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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 134 152
Rank change year-on-year +63 +18 -12
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,085 560 627
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.46% 1.94% 1.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.08% 5.30% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 382 451
10th Percentile £360 £318 £413
25th Percentile £413 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £684 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 3
10th Percentile £40.00 £23.30 £75.25
25th Percentile £41.50 £27.13 £75.63
Median hourly rate £54.25 £52.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -32.26% +40.91%
75th Percentile £98.44 £68.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £110.00 £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £52.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year +3.33% -32.26% +40.91%

All Cloud 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 11,951 10,569 12,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.09% 36.70% 34.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,213 7,064 9,459
10th Percentile £304 £313 £281
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 137 247
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.90 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.50 £29.00 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +22.83% +4.93%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.67 £68.75 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £27.50 £25.38
% change year-on-year -4.36% +8.35% +12.80%

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 2025. 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 +45 617 £550 - 206
North of England +40 163 £481 +9.32% 128
South East +55 99 £450 - 164
Midlands +31 85 £550 +4.76% 66
Yorkshire 0 85 £500 +11.11% 50
West Midlands +30 71 £575 +9.52% 46
North West +18 62 £402 +18.06% 63
South West -3 61 £649 +0.43% 50
North East +9 18 £516 +42.41% 19
East of England -15 17 £560 +32.54% 46
East Midlands -9 14 £418 -33.15% 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 88 (8.11%) Confluence
2 59 (5.44%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.03%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.84%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.20%) nginx
6 11 (1.01%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.55%) Apache
8 6 (0.55%) Mule
9 5 (0.46%) WordPress
10 4 (0.37%) SAS
11 3 (0.28%) CMS
12 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.18%) CICS
12 2 (0.18%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.18%) Traefik
12 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.092%) Luigi
Applications
1 23 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.18%) Trello
5 1 (0.092%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.092%) InDesign
5 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.092%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.37%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.092%) Actimize
3 1 (0.092%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.092%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.092%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.092%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.092%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.092%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.092%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.092%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 564 (51.98%) GitHub Actions
2 535 (49.31%) AWS
3 483 (44.52%) Azure
4 228 (21.01%) Azure DevOps
5 190 (17.51%) GCP
6 171 (15.76%) Serverless
7 121 (11.15%) AWS Lambda
8 117 (10.78%) Amazon S3
9 96 (8.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 83 (7.65%) Amazon ECS
11 77 (7.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 72 (6.64%) Amazon EKS
13 67 (6.18%) OpenShift
14 64 (5.90%) Power Platform
15 61 (5.62%) Entra ID
16 60 (5.53%) Azure AKS
17 59 (5.44%) Amazon EC2
18 54 (4.98%) GitHub Copilot
19 50 (4.61%) Azure Monitor
20 49 (4.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 45 (4.15%) DNS
2 43 (3.96%) Firewall
3 27 (2.49%) VPN
4 15 (1.38%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.29%) Network Security
6 13 (1.20%) HTTP
6 13 (1.20%) SSL
7 9 (0.83%) WAN
8 8 (0.74%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.74%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.46%) Internet
9 5 (0.46%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.46%) SSH
10 4 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.18%) Modbus
11 2 (0.18%) RS-232
11 2 (0.18%) RS-485
11 2 (0.18%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (15.85%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (7.47%) NoSQL
3 63 (5.81%) Amazon RDS
4 59 (5.44%) MongoDB
5 52 (4.79%) Relational Database
6 49 (4.52%) SQL Server
7 45 (4.15%) DynamoDB
8 42 (3.87%) Redis
9 34 (3.13%) MySQL
10 33 (3.04%) Data Lake
11 32 (2.95%) Power BI
12 25 (2.30%) BigQuery
13 23 (2.12%) Delta Lake
14 22 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
15 20 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
16 19 (1.75%) Big Data
16 19 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
17 17 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
18 14 (1.29%) Amazon QuickSight
19 13 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 306 (28.20%) Jenkins
2 223 (20.55%) Git
3 191 (17.60%) GitLab
4 162 (14.93%) JIRA
5 57 (5.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 50 (4.61%) JUnit
6 50 (4.61%) SonarQube
7 47 (4.33%) CircleCI
8 43 (3.96%) Bitbucket
9 41 (3.78%) Artifactory
10 40 (3.69%) Cypress.io
11 36 (3.32%) Gradle
12 34 (3.13%) Cucumber
13 30 (2.76%) Postman
14 28 (2.58%) Selenium
15 26 (2.40%) Maven
16 23 (2.12%) JMeter
17 21 (1.94%) Snyk
18 18 (1.66%) SpecFlow
19 13 (1.20%) MLflow
General
1 278 (25.62%) Social Skills
2 165 (15.21%) Finance
3 133 (12.26%) Public Sector
4 83 (7.65%) Banking
5 70 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
8 17 (1.57%) Investment Banking
8 17 (1.57%) Military
9 15 (1.38%) Front Office
10 14 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (1.20%) Retail
12 12 (1.11%) Marketing
13 11 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.74%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.55%) Games
16 5 (0.46%) Billing
16 5 (0.46%) Law
16 5 (0.46%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 251 (23.13%) Developer
2 177 (16.31%) Senior
