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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 122 154
Rank change year-on-year +36 +32 -32
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,329 636 604
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.97% 2.34% 1.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.49% 6.26% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 907 431 387
10th Percentile £389 £375 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £628 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 34
10th Percentile £46.25 - £52.60
25th Percentile £54.22 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - £70.00
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 15,658 10,159 11,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.96% 37.34% 33.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,495 6,871 8,501
10th Percentile £325 £313 £311
25th Percentile £421 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.60% -4.67% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 267 303
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.96 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -36.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £42.68 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £27.63 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.86% +25.59% -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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +28 755 £550 - 185
North of England +40 262 £500 +4.17% 89
Yorkshire +31 181 £493 -3.41% 25
Midlands +12 107 £500 +5.26% 44
West Midlands +5 95 £500 +11.11% 24
South East -50 76 £525 +10.53% 96
South West +4 74 £488 -18.75% 32
North West -9 71 £575 +24.53% 49
East of England -3 33 £500 -9.09% 27
North East -27 15 £450 -5.26% 16
East Midlands -9 11 £470 -7.39% 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
1 122 (9.18%) Confluence
2 42 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (2.48%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.73%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.20%) Apache
6 12 (0.90%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.45%) Tuxedo
9 5 (0.38%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.38%) nginx
10 3 (0.23%) CMS
10 3 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.15%) SAS
11 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.075%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.075%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.075%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.075%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.075%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.075%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.15%) Trello
7 1 (0.075%) Notion
7 1 (0.075%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.38%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.23%) Findur
4 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.23%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.075%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 707 (53.20%) GitHub Actions
2 644 (48.46%) Azure
3 604 (45.45%) AWS
4 362 (27.24%) Azure DevOps
5 189 (14.22%) GCP
6 160 (12.04%) Serverless
7 131 (9.86%) Amazon S3
8 119 (8.95%) AWS Lambda
9 101 (7.60%) GitHub Copilot
10 99 (7.45%) Amazon EKS
11 93 (7.00%) Azure Monitor
12 87 (6.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 83 (6.25%) Power Platform
14 70 (5.27%) Amazon EC2
15 69 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
16 68 (5.12%) Entra ID
17 66 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
17 66 (4.97%) Azure AKS
18 55 (4.14%) Azure Data Factory
19 52 (3.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 66 (4.97%) Firewall
2 61 (4.59%) DNS
3 52 (3.91%) VPN
4 29 (2.18%) Network Security
5 17 (1.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 15 (1.13%) VLAN
7 14 (1.05%) TCP/IP
8 11 (0.83%) SSL
9 9 (0.68%) BGP
9 9 (0.68%) BIG-IP
9 9 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (0.68%) Wireless
10 8 (0.60%) IPsec
10 8 (0.60%) OSPF
11 7 (0.53%) HTTP
11 7 (0.53%) Internet
12 6 (0.45%) WAN
13 5 (0.38%) DHCP
14 4 (0.30%) NAS
14 4 (0.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (6.92%) SQL Server
3 63 (4.74%) NoSQL
4 59 (4.44%) Data Lake
5 58 (4.36%) Power BI
6 56 (4.21%) MongoDB
7 48 (3.61%) Relational Database
8 43 (3.24%) DynamoDB
9 41 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
10 38 (2.86%) Delta Lake
11 36 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
12 34 (2.56%) Redis
13 33 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
14 31 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
15 25 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
16 21 (1.58%) Big Data
16 21 (1.58%) Metadata
17 18 (1.35%) BigQuery
18 17 (1.28%) MySQL
19 16 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 416 (31.30%) Jenkins
2 264 (19.86%) GitLab
3 251 (18.89%) Git
4 177 (13.32%) JIRA
5 80 (6.02%) JUnit
6 75 (5.64%) Selenium
7 55 (4.14%) Cucumber
8 42 (3.16%) Cypress.io
9 41 (3.09%) Bitbucket
9 41 (3.09%) Gradle
10 40 (3.01%) JMeter
11 38 (2.86%) Gatling
11 38 (2.86%) REST Assured
12 35 (2.63%) SonarQube
13 33 (2.48%) Maven
14 32 (2.41%) CircleCI
14 32 (2.41%) Postman
15 23 (1.73%) Mockito
15 23 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
16 21 (1.58%) WebDriver
General
1 326 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 241 (18.13%) Finance
3 155 (11.66%) Public Sector
4 111 (8.35%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (6.25%) Banking
6 36 (2.71%) Retail
7 29 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (1.73%) Legal
10 17 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.20%) Military
12 15 (1.13%) Investment Banking
12 15 (1.13%) Law
13 10 (0.75%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.60%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.53%) Front Office
16 7 (0.53%) Marketing
17 6 (0.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 237 (17.83%) Developer
2 233 (17.53%) Senior
3 176 (13.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 118 (8.88%) Lead
5 116 (8.73%) Architect
