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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 107 135
Rank change year-on-year +19 +28 -5
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,366 691 598
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.00% 2.50% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.58% 6.73% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 926 475 401
10th Percentile £400 £364 £310
25th Percentile £450 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £629
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 34
10th Percentile £46.25 - £41.75
25th Percentile £58.43 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.87% +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 15,927 10,265 11,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.15% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,624 6,963 7,943
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 268 232
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.08 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.72 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.76 £24.84
% change year-on-year +26.08% +11.76% -29.03%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +23 797 £550 - 540
North of England +27 259 £500 +2.04% 174
Yorkshire +23 178 £500 - 62
Midlands +5 108 £496 +4.45% 70
West Midlands +1 98 £492 +3.63% 40
South East -49 82 £525 +10.53% 160
South West +2 70 £500 -16.67% 72
North West -14 65 £577 +23.03% 88
East of England 0 32 £505 -8.18% 57
North East -29 18 £450 -5.26% 27
East Midlands -7 9 £500 +1.01% 30
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
1 122 (8.93%) Confluence
2 49 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (2.71%) SharePoint
4 21 (1.54%) Apache
4 21 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
6 7 (0.51%) nginx
7 6 (0.44%) Tuxedo
8 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.15%) CMS
9 2 (0.15%) Mendix
9 2 (0.15%) SAS
9 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
10 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.073%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (0.66%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
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 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.37%) 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%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 739 (54.10%) GitHub Actions
2 699 (51.17%) Azure
3 627 (45.90%) AWS
4 401 (29.36%) Azure DevOps
5 215 (15.74%) GCP
6 166 (12.15%) Serverless
7 132 (9.66%) Amazon S3
8 122 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
9 115 (8.42%) GitHub Copilot
10 114 (8.35%) Amazon EKS
11 101 (7.39%) Azure Monitor
12 97 (7.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 86 (6.30%) Power Platform
14 82 (6.00%) Azure AKS
15 77 (5.64%) Entra ID
16 74 (5.42%) Amazon EC2
17 73 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
18 71 (5.20%) AWS CloudFormation
19 61 (4.47%) Snowflake
20 55 (4.03%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 71 (5.20%) Firewall
2 67 (4.90%) DNS
3 57 (4.17%) VPN
4 28 (2.05%) Network Security
5 20 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.32%) VLAN
7 17 (1.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 14 (1.02%) SSL
9 12 (0.88%) BGP
10 11 (0.81%) DHCP
11 9 (0.66%) BIG-IP
11 9 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 9 (0.66%) OSPF
11 9 (0.66%) WAN
11 9 (0.66%) Wireless
12 8 (0.59%) IPsec
13 7 (0.51%) HTTP
13 7 (0.51%) Internet
14 6 (0.44%) SD-WAN
15 5 (0.37%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (6.52%) SQL Server
3 74 (5.42%) NoSQL
4 64 (4.69%) Power BI
5 60 (4.39%) MongoDB
6 55 (4.03%) Data Lake
7 46 (3.37%) DynamoDB
7 46 (3.37%) Relational Database
8 43 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
9 41 (3.00%) Redis
10 37 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 37 (2.71%) Delta Lake
11 33 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
12 32 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
13 24 (1.76%) Metadata
14 21 (1.54%) Big Data
14 21 (1.54%) BigQuery
15 17 (1.24%) MySQL
16 16 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 426 (31.19%) Jenkins
2 295 (21.60%) GitLab
3 265 (19.40%) Git
4 175 (12.81%) JIRA
5 76 (5.56%) Selenium
6 72 (5.27%) JUnit
7 57 (4.17%) Cucumber
8 47 (3.44%) Bitbucket
8 47 (3.44%) SonarQube
9 41 (3.00%) Cypress.io
10 39 (2.86%) Gatling
10 39 (2.86%) JMeter
11 35 (2.56%) Gradle
12 32 (2.34%) Maven
12 32 (2.34%) REST Assured
13 31 (2.27%) Postman
14 29 (2.12%) CircleCI
15 28 (2.05%) Claude Code
16 23 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
17 21 (1.54%) WebDriver
General
1 332 (24.30%) Social Skills
2 255 (18.67%) Finance
3 154 (11.27%) Public Sector
4 111 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (5.93%) Banking
6 43 (3.15%) Retail
7 29 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.76%) Legal
9 22 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.17%) Law
12 14 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 14 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.95%) Military
14 11 (0.81%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.73%) Aerospace
15 10 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.59%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 256 (18.74%) Senior
2 241 (17.64%) Developer
3 173 (12.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 124 (9.08%) Lead
5 120 (8.78%) Architect
6 101 (7.39%) Data Engineer
7 81 (5.93%) AWS Engineer
8 74 (5.42%) Platform Engineer
