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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 116 138
Rank change year-on-year +30 +22 -6
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,334 665 608
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.96% 2.42% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.45% 6.48% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 915 455 399
10th Percentile £393 £364 £326
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 34
10th Percentile £46.25 - £41.75
25th Percentile £54.22 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.87% +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% -8.20%

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 15,795 10,260 11,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.39% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,541 6,939 8,158
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 270 261
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.27 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.58 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.63% +16.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £84.88 £67.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
% change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +24 767 £550 - 291
North of England +36 258 £500 +4.71% 144
Yorkshire +34 179 £500 - 52
Midlands +13 107 £500 +5.26% 59
West Midlands +6 95 £500 +5.26% 35
South East -54 77 £525 +10.53% 116
South West +7 70 £500 -16.67% 45
North West -12 67 £576 +22.81% 73
East of England -2 33 £500 -9.09% 41
North East -29 17 £450 -5.26% 20
East Midlands -7 11 £470 -5.05% 24
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
1 122 (9.15%) Confluence
2 40 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (2.77%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 17 (1.27%) Apache
6 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.82%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.52%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.45%) nginx
8 6 (0.45%) Tuxedo
9 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.15%) CMS
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
10 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.075%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.075%) IIS
11 1 (0.075%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.075%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.075%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.60%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.22%) Trello
6 1 (0.075%) Notion
6 1 (0.075%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.37%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.22%) Findur
4 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.22%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.075%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 710 (53.22%) GitHub Actions
2 651 (48.80%) Azure
3 609 (45.65%) AWS
4 373 (27.96%) Azure DevOps
5 198 (14.84%) GCP
6 157 (11.77%) Serverless
7 125 (9.37%) Amazon S3
8 114 (8.55%) AWS Lambda
9 107 (8.02%) Amazon EKS
10 105 (7.87%) GitHub Copilot
11 95 (7.12%) Azure Monitor
12 90 (6.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 84 (6.30%) Power Platform
14 71 (5.32%) Azure AKS
14 71 (5.32%) Entra ID
15 69 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
16 68 (5.10%) Amazon ECS
16 68 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
17 54 (4.05%) Snowflake
18 50 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 69 (5.17%) Firewall
2 65 (4.87%) DNS
3 55 (4.12%) VPN
4 29 (2.17%) Network Security
5 17 (1.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 17 (1.27%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.12%) VLAN
7 12 (0.90%) SSL
8 10 (0.75%) BGP
9 9 (0.67%) BIG-IP
9 9 (0.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (0.67%) OSPF
9 9 (0.67%) Wireless
10 8 (0.60%) IPsec
10 8 (0.60%) WAN
11 7 (0.52%) DHCP
11 7 (0.52%) HTTP
11 7 (0.52%) Internet
12 5 (0.37%) SD-WAN
13 4 (0.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (6.82%) SQL Server
3 69 (5.17%) NoSQL
4 62 (4.65%) MongoDB
5 59 (4.42%) Power BI
6 55 (4.12%) Data Lake
7 47 (3.52%) Relational Database
8 44 (3.30%) DynamoDB
9 38 (2.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 38 (2.85%) Delta Lake
9 38 (2.85%) Redis
10 34 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
14 21 (1.57%) Big Data
15 20 (1.50%) Metadata
16 19 (1.42%) BigQuery
17 16 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
18 15 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 421 (31.56%) Jenkins
2 268 (20.09%) GitLab
3 248 (18.59%) Git
4 176 (13.19%) JIRA
5 73 (5.47%) JUnit
6 72 (5.40%) Selenium
7 55 (4.12%) Cucumber
8 43 (3.22%) Bitbucket
9 40 (3.00%) Cypress.io
10 39 (2.92%) SonarQube
11 38 (2.85%) Gradle
11 38 (2.85%) JMeter
12 37 (2.77%) Gatling
13 35 (2.62%) REST Assured
14 32 (2.40%) Maven
15 31 (2.32%) CircleCI
16 30 (2.25%) Postman
17 21 (1.57%) Claude Code
17 21 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
17 21 (1.57%) WebDriver
General
1 329 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 246 (18.44%) Finance
3 155 (11.62%) Public Sector
4 109 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (6.00%) Banking
6 39 (2.92%) Retail
7 27 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (1.72%) Legal
9 18 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.20%) Law
11 15 (1.12%) Investment Banking
11 15 (1.12%) Military
12 13 (0.97%) Telecoms
13 10 (0.75%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.60%) Marketing
15 8 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.52%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 241 (18.07%) Developer
2 239 (17.92%) Senior
3 172 (12.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 119 (8.92%) Architect
5 116 (8.70%) Lead
6 100 (7.50%) Data Engineer
