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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 117 167
Rank change year-on-year +35 +50 -41
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,259 584 558
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.93% 2.35% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.37% 6.25% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 397 348
10th Percentile £380 £383 £360
25th Percentile £440 £430 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.13%
75th Percentile £625 £628 £625
90th Percentile £688 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £528
% change year-on-year +0.48% -0.99% -10.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 30
10th Percentile £50.84 £25.70 £45.20
25th Percentile £58.43 £26.38 -
Median hourly rate £66.57 £27.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +142.06% -60.71% +3.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £48.13 -
90th Percentile - £60.50 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £27.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +129.58% -60.71% +27.27%

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 15,046 9,350 12,065
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.69% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,190 6,358 8,621
10th Percentile £325 £312 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 531 234 338
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.08 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% +16.65% -36.10%
75th Percentile £69.60 £38.50 £43.44
90th Percentile £82.37 £70.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.36% +27.27% -37.14%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +30 730 £550 - 157
North of England +27 234 £500 - 106
Yorkshire +20 169 £488 -6.20% 36
Midlands +14 95 £492 +3.58% 50
West Midlands +9 81 £492 +6.43% 19
South West +19 74 £456 -23.96% 56
South East -38 71 £500 +4.93% 124
North West -15 58 £550 +15.79% 54
East of England -11 32 £500 -9.09% 52
East Midlands -13 13 £447 -8.31% 31
North East -28 12 £450 -12.20% 17
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 (8.66%) Confluence
2 44 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (2.54%) SharePoint
4 24 (1.91%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.19%) Apache
6 11 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.87%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.48%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.16%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) nginx
8 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.079%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.079%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.079%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.079%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.079%) SAS
9 1 (0.079%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.079%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.079%) Notion
6 1 (0.079%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.079%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.24%) Findur
2 3 (0.24%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.24%) Sage X3
2 3 (0.24%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.079%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 669 (53.14%) GitHub Actions
2 580 (46.07%) Azure
3 556 (44.16%) AWS
4 332 (26.37%) Azure DevOps
5 186 (14.77%) GCP
6 176 (13.98%) Serverless
7 122 (9.69%) AWS Lambda
8 120 (9.53%) Amazon S3
9 95 (7.55%) Amazon EKS
10 91 (7.23%) Power Platform
11 82 (6.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 82 (6.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 80 (6.35%) Azure Monitor
13 79 (6.27%) Amazon ECS
14 78 (6.20%) GitHub Copilot
15 71 (5.64%) Azure AKS
16 68 (5.40%) Azure Data Factory
17 63 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
18 60 (4.77%) Entra ID
19 47 (3.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 67 (5.32%) Firewall
2 63 (5.00%) DNS
3 43 (3.42%) VPN
4 29 (2.30%) Network Security
5 13 (1.03%) TCP/IP
6 12 (0.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 10 (0.79%) SSL
7 10 (0.79%) VLAN
8 9 (0.71%) BIG-IP
8 9 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 8 (0.64%) HTTP
10 6 (0.48%) Internet
10 6 (0.48%) WAN
10 6 (0.48%) Wireless
11 5 (0.40%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.40%) Modbus
11 5 (0.40%) RS-232
11 5 (0.40%) RS-485
12 4 (0.32%) DHCP
12 4 (0.32%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (6.51%) SQL Server
3 76 (6.04%) Data Lake
4 61 (4.85%) Power BI
5 60 (4.77%) NoSQL
6 52 (4.13%) MongoDB
7 46 (3.65%) DynamoDB
7 46 (3.65%) Relational Database
8 45 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 42 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
9 42 (3.34%) Delta Lake
10 38 (3.02%) Redis
11 34 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
12 29 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
13 22 (1.75%) Big Data
13 22 (1.75%) Metadata
14 21 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
16 18 (1.43%) MySQL
16 18 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 394 (31.29%) Jenkins
2 258 (20.49%) GitLab
3 234 (18.59%) Git
4 158 (12.55%) JIRA
5 82 (6.51%) JUnit
6 61 (4.85%) Selenium
7 50 (3.97%) Cucumber
8 41 (3.26%) Gradle
8 41 (3.26%) JMeter
9 40 (3.18%) Gatling
10 38 (3.02%) Cypress.io
11 36 (2.86%) Bitbucket
12 35 (2.78%) SonarQube
13 34 (2.70%) Maven
13 34 (2.70%) REST Assured
14 33 (2.62%) CircleCI
15 28 (2.22%) Postman
16 22 (1.75%) Mockito
17 21 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
18 20 (1.59%) Artifactory
General
1 291 (23.11%) Social Skills
2 207 (16.44%) Finance
3 146 (11.60%) Public Sector
4 96 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (6.20%) Banking
6 28 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (1.83%) Retail
8 20 (1.59%) Military
9 18 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (1.35%) Legal
11 15 (1.19%) Law
12 13 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (0.95%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.64%) Financial Institution
16 8 (0.64%) Front Office
17 7 (0.56%) Marketing
18 6 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
