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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 128 175
Rank change year-on-year +58 +47 -53
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,271 518 516
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.26% 2.12% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.97% 5.62% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 361 350
10th Percentile £359 £375 £389
25th Percentile £413 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £623 £630 £623
90th Percentile £700 £738 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 -
25th Percentile £46.00 £25.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £27.38 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +126.48% -15.77% -48.00%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.44 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 £60.30
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +104.57% -15.77% -40.91%

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 14,170 9,223 11,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.36% 37.81% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,773 6,498 8,621
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 182 321
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.50 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.59 £26.48 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +60.88% +27.47% -21.56%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.74 £33.75
90th Percentile £80.92 £75.45 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.13 £21.00
% change year-on-year +47.47% +29.17% -26.32%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 7 April 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 +38 720 £538 -4.23% 226
North of England +42 215 £500 +1.06% 145
Yorkshire +27 136 £482 -12.36% 64
South East +4 105 £473 -5.40% 123
Midlands +9 94 £514 +5.98% 55
South West +27 80 £538 - 55
West Midlands +7 78 £550 +15.79% 22
North West +4 68 £525 +10.53% 61
East of England -28 22 £488 -11.32% 53
East Midlands -18 15 £402 -19.60% 33
North East -4 13 £545 +50.34% 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
1 109 (8.58%) Confluence
2 46 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (2.68%) SharePoint
4 27 (2.12%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.26%) Apache
6 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.63%) nginx
8 7 (0.55%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.31%) CMS
11 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.16%) WordPress
12 1 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.079%) Appian
12 1 (0.079%) SAS
12 1 (0.079%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.079%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.079%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.079%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.079%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.39%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.31%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.24%) Findur
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.079%) Actimize
5 1 (0.079%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.079%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.079%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 651 (51.22%) GitHub Actions
2 589 (46.34%) Azure
3 577 (45.40%) AWS
4 312 (24.55%) Azure DevOps
5 203 (15.97%) Serverless
6 179 (14.08%) GCP
7 142 (11.17%) AWS Lambda
8 117 (9.21%) Amazon S3
9 108 (8.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 97 (7.63%) Power Platform
11 95 (7.47%) Amazon EKS
12 88 (6.92%) Amazon ECS
13 86 (6.77%) Azure Data Factory
14 82 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 81 (6.37%) Azure Monitor
16 76 (5.98%) Azure AKS
17 71 (5.59%) GitHub Copilot
18 69 (5.43%) Entra ID
19 65 (5.11%) OpenShift
20 59 (4.64%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.80%) Firewall
2 58 (4.56%) DNS
3 32 (2.52%) VPN
4 29 (2.28%) Network Security
5 14 (1.10%) HTTP
6 9 (0.71%) SSL
7 7 (0.55%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.55%) Modbus
7 7 (0.55%) RS-232
7 7 (0.55%) RS-485
8 6 (0.47%) Internet
8 6 (0.47%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.39%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.31%) DSL
10 4 (0.31%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.31%) WAN
11 2 (0.16%) BGP
11 2 (0.16%) NAS
11 2 (0.16%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (6.61%) NoSQL
3 77 (6.06%) Data Lake
4 63 (4.96%) SQL Server
5 59 (4.64%) DynamoDB
6 58 (4.56%) Power BI
7 57 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
8 50 (3.93%) Relational Database
9 49 (3.86%) MongoDB
10 48 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 41 (3.23%) Delta Lake
12 37 (2.91%) Redis
13 34 (2.68%) MySQL
14 29 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
15 24 (1.89%) Big Data
16 22 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
17 19 (1.49%) Metadata
18 18 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
19 15 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
20 13 (1.02%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 388 (30.53%) Jenkins
2 249 (19.59%) Git
3 244 (19.20%) GitLab
4 167 (13.14%) JIRA
5 85 (6.69%) JUnit
6 54 (4.25%) Cucumber
7 52 (4.09%) Selenium
8 42 (3.30%) Sonatype Nexus
9 39 (3.07%) Artifactory
9 39 (3.07%) Cypress.io
9 39 (3.07%) JMeter
10 34 (2.68%) Bitbucket
11 32 (2.52%) CircleCI
11 32 (2.52%) Gradle
11 32 (2.52%) Postman
12 29 (2.28%) SonarQube
13 26 (2.05%) Maven
14 21 (1.65%) Gatling
14 21 (1.65%) MLflow
15 19 (1.49%) REST Assured
General
1 310 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 209 (16.44%) Finance
3 157 (12.35%) Public Sector
4 93 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (6.77%) Banking
6 21 (1.65%) Military
7 19 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (1.49%) Retail
8 16 (1.26%) Front Office
9 15 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.10%) Investment Banking
11 11 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (0.87%) Legal
