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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 117 140
Rank change year-on-year +30 +23 -10
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,339 662 611
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.97% 2.42% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.45% 6.47% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 915 452 399
10th Percentile £393 £374 £326
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £627
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 34
10th Percentile £46.25 - £41.75
25th Percentile £56.32 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.87% +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 15,839 10,232 11,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.09% 37.34% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,573 6,915 8,251
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 560 267 270
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.09% +14.32% -36.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £45.57
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.87 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.05% +24.15% -36.71%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 +27 767 £550 - 281
North of England +41 262 £500 +4.17% 127
Yorkshire +30 182 £496 -2.67% 43
Midlands +9 107 £500 +5.26% 53
West Midlands +4 95 £500 +5.26% 33
South East -59 75 £525 +10.53% 100
South West +9 71 £500 -16.67% 34
North West -15 68 £576 +24.74% 67
East of England 0 33 £500 -9.09% 29
North East -30 17 £450 -5.26% 18
East Midlands -9 11 £470 -5.05% 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
1 124 (9.26%) Confluence
2 41 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (2.69%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 17 (1.27%) Apache
6 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.82%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.52%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.45%) nginx
8 6 (0.45%) Tuxedo
9 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.15%) CMS
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
10 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.075%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.075%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.075%) Mendix
11 1 (0.075%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.075%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.15%) Trello
8 1 (0.075%) Notion
8 1 (0.075%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.37%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.22%) Findur
4 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.22%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.075%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 711 (53.10%) GitHub Actions
2 650 (48.54%) Azure
3 610 (45.56%) AWS
4 368 (27.48%) Azure DevOps
5 197 (14.71%) GCP
6 156 (11.65%) Serverless
7 125 (9.34%) Amazon S3
8 115 (8.59%) AWS Lambda
9 106 (7.92%) Amazon EKS
9 106 (7.92%) GitHub Copilot
10 95 (7.09%) Azure Monitor
11 85 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 83 (6.20%) Power Platform
13 70 (5.23%) Azure AKS
13 70 (5.23%) Entra ID
14 69 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
14 69 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
15 66 (4.93%) AWS CloudFormation
16 53 (3.96%) Snowflake
17 51 (3.81%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 68 (5.08%) Firewall
2 65 (4.85%) DNS
3 55 (4.11%) VPN
4 29 (2.17%) Network Security
5 17 (1.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 17 (1.27%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.12%) VLAN
7 12 (0.90%) SSL
8 10 (0.75%) BGP
9 9 (0.67%) BIG-IP
9 9 (0.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (0.67%) OSPF
9 9 (0.67%) Wireless
10 8 (0.60%) IPsec
10 8 (0.60%) WAN
11 7 (0.52%) DHCP
11 7 (0.52%) HTTP
11 7 (0.52%) Internet
12 5 (0.37%) SD-WAN
13 4 (0.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (7.92%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.72%) SQL Server
3 68 (5.08%) NoSQL
4 62 (4.63%) MongoDB
5 58 (4.33%) Power BI
6 56 (4.18%) Data Lake
7 49 (3.66%) Relational Database
8 44 (3.29%) DynamoDB
9 39 (2.91%) Delta Lake
10 38 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
11 37 (2.76%) Redis
12 34 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
13 33 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
14 30 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
15 24 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
16 21 (1.57%) Big Data
17 20 (1.49%) BigQuery
17 20 (1.49%) Metadata
18 16 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
18 16 (1.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 425 (31.74%) Jenkins
2 267 (19.94%) GitLab
3 249 (18.60%) Git
4 177 (13.22%) JIRA
5 75 (5.60%) JUnit
6 74 (5.53%) Selenium
7 55 (4.11%) Cucumber
8 42 (3.14%) Bitbucket
9 40 (2.99%) Cypress.io
10 39 (2.91%) Gatling
10 39 (2.91%) Gradle
11 37 (2.76%) JMeter
11 37 (2.76%) REST Assured
11 37 (2.76%) SonarQube
12 31 (2.32%) Maven
13 30 (2.24%) CircleCI
13 30 (2.24%) Postman
14 24 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
15 22 (1.64%) Claude Code
16 21 (1.57%) WebDriver
General
1 330 (24.65%) Social Skills
2 244 (18.22%) Finance
3 155 (11.58%) Public Sector
4 109 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (5.90%) Banking
6 40 (2.99%) Retail
7 27 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (1.72%) Legal
9 18 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.19%) Law
10 16 (1.19%) Military
11 14 (1.05%) Investment Banking
12 13 (0.97%) Telecoms
13 10 (0.75%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.60%) Marketing
15 8 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.52%) Front Office
16 7 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 240 (17.92%) Senior
2 239 (17.85%) Developer
3 178 (13.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 118 (8.81%) Architect
5 115 (8.59%) Lead
6 100 (7.47%) Data Engineer
