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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 133 151
Rank change year-on-year +59 +18 -10
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,062 586 653
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.46% 1.93% 1.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.04% 5.34% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 771 398 468
10th Percentile £360 £313 £413
25th Percentile £413 £413 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £638
90th Percentile £700 £691 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 4
10th Percentile £40.00 £26.00 £75.38
25th Percentile £41.50 £39.50 £75.94
Median hourly rate £54.25 £70.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% -9.68% +47.62%
75th Percentile £98.44 - £79.06
90th Percentile £110.00 - £79.63
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £70.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -22.50% -9.68% +47.62%

All Cloud 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 11,753 10,973 13,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.32% 36.16% 35.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,037 7,312 9,893
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £405 £425 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 147 271
10th Percentile £15.43 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £51.67 £56.88 £56.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -12.33% +15.38% +18.18%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 +51 594 £547 -0.64% 290
North of England +20 163 £494 +12.22% 185
South East +68 100 £450 - 247
Midlands +40 85 £550 +4.76% 117
Yorkshire -2 82 £504 +13.20% 62
West Midlands +32 72 £575 +9.52% 76
South West +6 71 £650 - 69
North West +19 65 £410 +24.62% 105
North East +8 18 £545 - 22
East of England -10 16 £560 +6.67% 83
East Midlands -6 13 £418 -33.15% 40
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 92 (8.66%) Confluence
2 60 (5.65%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.88%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.22%) nginx
6 9 (0.85%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.66%) Apache
7 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.56%) Mule
9 5 (0.47%) SAS
9 5 (0.47%) WordPress
10 3 (0.28%) CMS
11 2 (0.19%) CICS
11 2 (0.19%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.19%) Traefik
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.094%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.094%) Luigi
Applications
1 26 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.47%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.19%) Trello
5 1 (0.094%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.094%) InDesign
5 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.094%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.38%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.19%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.094%) Actimize
3 1 (0.094%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.094%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.094%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.094%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.094%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.094%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 518 (48.78%) AWS
1 518 (48.78%) GitHub Actions
2 442 (41.62%) Azure
3 214 (20.15%) Azure DevOps
4 168 (15.82%) GCP
5 158 (14.88%) Serverless
6 116 (10.92%) Amazon S3
7 106 (9.98%) AWS Lambda
8 83 (7.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 79 (7.44%) Amazon ECS
10 68 (6.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 62 (5.84%) Amazon EKS
12 61 (5.74%) OpenShift
13 60 (5.65%) Entra ID
14 57 (5.37%) Azure AKS
15 54 (5.08%) Power Platform
16 53 (4.99%) Amazon EC2
17 50 (4.71%) GitHub Copilot
18 49 (4.61%) Azure Monitor
19 45 (4.24%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.48%) DNS
2 36 (3.39%) Firewall
3 26 (2.45%) VPN
4 14 (1.32%) Network Security
5 12 (1.13%) HTTP
5 12 (1.13%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.04%) SSL
7 9 (0.85%) WAN
8 8 (0.75%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.66%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.47%) Internet
10 5 (0.47%) OpenLDAP
10 5 (0.47%) SSH
11 4 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
13 2 (0.19%) Ethernet
13 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.19%) RS-232
13 2 (0.19%) SNMP
13 2 (0.19%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (15.25%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (7.53%) NoSQL
3 66 (6.21%) Amazon RDS
4 52 (4.90%) MongoDB
5 50 (4.71%) Relational Database
6 43 (4.05%) DynamoDB
7 40 (3.77%) Redis
8 38 (3.58%) SQL Server
9 34 (3.20%) MySQL
10 31 (2.92%) Data Lake
11 27 (2.54%) Power BI
12 22 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
13 21 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
13 21 (1.98%) BigQuery
14 20 (1.88%) Delta Lake
15 19 (1.79%) Big Data
16 18 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
17 17 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
17 17 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
18 14 (1.32%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 293 (27.59%) Jenkins
2 222 (20.90%) Git
3 189 (17.80%) GitLab
4 172 (16.20%) JIRA
5 56 (5.27%) Sonatype Nexus
6 53 (4.99%) JUnit
7 47 (4.43%) SonarQube
8 44 (4.14%) Bitbucket
8 44 (4.14%) Cypress.io
9 41 (3.86%) Cucumber
10 38 (3.58%) Artifactory
10 38 (3.58%) CircleCI
11 36 (3.39%) Gradle
12 28 (2.64%) Postman
12 28 (2.64%) Selenium
13 27 (2.54%) Maven
14 22 (2.07%) JMeter
15 18 (1.69%) Snyk
15 18 (1.69%) SpecFlow
16 13 (1.22%) MLflow
General
1 265 (24.95%) Social Skills
2 160 (15.07%) Finance
3 134 (12.62%) Public Sector
4 78 (7.34%) Banking
5 69 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
8 17 (1.60%) Military
9 14 (1.32%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.22%) Front Office
10 13 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.22%) Marketing
11 11 (1.04%) Telecoms
12 10 (0.94%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.75%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.66%) Retail
15 6 (0.56%) Games
16 5 (0.47%) Billing
16 5 (0.47%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 245 (23.07%) Developer
