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

 6 months to
28 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 127 162
Rank change year-on-year +46 +35 -33
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,240 534 550
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.97% 2.24% 1.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.45% 5.97% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 846 365 354
10th Percentile £370 £388 £375
25th Percentile £426 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year - -0.47% -12.08%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £514 £520 £533
% change year-on-year -1.15% -2.44% -11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 22
10th Percentile £46.63 £25.93 £32.80
25th Percentile £56.32 £26.94 £66.44
Median hourly rate £63.14 £47.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.92% -32.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £74.25 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £75.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £47.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +32.92% -32.14% +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 14,671 8,950 11,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.13% 37.56% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,994 6,159 8,486
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £508 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -0.72% -2.63% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 502 200 323
10th Percentile £15.64 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £15.95
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.58%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.75 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £66.75
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -39.80%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +35 709 £550 - 179
North of England +30 228 £490 +1.55% 124
Yorkshire +20 162 £480 -5.86% 42
Midlands -1 84 £500 +5.26% 47
South East -24 78 £500 - 90
South West +31 77 £463 -17.78% 58
West Midlands -8 71 £500 +8.11% 22
North West -10 60 £550 +15.79% 62
East of England -14 31 £500 -9.09% 36
East Midlands -18 12 £413 -15.38% 25
North East -22 11 £450 +7.46% 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
1 101 (8.15%) Confluence
2 43 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (2.26%) SharePoint
4 27 (2.18%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.29%) Apache
6 10 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.16%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) nginx
8 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.081%) Appian
9 1 (0.081%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.081%) SAS
9 1 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.081%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.081%) Notion
6 1 (0.081%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.081%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.32%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.24%) Findur
3 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.081%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.081%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.081%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.081%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 650 (52.42%) GitHub Actions
2 581 (46.85%) Azure
3 560 (45.16%) AWS
4 316 (25.48%) Azure DevOps
5 187 (15.08%) GCP
6 183 (14.76%) Serverless
7 127 (10.24%) AWS Lambda
8 115 (9.27%) Amazon S3
9 96 (7.74%) Amazon EKS
10 92 (7.42%) Power Platform
11 90 (7.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 80 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 77 (6.21%) Amazon ECS
14 75 (6.05%) GitHub Copilot
15 74 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
16 73 (5.89%) Azure Monitor
17 69 (5.56%) Azure AKS
18 64 (5.16%) Amazon EC2
19 56 (4.52%) Entra ID
20 55 (4.44%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 64 (5.16%) DNS
2 63 (5.08%) Firewall
3 37 (2.98%) VPN
4 24 (1.94%) Network Security
5 11 (0.89%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.81%) HTTP
6 10 (0.81%) SSL
7 8 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 6 (0.48%) BIG-IP
8 6 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 5 (0.40%) Ethernet
9 5 (0.40%) Modbus
9 5 (0.40%) RS-232
9 5 (0.40%) RS-485
9 5 (0.40%) VLAN
10 4 (0.32%) DSL
10 4 (0.32%) Internet
10 4 (0.32%) NAS
10 4 (0.32%) SAN
10 4 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (6.29%) Data Lake
2 78 (6.29%) SQL Server
3 63 (5.08%) Power BI
4 61 (4.92%) NoSQL
5 56 (4.52%) MongoDB
6 48 (3.87%) DynamoDB
7 44 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 43 (3.47%) Delta Lake
9 40 (3.23%) Redis
10 39 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
10 39 (3.15%) Relational Database
11 28 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
12 27 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 25 (2.02%) Big Data
14 22 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
14 22 (1.77%) Metadata
15 19 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
16 18 (1.45%) MySQL
17 16 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 386 (31.13%) Jenkins
2 254 (20.48%) GitLab
3 231 (18.63%) Git
4 153 (12.34%) JIRA
5 74 (5.97%) JUnit
6 58 (4.68%) Selenium
7 45 (3.63%) Cucumber
8 39 (3.15%) Cypress.io
9 37 (2.98%) Gatling
10 36 (2.90%) SonarQube
11 35 (2.82%) Gradle
11 35 (2.82%) JMeter
12 34 (2.74%) Bitbucket
12 34 (2.74%) CircleCI
13 33 (2.66%) Maven
14 31 (2.50%) Postman
14 31 (2.50%) REST Assured
15 27 (2.18%) Artifactory
16 22 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
17 21 (1.69%) Mockito
General
1 288 (23.23%) Social Skills
2 207 (16.69%) Finance
3 133 (10.73%) Public Sector
4 97 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (6.45%) Banking
6 24 (1.94%) Retail
7 20 (1.61%) Military
8 17 (1.37%) Legal
9 16 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (1.13%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (0.97%) Front Office
14 10 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.73%) Law
