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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 120 152
Rank change year-on-year +36 +32 -32
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,334 645 608
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.96% 2.37% 1.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.47% 6.33% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 439 391
10th Percentile £390 £375 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £629
90th Percentile £700 £740 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 34
10th Percentile £46.25 - £52.60
25th Percentile £54.22 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - £70.00
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 15,743 10,190 11,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.43% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,552 6,893 8,511
10th Percentile £325 £313 £312
25th Percentile £421 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £717 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 268 303
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.04 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.76 £22.00
% change year-on-year +29.68% +26.18% -37.14%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +31 761 £550 - 183
North of England +36 262 £500 +4.17% 88
Yorkshire +27 181 £493 -3.41% 26
Midlands +14 107 £500 +5.26% 42
West Midlands +4 95 £500 +11.11% 22
South East -46 75 £525 +10.53% 97
South West +6 74 £500 -16.67% 32
North West -14 71 £575 +24.53% 48
East of England -1 33 £500 -9.09% 27
North East -23 15 £450 -5.26% 15
East Midlands -7 11 £470 -7.39% 20
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
1 123 (9.22%) Confluence
2 42 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (2.62%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.20%) Apache
6 12 (0.90%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.45%) nginx
8 6 (0.45%) Tuxedo
9 5 (0.37%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.22%) CMS
10 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.15%) SAS
11 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.075%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.075%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.075%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.075%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.075%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.075%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.52%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.15%) Trello
7 1 (0.075%) Notion
7 1 (0.075%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.37%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.22%) Findur
4 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.22%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.075%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 709 (53.15%) GitHub Actions
2 647 (48.50%) Azure
3 605 (45.35%) AWS
4 362 (27.14%) Azure DevOps
5 189 (14.17%) GCP
6 160 (11.99%) Serverless
7 131 (9.82%) Amazon S3
8 119 (8.92%) AWS Lambda
9 104 (7.80%) GitHub Copilot
10 99 (7.42%) Amazon EKS
11 94 (7.05%) Azure Monitor
12 87 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 83 (6.22%) Power Platform
14 71 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
15 69 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
15 69 (5.17%) Azure AKS
15 69 (5.17%) Entra ID
16 66 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
17 54 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
18 53 (3.97%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 66 (4.95%) Firewall
2 61 (4.57%) DNS
3 52 (3.90%) VPN
4 29 (2.17%) Network Security
5 17 (1.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 15 (1.12%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.12%) VLAN
7 11 (0.82%) SSL
8 9 (0.67%) BGP
8 9 (0.67%) BIG-IP
8 9 (0.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 9 (0.67%) Wireless
9 8 (0.60%) IPsec
9 8 (0.60%) OSPF
10 7 (0.52%) HTTP
10 7 (0.52%) Internet
11 6 (0.45%) WAN
12 5 (0.37%) DHCP
13 4 (0.30%) SAN
13 4 (0.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 63 (4.72%) NoSQL
4 59 (4.42%) Data Lake
5 58 (4.35%) Power BI
6 57 (4.27%) MongoDB
7 48 (3.60%) Relational Database
8 43 (3.22%) DynamoDB
9 40 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
10 38 (2.85%) Delta Lake
11 36 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
12 35 (2.62%) Redis
13 33 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
14 31 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
15 25 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
16 21 (1.57%) Big Data
16 21 (1.57%) Metadata
17 18 (1.35%) BigQuery
18 17 (1.27%) MySQL
19 16 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 416 (31.18%) Jenkins
2 264 (19.79%) GitLab
3 253 (18.97%) Git
4 178 (13.34%) JIRA
5 80 (6.00%) JUnit
6 75 (5.62%) Selenium
7 55 (4.12%) Cucumber
8 42 (3.15%) Cypress.io
9 41 (3.07%) Bitbucket
9 41 (3.07%) Gradle
10 40 (3.00%) JMeter
11 38 (2.85%) Gatling
11 38 (2.85%) REST Assured
12 35 (2.62%) SonarQube
13 33 (2.47%) Maven
14 32 (2.40%) CircleCI
14 32 (2.40%) Postman
15 23 (1.72%) Mockito
15 23 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
16 21 (1.57%) WebDriver
General
1 329 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 241 (18.07%) Finance
3 155 (11.62%) Public Sector
4 111 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (6.22%) Banking
6 36 (2.70%) Retail
7 29 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.80%) Legal
9 17 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.20%) Military
11 15 (1.12%) Investment Banking
11 15 (1.12%) Law
12 10 (0.75%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.60%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.52%) Front Office
15 7 (0.52%) Marketing
16 6 (0.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 239 (17.92%) Developer
2 233 (17.47%) Senior
3 177 (13.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 118 (8.85%) Lead
5 116 (8.70%) Architect
6 102 (7.65%) Data Engineer
7 83 (6.22%) Platform Engineer