12 9 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.63%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.55%) Law
14 7 (0.55%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.47%) Marketing
15 6 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 259 (20.38%) Developer
2 198 (15.58%) Senior
3 181 (14.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 114 (8.97%) Data Engineer
5 98 (7.71%) Lead
6 97 (7.63%) Architect
7 85 (6.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 84 (6.61%) Platform Engineer
9 79 (6.22%) AWS Engineer
10 65 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
11 64 (5.04%) Azure Engineer
12 62 (4.88%) Java Developer
13 47 (3.70%) Software Engineer
14 45 (3.54%) AWS DevOps
14 45 (3.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 42 (3.30%) GCP Engineer
15 42 (3.30%) Senior Developer
16 37 (2.91%) Tester
17 35 (2.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 33 (2.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (11.25%) Kafka
2 142 (11.17%) REST
3 134 (10.54%) Spring
4 128 (10.07%) React
5 117 (9.21%) Node.js
6 111 (8.73%) .NET
7 99 (7.79%) Spring Boot
8 92 (7.24%) RESTful
9 64 (5.04%) Playwright
10 58 (4.56%) AngularJS
11 57 (4.48%) PySpark
12 44 (3.46%) CSS
13 43 (3.38%) Elastic Stack
14 42 (3.30%) JSON
14 42 (3.30%) OAuth
15 41 (3.23%) Jest
16 37 (2.91%) HTML
17 35 (2.75%) OpenTelemetry
18 31 (2.44%) FastAPI
18 31 (2.44%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 213 (16.76%) Cloud Native
2 74 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (4.25%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (1.97%) Public Cloud
6 21 (1.65%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.42%) AI Agents
7 18 (1.42%) Virtual Team
8 17 (1.34%) Security Posture
9 16 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.26%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.10%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.10%) NHS
11 13 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
13 11 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.79%) Data Centre
14 10 (0.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 149 (11.72%) Linux
2 42 (3.30%) Windows
3 29 (2.28%) Unix
4 22 (1.73%) Android
5 19 (1.49%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.10%) VMS
7 11 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
8 7 (0.55%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.31%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.24%) Debian
10 3 (0.24%) Rocky
11 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.079%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 932 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 756 (59.48%) DevOps
3 450 (35.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 388 (30.53%) Agile
5 310 (24.39%) Containerisation
6 276 (21.72%) Test Automation
7 242 (19.04%) Observability
8 235 (18.49%) AI
9 225 (17.70%) Microservices
10 209 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
11 180 (14.16%) Analytics
11 180 (14.16%) Platform Engineering
12 173 (13.61%) Migration
13 149 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 136 (10.70%) Data Pipeline
15 130 (10.23%) Software Engineering
16 127 (9.99%) Full-Stack Development
17 125 (9.83%) Data Engineering
18 118 (9.28%) Data Modelling
19 115 (9.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 593 (46.66%) Python
2 307 (24.15%) SQL
3 251 (19.75%) Java
4 163 (12.82%) Bash
5 153 (12.04%) JavaScript
6 128 (10.07%) TypeScript
7 124 (9.76%) C#
8 122 (9.60%) PowerShell
9 61 (4.80%) Bicep
10 60 (4.72%) Go
11 33 (2.60%) Shell Script
12 26 (2.05%) Scala
13 24 (1.89%) Ruby
14 18 (1.42%) Kotlin
15 15 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
16 13 (1.02%) Swift
17 10 (0.79%) C++
17 10 (0.79%) Groovy
18 9 (0.71%) C
19 7 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 395 (31.08%) Security Cleared
2 311 (24.47%) SC Cleared
3 59 (4.64%) Degree
4 47 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 41 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 38 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (2.83%) AWS Certification
8 31 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 11 (0.87%) OCP
12 11 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
13 10 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (0.71%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 8 (0.63%) CISSP
16 5 (0.39%) CCNP
17 4 (0.31%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (7.95%) QA
2 68 (5.35%) Data Quality
3 46 (3.62%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.97%) GDPR
4 25 (1.97%) WCAG
5 19 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.26%) NIST
8 14 (1.10%) NCSC
9 6 (0.47%) SLA
10 5 (0.39%) GRC
10 5 (0.39%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.24%) EU AI Act
11 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 385 (30.29%) Docker
2 36 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.65%) VMware NSX
6 20 (1.57%) vSphere
7 7 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.55%) Firmware
8 3 (0.24%) HDFS
8 3 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.079%) IAG
9 1 (0.079%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 564 (44.37%) Terraform
2 471 (37.06%) Kubernetes
3 190 (14.95%) Ansible
4 135 (10.62%) Grafana
5 99 (7.79%) Prometheus
6 65 (5.11%) Argo
7 38 (2.99%) Istio
8 25 (1.97%) Puppet
9 21 (1.65%) Progress Chef
10 20 (1.57%) vCenter Server
11 13 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (0.94%) Packer
13 11 (0.87%) NetBackup
14 10 (0.79%) Kibana
15 9 (0.71%) linkerd
16 8 (0.63%) Podman
17 7 (0.55%) Sysdig
18 4 (0.31%) HAProxy
18 4 (0.31%) Kubeflow
18 4 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 235 (18.49%) Microsoft
2 111 (8.73%) Databricks
3 90 (7.08%) Google
4 79 (6.22%) Splunk
5 48 (3.78%) VMware
6 47 (3.70%) Oracle
7 43 (3.38%) OpenAI
8 40 (3.15%) Red Hat
9 20 (1.57%) Pure Storage
10 19 (1.49%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.49%) ServiceNow
11 16 (1.26%) Salesforce
11 16 (1.26%) Sonatype
12 15 (1.18%) Dynatrace
13 14 (1.10%) SAP
14 11 (0.87%) Foundry
14 11 (0.87%) Informatica
15 10 (0.79%) Checkmarx
15 10 (0.79%) Commvault
16 8 (0.63%) Veritas