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

 6 months to
5 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 121 162
Rank change year-on-year +42 +41 -35
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,261 561 546
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.01% 2.33% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.57% 6.17% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 378 347
10th Percentile £373 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £625
90th Percentile £698 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 24
10th Percentile £50.00 £25.93 £35.90
25th Percentile £58.43 £26.94 £66.81
Median hourly rate £63.14 £47.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.92% -32.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £74.50 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £75.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £47.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +32.92% -32.14% +27.27%

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 14,717 9,086 11,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.08% 37.73% 31.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,002 6,201 8,458
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £510 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 510 218 323
10th Percentile £15.74 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.57 £17.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.28 £25.26 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +59.49% +18.18% -38.94%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.69 £39.50
90th Percentile £81.35 £68.75 £69.90
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +28.41% +30.23% -41.89%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +34 722 £550 - 289
North of England +32 237 £490 -0.57% 145
Yorkshire +23 169 £477 -8.23% 43
Midlands +15 89 £488 +2.63% 61
South West +23 75 £456 -23.96% 64
West Midlands +2 75 £500 +8.11% 33
South East -39 75 £500 - 107
North West -10 61 £550 +15.79% 84
East of England -13 31 £500 -9.09% 49
East Midlands -15 13 £425 -12.82% 28
North East -21 12 £450 -5.26% 19
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
1 106 (8.41%) Confluence
2 45 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (2.30%) SharePoint
4 27 (2.14%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.27%) Apache
6 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.16%) CMS
7 2 (0.16%) nginx
7 2 (0.16%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.079%) Appian
8 1 (0.079%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.079%) SAS
8 1 (0.079%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.079%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.079%) Notion
6 1 (0.079%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.079%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.24%) Findur
3 3 (0.24%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.079%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 669 (53.05%) GitHub Actions
2 584 (46.31%) Azure
3 563 (44.65%) AWS
4 321 (25.46%) Azure DevOps
5 192 (15.23%) GCP
6 181 (14.35%) Serverless
7 127 (10.07%) AWS Lambda
8 118 (9.36%) Amazon S3
9 97 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
10 91 (7.22%) Power Platform
11 88 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 86 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 77 (6.11%) Amazon ECS
14 75 (5.95%) Azure Monitor
14 75 (5.95%) GitHub Copilot
15 71 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
16 68 (5.39%) Azure AKS
17 66 (5.23%) Amazon EC2
18 54 (4.28%) Entra ID
19 51 (4.04%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 67 (5.31%) DNS
2 66 (5.23%) Firewall
3 38 (3.01%) VPN
4 25 (1.98%) Network Security
5 12 (0.95%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.79%) SSL
7 9 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (0.63%) HTTP
9 7 (0.56%) BIG-IP
9 7 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 7 (0.56%) VLAN
10 6 (0.48%) WAN
11 5 (0.40%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.40%) Internet
11 5 (0.40%) Modbus
11 5 (0.40%) RS-232
11 5 (0.40%) RS-485
12 4 (0.32%) DHCP
12 4 (0.32%) NAS
12 4 (0.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (9.12%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (6.50%) SQL Server
3 76 (6.03%) Data Lake
4 63 (5.00%) Power BI
5 59 (4.68%) NoSQL
6 57 (4.52%) MongoDB
7 47 (3.73%) DynamoDB
8 44 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 43 (3.41%) Delta Lake
10 41 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
10 41 (3.25%) Relational Database
11 39 (3.09%) Redis
12 28 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
13 26 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
14 25 (1.98%) Big Data
15 22 (1.74%) Metadata
16 21 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
17 19 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
18 18 (1.43%) MySQL
19 17 (1.35%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 393 (31.17%) Jenkins
2 262 (20.78%) GitLab
3 232 (18.40%) Git
4 157 (12.45%) JIRA
5 80 (6.34%) JUnit
6 60 (4.76%) Selenium
7 46 (3.65%) Cucumber
8 40 (3.17%) JMeter
9 39 (3.09%) Cypress.io
9 39 (3.09%) Gradle
10 38 (3.01%) CircleCI
10 38 (3.01%) Gatling
11 37 (2.93%) SonarQube
12 36 (2.85%) Bitbucket
13 33 (2.62%) Maven
14 31 (2.46%) REST Assured
15 29 (2.30%) Postman
16 27 (2.14%) Artifactory
17 21 (1.67%) Mockito
17 21 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 298 (23.63%) Social Skills
2 208 (16.49%) Finance
3 133 (10.55%) Public Sector
4 97 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (6.34%) Banking
6 27 (2.14%) Retail
7 20 (1.59%) Military
8 18 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.35%) Legal
10 14 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (1.11%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (0.95%) Law
13 11 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.79%) Front Office
15 9 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.56%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.56%) Marketing
17 6 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
18 4 (0.32%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 243 (19.27%) Developer
2 211 (16.73%) Senior
3 168 (13.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 110 (8.72%) Data Engineer
