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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 99 128
Rank change year-on-year +13 +29 +8
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,365 736 608
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 2.65% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.59% 7.10% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 933 510 398
10th Percentile £399 £364 £312
25th Percentile £450 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £628
90th Percentile £704 £734 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 33
10th Percentile £46.25 - £38.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.03% +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 15,887 10,359 11,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.78% 37.34% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,607 7,010 7,887
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 275 200
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.24
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -3.65% -18.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.10 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +21.39% +3.70% -22.86%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +20 791 £550 - 215
North of England +20 260 £500 +5.26% 125
Yorkshire +27 175 £493 -1.50% 47
Midlands +12 113 £488 -2.99% 53
West Midlands +4 96 £500 -0.50% 27
South East -39 83 £529 +12.74% 123
South West -14 65 £500 -14.89% 71
North West -28 64 £563 +27.84% 60
East of England -2 33 £505 -8.18% 42
North East -23 23 £450 -5.26% 21
East Midlands -1 17 £400 -19.19% 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
1 114 (8.35%) Confluence
2 46 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 21 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.47%) Apache
6 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.51%) nginx
9 6 (0.44%) Tuxedo
10 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.15%) CMS
11 2 (0.15%) Mendix
11 2 (0.15%) SAS
12 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.073%) IIS
12 1 (0.073%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 7 (0.51%) Chatbot
1 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.29%) Trello
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.073%) Notion
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.37%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.22%) Findur
3 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.073%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.073%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.073%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 744 (54.51%) GitHub Actions
2 699 (51.21%) Azure
3 628 (46.01%) AWS
4 399 (29.23%) Azure DevOps
5 213 (15.60%) GCP
6 171 (12.53%) Serverless
7 129 (9.45%) Amazon S3
8 122 (8.94%) AWS Lambda
9 118 (8.64%) GitHub Copilot
10 115 (8.42%) Amazon EKS
11 103 (7.55%) Azure Monitor
12 94 (6.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 86 (6.30%) Power Platform
14 84 (6.15%) Azure AKS
15 82 (6.01%) Entra ID
16 71 (5.20%) Amazon EC2
17 68 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
18 66 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
19 62 (4.54%) Snowflake
20 51 (3.74%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 69 (5.05%) Firewall
2 65 (4.76%) DNS
3 55 (4.03%) VPN
4 29 (2.12%) Network Security
5 20 (1.47%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.32%) VLAN
7 17 (1.25%) BGP
7 17 (1.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 14 (1.03%) SSL
9 11 (0.81%) DHCP
10 9 (0.66%) BIG-IP
10 9 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 9 (0.66%) OSPF
10 9 (0.66%) WAN
10 9 (0.66%) Wireless
11 8 (0.59%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (0.59%) IPsec
11 8 (0.59%) NX-OS
11 8 (0.59%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 71 (5.20%) NoSQL
4 68 (4.98%) MongoDB
5 65 (4.76%) Power BI
6 49 (3.59%) Redis
7 48 (3.52%) Data Lake
8 46 (3.37%) Relational Database
9 45 (3.30%) DynamoDB
10 44 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
12 32 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
12 32 (2.34%) Delta Lake
13 31 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
14 25 (1.83%) Metadata
15 24 (1.76%) BigQuery
15 24 (1.76%) MySQL
16 22 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
17 20 (1.47%) Big Data
18 16 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 410 (30.04%) Jenkins
2 303 (22.20%) GitLab
3 267 (19.56%) Git
4 167 (12.23%) JIRA
5 71 (5.20%) Selenium
6 70 (5.13%) JUnit
7 52 (3.81%) Cucumber
8 48 (3.52%) SonarQube
9 46 (3.37%) Bitbucket
10 40 (2.93%) Cypress.io
10 40 (2.93%) Gatling
11 38 (2.78%) JMeter
12 36 (2.64%) Gradle
13 32 (2.34%) Maven
14 30 (2.20%) Postman
15 29 (2.12%) CircleCI
16 28 (2.05%) Claude Code
16 28 (2.05%) REST Assured
17 22 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
18 18 (1.32%) Snyk
General
1 331 (24.25%) Social Skills
2 269 (19.71%) Finance
3 155 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 117 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (6.08%) Banking
6 39 (2.86%) Retail
7 36 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (1.76%) Legal
10 17 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.17%) Law
12 14 (1.03%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.95%) Investment Banking
14 12 (0.88%) Aerospace
15 11 (0.81%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.81%) Military
16 9 (0.66%) Marketing
16 9 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.59%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 260 (19.05%) Senior
2 249 (18.24%) Developer
3 178 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 124 (9.08%) Architect
5 121 (8.86%) Lead
6 102 (7.47%) Data Engineer
7 82 (6.01%) Platform Engineer
8 79 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
