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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 121 164
Rank change year-on-year +40 +43 -38
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,274 568 551
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.00% 2.33% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.57% 6.17% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 385 347
10th Percentile £374 £379 £375
25th Percentile £426 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £625
90th Percentile £694 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £516 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.81% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 28
10th Percentile £50.84 £25.93 £42.10
25th Percentile £58.43 £26.94 £69.25
Median hourly rate £66.57 £47.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.14% -32.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
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 14,873 9,206 11,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.07% 37.77% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,111 6,274 8,526
10th Percentile £325 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £510 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 224 329
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.01 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +69.97% +16.52% -38.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.75 £42.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +32.14% +30.23% -44.55%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +37 730 £550 - 188
North of England +33 238 £490 -0.28% 120
Yorkshire +20 170 £477 -8.23% 39
Midlands +7 93 £488 +2.63% 50
West Midlands +2 79 £496 +7.24% 25
South West +24 76 £456 -23.96% 58
South East -33 75 £500 +4.60% 108
North West -11 61 £550 +15.79% 67
East of England -16 31 £500 -9.09% 40
East Midlands -19 13 £425 -12.82% 25
North East -18 12 £450 -5.26% 15
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 (8.32%) Confluence
2 46 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (2.35%) SharePoint
4 27 (2.12%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.26%) Apache
6 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.24%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.16%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) nginx
8 2 (0.16%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.078%) Appian
9 1 (0.078%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.078%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.078%) SAS
9 1 (0.078%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.078%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.39%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.078%) Notion
6 1 (0.078%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.078%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.24%) Findur
2 3 (0.24%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.16%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.16%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.078%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.078%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.078%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 683 (53.61%) GitHub Actions
2 585 (45.92%) Azure
3 571 (44.82%) AWS
4 319 (25.04%) Azure DevOps
5 198 (15.54%) GCP
6 182 (14.29%) Serverless
7 128 (10.05%) AWS Lambda
8 119 (9.34%) Amazon S3
9 97 (7.61%) Amazon EKS
10 92 (7.22%) Power Platform
11 90 (7.06%) AWS CloudFormation
12 86 (6.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 78 (6.12%) GitHub Copilot
14 77 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
14 77 (6.04%) Azure Monitor
15 71 (5.57%) Azure Data Factory
16 69 (5.42%) Azure AKS
17 66 (5.18%) Amazon EC2
18 56 (4.40%) Entra ID
19 52 (4.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 67 (5.26%) DNS
1 67 (5.26%) Firewall
2 39 (3.06%) VPN
3 25 (1.96%) Network Security
4 12 (0.94%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.78%) SSL
6 9 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 9 (0.71%) HTTP
7 7 (0.55%) BIG-IP
7 7 (0.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 7 (0.55%) VLAN
8 6 (0.47%) WAN
9 5 (0.39%) Ethernet
9 5 (0.39%) Internet
9 5 (0.39%) Modbus
9 5 (0.39%) RS-232
9 5 (0.39%) RS-485
10 4 (0.31%) DSL
10 4 (0.31%) NAS
10 4 (0.31%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 77 (6.04%) Data Lake
4 63 (4.95%) Power BI
5 58 (4.55%) NoSQL
6 56 (4.40%) MongoDB
7 47 (3.69%) DynamoDB
8 45 (3.53%) Relational Database
9 44 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 43 (3.38%) Delta Lake
11 41 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
12 39 (3.06%) Redis
13 30 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
14 29 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
15 25 (1.96%) Big Data
16 22 (1.73%) Metadata
17 21 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
18 19 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
18 19 (1.49%) BigQuery
19 18 (1.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 395 (31.00%) Jenkins
2 263 (20.64%) GitLab
3 236 (18.52%) Git
4 156 (12.24%) JIRA
5 81 (6.36%) JUnit
6 60 (4.71%) Selenium
7 47 (3.69%) Cucumber
8 41 (3.22%) Cypress.io
9 40 (3.14%) CircleCI
9 40 (3.14%) JMeter
10 39 (3.06%) Gradle
11 38 (2.98%) Gatling
12 36 (2.83%) Bitbucket
12 36 (2.83%) SonarQube
13 33 (2.59%) Maven
14 31 (2.43%) REST Assured
15 29 (2.28%) Postman
16 27 (2.12%) Artifactory
17 21 (1.65%) Mockito
17 21 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 301 (23.63%) Social Skills
2 208 (16.33%) Finance
3 141 (11.07%) Public Sector
4 96 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (6.20%) Banking
6 27 (2.12%) Retail
7 21 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (1.65%) Military
8 17 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (1.33%) Legal
9 13 (1.02%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (0.94%) Law
11 11 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.71%) Front Office
12 9 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.55%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.55%) Marketing
