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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 123 175
Rank change year-on-year +53 +52 -47
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,165 548 526
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.50% 2.11% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.29% 5.63% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 369 379
10th Percentile £355 £349 £413
25th Percentile £411 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% -1.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £690 £684
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 1
10th Percentile £40.00 £22.33 -
25th Percentile £44.50 £25.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £56.25 £27.38 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +105.48% -43.56% -10.19%
75th Percentile £74.00 £57.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £84.80 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £27.38 £44.25
% change year-on-year +105.48% -38.14% -18.06%

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 12,534 9,733 12,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.66% 37.41% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,667 6,462 9,209
10th Percentile £305 £313 £272
25th Percentile £406 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 140 306
10th Percentile £14.43 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.81 £27.50 £22.23
Median % change year-on-year +30.22% +23.73% -11.10%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.25 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £35.61 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.47% +22.22% -6.25%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +41 667 £550 - 230
North of England +27 188 £476 +0.21% 147
South East +44 104 £450 -4.26% 148
Yorkshire 0 103 £480 +1.05% 67
Midlands +24 83 £550 +10.00% 57
North West +22 71 £405 -14.74% 68
South West +9 71 £550 -10.20% 59
West Midlands +10 67 £584 +11.72% 28
East of England -9 19 £550 +72.41% 59
North East +1 18 £545 +50.34% 14
East Midlands -12 16 £402 -19.60% 30
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
1 102 (8.76%) Confluence
2 50 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (2.23%) SharePoint
4 21 (1.80%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.94%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.69%) nginx
7 6 (0.52%) Apache
8 5 (0.43%) CMS
9 3 (0.26%) SAS
9 3 (0.26%) WordPress
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.17%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.17%) Mule
10 2 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.17%) Traefik
11 1 (0.086%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.086%) Appian
11 1 (0.086%) Luigi
11 1 (0.086%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 29 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.17%) Trello
6 1 (0.086%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (0.60%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.086%) Actimize
3 1 (0.086%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.086%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.086%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.086%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.086%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.086%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.086%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.086%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 585 (50.21%) GitHub Actions
2 524 (44.98%) Azure
3 523 (44.89%) AWS
4 246 (21.12%) Azure DevOps
5 180 (15.45%) GCP
6 177 (15.19%) Serverless
7 112 (9.61%) AWS Lambda
8 106 (9.10%) Amazon S3
9 103 (8.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 93 (7.98%) Amazon EKS
11 85 (7.30%) Power Platform
12 81 (6.95%) Amazon ECS
13 75 (6.44%) OpenShift
14 68 (5.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 68 (5.84%) Azure AKS
15 64 (5.49%) Azure Data Factory
15 64 (5.49%) Entra ID
16 63 (5.41%) GitHub Copilot
17 60 (5.15%) Azure Monitor
18 48 (4.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.29%) Firewall
2 45 (3.86%) DNS
3 25 (2.15%) Network Security
4 24 (2.06%) VPN
5 12 (1.03%) HTTP
6 11 (0.94%) SSL
7 10 (0.86%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.69%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.69%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.69%) WAN
9 7 (0.60%) Ethernet
9 7 (0.60%) Modbus
9 7 (0.60%) RS-232
9 7 (0.60%) RS-485
10 5 (0.43%) Internet
10 5 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.17%) Calico
11 2 (0.17%) DSL
11 2 (0.17%) SNMP
11 2 (0.17%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (13.48%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (6.35%) NoSQL
3 61 (5.24%) MongoDB
4 57 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
5 52 (4.46%) Data Lake
6 51 (4.38%) SQL Server
7 49 (4.21%) Power BI
8 47 (4.03%) Relational Database
9 46 (3.95%) DynamoDB
10 39 (3.35%) Redis
11 36 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
11 36 (3.09%) MySQL
12 27 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
13 23 (1.97%) Delta Lake
14 19 (1.63%) BigQuery
15 17 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
16 15 (1.29%) Amazon QuickSight
16 15 (1.29%) Big Data
16 15 (1.29%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 340 (29.18%) Jenkins
2 220 (18.88%) Git
3 209 (17.94%) GitLab
4 162 (13.91%) JIRA
5 70 (6.01%) JUnit
6 59 (5.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 45 (3.86%) Artifactory
8 39 (3.35%) Cucumber
9 38 (3.26%) CircleCI
10 37 (3.18%) Cypress.io
10 37 (3.18%) Gradle
11 35 (3.00%) Bitbucket
11 35 (3.00%) SonarQube
12 34 (2.92%) Postman
13 33 (2.83%) Selenium
14 27 (2.32%) JMeter
15 26 (2.23%) Maven
16 15 (1.29%) Snyk
17 13 (1.12%) MLflow
17 13 (1.12%) Mockito
General
1 281 (24.12%) Social Skills
2 177 (15.19%) Finance
3 149 (12.79%) Public Sector
4 82 (7.04%) Banking
5 80 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (1.80%) Military
7 18 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (1.37%) Retail
9 15 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
11 13 (1.12%) Front Office
11 13 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.03%) Investment Banking
13 10 (0.86%) Marketing
14 9 (0.77%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.52%) Games
15 6 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.43%) Billing
16 5 (0.43%) Law
17 4 (0.34%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 276 (23.69%) Developer
