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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 135 169
Rank change year-on-year +55 +34 -44
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,235 516 529
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.03% 2.12% 1.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.59% 5.69% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 359 350
10th Percentile £363 £383 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £623
90th Percentile £700 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 15
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 £26.00
25th Percentile £52.11 £25.72 £56.50
Median hourly rate £63.14 £27.38 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.63% -60.89% +28.44%
75th Percentile £72.46 £58.44 -
90th Percentile £74.10 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £27.38 £67.50
% change year-on-year +130.63% -59.44% +25.00%

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 14,371 9,067 11,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.29% 37.20% 31.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,865 6,335 8,560
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £743 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.80% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 197 320
10th Percentile £15.87 £15.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.84 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -31.90%
75th Percentile £68.29 £41.97 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.00 £61.64
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +46.36% +30.95% -40.00%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +40 718 £550 - 226
North of England +40 202 £488 +1.04% 139
Yorkshire +21 131 £476 -8.42% 56
Midlands +2 94 £500 +5.26% 53
South East -4 85 £480 -4.00% 129
South West +24 76 £513 -8.89% 49
West Midlands +1 75 £525 +10.53% 18
North West -7 61 £538 +13.16% 59
East of England -20 27 £500 -9.09% 51
East Midlands -17 18 £410 -15.95% 35
North East -8 12 £475 +31.03% 24
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 (8.42%) Confluence
2 38 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (2.51%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.19%) SharePoint
5 17 (1.38%) Apache
6 12 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.57%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) SAS
11 1 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.081%) Appian
11 1 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.081%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.081%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.081%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.081%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (0.32%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.24%) Findur
3 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.081%) Actimize
4 1 (0.081%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.081%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.081%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 649 (52.55%) GitHub Actions
2 583 (47.21%) Azure
3 553 (44.78%) AWS
4 310 (25.10%) Azure DevOps
5 185 (14.98%) GCP
6 181 (14.66%) Serverless
7 125 (10.12%) AWS Lambda
8 108 (8.74%) Amazon S3
9 101 (8.18%) Amazon EKS
9 101 (8.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 94 (7.61%) Power Platform
11 84 (6.80%) Amazon ECS
12 82 (6.64%) Azure Data Factory
13 80 (6.48%) Azure AKS
14 77 (6.23%) GitHub Copilot
15 76 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 75 (6.07%) Azure Monitor
17 58 (4.70%) OpenShift
18 57 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
19 55 (4.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.94%) Firewall
2 60 (4.86%) DNS
3 36 (2.91%) VPN
4 26 (2.11%) Network Security
5 11 (0.89%) HTTP
6 7 (0.57%) Ethernet
6 7 (0.57%) Modbus
6 7 (0.57%) RS-232
6 7 (0.57%) RS-485
6 7 (0.57%) SSL
6 7 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.32%) DSL
7 4 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.32%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.32%) WAN
8 3 (0.24%) BGP
8 3 (0.24%) Internet
8 3 (0.24%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.24%) NAS
8 3 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (6.32%) Data Lake
3 72 (5.83%) SQL Server
4 65 (5.26%) Power BI
5 62 (5.02%) NoSQL
6 49 (3.97%) MongoDB
7 48 (3.89%) DynamoDB
8 45 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 40 (3.24%) Delta Lake
9 40 (3.24%) Redis
9 40 (3.24%) Relational Database
10 37 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
11 27 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
12 26 (2.11%) Big Data
13 25 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
14 23 (1.86%) MySQL
15 21 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
15 21 (1.70%) Metadata
16 15 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
17 13 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 369 (29.88%) Jenkins
2 248 (20.08%) GitLab
3 236 (19.11%) Git
4 153 (12.39%) JIRA
5 81 (6.56%) JUnit
6 50 (4.05%) Cucumber
7 49 (3.97%) Selenium
8 36 (2.91%) Artifactory
9 35 (2.83%) CircleCI
9 35 (2.83%) Cypress.io
10 34 (2.75%) JMeter
10 34 (2.75%) SonarQube
11 33 (2.67%) Gradle
12 32 (2.59%) Bitbucket
13 31 (2.51%) Maven
14 28 (2.27%) Gatling
14 28 (2.27%) Postman
15 27 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
16 21 (1.70%) REST Assured
17 20 (1.62%) MLflow
General
1 294 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 211 (17.09%) Finance
3 142 (11.50%) Public Sector
4 96 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (6.15%) Banking
6 20 (1.62%) Military
6 20 (1.62%) Retail
7 18 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.21%) Legal
9 14 (1.13%) Front Office
9 14 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (1.05%) Investment Banking
11 10 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (0.65%) Law
12 8 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.57%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.49%) Marketing
15 4 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 242 (19.60%) Developer
2 201 (16.28%) Senior
3 170 (13.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 115 (9.31%) Data Engineer
5 104 (8.42%) Architect
