (3.73%) Software Engineer
14 47 (3.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 46 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
16 43 (3.34%) Senior Developer
17 39 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 36 (2.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 36 (2.80%) GCP Engineer
19 35 (2.72%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (11.88%) REST
2 150 (11.65%) Kafka
3 140 (10.87%) Spring
4 134 (10.40%) React
5 124 (9.63%) Node.js
6 108 (8.39%) .NET
7 98 (7.61%) Spring Boot
8 87 (6.75%) RESTful
9 70 (5.43%) AngularJS
10 66 (5.12%) Playwright
11 58 (4.50%) CSS
12 53 (4.11%) PySpark
13 51 (3.96%) HTML
14 47 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
15 42 (3.26%) Jest
15 42 (3.26%) JSON
15 42 (3.26%) OAuth
16 37 (2.87%) PyTorch
17 36 (2.80%) FastAPI
18 34 (2.64%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 215 (16.69%) Cloud Native
2 65 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (4.19%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.10%) Public Cloud
6 20 (1.55%) Onboarding
7 19 (1.48%) Algorithms
7 19 (1.48%) Virtual Team
8 17 (1.32%) AI Agents
8 17 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.32%) Security Posture
9 14 (1.09%) NHS
10 13 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
11 12 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (0.93%) Mobile App
11 12 (0.93%) Replication
12 11 (0.85%) Data Structures
12 11 (0.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 152 (11.80%) Linux
2 43 (3.34%) Windows
3 28 (2.17%) Unix
4 22 (1.71%) Android
5 17 (1.32%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.09%) VMS
7 12 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.54%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.39%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.23%) Debian
11 3 (0.23%) Rocky
11 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.16%) CentOS
12 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.078%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 934 (72.52%) CI/CD
2 771 (59.86%) DevOps
3 449 (34.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 407 (31.60%) Agile
5 328 (25.47%) Containerisation
6 282 (21.89%) Test Automation
7 244 (18.94%) AI
8 237 (18.40%) Observability
9 236 (18.32%) Microservices
10 232 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
11 179 (13.90%) Migration
12 176 (13.66%) Analytics
13 170 (13.20%) Platform Engineering
14 152 (11.80%) Continuous Improvement
15 136 (10.56%) Full-Stack Development
16 130 (10.09%) Data Pipeline
17 128 (9.94%) Software Engineering
18 123 (9.55%) Data Engineering
19 113 (8.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 111 (8.62%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 610 (47.36%) Python
2 308 (23.91%) SQL
3 263 (20.42%) Java
4 165 (12.81%) Bash
5 163 (12.66%) JavaScript
6 130 (10.09%) TypeScript
7 121 (9.39%) PowerShell
8 114 (8.85%) C#
9 69 (5.36%) Go
10 57 (4.43%) Bicep
11 31 (2.41%) Shell Script
12 28 (2.17%) Ruby
13 26 (2.02%) Scala
14 16 (1.24%) Kotlin
14 16 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (0.93%) Swift
16 11 (0.85%) Groovy
17 10 (0.78%) C++
17 10 (0.78%) PHP
18 8 (0.62%) C
Qualifications
1 405 (31.44%) Security Cleared
2 318 (24.69%) SC Cleared
3 73 (5.67%) Degree
4 47 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 43 (3.34%) Azure Certification
7 40 (3.11%) AWS Certification
8 30 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (1.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 14 (1.09%) Master's Degree
11 13 (1.01%) OCP
11 13 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
12 11 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.70%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.62%) CISSP
16 5 (0.39%) CCNP
16 5 (0.39%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (7.07%) QA
2 63 (4.89%) Data Quality
3 46 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.02%) WCAG
5 25 (1.94%) GDPR
6 22 (1.71%) NIST
7 19 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (1.40%) PCI DSS
9 17 (1.32%) NCSC
10 8 (0.62%) EU AI Act
11 7 (0.54%) GRC
12 6 (0.47%) SLA
13 5 (0.39%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.23%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 405 (31.44%) Docker
2 35 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (2.48%) Active Directory
4 20 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.55%) VMware NSX
4 20 (1.55%) vSphere
5 7 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.54%) Firmware
6 5 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.23%) HDFS
8 1 (0.078%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.078%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 563 (43.71%) Terraform
2 497 (38.59%) Kubernetes
3 190 (14.75%) Ansible
4 148 (11.49%) Grafana
5 106 (8.23%) Prometheus
6 77 (5.98%) Argo
7 40 (3.11%) Istio
8 24 (1.86%) Puppet
9 20 (1.55%) vCenter Server
10 19 (1.48%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.93%) NetBackup
11 12 (0.93%) Packer
12 11 (0.85%) Kibana
12 11 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.70%) linkerd
14 8 (0.62%) Podman
15 7 (0.54%) Sysdig
16 5 (0.39%) Rancher
17 4 (0.31%) HAProxy
17 4 (0.31%) logstash
Vendors
1 230 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 98 (7.61%) Databricks
3 97 (7.53%) Google
4 81 (6.29%) Splunk
5 51 (3.96%) Red Hat
6 49 (3.80%) VMware
7 45 (3.49%) Oracle
8 42 (3.26%) OpenAI
9 22 (1.71%) Atlassian
10 20 (1.55%) Pure Storage
11 19 (1.48%) ServiceNow
11 19 (1.48%) Sonatype
12 16 (1.24%) Dynatrace
12 16 (1.24%) Foundry
13 15 (1.16%) Salesforce
14 13 (1.01%) SAP
15 11 (0.85%) Checkmarx
15 11 (0.85%) Commvault
16 9 (0.70%) New Relic
17 8 (0.62%) Cloudera