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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 84 131
Rank change year-on-year -8 +47 +10
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,394 824 611
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 2.95% 1.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.69% 7.76% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 958 564 400
10th Percentile £380 £360 £310
25th Percentile £431 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -11.39%
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% -8.70%
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 16,037 10,617 11,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.45% 38.00% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,689 7,193 7,615
10th Percentile £319 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £645
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 555 252 166
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.48 £33.54
% change year-on-year +13.31% -21.06% -4.17%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +4 826 £550 - 1,007
North of England +7 257 £500 +4.71% 245
Yorkshire +22 172 £500 - 86
Midlands 0 113 £474 -16.66% 109
West Midlands -8 92 £488 -15.22% 49
South East -36 90 £525 +20.69% 187
North West -32 62 £550 +22.22% 127
South West -32 53 £525 -19.23% 101
East of England -14 33 £500 -4.76% 89
North East -26 25 £425 -10.53% 32
East Midlands -1 21 £400 -15.79% 60
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
1 103 (7.39%) Confluence
2 42 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (2.87%) SharePoint
4 20 (1.43%) Apache Spark
5 19 (1.36%) Apache
6 8 (0.57%) nginx
6 8 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.50%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.43%) Tuxedo
9 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.22%) CMS
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 2 (0.14%) SAS
13 1 (0.072%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.072%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.072%) Camunda
13 1 (0.072%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.072%) ThingWorx
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 (0.22%) 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
1 747 (53.59%) GitHub Actions
2 702 (50.36%) Azure
3 647 (46.41%) AWS
4 373 (26.76%) Azure DevOps
5 215 (15.42%) GCP
6 187 (13.41%) Serverless
7 172 (12.34%) GitHub Copilot
8 136 (9.76%) Amazon S3
9 127 (9.11%) Amazon EKS
10 120 (8.61%) AWS Lambda
11 102 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 102 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
12 90 (6.46%) Entra ID
12 90 (6.46%) Power Platform
13 78 (5.60%) Snowflake
14 75 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
15 74 (5.31%) Azure AKS
16 63 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
16 63 (4.52%) AWS CloudFormation
17 59 (4.23%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 68 (4.88%) DNS
2 67 (4.81%) Firewall
3 45 (3.23%) VPN
4 37 (2.65%) Network Security
5 22 (1.58%) BGP
5 22 (1.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 22 (1.58%) TCP/IP
5 22 (1.58%) VLAN
6 16 (1.15%) SSL
7 15 (1.08%) BIG-IP
7 15 (1.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 14 (1.00%) DHCP
9 12 (0.86%) Ethernet VPN
9 12 (0.86%) VXLAN
10 11 (0.79%) NX-OS
10 11 (0.79%) OSPF
10 11 (0.79%) Wireless
11 9 (0.65%) TACACS
12 7 (0.50%) IPsec
12 7 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (6.31%) SQL Server
3 81 (5.81%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.66%) NoSQL
5 62 (4.45%) Power BI
6 56 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
7 52 (3.73%) Redis
8 48 (3.44%) Data Lake
8 48 (3.44%) Relational Database
9 39 (2.80%) DynamoDB
10 34 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
11 33 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
12 31 (2.22%) Delta Lake
13 30 (2.15%) MySQL
14 26 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
15 25 (1.79%) BigQuery
16 23 (1.65%) Metadata
17 19 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
18 18 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
19 17 (1.22%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 393 (28.19%) Jenkins
2 294 (21.09%) GitLab
3 288 (20.66%) Git
4 160 (11.48%) JIRA
5 73 (5.24%) Selenium
6 65 (4.66%) JUnit
7 62 (4.45%) SonarQube
8 57 (4.09%) Cucumber
9 46 (3.30%) Bitbucket
9 46 (3.30%) Gatling
10 40 (2.87%) Claude Code
11 37 (2.65%) Gradle
12 36 (2.58%) Cypress.io
13 34 (2.44%) JMeter
14 32 (2.30%) Maven
15 31 (2.22%) Postman
16 28 (2.01%) REST Assured
17 27 (1.94%) CircleCI
18 24 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
19 22 (1.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 347 (24.89%) Social Skills
2 290 (20.80%) Finance
3 145 (10.40%) Public Sector
4 139 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
5 95 (6.81%) Banking
6 48 (3.44%) Retail
7 43 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
9 18 (1.29%) Legal
9 18 (1.29%) Telecoms
10 16 (1.15%) Law
11 15 (1.08%) Aerospace
11 15 (1.08%) Marketing
12 14 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
13 12 (0.86%) Investment Banking
13 12 (0.86%) Military
14 11 (0.79%) Local Government
14 11 (0.79%) Manufacturing
15 10 (0.72%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 281 (20.16%) Senior
2 264 (18.94%) Developer
3 168 (12.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 124 (8.90%) Architect
5 117 (8.39%) Lead
6 98 (7.03%) Data Engineer
7 76 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
8 75 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