19 4 (0.32%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 231 (18.35%) Developer
2 220 (17.47%) Senior
3 170 (13.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 115 (9.13%) Architect
5 111 (8.82%) Data Engineer
6 91 (7.23%) Lead
7 84 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 80 (6.35%) Platform Engineer
9 73 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
10 62 (4.92%) Java Developer
11 59 (4.69%) Azure Engineer
12 56 (4.45%) Software Engineer
13 51 (4.05%) Senior Developer
14 50 (3.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 44 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
16 42 (3.34%) GCP Engineer
16 42 (3.34%) Test Engineer
17 35 (2.78%) Senior DevOps
17 35 (2.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 34 (2.70%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (11.52%) REST
2 129 (10.25%) Spring
3 122 (9.69%) Kafka
4 102 (8.10%) React
5 101 (8.02%) .NET
5 101 (8.02%) Spring Boot
6 100 (7.94%) RESTful
7 68 (5.40%) Node.js
7 68 (5.40%) Playwright
8 65 (5.16%) PySpark
9 47 (3.73%) OpenTelemetry
10 39 (3.10%) OAuth
11 36 (2.86%) YAML
12 34 (2.70%) .NET Framework
12 34 (2.70%) GraphQL
13 32 (2.54%) AngularJS
13 32 (2.54%) FastAPI
13 32 (2.54%) OAuth2
14 31 (2.46%) HTML
15 30 (2.38%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 249 (19.78%) Cloud Native
2 105 (8.34%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 35 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 27 (2.14%) Public Cloud
7 26 (2.07%) Mobile App
8 24 (1.91%) AI Agents
9 18 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
10 17 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (0.95%) Low-Code
13 12 (0.95%) Security Posture
14 11 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
14 11 (0.87%) NHS
14 11 (0.87%) Replication
14 11 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 122 (9.69%) Linux
2 61 (4.85%) Windows
3 28 (2.22%) Android
4 25 (1.99%) Apple iOS
4 25 (1.99%) Unix
5 18 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.95%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.79%) VMS
8 5 (0.40%) FreeRTOS
8 5 (0.40%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.32%) Debian
9 4 (0.32%) Rocky
10 3 (0.24%) CentOS
11 2 (0.16%) AIX
11 2 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.16%) MVS
11 2 (0.16%) zOS
12 1 (0.079%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.079%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 950 (75.46%) CI/CD
2 730 (57.98%) DevOps
3 485 (38.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 400 (31.77%) Agile
5 287 (22.80%) Test Automation
6 267 (21.21%) Containerisation
7 257 (20.41%) Observability
8 228 (18.11%) Microservices
9 208 (16.52%) Platform Engineering
10 207 (16.44%) AI
11 166 (13.19%) Software Engineering
12 165 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 162 (12.87%) Analytics
14 154 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
15 153 (12.15%) Migration
16 121 (9.61%) Event-Driven
17 120 (9.53%) Data Pipeline
18 117 (9.29%) Data Engineering
19 116 (9.21%) Data Modelling
20 111 (8.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 538 (42.73%) Python
2 309 (24.54%) SQL
3 239 (18.98%) Java
4 156 (12.39%) Bash
5 138 (10.96%) PowerShell
6 129 (10.25%) JavaScript
7 128 (10.17%) C#
8 111 (8.82%) TypeScript
9 73 (5.80%) Bicep
10 35 (2.78%) Go
11 34 (2.70%) Scala
12 33 (2.62%) Kotlin
13 28 (2.22%) Shell Script
14 22 (1.75%) Ruby
15 19 (1.51%) Swift
16 10 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.71%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.71%) Groovy
18 8 (0.64%) C
18 8 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 370 (29.39%) Security Cleared
2 303 (24.07%) SC Cleared
3 51 (4.05%) Degree
4 44 (3.49%) Azure Certification
4 44 (3.49%) DV Cleared
5 36 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 28 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 28 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (0.95%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (0.87%) SAFe Agilist
10 10 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.64%) CISSP
12 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 7 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (0.48%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.48%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (10.48%) QA
2 77 (6.12%) Data Quality
3 64 (5.08%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.54%) GDPR
5 29 (2.30%) WCAG
6 23 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.59%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.43%) NIST
9 8 (0.64%) GRC
10 7 (0.56%) NCSC
11 6 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.40%) PSD2
13 4 (0.32%) SEPA
14 3 (0.24%) SLA
14 3 (0.24%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.16%) HL7
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 351 (27.88%) Docker
2 32 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.59%) vSphere
6 19 (1.51%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.48%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.40%) Firmware
10 4 (0.32%) NFS
11 2 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.16%) IAG
11 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.16%) SRDF
11 2 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 580 (46.07%) Terraform
2 428 (34.00%) Kubernetes
3 185 (14.69%) Ansible
4 154 (12.23%) Grafana
5 136 (10.80%) Prometheus
6 50 (3.97%) Argo
7 25 (1.99%) Istio
8 24 (1.91%) Puppet
9 20 (1.59%) vCenter Server
10 16 (1.27%) Packer
11 14 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (1.03%) Kibana
12 13 (1.03%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.71%) HAProxy
13 9 (0.71%) NetBackup
14 5 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.32%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.32%) Rancher
16 3 (0.24%) Consul
Vendors
1 224 (17.79%) Microsoft
2 98 (7.78%) Databricks
3 85 (6.75%) Google
4 75 (5.96%) Splunk
5 49 (3.89%) Oracle
6 39 (3.10%) VMware
7 33 (2.62%) Red Hat
8 30 (2.38%) Dynatrace
8 30 (2.38%) OpenAI
9 20 (1.59%) Pure Storage
10 18 (1.43%) ServiceNow
11 16 (1.27%) Informatica
11 16 (1.27%) Salesforce
12 15 (1.19%) Checkmarx
13 14 (1.11%) Atlassian
13 14 (1.11%) Cisco
13 14 (1.11%) IBM
14 13 (1.03%) F5
14 13 (1.03%) Foundry
15 12 (0.95%) SAP