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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 83 134
Rank change year-on-year -8 +51 +4
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,398 829 601
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.00% 2.99% 1.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.71% 7.83% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 963 570 395
10th Percentile £380 £360 £311
25th Percentile £430 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -8.70%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £625
90th Percentile £710 £700 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -8.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 32
10th Percentile £46.25 £69.00 £66.25
25th Percentile £56.32 £80.63 -
Median hourly rate £69.11 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% +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 16,052 10,588 11,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.48% 38.16% 34.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,706 7,178 7,442
10th Percentile £319 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.20%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £644
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 553 245 157
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.09 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £69.82 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £82.05 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -24.57% +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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 +2 822 £550 - 809
North of England +7 267 £488 +2.63% 174
Yorkshire +22 175 £488 -2.50% 61
Midlands +4 114 £473 -15.16% 76
West Midlands -7 93 £488 -15.22% 41
South East -25 88 £525 +20.69% 95
North West -37 69 £550 +22.22% 89
South West -33 52 £518 -20.38% 76
East of England -6 33 £500 -4.76% 61
North East -26 25 £425 -10.53% 24
East Midlands -5 21 £400 -15.79% 35
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 (7.65%) Confluence
2 42 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.36%) Apache
3 19 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.57%) nginx
4 8 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
5 7 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.43%) Tuxedo
7 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.21%) CMS
10 2 (0.14%) Mendix
10 2 (0.14%) SAS
11 1 (0.072%) IIS
11 1 (0.072%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.072%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.072%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.072%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.72%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.29%) Trello
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.072%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.072%) Notion
6 1 (0.072%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.072%) Sketch
6 1 (0.072%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.57%) 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 (0.29%) 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 (0.072%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.072%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.072%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 744 (53.22%) GitHub Actions
2 706 (50.50%) Azure
3 648 (46.35%) AWS
4 373 (26.68%) Azure DevOps
5 218 (15.59%) GCP
6 184 (13.16%) Serverless
7 175 (12.52%) GitHub Copilot
8 137 (9.80%) Amazon S3
9 127 (9.08%) Amazon EKS
10 116 (8.30%) AWS Lambda
11 104 (7.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 100 (7.15%) Azure Monitor
13 89 (6.37%) Entra ID
13 89 (6.37%) Power Platform
14 79 (5.65%) Snowflake
15 77 (5.51%) Amazon EC2
16 74 (5.29%) Azure AKS
17 64 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
17 64 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
18 61 (4.36%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 68 (4.86%) DNS
1 68 (4.86%) Firewall
2 44 (3.15%) VPN
3 38 (2.72%) Network Security
4 23 (1.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 22 (1.57%) BGP
5 22 (1.57%) TCP/IP
5 22 (1.57%) VLAN
6 16 (1.14%) BIG-IP
6 16 (1.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 16 (1.14%) SSL
7 14 (1.00%) DHCP
8 12 (0.86%) Ethernet VPN
8 12 (0.86%) VXLAN
9 11 (0.79%) NX-OS
9 11 (0.79%) OSPF
9 11 (0.79%) Wireless
10 9 (0.64%) TACACS
11 7 (0.50%) IPsec
11 7 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.44%) SQL Server
3 81 (5.79%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.65%) NoSQL
5 60 (4.29%) Power BI
6 56 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
7 51 (3.65%) Redis
8 49 (3.51%) Data Lake
9 48 (3.43%) Relational Database
10 35 (2.50%) DynamoDB
11 34 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 33 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
13 30 (2.15%) Delta Lake
13 30 (2.15%) MySQL
14 27 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
15 25 (1.79%) BigQuery
16 22 (1.57%) Metadata
17 19 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
18 18 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
19 16 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 399 (28.54%) Jenkins
2 296 (21.17%) GitLab
3 290 (20.74%) Git
4 164 (11.73%) JIRA
5 76 (5.44%) Selenium
6 68 (4.86%) JUnit
7 63 (4.51%) SonarQube
8 60 (4.29%) Cucumber
9 47 (3.36%) Bitbucket
9 47 (3.36%) Gatling
10 42 (3.00%) Claude Code
11 37 (2.65%) Gradle
12 36 (2.58%) Cypress.io
13 34 (2.43%) JMeter
13 34 (2.43%) Maven
14 31 (2.22%) Postman
15 29 (2.07%) REST Assured
16 27 (1.93%) CircleCI
17 25 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
18 22 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 351 (25.11%) Social Skills
2 291 (20.82%) Finance
3 147 (10.52%) Public Sector
4 144 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
5 96 (6.87%) Banking
6 49 (3.51%) Retail
7 43 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (1.29%) Legal
8 18 (1.29%) Telecoms
9 16 (1.14%) Law
