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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 91 134
Rank change year-on-year +2 +43 +10
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,387 787 603
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.98% 2.85% 1.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.65% 7.53% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 946 537 398
10th Percentile £381 £360 £310
25th Percentile £447 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -11.39%
75th Percentile £630 £633 £625
90th Percentile £711 £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 16,039 10,456 11,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.46% 37.88% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,685 7,075 7,552
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
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% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 245 165
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.35 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.73% -25.71% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £33.27
% change year-on-year +16.07% -15.84% -4.94%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +0.64% 1,018
North of England +5 256 £494 +3.40% 276
Yorkshire +19 171 £494 -1.25% 96
Midlands -5 109 £476 -13.45% 110
West Midlands -4 89 £490 -14.45% 48
South East -29 88 £525 +20.69% 213
North West -37 62 £563 +25.00% 140
South West -20 57 £525 -16.00% 107
East of England -8 32 £500 -4.76% 93
North East -25 25 £425 -10.53% 40
East Midlands -6 20 £400 -15.79% 62
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
1 101 (7.28%) Confluence
2 43 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (2.88%) 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%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.072%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.072%) IIS
13 1 (0.072%) MQSeries
13 1 (0.072%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 9 (0.65%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.43%) 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
1 747 (53.86%) GitHub Actions
2 697 (50.25%) Azure
3 644 (46.43%) AWS
4 370 (26.68%) Azure DevOps
5 216 (15.57%) GCP
6 186 (13.41%) Serverless
7 166 (11.97%) GitHub Copilot
8 136 (9.81%) Amazon S3
9 127 (9.16%) Amazon EKS
10 121 (8.72%) AWS Lambda
11 104 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
12 103 (7.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 91 (6.56%) Entra ID
14 88 (6.34%) Power Platform
15 76 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
15 76 (5.48%) Snowflake
16 73 (5.26%) Azure AKS
17 65 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
18 64 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
19 56 (4.04%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 69 (4.97%) DNS
2 68 (4.90%) Firewall
3 47 (3.39%) VPN
4 37 (2.67%) Network Security
5 23 (1.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 23 (1.66%) VLAN
6 22 (1.59%) BGP
6 22 (1.59%) 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 (0.87%) OSPF
10 12 (0.87%) Wireless
11 11 (0.79%) Ethernet VPN
11 11 (0.79%) VXLAN
12 10 (0.72%) NX-OS
13 8 (0.58%) IPsec
13 8 (0.58%) TACACS
14 7 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (8.29%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (6.27%) SQL Server
3 79 (5.70%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.69%) NoSQL
5 61 (4.40%) Power BI
6 56 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
7 51 (3.68%) Redis
8 49 (3.53%) Data Lake
9 45 (3.24%) Relational Database
10 39 (2.81%) DynamoDB
11 34 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
11 34 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
12 31 (2.24%) Delta Lake
13 28 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
13 28 (2.02%) MySQL
14 27 (1.95%) BigQuery
15 24 (1.73%) Metadata
16 20 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
17 19 (1.37%) Big Data
18 18 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 392 (28.26%) Jenkins
2 292 (21.05%) GitLab
3 282 (20.33%) Git
4 156 (11.25%) JIRA
5 70 (5.05%) Selenium
6 64 (4.61%) JUnit
7 60 (4.33%) SonarQube
8 53 (3.82%) Cucumber
9 47 (3.39%) Bitbucket
10 42 (3.03%) Gatling
11 38 (2.74%) Claude Code
12 36 (2.60%) Gradle
13 34 (2.45%) Cypress.io
13 34 (2.45%) JMeter
14 32 (2.31%) Maven
15 31 (2.24%) Postman
16 28 (2.02%) CircleCI
16 28 (2.02%) REST Assured
17 24 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
18 23 (1.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 344 (24.80%) Social Skills
2 286 (20.62%) Finance
3 147 (10.60%) Public Sector
4 137 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (6.63%) Banking
6 48 (3.46%) Retail
7 43 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (1.51%) Legal
10 17 (1.23%) Law
10 17 (1.23%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.01%) Aerospace
13 13 (0.94%) Marketing
13 13 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (0.79%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.79%) Local Government
14 11 (0.79%) Military
15 10 (0.72%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 279 (20.12%) Senior
2 256 (18.46%) Developer
3 170 (12.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 125 (9.01%) Architect