9 69 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
10 68 (4.88%) Senior Developer
11 67 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
12 64 (4.59%) Java Developer
13 63 (4.52%) Software Engineer
14 51 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
15 50 (3.59%) Senior DevOps
16 46 (3.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 45 (3.23%) Test Engineer
18 43 (3.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 43 (3.08%) Automation Engineer
19 40 (2.87%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 652 (46.77%) Terraform
2 245 (17.58%) REST
3 156 (11.19%) Kafka
4 144 (10.33%) RESTful
5 128 (9.18%) Spring
6 121 (8.68%) .NET
7 118 (8.46%) React
8 108 (7.75%) Spring Boot
9 88 (6.31%) Playwright
10 66 (4.73%) Node.js
11 61 (4.38%) OAuth
12 56 (4.02%) JSON
13 54 (3.87%) HTML
14 49 (3.52%) FastAPI
15 48 (3.44%) YAML
16 45 (3.23%) OAuth2
17 42 (3.01%) PySpark
18 41 (2.94%) AngularJS
19 40 (2.87%) GraphQL
20 39 (2.80%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 293 (21.02%) Cloud Native
2 101 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (6.38%) AI Agents
4 72 (5.16%) Product Ownership
5 56 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (3.52%) Data Centre
7 41 (2.94%) Onboarding
8 38 (2.73%) Mobile App
9 32 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
10 29 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.87%) Data Structures
12 25 (1.79%) Security Posture
12 25 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
13 23 (1.65%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.51%) Low-Code
15 20 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
15 20 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
16 17 (1.22%) Algorithms
16 17 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
16 17 (1.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 128 (9.18%) Linux
2 62 (4.45%) Windows
3 29 (2.08%) Unix
4 28 (2.01%) Android
5 26 (1.87%) Apple iOS
6 19 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.36%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.57%) VMS
8 6 (0.43%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.29%) CentOS
10 2 (0.14%) AIX
10 2 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.14%) Debian
10 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.14%) MVS
10 2 (0.14%) Rocky
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.14%) zOS
11 1 (0.072%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,058 (75.90%) CI/CD
2 806 (57.82%) DevOps
3 562 (40.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 512 (36.73%) Agile
5 354 (25.39%) AI
5 354 (25.39%) Test Automation
6 353 (25.32%) Observability
7 281 (20.16%) Containerisation
8 270 (19.37%) Microservices
9 244 (17.50%) Software Engineering
10 210 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 208 (14.92%) Platform Engineering
12 183 (13.13%) Event-Driven
13 180 (12.91%) Stakeholder Management
14 176 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
15 152 (10.90%) Analytics
16 144 (10.33%) Scrum
17 142 (10.19%) Technical Leadership
18 128 (9.18%) Data Modelling
18 128 (9.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 619 (44.40%) Python
2 307 (22.02%) SQL
3 276 (19.80%) Java
4 182 (13.06%) Bash
5 177 (12.70%) PowerShell
6 161 (11.55%) TypeScript
7 147 (10.55%) JavaScript
8 128 (9.18%) C#
9 97 (6.96%) Bicep
10 50 (3.59%) Kotlin
11 42 (3.01%) Go
12 32 (2.30%) Shell Script
13 29 (2.08%) Scala
14 20 (1.43%) Swift
15 16 (1.15%) ActionScript
16 15 (1.08%) Ruby
17 13 (0.93%) C
18 11 (0.79%) Objective-C
19 10 (0.72%) Groovy
19 10 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 399 (28.62%) Security Cleared
2 345 (24.75%) SC Cleared
3 64 (4.59%) Azure Certification
4 62 (4.45%) Degree
5 47 (3.37%) AWS Certification
6 44 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (2.80%) 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 (0.65%) 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
1 203 (14.56%) QA
2 84 (6.03%) Accessibility
3 78 (5.60%) Data Quality
4 35 (2.51%) WCAG
5 28 (2.01%) 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 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.072%) IFRS
System Software
1 439 (31.49%) Docker
2 44 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.94%) 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 (0.65%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.43%) vSphere
8 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.29%) NFS
9 3 (0.22%) 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
1 495 (35.51%) Kubernetes
2 202 (14.49%) Ansible
3 183 (13.13%) Grafana
4 142 (10.19%) Prometheus
5 51 (3.66%) Argo
6 21 (1.51%) Puppet
7 20 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (1.22%) Progress Chef
9 16 (1.15%) Packer
10 14 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (0.93%) Control-M
12 11 (0.79%) Kibana
13 8 (0.57%) Istio
13 8 (0.57%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.50%) SCCM
15 6 (0.43%) FortiGate
16 5 (0.36%) HAProxy
16 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.36%) Kustomize
17 4 (0.29%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 259 (18.58%) Microsoft
2 107 (7.68%) Databricks
3 93 (6.67%) Splunk
4 89 (6.38%) Google
5 64 (4.59%) Dynatrace
6 53 (3.80%) OpenAI
7 50 (3.59%) Oracle
7 50 (3.59%) ServiceNow
8 38 (2.73%) VMware
9 36 (2.58%) Cisco
10 30 (2.15%) Red Hat
11 29 (2.08%) Foundry
12 28 (2.01%) Salesforce
13 27 (1.94%) IBM
14 23 (1.65%) F5
15 22 (1.58%) New Relic
16 16 (1.15%) Palo Alto
17 15 (1.08%) SAP
18 14 (1.00%) Informatica
19 13 (0.93%) CyberArk