10 15 (1.07%) Aerospace
10 15 (1.07%) Marketing
11 14 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
12 13 (0.93%) Military
13 12 (0.86%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.79%) Local Government
14 11 (0.79%) Manufacturing
15 10 (0.72%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 281 (20.10%) Senior
2 266 (19.03%) Developer
3 171 (12.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 119 (8.51%) Architect
5 117 (8.37%) Lead
6 97 (6.94%) Data Engineer
7 76 (5.44%) AWS Engineer
8 75 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
9 69 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
9 69 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
10 66 (4.72%) Senior Developer
11 65 (4.65%) Java Developer
12 63 (4.51%) Software Engineer
13 51 (3.65%) Full-Stack Developer
13 51 (3.65%) Senior DevOps
14 48 (3.43%) Test Engineer
15 47 (3.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 45 (3.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 44 (3.15%) Automation Engineer
18 41 (2.93%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 647 (46.28%) Terraform
2 248 (17.74%) REST
3 153 (10.94%) Kafka
4 145 (10.37%) RESTful
5 129 (9.23%) Spring
6 119 (8.51%) .NET
7 114 (8.15%) React
8 108 (7.73%) Spring Boot
9 89 (6.37%) Playwright
10 65 (4.65%) Node.js
11 59 (4.22%) OAuth
12 58 (4.15%) HTML
13 55 (3.93%) JSON
14 48 (3.43%) FastAPI
15 47 (3.36%) YAML
16 44 (3.15%) OAuth2
17 42 (3.00%) AngularJS
18 40 (2.86%) PySpark
18 40 (2.86%) pytest
19 39 (2.79%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 294 (21.03%) Cloud Native
2 101 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (6.37%) AI Agents
4 73 (5.22%) Product Ownership
5 56 (4.01%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (3.58%) Data Centre
7 44 (3.15%) Onboarding
8 39 (2.79%) Mobile App
9 32 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 29 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.86%) Data Structures
11 26 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (1.79%) Security Posture
13 24 (1.72%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.50%) Low-Code
15 20 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
15 20 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
16 17 (1.22%) Algorithms
16 17 (1.22%) Private Cloud
17 16 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 129 (9.23%) Linux
2 62 (4.43%) Windows
3 28 (2.00%) Android
3 28 (2.00%) Unix
4 27 (1.93%) Apple iOS
5 19 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.57%) VMS
7 6 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.29%) 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 (0.072%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,063 (76.04%) CI/CD
2 806 (57.65%) DevOps
3 559 (39.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 518 (37.05%) Agile
5 358 (25.61%) Test Automation
6 355 (25.39%) AI
7 348 (24.89%) Observability
8 282 (20.17%) Containerisation
9 277 (19.81%) Microservices
10 244 (17.45%) Software Engineering
11 213 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 207 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
13 182 (13.02%) Stakeholder Management
14 177 (12.66%) Event-Driven
14 177 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
15 149 (10.66%) Analytics
16 147 (10.52%) Scrum
17 142 (10.16%) Technical Leadership
18 127 (9.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 126 (9.01%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 616 (44.06%) Python
2 309 (22.10%) SQL
3 281 (20.10%) Java
4 185 (13.23%) Bash
5 180 (12.88%) PowerShell
6 158 (11.30%) TypeScript
7 151 (10.80%) JavaScript
8 128 (9.16%) C#
9 98 (7.01%) Bicep
10 52 (3.72%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.08%) Go
12 33 (2.36%) Shell Script
13 30 (2.15%) Scala
14 21 (1.50%) Swift
15 17 (1.22%) ActionScript
16 15 (1.07%) Ruby
17 12 (0.86%) C
17 12 (0.86%) Objective-C
18 10 (0.72%) Groovy
18 10 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 400 (28.61%) Security Cleared
2 346 (24.75%) SC Cleared
3 64 (4.58%) Azure Certification
4 62 (4.43%) Degree
5 47 (3.36%) AWS Certification
6 46 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 38 (2.72%) DV Cleared
8 36 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 10 (0.72%) 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
1 206 (14.74%) QA
2 86 (6.15%) Accessibility
3 76 (5.44%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.58%) WCAG
5 27 (1.93%) GDPR
6 25 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.65%) NIST
8 11 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.79%) 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 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.21%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.072%) IFRS
System Software
1 441 (31.55%) Docker
2 45 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.72%) IAG
5 10 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.64%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.43%) vSphere
8 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.29%) NFS
9 3 (0.21%) 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
1 499 (35.69%) Kubernetes
2 202 (14.45%) Ansible
3 183 (13.09%) Grafana
4 143 (10.23%) Prometheus
5 51 (3.65%) Argo
6 21 (1.50%) Puppet
7 20 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (1.22%) Progress Chef
9 16 (1.14%) Packer
10 14 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (0.93%) Control-M
12 11 (0.79%) Kibana
13 10 (0.72%) 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 (0.29%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 259 (18.53%) Microsoft
2 102 (7.30%) Databricks
3 91 (6.51%) Splunk
4 90 (6.44%) Google
5 66 (4.72%) Dynatrace
6 53 (3.79%) OpenAI
7 50 (3.58%) Oracle
7 50 (3.58%) ServiceNow
8 38 (2.72%) VMware
9 36 (2.58%) Cisco
10 30 (2.15%) Red Hat
11 29 (2.07%) Foundry
12 27 (1.93%) IBM
12 27 (1.93%) Salesforce
13 24 (1.72%) F5
14 22 (1.57%) New Relic
15 16 (1.14%) Palo Alto
16 15 (1.07%) SAP
17 14 (1.00%) Informatica
18 13 (0.93%) CyberArk