5 118 (8.51%) Lead
6 100 (7.21%) Data Engineer
7 78 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
8 75 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
9 70 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
10 67 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
10 67 (4.83%) Senior Developer
11 64 (4.61%) Java Developer
11 64 (4.61%) Software Engineer
12 51 (3.68%) Senior DevOps
13 49 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
14 47 (3.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 45 (3.24%) Test Engineer
16 42 (3.03%) Automation Engineer
17 40 (2.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 38 (2.74%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 654 (47.15%) Terraform
2 243 (17.52%) REST
3 155 (11.18%) Kafka
4 141 (10.17%) RESTful
5 128 (9.23%) Spring
6 120 (8.65%) .NET
7 115 (8.29%) React
8 110 (7.93%) Spring Boot
9 85 (6.13%) Playwright
10 67 (4.83%) Node.js
11 60 (4.33%) OAuth
12 54 (3.89%) JSON
13 51 (3.68%) HTML
14 49 (3.53%) FastAPI
15 48 (3.46%) YAML
16 44 (3.17%) OAuth2
16 44 (3.17%) PySpark
17 39 (2.81%) GraphQL
18 38 (2.74%) AngularJS
18 38 (2.74%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 296 (21.34%) Cloud Native
2 105 (7.57%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (6.13%) AI Agents
4 73 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 55 (3.97%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (3.53%) Data Centre
7 42 (3.03%) Onboarding
8 38 (2.74%) Mobile App
9 33 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 29 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
11 25 (1.80%) Security Posture
11 25 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.73%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.59%) Public Cloud
14 20 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
14 20 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
14 20 (1.44%) Low-Code
15 17 (1.23%) Algorithms
15 17 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (1.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 128 (9.23%) Linux
2 62 (4.47%) Windows
3 31 (2.24%) Unix
4 27 (1.95%) 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%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,050 (75.70%) CI/CD
2 805 (58.04%) DevOps
3 566 (40.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 507 (36.55%) Agile
5 355 (25.59%) Observability
6 349 (25.16%) AI
7 346 (24.95%) Test Automation
8 282 (20.33%) Containerisation
9 270 (19.47%) Microservices
10 240 (17.30%) Software Engineering
11 206 (14.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 206 (14.85%) Platform Engineering
12 183 (13.19%) Event-Driven
13 175 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
13 175 (12.62%) Stakeholder Management
14 152 (10.96%) Analytics
15 148 (10.67%) Technical Leadership
16 140 (10.09%) Scrum
17 131 (9.44%) Data Modelling
18 127 (9.16%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 616 (44.41%) Python
2 307 (22.13%) SQL
3 275 (19.83%) Java
4 179 (12.91%) Bash
5 178 (12.83%) PowerShell
6 156 (11.25%) TypeScript
7 144 (10.38%) JavaScript
8 128 (9.23%) C#
9 96 (6.92%) Bicep
10 48 (3.46%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.10%) Go
12 33 (2.38%) Shell Script
13 28 (2.02%) Scala
14 19 (1.37%) Swift
15 17 (1.23%) Ruby
16 16 (1.15%) ActionScript
17 12 (0.87%) C
18 11 (0.79%) Objective-C
19 10 (0.72%) Groovy
19 10 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 405 (29.20%) Security Cleared
2 351 (25.31%) SC Cleared
3 66 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 62 (4.47%) Degree
5 47 (3.39%) AWS Certification
6 41 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 40 (2.88%) DV Cleared
8 36 (2.60%) 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 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 9 (0.65%) CISSP
14 9 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 8 (0.58%) SAFe Agilist
16 7 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (14.56%) QA
2 80 (5.77%) Accessibility
3 79 (5.70%) Data Quality
4 32 (2.31%) WCAG
5 28 (2.02%) GDPR
6 26 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.66%) NIST
8 12 (0.87%) 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%) JSP 440
System Software
1 437 (31.51%) Docker
2 45 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.95%) 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 8 (0.58%) 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 (35.62%) Kubernetes
2 207 (14.92%) Ansible
3 184 (13.27%) Grafana
4 143 (10.31%) Prometheus
5 51 (3.68%) Argo
6 22 (1.59%) Puppet
7 20 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (1.30%) Progress Chef
9 16 (1.15%) Packer
10 14 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (0.94%) 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
1 259 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 106 (7.64%) Databricks
3 93 (6.71%) Splunk
4 92 (6.63%) Google
5 63 (4.54%) Dynatrace
6 53 (3.82%) Oracle
7 50 (3.60%) OpenAI
8 49 (3.53%) ServiceNow
9 38 (2.74%) VMware
10 37 (2.67%) Cisco
11 29 (2.09%) Foundry
11 29 (2.09%) Red Hat
12 28 (2.02%) Salesforce
13 27 (1.95%) IBM
14 24 (1.73%) F5
15 23 (1.66%) New Relic
16 17 (1.23%) Informatica
16 17 (1.23%) Palo Alto
17 15 (1.08%) SAP
18 14 (1.01%) Checkmarx