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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 138 176
Rank change year-on-year +63 +38 -57
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,253 509 517
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.20% 2.09% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.86% 5.56% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 896 356 352
10th Percentile £358 £378 £382
25th Percentile £413 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.77% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £619 £630 £623
90th Percentile £700 £744 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 -
25th Percentile £46.00 £25.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £27.38 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +126.48% -15.77% -48.00%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.44 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 £60.30
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +104.57% -15.77% -40.91%

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 14,147 9,154 12,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.16% 37.61% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,771 6,438 8,636
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £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 £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 185 317
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.28 £18.50 £15.85
Median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +61.08% +27.59% -23.78%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.97 £32.75
90th Percentile £80.76 £75.30 £59.97
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.43 £20.97
% change year-on-year +45.85% +30.78% -27.69%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +38 713 £538 -4.87% 226
North of England +47 206 £500 +0.10% 145
Yorkshire +20 130 £477 -13.27% 64
South East +10 103 £477 -4.70% 123
Midlands +12 91 £504 +6.11% 55
South West +26 79 £525 -2.33% 55
West Midlands +1 74 £525 +13.51% 22
North West +7 65 £525 +10.53% 61
East of England -19 26 £500 -9.09% 53
East Midlands -25 16 £402 -19.60% 33
North East -5 13 £525 +44.83% 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 (8.54%) Confluence
2 43 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (2.71%) SharePoint
4 28 (2.23%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.12%) Apache
5 14 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.64%) nginx
7 7 (0.56%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.32%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.16%) SAS
10 2 (0.16%) WordPress
11 1 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.080%) Appian
11 1 (0.080%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.080%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.080%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.080%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.080%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.080%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.32%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.24%) Findur
4 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.080%) Actimize
5 1 (0.080%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.080%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.080%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.080%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 636 (50.76%) GitHub Actions
2 588 (46.93%) Azure
3 561 (44.77%) AWS
4 312 (24.90%) Azure DevOps
5 196 (15.64%) Serverless
6 178 (14.21%) GCP
7 136 (10.85%) AWS Lambda
8 113 (9.02%) Amazon S3
9 104 (8.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 99 (7.90%) Power Platform
11 94 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
12 86 (6.86%) Azure Data Factory
13 84 (6.70%) Amazon ECS
14 80 (6.38%) Azure Monitor
15 78 (6.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 75 (5.99%) Azure AKS
17 72 (5.75%) GitHub Copilot
18 67 (5.35%) Entra ID
19 62 (4.95%) OpenShift
20 55 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 60 (4.79%) Firewall
2 57 (4.55%) DNS
3 31 (2.47%) VPN
4 30 (2.39%) Network Security
5 14 (1.12%) HTTP
6 9 (0.72%) SSL
7 7 (0.56%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.56%) Modbus
7 7 (0.56%) RS-232
7 7 (0.56%) RS-485
8 6 (0.48%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.40%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.32%) DSL
10 4 (0.32%) Internet
10 4 (0.32%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.32%) WAN
11 3 (0.24%) NAS
11 3 (0.24%) SAN
12 2 (0.16%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (11.41%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (6.46%) NoSQL
3 76 (6.07%) Data Lake
4 62 (4.95%) SQL Server
5 60 (4.79%) Power BI
6 58 (4.63%) DynamoDB
7 49 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
7 49 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
8 47 (3.75%) MongoDB
9 46 (3.67%) Relational Database
10 42 (3.35%) Delta Lake
11 37 (2.95%) Redis
12 31 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
13 30 (2.39%) MySQL
14 25 (2.00%) Big Data
15 23 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
16 19 (1.52%) Metadata
17 18 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
18 15 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
19 13 (1.04%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 374 (29.85%) Jenkins
2 243 (19.39%) Git
3 235 (18.75%) GitLab
4 165 (13.17%) JIRA
5 87 (6.94%) JUnit
6 52 (4.15%) Cucumber
6 52 (4.15%) Selenium
7 40 (3.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 38 (3.03%) Artifactory
8 38 (3.03%) Cypress.io
9 37 (2.95%) JMeter
10 34 (2.71%) Bitbucket
10 34 (2.71%) SonarQube
11 32 (2.55%) Postman
12 31 (2.47%) CircleCI
12 31 (2.47%) Gradle
13 25 (2.00%) Maven
14 21 (1.68%) MLflow
15 20 (1.60%) Gatling
16 19 (1.52%) Mockito
General
1 301 (24.02%) Social Skills
2 211 (16.84%) Finance
3 150 (11.97%) Public Sector
4 93 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (6.62%) Banking
6 21 (1.68%) Military
7 20 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (1.60%) Retail
8 17 (1.36%) Front Office
9 15 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.12%) Investment Banking
11 12 (0.96%) Legal
12 11 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.64%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.56%) Law
