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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 113 146
Rank change year-on-year +29 +33 -19
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,282 636 592
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.91% 2.40% 1.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.33% 6.36% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 874 425 374
10th Percentile £380 £377 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £694 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -0.98% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 34
10th Percentile £47.75 £25.48 £52.60
25th Percentile £54.22 £25.81 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £26.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +138.25% -62.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £75.00 £27.06 -
90th Percentile - £27.33 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £26.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +138.25% -62.14% -6.67%

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 15,399 9,993 12,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.92% 37.70% 32.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,353 6,737 8,675
10th Percentile £325 £313 £308
25th Percentile £415 £410 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 256 332
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.05 £14.16
25th Percentile £23.21 £18.04 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.33 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.13% +15.11% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.36 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.20 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.88 £22.08
% change year-on-year +34.51% +26.30% -36.93%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +26 731 £550 - 299
North of England +30 248 £500 +4.17% 132
Yorkshire +21 178 £493 -5.24% 45
Midlands +8 98 £500 +5.26% 55
West Midlands -1 87 £500 +5.26% 29
South West +20 77 £475 -20.83% 50
South East -42 73 £525 +10.18% 134
North West -16 60 £550 +17.27% 69
East of England -15 31 £500 -9.09% 40
North East -26 15 £450 -5.26% 19
East Midlands -9 10 £500 +2.56% 26
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
1 116 (9.05%) Confluence
2 44 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (2.18%) SharePoint
4 25 (1.95%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.25%) Apache
6 13 (1.01%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.47%) Tuxedo
9 3 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.23%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.16%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) SAS
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.078%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.078%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.078%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.078%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.078%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.55%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.078%) Notion
6 1 (0.078%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.078%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.39%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.39%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.23%) Findur
3 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.23%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.078%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.078%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 689 (53.74%) GitHub Actions
2 606 (47.27%) Azure
3 579 (45.16%) AWS
4 345 (26.91%) Azure DevOps
5 185 (14.43%) GCP
6 166 (12.95%) Serverless
7 131 (10.22%) Amazon S3
8 121 (9.44%) AWS Lambda
9 101 (7.88%) Amazon EKS
10 91 (7.10%) Azure Monitor
11 85 (6.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 81 (6.32%) Power Platform
13 79 (6.16%) GitHub Copilot
14 78 (6.08%) Amazon ECS
14 78 (6.08%) AWS CloudFormation
15 69 (5.38%) Azure AKS
16 65 (5.07%) Amazon EC2
17 63 (4.91%) Entra ID
18 59 (4.60%) Azure Data Factory
19 50 (3.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.76%) Firewall
2 60 (4.68%) DNS
3 47 (3.67%) VPN
4 27 (2.11%) Network Security
5 13 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 12 (0.94%) SSL
7 11 (0.86%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.86%) VLAN
8 9 (0.70%) BIG-IP
8 9 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 8 (0.62%) HTTP
10 7 (0.55%) Internet
10 7 (0.55%) Wireless
11 6 (0.47%) WAN
12 5 (0.39%) BGP
13 4 (0.31%) DHCP
13 4 (0.31%) DSL
13 4 (0.31%) IPsec
13 4 (0.31%) OSPF
13 4 (0.31%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (7.88%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (6.71%) SQL Server
3 63 (4.91%) Data Lake
3 63 (4.91%) NoSQL
4 55 (4.29%) MongoDB
4 55 (4.29%) Power BI
5 47 (3.67%) Relational Database
6 45 (3.51%) DynamoDB
7 44 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 41 (3.20%) Delta Lake
9 37 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
10 33 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
10 33 (2.57%) Redis
11 32 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 25 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
13 22 (1.72%) Big Data
14 19 (1.48%) Metadata
15 18 (1.40%) MySQL
16 17 (1.33%) BigQuery
16 17 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 409 (31.90%) Jenkins
2 262 (20.44%) GitLab
3 242 (18.88%) Git
4 167 (13.03%) JIRA
5 82 (6.40%) JUnit
6 69 (5.38%) Selenium
7 53 (4.13%) Cucumber
8 42 (3.28%) Gradle
9 40 (3.12%) JMeter
10 38 (2.96%) Gatling
11 37 (2.89%) Maven
11 37 (2.89%) REST Assured
12 36 (2.81%) Bitbucket
12 36 (2.81%) Cypress.io
13 35 (2.73%) SonarQube
14 31 (2.42%) Postman
15 30 (2.34%) CircleCI
16 27 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
17 23 (1.79%) Mockito
18 20 (1.56%) WebDriver
General
1 309 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 224 (17.47%) Finance
3 148 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 102 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (6.40%) Banking
6 29 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (2.18%) Retail
8 24 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (1.72%) Legal
10 16 (1.25%) Investment Banking
10 16 (1.25%) Military
11 15 (1.17%) Law
