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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 117 148
Rank change year-on-year +34 +31 -26
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,323 634 600
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.96% 2.34% 1.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.47% 6.25% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 904 425 383
10th Percentile £386 £368 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £625
90th Percentile £700 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 34
10th Percentile £46.25 £25.48 £52.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £25.81 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £26.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +138.25% -62.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £75.00 £27.06 -
90th Percentile - £27.33 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £26.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +138.25% -62.14% -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 15,626 10,136 12,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.36% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,489 6,852 8,592
10th Percentile £325 £311 £311
25th Percentile £419 £409 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £516 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.20% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 266 324
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.84 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
% change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -36.29%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +33 750 £550 - 247
North of England +42 264 £500 +3.09% 177
Yorkshire +26 186 £500 -1.94% 62
Midlands +15 106 £500 +5.26% 78
West Midlands +1 94 £500 +11.11% 38
South West +12 75 £475 -20.83% 54
South East -50 74 £525 +9.83% 184
North West -6 68 £550 +17.27% 95
East of England -6 32 £500 -9.09% 72
North East -29 15 £450 -5.26% 21
East Midlands -7 11 £470 -7.39% 40
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 (9.45%) Confluence
2 43 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (2.49%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.74%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.21%) Apache
6 13 (0.98%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.45%) nginx
8 6 (0.45%) Tuxedo
9 4 (0.30%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.23%) CMS
10 3 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.15%) SAS
11 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.076%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.076%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.076%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.076%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.076%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.06%) 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 1 (0.076%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.076%) Notion
6 1 (0.076%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.076%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.076%) Trello
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 (0.076%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.076%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 703 (53.14%) GitHub Actions
2 635 (48.00%) Azure
3 598 (45.20%) AWS
4 358 (27.06%) Azure DevOps
5 193 (14.59%) GCP
6 163 (12.32%) Serverless
7 132 (9.98%) Amazon S3
8 120 (9.07%) AWS Lambda
9 101 (7.63%) Amazon EKS
10 94 (7.11%) GitHub Copilot
11 92 (6.95%) Azure Monitor
12 86 (6.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 84 (6.35%) Power Platform
14 71 (5.37%) Amazon EC2
14 71 (5.37%) Amazon ECS
15 70 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
16 67 (5.06%) Azure AKS
16 67 (5.06%) Entra ID
17 55 (4.16%) Azure Data Factory
18 52 (3.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 66 (4.99%) Firewall
2 60 (4.54%) DNS
3 52 (3.93%) VPN
4 27 (2.04%) Network Security
5 17 (1.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 15 (1.13%) VLAN
7 14 (1.06%) TCP/IP
8 12 (0.91%) 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 4 (0.30%) DHCP
13 4 (0.30%) NAS
13 4 (0.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (7.71%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (6.95%) SQL Server
3 62 (4.69%) NoSQL
4 59 (4.46%) Data Lake
4 59 (4.46%) Power BI
5 55 (4.16%) MongoDB
6 47 (3.55%) Relational Database
7 42 (3.17%) DynamoDB
8 41 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
9 38 (2.87%) Delta Lake
10 37 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
11 33 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (2.49%) Redis
12 31 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 25 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
14 22 (1.66%) Metadata
15 21 (1.59%) Big Data
16 19 (1.44%) BigQuery
17 17 (1.28%) MySQL
17 17 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 421 (31.82%) Jenkins
2 263 (19.88%) GitLab
3 253 (19.12%) Git
4 180 (13.61%) JIRA
5 82 (6.20%) JUnit
6 72 (5.44%) Selenium
7 54 (4.08%) Cucumber
8 43 (3.25%) Gradle
9 40 (3.02%) Bitbucket
9 40 (3.02%) JMeter
10 39 (2.95%) Cypress.io
11 38 (2.87%) Gatling
11 38 (2.87%) REST Assured
12 35 (2.65%) Maven
12 35 (2.65%) SonarQube
13 32 (2.42%) CircleCI
13 32 (2.42%) Postman
14 25 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
15 23 (1.74%) Mockito
16 20 (1.51%) WebDriver
General
1 326 (24.64%) Social Skills
2 240 (18.14%) Finance
3 154 (11.64%) Public Sector
4 111 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (6.35%) Banking
6 34 (2.57%) Retail
7 29 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (1.74%) Legal
10 16 (1.21%) Military
11 15 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.13%) Investment Banking
11 15 (1.13%) Law
12 10 (0.76%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.60%) Marketing
