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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 117 159
Rank change year-on-year +34 +42 -36
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,266 596 568
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.92% 2.39% 1.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.35% 6.33% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 407 356
10th Percentile £380 £383 £359
25th Percentile £440 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £529
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% -10.91%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £532
% change year-on-year +1.38% -2.56% -9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 32
10th Percentile £47.75 £25.48 £48.70
25th Percentile £54.22 £25.81 £69.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £26.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +138.25% -62.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £27.06 -
90th Percentile - £27.33 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £26.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +138.25% -62.14% +27.27%

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 15,154 9,411 12,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.01% 37.70% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,260 6,394 8,641
10th Percentile £325 £310 £303
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £718 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 234 338
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.12 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.39% +15.91% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £39.69 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.03 £70.13 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year +31.12% +30.00% -37.14%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +28 733 £550 - 150
North of England +20 235 £500 +4.17% 100
Yorkshire +23 171 £490 -5.72% 36
Midlands +11 96 £492 +3.58% 44
West Midlands +1 82 £492 +3.63% 18
South West +12 75 £456 -23.96% 48
South East -43 72 £500 +4.93% 115
North West -24 57 £550 +16.53% 49
East of England -9 31 £500 -9.09% 43
East Midlands -9 13 £447 -8.31% 26
North East -30 12 £450 -12.20% 16
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 (8.61%) Confluence
2 44 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (2.53%) SharePoint
4 24 (1.90%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.18%) Apache
6 13 (1.03%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.47%) Tuxedo
9 3 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) SAS
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.079%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.079%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.079%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.079%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.079%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.55%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.079%) Notion
6 1 (0.079%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.079%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.32%) Sage X3
2 4 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.24%) Findur
3 3 (0.24%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.079%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 672 (53.08%) GitHub Actions
2 582 (45.97%) Azure
3 563 (44.47%) AWS
4 332 (26.22%) Azure DevOps
5 185 (14.61%) GCP
6 178 (14.06%) Serverless
7 125 (9.87%) AWS Lambda
8 123 (9.72%) Amazon S3
9 95 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
10 92 (7.27%) Power Platform
11 84 (6.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 82 (6.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 82 (6.48%) Azure Monitor
13 79 (6.24%) Amazon ECS
14 78 (6.16%) GitHub Copilot
15 70 (5.53%) Azure AKS
16 67 (5.29%) Azure Data Factory
17 64 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
18 61 (4.82%) Entra ID
19 47 (3.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 69 (5.45%) Firewall
2 64 (5.06%) DNS
3 45 (3.55%) VPN
4 29 (2.29%) Network Security
5 13 (1.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 13 (1.03%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.87%) VLAN
7 10 (0.79%) SSL
8 9 (0.71%) BIG-IP
8 9 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 8 (0.63%) HTTP
10 7 (0.55%) Internet
10 7 (0.55%) Wireless
11 6 (0.47%) WAN
12 5 (0.39%) BGP
12 5 (0.39%) Ethernet
12 5 (0.39%) Modbus
12 5 (0.39%) RS-232
12 5 (0.39%) RS-485
13 4 (0.32%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (8.14%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (6.40%) SQL Server
3 75 (5.92%) Data Lake
4 63 (4.98%) NoSQL
5 62 (4.90%) Power BI
6 52 (4.11%) MongoDB
7 49 (3.87%) DynamoDB
8 47 (3.71%) Relational Database
9 46 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 43 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
11 41 (3.24%) Delta Lake
12 40 (3.16%) Redis
13 35 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
14 30 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
15 23 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
16 22 (1.74%) Big Data
16 22 (1.74%) Metadata
17 20 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
18 18 (1.42%) MySQL
18 18 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 395 (31.20%) Jenkins
2 259 (20.46%) GitLab
3 235 (18.56%) Git
4 161 (12.72%) JIRA
5 82 (6.48%) JUnit
6 61 (4.82%) Selenium
7 51 (4.03%) Cucumber
8 41 (3.24%) Gradle
8 41 (3.24%) JMeter
9 40 (3.16%) Gatling
10 37 (2.92%) Cypress.io
11 36 (2.84%) Bitbucket
12 35 (2.76%) SonarQube
13 34 (2.69%) Maven
13 34 (2.69%) REST Assured
14 32 (2.53%) CircleCI
15 29 (2.29%) Postman
16 23 (1.82%) Mockito
17 21 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
18 19 (1.50%) Artifactory
General
1 295 (23.30%) Social Skills
2 211 (16.67%) Finance
3 146 (11.53%) Public Sector
4 98 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (6.32%) Banking
6 29 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (1.97%) Retail
8 20 (1.58%) Military
9 19 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (1.34%) Legal
11 15 (1.18%) Law
12 13 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (0.95%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.63%) Financial Institution
