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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 119 160
Rank change year-on-year +40 +41 -38
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,277 579 554
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.98% 2.34% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.52% 6.20% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 865 394 344
10th Percentile £375 £386 £357
25th Percentile £425 £432 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £623
90th Percentile £691 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £526
% change year-on-year - -0.10% -10.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 30
10th Percentile £50.84 £25.70 £45.20
25th Percentile £58.43 £26.38 -
Median hourly rate £66.57 £27.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +142.06% -60.71% +3.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £48.13 -
90th Percentile - £60.50 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £27.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +129.58% -60.71% +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 14,992 9,332 11,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.79% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,162 6,351 8,561
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £512 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.89% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 527 233 333
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.01 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.17% +16.33% -38.21%
75th Percentile £69.10 £37.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.64
% change year-on-year +33.25% +29.39% -38.17%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +28 740 £550 - 243
North of England +25 232 £500 - 116
Yorkshire +22 167 £488 -6.20% 39
Midlands +10 95 £492 +3.58% 58
West Midlands +2 81 £492 +6.43% 26
South West +16 75 £450 -25.00% 67
South East -34 75 £500 +4.93% 129
North West -21 57 £550 +15.79% 58
East of England -14 32 £500 -9.09% 56
East Midlands -14 13 £447 -8.31% 32
North East -24 13 £450 -12.20% 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
1 107 (8.38%) Confluence
2 45 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (2.43%) SharePoint
4 27 (2.11%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.25%) Apache
6 11 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.47%) Tuxedo
9 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.078%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.078%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.078%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.078%) SAS
10 1 (0.078%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.078%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.55%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.23%) 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 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.23%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.23%) Findur
2 3 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.23%) Sage X3
2 3 (0.23%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
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
1 680 (53.25%) GitHub Actions
2 592 (46.36%) Azure
3 567 (44.40%) AWS
4 332 (26.00%) Azure DevOps
5 191 (14.96%) GCP
6 176 (13.78%) Serverless
7 122 (9.55%) AWS Lambda
8 119 (9.32%) Amazon S3
9 96 (7.52%) Amazon EKS
10 95 (7.44%) Power Platform
11 85 (6.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 84 (6.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 80 (6.26%) GitHub Copilot
14 78 (6.11%) Amazon ECS
14 78 (6.11%) Azure Monitor
15 71 (5.56%) Azure AKS
15 71 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
16 63 (4.93%) Amazon EC2
17 59 (4.62%) Entra ID
18 51 (3.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 68 (5.32%) Firewall
2 63 (4.93%) DNS
3 41 (3.21%) VPN
4 27 (2.11%) Network Security
5 13 (1.02%) TCP/IP
6 12 (0.94%) SSL
7 11 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 9 (0.70%) VLAN
9 8 (0.63%) BIG-IP
9 8 (0.63%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 8 (0.63%) HTTP
10 6 (0.47%) Internet
10 6 (0.47%) WAN
10 6 (0.47%) Wireless
11 5 (0.39%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.39%) Modbus
11 5 (0.39%) RS-232
11 5 (0.39%) RS-485
12 4 (0.31%) DHCP
12 4 (0.31%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (8.69%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (6.73%) SQL Server
3 77 (6.03%) Data Lake
4 63 (4.93%) Power BI
5 59 (4.62%) NoSQL
6 54 (4.23%) MongoDB
7 47 (3.68%) Relational Database
8 46 (3.60%) DynamoDB
9 44 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 44 (3.45%) Delta Lake
10 42 (3.29%) Redis
11 40 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
12 33 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
13 30 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
14 24 (1.88%) Big Data
15 23 (1.80%) Metadata
16 21 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
17 20 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
17 20 (1.57%) BigQuery
18 18 (1.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 395 (30.93%) Jenkins
2 263 (20.60%) GitLab
3 237 (18.56%) Git
4 156 (12.22%) JIRA
5 82 (6.42%) JUnit
6 61 (4.78%) Selenium
7 50 (3.92%) Cucumber
8 42 (3.29%) Gradle
9 40 (3.13%) JMeter
10 39 (3.05%) Gatling
11 38 (2.98%) Cypress.io
12 35 (2.74%) Bitbucket
12 35 (2.74%) CircleCI
13 34 (2.66%) Maven
13 34 (2.66%) REST Assured
13 34 (2.66%) SonarQube
14 28 (2.19%) Postman
15 24 (1.88%) Artifactory
16 21 (1.64%) Mockito
16 21 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 296 (23.18%) Social Skills
2 207 (16.21%) Finance
3 142 (11.12%) Public Sector
4 96 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (6.11%) Banking
6 28 (2.19%) Retail
7 27 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (1.57%) Military
9 18 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 18 (1.41%) Legal
10 16 (1.25%) Law
11 13 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (0.86%) Investment Banking