6 102 (7.67%) Data Engineer
7 82 (6.17%) Platform Engineer
8 78 (5.87%) AWS Engineer
9 72 (5.42%) Cloud Engineer
10 60 (4.51%) Java Developer
11 59 (4.44%) Software Engineer
12 57 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
13 56 (4.21%) Senior Developer
14 48 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 46 (3.46%) Test Engineer
16 45 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
17 42 (3.16%) Senior DevOps
18 38 (2.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 36 (2.71%) GCP Engineer
20 35 (2.63%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (14.07%) REST
2 128 (9.63%) Spring
3 124 (9.33%) Kafka
4 116 (8.73%) RESTful
5 109 (8.20%) React
6 107 (8.05%) .NET
7 101 (7.60%) Spring Boot
8 84 (6.32%) Playwright
9 65 (4.89%) Node.js
10 56 (4.21%) PySpark
11 41 (3.09%) OpenTelemetry
12 40 (3.01%) OAuth
13 39 (2.93%) AngularJS
14 37 (2.78%) .NET Framework
15 36 (2.71%) GraphQL
16 35 (2.63%) HTML
17 34 (2.56%) FastAPI
17 34 (2.56%) JSON
17 34 (2.56%) OAuth2
18 33 (2.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 271 (20.39%) Cloud Native
2 111 (8.35%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 37 (2.78%) AI Agents
5 36 (2.71%) Data Centre
5 36 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (2.71%) Mobile App
6 34 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 24 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
8 23 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
10 18 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 17 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (1.20%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.20%) Security Posture
13 14 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (1.05%) Replication
13 14 (1.05%) Virtual Team
14 13 (0.98%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 119 (8.95%) Linux
2 56 (4.21%) Windows
3 33 (2.48%) Android
4 28 (2.11%) Apple iOS
5 25 (1.88%) Unix
6 19 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.98%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.30%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.30%) VMS
9 3 (0.23%) CentOS
9 3 (0.23%) Debian
9 3 (0.23%) 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%) zOS
11 1 (0.075%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.075%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.075%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 986 (74.19%) CI/CD
2 773 (58.16%) DevOps
3 503 (37.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 457 (34.39%) Agile
5 334 (25.13%) Test Automation
6 304 (22.87%) Observability
7 278 (20.92%) Containerisation
8 252 (18.96%) Microservices
9 234 (17.61%) AI
10 216 (16.25%) Platform Engineering
11 186 (14.00%) Software Engineering
12 184 (13.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 162 (12.19%) Problem-Solving
14 153 (11.51%) Analytics
15 142 (10.68%) Event-Driven
16 136 (10.23%) Migration
17 121 (9.10%) Data Pipeline
18 115 (8.65%) Technical Leadership
19 113 (8.50%) Validation
20 111 (8.35%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 557 (41.91%) Python
2 314 (23.63%) SQL
3 247 (18.59%) Java
4 182 (13.69%) Bash
5 154 (11.59%) PowerShell
6 133 (10.01%) C#
7 131 (9.86%) JavaScript
8 129 (9.71%) TypeScript
9 73 (5.49%) Bicep
10 42 (3.16%) Kotlin
11 39 (2.93%) Go
12 33 (2.48%) Scala
13 27 (2.03%) Shell Script
14 24 (1.81%) Ruby
15 21 (1.58%) Swift
16 14 (1.05%) Groovy
17 10 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.68%) ActionScript
18 9 (0.68%) C
19 8 (0.60%) VB
Qualifications
1 400 (30.10%) Security Cleared
2 339 (25.51%) SC Cleared
3 55 (4.14%) Degree
4 49 (3.69%) Azure Certification
5 45 (3.39%) DV Cleared
6 40 (3.01%) AWS Certification
7 33 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (0.90%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.53%) CISSP
14 7 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 6 (0.45%) OCP
15 6 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (12.26%) QA
2 71 (5.34%) Data Quality
3 66 (4.97%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.26%) GDPR
5 23 (1.73%) WCAG
6 19 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.83%) NIST
7 11 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.60%) GRC
9 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.30%) HL7
11 4 (0.30%) NCSC
12 3 (0.23%) PSD2
13 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.15%) SEPA
13 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.075%) IFRS 17
14 1 (0.075%) SLA
System Software
1 380 (28.59%) Docker
2 36 (2.71%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (1.58%) vSphere
6 19 (1.43%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.53%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.53%) IAG
9 4 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.30%) NFS
10 3 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.23%) Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.15%) SRDF
11 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.15%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 610 (45.90%) Terraform
2 448 (33.71%) Kubernetes
3 200 (15.05%) Ansible
4 178 (13.39%) Grafana
5 149 (11.21%) Prometheus
6 62 (4.67%) Argo
7 26 (1.96%) Puppet
8 20 (1.50%) vCenter Server
9 18 (1.35%) Istio
10 17 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (1.20%) Packer
11 16 (1.20%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.98%) Kibana
13 9 (0.68%) HAProxy
13 9 (0.68%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.53%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
16 5 (0.38%) Control-M
16 5 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
17 3 (0.23%) SELinux
Vendors
1 229 (17.23%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.92%) Databricks
3 90 (6.77%) Splunk
4 85 (6.40%) Google
5 57 (4.29%) Oracle
6 41 (3.09%) Dynatrace
7 39 (2.93%) VMware
8 36 (2.71%) Red Hat
9 28 (2.11%) Salesforce
10 27 (2.03%) OpenAI
11 22 (1.66%) ServiceNow
12 20 (1.50%) Cisco
12 20 (1.50%) Pure Storage
13 18 (1.35%) F5
13 18 (1.35%) Informatica
14 17 (1.28%) Palo Alto
15 16 (1.20%) Checkmarx
15 16 (1.20%) SAP
16 15 (1.13%) Foundry
16 15 (1.13%) IBM