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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 84 134
Rank change year-on-year -6 +50 +11
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,408 848 610
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.02% 3.03% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.76% 7.93% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 970 584 403
10th Percentile £381 £360 £313
25th Percentile £434 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -8.70%
75th Percentile £629 £638 £625
90th Percentile £710 £700 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -8.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 32
10th Percentile £46.25 £69.00 £66.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £80.63 -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.03% +50.00% -9.68%
75th Percentile £75.00 £110.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £105.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -39.87% +50.00% -9.68%

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 16,065 10,693 11,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.51% 38.21% 34.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,696 7,236 7,555
10th Percentile £320 £304 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £530
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -3.46%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 253 164
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.30 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.84
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.69
90th Percentile £81.85 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +23.57% -24.86% +6.06%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +5 829 £550 - 1,045
North of England +7 265 £494 +3.95% 245
Yorkshire +20 171 £500 - 90
Midlands -13 113 £474 -17.21% 124
West Midlands -8 92 £488 -15.22% 58
South East -32 91 £525 +16.67% 209
North West -34 71 £550 +22.22% 122
South West -31 53 £538 -17.31% 104
East of England -8 33 £500 -9.09% 95
North East -29 25 £425 -10.53% 33
East Midlands -3 21 £400 -15.79% 65
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
1 107 (7.60%) Confluence
2 42 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.91%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.35%) Apache
4 19 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.57%) nginx
5 8 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (0.50%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.43%) Tuxedo
8 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.21%) CMS
11 2 (0.14%) Mendix
11 2 (0.14%) SAS
12 1 (0.071%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.071%) Camunda
12 1 (0.071%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.071%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.071%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 10 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.28%) Trello
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.071%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.071%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.071%) Notion
6 1 (0.071%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.071%) Sketch
6 1 (0.071%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.36%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.36%) Sage X3
3 5 (0.36%) Summit
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.071%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.071%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 751 (53.34%) GitHub Actions
2 721 (51.21%) Azure
3 656 (46.59%) AWS
4 378 (26.85%) Azure DevOps
5 223 (15.84%) GCP
6 185 (13.14%) Serverless
7 177 (12.57%) GitHub Copilot
8 135 (9.59%) Amazon S3
9 133 (9.45%) Amazon EKS
10 115 (8.17%) AWS Lambda
11 104 (7.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 103 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
13 91 (6.46%) Entra ID
14 90 (6.39%) Power Platform
15 78 (5.54%) Snowflake
16 76 (5.40%) Amazon EC2
17 75 (5.33%) Azure AKS
18 65 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
19 64 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
20 62 (4.40%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 71 (5.04%) DNS
1 71 (5.04%) Firewall
2 45 (3.20%) VPN
3 40 (2.84%) Network Security
4 24 (1.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 24 (1.70%) TCP/IP
5 23 (1.63%) VLAN
6 22 (1.56%) BGP
7 17 (1.21%) BIG-IP
7 17 (1.21%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 17 (1.21%) SSL
8 15 (1.07%) DHCP
9 12 (0.85%) Ethernet VPN
9 12 (0.85%) VXLAN
10 11 (0.78%) NX-OS
10 11 (0.78%) OSPF
10 11 (0.78%) Wireless
11 9 (0.64%) TACACS
12 7 (0.50%) HTTP
12 7 (0.50%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.39%) SQL Server
3 81 (5.75%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.62%) NoSQL
5 61 (4.33%) Power BI
6 56 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
7 51 (3.62%) Redis
8 49 (3.48%) Data Lake
9 47 (3.34%) Relational Database
10 35 (2.49%) DynamoDB
11 34 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 32 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
13 30 (2.13%) Delta Lake
13 30 (2.13%) MySQL
14 28 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
15 25 (1.78%) BigQuery
16 22 (1.56%) Metadata
17 19 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
18 18 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
19 16 (1.14%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 401 (28.48%) Jenkins
2 299 (21.24%) GitLab
3 293 (20.81%) Git
4 167 (11.86%) JIRA
5 78 (5.54%) Selenium
6 68 (4.83%) JUnit
7 63 (4.47%) Cucumber
8 62 (4.40%) SonarQube
9 47 (3.34%) Bitbucket
9 47 (3.34%) Gatling
10 42 (2.98%) Claude Code
11 37 (2.63%) Gradle
12 36 (2.56%) Cypress.io
13 35 (2.49%) JMeter
14 34 (2.41%) Maven
14 34 (2.41%) Postman
15 31 (2.20%) REST Assured
16 26 (1.85%) CircleCI
17 25 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
18 22 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 357 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 297 (21.09%) Finance
3 150 (10.65%) Public Sector
4 146 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (6.89%) Banking
6 50 (3.55%) Retail
7 43 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (1.42%) Legal
9 18 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
9 18 (1.28%) Telecoms
10 16 (1.14%) Law
11 15 (1.07%) Aerospace
11 15 (1.07%) Marketing
