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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 128 170
Rank change year-on-year +59 +42 -45
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,200 528 534
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.46% 2.06% 1.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.24% 5.47% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 363 375
10th Percentile £356 £324 £409
25th Percentile £412 £445 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £687 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 3
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 £27.35
25th Percentile £46.00 £26.19 £34.63
Median hourly rate £62.00 £27.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +125.45% -43.30% -10.19%
75th Percentile £74.00 £61.25 £58.63
90th Percentile £81.20 £68.75 £63.65
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £27.50 £44.25
% change year-on-year +103.64% -37.85% -18.06%

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 12,984 9,650 12,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.43% 37.61% 32.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,962 6,496 9,030
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 148 312
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.38 £14.14
25th Percentile £19.19 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £27.63 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.96% +28.51% -14.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £79.50 £74.28 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.54 £27.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +36.51% +27.91% -14.00%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +41 684 £540 -1.82% 220
North of England +39 191 £500 +5.26% 156
Yorkshire +9 111 £480 -3.03% 62
South East +45 108 £450 -5.26% 163
Midlands +23 89 £550 +11.11% 76
South West +16 74 £550 -15.38% 72
West Midlands +6 71 £575 +24.12% 32
North West +10 68 £513 +7.89% 69
East of England -20 19 £550 +72.41% 66
East Midlands -10 17 £402 -19.60% 44
North East -3 16 £545 +50.34% 26
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
1 109 (9.08%) Confluence
2 46 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 24 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 10 (0.83%) OpenStack
5 9 (0.75%) Apache
6 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.67%) nginx
7 4 (0.33%) CMS
8 3 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.17%) Magnolia
9 2 (0.17%) Traefik
9 2 (0.17%) WordPress
10 1 (0.083%) Appian
10 1 (0.083%) Mule
10 1 (0.083%) SAS
10 1 (0.083%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.083%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.083%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.58%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.083%) InDesign
6 1 (0.083%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.083%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.58%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.33%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.083%) Actimize
4 1 (0.083%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.083%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.083%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.083%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.083%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.083%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 599 (49.92%) GitHub Actions
2 542 (45.17%) Azure
3 539 (44.92%) AWS
4 257 (21.42%) Azure DevOps
5 189 (15.75%) GCP
6 183 (15.25%) Serverless
7 115 (9.58%) AWS Lambda
8 99 (8.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 97 (8.08%) Amazon EKS
10 95 (7.92%) Amazon S3
11 86 (7.17%) Power Platform
12 83 (6.92%) Amazon ECS
13 81 (6.75%) OpenShift
14 72 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
15 70 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 67 (5.58%) Azure AKS
17 66 (5.50%) Azure Monitor
17 66 (5.50%) GitHub Copilot
18 61 (5.08%) Entra ID
19 52 (4.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 54 (4.50%) Firewall
2 50 (4.17%) DNS
3 28 (2.33%) Network Security
4 27 (2.25%) VPN
5 12 (1.00%) HTTP
6 10 (0.83%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.75%) SSL
8 8 (0.67%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.67%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.67%) WAN
9 7 (0.58%) Ethernet
9 7 (0.58%) Modbus
9 7 (0.58%) RS-232
9 7 (0.58%) RS-485
10 5 (0.42%) Internet
10 5 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.17%) Calico
11 2 (0.17%) DSL
12 1 (0.083%) Intranet
12 1 (0.083%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (13.75%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (6.50%) NoSQL
3 64 (5.33%) MongoDB
4 59 (4.92%) Data Lake
5 57 (4.75%) Amazon RDS
5 57 (4.75%) SQL Server
6 49 (4.08%) Power BI
6 49 (4.08%) Relational Database
7 45 (3.75%) DynamoDB
8 40 (3.33%) Redis
9 37 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
10 36 (3.00%) MySQL
11 31 (2.58%) Delta Lake
12 26 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
13 18 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (1.50%) BigQuery
14 17 (1.42%) Big Data
14 17 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
15 15 (1.25%) DocumentDB
16 13 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 363 (30.25%) Jenkins
2 227 (18.92%) Git
3 211 (17.58%) GitLab
4 170 (14.17%) JIRA
5 80 (6.67%) JUnit
6 58 (4.83%) Sonatype Nexus
7 48 (4.00%) Cucumber
8 44 (3.67%) Artifactory
8 44 (3.67%) Selenium
9 41 (3.42%) Cypress.io
10 39 (3.25%) Bitbucket
10 39 (3.25%) CircleCI
11 36 (3.00%) Gradle
11 36 (3.00%) Postman
12 33 (2.75%) JMeter
12 33 (2.75%) SonarQube
13 29 (2.42%) Maven
14 17 (1.42%) MLflow
15 16 (1.33%) REST Assured
16 15 (1.25%) Snyk
General
1 299 (24.92%) Social Skills
2 179 (14.92%) Finance
3 147 (12.25%) Public Sector
4 87 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (6.83%) Banking
6 21 (1.75%) Military
7 20 (1.67%) Retail
8 17 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
10 14 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.08%) Front Office
12 12 (1.00%) Investment Banking
13 9 (0.75%) Marketing
14 8 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.67%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.42%) Billing
