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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 129 167
Rank change year-on-year +48 +38 -39
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,226 528 538
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.97% 2.18% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.50% 5.85% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 360 350
10th Percentile £365 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £622
90th Percentile £700 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £510 £520 £528
% change year-on-year -1.88% -1.52% -12.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 20
10th Percentile £48.00 - £30.38
25th Percentile £58.43 £25.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £27.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +129.58% -60.71% +28.44%
75th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £74.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £27.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +129.58% -60.71% +28.44%

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 14,423 9,023 11,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.26% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,870 6,247 8,432
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 200 326
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.34 £18.13 £15.92
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +61.02% +19.33% -33.84%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.56 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.38 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £21.37
% change year-on-year +35.09% +29.90% -38.94%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +41 701 £550 - 182
North of England +24 218 £488 -0.79% 127
Yorkshire +14 147 £482 -7.26% 44
Midlands +9 89 £494 -0.25% 44
South East -18 80 £500 - 98
South West +29 79 £500 -6.98% 57
West Midlands -1 73 £500 +1.01% 18
North West -11 62 £538 +13.16% 67
East of England -12 28 £500 -9.09% 32
East Midlands -16 15 £402 -17.54% 26
North East -14 14 £463 +10.45% 17
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 (8.40%) Confluence
2 39 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (2.37%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.28%) SharePoint
5 16 (1.31%) Apache
6 10 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
9 2 (0.16%) SAS
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.082%) Appian
10 1 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.082%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.082%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.082%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.33%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.24%) Findur
3 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.082%) Actimize
4 1 (0.082%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.082%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.082%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.082%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 641 (52.28%) GitHub Actions
2 572 (46.66%) Azure
3 559 (45.60%) AWS
4 304 (24.80%) Azure DevOps
5 186 (15.17%) Serverless
6 185 (15.09%) GCP
7 128 (10.44%) AWS Lambda
8 111 (9.05%) Amazon S3
9 98 (7.99%) Amazon EKS
10 97 (7.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 91 (7.42%) Power Platform
12 81 (6.61%) Amazon ECS
13 77 (6.28%) Azure Data Factory
14 76 (6.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 75 (6.12%) GitHub Copilot
16 72 (5.87%) Azure AKS
17 68 (5.55%) Azure Monitor
18 64 (5.22%) Amazon EC2
19 54 (4.40%) AWS CodePipeline
19 54 (4.40%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.98%) DNS
2 59 (4.81%) Firewall
3 36 (2.94%) VPN
4 25 (2.04%) Network Security
5 10 (0.82%) HTTP
6 9 (0.73%) SSL
6 9 (0.73%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.49%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.49%) Modbus
7 6 (0.49%) RS-232
7 6 (0.49%) RS-485
8 4 (0.33%) DSL
8 4 (0.33%) Internet
8 4 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.33%) WAN
9 3 (0.24%) BGP
9 3 (0.24%) DHCP
9 3 (0.24%) SAN
9 3 (0.24%) VLAN
9 3 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (6.28%) SQL Server
3 75 (6.12%) Data Lake
4 63 (5.14%) NoSQL
5 61 (4.98%) Power BI
6 57 (4.65%) MongoDB
7 46 (3.75%) DynamoDB
8 43 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
9 41 (3.34%) Redis
9 41 (3.34%) Relational Database
10 40 (3.26%) Delta Lake
11 39 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
12 27 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
13 24 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (1.96%) Big Data
14 22 (1.79%) Metadata
15 21 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (1.55%) MySQL
17 18 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
18 14 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 381 (31.08%) Jenkins
2 252 (20.55%) GitLab
3 236 (19.25%) Git
4 145 (11.83%) JIRA
5 75 (6.12%) JUnit
6 58 (4.73%) Selenium
7 44 (3.59%) Cucumber
8 39 (3.18%) Cypress.io
9 36 (2.94%) Gatling
9 36 (2.94%) SonarQube
10 35 (2.85%) Gradle
11 34 (2.77%) CircleCI
11 34 (2.77%) JMeter
12 33 (2.69%) Bitbucket
12 33 (2.69%) Maven
13 31 (2.53%) REST Assured
14 27 (2.20%) Artifactory
14 27 (2.20%) Postman
15 22 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
16 20 (1.63%) Mockito
General
1 288 (23.49%) Social Skills
2 206 (16.80%) Finance
3 144 (11.75%) Public Sector
4 96 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (6.36%) Banking
6 23 (1.88%) Retail
7 21 (1.71%) Military
8 17 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.31%) Legal
10 13 (1.06%) Front Office
10 13 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (0.98%) Investment Banking
12 10 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (0.65%) Law
13 8 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.57%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.57%) Marketing
15 5 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 240 (19.58%) Developer
2 200 (16.31%) Senior
3 167 (13.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 109 (8.89%) Data Engineer
5 107 (8.73%) Architect