11 15 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (0.92%) Local Government
13 13 (0.92%) Military
14 12 (0.85%) Investment Banking
14 12 (0.85%) Manufacturing
15 10 (0.71%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 284 (20.17%) Senior
2 261 (18.54%) Developer
3 176 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 124 (8.81%) Architect
5 120 (8.52%) Lead
6 97 (6.89%) Data Engineer
7 77 (5.47%) AWS Engineer
8 73 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
9 71 (5.04%) Azure Engineer
10 70 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
11 65 (4.62%) Senior Developer
12 64 (4.55%) Java Developer
13 63 (4.47%) Software Engineer
14 53 (3.76%) Senior DevOps
15 50 (3.55%) Full-Stack Developer
16 49 (3.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 49 (3.48%) Test Engineer
17 47 (3.34%) Automation Engineer
18 46 (3.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 41 (2.91%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 655 (46.52%) Terraform
2 252 (17.90%) REST
3 155 (11.01%) Kafka
4 144 (10.23%) RESTful
5 128 (9.09%) Spring
6 118 (8.38%) .NET
7 111 (7.88%) React
8 107 (7.60%) Spring Boot
9 90 (6.39%) Playwright
10 63 (4.47%) Node.js
11 59 (4.19%) HTML
11 59 (4.19%) OAuth
12 56 (3.98%) JSON
13 49 (3.48%) FastAPI
14 47 (3.34%) YAML
15 44 (3.13%) OAuth2
16 43 (3.05%) AngularJS
16 43 (3.05%) pytest
17 40 (2.84%) PySpark
18 39 (2.77%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 294 (20.88%) Cloud Native
2 100 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (6.39%) AI Agents
4 72 (5.11%) Product Ownership
5 56 (3.98%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (3.55%) Data Centre
7 46 (3.27%) Onboarding
8 38 (2.70%) Mobile App
9 32 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 29 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.85%) Data Structures
11 26 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (1.78%) Security Posture
13 23 (1.63%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
14 21 (1.49%) Low-Code
15 17 (1.21%) Algorithms
15 17 (1.21%) Private Cloud
16 16 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 129 (9.16%) Linux
2 62 (4.40%) Windows
3 28 (1.99%) Android
3 28 (1.99%) Unix
4 27 (1.92%) Apple iOS
5 19 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.57%) VMS
7 6 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.28%) CentOS
9 2 (0.14%) AIX
9 2 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.14%) Debian
9 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.14%) MVS
9 2 (0.14%) Rocky
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.14%) zOS
10 1 (0.071%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,073 (76.21%) CI/CD
2 812 (57.67%) DevOps
3 569 (40.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 525 (37.29%) Agile
5 364 (25.85%) AI
6 359 (25.50%) Test Automation
7 357 (25.36%) Observability
8 286 (20.31%) Containerisation
9 280 (19.89%) Microservices
10 244 (17.33%) Software Engineering
11 214 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 207 (14.70%) Platform Engineering
13 184 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 181 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
15 179 (12.71%) Event-Driven
16 149 (10.58%) Analytics
17 148 (10.51%) Scrum
18 145 (10.30%) Technical Leadership
19 129 (9.16%) DevSecOps
20 128 (9.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 625 (44.39%) Python
2 312 (22.16%) SQL
3 282 (20.03%) Java
4 191 (13.57%) Bash
5 181 (12.86%) PowerShell
6 156 (11.08%) TypeScript
7 152 (10.80%) JavaScript
8 127 (9.02%) C#
9 99 (7.03%) Bicep
10 51 (3.62%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.05%) Go
12 33 (2.34%) Shell Script
13 30 (2.13%) Scala
14 21 (1.49%) Swift
15 18 (1.28%) ActionScript
16 15 (1.07%) Ruby
17 12 (0.85%) C
17 12 (0.85%) Objective-C
18 10 (0.71%) Groovy
18 10 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 410 (29.12%) Security Cleared
2 353 (25.07%) SC Cleared
3 64 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 62 (4.40%) Degree
5 49 (3.48%) AWS Certification
6 48 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 41 (2.91%) DV Cleared
8 36 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 10 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (0.64%) CISSP
15 8 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
15 8 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 7 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (14.70%) QA
2 87 (6.18%) Accessibility
3 77 (5.47%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.56%) WCAG
5 27 (1.92%) GDPR
6 26 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.63%) NIST
8 11 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.78%) NCSC
9 8 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.43%) GRC
10 6 (0.43%) PSD2
11 5 (0.36%) HL7
11 5 (0.36%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.36%) SEPA
12 4 (0.28%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.071%) JSP 440
System Software
1 446 (31.68%) Docker
2 45 (3.20%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.71%) IAG
7 8 (0.57%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.36%) vSphere
9 4 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.28%) NFS
9 4 (0.28%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.14%) Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.14%) SRDF
10 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 505 (35.87%) Kubernetes
2 204 (14.49%) Ansible
3 185 (13.14%) Grafana
4 143 (10.16%) Prometheus
5 53 (3.76%) Argo
6 21 (1.49%) Puppet
7 19 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (1.21%) Progress Chef
9 16 (1.14%) Packer
10 14 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (0.92%) Control-M
12 11 (0.78%) Kibana
13 10 (0.71%) Istio
14 8 (0.57%) Karpenter
15 7 (0.50%) SCCM
16 6 (0.43%) FortiGate
17 5 (0.36%) HAProxy
17 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
17 5 (0.36%) Kustomize
18 4 (0.28%) Podman
Vendors
1 268 (19.03%) Microsoft
2 104 (7.39%) Databricks
3 93 (6.61%) Splunk
4 91 (6.46%) Google
5 66 (4.69%) Dynatrace
6 54 (3.84%) OpenAI
7 53 (3.76%) Oracle
8 50 (3.55%) ServiceNow
9 38 (2.70%) VMware
10 35 (2.49%) Cisco
11 30 (2.13%) Foundry
12 29 (2.06%) Red Hat
13 28 (1.99%) IBM
14 26 (1.85%) Salesforce
15 25 (1.78%) F5
16 22 (1.56%) New Relic
17 17 (1.21%) Palo Alto
18 16 (1.14%) SAP
19 14 (0.99%) Informatica
20 13 (0.92%) CyberArk