13 9 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.63%) Front Office
15 7 (0.55%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.55%) Marketing
16 6 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.31%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 238 (18.64%) Developer
2 222 (17.38%) Senior
3 171 (13.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 114 (8.93%) Data Engineer
5 112 (8.77%) Architect
6 92 (7.20%) Lead
7 86 (6.73%) Cloud Engineer
8 79 (6.19%) Platform Engineer
9 71 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
10 62 (4.86%) Azure Engineer
11 61 (4.78%) Java Developer
12 55 (4.31%) Software Engineer
13 54 (4.23%) Senior Developer
14 52 (4.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 46 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
16 45 (3.52%) GCP Engineer
17 41 (3.21%) Test Engineer
18 35 (2.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 34 (2.66%) AWS DevOps
19 34 (2.66%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (11.43%) REST
2 132 (10.34%) Spring
3 128 (10.02%) Kafka
4 106 (8.30%) React
5 104 (8.14%) .NET
5 104 (8.14%) Spring Boot
6 98 (7.67%) RESTful
7 75 (5.87%) Node.js
8 69 (5.40%) Playwright
9 68 (5.32%) PySpark
10 49 (3.84%) OpenTelemetry
11 39 (3.05%) OAuth
12 36 (2.82%) AngularJS
12 36 (2.82%) YAML
13 35 (2.74%) GraphQL
14 33 (2.58%) .NET Framework
15 32 (2.51%) OAuth2
16 31 (2.43%) HTML
16 31 (2.43%) JSON
16 31 (2.43%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 246 (19.26%) Cloud Native
2 102 (7.99%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (5.25%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.66%) Onboarding
5 33 (2.58%) Data Centre
6 28 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 28 (2.19%) Mobile App
7 27 (2.11%) Public Cloud
8 23 (1.80%) AI Agents
9 18 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
10 17 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (0.94%) Low-Code
13 12 (0.94%) NHS
13 12 (0.94%) Security Posture
13 12 (0.94%) Virtual Team
14 11 (0.86%) Private Cloud
14 11 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 127 (9.95%) Linux
2 61 (4.78%) Windows
3 29 (2.27%) Android
4 26 (2.04%) Apple iOS
4 26 (2.04%) Unix
5 18 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.94%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.78%) VMS
8 5 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
8 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.31%) Debian
9 4 (0.31%) Rocky
10 3 (0.23%) 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
1 961 (75.25%) CI/CD
2 738 (57.79%) DevOps
3 496 (38.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 393 (30.78%) Agile
5 289 (22.63%) Test Automation
6 271 (21.22%) Containerisation
7 268 (20.99%) Observability
8 227 (17.78%) Microservices
9 211 (16.52%) AI
10 208 (16.29%) Platform Engineering
11 167 (13.08%) Software Engineering
12 165 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 163 (12.76%) Analytics
14 160 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
15 153 (11.98%) Migration
16 123 (9.63%) Data Pipeline
17 119 (9.32%) Data Engineering
17 119 (9.32%) Event-Driven
17 119 (9.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 115 (9.01%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 546 (42.76%) Python
2 314 (24.59%) SQL
3 244 (19.11%) Java
4 161 (12.61%) Bash
5 137 (10.73%) PowerShell
6 130 (10.18%) JavaScript
7 127 (9.95%) C#
8 110 (8.61%) TypeScript
9 71 (5.56%) Bicep
10 37 (2.90%) Go
11 35 (2.74%) Scala
12 34 (2.66%) Kotlin
13 29 (2.27%) Shell Script
14 22 (1.72%) Ruby
15 20 (1.57%) Swift
16 10 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.70%) Groovy
18 8 (0.63%) ActionScript
18 8 (0.63%) C
18 8 (0.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 377 (29.52%) Security Cleared
2 309 (24.20%) SC Cleared
3 54 (4.23%) Degree
4 42 (3.29%) Azure Certification
4 42 (3.29%) DV Cleared
5 36 (2.82%) AWS Certification
6 32 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (0.94%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (0.86%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (0.55%) CISSP
12 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 7 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (0.47%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.47%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (10.26%) QA
2 78 (6.11%) Data Quality
3 63 (4.93%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.51%) GDPR
5 28 (2.19%) WCAG
6 22 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.57%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.33%) NIST
9 9 (0.70%) NCSC
10 8 (0.63%) GRC
11 5 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.39%) PSD2
12 4 (0.31%) SEPA
12 4 (0.31%) SLA
13 3 (0.23%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 359 (28.11%) Docker
2 31 (2.43%) 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%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
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%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 594 (46.52%) Terraform
2 437 (34.22%) Kubernetes
3 190 (14.88%) Ansible
4 158 (12.37%) Grafana
5 139 (10.88%) Prometheus
6 58 (4.54%) Argo
7 33 (2.58%) Istio
8 24 (1.88%) Puppet
9 20 (1.57%) vCenter Server
10 16 (1.25%) Packer
11 14 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (1.02%) Kibana
12 13 (1.02%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.70%) HAProxy
13 9 (0.70%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.55%) linkerd
15 5 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
16 4 (0.31%) FortiGate
16 4 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 223 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 100 (7.83%) Databricks
3 89 (6.97%) Google
4 79 (6.19%) Splunk
5 54 (4.23%) Oracle
6 43 (3.37%) VMware
7 37 (2.90%) Red Hat
8 30 (2.35%) OpenAI
9 28 (2.19%) Dynatrace
10 20 (1.57%) Pure Storage
11 18 (1.41%) ServiceNow
12 16 (1.25%) Informatica
12 16 (1.25%) Salesforce
13 14 (1.10%) Atlassian
13 14 (1.10%) Checkmarx
13 14 (1.10%) Cisco
13 14 (1.10%) Foundry
13 14 (1.10%) IBM
14 12 (0.94%) F5
14 12 (0.94%) SAP