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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 97 131
Rank change year-on-year +13 +34 +2
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,379 707 602
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.01% 2.55% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.60% 6.87% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 938 486 404
10th Percentile £400 £364 £310
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £629
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 34
10th Percentile £46.25 - £28.80
25th Percentile £56.32 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.68 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.45% +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% -8.20%

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 16,031 10,291 11,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.18% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,694 6,965 7,949
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 274 231
10th Percentile £15.79 £15.02 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.22 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.15 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year +35.76% +8.28% -25.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.38
90th Percentile £83.54 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +25.00% +15.80% -26.73%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +24 802 £550 - 864
North of England +29 263 £500 +2.30% 193
Yorkshire +27 179 £490 -2.00% 66
Midlands +12 108 £500 - 77
West Midlands +9 98 £496 -0.78% 42
South East -40 85 £525 +11.94% 174
South West -11 70 £500 -16.67% 77
North West -29 64 £575 +26.51% 100
East of England +1 32 £505 -8.18% 66
North East -28 22 £450 -5.26% 30
East Midlands -12 9 £500 +1.01% 35
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
1 120 (8.70%) Confluence
2 50 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (2.76%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 22 (1.60%) Apache
6 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.51%) nginx
9 6 (0.44%) Tuxedo
10 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.15%) CMS
11 2 (0.15%) Mendix
11 2 (0.15%) SAS
11 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.073%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (0.65%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.29%) Trello
6 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.073%) Notion
7 1 (0.073%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.36%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.22%) Findur
3 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.22%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.073%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.073%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 749 (54.31%) GitHub Actions
2 710 (51.49%) Azure
3 636 (46.12%) AWS
4 402 (29.15%) Azure DevOps
5 221 (16.03%) GCP
6 163 (11.82%) Serverless
7 134 (9.72%) Amazon S3
8 121 (8.77%) GitHub Copilot
9 120 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
10 116 (8.41%) Amazon EKS
11 101 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
12 97 (7.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 88 (6.38%) Power Platform
14 81 (5.87%) Entra ID
15 80 (5.80%) Azure AKS
16 74 (5.37%) Amazon EC2
17 71 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
18 70 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
19 63 (4.57%) Snowflake
20 56 (4.06%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 72 (5.22%) Firewall
2 67 (4.86%) DNS
3 57 (4.13%) VPN
4 31 (2.25%) Network Security
5 20 (1.45%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.31%) VLAN
7 17 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 15 (1.09%) BGP
9 14 (1.02%) SSL
10 11 (0.80%) DHCP
11 9 (0.65%) BIG-IP
11 9 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 9 (0.65%) OSPF
11 9 (0.65%) WAN
11 9 (0.65%) Wireless
12 8 (0.58%) IPsec
13 7 (0.51%) HTTP
13 7 (0.51%) Internet
14 6 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (0.44%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (8.27%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (6.60%) SQL Server
3 73 (5.29%) NoSQL
4 66 (4.79%) MongoDB
4 66 (4.79%) Power BI
5 54 (3.92%) Data Lake
6 47 (3.41%) Relational Database
7 44 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (3.19%) DynamoDB
8 43 (3.12%) Redis
9 39 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 36 (2.61%) Delta Lake
11 33 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
12 32 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
13 25 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
13 25 (1.81%) Metadata
14 23 (1.67%) BigQuery
15 21 (1.52%) Big Data
16 17 (1.23%) MySQL
17 16 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 426 (30.89%) Jenkins
2 304 (22.04%) GitLab
3 271 (19.65%) Git
4 172 (12.47%) JIRA
5 74 (5.37%) Selenium
6 73 (5.29%) JUnit
7 56 (4.06%) Cucumber
8 46 (3.34%) SonarQube
9 45 (3.26%) Bitbucket
10 42 (3.05%) JMeter
11 40 (2.90%) Cypress.io
12 38 (2.76%) Gatling
13 35 (2.54%) Gradle
14 33 (2.39%) Maven
15 32 (2.32%) Postman
16 31 (2.25%) REST Assured
17 29 (2.10%) Claude Code
18 28 (2.03%) CircleCI
19 23 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
20 22 (1.60%) WebDriver
General
1 337 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 266 (19.29%) Finance
3 156 (11.31%) Public Sector
4 116 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (6.16%) Banking
6 43 (3.12%) Retail
7 35 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (1.67%) Legal
10 17 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.16%) Law
12 14 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 14 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.94%) Military
14 11 (0.80%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.73%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.58%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.58%) Marketing
17 8 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 259 (18.78%) Senior
2 249 (18.06%) Developer
3 175 (12.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 125 (9.06%) Lead