5 106 (8.41%) Architect
6 97 (7.69%) Lead
7 83 (6.58%) Cloud Engineer
8 72 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
9 64 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
10 62 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
11 59 (4.68%) Java Developer
12 53 (4.20%) Senior Developer
13 52 (4.12%) Software Engineer
14 50 (3.97%) Full-Stack Developer
15 46 (3.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 42 (3.33%) GCP Engineer
17 40 (3.17%) Test Engineer
18 38 (3.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 34 (2.70%) Senior DevOps
20 33 (2.62%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (11.34%) REST
2 131 (10.39%) Spring
3 128 (10.15%) Kafka
4 105 (8.33%) .NET
4 105 (8.33%) React
5 102 (8.09%) Spring Boot
6 92 (7.30%) RESTful
7 79 (6.26%) Node.js
8 71 (5.63%) Playwright
9 66 (5.23%) PySpark
10 46 (3.65%) OpenTelemetry
11 37 (2.93%) AngularJS
11 37 (2.93%) OAuth
12 36 (2.85%) YAML
13 35 (2.78%) GraphQL
14 33 (2.62%) .NET Framework
15 32 (2.54%) JSON
16 31 (2.46%) WireMock
17 30 (2.38%) HTML
17 30 (2.38%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 240 (19.03%) Cloud Native
2 94 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (5.31%) Product Ownership
4 32 (2.54%) Onboarding
5 27 (2.14%) Data Centre
5 27 (2.14%) Mobile App
6 26 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (2.06%) Public Cloud
7 22 (1.74%) AI Agents
8 18 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
9 16 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.19%) Security Posture
11 14 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.03%) Virtual Team
13 12 (0.95%) NHS
13 12 (0.95%) Private Cloud
13 12 (0.95%) Replication
14 10 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 132 (10.47%) Linux
2 59 (4.68%) Windows
3 28 (2.22%) Android
3 28 (2.22%) Unix
4 26 (2.06%) Apple iOS
5 18 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (1.11%) VMS
7 11 (0.87%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.40%) FreeRTOS
8 5 (0.40%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.32%) Debian
9 4 (0.32%) Rocky
10 3 (0.24%) CentOS
11 2 (0.16%) AIX
11 2 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.16%) MVS
11 2 (0.16%) zOS
12 1 (0.079%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.079%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 945 (74.94%) CI/CD
2 731 (57.97%) DevOps
3 487 (38.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 382 (30.29%) Agile
5 288 (22.84%) Test Automation
6 270 (21.41%) Containerisation
7 266 (21.09%) Observability
8 223 (17.68%) Microservices
9 203 (16.10%) AI
10 194 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
11 168 (13.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 162 (12.85%) Analytics
12 162 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
13 156 (12.37%) Migration
14 154 (12.21%) Software Engineering
15 123 (9.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 122 (9.67%) Data Pipeline
17 118 (9.36%) Event-Driven
18 116 (9.20%) Data Engineering
19 111 (8.80%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 535 (42.43%) Python
2 310 (24.58%) SQL
3 242 (19.19%) Java
4 159 (12.61%) Bash
5 135 (10.71%) PowerShell
6 133 (10.55%) JavaScript
7 127 (10.07%) C#
8 110 (8.72%) TypeScript
9 65 (5.15%) Bicep
10 39 (3.09%) Go
11 35 (2.78%) Scala
12 34 (2.70%) Shell Script
13 33 (2.62%) Kotlin
14 22 (1.74%) Ruby
15 20 (1.59%) Swift
16 10 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.63%) Groovy
18 7 (0.56%) ActionScript
18 7 (0.56%) C++
18 7 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 374 (29.66%) Security Cleared
2 303 (24.03%) SC Cleared
3 52 (4.12%) Degree
4 44 (3.49%) Azure Certification
5 43 (3.41%) DV Cleared
6 33 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (2.46%) AWS Certification
7 31 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (0.87%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.87%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (0.56%) CISSP
13 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 7 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 6 (0.48%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.48%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (10.39%) QA
2 76 (6.03%) Data Quality
3 58 (4.60%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.46%) GDPR
5 26 (2.06%) WCAG
6 21 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.59%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.19%) NIST
9 8 (0.63%) NCSC
10 7 (0.56%) GRC
11 6 (0.48%) SLA
12 5 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.40%) PSD2
13 4 (0.32%) SEPA
14 3 (0.24%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
15 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 357 (28.31%) Docker
2 29 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.59%) vSphere
5 19 (1.51%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.48%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.40%) Firmware
9 4 (0.32%) NFS
10 2 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.16%) HDFS
10 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.16%) SRDF
10 2 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.079%) IAG
Systems Management
1 585 (46.39%) Terraform
2 434 (34.42%) Kubernetes
3 193 (15.31%) Ansible
4 153 (12.13%) Grafana
5 131 (10.39%) Prometheus
6 57 (4.52%) Argo
7 32 (2.54%) Istio
8 26 (2.06%) Puppet
9 20 (1.59%) vCenter Server
10 16 (1.27%) Packer
11 14 (1.11%) Kibana
11 14 (1.11%) Progress Chef
12 13 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.71%) HAProxy
13 9 (0.71%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.56%) linkerd
15 4 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
15 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.32%) Podman
15 4 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 221 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 99 (7.85%) Databricks
3 89 (7.06%) Google
4 81 (6.42%) Splunk
5 53 (4.20%) Oracle
6 43 (3.41%) VMware
7 36 (2.85%) Red Hat
8 28 (2.22%) OpenAI
9 25 (1.98%) Dynatrace
10 20 (1.59%) Pure Storage
11 18 (1.43%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.35%) Salesforce
13 16 (1.27%) Informatica
14 15 (1.19%) Checkmarx
15 14 (1.11%) Atlassian
16 13 (1.03%) Foundry
16 13 (1.03%) IBM
17 11 (0.87%) Cisco
17 11 (0.87%) SAP
18 10 (0.79%) Palantir
683 GitHub jobs in England