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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 78 133
Rank change year-on-year -9 +55 +14
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,410 884 610
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.05% 3.15% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.86% 8.19% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 973 608 406
10th Percentile £381 £360 £313
25th Percentile £433 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £710 £700 £686
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -7.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 32
10th Percentile £46.25 £69.00 £66.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £80.63 -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.03% +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 15,923 10,795 11,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.45% 38.42% 34.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,605 7,284 7,564
10th Percentile £322 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 256 161
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +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 9 October 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 October 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 October 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 +1 825 £550 - 1,068
North of England +14 273 £483 +1.58% 196
Yorkshire +26 178 £483 -3.50% 74
Midlands -8 113 £473 -17.56% 84
West Midlands -14 93 £488 -15.22% 42
South East -32 91 £525 +16.67% 152
North West -33 73 £550 +27.91% 98
South West -31 52 £550 -15.38% 70
East of England -14 28 £475 -13.64% 74
North East -28 24 £425 -10.53% 24
East Midlands -8 20 £394 -17.11% 41
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
1 105 (7.45%) Confluence
2 41 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.35%) Apache
4 18 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.64%) nginx
6 8 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.50%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.43%) Tuxedo
9 4 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.21%) CMS
11 2 (0.14%) IIS
11 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 1 (0.071%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.071%) Camunda
12 1 (0.071%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.071%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.071%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 10 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.28%) Trello
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.071%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.071%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.071%) Notion
6 1 (0.071%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.071%) Sketch
6 1 (0.071%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.35%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.35%) Sage X3
3 5 (0.35%) Summit
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.071%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.071%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.071%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.071%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 761 (53.97%) GitHub Actions
2 725 (51.42%) Azure
3 665 (47.16%) AWS
4 381 (27.02%) Azure DevOps
5 224 (15.89%) GCP
6 189 (13.40%) Serverless
7 176 (12.48%) GitHub Copilot
8 135 (9.57%) Amazon S3
9 134 (9.50%) Amazon EKS
10 115 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
11 107 (7.59%) Azure Monitor
12 103 (7.30%) Entra ID
13 102 (7.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 92 (6.52%) Power Platform
15 80 (5.67%) Snowflake
16 75 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
16 75 (5.32%) Azure AKS
17 67 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
17 67 (4.75%) AWS CloudFormation
18 63 (4.47%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.25%) DNS
2 73 (5.18%) Firewall
3 43 (3.05%) VPN
4 42 (2.98%) Network Security
5 25 (1.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 24 (1.70%) TCP/IP
7 23 (1.63%) VLAN
8 22 (1.56%) BGP
9 18 (1.28%) BIG-IP
9 18 (1.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 17 (1.21%) SSL
11 16 (1.13%) DHCP
12 13 (0.92%) Wireless
13 12 (0.85%) Ethernet VPN
13 12 (0.85%) VXLAN
14 11 (0.78%) OSPF
15 10 (0.71%) NX-OS
16 9 (0.64%) TACACS
17 8 (0.57%) WAN
18 7 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (8.58%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 83 (5.89%) MongoDB
4 66 (4.68%) NoSQL
5 62 (4.40%) Power BI
6 53 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
6 53 (3.76%) Redis
7 49 (3.48%) Data Lake
7 49 (3.48%) Relational Database
8 33 (2.34%) DynamoDB
9 32 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
9 32 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 30 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
11 29 (2.06%) MySQL
12 28 (1.99%) BigQuery
12 28 (1.99%) Delta Lake
13 25 (1.77%) Metadata
14 18 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
14 18 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
15 16 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 411 (29.15%) Jenkins
2 300 (21.28%) GitLab
3 299 (21.21%) Git
4 165 (11.70%) JIRA
5 81 (5.74%) Selenium
6 67 (4.75%) JUnit
7 66 (4.68%) Cucumber
8 58 (4.11%) SonarQube
9 49 (3.48%) Gatling
10 48 (3.40%) Bitbucket
11 45 (3.19%) Claude Code
12 37 (2.62%) Cypress.io
13 36 (2.55%) JMeter
14 35 (2.48%) Gradle
14 35 (2.48%) Postman
15 34 (2.41%) Maven
16 31 (2.20%) REST Assured
17 27 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
18 25 (1.77%) CircleCI
19 19 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 375 (26.60%) Social Skills
2 294 (20.85%) Finance
3 161 (11.42%) Public Sector
4 148 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (6.67%) Banking
6 51 (3.62%) Retail
7 42 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (1.28%) Legal
8 18 (1.28%) Telecoms
9 17 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (1.21%) Law
10 15 (1.06%) Aerospace
10 15 (1.06%) Marketing
10 15 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
11 14 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (0.99%) Military
12 13 (0.92%) Local Government
13 12 (0.85%) Investment Banking
