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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 131 173
Rank change year-on-year +64 +42 -46
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,219 515 541
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.45% 2.03% 1.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.24% 5.39% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 878 354 372
10th Percentile £356 £330 £413
25th Percentile £413 £450 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £629
90th Percentile £700 £731 £699
UK median daily rate £517 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.31% -1.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 4
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 -
25th Percentile £44.50 £25.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 £27.38 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year +104.57% -25.51% -40.73%
75th Percentile £66.31 £58.44 £54.44
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 £61.98
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £40.00
% change year-on-year +82.65% -31.56% -25.93%

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 13,196 9,555 12,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.37% 37.74% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,101 6,485 8,919
10th Percentile £309 £313 £272
25th Percentile £408 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £708 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 374 149 323
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.28 £14.15
25th Percentile £20.31 £21.05 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +28.69% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £79.28 £74.10 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £27.13 £21.37
% change year-on-year +45.62% +26.93% -14.52%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 2 March 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 +35 694 £550 -0.68% 251
North of England +39 192 £500 +5.26% 224
Yorkshire +11 112 £491 -1.80% 93
South East +33 110 £450 -10.00% 229
Midlands +19 90 £550 +11.11% 121
South West +20 77 £550 - 110
West Midlands +11 71 £550 +18.73% 46
North West +7 69 £525 +10.53% 94
East of England -19 19 £550 +72.41% 112
East Midlands -15 18 £402 -19.60% 68
North East +1 15 £560 +54.48% 41
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
1 117 (9.60%) Confluence
2 46 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (2.13%) SharePoint
4 24 (1.97%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.74%) Apache
5 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.66%) nginx
7 4 (0.33%) CMS
7 4 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.16%) Traefik
8 2 (0.16%) WordPress
9 1 (0.082%) Appian
9 1 (0.082%) Luigi
9 1 (0.082%) SAS
9 1 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.082%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.082%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.16%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.082%) InDesign
6 1 (0.082%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (0.57%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.33%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.082%) Actimize
4 1 (0.082%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.082%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.082%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.082%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.082%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.082%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.082%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 606 (49.71%) GitHub Actions
2 550 (45.12%) AWS
3 548 (44.95%) Azure
4 262 (21.49%) Azure DevOps
5 195 (16.00%) GCP
6 184 (15.09%) Serverless
7 116 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
8 100 (8.20%) Amazon EKS
8 100 (8.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 97 (7.96%) Amazon S3
10 88 (7.22%) Power Platform
11 84 (6.89%) Amazon ECS
12 81 (6.64%) OpenShift
13 74 (6.07%) Azure Data Factory
14 72 (5.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 70 (5.74%) Azure AKS
16 67 (5.50%) GitHub Copilot
17 66 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
18 62 (5.09%) Entra ID
19 57 (4.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 56 (4.59%) Firewall
2 52 (4.27%) DNS
3 31 (2.54%) VPN
4 27 (2.21%) Network Security
5 13 (1.07%) HTTP
6 9 (0.74%) SSL
6 9 (0.74%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.66%) Kerberos
7 8 (0.66%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.66%) WAN
8 7 (0.57%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.57%) Modbus
8 7 (0.57%) RS-232
8 7 (0.57%) RS-485
9 5 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.33%) Internet
11 2 (0.16%) Calico
11 2 (0.16%) DSL
12 1 (0.082%) BGP
12 1 (0.082%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (13.70%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (6.40%) NoSQL
3 64 (5.25%) MongoDB
4 59 (4.84%) Data Lake
5 58 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
6 55 (4.51%) SQL Server
7 51 (4.18%) Power BI
8 49 (4.02%) Relational Database
9 45 (3.69%) DynamoDB
10 40 (3.28%) Redis
11 38 (3.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 35 (2.87%) MySQL
13 31 (2.54%) Delta Lake
14 26 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
15 18 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (1.48%) Big Data
15 18 (1.48%) BigQuery
16 17 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
17 15 (1.23%) DocumentDB
18 13 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 376 (30.84%) Jenkins
2 231 (18.95%) Git
3 224 (18.38%) GitLab
4 176 (14.44%) JIRA
5 83 (6.81%) JUnit
6 57 (4.68%) Sonatype Nexus
7 54 (4.43%) Cucumber
8 47 (3.86%) Selenium
9 42 (3.45%) Artifactory
10 40 (3.28%) Cypress.io
11 39 (3.20%) CircleCI
12 37 (3.04%) Bitbucket
12 37 (3.04%) JMeter
13 36 (2.95%) Postman
14 35 (2.87%) Gradle
15 32 (2.63%) SonarQube
16 29 (2.38%) Maven
17 18 (1.48%) MLflow
17 18 (1.48%) REST Assured
18 17 (1.39%) Gatling
General
1 306 (25.10%) Social Skills
2 182 (14.93%) Finance
3 149 (12.22%) Public Sector
4 86 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (6.97%) Banking
6 22 (1.80%) Military
7 21 (1.72%) Retail
8 16 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.15%) Front Office
11 13 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (0.98%) Investment Banking
13 9 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.66%) Marketing
14 8 (0.66%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.49%) Law