7 82 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
8 79 (5.90%) AWS Engineer
9 69 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
10 64 (4.78%) Java Developer
11 61 (4.56%) Senior Developer
12 58 (4.33%) Software Engineer
13 55 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
14 47 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 46 (3.44%) Test Engineer
16 42 (3.14%) Senior DevOps
17 41 (3.06%) Full-Stack Developer
18 38 (2.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 37 (2.76%) GCP Engineer
20 36 (2.69%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (14.71%) REST
2 127 (9.48%) Spring
3 126 (9.41%) Kafka
4 120 (8.96%) RESTful
5 110 (8.22%) .NET
6 105 (7.84%) React
7 101 (7.54%) Spring Boot
8 82 (6.12%) Playwright
9 65 (4.85%) Node.js
10 55 (4.11%) PySpark
11 44 (3.29%) OpenTelemetry
12 41 (3.06%) AngularJS
13 40 (2.99%) OAuth
14 39 (2.91%) .NET Framework
15 36 (2.69%) JSON
15 36 (2.69%) YAML
16 35 (2.61%) OAuth2
17 34 (2.54%) FastAPI
17 34 (2.54%) GraphQL
17 34 (2.54%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 278 (20.76%) Cloud Native
2 119 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.36%) AI Agents
5 39 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 38 (2.84%) Mobile App
7 36 (2.69%) Data Centre
8 35 (2.61%) Onboarding
9 27 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
13 18 (1.34%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
14 17 (1.27%) Security Posture
15 16 (1.19%) Algorithms
16 15 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (1.12%) Private Cloud
17 14 (1.05%) Public Cloud
18 13 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 124 (9.26%) Linux
2 60 (4.48%) Windows
3 34 (2.54%) Android
4 28 (2.09%) Apple iOS
5 26 (1.94%) Unix
6 20 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (1.27%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.37%) VMS
10 3 (0.22%) CentOS
10 3 (0.22%) Debian
10 3 (0.22%) Rocky
11 2 (0.15%) AIX
11 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.15%) MVS
11 2 (0.15%) zOS
12 1 (0.075%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.075%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.075%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,004 (74.98%) CI/CD
2 783 (58.48%) DevOps
3 516 (38.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 463 (34.58%) Agile
5 331 (24.72%) Test Automation
6 321 (23.97%) Observability
7 293 (21.88%) Containerisation
8 259 (19.34%) Microservices
9 255 (19.04%) AI
10 212 (15.83%) Platform Engineering
11 197 (14.71%) Software Engineering
12 188 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 167 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
14 156 (11.65%) Analytics
15 151 (11.28%) Event-Driven
16 128 (9.56%) Migration
17 120 (8.96%) Data Pipeline
18 117 (8.74%) DevSecOps
18 117 (8.74%) Technical Leadership
18 117 (8.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 563 (42.05%) Python
2 313 (23.38%) SQL
3 255 (19.04%) Java
4 191 (14.26%) Bash
5 159 (11.87%) PowerShell
6 133 (9.93%) C#
7 129 (9.63%) TypeScript
8 127 (9.48%) JavaScript
9 80 (5.97%) Bicep
10 43 (3.21%) Kotlin
11 41 (3.06%) Go
12 31 (2.32%) Scala
13 27 (2.02%) Shell Script
14 24 (1.79%) Ruby
15 21 (1.57%) Swift
16 14 (1.05%) Groovy
17 10 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.67%) ActionScript
18 9 (0.67%) Apex Code
18 9 (0.67%) C
Qualifications
1 407 (30.40%) Security Cleared
2 351 (26.21%) SC Cleared
3 55 (4.11%) Degree
4 53 (3.96%) Azure Certification
5 43 (3.21%) DV Cleared
6 40 (2.99%) AWS Certification
7 32 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 13 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.82%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.82%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 7 (0.52%) CISSP
14 7 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.45%) CCNP
15 6 (0.45%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (12.40%) QA
2 73 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 66 (4.93%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.24%) GDPR
5 22 (1.64%) WCAG
6 20 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.82%) NIST
8 10 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.60%) GRC
10 7 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.30%) HL7
12 4 (0.30%) NCSC
13 3 (0.22%) PSD2
14 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.15%) SEPA
14 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.075%) OpenSCAP
15 1 (0.075%) SLA
System Software
1 393 (29.35%) Docker
2 38 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (1.57%) vSphere
6 20 (1.49%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.67%) Hyper-V
9 7 (0.52%) IAG
10 4 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.30%) NFS
11 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.15%) Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.15%) SRDF
11 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.15%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 622 (46.45%) Terraform
2 463 (34.58%) Kubernetes
3 208 (15.53%) Ansible
4 182 (13.59%) Grafana
5 154 (11.50%) Prometheus
6 66 (4.93%) Argo
7 28 (2.09%) Puppet
8 20 (1.49%) vCenter Server
9 18 (1.34%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (1.27%) Istio
11 16 (1.19%) Packer
12 13 (0.97%) Kibana
13 9 (0.67%) HAProxy
13 9 (0.67%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.52%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.45%) Control-M
16 5 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.37%) Podman
Vendors
1 230 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.95%) Splunk
3 92 (6.87%) Databricks
4 89 (6.65%) Google
5 55 (4.11%) Oracle
6 43 (3.21%) Dynatrace
6 43 (3.21%) VMware
7 37 (2.76%) Red Hat
8 30 (2.24%) Salesforce
9 28 (2.09%) OpenAI
10 26 (1.94%) ServiceNow
11 22 (1.64%) Cisco
12 20 (1.49%) Pure Storage
13 19 (1.42%) F5
14 18 (1.34%) Informatica
14 18 (1.34%) Palo Alto
15 16 (1.19%) Checkmarx
15 16 (1.19%) SAP
16 15 (1.12%) Foundry
16 15 (1.12%) IBM