8 79 (5.92%) AWS Engineer
9 72 (5.40%) Cloud Engineer
10 60 (4.50%) Java Developer
11 58 (4.35%) Software Engineer
12 57 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
13 56 (4.20%) Senior Developer
14 48 (3.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 46 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
15 46 (3.45%) Test Engineer
16 42 (3.15%) Senior DevOps
17 38 (2.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 36 (2.70%) GCP Engineer
19 35 (2.62%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (14.02%) REST
2 128 (9.60%) Spring
3 124 (9.30%) Kafka
4 117 (8.77%) RESTful
5 110 (8.25%) React
6 109 (8.17%) .NET
7 101 (7.57%) Spring Boot
8 85 (6.37%) Playwright
9 65 (4.87%) Node.js
10 56 (4.20%) PySpark
11 41 (3.07%) AngularJS
11 41 (3.07%) OpenTelemetry
12 40 (3.00%) OAuth
13 38 (2.85%) .NET Framework
14 36 (2.70%) GraphQL
15 35 (2.62%) HTML
16 34 (2.55%) FastAPI
16 34 (2.55%) JSON
16 34 (2.55%) OAuth2
16 34 (2.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 273 (20.46%) Cloud Native
2 113 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (5.10%) Product Ownership
4 37 (2.77%) AI Agents
5 36 (2.70%) Data Centre
5 36 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (2.70%) Mobile App
6 34 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 25 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
11 18 (1.35%) Public Cloud
12 17 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (1.20%) Data Structures
13 16 (1.20%) Security Posture
14 14 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.05%) Replication
14 14 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 120 (9.00%) Linux
2 56 (4.20%) Windows
3 33 (2.47%) Android
4 28 (2.10%) Apple iOS
5 25 (1.87%) Unix
6 20 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.97%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.37%) VMS
9 4 (0.30%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.22%) CentOS
10 3 (0.22%) Debian
10 3 (0.22%) Rocky
11 2 (0.15%) AIX
11 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.15%) MVS
11 2 (0.15%) zOS
12 1 (0.075%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.075%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.075%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 992 (74.36%) CI/CD
2 778 (58.32%) DevOps
3 505 (37.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 458 (34.33%) Agile
5 335 (25.11%) Test Automation
6 305 (22.86%) Observability
7 280 (20.99%) Containerisation
8 254 (19.04%) Microservices
9 237 (17.77%) AI
10 217 (16.27%) Platform Engineering
11 188 (14.09%) Software Engineering
12 187 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 164 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
14 154 (11.54%) Analytics
15 142 (10.64%) Event-Driven
16 136 (10.19%) Migration
17 120 (9.00%) Data Pipeline
18 115 (8.62%) Technical Leadership
19 114 (8.55%) Full-Stack Development
20 113 (8.47%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 558 (41.83%) Python
2 316 (23.69%) SQL
3 248 (18.59%) Java
4 183 (13.72%) Bash
5 155 (11.62%) PowerShell
6 135 (10.12%) C#
7 130 (9.75%) JavaScript
7 130 (9.75%) TypeScript
8 74 (5.55%) Bicep
9 42 (3.15%) Kotlin
10 39 (2.92%) Go
11 33 (2.47%) Scala
12 27 (2.02%) Shell Script
13 24 (1.80%) Ruby
14 21 (1.57%) Swift
15 14 (1.05%) Groovy
16 10 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.67%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.67%) C
18 8 (0.60%) VB
Qualifications
1 401 (30.06%) Security Cleared
2 341 (25.56%) SC Cleared
3 56 (4.20%) Degree
4 51 (3.82%) Azure Certification
5 44 (3.30%) DV Cleared
6 40 (3.00%) AWS Certification
7 33 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (0.90%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.82%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.52%) CISSP
14 7 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 6 (0.45%) OCP
15 6 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (12.29%) QA
2 71 (5.32%) Data Quality
3 66 (4.95%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.25%) GDPR
5 23 (1.72%) WCAG
6 19 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.82%) NIST
7 11 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.60%) GRC
9 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.30%) HL7
11 4 (0.30%) NCSC
12 3 (0.22%) PSD2
13 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.15%) SEPA
13 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.075%) OpenSCAP
14 1 (0.075%) SLA
System Software
1 381 (28.56%) Docker
2 37 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.57%) vSphere
5 19 (1.42%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.52%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.52%) IAG
8 4 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.30%) NFS
9 3 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.22%) Firmware
10 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.15%) SRDF
10 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.15%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 613 (45.95%) Terraform
2 450 (33.73%) Kubernetes
3 201 (15.07%) Ansible
4 179 (13.42%) Grafana
5 150 (11.24%) Prometheus
6 63 (4.72%) Argo
7 26 (1.95%) Puppet
8 20 (1.50%) vCenter Server
9 18 (1.35%) Istio
9 18 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (1.20%) Packer
10 16 (1.20%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.97%) Kibana
12 9 (0.67%) HAProxy
12 9 (0.67%) NetBackup
13 7 (0.52%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.37%) Control-M
15 5 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
16 3 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 231 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.90%) Databricks
3 90 (6.75%) Splunk
4 85 (6.37%) Google
5 57 (4.27%) Oracle
6 41 (3.07%) Dynatrace
7 39 (2.92%) VMware
8 37 (2.77%) Red Hat
9 28 (2.10%) OpenAI
9 28 (2.10%) Salesforce
10 24 (1.80%) ServiceNow
11 20 (1.50%) Cisco
11 20 (1.50%) Pure Storage
12 18 (1.35%) F5
12 18 (1.35%) Informatica
13 17 (1.27%) Palo Alto
14 16 (1.20%) Checkmarx
14 16 (1.20%) Foundry
14 16 (1.20%) SAP
15 15 (1.12%) IBM