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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 99 129
Rank change year-on-year +12 +30 +12
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,366 734 609
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 2.66% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.61% 7.14% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 938 509 400
10th Percentile £398 £364 £312
25th Percentile £450 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £626
90th Percentile £705 £727 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 33
10th Percentile £46.25 - £38.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £100.00 -
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% -8.20%

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 15,871 10,275 11,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.74% 37.30% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 6,957 7,878
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £718 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 274 196
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.69
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.84% -4.91% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £83.40 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.72
% change year-on-year +21.39% +1.01% -20.80%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +18 792 £550 - 483
North of England +13 262 £500 +5.26% 113
Yorkshire +28 176 £493 -1.50% 42
Midlands +7 113 £488 -4.18% 47
West Midlands -8 97 £496 -3.43% 26
South East -42 84 £529 +14.20% 75
North West -32 65 £550 +25.00% 60
South West -17 63 £500 -14.89% 75
East of England -2 33 £505 -8.18% 30
North East -25 23 £450 -5.26% 12
East Midlands -5 16 £400 -19.19% 21
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
1 112 (8.20%) Confluence
2 47 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 21 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.46%) Apache
6 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.51%) nginx
9 6 (0.44%) Tuxedo
10 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.15%) CMS
11 2 (0.15%) Mendix
11 2 (0.15%) SAS
12 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.073%) IIS
12 1 (0.073%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 7 (0.51%) Chatbot
1 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.29%) Trello
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.073%) Notion
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.37%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.22%) Findur
3 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.073%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.073%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.073%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 747 (54.69%) GitHub Actions
2 704 (51.54%) Azure
3 634 (46.41%) AWS
4 400 (29.28%) Azure DevOps
5 213 (15.59%) GCP
6 172 (12.59%) Serverless
7 130 (9.52%) Amazon S3
8 124 (9.08%) GitHub Copilot
9 123 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
10 115 (8.42%) Amazon EKS
11 104 (7.61%) Azure Monitor
12 96 (7.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 87 (6.37%) Power Platform
14 84 (6.15%) Azure AKS
15 83 (6.08%) Entra ID
16 70 (5.12%) Amazon EC2
16 70 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
17 66 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
18 63 (4.61%) Snowflake
19 52 (3.81%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.90%) Firewall
2 64 (4.69%) DNS
3 53 (3.88%) VPN
4 29 (2.12%) Network Security
5 20 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.32%) VLAN
7 17 (1.24%) BGP
7 17 (1.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 14 (1.02%) SSL
9 11 (0.81%) DHCP
10 9 (0.66%) BIG-IP
10 9 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 9 (0.66%) OSPF
10 9 (0.66%) WAN
10 9 (0.66%) Wireless
11 8 (0.59%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (0.59%) IPsec
11 8 (0.59%) NX-OS
11 8 (0.59%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (8.35%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (6.73%) SQL Server
3 71 (5.20%) NoSQL
4 68 (4.98%) MongoDB
5 65 (4.76%) Power BI
6 50 (3.66%) Data Lake
6 50 (3.66%) Redis
7 47 (3.44%) Relational Database
8 46 (3.37%) DynamoDB
9 45 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 34 (2.49%) Delta Lake
12 32 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 30 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
14 26 (1.90%) Metadata
15 24 (1.76%) BigQuery
15 24 (1.76%) MySQL
16 21 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
17 20 (1.46%) Big Data
18 16 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 408 (29.87%) Jenkins
2 303 (22.18%) GitLab
3 269 (19.69%) Git
4 164 (12.01%) JIRA
5 73 (5.34%) Selenium
6 71 (5.20%) JUnit
7 53 (3.88%) Cucumber
8 50 (3.66%) SonarQube
9 46 (3.37%) Bitbucket
10 41 (3.00%) Gatling
11 40 (2.93%) Cypress.io
12 37 (2.71%) JMeter
13 35 (2.56%) Gradle
14 32 (2.34%) Maven
15 30 (2.20%) Claude Code
16 29 (2.12%) CircleCI
17 28 (2.05%) Postman
18 27 (1.98%) REST Assured
19 23 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
20 18 (1.32%) Snyk
General
1 334 (24.45%) Social Skills
2 272 (19.91%) Finance
3 156 (11.42%) Public Sector
4 119 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (6.00%) Banking
6 38 (2.78%) Retail
7 36 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (1.76%) Legal
10 17 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.10%) Law
12 14 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.95%) Investment Banking
14 12 (0.88%) Aerospace
15 11 (0.81%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.81%) Military
16 9 (0.66%) Marketing
16 9 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.59%) Local Government
17 8 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 263 (19.25%) Senior
2 250 (18.30%) Developer
3 177 (12.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 124 (9.08%) Architect
5 119 (8.71%) Lead
6 102 (7.47%) Data Engineer
