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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 125 176
Rank change year-on-year +57 +51 -37
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,127 556 538
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.55% 2.06% 1.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.33% 5.60% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 818 388 385
10th Percentile £357 £325 £413
25th Percentile £413 £448 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £701 £686 £691
UK median daily rate £525 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -1.18% -3.41% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 0
10th Percentile £40.00 £21.35 -
25th Percentile £41.50 £26.19 -
Median hourly rate £54.25 £28.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +90.35% - -
75th Percentile £98.44 £61.25 -
90th Percentile £110.00 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £28.50 -
% change year-on-year +90.35% - -

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 12,082 9,927 12,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.04% 36.82% 33.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,365 6,613 8,879
10th Percentile £302 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £422 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 136 236
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.51 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.78 £21.41 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.00 £28.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +27.78% -0.57%
75th Percentile £57.25 £47.81 £50.40
90th Percentile £76.96 £68.75 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year +1.82% +19.57% +2.22%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +46 656 £550 - 230
North of England +29 166 £480 +3.78% 199
South East +51 104 £450 - 318
Yorkshire -1 84 £500 +11.11% 84
Midlands +29 81 £573 -4.58% 105
North West +17 67 £402 -15.37% 83
West Midlands +24 66 £575 +4.55% 42
South West +1 64 £637 +10.70% 121
North East +4 17 £545 +50.34% 34
East of England -10 16 £570 +79.25% 150
East Midlands -15 15 £402 -39.30% 61
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 99 (8.78%) Confluence
2 47 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (2.13%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.06%) nginx
5 12 (1.06%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.53%) Apache
7 6 (0.53%) Mule
8 4 (0.35%) SAS
9 3 (0.27%) CMS
9 3 (0.27%) WordPress
10 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
10 2 (0.18%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.18%) Traefik
10 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.089%) Appian
11 1 (0.089%) Luigi
Applications
1 24 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.18%) Trello
5 1 (0.089%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.089%) InDesign
5 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.089%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (0.62%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.089%) Actimize
3 1 (0.089%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.089%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.089%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.089%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.089%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.089%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.089%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.089%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 582 (51.64%) GitHub Actions
2 534 (47.38%) AWS
3 514 (45.61%) Azure
4 240 (21.30%) Azure DevOps
5 191 (16.95%) GCP
6 190 (16.86%) Serverless
7 129 (11.45%) AWS Lambda
8 116 (10.29%) Amazon S3
9 103 (9.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 92 (8.16%) Amazon ECS
11 86 (7.63%) Amazon EKS
12 83 (7.36%) Power Platform
13 80 (7.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 69 (6.12%) OpenShift
15 66 (5.86%) Azure AKS
16 61 (5.41%) Entra ID
17 57 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
17 57 (5.06%) GitHub Copilot
18 55 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
19 53 (4.70%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.44%) Firewall
2 45 (3.99%) DNS
3 23 (2.04%) VPN
4 22 (1.95%) Network Security
5 13 (1.15%) HTTP
5 13 (1.15%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.89%) SSL
7 9 (0.80%) WAN
8 8 (0.71%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.71%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.53%) Ethernet
9 6 (0.53%) Modbus
9 6 (0.53%) RS-232
9 6 (0.53%) RS-485
10 5 (0.44%) Internet
10 5 (0.44%) OpenLDAP
10 5 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.18%) Calico
11 2 (0.18%) SNMP
11 2 (0.18%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (14.73%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (7.45%) NoSQL
3 64 (5.68%) Amazon RDS
4 60 (5.32%) MongoDB
5 54 (4.79%) DynamoDB
6 53 (4.70%) Relational Database
7 51 (4.53%) SQL Server
8 46 (4.08%) Data Lake
8 46 (4.08%) Redis
9 45 (3.99%) Power BI
10 38 (3.37%) MySQL
11 32 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
12 28 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
13 25 (2.22%) BigQuery
14 20 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
15 19 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
16 18 (1.60%) Delta Lake
17 15 (1.33%) Big Data
18 14 (1.24%) Amazon QuickSight
18 14 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 319 (28.31%) Jenkins
2 223 (19.79%) Git
3 204 (18.10%) GitLab
4 172 (15.26%) JIRA
5 59 (5.24%) Sonatype Nexus
6 58 (5.15%) JUnit
7 48 (4.26%) CircleCI
8 44 (3.90%) SonarQube
9 43 (3.82%) Artifactory
10 41 (3.64%) Bitbucket
11 39 (3.46%) Gradle
12 38 (3.37%) Cypress.io
13 36 (3.19%) Cucumber
14 29 (2.57%) Maven
14 29 (2.57%) Postman
14 29 (2.57%) Selenium
15 24 (2.13%) JMeter
16 23 (2.04%) Snyk
17 16 (1.42%) SpecFlow
18 12 (1.06%) Storybook
General
1 279 (24.76%) Social Skills
2 167 (14.82%) Finance
3 136 (12.07%) Public Sector
4 83 (7.36%) Banking
5 67 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (1.69%) Military
7 18 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
8 15 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.33%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.24%) Front Office
9 14 (1.24%) Retail
10 11 (0.98%) Marketing
10 11 (0.98%) Telecoms
11 10 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.53%) Games
13 5 (0.44%) Billing
13 5 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.44%) Law
13 5 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 267 (23.69%) Developer