9 72 (5.27%) Cloud Engineer
10 67 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
11 64 (4.69%) Senior Developer
12 63 (4.61%) Software Engineer
13 61 (4.47%) Java Developer
14 48 (3.51%) Test Engineer
15 47 (3.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 47 (3.44%) Senior DevOps
16 44 (3.22%) Full-Stack Developer
17 43 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 38 (2.78%) AWS DevOps
19 36 (2.64%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (15.15%) REST
2 135 (9.88%) Kafka
3 129 (9.44%) RESTful
4 126 (9.22%) Spring
5 119 (8.71%) .NET
6 113 (8.27%) React
7 97 (7.10%) Spring Boot
8 81 (5.93%) Playwright
9 66 (4.83%) Node.js
10 52 (3.81%) PySpark
11 48 (3.51%) OAuth
12 40 (2.93%) .NET Framework
12 40 (2.93%) AngularJS
12 40 (2.93%) HTML
12 40 (2.93%) OpenTelemetry
12 40 (2.93%) YAML
13 39 (2.86%) OAuth2
14 38 (2.78%) JSON
15 37 (2.71%) FastAPI
16 33 (2.42%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 293 (21.45%) Cloud Native
2 121 (8.86%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (5.20%) Product Ownership
4 50 (3.66%) AI Agents
5 38 (2.78%) Mobile App
6 37 (2.71%) Data Centre
6 37 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 34 (2.49%) Onboarding
8 31 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
9 26 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
11 21 (1.54%) Security Posture
12 20 (1.46%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
12 20 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (1.10%) Algorithms
14 15 (1.10%) NHS
14 15 (1.10%) Private Cloud
15 14 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 125 (9.15%) Linux
2 61 (4.47%) Windows
3 32 (2.34%) Unix
4 29 (2.12%) Android
5 27 (1.98%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.39%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.66%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.37%) 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%) Amazon Linux
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,038 (75.99%) CI/CD
2 811 (59.37%) DevOps
3 559 (40.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 487 (35.65%) Agile
5 357 (26.13%) Test Automation
6 339 (24.82%) Observability
7 308 (22.55%) Containerisation
8 279 (20.42%) AI
9 271 (19.84%) Microservices
10 218 (15.96%) Software Engineering
11 213 (15.59%) Platform Engineering
12 199 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 163 (11.93%) Analytics
14 162 (11.86%) Event-Driven
15 161 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
16 131 (9.59%) DevSecOps
17 129 (9.44%) Technical Leadership
18 127 (9.30%) Data Pipeline
19 122 (8.93%) Validation
20 119 (8.71%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 588 (43.05%) Python
2 320 (23.43%) SQL
3 262 (19.18%) Java
4 201 (14.71%) Bash
5 176 (12.88%) PowerShell
6 142 (10.40%) C#
7 137 (10.03%) JavaScript
8 136 (9.96%) TypeScript
9 89 (6.52%) Bicep
10 46 (3.37%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.15%) Go
12 30 (2.20%) Shell Script
13 27 (1.98%) Scala
14 23 (1.68%) Ruby
15 22 (1.61%) Swift
16 14 (1.02%) Groovy
17 12 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.66%) ActionScript
18 9 (0.66%) Apex Code
18 9 (0.66%) C
Qualifications
1 433 (31.70%) Security Cleared
2 377 (27.60%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.54%) Azure Certification
4 57 (4.17%) Degree
5 46 (3.37%) AWS Certification
6 40 (2.93%) DV Cleared
7 33 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 16 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.73%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.66%) CISSP
15 9 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 8 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (0.44%) CCNP
18 5 (0.37%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (12.96%) QA
2 74 (5.42%) Data Quality
3 66 (4.83%) Accessibility
4 35 (2.56%) GDPR
5 25 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.76%) WCAG
7 15 (1.10%) NIST
8 10 (0.73%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.59%) GRC
10 8 (0.59%) NCSC
11 7 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.37%) HL7
12 5 (0.37%) PSD2
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.29%) SEPA
14 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.073%) IFRS
System Software
1 425 (31.11%) Docker
2 45 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.10%) vSphere
6 13 (0.95%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.81%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.59%) 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
1 658 (48.17%) Terraform
2 492 (36.02%) Kubernetes
3 203 (14.86%) Ansible
4 185 (13.54%) Grafana
5 157 (11.49%) Prometheus
6 61 (4.47%) Argo
7 29 (2.12%) Puppet
8 21 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.32%) Progress Chef
10 17 (1.24%) Packer
11 16 (1.17%) Istio
12 12 (0.88%) vCenter Server
13 10 (0.73%) Control-M
13 10 (0.73%) Kibana
14 9 (0.66%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
14 9 (0.66%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
16 6 (0.44%) SCCM
17 5 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 255 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 98 (7.17%) Databricks
3 96 (7.03%) Google
4 88 (6.44%) Splunk
5 52 (3.81%) Oracle
6 51 (3.73%) Dynatrace
7 39 (2.86%) VMware
8 34 (2.49%) Red Hat
9 33 (2.42%) Salesforce
9 33 (2.42%) ServiceNow
10 30 (2.20%) OpenAI
11 24 (1.76%) Cisco
12 23 (1.68%) Informatica
13 19 (1.39%) F5
13 19 (1.39%) IBM
14 18 (1.32%) Palo Alto
15 17 (1.24%) Checkmarx
15 17 (1.24%) Foundry
15 17 (1.24%) SAP
16 16 (1.17%) New Relic