6 90 (7.29%) Lead
7 84 (6.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 75 (6.07%) Platform Engineer
9 66 (5.34%) Azure Engineer
10 64 (5.18%) AWS Engineer
10 64 (5.18%) Java Developer
11 60 (4.86%) Full-Stack Developer
12 52 (4.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 48 (3.89%) Software Engineer
14 46 (3.72%) Senior Developer
15 43 (3.48%) GCP Engineer
16 40 (3.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 34 (2.75%) Tester
18 33 (2.67%) AWS DevOps
19 30 (2.43%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (10.85%) Kafka
2 133 (10.77%) Spring
3 130 (10.53%) REST
4 109 (8.83%) .NET
5 107 (8.66%) React
6 103 (8.34%) Spring Boot
7 96 (7.77%) Node.js
8 78 (6.32%) RESTful
9 68 (5.51%) Playwright
10 62 (5.02%) PySpark
11 43 (3.48%) AngularJS
12 39 (3.16%) OpenTelemetry
13 34 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
14 33 (2.67%) .NET Framework
15 32 (2.59%) JSON
16 31 (2.51%) HTML
17 30 (2.43%) OAuth
17 30 (2.43%) YAML
18 29 (2.35%) FastAPI
18 29 (2.35%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 236 (19.11%) Cloud Native
2 83 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 31 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (2.11%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.02%) Public Cloud
7 23 (1.86%) AI Agents
8 18 (1.46%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.38%) Security Posture
10 16 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.30%) Private Cloud
11 15 (1.21%) Data Centre
11 15 (1.21%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (0.89%) NHS
14 10 (0.81%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.81%) Replication
15 9 (0.73%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 142 (11.50%) Linux
2 53 (4.29%) Windows
3 28 (2.27%) Unix
4 23 (1.86%) Android
5 18 (1.46%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.30%) VMS
7 14 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.81%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.57%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.40%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.32%) Debian
11 4 (0.32%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.32%) Rocky
12 3 (0.24%) CentOS
13 2 (0.16%) AIX
14 1 (0.081%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.081%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.081%) MVS
14 1 (0.081%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 924 (74.82%) CI/CD
2 713 (57.73%) DevOps
3 474 (38.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 373 (30.20%) Agile
5 305 (24.70%) Containerisation
6 272 (22.02%) Test Automation
7 242 (19.60%) Observability
8 215 (17.41%) Microservices
9 208 (16.84%) AI
10 187 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
11 185 (14.98%) Platform Engineering
12 170 (13.77%) Analytics
13 168 (13.60%) Migration
14 148 (11.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 139 (11.26%) Software Engineering
16 130 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 126 (10.20%) Data Engineering
17 126 (10.20%) Data Pipeline
18 116 (9.39%) Full-Stack Development
19 111 (8.99%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 559 (45.26%) Python
2 292 (23.64%) SQL
3 245 (19.84%) Java
4 161 (13.04%) Bash
5 145 (11.74%) JavaScript
6 137 (11.09%) C#
7 128 (10.36%) PowerShell
8 106 (8.58%) TypeScript
9 64 (5.18%) Bicep
10 52 (4.21%) Go
11 34 (2.75%) Scala
12 33 (2.67%) Shell Script
13 25 (2.02%) Ruby
14 23 (1.86%) Kotlin
15 12 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (0.97%) Swift
16 10 (0.81%) C++
17 8 (0.65%) C
17 8 (0.65%) Groovy
18 7 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 378 (30.61%) Security Cleared
2 307 (24.86%) SC Cleared
3 51 (4.13%) Degree
4 43 (3.48%) Azure Certification
5 38 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 36 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 33 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (2.35%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 9 (0.73%) OCP
11 9 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.65%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (0.57%) CISSP
14 6 (0.49%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (8.58%) QA
2 66 (5.34%) Data Quality
3 45 (3.64%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.94%) GDPR
5 20 (1.62%) PCI DSS
6 19 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.54%) WCAG
7 13 (1.05%) NIST
8 10 (0.81%) NCSC
9 7 (0.57%) GRC
10 6 (0.49%) SLA
11 4 (0.32%) PSD2
11 4 (0.32%) SEPA
12 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 378 (30.61%) Docker
2 32 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (2.19%) Active Directory
4 26 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.70%) VMware NSX
5 21 (1.70%) vSphere
6 8 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.57%) Firmware
8 5 (0.40%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.24%) HDFS
10 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.16%) NFS
10 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.081%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.081%) IAG
11 1 (0.081%) ISA Server
11 1 (0.081%) SRDF
11 1 (0.081%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 579 (46.88%) Terraform
2 468 (37.89%) Kubernetes
3 190 (15.38%) Ansible
4 138 (11.17%) Grafana
5 108 (8.74%) Prometheus
6 68 (5.51%) Argo
7 35 (2.83%) Istio
8 27 (2.19%) Puppet
9 21 (1.70%) vCenter Server
10 18 (1.46%) Progress Chef
11 15 (1.21%) Packer
12 12 (0.97%) Kibana
13 11 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.73%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.73%) linkerd
14 9 (0.73%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.40%) Podman
15 5 (0.40%) Rancher
16 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
16 4 (0.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 233 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 102 (8.26%) Databricks
3 89 (7.21%) Google
4 79 (6.40%) Splunk
5 50 (4.05%) Oracle
5 50 (4.05%) VMware
6 38 (3.08%) OpenAI
7 35 (2.83%) Red Hat
8 24 (1.94%) Dynatrace
9 21 (1.70%) Pure Storage
10 16 (1.30%) Atlassian
10 16 (1.30%) Salesforce
11 15 (1.21%) Informatica
12 14 (1.13%) ServiceNow
13 13 (1.05%) Checkmarx
14 11 (0.89%) Sonatype
15 10 (0.81%) AppDynamics
15 10 (0.81%) Cisco
15 10 (0.81%) SAP
16 9 (0.73%) IBM