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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 119 166
Rank change year-on-year +38 +47 -38
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,278 578 557
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 2.35% 1.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.55% 6.23% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 865 395 344
10th Percentile £375 £382 £363
25th Percentile £425 £430 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £529
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% -11.83%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £625
90th Percentile £694 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.91% -10.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 30
10th Percentile £50.84 £25.93 £45.20
25th Percentile £58.43 £26.94 -
Median hourly rate £66.57 £47.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.14% -32.14% -
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £47.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +32.92% -32.14% +27.27%

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 14,955 9,274 12,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.02% 37.71% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,137 6,320 8,595
10th Percentile £325 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £510 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 526 225 333
10th Percentile £16.25 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +18.60% -38.57%
75th Percentile £68.75 £38.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.86 £28.55 £21.64
% change year-on-year +29.09% +31.93% -39.26%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +31 737 £550 - 184
North of England +26 234 £493 -0.06% 107
Yorkshire +20 169 £483 -7.12% 37
Midlands +10 94 £492 +3.58% 41
West Midlands +5 80 £492 +6.43% 21
South East -36 76 £500 +4.93% 103
South West +26 75 £450 -25.00% 44
North West -16 57 £550 +15.79% 59
East of England -11 32 £500 -9.09% 32
East Midlands -10 13 £447 -8.31% 20
North East -26 13 £450 -5.26% 12
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 (8.37%) Confluence
2 45 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (2.43%) SharePoint
4 27 (2.11%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.25%) Apache
6 11 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.47%) Tuxedo
9 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.078%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.078%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.078%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.078%) SAS
10 1 (0.078%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.078%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.55%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.078%) Notion
6 1 (0.078%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.078%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.23%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.23%) Findur
2 3 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.23%) Sage X3
2 3 (0.23%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.078%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.078%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.078%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 682 (53.36%) GitHub Actions
2 590 (46.17%) Azure
3 567 (44.37%) AWS
4 329 (25.74%) Azure DevOps
5 193 (15.10%) GCP
6 177 (13.85%) Serverless
7 123 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
8 118 (9.23%) Amazon S3
9 95 (7.43%) Amazon EKS
9 95 (7.43%) Power Platform
10 86 (6.73%) AWS CloudFormation
11 85 (6.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 80 (6.26%) GitHub Copilot
13 78 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
13 78 (6.10%) Azure Monitor
14 71 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
15 70 (5.48%) Azure AKS
16 62 (4.85%) Amazon EC2
17 59 (4.62%) Entra ID
18 51 (3.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 70 (5.48%) Firewall
2 65 (5.09%) DNS
3 41 (3.21%) VPN
4 26 (2.03%) Network Security
5 15 (1.17%) TCP/IP
6 12 (0.94%) SSL
7 11 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 9 (0.70%) VLAN
9 8 (0.63%) BIG-IP
9 8 (0.63%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 8 (0.63%) HTTP
10 6 (0.47%) WAN
10 6 (0.47%) Wireless
11 5 (0.39%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.39%) Internet
11 5 (0.39%) Modbus
11 5 (0.39%) RS-232
11 5 (0.39%) RS-485
12 4 (0.31%) DHCP
12 4 (0.31%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (8.84%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (6.73%) SQL Server
3 77 (6.03%) Data Lake
4 63 (4.93%) Power BI
5 58 (4.54%) NoSQL
6 56 (4.38%) MongoDB
7 47 (3.68%) Relational Database
8 46 (3.60%) DynamoDB
9 44 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
9 44 (3.44%) Delta Lake
10 42 (3.29%) Redis
11 40 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
12 33 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
13 30 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
14 24 (1.88%) Big Data
15 23 (1.80%) Metadata
16 21 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
17 20 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
17 20 (1.56%) BigQuery
18 18 (1.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 394 (30.83%) Jenkins
2 263 (20.58%) GitLab
3 240 (18.78%) Git
4 158 (12.36%) JIRA
5 82 (6.42%) JUnit
6 61 (4.77%) Selenium
7 50 (3.91%) Cucumber
8 42 (3.29%) Gradle
9 40 (3.13%) JMeter
10 39 (3.05%) Gatling
11 38 (2.97%) Cypress.io
12 37 (2.90%) CircleCI
13 35 (2.74%) Bitbucket
14 34 (2.66%) Maven
14 34 (2.66%) REST Assured
15 33 (2.58%) SonarQube
16 28 (2.19%) Postman
17 24 (1.88%) Artifactory
18 21 (1.64%) Mockito
18 21 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 296 (23.16%) Social Skills
2 207 (16.20%) Finance
3 143 (11.19%) Public Sector
4 97 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (6.18%) Banking
6 27 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (2.11%) Retail
7 20 (1.56%) Military
8 18 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (1.41%) Law
8 18 (1.41%) Legal
9 13 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (0.86%) Investment Banking
11 9 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.63%) Front Office
