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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 129 170
Rank change year-on-year +59 +41 -43
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,273 512 515
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.32% 2.11% 1.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.08% 5.58% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 912 359 352
10th Percentile £359 £373 £391
25th Percentile £413 £455 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £623 £630 £625
90th Percentile £700 £740 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -3.81% -0.94% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 5
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 -
25th Percentile £44.50 £25.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 £27.38 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +104.57% -15.77% -40.91%
75th Percentile £69.38 £58.44 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 £60.30
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +82.65% -15.77% -40.37%

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 14,022 9,174 12,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.56% 37.84% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,659 6,466 8,671
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 179 319
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.24 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.43 £18.51 £15.98
Median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.08% +26.19% -18.69%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.49 £34.38
90th Percentile £80.76 £75.10 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 3 April 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 +35 723 £538 -4.23% 226
North of England +50 216 £500 +1.06% 145
Yorkshire +21 137 £482 -12.36% 64
South East +11 106 £473 -5.40% 123
Midlands +13 94 £514 +5.98% 55
South West +28 79 £531 -1.16% 55
West Midlands +4 78 £550 +15.79% 22
North West -7 68 £525 +10.53% 61
East of England -28 20 £500 -9.09% 53
East Midlands -16 15 £402 -19.60% 33
North East -2 13 £545 +50.34% 20
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
1 109 (8.56%) Confluence
2 47 (3.69%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (2.59%) SharePoint
4 29 (2.28%) Apache Spark
5 17 (1.34%) Apache
6 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.63%) nginx
7 8 (0.63%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.31%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.16%) WordPress
11 1 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.079%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.079%) Appian
11 1 (0.079%) SAS
11 1 (0.079%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.079%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.079%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.079%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.079%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.39%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.31%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.24%) Findur
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.079%) Actimize
5 1 (0.079%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.079%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.079%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 650 (51.06%) GitHub Actions
2 588 (46.19%) Azure
3 579 (45.48%) AWS
4 311 (24.43%) Azure DevOps
5 199 (15.63%) Serverless
6 181 (14.22%) GCP
7 141 (11.08%) AWS Lambda
8 115 (9.03%) Amazon S3
9 109 (8.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 97 (7.62%) Amazon EKS
11 95 (7.46%) Power Platform
12 89 (6.99%) Amazon ECS
13 86 (6.76%) Azure Data Factory
14 82 (6.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 80 (6.28%) Azure Monitor
16 75 (5.89%) Azure AKS
17 69 (5.42%) Entra ID
17 69 (5.42%) GitHub Copilot
18 67 (5.26%) OpenShift
19 57 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.79%) Firewall
2 58 (4.56%) DNS
3 31 (2.44%) VPN
4 29 (2.28%) Network Security
5 14 (1.10%) HTTP
6 9 (0.71%) SSL
7 7 (0.55%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.55%) Modbus
7 7 (0.55%) RS-232
7 7 (0.55%) RS-485
8 6 (0.47%) Internet
8 6 (0.47%) Kerberos
8 6 (0.47%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.31%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.31%) WAN
11 3 (0.24%) DSL
12 2 (0.16%) BGP
12 2 (0.16%) NAS
12 2 (0.16%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (12.18%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (6.68%) NoSQL
3 76 (5.97%) Data Lake
4 63 (4.95%) SQL Server
5 60 (4.71%) DynamoDB
6 57 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
6 57 (4.48%) Power BI
7 50 (3.93%) MongoDB
8 49 (3.85%) Relational Database
9 48 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
10 41 (3.22%) Delta Lake
11 36 (2.83%) Redis
12 33 (2.59%) MySQL
13 28 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
14 24 (1.89%) Big Data
15 22 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
16 18 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (1.41%) Metadata
17 15 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
18 14 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 390 (30.64%) Jenkins
2 255 (20.03%) Git
3 245 (19.25%) GitLab
4 167 (13.12%) JIRA
5 87 (6.83%) JUnit
6 55 (4.32%) Cucumber
7 53 (4.16%) Selenium
8 44 (3.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 42 (3.30%) Cypress.io
10 41 (3.22%) Artifactory
11 39 (3.06%) JMeter
12 35 (2.75%) Bitbucket
13 33 (2.59%) Gradle
13 33 (2.59%) Postman
14 32 (2.51%) CircleCI
15 30 (2.36%) SonarQube
16 27 (2.12%) Maven
17 21 (1.65%) Gatling
17 21 (1.65%) MLflow
18 19 (1.49%) REST Assured
General
1 309 (24.27%) Social Skills
2 205 (16.10%) Finance
3 158 (12.41%) Public Sector
4 92 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (6.68%) Banking
6 21 (1.65%) Military
7 19 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (1.49%) Retail
8 16 (1.26%) Front Office
9 15 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.10%) Investment Banking
