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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 89 129
Rank change year-on-year -2 +40 +11
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,391 798 607
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 2.87% 1.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.66% 7.56% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 950 546 399
10th Percentile £381 £360 £310
25th Percentile £442 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -1.45% -12.50%
75th Percentile £630 £633 £625
90th Percentile £710 £701 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 32
10th Percentile £46.25 £69.00 £66.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £80.63 -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.03% +50.00% -9.68%
75th Percentile £75.00 £110.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
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 16,062 10,549 11,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.48% 37.91% 34.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,699 7,136 7,593
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 252 166
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.58 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +32.90% -25.79% +4.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.45 £33.00
% change year-on-year +18.40% -16.82% -5.44%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 24 September 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 +10 823 £550 - 997
North of England +9 257 £500 +4.71% 263
Yorkshire +25 172 £500 - 89
Midlands -2 112 £475 -15.93% 103
West Midlands -7 92 £488 -15.03% 48
South East -31 89 £525 +20.69% 203
North West -40 62 £563 +25.00% 137
South West -24 56 £525 -19.23% 103
East of England -10 32 £500 +2.56% 83
North East -31 25 £425 -10.53% 37
East Midlands -5 20 £400 -15.79% 55
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
1 103 (7.40%) Confluence
2 42 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.95%) SharePoint
4 20 (1.44%) Apache Spark
5 19 (1.37%) Apache
6 8 (0.58%) nginx
6 8 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.50%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.43%) Tuxedo
9 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.22%) CMS
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 2 (0.14%) SAS
13 1 (0.072%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.072%) Camunda
13 1 (0.072%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.072%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.072%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 9 (0.65%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.29%) Trello
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.072%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.072%) Notion
6 1 (0.072%) Sketch
6 1 (0.072%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.36%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.36%) Sage X3
3 5 (0.36%) Summit
4 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.072%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.072%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.072%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 745 (53.56%) GitHub Actions
2 699 (50.25%) Azure
3 647 (46.51%) AWS
4 368 (26.46%) Azure DevOps
5 215 (15.46%) GCP
6 186 (13.37%) Serverless
7 170 (12.22%) GitHub Copilot
8 135 (9.71%) Amazon S3
9 127 (9.13%) Amazon EKS
10 120 (8.63%) AWS Lambda
11 103 (7.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 103 (7.40%) Azure Monitor
12 91 (6.54%) Power Platform
13 90 (6.47%) Entra ID
14 78 (5.61%) Snowflake
15 75 (5.39%) Amazon EC2
16 73 (5.25%) Azure AKS
17 65 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
18 64 (4.60%) Amazon ECS
19 58 (4.17%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 69 (4.96%) DNS
2 68 (4.89%) Firewall
3 47 (3.38%) VPN
4 37 (2.66%) Network Security
5 23 (1.65%) BGP
5 23 (1.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 23 (1.65%) VLAN
6 22 (1.58%) TCP/IP
7 16 (1.15%) SSL
8 15 (1.08%) BIG-IP
8 15 (1.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 14 (1.01%) DHCP
10 12 (0.86%) Ethernet VPN
10 12 (0.86%) OSPF
10 12 (0.86%) VXLAN
10 12 (0.86%) Wireless
11 11 (0.79%) NX-OS
12 9 (0.65%) TACACS
13 8 (0.58%) IPsec
14 7 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (8.34%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 79 (5.68%) MongoDB
4 66 (4.74%) NoSQL
5 62 (4.46%) Power BI
6 57 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
7 51 (3.67%) Redis
8 48 (3.45%) Data Lake
9 45 (3.24%) Relational Database
10 39 (2.80%) DynamoDB
11 34 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
11 34 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 31 (2.23%) Delta Lake
13 28 (2.01%) MySQL
14 26 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
14 26 (1.87%) BigQuery
15 24 (1.73%) Metadata
16 20 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
17 18 (1.29%) Big Data
17 18 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 389 (27.97%) Jenkins
2 293 (21.06%) GitLab
3 284 (20.42%) Git
4 158 (11.36%) JIRA
5 72 (5.18%) Selenium
6 65 (4.67%) JUnit
7 61 (4.39%) SonarQube
8 55 (3.95%) Cucumber
9 47 (3.38%) Bitbucket
10 44 (3.16%) Gatling
11 39 (2.80%) Claude Code
12 36 (2.59%) Gradle
13 34 (2.44%) Cypress.io
13 34 (2.44%) JMeter
14 32 (2.30%) Maven
15 31 (2.23%) Postman
16 28 (2.01%) CircleCI
16 28 (2.01%) REST Assured
17 24 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
17 24 (1.73%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 348 (25.02%) Social Skills
2 286 (20.56%) Finance
3 146 (10.50%) Public Sector
4 138 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (6.76%) Banking
6 48 (3.45%) Retail
7 43 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
9 20 (1.44%) Legal
10 18 (1.29%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.22%) Law
12 15 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.01%) Aerospace
13 14 (1.01%) Marketing
14 13 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (0.79%) Investment Banking
15 11 (0.79%) Local Government
15 11 (0.79%) Military
16 10 (0.72%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 282 (20.27%) Senior
2 257 (18.48%) Developer