6 93 (7.59%) Lead
7 76 (6.20%) Cloud Engineer
8 71 (5.79%) Platform Engineer
9 60 (4.89%) AWS Engineer
10 59 (4.81%) Azure Engineer
10 59 (4.81%) Java Developer
11 51 (4.16%) Full-Stack Developer
12 50 (4.08%) Senior Developer
13 49 (4.00%) Software Engineer
14 45 (3.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 42 (3.43%) GCP Engineer
15 42 (3.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 37 (3.02%) Test Engineer
17 32 (2.61%) Tester
18 30 (2.45%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (10.85%) Spring
2 132 (10.77%) REST
3 131 (10.69%) Kafka
4 108 (8.81%) Spring Boot
5 107 (8.73%) React
6 106 (8.65%) .NET
7 88 (7.18%) Node.js
8 86 (7.01%) RESTful
9 72 (5.87%) Playwright
10 63 (5.14%) PySpark
11 44 (3.59%) OpenTelemetry
12 41 (3.34%) AngularJS
13 34 (2.77%) HTML
14 33 (2.69%) .NET Framework
14 33 (2.69%) GraphQL
15 32 (2.61%) OAuth
15 32 (2.61%) YAML
16 31 (2.53%) FastAPI
16 31 (2.53%) JSON
17 28 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 225 (18.35%) Cloud Native
2 84 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (4.89%) Product Ownership
4 28 (2.28%) Onboarding
5 27 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 23 (1.88%) Public Cloud
7 21 (1.71%) AI Agents
8 20 (1.63%) Mobile App
9 18 (1.47%) Data Centre
10 17 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.22%) Private Cloud
11 15 (1.22%) Security Posture
12 14 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.06%) NHS
14 12 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (0.90%) Data Structures
15 11 (0.90%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
16 10 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 133 (10.85%) Linux
2 53 (4.32%) Windows
3 28 (2.28%) Unix
4 25 (2.04%) Android
5 20 (1.63%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.31%) VMS
7 14 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.82%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.41%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.33%) Debian
11 4 (0.33%) Rocky
12 3 (0.24%) CentOS
13 2 (0.16%) AIX
13 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.082%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.082%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.082%) MVS
14 1 (0.082%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 919 (74.96%) CI/CD
2 711 (57.99%) DevOps
3 468 (38.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 367 (29.93%) Agile
5 285 (23.25%) Containerisation
6 278 (22.68%) Test Automation
7 252 (20.55%) Observability
8 218 (17.78%) Microservices
9 203 (16.56%) AI
10 189 (15.42%) Platform Engineering
11 175 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
12 162 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 158 (12.89%) Migration
14 157 (12.81%) Analytics
15 144 (11.75%) Software Engineering
16 123 (10.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 119 (9.71%) Data Engineering
18 118 (9.62%) Data Pipeline
19 112 (9.14%) Data Modelling
19 112 (9.14%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 534 (43.56%) Python
2 295 (24.06%) SQL
3 249 (20.31%) Java
4 156 (12.72%) Bash
5 143 (11.66%) JavaScript
6 132 (10.77%) C#
7 129 (10.52%) PowerShell
8 110 (8.97%) TypeScript
9 64 (5.22%) Bicep
10 43 (3.51%) Go
11 35 (2.85%) Scala
12 33 (2.69%) Shell Script
13 27 (2.20%) Kotlin
14 24 (1.96%) Ruby
15 14 (1.14%) Swift
16 10 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.65%) C++
17 8 (0.65%) Groovy
18 7 (0.57%) C
18 7 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 377 (30.75%) Security Cleared
2 301 (24.55%) SC Cleared
3 50 (4.08%) Degree
4 41 (3.34%) DV Cleared
5 38 (3.10%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 33 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (2.37%) AWS Certification
8 20 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (0.90%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.82%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 8 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (0.57%) OCP
14 7 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.49%) CISSP
15 6 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (9.30%) QA
2 68 (5.55%) Data Quality
3 53 (4.32%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.96%) GDPR
5 21 (1.71%) WCAG
6 19 (1.55%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.98%) NIST
9 8 (0.65%) NCSC
10 6 (0.49%) GRC
10 6 (0.49%) SLA
11 4 (0.33%) PSD2
11 4 (0.33%) SEPA
12 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 371 (30.26%) Docker
2 29 (2.37%) Active Directory
2 29 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
3 22 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.55%) VMware NSX
4 19 (1.55%) vSphere
5 10 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.49%) Firmware
7 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.16%) HDFS
8 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.16%) NFS
8 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.082%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.082%) IAG
9 1 (0.082%) SRDF
9 1 (0.082%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.082%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 569 (46.41%) Terraform
2 446 (36.38%) Kubernetes
3 187 (15.25%) Ansible
4 142 (11.58%) Grafana
5 119 (9.71%) Prometheus
6 59 (4.81%) Argo
7 32 (2.61%) Istio
8 28 (2.28%) Puppet
9 19 (1.55%) vCenter Server
10 15 (1.22%) Packer
10 15 (1.22%) Progress Chef
11 13 (1.06%) Kibana
12 12 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.73%) HAProxy
13 9 (0.73%) NetBackup
14 8 (0.65%) linkerd
15 4 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
15 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.33%) Podman
15 4 (0.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 223 (18.19%) Microsoft
2 98 (7.99%) Databricks
3 88 (7.18%) Google
4 80 (6.53%) Splunk
5 52 (4.24%) Oracle
6 43 (3.51%) VMware
7 34 (2.77%) OpenAI
7 34 (2.77%) Red Hat
8 23 (1.88%) Dynatrace
9 19 (1.55%) Pure Storage
10 18 (1.47%) Salesforce
11 16 (1.31%) Informatica
12 15 (1.22%) ServiceNow
13 14 (1.14%) Atlassian
14 13 (1.06%) Checkmarx
15 12 (0.98%) SAP
16 11 (0.90%) Cisco
16 11 (0.90%) IBM
17 10 (0.82%) Sonatype
18 9 (0.73%) AppDynamics