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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 106 135
Rank change year-on-year +19 +29 -7
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,356 687 599
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 2.47% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.54% 6.64% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 930 473 399
10th Percentile £395 £364 £310
25th Percentile £450 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -8.70%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £737 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 34
10th Percentile £46.25 - £41.75
25th Percentile £52.11 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.87% +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% -8.20%

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 15,886 10,346 11,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.02% 37.25% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,591 7,013 8,027
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 268 239
10th Percentile £16.56 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.02 £18.13 £16.15
Median hourly rate £37.24 £25.58 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +45.61% +7.46% -27.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.38
90th Percentile £84.38 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.98
% change year-on-year +29.09% +14.70% -31.50%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +27 784 £550 - 429
North of England +33 256 £500 +5.26% 163
Yorkshire +26 178 £493 -1.50% 64
Midlands +16 113 £500 +5.26% 61
West Midlands +4 101 £500 +5.26% 37
South East -54 79 £525 +10.53% 137
South West +4 69 £500 -16.67% 67
North West -24 64 £589 +29.48% 80
East of England +5 33 £500 -9.09% 46
North East -27 16 £450 -5.26% 20
East Midlands -10 11 £470 -5.05% 24
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
1 125 (9.22%) Confluence
2 48 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (2.80%) SharePoint
4 21 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 19 (1.40%) Apache
6 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.52%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.52%) nginx
8 6 (0.44%) Tuxedo
9 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.15%) CMS
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
10 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.074%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.074%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.074%) Mendix
11 1 (0.074%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.074%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Chatbot
1 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.29%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.29%) Trello
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.074%) Notion
6 1 (0.074%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.37%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.22%) Findur
4 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.22%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.074%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.074%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.074%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 726 (53.54%) GitHub Actions
2 671 (49.48%) Azure
3 624 (46.02%) AWS
4 390 (28.76%) Azure DevOps
5 207 (15.27%) GCP
6 157 (11.58%) Serverless
7 131 (9.66%) Amazon S3
8 114 (8.41%) AWS Lambda
8 114 (8.41%) GitHub Copilot
9 113 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
10 95 (7.01%) Azure Monitor
11 93 (6.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 86 (6.34%) Power Platform
13 76 (5.60%) Azure AKS
14 74 (5.46%) Amazon EC2
15 73 (5.38%) Entra ID
16 71 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
17 69 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
18 60 (4.42%) Snowflake
19 52 (3.83%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 71 (5.24%) Firewall
2 66 (4.87%) DNS
3 57 (4.20%) VPN
4 29 (2.14%) Network Security
5 17 (1.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 17 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.11%) VLAN
7 13 (0.96%) SSL
8 10 (0.74%) BGP
9 9 (0.66%) BIG-IP
9 9 (0.66%) DHCP
9 9 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (0.66%) OSPF
9 9 (0.66%) Wireless
10 8 (0.59%) IPsec
10 8 (0.59%) WAN
11 7 (0.52%) HTTP
11 7 (0.52%) Internet
12 5 (0.37%) SD-WAN
13 4 (0.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (8.19%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.64%) SQL Server
3 73 (5.38%) NoSQL
4 62 (4.57%) MongoDB
4 62 (4.57%) Power BI
5 53 (3.91%) Data Lake
6 46 (3.39%) DynamoDB
6 46 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 40 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
7 40 (2.95%) Redis
8 36 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 35 (2.58%) Delta Lake
10 34 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
11 33 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 26 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
13 22 (1.62%) Metadata
14 20 (1.47%) Big Data
14 20 (1.47%) BigQuery
15 16 (1.18%) MySQL
15 16 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 425 (31.34%) Jenkins
2 280 (20.65%) GitLab
3 260 (19.17%) Git
4 181 (13.35%) JIRA
5 75 (5.53%) JUnit
5 75 (5.53%) Selenium
6 55 (4.06%) Cucumber
7 47 (3.47%) Bitbucket
8 45 (3.32%) SonarQube
9 41 (3.02%) Cypress.io
10 38 (2.80%) Gatling
10 38 (2.80%) Gradle
10 38 (2.80%) JMeter
11 34 (2.51%) REST Assured
12 33 (2.43%) Maven
13 31 (2.29%) CircleCI
13 31 (2.29%) Postman
14 24 (1.77%) Claude Code
15 21 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
15 21 (1.55%) WebDriver
General
1 327 (24.12%) Social Skills
2 255 (18.81%) Finance
3 153 (11.28%) Public Sector
4 113 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (5.97%) Banking
6 42 (3.10%) Retail
7 27 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (1.70%) Legal
9 18 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.18%) Law
11 15 (1.11%) Investment Banking
11 15 (1.11%) Military
12 13 (0.96%) Telecoms
13 12 (0.88%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.59%) Marketing
15 8 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.59%) Publishing