5 124 (8.99%) Architect
6 102 (7.40%) Data Engineer
7 82 (5.95%) AWS Engineer
8 75 (5.44%) Platform Engineer
9 74 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
10 66 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
10 66 (4.79%) Software Engineer
11 65 (4.71%) Senior Developer
12 63 (4.57%) Java Developer
13 48 (3.48%) Test Engineer
14 47 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
15 46 (3.34%) Full-Stack Developer
16 44 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 43 (3.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 38 (2.76%) Network Engineer
18 38 (2.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (15.52%) REST
2 147 (10.66%) Kafka
3 132 (9.57%) RESTful
4 130 (9.43%) Spring
5 116 (8.41%) .NET
6 114 (8.27%) React
7 104 (7.54%) Spring Boot
8 79 (5.73%) Playwright
9 64 (4.64%) Node.js
10 52 (3.77%) PySpark
11 48 (3.48%) OAuth
12 43 (3.12%) YAML
13 42 (3.05%) JSON
14 41 (2.97%) AngularJS
15 40 (2.90%) .NET Framework
15 40 (2.90%) HTML
16 39 (2.83%) OAuth2
16 39 (2.83%) OpenTelemetry
17 37 (2.68%) FastAPI
18 33 (2.39%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 298 (21.61%) Cloud Native
2 122 (8.85%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (5.08%) Product Ownership
4 54 (3.92%) AI Agents
5 40 (2.90%) Data Centre
6 39 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 37 (2.68%) Mobile App
8 35 (2.54%) Onboarding
9 34 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
10 28 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
11 25 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.74%) Security Posture
13 21 (1.52%) Data Structures
13 21 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
14 20 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
15 18 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
16 15 (1.09%) NHS
16 15 (1.09%) Private Cloud
17 14 (1.02%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 127 (9.21%) Linux
2 63 (4.57%) Windows
3 34 (2.47%) Unix
4 27 (1.96%) Android
5 26 (1.89%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.38%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.65%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.36%) VMS
10 4 (0.29%) Debian
10 4 (0.29%) Rocky
11 3 (0.22%) CentOS
12 2 (0.15%) AIX
12 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.15%) MVS
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.15%) zOS
13 1 (0.073%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,045 (75.78%) CI/CD
2 816 (59.17%) DevOps
3 564 (40.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 495 (35.90%) Agile
5 357 (25.89%) Test Automation
6 349 (25.31%) Observability
7 305 (22.12%) Containerisation
8 289 (20.96%) AI
9 269 (19.51%) Microservices
10 222 (16.10%) Software Engineering
11 215 (15.59%) Platform Engineering
12 202 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 168 (12.18%) Event-Driven
14 163 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
15 160 (11.60%) Analytics
16 131 (9.50%) Technical Leadership
17 130 (9.43%) DevSecOps
18 126 (9.14%) Validation
19 125 (9.06%) Data Pipeline
20 122 (8.85%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 584 (42.35%) Python
2 326 (23.64%) SQL
3 267 (19.36%) Java
4 196 (14.21%) Bash
5 178 (12.91%) PowerShell
6 141 (10.22%) C#
7 139 (10.08%) TypeScript
8 134 (9.72%) JavaScript
9 90 (6.53%) Bicep
10 45 (3.26%) Go
11 44 (3.19%) Kotlin
12 32 (2.32%) Scala
13 31 (2.25%) Shell Script
14 22 (1.60%) Ruby
15 21 (1.52%) Swift
16 12 (0.87%) Groovy
16 12 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.65%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.65%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.65%) C
Qualifications
1 433 (31.40%) Security Cleared
2 380 (27.56%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.50%) Azure Certification
4 55 (3.99%) Degree
5 45 (3.26%) AWS Certification
6 40 (2.90%) DV Cleared
7 31 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 16 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 9 (0.65%) CISSP
14 9 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (0.65%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 6 (0.44%) CCNP
16 5 (0.36%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (12.84%) QA
2 74 (5.37%) Data Quality
3 68 (4.93%) Accessibility
4 36 (2.61%) GDPR
5 25 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.67%) WCAG
7 15 (1.09%) NIST
8 10 (0.73%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.58%) GRC
10 8 (0.58%) NCSC
11 5 (0.36%) HL7
11 5 (0.36%) PSD2
12 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.29%) SEPA
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.073%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 425 (30.82%) Docker
2 45 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.94%) vSphere
6 12 (0.87%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.80%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.65%) IAG
9 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.29%) NFS
10 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.15%) Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.15%) SRDF
11 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 661 (47.93%) Terraform
2 499 (36.19%) Kubernetes
3 204 (14.79%) Ansible
4 194 (14.07%) Grafana
5 159 (11.53%) Prometheus
6 59 (4.28%) Argo
7 28 (2.03%) Puppet
8 22 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.31%) Progress Chef
10 17 (1.23%) Packer
11 14 (1.02%) Istio
12 12 (0.87%) Control-M
13 10 (0.73%) Kibana
13 10 (0.73%) vCenter Server
14 9 (0.65%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
15 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
15 7 (0.51%) NetBackup
16 6 (0.44%) SCCM
17 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 257 (18.64%) Microsoft
2 101 (7.32%) Databricks
3 98 (7.11%) Google
4 95 (6.89%) Splunk
5 53 (3.84%) Dynatrace
5 53 (3.84%) Oracle
6 38 (2.76%) ServiceNow
6 38 (2.76%) VMware
7 34 (2.47%) Red Hat
8 33 (2.39%) Salesforce
9 30 (2.18%) OpenAI
10 27 (1.96%) Cisco
11 25 (1.81%) Informatica
12 22 (1.60%) IBM
13 19 (1.38%) F5
13 19 (1.38%) New Relic
14 18 (1.31%) Palo Alto
15 17 (1.23%) Checkmarx
15 17 (1.23%) SAP
16 16 (1.16%) Foundry