7 82 (6.15%) Platform Engineer
8 78 (5.85%) AWS Engineer
9 69 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
10 62 (4.65%) Java Developer
11 61 (4.57%) Senior Developer
11 61 (4.57%) Software Engineer
12 56 (4.20%) Azure Engineer
13 47 (3.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 45 (3.37%) Test Engineer
15 42 (3.15%) Senior DevOps
16 41 (3.07%) Full-Stack Developer
17 38 (2.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 36 (2.70%) GCP Engineer
18 36 (2.70%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (14.84%) REST
2 124 (9.30%) Kafka
3 123 (9.22%) Spring
4 119 (8.92%) RESTful
5 109 (8.17%) .NET
6 106 (7.95%) React
7 96 (7.20%) Spring Boot
8 81 (6.07%) Playwright
9 64 (4.80%) Node.js
10 54 (4.05%) PySpark
11 43 (3.22%) OpenTelemetry
12 40 (3.00%) AngularJS
12 40 (3.00%) OAuth
13 39 (2.92%) .NET Framework
14 36 (2.70%) JSON
14 36 (2.70%) YAML
15 35 (2.62%) HTML
15 35 (2.62%) OAuth2
16 34 (2.55%) FastAPI
16 34 (2.55%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 280 (20.99%) Cloud Native
2 120 (9.00%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.37%) AI Agents
5 39 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 38 (2.85%) Mobile App
7 36 (2.70%) Data Centre
8 35 (2.62%) Onboarding
9 27 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.57%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
14 17 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
14 17 (1.27%) Security Posture
15 16 (1.20%) Algorithms
15 16 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (1.12%) Private Cloud
16 15 (1.12%) Public Cloud
17 14 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 123 (9.22%) Linux
2 59 (4.42%) Windows
3 34 (2.55%) Android
4 29 (2.17%) Apple iOS
5 26 (1.95%) Unix
6 19 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (1.27%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.37%) VMS
10 3 (0.22%) CentOS
10 3 (0.22%) Debian
10 3 (0.22%) Rocky
11 2 (0.15%) AIX
11 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.15%) MVS
11 2 (0.15%) zOS
12 1 (0.075%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.075%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.075%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 995 (74.59%) CI/CD
2 780 (58.47%) DevOps
3 522 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 468 (35.08%) Agile
5 330 (24.74%) Test Automation
6 324 (24.29%) Observability
7 294 (22.04%) Containerisation
8 256 (19.19%) Microservices
9 255 (19.12%) AI
10 209 (15.67%) Platform Engineering
11 198 (14.84%) Software Engineering
12 191 (14.32%) Continuous Improvement
13 164 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
14 159 (11.92%) Analytics
15 152 (11.39%) Event-Driven
16 122 (9.15%) Migration
17 118 (8.85%) Data Pipeline
17 118 (8.85%) Technical Leadership
18 117 (8.77%) Validation
19 116 (8.70%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 564 (42.28%) Python
2 312 (23.39%) SQL
3 252 (18.89%) Java
4 191 (14.32%) Bash
5 159 (11.92%) PowerShell
6 132 (9.90%) C#
7 128 (9.60%) JavaScript
7 128 (9.60%) TypeScript
8 80 (6.00%) Bicep
9 44 (3.30%) Kotlin
10 41 (3.07%) Go
11 30 (2.25%) Scala
12 27 (2.02%) Shell Script
13 23 (1.72%) Ruby
14 22 (1.65%) Swift
15 14 (1.05%) Groovy
16 10 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.67%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.67%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.67%) C
Qualifications
1 409 (30.66%) Security Cleared
2 353 (26.46%) SC Cleared
3 56 (4.20%) Degree
4 54 (4.05%) Azure Certification
5 43 (3.22%) DV Cleared
6 42 (3.15%) AWS Certification
7 31 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.82%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.82%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 7 (0.52%) CISSP
15 7 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (0.45%) OCP
16 6 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (12.74%) QA
2 74 (5.55%) Data Quality
3 66 (4.95%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.25%) GDPR
5 22 (1.65%) WCAG
6 19 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.75%) NIST
7 10 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.60%) GRC
9 7 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.37%) PSD2
11 4 (0.30%) HL7
11 4 (0.30%) NCSC
11 4 (0.30%) SEPA
12 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.075%) IFRS 17
13 1 (0.075%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 393 (29.46%) Docker
2 38 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (1.57%) vSphere
6 20 (1.50%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.67%) Hyper-V
9 7 (0.52%) IAG
10 4 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.30%) NFS
11 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.15%) Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.15%) SRDF
11 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.15%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 626 (46.93%) Terraform
2 461 (34.56%) Kubernetes
3 202 (15.14%) Ansible
4 184 (13.79%) Grafana
5 153 (11.47%) Prometheus
6 68 (5.10%) Argo
7 28 (2.10%) Puppet
8 20 (1.50%) vCenter Server
9 18 (1.35%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (1.20%) Istio
10 16 (1.20%) Packer
11 13 (0.97%) Kibana
12 9 (0.67%) HAProxy
12 9 (0.67%) NetBackup
13 7 (0.52%) Control-M
13 7 (0.52%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.37%) Podman
Vendors
1 233 (17.47%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.97%) Databricks
3 92 (6.90%) Splunk
4 89 (6.67%) Google
5 54 (4.05%) Oracle
6 47 (3.52%) Dynatrace
7 43 (3.22%) VMware
8 36 (2.70%) Red Hat
9 33 (2.47%) Salesforce
10 28 (2.10%) OpenAI
11 27 (2.02%) ServiceNow
12 21 (1.57%) Cisco
13 20 (1.50%) Pure Storage
14 19 (1.42%) F5
15 18 (1.35%) Informatica
15 18 (1.35%) Palo Alto
16 16 (1.20%) Checkmarx
16 16 (1.20%) Foundry
16 16 (1.20%) SAP
17 15 (1.12%) IBM