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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 126 166
Rank change year-on-year +45 +40 -40
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,246 537 552
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.98% 2.24% 1.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.48% 5.99% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 854 364 356
10th Percentile £369 £388 £375
25th Percentile £426 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -11.67%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £514 £523 £539
% change year-on-year -1.63% -3.02% -10.21%
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 14,697 8,969 11,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.14% 37.48% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,011 6,159 8,493
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
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 £747
UK median daily rate £508 £508 £525
% change year-on-year - -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 505 207 324
10th Percentile £15.67 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £17.96 £15.96
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.63 £38.28
90th Percentile £81.15 £68.00 £68.23
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -40.64%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +33 714 £550 - 109
North of England +35 231 £488 +2.63% 104
Yorkshire +25 165 £478 -4.40% 35
Midlands +4 84 £494 +3.95% 46
South East -20 77 £500 - 83
South West +26 75 £456 -18.89% 52
West Midlands -7 71 £500 +8.11% 22
North West -5 60 £550 +15.79% 55
East of England -13 31 £500 -9.09% 33
East Midlands -18 12 £413 -15.38% 24
North East -20 11 £450 +7.46% 14
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
1 102 (8.19%) Confluence
2 44 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (2.25%) SharePoint
4 27 (2.17%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.28%) Apache
6 10 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.80%) 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 (0.080%) Appian
9 1 (0.080%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.080%) SAS
9 1 (0.080%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.080%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.080%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.080%) Notion
6 1 (0.080%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.080%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.24%) Findur
3 3 (0.24%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.080%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.080%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 657 (52.73%) GitHub Actions
2 581 (46.63%) Azure
3 562 (45.10%) AWS
4 319 (25.60%) Azure DevOps
5 190 (15.25%) GCP
6 185 (14.85%) Serverless
7 128 (10.27%) AWS Lambda
8 118 (9.47%) Amazon S3
9 97 (7.78%) Amazon EKS
10 91 (7.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 91 (7.30%) Power Platform
11 82 (6.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 77 (6.18%) Amazon ECS
13 76 (6.10%) GitHub Copilot
14 74 (5.94%) Azure Monitor
15 72 (5.78%) Azure Data Factory
16 69 (5.54%) Azure AKS
17 66 (5.30%) Amazon EC2
18 55 (4.41%) Entra ID
19 54 (4.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 65 (5.22%) DNS
2 64 (5.14%) Firewall
3 38 (3.05%) VPN
4 25 (2.01%) Network Security
5 11 (0.88%) SSL
5 11 (0.88%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.80%) HTTP
7 8 (0.64%) 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
1 111 (8.91%) PostgreSQL
2 79 (6.34%) SQL Server
3 78 (6.26%) Data Lake
4 62 (4.98%) Power BI
5 60 (4.82%) NoSQL
6 56 (4.49%) MongoDB
7 47 (3.77%) DynamoDB
8 44 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 43 (3.45%) Delta Lake
10 41 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
11 39 (3.13%) Redis
11 39 (3.13%) Relational Database
12 28 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
13 27 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
14 25 (2.01%) Big Data
15 22 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
15 22 (1.77%) Metadata
16 19 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
17 18 (1.44%) MySQL
18 17 (1.36%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 389 (31.22%) Jenkins
2 257 (20.63%) GitLab
3 234 (18.78%) Git
4 154 (12.36%) JIRA
5 77 (6.18%) JUnit
6 58 (4.65%) Selenium
7 45 (3.61%) Cucumber
8 39 (3.13%) Cypress.io
9 38 (3.05%) Gradle
10 37 (2.97%) CircleCI
10 37 (2.97%) Gatling
11 36 (2.89%) SonarQube
12 35 (2.81%) Bitbucket
12 35 (2.81%) JMeter
13 33 (2.65%) Maven
14 31 (2.49%) Postman
14 31 (2.49%) REST Assured
15 28 (2.25%) Artifactory
16 22 (1.77%) Mockito
16 22 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 289 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 209 (16.77%) Finance
3 133 (10.67%) Public Sector
4 98 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (6.26%) Banking
6 24 (1.93%) Retail
7 19 (1.52%) Military
8 17 (1.36%) Legal
9 16 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (1.12%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (0.88%) Front Office
13 11 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.72%) Law
15 8 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.56%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.56%) Marketing
17 5 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
18 4 (0.32%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 237 (19.02%) Developer
2 205 (16.45%) Senior