14 8 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.53%) Front Office
15 7 (0.53%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 236 (17.84%) Developer
2 232 (17.54%) Senior
3 179 (13.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 116 (8.77%) Architect
4 116 (8.77%) Lead
5 101 (7.63%) Data Engineer
6 81 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
7 80 (6.05%) AWS Engineer
8 74 (5.59%) Cloud Engineer
9 60 (4.54%) Java Developer
10 56 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
11 55 (4.16%) Software Engineer
12 53 (4.01%) Senior Developer
13 48 (3.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 46 (3.48%) Test Engineer
15 43 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
16 41 (3.10%) Senior DevOps
17 39 (2.95%) GCP Engineer
18 37 (2.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 36 (2.72%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (13.83%) REST
2 128 (9.67%) Spring
3 123 (9.30%) Kafka
4 113 (8.54%) RESTful
5 109 (8.24%) .NET
6 105 (7.94%) React
7 100 (7.56%) Spring Boot
8 81 (6.12%) Playwright
9 63 (4.76%) Node.js
10 57 (4.31%) PySpark
11 40 (3.02%) OAuth
11 40 (3.02%) OpenTelemetry
12 38 (2.87%) AngularJS
13 37 (2.80%) .NET Framework
14 36 (2.72%) GraphQL
14 36 (2.72%) HTML
15 35 (2.65%) JSON
15 35 (2.65%) YAML
16 34 (2.57%) FastAPI
17 33 (2.49%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 266 (20.11%) Cloud Native
2 112 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (5.06%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.72%) Data Centre
5 35 (2.65%) Mobile App
6 34 (2.57%) AI Agents
6 34 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 33 (2.49%) Onboarding
8 24 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 22 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
13 17 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
14 15 (1.13%) Security Posture
15 14 (1.06%) Data Structures
15 14 (1.06%) NHS
15 14 (1.06%) Replication
15 14 (1.06%) Virtual Team
16 13 (0.98%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 120 (9.07%) Linux
2 56 (4.23%) Windows
3 31 (2.34%) Android
4 27 (2.04%) Apple iOS
5 24 (1.81%) Unix
6 19 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.91%) 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 (0.076%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.076%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.076%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 986 (74.53%) CI/CD
2 774 (58.50%) DevOps
3 508 (38.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 443 (33.48%) Agile
5 327 (24.72%) Test Automation
6 295 (22.30%) Observability
7 281 (21.24%) Containerisation
8 250 (18.90%) Microservices
9 222 (16.78%) AI
10 216 (16.33%) Platform Engineering
11 175 (13.23%) Software Engineering
12 174 (13.15%) Continuous Improvement
13 158 (11.94%) Analytics
13 158 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
14 143 (10.81%) Migration
15 142 (10.73%) Event-Driven
16 119 (8.99%) Data Pipeline
17 113 (8.54%) Validation
18 111 (8.39%) DevSecOps
19 110 (8.31%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 559 (42.25%) Python
2 315 (23.81%) SQL
3 244 (18.44%) Java
4 180 (13.61%) Bash
5 151 (11.41%) PowerShell
6 134 (10.13%) C#
7 129 (9.75%) JavaScript
8 122 (9.22%) TypeScript
9 73 (5.52%) Bicep
10 40 (3.02%) Kotlin
11 37 (2.80%) Go
12 33 (2.49%) Scala
13 29 (2.19%) Shell Script
14 24 (1.81%) Ruby
15 21 (1.59%) Swift
16 14 (1.06%) Groovy
17 10 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.68%) ActionScript
18 9 (0.68%) C
19 8 (0.60%) VB
Qualifications
1 394 (29.78%) Security Cleared
2 331 (25.02%) SC Cleared
3 55 (4.16%) Degree
4 49 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 46 (3.48%) DV Cleared
6 40 (3.02%) AWS Certification
7 35 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (0.91%) 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 (0.76%) 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
1 159 (12.02%) QA
2 71 (5.37%) Data Quality
3 65 (4.91%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.34%) GDPR
5 23 (1.74%) WCAG
6 20 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.98%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.91%) NIST
9 8 (0.60%) GRC
10 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.38%) NCSC
12 4 (0.30%) HL7
13 3 (0.23%) PSD2
14 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.15%) SEPA
14 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.076%) FedRAMP
15 1 (0.076%) SLA
System Software
1 379 (28.65%) Docker
2 35 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.51%) vSphere
5 19 (1.44%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.45%) IAG
8 4 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.30%) NFS
9 3 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.23%) Firmware
10 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
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
1 613 (46.33%) Terraform
2 448 (33.86%) Kubernetes
3 197 (14.89%) Ansible
4 177 (13.38%) Grafana
5 147 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 61 (4.61%) Argo
7 27 (2.04%) Puppet
8 21 (1.59%) Istio
9 20 (1.51%) vCenter Server
10 17 (1.28%) Progress Chef
10 17 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (1.21%) Packer
12 13 (0.98%) Kibana
13 9 (0.68%) HAProxy
13 9 (0.68%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.53%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.38%) Control-M
15 5 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
16 3 (0.23%) SELinux
Vendors
1 228 (17.23%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.95%) Databricks
2 92 (6.95%) Splunk
3 89 (6.73%) Google
4 57 (4.31%) Oracle
5 40 (3.02%) Dynatrace
6 38 (2.87%) VMware
7 36 (2.72%) Red Hat
8 28 (2.12%) Salesforce
9 27 (2.04%) OpenAI
10 20 (1.51%) Pure Storage
10 20 (1.51%) ServiceNow
11 18 (1.36%) Cisco
11 18 (1.36%) F5
11 18 (1.36%) Informatica
12 17 (1.28%) Foundry
13 16 (1.21%) Checkmarx
13 16 (1.21%) Palo Alto
13 16 (1.21%) SAP
14 15 (1.13%) IBM