16 8 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.56%) Financial Institution
17 7 (0.56%) Marketing
18 5 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
19 4 (0.32%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 237 (19.11%) Developer
2 204 (16.45%) Senior
3 169 (13.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 112 (9.03%) Data Engineer
5 104 (8.39%) Architect
6 100 (8.06%) Lead
7 78 (6.29%) Cloud Engineer
8 72 (5.81%) Platform Engineer
9 62 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
10 61 (4.92%) Java Developer
11 60 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
12 52 (4.19%) Senior Developer
13 49 (3.95%) Software Engineer
14 48 (3.87%) Full-Stack Developer
15 44 (3.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 43 (3.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 41 (3.31%) GCP Engineer
18 38 (3.06%) Test Engineer
19 32 (2.58%) Tester
20 31 (2.50%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (10.81%) REST
2 129 (10.40%) Kafka
2 129 (10.40%) Spring
3 104 (8.39%) .NET
3 104 (8.39%) React
3 104 (8.39%) Spring Boot
4 85 (6.85%) RESTful
5 80 (6.45%) Node.js
6 72 (5.81%) Playwright
7 66 (5.32%) PySpark
8 45 (3.63%) OpenTelemetry
9 39 (3.15%) AngularJS
10 36 (2.90%) YAML
11 35 (2.82%) JSON
11 35 (2.82%) OAuth
12 34 (2.74%) GraphQL
13 33 (2.66%) .NET Framework
14 32 (2.58%) HTML
15 29 (2.34%) FastAPI
16 28 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 229 (18.47%) Cloud Native
2 86 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 30 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 27 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (2.02%) Data Centre
7 23 (1.85%) Public Cloud
8 21 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 21 (1.69%) Mobile App
9 18 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.21%) Security Posture
12 14 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
13 13 (1.05%) Private Cloud
14 12 (0.97%) NHS
15 11 (0.89%) Replication
15 11 (0.89%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 131 (10.56%) Linux
2 54 (4.35%) Windows
3 28 (2.26%) Unix
4 24 (1.94%) Android
5 22 (1.77%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (1.21%) VMS
8 10 (0.81%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.40%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.32%) Debian
10 4 (0.32%) Rocky
11 3 (0.24%) CentOS
12 2 (0.16%) AIX
12 2 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.16%) MVS
12 2 (0.16%) zOS
13 1 (0.081%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 932 (75.16%) CI/CD
2 721 (58.15%) DevOps
3 474 (38.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 369 (29.76%) Agile
5 280 (22.58%) Test Automation
6 270 (21.77%) Containerisation
7 258 (20.81%) Observability
8 218 (17.58%) Microservices
9 199 (16.05%) AI
10 190 (15.32%) Platform Engineering
11 167 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
12 162 (13.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 160 (12.90%) Analytics
14 155 (12.50%) Migration
15 146 (11.77%) Software Engineering
16 122 (9.84%) Data Pipeline
17 121 (9.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 120 (9.68%) Data Engineering
19 114 (9.19%) Event-Driven
20 110 (8.87%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 541 (43.63%) Python
2 306 (24.68%) SQL
3 247 (19.92%) Java
4 160 (12.90%) Bash
5 137 (11.05%) JavaScript
6 131 (10.56%) PowerShell
7 129 (10.40%) C#
8 108 (8.71%) TypeScript
9 63 (5.08%) Bicep
10 41 (3.31%) Go
11 35 (2.82%) Scala
12 33 (2.66%) Shell Script
13 27 (2.18%) Kotlin
14 22 (1.77%) Ruby
15 16 (1.29%) Swift
16 10 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.65%) Groovy
18 7 (0.56%) C++
18 7 (0.56%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 366 (29.52%) Security Cleared
2 295 (23.79%) SC Cleared
3 51 (4.11%) Degree
4 42 (3.39%) Azure Certification
5 38 (3.06%) DV Cleared
6 32 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (2.18%) AWS Certification
9 20 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.89%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (0.56%) OCP
15 7 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
15 7 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 6 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (9.68%) QA
2 75 (6.05%) Data Quality
3 56 (4.52%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.34%) GDPR
5 23 (1.85%) WCAG
6 19 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.53%) PCI DSS
7 13 (1.05%) NIST
8 9 (0.73%) NCSC
9 6 (0.48%) GRC
9 6 (0.48%) SLA
10 5 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.32%) PSD2
11 4 (0.32%) SEPA
12 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 359 (28.95%) Docker
2 30 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.61%) vSphere
6 19 (1.53%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.81%) 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%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.16%) HDFS
11 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.16%) SRDF
11 2 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.081%) IAG
12 1 (0.081%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 574 (46.29%) Terraform
2 435 (35.08%) Kubernetes
3 188 (15.16%) Ansible
4 148 (11.94%) Grafana
5 126 (10.16%) Prometheus
6 60 (4.84%) Argo
7 32 (2.58%) Istio
8 26 (2.10%) Puppet
9 20 (1.61%) vCenter Server
10 16 (1.29%) Packer
11 14 (1.13%) Kibana
11 14 (1.13%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.73%) HAProxy
13 9 (0.73%) NetBackup
14 8 (0.65%) linkerd
15 4 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
15 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.32%) Podman
15 4 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 223 (17.98%) Microsoft
2 100 (8.06%) Databricks
3 88 (7.10%) Google
4 81 (6.53%) Splunk
5 52 (4.19%) Oracle
6 43 (3.47%) VMware
7 36 (2.90%) Red Hat
8 32 (2.58%) OpenAI
9 24 (1.94%) Dynatrace
10 20 (1.61%) Pure Storage
11 17 (1.37%) Salesforce
12 16 (1.29%) Informatica
13 15 (1.21%) ServiceNow
14 14 (1.13%) Atlassian
15 13 (1.05%) Checkmarx
15 13 (1.05%) Foundry
15 13 (1.05%) IBM
16 12 (0.97%) SAP
17 11 (0.89%) Cisco
18 10 (0.81%) Palantir
490 GitHub jobs in England