11 11 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (0.86%) Legal
12 9 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.55%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.55%) Law
13 7 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 260 (20.42%) Developer
2 196 (15.40%) Senior
3 180 (14.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 115 (9.03%) Data Engineer
5 98 (7.70%) Lead
6 97 (7.62%) Architect
7 86 (6.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 84 (6.60%) Platform Engineer
9 79 (6.21%) AWS Engineer
10 65 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
11 64 (5.03%) Azure Engineer
12 63 (4.95%) Java Developer
13 47 (3.69%) Software Engineer
14 46 (3.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 45 (3.53%) AWS DevOps
16 43 (3.38%) Senior Developer
17 40 (3.14%) GCP Engineer
18 37 (2.91%) Tester
19 35 (2.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 34 (2.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (11.31%) Kafka
2 143 (11.23%) REST
3 134 (10.53%) Spring
4 131 (10.29%) React
5 117 (9.19%) Node.js
6 110 (8.64%) .NET
7 99 (7.78%) Spring Boot
8 90 (7.07%) RESTful
9 67 (5.26%) Playwright
10 58 (4.56%) AngularJS
11 57 (4.48%) PySpark
12 46 (3.61%) Elastic Stack
13 45 (3.53%) CSS
14 44 (3.46%) JSON
15 41 (3.22%) Jest
15 41 (3.22%) OAuth
16 37 (2.91%) HTML
17 36 (2.83%) OpenTelemetry
18 32 (2.51%) FastAPI
18 32 (2.51%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 213 (16.73%) Cloud Native
2 74 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (4.24%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (1.89%) Public Cloud
6 21 (1.65%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.41%) AI Agents
7 18 (1.41%) Virtual Team
8 17 (1.34%) Security Posture
9 15 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.18%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.10%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.10%) NHS
11 12 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
12 11 (0.86%) Life Science
12 11 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 149 (11.70%) Linux
2 41 (3.22%) Windows
3 28 (2.20%) Unix
4 20 (1.57%) Android
5 18 (1.41%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.10%) VMS
7 11 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
9 6 (0.47%) Windows Server
10 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.24%) Debian
12 3 (0.24%) Rocky
13 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.079%) Alpine Linux
14 1 (0.079%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 931 (73.13%) CI/CD
2 760 (59.70%) DevOps
3 449 (35.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 389 (30.56%) Agile
5 315 (24.74%) Containerisation
6 279 (21.92%) Test Automation
7 244 (19.17%) Observability
8 240 (18.85%) AI
9 224 (17.60%) Microservices
10 209 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
11 181 (14.22%) Analytics
12 178 (13.98%) Platform Engineering
13 175 (13.75%) Migration
14 150 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
15 136 (10.68%) Data Pipeline
16 129 (10.13%) Full-Stack Development
16 129 (10.13%) Software Engineering
17 126 (9.90%) Data Engineering
18 118 (9.27%) Data Modelling
19 114 (8.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 596 (46.82%) Python
2 307 (24.12%) SQL
3 251 (19.72%) Java
4 163 (12.80%) Bash
5 155 (12.18%) JavaScript
6 132 (10.37%) TypeScript
7 122 (9.58%) C#
8 121 (9.51%) PowerShell
9 61 (4.79%) Go
10 60 (4.71%) Bicep
11 32 (2.51%) Shell Script
12 26 (2.04%) Scala
13 23 (1.81%) Ruby
14 16 (1.26%) Kotlin
15 15 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
16 13 (1.02%) Swift
17 10 (0.79%) C++
17 10 (0.79%) Groovy
18 9 (0.71%) C
19 7 (0.55%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 395 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 310 (24.35%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.87%) Degree
4 46 (3.61%) Azure Certification
5 42 (3.30%) DV Cleared
6 38 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (2.83%) AWS Certification
8 31 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.94%) OCP
11 12 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
12 11 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 9 (0.71%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 8 (0.63%) CISSP
16 5 (0.39%) CCNP
17 4 (0.31%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (7.86%) QA
2 68 (5.34%) Data Quality
3 46 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.96%) GDPR
4 25 (1.96%) WCAG
5 18 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (1.41%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.26%) NIST
7 14 (1.10%) NCSC
8 6 (0.47%) SLA
9 5 (0.39%) GRC
9 5 (0.39%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.24%) EU AI Act
10 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 390 (30.64%) Docker
2 35 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (1.73%) VMware NSX
5 21 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.65%) vSphere
6 7 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.55%) Firmware
7 3 (0.24%) HDFS
7 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.079%) IAG
9 1 (0.079%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 563 (44.23%) Terraform
2 473 (37.16%) Kubernetes
3 190 (14.93%) Ansible
4 139 (10.92%) Grafana
5 101 (7.93%) Prometheus
6 66 (5.18%) Argo
7 38 (2.99%) Istio
8 26 (2.04%) Puppet
9 22 (1.73%) Progress Chef
10 21 (1.65%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (0.94%) Packer
13 11 (0.86%) Kibana
13 11 (0.86%) NetBackup
14 9 (0.71%) linkerd
15 8 (0.63%) Podman
16 7 (0.55%) Sysdig
17 4 (0.31%) HAProxy
17 4 (0.31%) Kubeflow
17 4 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 233 (18.30%) Microsoft
2 111 (8.72%) Databricks
3 92 (7.23%) Google
4 82 (6.44%) Splunk
5 48 (3.77%) VMware
6 47 (3.69%) Oracle
7 42 (3.30%) OpenAI
8 41 (3.22%) Red Hat
9 21 (1.65%) Pure Storage
10 19 (1.49%) ServiceNow
11 18 (1.41%) Atlassian
12 16 (1.26%) Salesforce
12 16 (1.26%) Sonatype
13 15 (1.18%) Dynatrace
14 14 (1.10%) SAP
15 11 (0.86%) Foundry
15 11 (0.86%) Informatica
16 10 (0.79%) Checkmarx
16 10 (0.79%) Commvault
17 8 (0.63%) Veritas