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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 78 133
Rank change year-on-year -5 +55 +21
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,458 908 618
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.11% 3.22% 1.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.02% 8.33% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,010 624 412
10th Percentile £381 £360 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £701 £700 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 32
10th Percentile £46.25 £69.00 £66.25
25th Percentile £52.48 £80.63 -
Median hourly rate £66.61 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.56% +50.00% -9.68%
75th Percentile £74.00 £110.00 -
90th Percentile £75.00 - -
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 16,172 10,900 11,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.54% 38.64% 35.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,776 7,365 7,541
10th Percentile £321 £304 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -2.78%
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 588 267 160
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £42.60 £68.75
90th Percentile £79.30 £67.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.25% -28.14% +7.99%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +3 852 £550 - 134
North of England +8 277 £475 - 66
Yorkshire +19 180 £478 -4.50% 30
Midlands -9 123 £463 -19.57% 30
South East -25 101 £500 +11.11% 64
West Midlands -12 98 £484 -17.66% 14
North West -28 75 £550 +27.91% 28
South West -37 53 £550 -15.38% 43
East of England -17 26 £450 -18.18% 23
East Midlands +10 25 £402 -10.27% 16
North East -28 24 £425 -11.69% 8
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
1 102 (7.00%) Confluence
2 43 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (2.88%) SharePoint
4 20 (1.37%) Apache
5 19 (1.30%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.62%) nginx
7 8 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.48%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.41%) Tuxedo
10 5 (0.34%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.21%) CMS
12 2 (0.14%) IIS
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
13 1 (0.069%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.069%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.069%) Camunda
13 1 (0.069%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.069%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 10 (0.69%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.27%) Trello
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.069%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.069%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.069%) Notion
6 1 (0.069%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.069%) Sketch
6 1 (0.069%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.34%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.34%) Sage X3
3 5 (0.34%) Summit
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.069%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.069%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.069%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.069%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.069%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.069%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 784 (53.77%) GitHub Actions
2 742 (50.89%) Azure
3 667 (45.75%) AWS
4 394 (27.02%) Azure DevOps
5 232 (15.91%) GCP
6 193 (13.24%) Serverless
7 189 (12.96%) GitHub Copilot
8 137 (9.40%) Amazon EKS
9 134 (9.19%) Amazon S3
10 115 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
11 108 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
12 107 (7.34%) Entra ID
13 106 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 94 (6.45%) Power Platform
15 82 (5.62%) Snowflake
16 76 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
16 76 (5.21%) Azure AKS
17 71 (4.87%) AWS CloudFormation
18 66 (4.53%) Amazon ECS
19 64 (4.39%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 78 (5.35%) DNS
2 74 (5.08%) Firewall
3 43 (2.95%) Network Security
4 41 (2.81%) VPN
5 25 (1.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 24 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.65%) VLAN
7 22 (1.51%) BGP
8 18 (1.23%) BIG-IP
8 18 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 17 (1.17%) DHCP
9 17 (1.17%) SSL
10 13 (0.89%) Wireless
11 12 (0.82%) Ethernet VPN
11 12 (0.82%) VXLAN
12 11 (0.75%) OSPF
13 10 (0.69%) HTTP
13 10 (0.69%) NX-OS
14 9 (0.62%) TACACS
15 8 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (8.50%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (6.31%) SQL Server
3 86 (5.90%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.46%) NoSQL
5 63 (4.32%) Power BI
6 53 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
6 53 (3.64%) Redis
7 51 (3.50%) Relational Database
8 50 (3.43%) Data Lake
9 32 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
9 32 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
10 31 (2.13%) DynamoDB
11 30 (2.06%) BigQuery
11 30 (2.06%) MySQL
12 29 (1.99%) Delta Lake
13 25 (1.71%) Metadata
14 17 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
14 17 (1.17%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 413 (28.33%) Jenkins
2 317 (21.74%) Git
3 311 (21.33%) GitLab
4 167 (11.45%) JIRA
5 88 (6.04%) Selenium
6 76 (5.21%) JUnit
7 69 (4.73%) Cucumber
8 58 (3.98%) SonarQube
9 54 (3.70%) Claude Code
10 48 (3.29%) Bitbucket
11 47 (3.22%) Gatling
12 45 (3.09%) Gradle
13 39 (2.67%) Cypress.io
14 38 (2.61%) JMeter
15 37 (2.54%) Postman
16 36 (2.47%) CircleCI
17 35 (2.40%) Maven
18 33 (2.26%) REST Assured
19 29 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
20 19 (1.30%) XCUITest
General
1 395 (27.09%) Social Skills
2 316 (21.67%) Finance
3 163 (11.18%) Public Sector
4 155 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
5 107 (7.34%) Banking
6 53 (3.64%) Retail
7 42 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (1.23%) Legal
8 18 (1.23%) Telecoms
9 17 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (1.17%) Law
10 15 (1.03%) Aerospace
10 15 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (1.03%) Marketing
11 13 (0.89%) Local Government
11 13 (0.89%) Military
11 13 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (0.82%) Investment Banking
12 12 (0.82%) Manufacturing
