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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 128 161
Rank change year-on-year +48 +33 -32
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,216 530 535
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.97% 2.17% 1.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.46% 5.82% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 363 349
10th Percentile £363 £390 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £623
90th Percentile £700 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -3.81% -0.94% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 20
10th Percentile £48.00 £25.25 £30.38
25th Percentile £58.43 £25.72 £66.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £27.38 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.63% -60.89% +28.44%
75th Percentile £74.00 £58.44 -
90th Percentile £74.20 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £27.38 £70.00
% change year-on-year +130.63% -60.89% +28.44%

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 14,368 9,103 11,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.06% 37.20% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,846 6,306 8,436
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 470 201 327
10th Percentile £15.48 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.89 £18.13 £15.87
Median hourly rate £41.78 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +63.84% +19.33% -37.15%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.50 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.12 £27.43 £21.37
% change year-on-year +35.35% +28.33% -38.94%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +41 707 £550 - 222
North of England +29 211 £488 -0.51% 163
Yorkshire +11 141 £477 -8.23% 60
Midlands +5 88 £494 -0.25% 50
South West +33 77 £500 -6.98% 59
South East -31 73 £500 - 121
West Midlands +1 72 £505 +2.02% 18
North West -11 61 £550 +15.79% 84
East of England -16 27 £500 -9.09% 35
East Midlands -16 15 £402 -17.54% 32
North East -12 13 £463 +10.45% 19
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
1 105 (8.63%) Confluence
2 39 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 29 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.32%) Apache
5 12 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.41%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.16%) CMS
7 2 (0.16%) nginx
7 2 (0.16%) SAS
8 1 (0.082%) Appian
8 1 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.082%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.082%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.082%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.082%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (0.33%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.25%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.25%) Findur
2 3 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.082%) Actimize
4 1 (0.082%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.082%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.082%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.082%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 639 (52.55%) GitHub Actions
2 571 (46.96%) Azure
3 548 (45.07%) AWS
4 303 (24.92%) Azure DevOps
5 184 (15.13%) GCP
6 181 (14.88%) Serverless
7 124 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
8 111 (9.13%) Amazon S3
9 101 (8.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 98 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
11 91 (7.48%) Power Platform
12 83 (6.83%) Amazon ECS
13 78 (6.41%) Azure Data Factory
14 76 (6.25%) Azure AKS
15 75 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 75 (6.17%) GitHub Copilot
16 71 (5.84%) Azure Monitor
17 65 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
18 55 (4.52%) Entra ID
19 53 (4.36%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 60 (4.93%) DNS
1 60 (4.93%) Firewall
2 36 (2.96%) VPN
3 25 (2.06%) Network Security
4 10 (0.82%) HTTP
5 8 (0.66%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.58%) Ethernet
6 7 (0.58%) Modbus
6 7 (0.58%) RS-232
6 7 (0.58%) RS-485
6 7 (0.58%) SSL
7 4 (0.33%) DSL
7 4 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.33%) WAN
8 3 (0.25%) BGP
8 3 (0.25%) DHCP
8 3 (0.25%) Internet
8 3 (0.25%) NAS
8 3 (0.25%) SAN
8 3 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (9.13%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (6.33%) Data Lake
3 76 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 62 (5.10%) NoSQL
4 62 (5.10%) Power BI
5 55 (4.52%) MongoDB
6 45 (3.70%) DynamoDB
7 42 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 41 (3.37%) Redis
8 41 (3.37%) Relational Database
9 40 (3.29%) Delta Lake
10 38 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
11 27 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
12 25 (2.06%) Big Data
13 24 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
14 21 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
14 21 (1.73%) Metadata
15 17 (1.40%) MySQL
16 16 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
17 14 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 369 (30.35%) Jenkins
2 247 (20.31%) GitLab
3 232 (19.08%) Git
4 147 (12.09%) JIRA
5 73 (6.00%) JUnit
6 53 (4.36%) Selenium
7 42 (3.45%) Cucumber
8 35 (2.88%) Cypress.io
8 35 (2.88%) Gatling
8 35 (2.88%) Gradle
9 34 (2.80%) CircleCI
10 33 (2.71%) JMeter
10 33 (2.71%) Maven
10 33 (2.71%) SonarQube
11 31 (2.55%) Bitbucket
12 29 (2.38%) Artifactory
13 28 (2.30%) REST Assured
14 27 (2.22%) Postman
15 20 (1.64%) MLflow
15 20 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 287 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 204 (16.78%) Finance
3 143 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 96 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (6.17%) Banking
6 22 (1.81%) Retail
7 21 (1.73%) Military
8 17 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.23%) Legal
10 13 (1.07%) Front Office
10 13 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (0.99%) Investment Banking
12 10 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.58%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.58%) Marketing
15 6 (0.49%) Law
16 4 (0.33%) Automotive
16 4 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 236 (19.41%) Developer