14 6 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.31%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 242 (19.00%) Developer
2 216 (16.95%) Senior
3 172 (13.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 112 (8.79%) Data Engineer
5 108 (8.48%) Architect
6 96 (7.54%) Lead
7 85 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 74 (5.81%) Platform Engineer
9 67 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
10 63 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
11 59 (4.63%) Java Developer
12 54 (4.24%) Software Engineer
13 53 (4.16%) Senior Developer
14 49 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
15 47 (3.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 42 (3.30%) GCP Engineer
17 40 (3.14%) Test Engineer
18 38 (2.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 34 (2.67%) Senior DevOps
20 33 (2.59%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (11.30%) REST
2 132 (10.36%) Spring
3 128 (10.05%) Kafka
4 109 (8.56%) React
5 104 (8.16%) Spring Boot
6 103 (8.08%) .NET
7 93 (7.30%) RESTful
8 80 (6.28%) Node.js
9 72 (5.65%) Playwright
10 66 (5.18%) PySpark
11 47 (3.69%) OpenTelemetry
12 37 (2.90%) AngularJS
12 37 (2.90%) OAuth
12 37 (2.90%) YAML
13 36 (2.83%) GraphQL
14 33 (2.59%) .NET Framework
15 32 (2.51%) JSON
16 31 (2.43%) HTML
16 31 (2.43%) WireMock
17 30 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 243 (19.07%) Cloud Native
2 96 (7.54%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 33 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 27 (2.12%) Data Centre
5 27 (2.12%) Mobile App
6 26 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (2.04%) Public Cloud
7 22 (1.73%) AI Agents
8 18 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.18%) Security Posture
12 14 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.02%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.94%) NHS
14 12 (0.94%) Private Cloud
14 12 (0.94%) Replication
15 10 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 131 (10.28%) Linux
2 60 (4.71%) Windows
3 28 (2.20%) Android
3 28 (2.20%) Unix
4 26 (2.04%) Apple iOS
5 18 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (1.10%) VMS
7 12 (0.94%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
8 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.31%) Debian
9 4 (0.31%) 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 (0.078%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.078%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 956 (75.04%) CI/CD
2 734 (57.61%) DevOps
3 494 (38.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 389 (30.53%) Agile
5 289 (22.68%) Test Automation
6 271 (21.27%) Containerisation
6 271 (21.27%) Observability
7 224 (17.58%) Microservices
8 206 (16.17%) AI
9 201 (15.78%) Platform Engineering
10 169 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 162 (12.72%) Analytics
12 161 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
13 160 (12.56%) Software Engineering
14 159 (12.48%) Migration
15 123 (9.65%) Data Pipeline
15 123 (9.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 119 (9.34%) Data Engineering
17 117 (9.18%) Event-Driven
18 113 (8.87%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 539 (42.31%) Python
2 313 (24.57%) SQL
3 243 (19.07%) Java
4 159 (12.48%) Bash
5 137 (10.75%) PowerShell
6 135 (10.60%) JavaScript
7 127 (9.97%) C#
8 115 (9.03%) TypeScript
9 66 (5.18%) Bicep
10 39 (3.06%) Go
11 35 (2.75%) Scala
12 33 (2.59%) Kotlin
12 33 (2.59%) Shell Script
13 23 (1.81%) Ruby
14 20 (1.57%) Swift
15 10 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.63%) Groovy
17 7 (0.55%) C++
17 7 (0.55%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 381 (29.91%) Security Cleared
2 310 (24.33%) SC Cleared
3 52 (4.08%) Degree
4 44 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 42 (3.30%) DV Cleared
6 33 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 32 (2.51%) AWS Certification
8 30 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.86%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 10 (0.78%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.55%) CISSP
14 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 7 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 6 (0.47%) OCP
15 6 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (10.52%) QA
2 77 (6.04%) Data Quality
3 62 (4.87%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.43%) GDPR
5 28 (2.20%) WCAG
6 21 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.57%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.18%) NIST
9 8 (0.63%) GRC
9 8 (0.63%) NCSC
10 6 (0.47%) SLA
11 5 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.39%) PSD2
12 4 (0.31%) SEPA
13 3 (0.24%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 360 (28.26%) Docker
2 30 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.57%) vSphere
6 19 (1.49%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.47%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.39%) Firmware
10 4 (0.31%) NFS
11 2 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.16%) HDFS
11 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.16%) SRDF
11 2 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.078%) IAG
Systems Management
1 594 (46.62%) Terraform
2 436 (34.22%) Kubernetes
3 195 (15.31%) Ansible
4 157 (12.32%) Grafana
5 134 (10.52%) Prometheus
6 58 (4.55%) Argo
7 32 (2.51%) Istio
8 26 (2.04%) Puppet
9 20 (1.57%) vCenter Server
10 16 (1.26%) Packer
11 15 (1.18%) Kibana
12 14 (1.10%) Progress Chef
13 13 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.71%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.71%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.55%) linkerd
16 5 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
17 4 (0.31%) Podman
17 4 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 221 (17.35%) Microsoft
2 99 (7.77%) Databricks
3 91 (7.14%) Google
4 82 (6.44%) Splunk
5 55 (4.32%) Oracle
6 44 (3.45%) VMware
7 37 (2.90%) Red Hat
8 28 (2.20%) OpenAI
9 25 (1.96%) Dynatrace
10 20 (1.57%) Pure Storage
11 19 (1.49%) ServiceNow
12 18 (1.41%) Salesforce
13 16 (1.26%) Informatica
14 15 (1.18%) Checkmarx
15 14 (1.10%) Atlassian
15 14 (1.10%) IBM
16 13 (1.02%) Foundry
17 11 (0.86%) Cisco
17 11 (0.86%) SAP
18 10 (0.78%) F5