7 83 (6.08%) Platform Engineer
8 80 (5.86%) AWS Engineer
9 71 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
10 69 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
11 66 (4.83%) Senior Developer
12 64 (4.69%) Software Engineer
13 63 (4.61%) Java Developer
14 49 (3.59%) Full-Stack Developer
14 49 (3.59%) Test Engineer
15 48 (3.51%) Senior DevOps
16 44 (3.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 44 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 38 (2.78%) AWS DevOps
17 38 (2.78%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 658 (48.17%) Terraform
2 225 (16.47%) REST
3 144 (10.54%) Kafka
4 134 (9.81%) RESTful
5 130 (9.52%) Spring
6 115 (8.42%) .NET
7 114 (8.35%) React
8 104 (7.61%) Spring Boot
9 86 (6.30%) Playwright
10 65 (4.76%) Node.js
11 54 (3.95%) OAuth
12 49 (3.59%) PySpark
13 48 (3.51%) YAML
14 46 (3.37%) HTML
14 46 (3.37%) JSON
15 43 (3.15%) AngularJS
16 42 (3.07%) OAuth2
17 41 (3.00%) FastAPI
18 39 (2.86%) .NET Framework
19 36 (2.64%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 291 (21.30%) Cloud Native
2 114 (8.35%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (5.27%) Product Ownership
4 57 (4.17%) AI Agents
5 41 (3.00%) Data Centre
6 39 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 39 (2.86%) Mobile App
7 37 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 35 (2.56%) Onboarding
9 28 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
10 25 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (1.46%) Security Posture
13 19 (1.39%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
14 18 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
14 18 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
15 15 (1.10%) Private Cloud
15 15 (1.10%) Public Cloud
16 14 (1.02%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 123 (9.00%) Linux
2 61 (4.47%) Windows
3 33 (2.42%) Unix
4 28 (2.05%) Android
5 26 (1.90%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.39%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.59%) VMS
9 3 (0.22%) CentOS
9 3 (0.22%) Debian
9 3 (0.22%) 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%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.15%) zOS
11 1 (0.073%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,035 (75.77%) CI/CD
2 814 (59.59%) DevOps
3 559 (40.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 504 (36.90%) Agile
5 354 (25.92%) Test Automation
6 348 (25.48%) Observability
7 297 (21.74%) Containerisation
8 286 (20.94%) AI
9 267 (19.55%) Microservices
10 221 (16.18%) Platform Engineering
11 218 (15.96%) Software Engineering
12 201 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 165 (12.08%) Event-Driven
14 162 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
15 157 (11.49%) Analytics
16 138 (10.10%) DevSecOps
16 138 (10.10%) Technical Leadership
17 137 (10.03%) Stakeholder Management
18 127 (9.30%) Scrum
19 120 (8.78%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 580 (42.46%) Python
2 321 (23.50%) SQL
3 274 (20.06%) Java
4 190 (13.91%) Bash
5 182 (13.32%) PowerShell
6 144 (10.54%) TypeScript
7 135 (9.88%) JavaScript
8 134 (9.81%) C#
9 99 (7.25%) Bicep
10 46 (3.37%) Kotlin
11 41 (3.00%) Go
12 32 (2.34%) Shell Script
13 30 (2.20%) Scala
14 22 (1.61%) Ruby
15 20 (1.46%) Swift
16 12 (0.88%) Groovy
16 12 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
17 10 (0.73%) ActionScript
18 9 (0.66%) C
18 9 (0.66%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 424 (31.04%) Security Cleared
2 373 (27.31%) SC Cleared
3 66 (4.83%) Azure Certification
4 57 (4.17%) Degree
5 44 (3.22%) AWS Certification
6 39 (2.86%) DV Cleared
7 33 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 14 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.73%) CISSP
15 9 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 8 (0.59%) Master's Degree
17 6 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (13.91%) QA
2 75 (5.49%) Data Quality
3 73 (5.34%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.27%) GDPR
5 28 (2.05%) WCAG
6 25 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.24%) NIST
8 10 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.59%) NCSC
9 8 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.51%) GRC
11 5 (0.37%) HL7
11 5 (0.37%) PSD2
12 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.29%) SEPA
13 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.073%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 433 (31.70%) Docker
2 46 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.81%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.81%) IAG
5 11 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.81%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.81%) vSphere
6 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 4 (0.29%) NFS
7 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.15%) Firmware
8 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.15%) SRDF
8 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 497 (36.38%) Kubernetes
2 207 (15.15%) Ansible
3 191 (13.98%) Grafana
4 154 (11.27%) Prometheus
5 58 (4.25%) Argo
6 26 (1.90%) Puppet
7 23 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (1.46%) Packer
9 19 (1.39%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.88%) Control-M
10 12 (0.88%) Istio
11 10 (0.73%) Kibana
12 9 (0.66%) HAProxy
12 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.59%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.44%) SCCM
16 5 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.37%) NetBackup
16 5 (0.37%) Podman
Vendors
1 266 (19.47%) Microsoft
2 102 (7.47%) Databricks
3 95 (6.95%) Splunk
4 94 (6.88%) Google
5 56 (4.10%) Oracle
6 54 (3.95%) Dynatrace
7 43 (3.15%) ServiceNow
8 36 (2.64%) VMware
9 33 (2.42%) Red Hat
10 32 (2.34%) OpenAI
11 30 (2.20%) Salesforce
12 29 (2.12%) Cisco
13 25 (1.83%) Informatica
14 22 (1.61%) IBM
15 19 (1.39%) F5
15 19 (1.39%) New Relic
16 18 (1.32%) Checkmarx
17 16 (1.17%) Foundry
18 15 (1.10%) Palo Alto
18 15 (1.10%) SAP