3 168 (12.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 125 (8.99%) Architect
5 119 (8.55%) Lead
6 97 (6.97%) Data Engineer
7 77 (5.54%) AWS Engineer
8 75 (5.39%) Platform Engineer
9 69 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
10 68 (4.89%) Senior Developer
11 66 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
12 64 (4.60%) Java Developer
13 63 (4.53%) Software Engineer
14 51 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
15 50 (3.59%) Full-Stack Developer
16 47 (3.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 45 (3.24%) Test Engineer
18 43 (3.09%) Automation Engineer
19 42 (3.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 37 (2.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 654 (47.02%) Terraform
2 244 (17.54%) REST
3 155 (11.14%) Kafka
4 141 (10.14%) RESTful
5 128 (9.20%) Spring
6 120 (8.63%) .NET
7 116 (8.34%) React
8 108 (7.76%) Spring Boot
9 87 (6.25%) Playwright
10 66 (4.74%) Node.js
11 60 (4.31%) OAuth
12 56 (4.03%) JSON
13 52 (3.74%) HTML
14 48 (3.45%) FastAPI
14 48 (3.45%) YAML
15 44 (3.16%) OAuth2
16 43 (3.09%) PySpark
17 39 (2.80%) GraphQL
18 38 (2.73%) AngularJS
18 38 (2.73%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 294 (21.14%) Cloud Native
2 104 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (6.33%) AI Agents
4 73 (5.25%) Product Ownership
5 55 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (3.59%) Data Centre
7 42 (3.02%) Onboarding
8 38 (2.73%) Mobile App
9 33 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
10 29 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.87%) Data Structures
12 25 (1.80%) Security Posture
12 25 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
13 23 (1.65%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.51%) Low-Code
15 20 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
16 17 (1.22%) Algorithms
16 17 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
16 17 (1.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 128 (9.20%) Linux
2 63 (4.53%) Windows
3 30 (2.16%) Unix
4 27 (1.94%) Android
5 25 (1.80%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.44%) Windows Server
7 19 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.58%) VMS
9 6 (0.43%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.29%) CentOS
11 2 (0.14%) AIX
11 2 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.14%) Debian
11 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
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 (0.072%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,052 (75.63%) CI/CD
2 803 (57.73%) DevOps
3 564 (40.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 511 (36.74%) Agile
5 354 (25.45%) Observability
6 353 (25.38%) AI
7 349 (25.09%) Test Automation
8 280 (20.13%) Containerisation
9 270 (19.41%) Microservices
10 240 (17.25%) Software Engineering
11 209 (15.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 205 (14.74%) Platform Engineering
13 183 (13.16%) Event-Driven
14 178 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
15 176 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
16 151 (10.86%) Analytics
17 147 (10.57%) Technical Leadership
18 142 (10.21%) Scrum
19 130 (9.35%) Data Modelling
20 127 (9.13%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 617 (44.36%) Python
2 305 (21.93%) SQL
3 276 (19.84%) Java
4 179 (12.87%) Bash
5 177 (12.72%) PowerShell
6 159 (11.43%) TypeScript
7 146 (10.50%) JavaScript
8 128 (9.20%) C#
9 95 (6.83%) Bicep
10 49 (3.52%) Kotlin
11 42 (3.02%) Go
12 32 (2.30%) Shell Script
13 29 (2.08%) Scala
14 19 (1.37%) Swift
15 16 (1.15%) ActionScript
15 16 (1.15%) Ruby
16 13 (0.93%) C
17 11 (0.79%) Objective-C
18 10 (0.72%) Groovy
18 10 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 403 (28.97%) Security Cleared
2 348 (25.02%) SC Cleared
3 65 (4.67%) Azure Certification
4 61 (4.39%) Degree
5 47 (3.38%) AWS Certification
6 43 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 40 (2.88%) DV Cleared
8 35 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (0.65%) CISSP
13 9 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 8 (0.58%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 6 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 5 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (14.52%) QA
2 82 (5.90%) Accessibility
3 77 (5.54%) Data Quality
4 34 (2.44%) WCAG
5 28 (2.01%) GDPR
6 26 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.65%) NIST
8 12 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.79%) NCSC
10 8 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.43%) GRC
11 6 (0.43%) PSD2
12 5 (0.36%) HL7
12 5 (0.36%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.36%) SEPA
13 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.072%) IFRS
System Software
1 437 (31.42%) Docker
2 44 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.79%) IAG
5 11 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.65%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.43%) vSphere
8 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.29%) NFS
9 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.14%) Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.14%) SRDF
10 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 494 (35.51%) Kubernetes
2 207 (14.88%) Ansible
3 183 (13.16%) Grafana
4 142 (10.21%) Prometheus
5 51 (3.67%) Argo
6 21 (1.51%) Puppet
7 20 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (1.22%) Progress Chef
9 16 (1.15%) Packer
10 14 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (0.93%) Control-M
12 11 (0.79%) Kibana
13 8 (0.58%) Istio
13 8 (0.58%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.50%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.50%) SCCM
15 5 (0.36%) HAProxy
15 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.36%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 258 (18.55%) Microsoft
2 106 (7.62%) Databricks
3 93 (6.69%) Splunk
4 90 (6.47%) Google
5 63 (4.53%) Dynatrace
6 52 (3.74%) OpenAI
7 51 (3.67%) Oracle
7 51 (3.67%) ServiceNow
8 39 (2.80%) VMware
9 38 (2.73%) Cisco
10 30 (2.16%) Red Hat
11 29 (2.08%) Foundry
12 28 (2.01%) Salesforce
13 27 (1.94%) IBM
14 24 (1.73%) F5
15 23 (1.65%) New Relic
16 17 (1.22%) Palo Alto
17 14 (1.01%) Informatica
17 14 (1.01%) SAP
18 13 (0.93%) CyberArk