2 167 (15.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 166 (15.63%) Senior
4 96 (9.04%) AWS Engineer
5 77 (7.25%) Data Engineer
6 67 (6.31%) Architect
7 57 (5.37%) Lead
8 56 (5.27%) AWS DevOps
9 55 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
9 55 (5.18%) Java Developer
10 54 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
11 53 (4.99%) Full-Stack Developer
12 52 (4.90%) Software Engineer
13 47 (4.43%) Senior Developer
14 45 (4.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 44 (4.14%) Azure Engineer
16 36 (3.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 32 (3.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 31 (2.92%) DevSecOps Engineer
18 31 (2.92%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (12.81%) REST
2 125 (11.77%) React
3 116 (10.92%) Kafka
4 110 (10.36%) Node.js
5 95 (8.95%) .NET
5 95 (8.95%) RESTful
6 82 (7.72%) Spring
7 76 (7.16%) AngularJS
8 68 (6.40%) Spring Boot
9 62 (5.84%) HTML
10 57 (5.37%) OAuth
11 55 (5.18%) CSS
12 49 (4.61%) Elastic Stack
13 45 (4.24%) Playwright
13 45 (4.24%) YAML
14 42 (3.95%) FastAPI
14 42 (3.95%) JSON
15 41 (3.86%) GraphQL
16 35 (3.30%) pytest
17 30 (2.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 170 (16.01%) Cloud Native
2 38 (3.58%) Product Ownership
3 34 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
4 31 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (1.88%) Public Cloud
7 19 (1.79%) Algorithms
8 18 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.41%) Life Science
9 15 (1.41%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.32%) Genomics
10 14 (1.32%) PKI
11 13 (1.22%) AI Agents
12 12 (1.13%) Clustering
12 12 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
12 12 (1.13%) Mobile App
12 12 (1.13%) Replication
12 12 (1.13%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 145 (13.65%) Linux
2 40 (3.77%) Windows
3 32 (3.01%) Unix
4 18 (1.69%) Android
5 15 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (1.13%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.66%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.56%) Solaris
9 5 (0.47%) CentOS
10 4 (0.38%) VMS
10 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.19%) zOS
13 1 (0.094%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.094%) MVS
13 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 730 (68.74%) CI/CD
2 621 (58.47%) DevOps
3 378 (35.59%) Agile
4 371 (34.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 286 (26.93%) Containerisation
6 214 (20.15%) Problem-Solving
7 211 (19.87%) Microservices
8 202 (19.02%) Test Automation
9 189 (17.80%) AI
10 144 (13.56%) Observability
11 133 (12.52%) Migration
12 132 (12.43%) Software Engineering
13 123 (11.58%) Full-Stack Development
14 111 (10.45%) Data Pipeline
15 105 (9.89%) Scrum
16 98 (9.23%) Analytics
17 93 (8.76%) Platform Engineering
18 91 (8.57%) Machine Learning
19 88 (8.29%) TDD
20 87 (8.19%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 490 (46.14%) Python
2 232 (21.85%) SQL
3 210 (19.77%) Java
4 147 (13.84%) TypeScript
5 146 (13.75%) JavaScript
6 131 (12.34%) Bash
7 96 (9.04%) PowerShell
8 95 (8.95%) C#
9 90 (8.47%) Go
10 44 (4.14%) Bicep
11 26 (2.45%) Ruby
12 25 (2.35%) Shell Script
13 21 (1.98%) PHP
14 15 (1.41%) C++
14 15 (1.41%) Groovy
15 9 (0.85%) C
16 8 (0.75%) Korn
16 8 (0.75%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.75%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 303 (28.53%) Security Cleared
2 246 (23.16%) SC Cleared
3 90 (8.47%) Degree
4 53 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (3.58%) DV Cleared
6 36 (3.39%) Azure Certification
7 35 (3.30%) AWS Certification
8 17 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.41%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.32%) MCP
11 9 (0.85%) OCP
11 9 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
12 7 (0.66%) CISSP
12 7 (0.66%) OSCP
13 6 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 6 (0.56%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.47%) CREST Certified
14 5 (0.47%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (6.21%) QA
2 36 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 33 (3.11%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.11%) NIST
4 27 (2.54%) GDPR
5 24 (2.26%) NCSC
6 23 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.41%) EU AI Act
8 14 (1.32%) WCAG
9 6 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.47%) GRC
10 5 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.38%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.38%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.28%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.28%) ITGC
12 3 (0.28%) SLA
13 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 355 (33.43%) Docker
2 45 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.47%) NFS
6 5 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.38%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.38%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (0.38%) vSphere
8 3 (0.28%) QEMU
8 3 (0.28%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.19%) Firmware
9 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.19%) KVM
9 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.094%) SRDF
10 1 (0.094%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.094%) Xen
Systems Management
1 461 (43.41%) Terraform
2 412 (38.79%) Kubernetes
3 139 (13.09%) Ansible
4 128 (12.05%) Grafana
5 106 (9.98%) Prometheus
6 46 (4.33%) Argo
7 36 (3.39%) Puppet
8 29 (2.73%) Progress Chef
9 22 (2.07%) Istio
10 15 (1.41%) Packer
11 14 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (1.13%) Podman
13 8 (0.75%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.66%) Sysdig
15 6 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
15 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
16 5 (0.47%) Kibana
16 5 (0.47%) Nmap
17 4 (0.38%) logstash
17 4 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 164 (15.44%) Microsoft
2 90 (8.47%) Google
3 67 (6.31%) Splunk
4 64 (6.03%) Databricks
5 43 (4.05%) VMware
6 41 (3.86%) Red Hat
7 33 (3.11%) OpenAI
8 26 (2.45%) Atlassian
9 25 (2.35%) Oracle
10 16 (1.51%) Foundry
10 16 (1.51%) ServiceNow
11 14 (1.32%) Salesforce
12 11 (1.04%) CyberArk
12 11 (1.04%) Okta
13 10 (0.94%) Sonatype
13 10 (0.94%) Veracode
14 9 (0.85%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.85%) NetApp
15 8 (0.75%) Cisco
15 8 (0.75%) Commvault