16 8 (0.63%) Front Office
17 7 (0.55%) Marketing
17 7 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
18 4 (0.32%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 231 (18.25%) Developer
2 221 (17.46%) Senior
3 171 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 118 (9.32%) Architect
5 111 (8.77%) Data Engineer
6 90 (7.11%) Lead
7 83 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 81 (6.40%) Platform Engineer
9 74 (5.85%) AWS Engineer
10 61 (4.82%) Java Developer
11 60 (4.74%) Azure Engineer
12 57 (4.50%) Software Engineer
13 51 (4.03%) Senior Developer
14 50 (3.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 44 (3.48%) Full-Stack Developer
16 42 (3.32%) Test Engineer
17 40 (3.16%) GCP Engineer
18 35 (2.76%) AWS DevOps
18 35 (2.76%) Senior DevOps
19 34 (2.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (11.37%) REST
2 128 (10.11%) Spring
3 125 (9.87%) Kafka
4 102 (8.06%) .NET
5 101 (7.98%) React
5 101 (7.98%) RESTful
6 100 (7.90%) Spring Boot
7 68 (5.37%) Playwright
8 65 (5.13%) Node.js
9 64 (5.06%) PySpark
10 47 (3.71%) OpenTelemetry
11 40 (3.16%) OAuth
12 37 (2.92%) YAML
13 35 (2.76%) .NET Framework
14 34 (2.69%) GraphQL
15 32 (2.53%) FastAPI
15 32 (2.53%) OAuth2
16 31 (2.45%) HTML
16 31 (2.45%) WireMock
17 30 (2.37%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 253 (19.98%) Cloud Native
2 106 (8.37%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (5.21%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.84%) Data Centre
5 34 (2.69%) Onboarding
6 30 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 27 (2.13%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.05%) Mobile App
9 24 (1.90%) AI Agents
10 18 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
11 17 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.03%) NHS
14 12 (0.95%) Low-Code
14 12 (0.95%) Security Posture
15 11 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
15 11 (0.87%) Private Cloud
15 11 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 121 (9.56%) Linux
2 61 (4.82%) Windows
3 28 (2.21%) Android
4 25 (1.97%) Apple iOS
4 25 (1.97%) Unix
5 18 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.95%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.79%) VMS
8 5 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
8 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.32%) Debian
9 4 (0.32%) Rocky
10 3 (0.24%) CentOS
11 2 (0.16%) AIX
11 2 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.16%) MVS
11 2 (0.16%) zOS
12 1 (0.079%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.079%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 954 (75.36%) CI/CD
2 731 (57.74%) DevOps
3 485 (38.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 404 (31.91%) Agile
5 286 (22.59%) Test Automation
6 267 (21.09%) Containerisation
7 260 (20.54%) Observability
8 229 (18.09%) Microservices
9 209 (16.51%) Platform Engineering
10 208 (16.43%) AI
11 166 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 165 (13.03%) Software Engineering
13 164 (12.95%) Analytics
14 156 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
15 153 (12.09%) Migration
16 123 (9.72%) Event-Driven
17 121 (9.56%) Data Pipeline
18 116 (9.16%) Data Engineering
19 115 (9.08%) Data Modelling
20 110 (8.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 540 (42.65%) Python
2 311 (24.57%) SQL
3 239 (18.88%) Java
4 156 (12.32%) Bash
5 137 (10.82%) PowerShell
6 130 (10.27%) C#
6 130 (10.27%) JavaScript
7 113 (8.93%) TypeScript
8 71 (5.61%) Bicep
9 35 (2.76%) Go
10 34 (2.69%) Scala
11 33 (2.61%) Kotlin
12 28 (2.21%) Shell Script
13 22 (1.74%) Ruby
14 19 (1.50%) Swift
15 10 (0.79%) Groovy
15 10 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (0.71%) ActionScript
17 8 (0.63%) C
17 8 (0.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 371 (29.30%) Security Cleared
2 304 (24.01%) SC Cleared
3 51 (4.03%) Degree
4 44 (3.48%) DV Cleared
5 42 (3.32%) Azure Certification
6 36 (2.84%) AWS Certification
7 28 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.87%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.63%) CISSP
14 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 7 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 6 (0.47%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.47%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (10.51%) QA
2 77 (6.08%) Data Quality
3 62 (4.90%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.53%) GDPR
5 28 (2.21%) WCAG
6 23 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.58%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.42%) NIST
9 8 (0.63%) GRC
10 7 (0.55%) NCSC
11 6 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.39%) PSD2
13 4 (0.32%) SEPA
14 3 (0.24%) HL7
14 3 (0.24%) SLA
14 3 (0.24%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
15 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 349 (27.57%) Docker
2 32 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.58%) vSphere
6 19 (1.50%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.47%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.39%) Firmware
10 4 (0.32%) NFS
11 3 (0.24%) IAG
12 2 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.16%) SRDF
12 2 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 582 (45.97%) Terraform
2 430 (33.97%) Kubernetes
3 188 (14.85%) Ansible
4 157 (12.40%) Grafana
5 138 (10.90%) Prometheus
6 49 (3.87%) Argo
7 24 (1.90%) Puppet
8 23 (1.82%) Istio
9 20 (1.58%) vCenter Server
10 16 (1.26%) Packer
11 14 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (1.03%) Kibana
12 13 (1.03%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.71%) HAProxy
13 9 (0.71%) NetBackup
14 5 (0.39%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.32%) Rancher
16 3 (0.24%) Consul
Vendors
1 222 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 97 (7.66%) Databricks
3 84 (6.64%) Google
4 76 (6.00%) Splunk
5 47 (3.71%) Oracle
6 39 (3.08%) VMware
7 33 (2.61%) Red Hat
8 31 (2.45%) Dynatrace
9 30 (2.37%) OpenAI
10 20 (1.58%) Pure Storage
11 19 (1.50%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.34%) Salesforce
13 16 (1.26%) Informatica
14 15 (1.18%) Checkmarx
14 15 (1.18%) Cisco
14 15 (1.18%) Foundry
15 14 (1.11%) Atlassian
15 14 (1.11%) F5
15 14 (1.11%) IBM
16 13 (1.03%) SAP