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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 137 171
Rank change year-on-year +60 +34 -49
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,236 513 521
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.05% 2.12% 1.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.64% 5.69% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 871 355 342
10th Percentile £363 £387 £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 £619
90th Percentile £700 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 16
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 £26.88
25th Percentile £52.11 £25.72 £61.38
Median hourly rate £63.14 £27.38 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.63% -60.89% +28.44%
75th Percentile £72.46 £58.44 -
90th Percentile £74.10 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £27.38 £68.75
% change year-on-year +130.63% -60.18% +27.31%

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 14,303 9,016 11,745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.30% 37.21% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,828 6,286 8,486
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £742 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 196 320
10th Percentile £15.87 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.36 £18.04 £15.85
Median hourly rate £46.80 £25.98 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +80.17% +23.69% -34.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £41.62 £32.88
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.13 £62.00
UK median hourly rate £41.64 £27.35 £21.19
% change year-on-year +52.25% +29.10% -39.47%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +47 721 £550 - 229
North of England +36 201 £488 -0.51% 136
Yorkshire +23 132 £476 -8.42% 57
Midlands +3 93 £500 +5.26% 54
South East -25 84 £456 -8.75% 122
South West +21 75 £500 -6.98% 51
West Midlands +1 74 £520 +9.37% 20
North West -11 59 £525 +10.53% 56
East of England -17 27 £500 -9.09% 45
East Midlands -14 18 £410 -15.95% 34
North East -9 12 £475 +13.43% 23
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
1 104 (8.41%) Confluence
2 38 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (2.51%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.18%) SharePoint
5 17 (1.38%) Apache
6 12 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.57%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) SAS
11 1 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.081%) Appian
11 1 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.081%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.081%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.081%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.081%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (0.32%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.24%) Findur
2 3 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.081%) Actimize
4 1 (0.081%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.081%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.081%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.081%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.081%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 649 (52.51%) GitHub Actions
2 582 (47.09%) Azure
3 555 (44.90%) AWS
4 308 (24.92%) Azure DevOps
5 185 (14.97%) GCP
6 182 (14.72%) Serverless
7 126 (10.19%) AWS Lambda
8 109 (8.82%) Amazon S3
9 101 (8.17%) Amazon EKS
10 99 (8.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 93 (7.52%) Power Platform
12 84 (6.80%) Amazon ECS
13 80 (6.47%) Azure Data Factory
14 79 (6.39%) Azure AKS
15 77 (6.23%) GitHub Copilot
16 76 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 75 (6.07%) Azure Monitor
18 58 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
19 57 (4.61%) OpenShift
20 55 (4.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.94%) Firewall
2 59 (4.77%) DNS
3 36 (2.91%) VPN
4 26 (2.10%) Network Security
5 11 (0.89%) HTTP
6 7 (0.57%) Ethernet
6 7 (0.57%) Modbus
6 7 (0.57%) RS-232
6 7 (0.57%) RS-485
6 7 (0.57%) SSL
6 7 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.32%) DSL
7 4 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.32%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.32%) WAN
8 3 (0.24%) BGP
8 3 (0.24%) Internet
8 3 (0.24%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.24%) NAS
8 3 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (6.31%) Data Lake
3 72 (5.83%) SQL Server
4 65 (5.26%) Power BI
5 62 (5.02%) NoSQL
6 49 (3.96%) MongoDB
7 48 (3.88%) DynamoDB
8 44 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 41 (3.32%) Relational Database
10 40 (3.24%) Delta Lake
10 40 (3.24%) Redis
11 38 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
12 27 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
13 26 (2.10%) Big Data
14 25 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
15 23 (1.86%) MySQL
16 21 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
16 21 (1.70%) Metadata
17 15 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
18 14 (1.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 368 (29.77%) Jenkins
2 248 (20.06%) GitLab
3 235 (19.01%) Git
4 151 (12.22%) JIRA
5 81 (6.55%) JUnit
6 50 (4.05%) Cucumber
7 49 (3.96%) Selenium
8 35 (2.83%) CircleCI
8 35 (2.83%) Cypress.io
9 34 (2.75%) Artifactory
9 34 (2.75%) JMeter
9 34 (2.75%) SonarQube
10 33 (2.67%) Gradle
11 32 (2.59%) Bitbucket
11 32 (2.59%) Maven
12 28 (2.27%) Gatling
12 28 (2.27%) Postman
13 27 (2.18%) Sonatype Nexus
14 21 (1.70%) REST Assured
15 20 (1.62%) MLflow
General
1 293 (23.71%) Social Skills
2 212 (17.15%) Finance
3 142 (11.49%) Public Sector
4 96 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (6.15%) Banking
6 20 (1.62%) Military
6 20 (1.62%) Retail
7 18 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.21%) Legal
9 14 (1.13%) Front Office
9 14 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (1.05%) Investment Banking
11 10 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.57%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.49%) Law
14 6 (0.49%) Marketing
15 4 (0.32%) Automotive
15 4 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 241 (19.50%) Developer
2 201 (16.26%) Senior