2 182 (16.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 171 (15.17%) Senior
4 86 (7.63%) Data Engineer
5 84 (7.45%) AWS Engineer
6 76 (6.74%) Architect
7 74 (6.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 72 (6.39%) Lead
9 66 (5.86%) Full-Stack Developer
10 59 (5.24%) Java Developer
11 58 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
12 57 (5.06%) Software Engineer
13 54 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
14 52 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
15 48 (4.26%) Senior Developer
16 47 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 42 (3.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 39 (3.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 34 (3.02%) DevSecOps Engineer
20 31 (2.75%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (13.22%) REST
2 137 (12.16%) Kafka
3 132 (11.71%) Node.js
3 132 (11.71%) React
4 109 (9.67%) .NET
5 95 (8.43%) Spring
6 89 (7.90%) RESTful
7 77 (6.83%) Spring Boot
8 70 (6.21%) AngularJS
9 60 (5.32%) OAuth
10 58 (5.15%) HTML
11 55 (4.88%) CSS
12 50 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
13 49 (4.35%) Playwright
14 45 (3.99%) JSON
15 42 (3.73%) GraphQL
16 41 (3.64%) FastAPI
16 41 (3.64%) YAML
17 40 (3.55%) pytest
18 35 (3.11%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 198 (17.57%) Cloud Native
2 40 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (3.37%) Product Ownership
4 26 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 23 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 21 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 19 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 17 (1.51%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.33%) Life Science
10 15 (1.33%) Private Cloud
10 15 (1.33%) Virtual Team
11 14 (1.24%) Genomics
12 13 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
12 13 (1.15%) NHS
12 13 (1.15%) PKI
12 13 (1.15%) Replication
12 13 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 150 (13.31%) Linux
2 44 (3.90%) Windows
3 27 (2.40%) Unix
4 22 (1.95%) Android
5 15 (1.33%) VMS
6 14 (1.24%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.62%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
8 6 (0.53%) Solaris
9 5 (0.44%) CentOS
10 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.18%) zOS
13 1 (0.089%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.089%) MVS
13 1 (0.089%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 811 (71.96%) CI/CD
2 681 (60.43%) DevOps
3 411 (36.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 374 (33.19%) Agile
5 302 (26.80%) Containerisation
6 224 (19.88%) AI
6 224 (19.88%) Microservices
7 216 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
8 212 (18.81%) Test Automation
9 184 (16.33%) Observability
10 143 (12.69%) Migration
11 134 (11.89%) Full-Stack Development
12 131 (11.62%) Software Engineering
13 117 (10.38%) Analytics
14 115 (10.20%) Data Pipeline
15 110 (9.76%) Platform Engineering
16 104 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
17 102 (9.05%) DevSecOps
18 93 (8.25%) Machine Learning
18 93 (8.25%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 521 (46.23%) Python
2 244 (21.65%) SQL
3 231 (20.50%) Java
4 152 (13.49%) JavaScript
5 147 (13.04%) TypeScript
6 129 (11.45%) Bash
7 99 (8.78%) C#
8 96 (8.52%) PowerShell
9 80 (7.10%) Go
10 52 (4.61%) Bicep
11 30 (2.66%) Shell Script
12 28 (2.48%) Ruby
13 16 (1.42%) PHP
14 12 (1.06%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.98%) C++
16 10 (0.89%) Groovy
17 9 (0.80%) C
18 8 (0.71%) Korn
18 8 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.71%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 326 (28.93%) Security Cleared
2 261 (23.16%) SC Cleared
3 84 (7.45%) Degree
4 50 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (3.82%) DV Cleared
6 39 (3.46%) Azure Certification
7 30 (2.66%) AWS Certification
8 22 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (1.95%) MCP
9 18 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.80%) CISSP
12 8 (0.71%) OCP
12 8 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.62%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 4 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
16 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.35%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (6.92%) QA
2 47 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 42 (3.73%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.84%) NIST
5 24 (2.13%) NCSC
6 23 (2.04%) GDPR
7 21 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.77%) WCAG
9 15 (1.33%) EU AI Act
10 11 (0.98%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.62%) SLA
12 5 (0.44%) GRC
12 5 (0.44%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.27%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.18%) FIPS 140-2
15 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.18%) ISO 8583
15 2 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 382 (33.90%) Docker
2 45 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.57%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.53%) Firmware
5 6 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.44%) NFS
7 4 (0.35%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.35%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.35%) vSphere
8 3 (0.27%) QEMU
8 3 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.18%) HDFS
9 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.18%) KVM
10 1 (0.089%) SRDF
10 1 (0.089%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.089%) Xen
Systems Management
1 502 (44.54%) Terraform
2 448 (39.75%) Kubernetes
3 164 (14.55%) Ansible
4 129 (11.45%) Grafana
5 104 (9.23%) Prometheus
6 58 (5.15%) Argo
7 32 (2.84%) Istio
8 28 (2.48%) Progress Chef
8 28 (2.48%) Puppet
9 13 (1.15%) Podman
10 11 (0.98%) Packer
11 10 (0.89%) Kibana
12 9 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
13 8 (0.71%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.62%) linkerd
14 7 (0.62%) Sysdig
15 5 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.44%) logstash
16 4 (0.35%) Rancher
16 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 190 (16.86%) Microsoft
2 102 (9.05%) Google
3 68 (6.03%) Databricks
4 66 (5.86%) Splunk
5 48 (4.26%) VMware
6 42 (3.73%) OpenAI
7 36 (3.19%) Red Hat
8 35 (3.11%) Oracle
9 25 (2.22%) ServiceNow
10 24 (2.13%) Atlassian
11 16 (1.42%) Foundry
12 14 (1.24%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.98%) Sonatype
14 9 (0.80%) Dynatrace
14 9 (0.80%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.80%) NetApp
14 9 (0.80%) Okta
14 9 (0.80%) SAP
15 8 (0.71%) Commvault
16 7 (0.62%) Cisco