2 188 (16.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 174 (14.94%) Senior
4 96 (8.24%) Data Engineer
5 82 (7.04%) Lead
6 81 (6.95%) AWS Engineer
7 79 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
8 76 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
9 70 (6.01%) Architect
10 66 (5.67%) Platform Engineer
11 62 (5.32%) Java Developer
12 56 (4.81%) Azure Engineer
13 52 (4.46%) Software Engineer
14 48 (4.12%) AWS DevOps
15 44 (3.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 42 (3.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 41 (3.52%) Senior Developer
18 39 (3.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 32 (2.75%) Senior Data Engineer
20 27 (2.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (12.53%) Kafka
2 138 (11.85%) REST
3 123 (10.56%) React
4 121 (10.39%) Node.js
5 113 (9.70%) Spring
6 105 (9.01%) .NET
7 86 (7.38%) Spring Boot
8 85 (7.30%) RESTful
9 67 (5.75%) AngularJS
10 60 (5.15%) CSS
11 55 (4.72%) Playwright
12 53 (4.55%) HTML
13 52 (4.46%) OAuth
14 51 (4.38%) Elastic Stack
15 40 (3.43%) JSON
16 39 (3.35%) PySpark
16 39 (3.35%) PyTorch
17 38 (3.26%) FastAPI
18 37 (3.18%) GraphQL
18 37 (3.18%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 186 (15.97%) Cloud Native
2 41 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (3.43%) Product Ownership
4 31 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (2.23%) Public Cloud
6 21 (1.80%) Algorithms
7 19 (1.63%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.46%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.29%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.20%) Life Science
12 14 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (1.12%) NHS
13 13 (1.12%) Private Cloud
13 13 (1.12%) Replication
13 13 (1.12%) Security Posture
14 12 (1.03%) Genomics
14 12 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 156 (13.39%) Linux
2 39 (3.35%) Windows
3 25 (2.15%) Unix
4 24 (2.06%) Android
5 15 (1.29%) VMS
6 14 (1.20%) Apple iOS
7 12 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (0.43%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.34%) CentOS
10 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.17%) Solaris
12 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.086%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.086%) Debian
13 1 (0.086%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 830 (71.24%) CI/CD
2 689 (59.14%) DevOps
3 410 (35.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 363 (31.16%) Agile
5 295 (25.32%) Containerisation
6 230 (19.74%) AI
7 228 (19.57%) Test Automation
8 221 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
9 208 (17.85%) Microservices
10 195 (16.74%) Observability
11 167 (14.33%) Migration
12 137 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
13 134 (11.50%) Analytics
14 131 (11.24%) Platform Engineering
15 119 (10.21%) Software Engineering
16 117 (10.04%) Data Pipeline
17 114 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
18 98 (8.41%) DevSecOps
19 97 (8.33%) Machine Learning
20 96 (8.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 540 (46.35%) Python
2 264 (22.66%) SQL
3 236 (20.26%) Java
4 159 (13.65%) JavaScript
5 144 (12.36%) TypeScript
6 132 (11.33%) Bash
7 102 (8.76%) PowerShell
8 95 (8.15%) C#
9 72 (6.18%) Go
10 50 (4.29%) Bicep
11 28 (2.40%) Shell Script
12 24 (2.06%) Ruby
13 15 (1.29%) PHP
14 13 (1.12%) Kotlin
15 12 (1.03%) C++
16 11 (0.94%) Scala
17 10 (0.86%) Groovy
18 9 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
19 8 (0.69%) C
19 8 (0.69%) Korn
Qualifications
1 348 (29.87%) Security Cleared
2 268 (23.00%) SC Cleared
3 72 (6.18%) Degree
4 51 (4.38%) DV Cleared
5 41 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (3.26%) Azure Certification
7 31 (2.66%) AWS Certification
8 26 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 18 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.12%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.77%) CISSP
12 9 (0.77%) OCP
12 9 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (0.60%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
15 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.34%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (6.52%) QA
2 50 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 49 (4.21%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.49%) NIST
5 23 (1.97%) NCSC
6 22 (1.89%) WCAG
7 21 (1.80%) GDPR
8 16 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (1.29%) EU AI Act
10 13 (1.12%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.60%) SLA
12 5 (0.43%) GRC
12 5 (0.43%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.26%) Def Stans
13 3 (0.26%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.17%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.17%) FIPS 140-2
14 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.17%) MiFID
14 2 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 368 (31.59%) Docker
2 33 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (2.75%) Active Directory
4 19 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.94%) vSphere
6 10 (0.86%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.60%) Firmware
8 6 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.26%) QEMU
10 2 (0.17%) HDFS
10 2 (0.17%) NFS
10 2 (0.17%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.086%) etcd
11 1 (0.086%) ISA Server
11 1 (0.086%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 504 (43.26%) Terraform
2 446 (38.28%) Kubernetes
3 171 (14.68%) Ansible
4 132 (11.33%) Grafana
5 97 (8.33%) Prometheus
6 65 (5.58%) Argo
7 35 (3.00%) Istio
8 26 (2.23%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.72%) Puppet
10 12 (1.03%) Kibana
10 12 (1.03%) Podman
11 10 (0.86%) Packer
11 10 (0.86%) vCenter Server
12 9 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.60%) NetBackup
13 7 (0.60%) Sysdig
14 6 (0.52%) linkerd
15 5 (0.43%) logstash
16 4 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
16 4 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 197 (16.91%) Microsoft
2 98 (8.41%) Google
3 77 (6.61%) Databricks
4 72 (6.18%) Splunk
5 49 (4.21%) VMware
6 45 (3.86%) OpenAI
7 41 (3.52%) Oracle
8 38 (3.26%) Red Hat
9 21 (1.80%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.63%) Atlassian
11 18 (1.55%) Foundry
11 18 (1.55%) Sonatype
12 13 (1.12%) Salesforce
13 10 (0.86%) Dynatrace
13 10 (0.86%) Pure Storage
14 8 (0.69%) NetApp
14 8 (0.69%) New Relic
14 8 (0.69%) Okta
14 8 (0.69%) SAP
15 7 (0.60%) Commvault