12 12 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (0.78%) Financial Institution
13 10 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.62%) Front Office
15 8 (0.62%) Marketing
16 7 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 231 (18.02%) Developer
2 223 (17.39%) Senior
3 174 (13.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 118 (9.20%) Architect
5 105 (8.19%) Data Engineer
6 103 (8.03%) Lead
7 81 (6.32%) Platform Engineer
8 77 (6.01%) Cloud Engineer
9 76 (5.93%) AWS Engineer
10 63 (4.91%) Java Developer
11 55 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
11 55 (4.29%) Software Engineer
12 51 (3.98%) Senior Developer
13 48 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 45 (3.51%) Test Engineer
15 43 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
16 39 (3.04%) GCP Engineer
17 38 (2.96%) Senior DevOps
18 37 (2.89%) AWS DevOps
19 34 (2.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (12.48%) REST
2 127 (9.91%) Spring
3 121 (9.44%) Kafka
4 109 (8.50%) RESTful
5 108 (8.42%) .NET
6 98 (7.64%) Spring Boot
7 97 (7.57%) React
8 76 (5.93%) Playwright
9 63 (4.91%) Node.js
9 63 (4.91%) PySpark
10 42 (3.28%) OpenTelemetry
11 40 (3.12%) OAuth
12 37 (2.89%) .NET Framework
12 37 (2.89%) AngularJS
12 37 (2.89%) GraphQL
12 37 (2.89%) YAML
13 32 (2.50%) HTML
13 32 (2.50%) JSON
13 32 (2.50%) OAuth2
14 30 (2.34%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 262 (20.44%) Cloud Native
2 108 (8.42%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (4.91%) Product Ownership
4 33 (2.57%) Data Centre
4 33 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 30 (2.34%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.26%) Mobile App
7 28 (2.18%) AI Agents
8 22 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 21 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
10 19 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
12 17 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
13 14 (1.09%) Private Cloud
13 14 (1.09%) Replication
14 13 (1.01%) NHS
14 13 (1.01%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.01%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.94%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 125 (9.75%) Linux
2 59 (4.60%) Windows
3 29 (2.26%) Android
4 26 (2.03%) Apple iOS
5 24 (1.87%) Unix
6 18 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.94%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.31%) Debian
9 4 (0.31%) Rocky
9 4 (0.31%) VMS
10 3 (0.23%) CentOS
11 2 (0.16%) AIX
11 2 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.16%) MVS
11 2 (0.16%) zOS
12 1 (0.078%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.078%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.078%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 970 (75.66%) CI/CD
2 748 (58.35%) DevOps
3 499 (38.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 411 (32.06%) Agile
5 309 (24.10%) Test Automation
6 280 (21.84%) Observability
7 277 (21.61%) Containerisation
8 234 (18.25%) Microservices
9 217 (16.93%) Platform Engineering
10 209 (16.30%) AI
11 169 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 166 (12.95%) Software Engineering
13 165 (12.87%) Analytics
14 152 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
15 142 (11.08%) Migration
16 131 (10.22%) Event-Driven
17 120 (9.36%) Data Pipeline
18 111 (8.66%) Data Engineering
19 110 (8.58%) Data Modelling
20 108 (8.42%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 547 (42.67%) Python
2 311 (24.26%) SQL
3 238 (18.56%) Java
4 176 (13.73%) Bash
5 147 (11.47%) PowerShell
6 134 (10.45%) C#
7 126 (9.83%) JavaScript
8 116 (9.05%) TypeScript
9 76 (5.93%) Bicep
10 38 (2.96%) Go
11 34 (2.65%) Kotlin
11 34 (2.65%) Scala
12 29 (2.26%) Shell Script
13 23 (1.79%) Ruby
14 20 (1.56%) Swift
15 14 (1.09%) Groovy
16 10 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.70%) ActionScript
18 8 (0.62%) VB
19 7 (0.55%) C
Qualifications
1 384 (29.95%) Security Cleared
2 319 (24.88%) SC Cleared
3 56 (4.37%) Degree
4 48 (3.74%) DV Cleared
5 45 (3.51%) Azure Certification
6 34 (2.65%) AWS Certification
7 30 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.09%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.86%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.62%) CISSP
15 7 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 6 (0.47%) OCP
16 6 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (10.84%) QA
2 71 (5.54%) Data Quality
3 61 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 33 (2.57%) GDPR
5 24 (1.87%) WCAG
6 21 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.33%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.17%) NIST
9 8 (0.62%) GRC
10 6 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.39%) NCSC
12 3 (0.23%) HL7
12 3 (0.23%) PSD2
12 3 (0.23%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.16%) SEPA
14 1 (0.078%) IFRS
System Software
1 375 (29.25%) Docker
2 33 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.56%) vSphere
5 19 (1.48%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.47%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.39%) IAG
9 4 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.31%) NFS
10 2 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.16%) SRDF
10 2 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.078%) Firmware
11 1 (0.078%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 605 (47.19%) Terraform
2 446 (34.79%) Kubernetes
3 193 (15.05%) Ansible
4 172 (13.42%) Grafana
5 144 (11.23%) Prometheus
6 57 (4.45%) Argo
7 26 (2.03%) Puppet
8 21 (1.64%) Istio
9 20 (1.56%) vCenter Server
10 17 (1.33%) Packer
11 16 (1.25%) Progress Chef
12 15 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
13 13 (1.01%) Kibana
14 9 (0.70%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.70%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.39%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
16 4 (0.31%) Rancher
17 3 (0.23%) Consul
Vendors
1 219 (17.08%) Microsoft
2 95 (7.41%) Databricks
3 85 (6.63%) Splunk
4 84 (6.55%) Google
5 54 (4.21%) Oracle
6 39 (3.04%) VMware
7 37 (2.89%) Dynatrace
8 33 (2.57%) Red Hat
9 26 (2.03%) OpenAI
9 26 (2.03%) Salesforce
10 20 (1.56%) Pure Storage
11 17 (1.33%) Informatica
11 17 (1.33%) ServiceNow
12 16 (1.25%) Checkmarx
12 16 (1.25%) Foundry
12 16 (1.25%) SAP
13 15 (1.17%) Cisco
14 14 (1.09%) F5
14 14 (1.09%) IBM
15 13 (1.01%) Palantir