15 7 (0.56%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.48%) Marketing
17 5 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 256 (20.43%) Developer
2 196 (15.64%) Senior
3 174 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 115 (9.18%) Data Engineer
5 97 (7.74%) Architect
6 96 (7.66%) Lead
7 86 (6.86%) Cloud Engineer
8 83 (6.62%) Platform Engineer
9 75 (5.99%) AWS Engineer
10 68 (5.43%) Azure Engineer
11 65 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
12 63 (5.03%) Java Developer
13 51 (4.07%) Software Engineer
14 46 (3.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 43 (3.43%) GCP Engineer
16 40 (3.19%) Senior Developer
17 38 (3.03%) AWS DevOps
18 36 (2.87%) Tester
19 33 (2.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 33 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (11.17%) REST
2 137 (10.93%) Kafka
3 135 (10.77%) Spring
4 125 (9.98%) React
5 114 (9.10%) .NET
5 114 (9.10%) Node.js
6 102 (8.14%) Spring Boot
7 87 (6.94%) RESTful
8 63 (5.03%) Playwright
9 58 (4.63%) AngularJS
9 58 (4.63%) PySpark
10 43 (3.43%) JSON
11 41 (3.27%) OAuth
12 39 (3.11%) Elastic Stack
13 38 (3.03%) CSS
13 38 (3.03%) Jest
14 35 (2.79%) OpenTelemetry
15 34 (2.71%) HTML
16 30 (2.39%) .NET Framework
16 30 (2.39%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 216 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 74 (5.91%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (4.15%) Product Ownership
4 38 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (2.00%) Public Cloud
6 24 (1.92%) Onboarding
7 23 (1.84%) AI Agents
8 18 (1.44%) Virtual Team
9 17 (1.36%) Security Posture
10 16 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.28%) Mobile App
11 15 (1.20%) NHS
12 13 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (0.88%) Data Centre
13 11 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (0.88%) Private Cloud
13 11 (0.88%) Replication
13 11 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.80%) Algorithms
14 10 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 142 (11.33%) Linux
2 43 (3.43%) Windows
3 28 (2.23%) Unix
4 22 (1.76%) Android
5 19 (1.52%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.12%) VMS
7 11 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.56%) FreeRTOS
8 7 (0.56%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.32%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.24%) Debian
10 3 (0.24%) Rocky
11 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.080%) CentOS
12 1 (0.080%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 922 (73.58%) CI/CD
2 734 (58.58%) DevOps
3 450 (35.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 385 (30.73%) Agile
5 302 (24.10%) Containerisation
6 272 (21.71%) Test Automation
7 238 (18.99%) AI
7 238 (18.99%) Observability
8 220 (17.56%) Microservices
9 203 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
10 182 (14.53%) Platform Engineering
11 181 (14.45%) Analytics
12 170 (13.57%) Migration
13 148 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
14 134 (10.69%) Software Engineering
15 130 (10.38%) Data Pipeline
16 127 (10.14%) Data Engineering
17 123 (9.82%) Full-Stack Development
18 118 (9.42%) Data Modelling
19 117 (9.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 581 (46.37%) Python
2 304 (24.26%) SQL
3 249 (19.87%) Java
4 157 (12.53%) Bash
5 149 (11.89%) JavaScript
6 128 (10.22%) C#
7 125 (9.98%) TypeScript
8 123 (9.82%) PowerShell
9 62 (4.95%) Bicep
10 54 (4.31%) Go
11 32 (2.55%) Shell Script
12 25 (2.00%) Scala
13 23 (1.84%) Ruby
14 18 (1.44%) Kotlin
15 15 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
16 13 (1.04%) Swift
17 10 (0.80%) C++
18 9 (0.72%) C
18 9 (0.72%) Groovy
19 7 (0.56%) Korn
Qualifications
1 382 (30.49%) Security Cleared
2 301 (24.02%) SC Cleared
3 55 (4.39%) Degree
4 47 (3.75%) Azure Certification
5 39 (3.11%) DV Cleared
6 37 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 35 (2.79%) AWS Certification
8 31 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.12%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.88%) OCP
12 11 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
13 10 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 9 (0.72%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 8 (0.64%) CISSP
16 5 (0.40%) CCNP
17 4 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (8.14%) QA
2 68 (5.43%) Data Quality
3 46 (3.67%) Accessibility
4 25 (2.00%) GDPR
4 25 (2.00%) WCAG
5 19 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.44%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.28%) NIST
8 12 (0.96%) NCSC
9 6 (0.48%) GRC
9 6 (0.48%) SLA
10 5 (0.40%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 374 (29.85%) Docker
2 35 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.68%) VMware NSX
5 21 (1.68%) vSphere
6 7 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.56%) Firmware
7 4 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.24%) HDFS
9 1 (0.080%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.080%) IAG
9 1 (0.080%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.080%) NFS
9 1 (0.080%) SRDF
9 1 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 559 (44.61%) Terraform
2 459 (36.63%) Kubernetes
3 185 (14.76%) Ansible
4 128 (10.22%) Grafana
5 92 (7.34%) Prometheus
6 64 (5.11%) Argo
7 38 (3.03%) Istio
8 22 (1.76%) Puppet
9 21 (1.68%) vCenter Server
10 19 (1.52%) Progress Chef
11 13 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (0.96%) Packer
13 10 (0.80%) Kibana
14 9 (0.72%) linkerd
14 9 (0.72%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.56%) Podman
16 5 (0.40%) Sysdig
17 4 (0.32%) HAProxy
17 4 (0.32%) Kubeflow
17 4 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 235 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 115 (9.18%) Databricks
3 91 (7.26%) Google
4 77 (6.15%) Splunk
5 47 (3.75%) Oracle
5 47 (3.75%) VMware
6 44 (3.51%) OpenAI
7 37 (2.95%) Red Hat
8 21 (1.68%) Pure Storage
9 20 (1.60%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.52%) ServiceNow
11 16 (1.28%) Salesforce
11 16 (1.28%) Sonatype
12 15 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 14 (1.12%) Checkmarx
13 14 (1.12%) SAP
14 12 (0.96%) Informatica
15 10 (0.80%) Foundry
16 8 (0.64%) Cloudera
16 8 (0.64%) New Relic