13 7 (0.55%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.55%) Marketing
14 6 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.31%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 238 (18.62%) Developer
2 222 (17.37%) Senior
3 172 (13.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 114 (8.92%) Data Engineer
5 113 (8.84%) Architect
6 94 (7.36%) Lead
7 86 (6.73%) Cloud Engineer
8 78 (6.10%) Platform Engineer
9 71 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
10 61 (4.77%) Azure Engineer
10 61 (4.77%) Java Developer
11 54 (4.23%) Senior Developer
11 54 (4.23%) Software Engineer
12 51 (3.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 46 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
14 45 (3.52%) GCP Engineer
15 41 (3.21%) Test Engineer
16 36 (2.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 35 (2.74%) AWS DevOps
17 35 (2.74%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (11.50%) REST
2 131 (10.25%) Spring
3 129 (10.09%) Kafka
4 106 (8.29%) React
5 104 (8.14%) .NET
6 103 (8.06%) Spring Boot
7 97 (7.59%) RESTful
8 75 (5.87%) Node.js
9 69 (5.40%) Playwright
10 68 (5.32%) PySpark
11 49 (3.83%) OpenTelemetry
12 39 (3.05%) OAuth
13 36 (2.82%) AngularJS
13 36 (2.82%) GraphQL
13 36 (2.82%) YAML
14 33 (2.58%) .NET Framework
15 32 (2.50%) OAuth2
16 31 (2.43%) HTML
16 31 (2.43%) JSON
16 31 (2.43%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 242 (18.94%) Cloud Native
2 100 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.66%) Onboarding
5 32 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 28 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 28 (2.19%) Mobile App
7 27 (2.11%) Public Cloud
8 23 (1.80%) AI Agents
9 18 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
10 17 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.02%) Security Posture
13 12 (0.94%) Low-Code
13 12 (0.94%) NHS
13 12 (0.94%) Virtual Team
14 11 (0.86%) Private Cloud
14 11 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 131 (10.25%) Linux
2 63 (4.93%) Windows
3 29 (2.27%) Android
4 28 (2.19%) Unix
5 26 (2.03%) Apple iOS
6 18 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.94%) Windows Server
8 10 (0.78%) VMS
9 5 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.31%) Debian
10 4 (0.31%) Rocky
11 3 (0.23%) CentOS
12 2 (0.16%) AIX
12 2 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.16%) MVS
12 2 (0.16%) zOS
13 1 (0.078%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.078%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 961 (75.20%) CI/CD
2 738 (57.75%) DevOps
3 497 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 390 (30.52%) Agile
5 287 (22.46%) Test Automation
6 272 (21.28%) Containerisation
7 269 (21.05%) Observability
8 225 (17.61%) Microservices
9 211 (16.51%) AI
10 206 (16.12%) Platform Engineering
11 165 (12.91%) Software Engineering
12 163 (12.75%) Analytics
12 163 (12.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 161 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
14 153 (11.97%) Migration
15 123 (9.62%) Data Pipeline
16 122 (9.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 119 (9.31%) Data Engineering
17 119 (9.31%) Event-Driven
18 115 (9.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 551 (43.11%) Python
2 315 (24.65%) SQL
3 245 (19.17%) Java
4 163 (12.75%) Bash
5 139 (10.88%) PowerShell
6 130 (10.17%) JavaScript
7 127 (9.94%) C#
8 110 (8.61%) TypeScript
9 69 (5.40%) Bicep
10 39 (3.05%) Go
11 35 (2.74%) Scala
12 34 (2.66%) Kotlin
13 32 (2.50%) Shell Script
14 22 (1.72%) Ruby
15 20 (1.56%) Swift
16 10 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.63%) ActionScript
17 8 (0.63%) C
17 8 (0.63%) Groovy
17 8 (0.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 378 (29.58%) Security Cleared
2 309 (24.18%) SC Cleared
3 53 (4.15%) Degree
4 42 (3.29%) DV Cleared
5 40 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 34 (2.66%) AWS Certification
7 33 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.86%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.86%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.55%) CISSP
13 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 7 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 6 (0.47%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.47%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (10.33%) QA
2 78 (6.10%) Data Quality
3 63 (4.93%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.50%) GDPR
5 28 (2.19%) WCAG
6 21 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.56%) PCI DSS
8 16 (1.25%) NIST
9 9 (0.70%) NCSC
10 8 (0.63%) GRC
11 6 (0.47%) SLA
12 5 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.39%) PSD2
13 4 (0.31%) SEPA
14 3 (0.23%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
15 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 358 (28.01%) Docker
2 31 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.56%) vSphere
6 19 (1.49%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.47%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.39%) Firmware
10 4 (0.31%) NFS
11 2 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.16%) SRDF
11 2 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.078%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 594 (46.48%) Terraform
2 436 (34.12%) Kubernetes
3 192 (15.02%) Ansible
4 160 (12.52%) Grafana
5 139 (10.88%) Prometheus
6 58 (4.54%) Argo
7 33 (2.58%) Istio
8 25 (1.96%) Puppet
9 20 (1.56%) vCenter Server
10 16 (1.25%) Packer
11 13 (1.02%) Kibana
11 13 (1.02%) Progress Chef
11 13 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.70%) HAProxy
12 9 (0.70%) NetBackup
13 7 (0.55%) linkerd
14 5 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.31%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 223 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 100 (7.82%) Databricks
3 89 (6.96%) Google
4 81 (6.34%) Splunk
5 56 (4.38%) Oracle
6 43 (3.36%) VMware
7 37 (2.90%) Red Hat
8 30 (2.35%) OpenAI
9 28 (2.19%) Dynatrace
10 20 (1.56%) Pure Storage
10 20 (1.56%) ServiceNow
11 16 (1.25%) Informatica
11 16 (1.25%) Salesforce
12 14 (1.10%) Atlassian
12 14 (1.10%) Cisco
12 14 (1.10%) Foundry
12 14 (1.10%) IBM
13 13 (1.02%) Checkmarx
14 12 (0.94%) F5
14 12 (0.94%) SAP