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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 95 131
Rank change year-on-year +10 +36 +12
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,371 734 616
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.00% 2.66% 1.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.63% 7.14% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 942 505 410
10th Percentile £395 £363 £312
25th Percentile £450 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £625
90th Percentile £706 £725 £691
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 33
10th Percentile £46.25 - £38.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £100.00 -
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% -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 15,895 10,274 11,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.73% 37.29% 33.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,618 6,952 7,901
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £718 £734 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 269 198
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.07 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.80
Median hourly rate £34.38 £26.30 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +30.70% -6.90% -14.39%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £56.88
90th Percentile £82.62 £67.30 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +19.26% +1.79% -20.28%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +16 802 £550 - 854
North of England +11 257 £488 +2.63% 208
Yorkshire +21 175 £490 -2.00% 74
Midlands +6 112 £488 -5.80% 90
West Midlands -5 95 £500 -6.98% 45
South East -28 87 £529 +15.83% 175
South West -4 62 £505 -15.83% 104
North West -32 61 £550 +25.00% 105
East of England +1 32 £505 -8.18% 79
North East -24 23 £450 -2.70% 32
East Midlands -6 17 £400 -19.19% 45
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
1 110 (8.02%) Confluence
2 48 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (2.63%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 21 (1.53%) Apache
6 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.58%) nginx
9 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.44%) Tuxedo
11 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.15%) CMS
12 2 (0.15%) Mendix
12 2 (0.15%) SAS
13 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.073%) IIS
13 1 (0.073%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 7 (0.51%) Chatbot
1 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.29%) Trello
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.073%) Notion
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.36%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.22%) Findur
3 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.15%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.15%) Summit
5 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.073%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 747 (54.49%) GitHub Actions
2 706 (51.50%) Azure
3 633 (46.17%) AWS
4 401 (29.25%) Azure DevOps
5 206 (15.03%) GCP
6 177 (12.91%) Serverless
7 132 (9.63%) Amazon S3
8 130 (9.48%) GitHub Copilot
9 124 (9.04%) AWS Lambda
10 112 (8.17%) Amazon EKS
11 108 (7.88%) Azure Monitor
12 96 (7.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 88 (6.42%) Power Platform
14 83 (6.05%) Entra ID
15 82 (5.98%) Azure AKS
16 70 (5.11%) Amazon EC2
17 67 (4.89%) AWS CloudFormation
17 67 (4.89%) Snowflake
18 66 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
19 52 (3.79%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.74%) Firewall
2 63 (4.60%) DNS
3 51 (3.72%) VPN
4 30 (2.19%) Network Security
5 20 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.31%) VLAN
7 17 (1.24%) BGP
7 17 (1.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 14 (1.02%) SSL
9 11 (0.80%) DHCP
10 9 (0.66%) BIG-IP
10 9 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
10 9 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 9 (0.66%) OSPF
10 9 (0.66%) VXLAN
10 9 (0.66%) WAN
10 9 (0.66%) Wireless
11 8 (0.58%) IPsec
11 8 (0.58%) NX-OS
12 7 (0.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (6.71%) SQL Server
3 73 (5.32%) NoSQL
4 67 (4.89%) MongoDB
5 66 (4.81%) Power BI
6 53 (3.87%) Data Lake
7 51 (3.72%) Redis
8 50 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
9 48 (3.50%) Relational Database
10 46 (3.36%) DynamoDB
11 37 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
12 36 (2.63%) Delta Lake
13 33 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
14 30 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
15 26 (1.90%) Metadata
16 24 (1.75%) BigQuery
16 24 (1.75%) MySQL
17 21 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
18 20 (1.46%) Big Data
19 16 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 403 (29.39%) Jenkins
2 297 (21.66%) GitLab
3 270 (19.69%) Git
4 162 (11.82%) JIRA
5 70 (5.11%) JUnit
5 70 (5.11%) Selenium
6 50 (3.65%) SonarQube
7 49 (3.57%) Cucumber
8 47 (3.43%) Bitbucket
9 40 (2.92%) Cypress.io
9 40 (2.92%) Gatling
10 35 (2.55%) Gradle
11 34 (2.48%) JMeter
12 33 (2.41%) Maven
13 30 (2.19%) Claude Code
14 28 (2.04%) Postman
15 27 (1.97%) CircleCI
15 27 (1.97%) REST Assured
16 23 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
17 17 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 335 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 276 (20.13%) Finance
3 155 (11.31%) Public Sector
4 122 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (5.98%) Banking
6 39 (2.84%) Retail
7 36 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (1.75%) Legal
10 17 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.09%) Law
12 14 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.95%) Investment Banking
14 12 (0.88%) Aerospace
15 11 (0.80%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.80%) Military
16 10 (0.73%) Marketing
17 9 (0.66%) Local Government
17 9 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 260 (18.96%) Senior
2 250 (18.23%) Developer
3 172 (12.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 125 (9.12%) Architect
5 119 (8.68%) Lead
6 106 (7.73%) Data Engineer