3 173 (14.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 114 (9.22%) Data Engineer
5 102 (8.25%) Architect
6 88 (7.12%) Lead
7 84 (6.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 76 (6.15%) Platform Engineer
9 66 (5.34%) Azure Engineer
10 64 (5.18%) AWS Engineer
10 64 (5.18%) Java Developer
11 60 (4.85%) Full-Stack Developer
12 52 (4.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 48 (3.88%) Software Engineer
14 46 (3.72%) Senior Developer
15 43 (3.48%) GCP Engineer
16 41 (3.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 34 (2.75%) Tester
18 32 (2.59%) AWS DevOps
19 30 (2.43%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (10.84%) Spring
2 133 (10.76%) Kafka
3 131 (10.60%) REST
4 108 (8.74%) .NET
4 108 (8.74%) React
5 104 (8.41%) Spring Boot
6 95 (7.69%) Node.js
7 78 (6.31%) RESTful
8 68 (5.50%) Playwright
9 62 (5.02%) PySpark
10 43 (3.48%) AngularJS
11 38 (3.07%) OpenTelemetry
12 33 (2.67%) .NET Framework
12 33 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
13 32 (2.59%) JSON
14 31 (2.51%) HTML
15 30 (2.43%) OAuth
15 30 (2.43%) YAML
16 29 (2.35%) FastAPI
16 29 (2.35%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 235 (19.01%) Cloud Native
2 83 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (4.94%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (2.10%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.02%) Public Cloud
7 22 (1.78%) AI Agents
8 18 (1.46%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.38%) Security Posture
10 16 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.29%) Private Cloud
11 15 (1.21%) Data Centre
11 15 (1.21%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.97%) NHS
14 10 (0.81%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.81%) Replication
15 9 (0.73%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 141 (11.41%) Linux
2 52 (4.21%) Windows
3 28 (2.27%) Unix
4 23 (1.86%) Android
5 18 (1.46%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.29%) VMS
7 14 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.81%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.57%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.40%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.32%) Debian
11 4 (0.32%) Rocky
12 3 (0.24%) CentOS
12 3 (0.24%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.16%) AIX
14 1 (0.081%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.081%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.081%) MVS
14 1 (0.081%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 922 (74.60%) CI/CD
2 711 (57.52%) DevOps
3 476 (38.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 374 (30.26%) Agile
5 303 (24.51%) Containerisation
6 271 (21.93%) Test Automation
7 242 (19.58%) Observability
8 214 (17.31%) Microservices
9 207 (16.75%) AI
10 187 (15.13%) Platform Engineering
11 185 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
12 169 (13.67%) Analytics
13 168 (13.59%) Migration
14 148 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
15 140 (11.33%) Software Engineering
16 130 (10.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 125 (10.11%) Data Engineering
17 125 (10.11%) Data Pipeline
18 116 (9.39%) Full-Stack Development
19 111 (8.98%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 556 (44.98%) Python
2 293 (23.71%) SQL
3 246 (19.90%) Java
4 159 (12.86%) Bash
5 145 (11.73%) JavaScript
6 136 (11.00%) C#
7 127 (10.28%) PowerShell
8 106 (8.58%) TypeScript
9 64 (5.18%) Bicep
10 51 (4.13%) Go
11 34 (2.75%) Scala
12 33 (2.67%) Shell Script
13 25 (2.02%) Ruby
14 23 (1.86%) Kotlin
15 12 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (0.97%) Swift
16 10 (0.81%) C++
17 8 (0.65%) C
17 8 (0.65%) Groovy
18 7 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 378 (30.58%) Security Cleared
2 307 (24.84%) SC Cleared
3 51 (4.13%) Degree
4 42 (3.40%) Azure Certification
5 38 (3.07%) DV Cleared
6 36 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 33 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (2.35%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 9 (0.73%) OCP
11 9 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.65%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (0.57%) CISSP
14 6 (0.49%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (8.58%) QA
2 66 (5.34%) Data Quality
3 45 (3.64%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.94%) GDPR
5 20 (1.62%) PCI DSS
6 19 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.54%) WCAG
7 13 (1.05%) NIST
8 10 (0.81%) NCSC
9 7 (0.57%) GRC
10 6 (0.49%) SLA
11 4 (0.32%) PSD2
11 4 (0.32%) 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
1 377 (30.50%) Docker
2 32 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (2.18%) Active Directory
4 26 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.62%) VMware NSX
5 20 (1.62%) vSphere
6 8 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.57%) Firmware
8 5 (0.40%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.24%) HDFS
10 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.16%) NFS
10 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.081%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.081%) IAG
11 1 (0.081%) ISA Server
11 1 (0.081%) SRDF
11 1 (0.081%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 579 (46.84%) Terraform
2 468 (37.86%) Kubernetes
3 189 (15.29%) Ansible
4 136 (11.00%) Grafana
5 107 (8.66%) Prometheus
6 67 (5.42%) Argo
7 35 (2.83%) Istio
8 27 (2.18%) Puppet
9 20 (1.62%) vCenter Server
10 18 (1.46%) Progress Chef
11 15 (1.21%) Packer
12 12 (0.97%) Kibana
13 11 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.73%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.73%) linkerd
14 9 (0.73%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.40%) Podman
15 5 (0.40%) Rancher
16 3 (0.24%) Karpenter
16 3 (0.24%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 232 (18.77%) Microsoft
2 101 (8.17%) Databricks
3 88 (7.12%) Google
4 78 (6.31%) Splunk
5 51 (4.13%) Oracle
6 49 (3.96%) VMware
7 37 (2.99%) OpenAI
8 34 (2.75%) Red Hat
9 24 (1.94%) Dynatrace
10 20 (1.62%) Pure Storage
11 16 (1.29%) Atlassian
11 16 (1.29%) Salesforce
12 15 (1.21%) Informatica
13 14 (1.13%) ServiceNow
14 13 (1.05%) Checkmarx
15 11 (0.89%) Sonatype
16 10 (0.81%) AppDynamics
16 10 (0.81%) Cisco
16 10 (0.81%) SAP
17 9 (0.73%) IBM