15 5 (0.42%) Games
15 5 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.42%) Law
Job Titles
1 274 (22.83%) Developer
2 181 (15.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 181 (15.08%) Senior
3 91 (7.58%) Data Engineer
3 91 (7.58%) Lead
4 80 (6.67%) Architect
4 80 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 76 (6.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 75 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 67 (5.58%) Platform Engineer
8 64 (5.33%) Java Developer
9 58 (4.83%) Azure Engineer
10 50 (4.17%) Software Engineer
11 47 (3.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 44 (3.67%) AWS DevOps
13 43 (3.58%) Senior Developer
14 40 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 35 (2.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 31 (2.58%) GCP Engineer
17 30 (2.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (12.17%) Kafka
2 145 (12.08%) REST
3 130 (10.83%) React
4 124 (10.33%) Node.js
5 123 (10.25%) Spring
6 109 (9.08%) .NET
7 88 (7.33%) Spring Boot
8 86 (7.17%) RESTful
9 72 (6.00%) AngularJS
10 65 (5.42%) Playwright
11 63 (5.25%) CSS
12 56 (4.67%) HTML
13 51 (4.25%) Elastic Stack
14 47 (3.92%) OAuth
15 44 (3.67%) PySpark
16 43 (3.58%) PyTorch
17 40 (3.33%) JSON
18 38 (3.17%) FastAPI
18 38 (3.17%) Jest
18 38 (3.17%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 197 (16.42%) Cloud Native
2 48 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (3.58%) Product Ownership
4 31 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.25%) Public Cloud
6 21 (1.75%) Algorithms
7 17 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 17 (1.42%) Virtual Team
8 16 (1.33%) AI Agents
8 16 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (1.33%) Security Posture
9 15 (1.25%) Life Science
9 15 (1.25%) Replication
10 14 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (1.17%) NHS
11 13 (1.08%) Private Cloud
12 12 (1.00%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.00%) Genomics
13 11 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 157 (13.08%) Linux
2 36 (3.00%) Windows
3 23 (1.92%) Android
3 23 (1.92%) Unix
4 16 (1.33%) Apple iOS
5 15 (1.25%) VMS
6 13 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.58%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
8 4 (0.33%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.25%) CentOS
9 3 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.17%) Debian
10 2 (0.17%) Rocky
10 2 (0.17%) Solaris
10 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 864 (72.00%) CI/CD
2 706 (58.83%) DevOps
3 421 (35.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 387 (32.25%) Agile
5 311 (25.92%) Containerisation
6 255 (21.25%) Test Automation
7 236 (19.67%) AI
8 230 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
9 220 (18.33%) Microservices
10 207 (17.25%) Observability
11 168 (14.00%) Migration
12 150 (12.50%) Analytics
13 142 (11.83%) Platform Engineering
14 140 (11.67%) Full-Stack Development
15 128 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
16 121 (10.08%) Software Engineering
17 118 (9.83%) Data Pipeline
18 103 (8.58%) Data Engineering
19 101 (8.42%) Machine Learning
20 100 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 560 (46.67%) Python
2 268 (22.33%) SQL
3 245 (20.42%) Java
4 170 (14.17%) JavaScript
5 139 (11.58%) TypeScript
6 138 (11.50%) Bash
7 100 (8.33%) C#
7 100 (8.33%) PowerShell
8 70 (5.83%) Go
9 49 (4.08%) Bicep
10 31 (2.58%) Shell Script
11 24 (2.00%) Ruby
12 16 (1.33%) Kotlin
12 16 (1.33%) Scala
13 14 (1.17%) PHP
14 12 (1.00%) Groovy
15 11 (0.92%) C++
16 10 (0.83%) Swift
17 9 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.67%) C
Qualifications
1 347 (28.92%) Security Cleared
2 263 (21.92%) SC Cleared
3 78 (6.50%) Degree
4 50 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 44 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 35 (2.92%) AWS Certification
8 27 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 15 (1.25%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.83%) OCP
11 10 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.67%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 7 (0.58%) CISSP
14 4 (0.33%) CTC Cleared
14 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (6.58%) QA
2 51 (4.25%) Accessibility
3 50 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 26 (2.17%) NIST
5 24 (2.00%) WCAG
6 21 (1.75%) NCSC
7 19 (1.58%) GDPR
8 15 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 13 (1.08%) PCI DSS
10 12 (1.00%) EU AI Act
11 7 (0.58%) SLA
12 6 (0.50%) GRC
13 4 (0.33%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.25%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.17%) MiFID
15 2 (0.17%) PSD2
15 2 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 388 (32.33%) Docker
2 33 (2.75%) Active Directory
2 33 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.25%) VMware NSX
4 15 (1.25%) vSphere
5 7 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.58%) Firmware
6 3 (0.25%) HDFS
6 3 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.17%) NFS
7 2 (0.17%) Veritas File System
7 2 (0.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.083%) etcd
8 1 (0.083%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.083%) QEMU
8 1 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 522 (43.50%) Terraform
2 468 (39.00%) Kubernetes
3 179 (14.92%) Ansible
4 133 (11.08%) Grafana
5 95 (7.92%) Prometheus
6 71 (5.92%) Argo
7 38 (3.17%) Istio
8 25 (2.08%) Progress Chef
9 21 (1.75%) Puppet
10 15 (1.25%) vCenter Server
11 12 (1.00%) Kibana
11 12 (1.00%) Podman
12 10 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.75%) Packer
14 8 (0.67%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.58%) Sysdig
16 6 (0.50%) linkerd
17 5 (0.42%) logstash
17 5 (0.42%) Rancher
18 3 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 194 (16.17%) Microsoft
2 98 (8.17%) Google
3 88 (7.33%) Databricks
4 72 (6.00%) Splunk
5 52 (4.33%) VMware
6 45 (3.75%) Red Hat
7 44 (3.67%) OpenAI
8 41 (3.42%) Oracle
9 20 (1.67%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.58%) ServiceNow
11 18 (1.50%) Foundry
11 18 (1.50%) Sonatype
12 16 (1.33%) Salesforce
13 15 (1.25%) Pure Storage
14 14 (1.17%) Dynatrace
15 10 (0.83%) SAP
16 8 (0.67%) Commvault
16 8 (0.67%) New Relic
17 7 (0.58%) Okta
17 7 (0.58%) Veracode