2 197 (16.20%) Senior
3 165 (13.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 109 (8.96%) Data Engineer
5 102 (8.39%) Architect
6 91 (7.48%) Lead
7 78 (6.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 73 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
9 61 (5.02%) Azure Engineer
10 60 (4.93%) AWS Engineer
11 54 (4.44%) Java Developer
12 51 (4.19%) Full-Stack Developer
12 51 (4.19%) Software Engineer
13 48 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 47 (3.87%) Senior Developer
15 44 (3.62%) GCP Engineer
16 40 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 33 (2.71%) Test Engineer
18 32 (2.63%) Tester
19 29 (2.38%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (10.94%) REST
2 130 (10.69%) Kafka
3 128 (10.53%) Spring
4 108 (8.88%) .NET
5 106 (8.72%) React
6 102 (8.39%) Spring Boot
7 91 (7.48%) Node.js
8 79 (6.50%) RESTful
9 69 (5.67%) Playwright
10 63 (5.18%) PySpark
11 41 (3.37%) AngularJS
11 41 (3.37%) OpenTelemetry
12 35 (2.88%) .NET Framework
13 33 (2.71%) JSON
14 32 (2.63%) HTML
15 31 (2.55%) YAML
16 29 (2.38%) FastAPI
17 28 (2.30%) GraphQL
17 28 (2.30%) Jest
18 26 (2.14%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 229 (18.83%) Cloud Native
2 82 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (5.10%) Product Ownership
4 27 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (2.14%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.06%) Public Cloud
7 21 (1.73%) AI Agents
8 19 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.23%) Data Centre
11 15 (1.23%) Security Posture
12 14 (1.15%) Private Cloud
12 14 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.07%) NHS
14 12 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (0.99%) Virtual Team
15 11 (0.90%) Data Structures
16 10 (0.82%) Replication
17 9 (0.74%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 134 (11.02%) Linux
2 53 (4.36%) Windows
3 29 (2.38%) Unix
4 25 (2.06%) Android
5 19 (1.56%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.32%) VMS
7 14 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.82%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.58%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.41%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.33%) Debian
11 4 (0.33%) Rocky
12 3 (0.25%) CentOS
13 2 (0.16%) AIX
13 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.082%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.082%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.082%) MVS
14 1 (0.082%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 907 (74.59%) CI/CD
2 704 (57.89%) DevOps
3 469 (38.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 363 (29.85%) Agile
5 284 (23.36%) Containerisation
6 271 (22.29%) Test Automation
7 243 (19.98%) Observability
8 209 (17.19%) Microservices
9 198 (16.28%) AI
10 183 (15.05%) Platform Engineering
11 179 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
12 160 (13.16%) Migration
13 159 (13.08%) Analytics
14 154 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
15 140 (11.51%) Software Engineering
16 125 (10.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 121 (9.95%) Data Engineering
18 120 (9.87%) Data Pipeline
19 111 (9.13%) Data Modelling
20 108 (8.88%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 533 (43.83%) Python
2 290 (23.85%) SQL
3 241 (19.82%) Java
4 155 (12.75%) Bash
5 142 (11.68%) JavaScript
6 134 (11.02%) C#
7 129 (10.61%) PowerShell
8 107 (8.80%) TypeScript
9 65 (5.35%) Bicep
10 44 (3.62%) Go
11 34 (2.80%) Scala
11 34 (2.80%) Shell Script
12 26 (2.14%) Kotlin
13 23 (1.89%) Ruby
14 13 (1.07%) Swift
15 12 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (0.74%) C++
17 8 (0.66%) C
17 8 (0.66%) Groovy
18 7 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 373 (30.67%) Security Cleared
2 301 (24.75%) SC Cleared
3 48 (3.95%) Degree
4 40 (3.29%) Azure Certification
5 37 (3.04%) DV Cleared
6 33 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (2.30%) AWS Certification
9 20 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.90%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.82%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 7 (0.58%) OCP
15 7 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (0.49%) CISSP
16 6 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (8.80%) QA
2 67 (5.51%) Data Quality
3 52 (4.28%) Accessibility
4 23 (1.89%) GDPR
5 21 (1.73%) WCAG
6 19 (1.56%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.99%) NIST
9 8 (0.66%) NCSC
10 6 (0.49%) GRC
10 6 (0.49%) SLA
11 4 (0.33%) PSD2
11 4 (0.33%) SEPA
12 3 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 369 (30.35%) Docker
2 30 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
3 28 (2.30%) Active Directory
4 22 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (1.56%) VMware NSX
5 19 (1.56%) vSphere
6 9 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.58%) Firmware
8 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.25%) HDFS
10 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.16%) NFS
10 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.082%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.082%) IAG
11 1 (0.082%) ISA Server
11 1 (0.082%) SRDF
11 1 (0.082%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 568 (46.71%) Terraform
2 437 (35.94%) Kubernetes
3 183 (15.05%) Ansible
4 132 (10.86%) Grafana
5 108 (8.88%) Prometheus
6 59 (4.85%) Argo
7 35 (2.88%) Istio
8 27 (2.22%) Puppet
9 19 (1.56%) vCenter Server
10 15 (1.23%) Packer
11 14 (1.15%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.90%) Kibana
13 10 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.74%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.74%) NetBackup
15 8 (0.66%) linkerd
16 5 (0.41%) Podman
17 4 (0.33%) Rancher
18 3 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
18 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 226 (18.59%) Microsoft
2 98 (8.06%) Databricks
3 86 (7.07%) Google
4 77 (6.33%) Splunk
5 50 (4.11%) Oracle
6 43 (3.54%) VMware
7 35 (2.88%) OpenAI
8 32 (2.63%) Red Hat
9 25 (2.06%) Dynatrace
10 19 (1.56%) Pure Storage
11 18 (1.48%) Salesforce
12 15 (1.23%) Atlassian
12 15 (1.23%) Informatica
13 14 (1.15%) ServiceNow
14 13 (1.07%) Checkmarx
15 12 (0.99%) SAP
16 10 (0.82%) Cisco
16 10 (0.82%) Sonatype
17 9 (0.74%) AppDynamics
17 9 (0.74%) Foundry