16 7 (0.52%) Billing
Job Titles
1 247 (18.22%) Senior
2 245 (18.07%) Developer
3 173 (12.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 120 (8.85%) Architect
4 120 (8.85%) Lead
5 102 (7.52%) Data Engineer
6 80 (5.90%) AWS Engineer
6 80 (5.90%) Platform Engineer
7 70 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
8 63 (4.65%) Senior Developer
9 62 (4.57%) Java Developer
10 61 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
11 59 (4.35%) Software Engineer
12 46 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 45 (3.32%) Senior DevOps
14 44 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
15 43 (3.17%) Test Engineer
16 41 (3.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 36 (2.65%) GCP Engineer
17 36 (2.65%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (14.90%) REST
2 125 (9.22%) Spring
3 124 (9.14%) RESTful
4 122 (9.00%) Kafka
5 112 (8.26%) .NET
6 111 (8.19%) React
7 95 (7.01%) Spring Boot
8 83 (6.12%) Playwright
9 69 (5.09%) Node.js
10 54 (3.98%) PySpark
11 42 (3.10%) OpenTelemetry
12 41 (3.02%) .NET Framework
12 41 (3.02%) AngularJS
12 41 (3.02%) OAuth
13 38 (2.80%) YAML
14 37 (2.73%) JSON
15 36 (2.65%) HTML
16 35 (2.58%) OAuth2
17 34 (2.51%) FastAPI
18 33 (2.43%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 285 (21.02%) Cloud Native
2 122 (9.00%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (5.09%) Product Ownership
4 46 (3.39%) AI Agents
5 38 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 38 (2.80%) Mobile App
6 36 (2.65%) Data Centre
7 35 (2.58%) Onboarding
8 27 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
10 23 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.47%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
11 20 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
12 18 (1.33%) Security Posture
13 16 (1.18%) Algorithms
13 16 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (1.11%) Private Cloud
14 15 (1.11%) Public Cloud
14 15 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 126 (9.29%) Linux
2 62 (4.57%) Windows
3 36 (2.65%) Android
4 30 (2.21%) Apple iOS
5 28 (2.06%) Unix
6 20 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (1.47%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.37%) VMS
9 3 (0.22%) CentOS
9 3 (0.22%) Debian
9 3 (0.22%) Rocky
10 2 (0.15%) AIX
10 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.15%) MVS
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,016 (74.93%) CI/CD
2 794 (58.55%) DevOps
3 542 (39.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 483 (35.62%) Agile
5 342 (25.22%) Test Automation
6 328 (24.19%) Observability
7 295 (21.76%) Containerisation
8 268 (19.76%) AI
9 263 (19.40%) Microservices
10 213 (15.71%) Platform Engineering
11 203 (14.97%) Software Engineering
12 198 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 165 (12.17%) Analytics
14 163 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
15 155 (11.43%) Event-Driven
16 124 (9.14%) Technical Leadership
17 123 (9.07%) DevSecOps
18 122 (9.00%) Data Pipeline
19 117 (8.63%) Validation
20 116 (8.55%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 577 (42.55%) Python
2 321 (23.67%) SQL
3 258 (19.03%) Java
4 197 (14.53%) Bash
5 167 (12.32%) PowerShell
6 134 (9.88%) C#
7 132 (9.73%) JavaScript
7 132 (9.73%) TypeScript
8 84 (6.19%) Bicep
9 48 (3.54%) Kotlin
10 42 (3.10%) Go
11 28 (2.06%) Shell Script
12 27 (1.99%) Scala
13 23 (1.70%) Ruby
14 22 (1.62%) Swift
15 14 (1.03%) Groovy
16 10 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.66%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.66%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.66%) C
Qualifications
1 419 (30.90%) Security Cleared
2 365 (26.92%) SC Cleared
3 60 (4.42%) Degree
4 59 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 45 (3.32%) AWS Certification
6 41 (3.02%) DV Cleared
7 33 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.81%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 8 (0.59%) CISSP
15 7 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (0.44%) OCP
16 6 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (12.76%) QA
2 75 (5.53%) Data Quality
3 67 (4.94%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.21%) GDPR
5 24 (1.77%) WCAG
6 21 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.81%) NIST
8 10 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.59%) GRC
10 7 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.44%) NCSC
12 5 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.37%) PSD2
13 4 (0.29%) HL7
13 4 (0.29%) SEPA
14 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.074%) OpenSCAP
15 1 (0.074%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 408 (30.09%) Docker
2 43 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.40%) vSphere
6 16 (1.18%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.81%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.52%) IAG
9 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.29%) NFS
10 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.15%) Firmware
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.15%) SRDF
10 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.15%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 640 (47.20%) Terraform
2 478 (35.25%) Kubernetes
3 201 (14.82%) Ansible
4 182 (13.42%) Grafana
5 154 (11.36%) Prometheus
6 66 (4.87%) Argo
7 28 (2.06%) Puppet
8 18 (1.33%) Progress Chef
8 18 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (1.18%) Istio
9 16 (1.18%) Packer
9 16 (1.18%) vCenter Server
10 13 (0.96%) Kibana
11 9 (0.66%) Control-M
11 9 (0.66%) HAProxy
11 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.66%) NetBackup
12 7 (0.52%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.44%) SCCM
14 5 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 237 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.93%) Databricks
3 91 (6.71%) Google
4 87 (6.42%) Splunk
5 53 (3.91%) Oracle
6 47 (3.47%) Dynatrace
7 41 (3.02%) VMware
8 35 (2.58%) Red Hat
9 33 (2.43%) Salesforce
10 28 (2.06%) ServiceNow
11 27 (1.99%) OpenAI
12 21 (1.55%) Cisco
12 21 (1.55%) Informatica
13 19 (1.40%) F5
14 18 (1.33%) Palo Alto
15 16 (1.18%) Checkmarx
15 16 (1.18%) Foundry
15 16 (1.18%) Pure Storage
15 16 (1.18%) SAP
16 15 (1.11%) IBM