13 12 (0.85%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.71%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 289 (20.50%) Senior
2 262 (18.58%) Developer
3 178 (12.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 129 (9.15%) Architect
5 124 (8.79%) Lead
6 95 (6.74%) Data Engineer
7 78 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
8 71 (5.04%) Platform Engineer
9 70 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
10 69 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
11 64 (4.54%) Java Developer
11 64 (4.54%) Senior Developer
12 58 (4.11%) Software Engineer
13 54 (3.83%) Senior DevOps
14 51 (3.62%) Test Engineer
15 50 (3.55%) Full-Stack Developer
15 50 (3.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 48 (3.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 46 (3.26%) Automation Engineer
18 41 (2.91%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 659 (46.74%) Terraform
2 266 (18.87%) REST
3 158 (11.21%) Kafka
4 145 (10.28%) RESTful
5 125 (8.87%) Spring
6 118 (8.37%) React
7 113 (8.01%) .NET
8 104 (7.38%) Spring Boot
9 100 (7.09%) Playwright
10 67 (4.75%) Node.js
11 62 (4.40%) HTML
12 61 (4.33%) OAuth
13 58 (4.11%) JSON
14 52 (3.69%) AngularJS
15 48 (3.40%) FastAPI
16 47 (3.33%) OAuth2
17 46 (3.26%) YAML
18 43 (3.05%) pytest
19 40 (2.84%) CSS
19 40 (2.84%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 287 (20.35%) Cloud Native
2 101 (7.16%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (6.24%) AI Agents
4 75 (5.32%) Product Ownership
5 66 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (3.55%) Data Centre
7 47 (3.33%) Onboarding
8 36 (2.55%) Mobile App
9 35 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
10 28 (1.99%) Data Structures
11 27 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
12 23 (1.63%) Public Cloud
12 23 (1.63%) Security Posture
13 22 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
13 22 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
14 21 (1.49%) Low-Code
15 17 (1.21%) Algorithms
15 17 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
16 16 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 131 (9.29%) Linux
2 62 (4.40%) Windows
3 28 (1.99%) Unix
4 26 (1.84%) Android
5 25 (1.77%) Apple iOS
6 19 (1.35%) Windows Server
7 18 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.57%) VMS
9 6 (0.43%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.21%) CentOS
11 2 (0.14%) AIX
11 2 (0.14%) Debian
11 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.14%) MVS
11 2 (0.14%) Rocky
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.14%) zOS
12 1 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.071%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,078 (76.45%) CI/CD
2 825 (58.51%) DevOps
3 570 (40.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 530 (37.59%) Agile
5 371 (26.31%) Test Automation
6 366 (25.96%) Observability
7 359 (25.46%) AI
8 293 (20.78%) Microservices
9 286 (20.28%) Containerisation
10 246 (17.45%) Software Engineering
11 226 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 208 (14.75%) Platform Engineering
13 197 (13.97%) Stakeholder Management
14 186 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
15 184 (13.05%) Event-Driven
16 154 (10.92%) Analytics
17 149 (10.57%) Scrum
18 145 (10.28%) Technical Leadership
19 139 (9.86%) Deployment Automation
20 133 (9.43%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 625 (44.33%) Python
2 317 (22.48%) SQL
3 285 (20.21%) Java
4 192 (13.62%) Bash
5 182 (12.91%) PowerShell
6 166 (11.77%) TypeScript
7 159 (11.28%) JavaScript
8 119 (8.44%) C#
9 104 (7.38%) Bicep
10 51 (3.62%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.05%) Go
12 34 (2.41%) Shell Script
13 30 (2.13%) Scala
14 20 (1.42%) Swift
15 19 (1.35%) ActionScript
16 14 (0.99%) Ruby
17 13 (0.92%) C
18 12 (0.85%) Objective-C
19 11 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
20 10 (0.71%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 419 (29.72%) Security Cleared
2 364 (25.82%) SC Cleared
3 66 (4.68%) Azure Certification
4 61 (4.33%) Degree
5 55 (3.90%) AWS Certification
6 52 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 41 (2.91%) DV Cleared
8 34 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 10 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (0.64%) CISSP
14 9 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
15 8 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
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
1 208 (14.75%) QA
2 90 (6.38%) Accessibility
3 81 (5.74%) Data Quality
4 38 (2.70%) WCAG
5 29 (2.06%) GDPR
6 26 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.63%) NIST
8 11 (0.78%) NCSC
9 10 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.43%) HL7
11 6 (0.43%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.43%) PSD2
12 5 (0.35%) GRC
12 5 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.35%) SEPA
13 4 (0.28%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
16 1 (0.071%) IFRS
System Software
1 450 (31.91%) Docker
2 46 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.71%) IAG
7 8 (0.57%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.50%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.28%) VirtualBox
9 4 (0.28%) vSphere
10 3 (0.21%) Firmware
10 3 (0.21%) NFS
11 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.071%) SRDF
12 1 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 508 (36.03%) Kubernetes
2 197 (13.97%) Ansible
3 189 (13.40%) Grafana
4 141 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 51 (3.62%) Argo
6 22 (1.56%) Puppet
7 19 (1.35%) Progress Chef
7 19 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (0.99%) Packer
10 13 (0.92%) Control-M
11 12 (0.85%) Istio
12 11 (0.78%) Kibana
13 9 (0.64%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.50%) SCCM
15 6 (0.43%) Kustomize
16 5 (0.35%) FortiGate
16 5 (0.35%) HAProxy
16 5 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
17 4 (0.28%) Cilium
Vendors
1 280 (19.86%) Microsoft
2 101 (7.16%) Databricks
3 93 (6.60%) Google
3 93 (6.60%) Splunk
4 73 (5.18%) Dynatrace
5 59 (4.18%) Oracle
6 55 (3.90%) OpenAI
7 52 (3.69%) ServiceNow
8 35 (2.48%) VMware
9 34 (2.41%) Cisco
10 31 (2.20%) Red Hat
11 30 (2.13%) Foundry
12 28 (1.99%) IBM
13 26 (1.84%) F5
13 26 (1.84%) Salesforce
14 22 (1.56%) New Relic
15 17 (1.21%) Palo Alto
16 15 (1.06%) SAP
17 14 (0.99%) CyberArk
18 13 (0.92%) AppDynamics