13 10 (0.69%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 297 (20.37%) Senior
2 258 (17.70%) Developer
3 185 (12.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 129 (8.85%) Architect
5 126 (8.64%) Lead
6 98 (6.72%) Data Engineer
7 81 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
8 77 (5.28%) AWS Engineer
9 73 (5.01%) Azure Engineer
10 71 (4.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 64 (4.39%) Senior Developer
12 62 (4.25%) Java Developer
13 58 (3.98%) Software Engineer
14 54 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
15 51 (3.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 50 (3.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 50 (3.43%) Test Engineer
17 48 (3.29%) Full-Stack Developer
18 47 (3.22%) Automation Engineer
19 40 (2.74%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 684 (46.91%) Terraform
2 281 (19.27%) REST
3 167 (11.45%) Kafka
4 154 (10.56%) RESTful
5 134 (9.19%) Spring
6 121 (8.30%) React
7 118 (8.09%) .NET
8 108 (7.41%) Spring Boot
9 105 (7.20%) Playwright
10 71 (4.87%) Node.js
11 65 (4.46%) JSON
11 65 (4.46%) OAuth
12 62 (4.25%) HTML
13 56 (3.84%) AngularJS
14 51 (3.50%) OAuth2
15 49 (3.36%) FastAPI
16 47 (3.22%) pytest
17 46 (3.16%) YAML
18 42 (2.88%) CSS
19 40 (2.74%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 294 (20.16%) Cloud Native
2 107 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
3 92 (6.31%) AI Agents
4 79 (5.42%) Product Ownership
5 71 (4.87%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (3.43%) Data Centre
6 50 (3.43%) Onboarding
7 45 (3.09%) Mobile App
8 36 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
9 30 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (1.92%) Data Structures
11 27 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
13 23 (1.58%) Security Posture
14 22 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
14 22 (1.51%) Public Cloud
15 21 (1.44%) Low-Code
16 19 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
16 19 (1.30%) Virtual Team
17 17 (1.17%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 138 (9.47%) Linux
2 65 (4.46%) Windows
3 33 (2.26%) Apple iOS
4 32 (2.19%) Android
5 28 (1.92%) Unix
6 20 (1.37%) Windows Server
7 19 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.55%) VMS
9 6 (0.41%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.21%) CentOS
11 2 (0.14%) AIX
11 2 (0.14%) Debian
11 2 (0.14%) macOS
11 2 (0.14%) MVS
11 2 (0.14%) Rocky
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.14%) zOS
12 1 (0.069%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.069%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,117 (76.61%) CI/CD
2 849 (58.23%) DevOps
3 586 (40.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 545 (37.38%) Agile
5 390 (26.75%) Test Automation
6 386 (26.47%) Observability
7 375 (25.72%) AI
8 307 (21.06%) Microservices
9 287 (19.68%) Containerisation
10 259 (17.76%) Software Engineering
11 234 (16.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 228 (15.64%) Platform Engineering
13 205 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
14 195 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
15 192 (13.17%) Event-Driven
16 158 (10.84%) Analytics
17 157 (10.77%) Scrum
18 150 (10.29%) Technical Leadership
19 148 (10.15%) Deployment Automation
20 139 (9.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 631 (43.28%) Python
2 324 (22.22%) SQL
3 294 (20.16%) Java
4 200 (13.72%) Bash
5 189 (12.96%) PowerShell
6 175 (12.00%) TypeScript
7 163 (11.18%) JavaScript
8 123 (8.44%) C#
9 108 (7.41%) Bicep
10 60 (4.12%) Kotlin
11 43 (2.95%) Go
12 35 (2.40%) Shell Script
13 26 (1.78%) Scala
13 26 (1.78%) Swift
14 19 (1.30%) ActionScript
15 17 (1.17%) Objective-C
16 13 (0.89%) C
16 13 (0.89%) Ruby
17 11 (0.75%) Groovy
17 11 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 421 (28.88%) Security Cleared
2 361 (24.76%) SC Cleared
3 71 (4.87%) Azure Certification
4 68 (4.66%) Degree
5 58 (3.98%) AWS Certification
6 50 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 43 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (2.81%) DV Cleared
9 22 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 10 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (0.62%) CISSP
14 9 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
15 8 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
16 7 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (15.02%) QA
2 94 (6.45%) Accessibility
3 83 (5.69%) Data Quality
4 40 (2.74%) WCAG
5 31 (2.13%) GDPR
6 26 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.58%) NIST
8 11 (0.75%) NCSC
9 10 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.41%) HL7
11 6 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.41%) PSD2
12 5 (0.34%) GRC
12 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.34%) SEPA
13 4 (0.27%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
16 1 (0.069%) IFRS
System Software
1 463 (31.76%) Docker
2 47 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.69%) IAG
7 8 (0.55%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.48%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.41%) vSphere
10 4 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.27%) NFS
10 4 (0.27%) VirtualBox
11 3 (0.21%) Firmware
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 ESXi
12 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.069%) etcd
13 1 (0.069%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 529 (36.28%) Kubernetes
2 197 (13.51%) Ansible
2 197 (13.51%) Grafana
3 146 (10.01%) Prometheus
4 51 (3.50%) Argo
5 22 (1.51%) Puppet
6 19 (1.30%) Progress Chef
7 18 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
9 15 (1.03%) Packer
10 13 (0.89%) Control-M
10 13 (0.89%) Istio
11 11 (0.75%) Kibana
12 9 (0.62%) Karpenter
13 8 (0.55%) SCCM
14 6 (0.41%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.34%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
16 4 (0.27%) Cilium
16 4 (0.27%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 285 (19.55%) Microsoft
2 105 (7.20%) Databricks
3 97 (6.65%) Google
4 92 (6.31%) Splunk
5 76 (5.21%) Dynatrace
6 59 (4.05%) Oracle
7 57 (3.91%) OpenAI
8 54 (3.70%) ServiceNow
9 37 (2.54%) Red Hat
10 36 (2.47%) VMware
11 34 (2.33%) Cisco
12 30 (2.06%) Foundry
13 27 (1.85%) IBM
14 26 (1.78%) F5
14 26 (1.78%) Salesforce
15 23 (1.58%) New Relic
16 18 (1.23%) Palo Alto
17 15 (1.03%) SAP
18 14 (0.96%) CyberArk
19 13 (0.89%) AppDynamics