9 72 (5.27%) Cloud Engineer
10 68 (4.98%) Azure Engineer
11 65 (4.76%) Senior Developer
12 64 (4.69%) Software Engineer
13 62 (4.54%) Java Developer
14 48 (3.52%) Full-Stack Developer
14 48 (3.52%) Test Engineer
15 47 (3.44%) Senior DevOps
16 44 (3.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 43 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 38 (2.78%) Network Engineer
18 38 (2.78%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 657 (48.13%) Terraform
2 226 (16.56%) REST
3 143 (10.48%) Kafka
4 135 (9.89%) RESTful
5 126 (9.23%) Spring
6 115 (8.42%) .NET
7 114 (8.35%) React
8 102 (7.47%) Spring Boot
9 84 (6.15%) Playwright
10 64 (4.69%) Node.js
11 54 (3.96%) OAuth
12 49 (3.59%) PySpark
13 48 (3.52%) YAML
14 46 (3.37%) JSON
15 43 (3.15%) HTML
16 42 (3.08%) OAuth2
17 41 (3.00%) AngularJS
18 40 (2.93%) FastAPI
19 39 (2.86%) .NET Framework
20 36 (2.64%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 290 (21.25%) Cloud Native
2 114 (8.35%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (5.20%) Product Ownership
4 54 (3.96%) AI Agents
5 41 (3.00%) Data Centre
6 39 (2.86%) Mobile App
7 38 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 34 (2.49%) Onboarding
10 29 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
11 25 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.47%) Security Posture
14 19 (1.39%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
15 18 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
15 18 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
16 15 (1.10%) Private Cloud
16 15 (1.10%) Public Cloud
17 14 (1.03%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 124 (9.08%) Linux
2 62 (4.54%) Windows
3 33 (2.42%) Unix
4 28 (2.05%) Android
5 26 (1.90%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.39%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.59%) 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%) 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
11 1 (0.073%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,030 (75.46%) CI/CD
2 812 (59.49%) DevOps
3 557 (40.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 496 (36.34%) Agile
5 353 (25.86%) Test Automation
6 344 (25.20%) Observability
7 297 (21.76%) Containerisation
8 282 (20.66%) AI
9 265 (19.41%) Microservices
10 220 (16.12%) Platform Engineering
11 218 (15.97%) Software Engineering
12 197 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 164 (12.01%) Event-Driven
14 159 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
15 155 (11.36%) Analytics
16 137 (10.04%) DevSecOps
17 136 (9.96%) Technical Leadership
18 134 (9.82%) Stakeholder Management
19 121 (8.86%) Scrum
19 121 (8.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 578 (42.34%) Python
2 321 (23.52%) SQL
3 270 (19.78%) Java
4 190 (13.92%) Bash
5 182 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 141 (10.33%) TypeScript
7 136 (9.96%) C#
8 133 (9.74%) JavaScript
9 98 (7.18%) Bicep
10 45 (3.30%) Kotlin
11 41 (3.00%) Go
12 31 (2.27%) Shell Script
13 29 (2.12%) Scala
14 22 (1.61%) Ruby
15 20 (1.47%) Swift
16 12 (0.88%) Groovy
16 12 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
17 10 (0.73%) ActionScript
18 9 (0.66%) C
18 9 (0.66%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 425 (31.14%) Security Cleared
2 374 (27.40%) SC Cleared
3 65 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 55 (4.03%) Degree
5 44 (3.22%) AWS Certification
6 39 (2.86%) DV Cleared
7 30 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 30 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 10 (0.73%) CISSP
13 10 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 8 (0.59%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (13.70%) QA
2 73 (5.35%) Data Quality
3 69 (5.05%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.27%) GDPR
5 25 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.83%) WCAG
6 16 (1.17%) NIST
7 10 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (0.59%) NCSC
9 7 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.51%) GRC
9 7 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.37%) HL7
10 5 (0.37%) PSD2
11 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.29%) SEPA
12 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.073%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 428 (31.36%) Docker
2 46 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.81%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.81%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.81%) vSphere
6 10 (0.73%) IAG
7 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (0.29%) NFS
8 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.15%) Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.15%) SRDF
9 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 495 (36.26%) Kubernetes
2 204 (14.95%) Ansible
3 190 (13.92%) Grafana
4 153 (11.21%) Prometheus
5 58 (4.25%) Argo
6 26 (1.90%) Puppet
7 23 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.39%) Packer
9 18 (1.32%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.88%) Control-M
10 12 (0.88%) Istio
11 10 (0.73%) Kibana
12 9 (0.66%) HAProxy
12 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.59%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.44%) SCCM
16 5 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.37%) NetBackup
16 5 (0.37%) Podman
Vendors
1 260 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 102 (7.47%) Databricks
3 96 (7.03%) Google
4 93 (6.81%) Splunk
5 54 (3.96%) Oracle
6 53 (3.88%) Dynatrace
7 42 (3.08%) ServiceNow
8 36 (2.64%) VMware
9 33 (2.42%) Red Hat
10 30 (2.20%) OpenAI
10 30 (2.20%) Salesforce
11 29 (2.12%) Cisco
12 25 (1.83%) Informatica
13 20 (1.47%) IBM
14 19 (1.39%) F5
14 19 (1.39%) New Relic
15 18 (1.32%) Checkmarx
15 18 (1.32%) Palo Alto
16 16 (1.17%) Foundry
17 15 (1.10%) SAP