16 5 (0.41%) Billing
16 5 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.33%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 269 (22.07%) Developer
2 189 (15.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 186 (15.26%) Senior
4 93 (7.63%) Lead
5 92 (7.55%) Data Engineer
6 81 (6.64%) Cloud Engineer
7 79 (6.48%) Architect
8 78 (6.40%) AWS Engineer
9 74 (6.07%) Full-Stack Developer
10 67 (5.50%) Platform Engineer
11 63 (5.17%) Java Developer
12 58 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
13 48 (3.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 47 (3.86%) AWS DevOps
14 47 (3.86%) Software Engineer
15 42 (3.45%) Senior Developer
16 40 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 38 (3.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 34 (2.79%) GCP Engineer
19 32 (2.63%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (12.06%) Kafka
2 146 (11.98%) REST
3 127 (10.42%) Spring
4 126 (10.34%) React
5 125 (10.25%) Node.js
6 109 (8.94%) .NET
7 89 (7.30%) Spring Boot
8 87 (7.14%) RESTful
9 70 (5.74%) AngularJS
10 67 (5.50%) Playwright
11 61 (5.00%) CSS
12 54 (4.43%) HTML
13 49 (4.02%) Elastic Stack
14 45 (3.69%) PySpark
15 43 (3.53%) OAuth
15 43 (3.53%) PyTorch
16 39 (3.20%) JSON
17 38 (3.12%) FastAPI
17 38 (3.12%) Jest
18 37 (3.04%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 200 (16.41%) Cloud Native
2 50 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (3.69%) Product Ownership
4 32 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.21%) Public Cloud
6 21 (1.72%) Algorithms
7 18 (1.48%) Virtual Team
8 17 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.31%) AI Agents
9 16 (1.31%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.31%) Security Posture
10 15 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.15%) Life Science
11 14 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (1.15%) NHS
11 14 (1.15%) Replication
12 12 (0.98%) Data Structures
12 12 (0.98%) Genomics
12 12 (0.98%) Private Cloud
13 11 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 155 (12.72%) Linux
2 36 (2.95%) Windows
3 24 (1.97%) Unix
4 22 (1.80%) Android
5 15 (1.23%) Apple iOS
5 15 (1.23%) VMS
6 12 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.57%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.25%) CentOS
9 3 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.16%) Debian
10 2 (0.16%) Rocky
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.082%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.082%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 880 (72.19%) CI/CD
2 718 (58.90%) DevOps
3 432 (35.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 385 (31.58%) Agile
5 313 (25.68%) Containerisation
6 259 (21.25%) Test Automation
7 240 (19.69%) AI
8 228 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
9 221 (18.13%) Microservices
10 212 (17.39%) Observability
11 168 (13.78%) Migration
12 154 (12.63%) Analytics
13 144 (11.81%) Platform Engineering
14 138 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 136 (11.16%) Full-Stack Development
16 121 (9.93%) Software Engineering
17 120 (9.84%) Data Pipeline
18 105 (8.61%) Data Engineering
19 104 (8.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 102 (8.37%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 568 (46.60%) Python
2 269 (22.07%) SQL
3 246 (20.18%) Java
4 166 (13.62%) JavaScript
5 146 (11.98%) Bash
6 135 (11.07%) TypeScript
7 103 (8.45%) C#
7 103 (8.45%) PowerShell
8 69 (5.66%) Go
9 50 (4.10%) Bicep
10 29 (2.38%) Shell Script
11 25 (2.05%) Ruby
12 17 (1.39%) Scala
13 16 (1.31%) Kotlin
14 13 (1.07%) PHP
15 12 (0.98%) Groovy
16 11 (0.90%) C++
17 10 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
17 10 (0.82%) Swift
18 8 (0.66%) C
Qualifications
1 356 (29.20%) Security Cleared
2 272 (22.31%) SC Cleared
3 76 (6.23%) Degree
4 48 (3.94%) DV Cleared
5 44 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (3.53%) Azure Certification
7 39 (3.20%) AWS Certification
8 26 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 15 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (0.82%) OCP
11 10 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
12 9 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.66%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.57%) CISSP
15 6 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.33%) CTC Cleared
16 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.64%) QA
2 49 (4.02%) Data Quality
3 48 (3.94%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.13%) NIST
5 23 (1.89%) WCAG
6 20 (1.64%) NCSC
7 19 (1.56%) GDPR
8 14 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (1.15%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.98%) EU AI Act
10 8 (0.66%) GRC
11 7 (0.57%) SLA
12 4 (0.33%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.25%) Def Stans
13 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.16%) MiFID
14 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 390 (31.99%) Docker
2 34 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 33 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.23%) VMware NSX
5 15 (1.23%) vSphere
6 7 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.57%) Firmware
7 3 (0.25%) HDFS
7 3 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.082%) etcd
8 1 (0.082%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.082%) NFS
8 1 (0.082%) QEMU
8 1 (0.082%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.082%) Veritas File System
8 1 (0.082%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 532 (43.64%) Terraform
2 474 (38.88%) Kubernetes
3 184 (15.09%) Ansible
4 138 (11.32%) Grafana
5 99 (8.12%) Prometheus
6 74 (6.07%) Argo
7 41 (3.36%) Istio
8 24 (1.97%) Progress Chef
9 22 (1.80%) Puppet
10 15 (1.23%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.98%) Kibana
12 11 (0.90%) Podman
13 10 (0.82%) NetBackup
14 9 (0.74%) Packer
14 9 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (0.66%) linkerd
16 7 (0.57%) Sysdig
17 6 (0.49%) Rancher
18 5 (0.41%) logstash
19 4 (0.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 197 (16.16%) Microsoft
2 102 (8.37%) Google
3 89 (7.30%) Databricks
4 76 (6.23%) Splunk
5 51 (4.18%) VMware
6 45 (3.69%) Red Hat
7 44 (3.61%) OpenAI
8 40 (3.28%) Oracle
9 22 (1.80%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.56%) Foundry
10 19 (1.56%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.56%) Sonatype
11 15 (1.23%) Pure Storage
11 15 (1.23%) Salesforce
12 14 (1.15%) Dynatrace
13 11 (0.90%) SAP
14 9 (0.74%) Commvault
14 9 (0.74%) New Relic
15 7 (0.57%) Adobe
15 7 (0.57%) Veracode