3 170 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 112 (8.99%) Data Engineer
5 106 (8.51%) Architect
6 100 (8.03%) Lead
7 79 (6.34%) Cloud Engineer
8 73 (5.86%) Platform Engineer
9 63 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
10 60 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
10 60 (4.82%) Java Developer
11 51 (4.09%) Senior Developer
12 50 (4.01%) Software Engineer
13 48 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
14 44 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 42 (3.37%) GCP Engineer
16 41 (3.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 38 (3.05%) Test Engineer
18 33 (2.65%) Senior DevOps
19 32 (2.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (11.16%) REST
2 130 (10.43%) Spring
3 126 (10.11%) Kafka
4 105 (8.43%) React
5 104 (8.35%) .NET
5 104 (8.35%) Spring Boot
6 88 (7.06%) RESTful
7 80 (6.42%) Node.js
8 72 (5.78%) Playwright
9 65 (5.22%) PySpark
10 45 (3.61%) OpenTelemetry
11 39 (3.13%) AngularJS
12 36 (2.89%) OAuth
12 36 (2.89%) YAML
13 35 (2.81%) GraphQL
13 35 (2.81%) JSON
14 33 (2.65%) .NET Framework
15 32 (2.57%) HTML
16 29 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
16 29 (2.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 231 (18.54%) Cloud Native
2 87 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (5.22%) Product Ownership
4 30 (2.41%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (2.01%) Data Centre
7 24 (1.93%) Mobile App
7 24 (1.93%) Public Cloud
8 22 (1.77%) AI Agents
9 18 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.20%) Security Posture
12 14 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
13 13 (1.04%) Private Cloud
14 12 (0.96%) NHS
14 12 (0.96%) Replication
14 12 (0.96%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 133 (10.67%) Linux
2 54 (4.33%) Windows
3 27 (2.17%) Unix
4 26 (2.09%) Android
5 23 (1.85%) Apple iOS
6 17 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (1.20%) VMS
8 10 (0.80%) 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 (0.080%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 940 (75.44%) CI/CD
2 724 (58.11%) DevOps
3 481 (38.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 373 (29.94%) Agile
5 283 (22.71%) Test Automation
6 272 (21.83%) Containerisation
7 263 (21.11%) Observability
8 220 (17.66%) Microservices
9 202 (16.21%) AI
10 193 (15.49%) Platform Engineering
11 166 (13.32%) Problem-Solving
12 163 (13.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 159 (12.76%) Analytics
14 155 (12.44%) Migration
15 149 (11.96%) Software Engineering
16 121 (9.71%) Data Pipeline
17 120 (9.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 118 (9.47%) Data Engineering
19 115 (9.23%) Event-Driven
20 110 (8.83%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 541 (43.42%) Python
2 306 (24.56%) SQL
3 246 (19.74%) Java
4 162 (13.00%) Bash
5 137 (11.00%) JavaScript
6 133 (10.67%) PowerShell
7 129 (10.35%) C#
8 109 (8.75%) TypeScript
9 63 (5.06%) Bicep
10 40 (3.21%) Go
11 35 (2.81%) Scala
12 32 (2.57%) Shell Script
13 29 (2.33%) Kotlin
14 23 (1.85%) Ruby
15 17 (1.36%) Swift
16 10 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.64%) Groovy
18 7 (0.56%) C++
18 7 (0.56%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 368 (29.53%) Security Cleared
2 297 (23.84%) SC Cleared
3 52 (4.17%) Degree
4 41 (3.29%) Azure Certification
5 39 (3.13%) DV Cleared
6 33 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (2.25%) AWS Certification
9 20 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.88%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 7 (0.56%) OCP
14 7 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
14 7 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 6 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (9.95%) QA
2 76 (6.10%) Data Quality
3 57 (4.57%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.41%) GDPR
5 24 (1.93%) WCAG
6 19 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.52%) PCI DSS
7 13 (1.04%) NIST
8 8 (0.64%) 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 20022
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 361 (28.97%) Docker
2 30 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.61%) vSphere
6 19 (1.52%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.80%) 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 (0.080%) IAG
12 1 (0.080%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 580 (46.55%) Terraform
2 434 (34.83%) Kubernetes
3 189 (15.17%) Ansible
4 149 (11.96%) Grafana
5 127 (10.19%) Prometheus
6 59 (4.74%) Argo
7 32 (2.57%) Istio
8 27 (2.17%) Puppet
9 20 (1.61%) vCenter Server
10 16 (1.28%) Packer
11 15 (1.20%) Progress Chef
12 14 (1.12%) Kibana
13 12 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.72%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.72%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.56%) linkerd
16 4 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
16 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
16 4 (0.32%) Podman
16 4 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 222 (17.82%) Microsoft
2 99 (7.95%) Databricks
3 88 (7.06%) Google
4 80 (6.42%) Splunk
5 53 (4.25%) Oracle
6 42 (3.37%) VMware
7 35 (2.81%) Red Hat
8 32 (2.57%) OpenAI
9 24 (1.93%) Dynatrace
10 20 (1.61%) Pure Storage
11 17 (1.36%) Salesforce
12 16 (1.28%) Informatica
12 16 (1.28%) ServiceNow
13 14 (1.12%) Atlassian
14 13 (1.04%) Checkmarx
14 13 (1.04%) Foundry
14 13 (1.04%) IBM
15 11 (0.88%) Cisco
15 11 (0.88%) SAP
16 10 (0.80%) Palantir