3 176 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 90 (8.29%) AWS Engineer
5 83 (7.65%) Data Engineer
6 71 (6.54%) Architect
7 68 (6.27%) Lead
8 60 (5.53%) Cloud Engineer
8 60 (5.53%) Full-Stack Developer
9 56 (5.16%) Platform Engineer
10 54 (4.98%) AWS DevOps
11 52 (4.79%) Senior Developer
12 51 (4.70%) Java Developer
12 51 (4.70%) Software Engineer
13 48 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
14 46 (4.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 44 (4.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 34 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 33 (3.04%) Senior Data Engineer
18 32 (2.95%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (12.81%) REST
2 130 (11.98%) React
3 128 (11.80%) Node.js
4 124 (11.43%) Kafka
5 106 (9.77%) .NET
6 89 (8.20%) RESTful
7 82 (7.56%) Spring
8 75 (6.91%) AngularJS
9 70 (6.45%) Spring Boot
10 58 (5.35%) HTML
11 57 (5.25%) OAuth
12 54 (4.98%) Elastic Stack
13 53 (4.88%) CSS
14 49 (4.52%) Playwright
15 44 (4.06%) YAML
16 43 (3.96%) GraphQL
16 43 (3.96%) JSON
17 41 (3.78%) FastAPI
18 37 (3.41%) pytest
19 33 (3.04%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 182 (16.77%) Cloud Native
2 37 (3.41%) Product Ownership
3 35 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
6 25 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.75%) Algorithms
7 19 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.57%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.38%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.38%) Life Science
11 14 (1.29%) Genomics
11 14 (1.29%) Mobile App
11 14 (1.29%) NHS
11 14 (1.29%) Security Posture
11 14 (1.29%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.20%) PKI
12 13 (1.20%) Private Cloud
12 13 (1.20%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 148 (13.64%) Linux
2 40 (3.69%) Windows
3 27 (2.49%) Unix
4 19 (1.75%) Android
5 13 (1.20%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.83%) VMS
7 7 (0.65%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.55%) Solaris
9 5 (0.46%) CentOS
10 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.18%) zOS
13 1 (0.092%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.092%) MVS
13 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 771 (71.06%) CI/CD
2 660 (60.83%) DevOps
3 398 (36.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 365 (33.64%) Agile
5 304 (28.02%) Containerisation
6 218 (20.09%) Microservices
7 214 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
8 210 (19.35%) AI
9 208 (19.17%) Test Automation
10 170 (15.67%) Observability
11 132 (12.17%) Migration
12 131 (12.07%) Software Engineering
13 129 (11.89%) Full-Stack Development
14 117 (10.78%) Data Pipeline
15 108 (9.95%) Analytics
16 102 (9.40%) Platform Engineering
17 99 (9.12%) DevSecOps
18 95 (8.76%) Machine Learning
19 92 (8.48%) Scrum
20 91 (8.39%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 509 (46.91%) Python
2 246 (22.67%) SQL
3 217 (20.00%) Java
4 146 (13.46%) TypeScript
5 145 (13.36%) JavaScript
6 139 (12.81%) Bash
7 100 (9.22%) PowerShell
8 97 (8.94%) C#
9 91 (8.39%) Go
10 48 (4.42%) Bicep
11 31 (2.86%) Shell Script
12 29 (2.67%) Ruby
13 20 (1.84%) PHP
14 15 (1.38%) Groovy
15 10 (0.92%) C++
16 9 (0.83%) C
16 9 (0.83%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.83%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.74%) Korn
17 8 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 313 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 255 (23.50%) SC Cleared
3 92 (8.48%) Degree
4 54 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (3.96%) Azure Certification
6 39 (3.59%) DV Cleared
7 31 (2.86%) AWS Certification
8 20 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.47%) MCP
10 15 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.20%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.74%) OCP
13 8 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
14 7 (0.65%) CISSP
15 6 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 6 (0.55%) ISTQB
16 4 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
16 4 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.37%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (5.90%) QA
2 39 (3.59%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 32 (2.95%) NIST
5 27 (2.49%) GDPR
6 25 (2.30%) NCSC
7 23 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (1.47%) WCAG
9 15 (1.38%) EU AI Act
10 6 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.46%) GRC
11 5 (0.46%) SLA
12 4 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.37%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.28%) Def Stans
13 3 (0.28%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.18%) FIPS 140-2
14 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 2 (0.18%) ITGC
14 2 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 378 (34.84%) Docker
2 46 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.46%) NFS
7 4 (0.37%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.37%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.37%) vSphere
8 3 (0.28%) QEMU
8 3 (0.28%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.18%) Firmware
9 2 (0.18%) HDFS
9 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.18%) KVM
10 1 (0.092%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.092%) SRDF
10 1 (0.092%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 492 (45.35%) Terraform
2 440 (40.55%) Kubernetes
3 150 (13.82%) Ansible
4 135 (12.44%) Grafana
5 109 (10.05%) Prometheus
6 58 (5.35%) Argo
7 32 (2.95%) Istio
8 29 (2.67%) Progress Chef
9 28 (2.58%) Puppet
10 14 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
11 13 (1.20%) Podman
12 12 (1.11%) Packer
13 10 (0.92%) Kibana
14 8 (0.74%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.65%) linkerd
15 7 (0.65%) Sysdig
16 5 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.46%) logstash
16 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
17 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 172 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 92 (8.48%) Google
3 71 (6.54%) Splunk
4 65 (5.99%) Databricks
5 47 (4.33%) VMware
6 40 (3.69%) Red Hat
7 38 (3.50%) OpenAI
8 37 (3.41%) Oracle
9 23 (2.12%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.75%) ServiceNow
11 17 (1.57%) Foundry
12 15 (1.38%) Salesforce
13 11 (1.01%) CyberArk
13 11 (1.01%) Okta
14 10 (0.92%) Dynatrace
14 10 (0.92%) Sonatype
15 9 (0.83%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.83%) NetApp
15 9 (0.83%) SAP
15 9 (0.83%) Veracode