7 82 (5.98%) Platform Engineer
8 78 (5.69%) AWS Engineer
9 71 (5.18%) Azure Engineer
9 71 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
10 66 (4.81%) Senior Developer
11 64 (4.67%) Software Engineer
12 63 (4.60%) Java Developer
13 49 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
14 47 (3.43%) Test Engineer
15 46 (3.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 45 (3.28%) Senior DevOps
17 41 (2.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 38 (2.77%) Python Developer
19 36 (2.63%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 662 (48.29%) Terraform
2 223 (16.27%) REST
3 147 (10.72%) Kafka
4 137 (9.99%) RESTful
5 129 (9.41%) Spring
6 118 (8.61%) .NET
6 118 (8.61%) React
7 105 (7.66%) Spring Boot
8 84 (6.13%) Playwright
9 68 (4.96%) Node.js
10 54 (3.94%) OAuth
11 49 (3.57%) PySpark
12 48 (3.50%) YAML
13 47 (3.43%) HTML
13 47 (3.43%) JSON
14 43 (3.14%) AngularJS
15 42 (3.06%) OAuth2
16 41 (2.99%) FastAPI
17 39 (2.84%) .NET Framework
18 36 (2.63%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 296 (21.59%) Cloud Native
2 112 (8.17%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (5.18%) Product Ownership
4 62 (4.52%) AI Agents
5 42 (3.06%) Data Centre
6 39 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
6 39 (2.84%) Mobile App
7 38 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 36 (2.63%) Onboarding
9 28 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
10 25 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (1.68%) Security Posture
12 22 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.46%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
14 19 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
15 18 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
16 16 (1.17%) Algorithms
17 15 (1.09%) Private Cloud
17 15 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 128 (9.34%) Linux
2 62 (4.52%) Windows
3 33 (2.41%) Unix
4 28 (2.04%) Android
5 26 (1.90%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (1.46%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.58%) VMS
9 3 (0.22%) CentOS
9 3 (0.22%) Debian
9 3 (0.22%) Rocky
10 2 (0.15%) AIX
10 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.15%) MVS
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.15%) zOS
11 1 (0.073%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,035 (75.49%) CI/CD
2 818 (59.66%) DevOps
3 558 (40.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 509 (37.13%) Agile
5 351 (25.60%) Observability
6 348 (25.38%) Test Automation
7 295 (21.52%) AI
7 295 (21.52%) Containerisation
8 267 (19.47%) Microservices
9 224 (16.34%) Software Engineering
10 221 (16.12%) Platform Engineering
11 198 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 165 (12.04%) Event-Driven
13 164 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
14 160 (11.67%) Analytics
15 143 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
16 139 (10.14%) Technical Leadership
17 138 (10.07%) DevSecOps
18 126 (9.19%) Scrum
19 122 (8.90%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 592 (43.18%) Python
2 332 (24.22%) SQL
3 278 (20.28%) Java
4 196 (14.30%) Bash
5 185 (13.49%) PowerShell
6 148 (10.80%) TypeScript
7 135 (9.85%) C#
7 135 (9.85%) JavaScript
8 98 (7.15%) Bicep
9 46 (3.36%) Kotlin
10 44 (3.21%) Go
11 32 (2.33%) Shell Script
12 30 (2.19%) Scala
13 21 (1.53%) Ruby
14 20 (1.46%) Swift
15 12 (0.88%) Groovy
15 12 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (0.73%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.66%) C
17 9 (0.66%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 424 (30.93%) Security Cleared
2 372 (27.13%) SC Cleared
3 64 (4.67%) Azure Certification
4 58 (4.23%) Degree
5 41 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 39 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 34 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.80%) CISSP
12 11 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 9 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 8 (0.58%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (13.79%) QA
2 77 (5.62%) Data Quality
3 73 (5.32%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.26%) GDPR
5 28 (2.04%) WCAG
6 26 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (1.39%) NIST
8 11 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.73%) NCSC
10 8 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.44%) GRC
12 5 (0.36%) HL7
12 5 (0.36%) PSD2
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.29%) SEPA
14 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
16 1 (0.073%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 432 (31.51%) Docker
2 47 (3.43%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.80%) IAG
5 11 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.80%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.80%) vSphere
6 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 4 (0.29%) NFS
7 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.15%) Firmware
8 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.15%) SRDF
8 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 499 (36.40%) Kubernetes
2 210 (15.32%) Ansible
3 189 (13.79%) Grafana
4 152 (11.09%) Prometheus
5 58 (4.23%) Argo
6 25 (1.82%) Puppet
7 23 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (1.46%) Packer
8 20 (1.46%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.88%) Control-M
10 11 (0.80%) Istio
11 10 (0.73%) Kibana
12 9 (0.66%) HAProxy
12 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.58%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.51%) SCCM
15 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.36%) Podman
16 4 (0.29%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 267 (19.47%) Microsoft
2 103 (7.51%) Databricks
3 93 (6.78%) Splunk
4 92 (6.71%) Google
5 57 (4.16%) Oracle
6 55 (4.01%) Dynatrace
7 43 (3.14%) ServiceNow
8 37 (2.70%) VMware
9 35 (2.55%) Red Hat
10 33 (2.41%) OpenAI
11 30 (2.19%) Salesforce
12 29 (2.12%) Cisco
13 25 (1.82%) Informatica
14 22 (1.60%) IBM
15 18 (1.31%) Checkmarx
15 18 (1.31%) F5
15 18 (1.31%) New Relic
16 16 (1.17%) Foundry
17 15 (1.09%) Palo Alto
18 14 (1.02%) SAP