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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 124 169
Rank change year-on-year +57 +45 -43
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,205 553 524
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.53% 2.12% 1.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.35% 5.66% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 375 375
10th Percentile £354 £325 £413
25th Percentile £411 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% -1.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £695 £684
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 1
10th Percentile £40.00 £22.33 -
25th Percentile £44.50 £25.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £56.25 £27.38 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +105.48% -43.56% -10.19%
75th Percentile £74.00 £57.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £84.80 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £44.25
% change year-on-year +82.65% -38.14% -18.06%

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 12,882 9,767 12,510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.74% 37.48% 33.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 6,533 9,091
10th Percentile £305 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 141 301
10th Percentile £14.49 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%
75th Percentile £59.48 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.43 £22.50
% change year-on-year +31.27% +21.89% -10.00%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 13 February 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 +43 691 £550 - 186
North of England +31 194 £485 +2.05% 138
Yorkshire -1 109 £481 +1.26% 62
South East +33 107 £450 -4.26% 151
Midlands +20 86 £550 +10.55% 61
South West +16 75 £550 -15.38% 59
North West +12 72 £440 -7.37% 61
West Midlands +11 70 £578 +16.67% 28
East of England -12 19 £550 +72.96% 58
North East +1 17 £545 +50.34% 16
East Midlands -15 16 £402 -19.60% 34
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 (8.63%) Confluence
2 52 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (2.16%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.83%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.91%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.75%) nginx
7 8 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.58%) Apache
9 4 (0.33%) CMS
10 3 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.17%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.17%) Mule
11 2 (0.17%) SAS
11 2 (0.17%) Traefik
11 2 (0.17%) WordPress
12 1 (0.083%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.083%) Appian
12 1 (0.083%) Luigi
12 1 (0.083%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 28 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.41%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.083%) InDesign
6 1 (0.083%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.58%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.083%) Actimize
3 1 (0.083%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.083%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.083%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.083%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.083%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.083%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 604 (50.12%) GitHub Actions
2 543 (45.06%) AWS
3 537 (44.56%) Azure
4 254 (21.08%) Azure DevOps
5 187 (15.52%) GCP
6 182 (15.10%) Serverless
7 116 (9.63%) AWS Lambda
8 109 (9.05%) Amazon S3
9 104 (8.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 98 (8.13%) Amazon EKS
11 86 (7.14%) Power Platform
12 84 (6.97%) Amazon ECS
13 79 (6.56%) OpenShift
14 71 (5.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 69 (5.73%) Azure AKS
16 67 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
17 65 (5.39%) Azure Data Factory
17 65 (5.39%) Entra ID
18 61 (5.06%) Azure Monitor
19 50 (4.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 52 (4.32%) Firewall
2 47 (3.90%) DNS
3 27 (2.24%) Network Security
4 25 (2.07%) VPN
5 12 (1.00%) HTTP
6 10 (0.83%) SSL
6 10 (0.83%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.66%) Kerberos
7 8 (0.66%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.66%) WAN
8 7 (0.58%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.58%) Modbus
8 7 (0.58%) RS-232
8 7 (0.58%) RS-485
9 5 (0.41%) Internet
9 5 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.17%) Calico
10 2 (0.17%) DSL
11 1 (0.083%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.083%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (13.44%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (6.47%) NoSQL
3 63 (5.23%) MongoDB
4 61 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
5 54 (4.48%) Data Lake
6 53 (4.40%) SQL Server
7 49 (4.07%) Power BI
8 48 (3.98%) DynamoDB
8 48 (3.98%) Relational Database
9 39 (3.24%) Redis
10 36 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
10 36 (2.99%) MySQL
11 28 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
12 24 (1.99%) Delta Lake
13 19 (1.58%) BigQuery
14 17 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
14 17 (1.41%) Big Data
14 17 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
15 15 (1.24%) Amazon QuickSight
15 15 (1.24%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 351 (29.13%) Jenkins
2 228 (18.92%) Git
3 216 (17.93%) GitLab
4 166 (13.78%) JIRA
5 73 (6.06%) JUnit
6 59 (4.90%) Sonatype Nexus
7 45 (3.73%) Artifactory
8 40 (3.32%) CircleCI
8 40 (3.32%) Cucumber
9 39 (3.24%) Gradle
10 38 (3.15%) Cypress.io
11 37 (3.07%) Bitbucket
12 36 (2.99%) SonarQube
13 35 (2.90%) Selenium
14 33 (2.74%) Postman
15 28 (2.32%) JMeter
16 27 (2.24%) Maven
17 15 (1.24%) MLflow
17 15 (1.24%) Snyk
18 14 (1.16%) Gatling
General
1 293 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 183 (15.19%) Finance
3 151 (12.53%) Public Sector
4 84 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (6.97%) Banking
5 21 (1.74%) Military
6 18 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (1.33%) Retail
8 15 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
9 14 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (1.08%) Front Office
10 13 (1.08%) Investment Banking
11 9 (0.75%) Marketing
11 9 (0.75%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.50%) Games
12 6 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.41%) Billing
13 5 (0.41%) Law
13 5 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 279 (23.15%) Developer
2 191 (15.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 183 (15.19%) Senior
4 97 (8.05%) Data Engineer
5 87 (7.22%) Lead
6 82 (6.80%) AWS Engineer
7 81 (6.72%) Cloud Engineer
8 77 (6.39%) Full-Stack Developer
9 75 (6.22%) Architect
10 69 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
11 62 (5.15%) Java Developer
12 57 (4.73%) Azure Engineer
13 52 (4.32%) Software Engineer
14 47 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
15 46 (3.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 42 (3.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 42 (3.49%) Senior Developer
17 38 (3.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 33 (2.74%) Senior Data Engineer
19 30 (2.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (12.20%) Kafka
2 143 (11.87%) REST
3 127 (10.54%) React
4 123 (10.21%) Node.js
5 116 (9.63%) Spring
6 110 (9.13%) .NET
7 86 (7.14%) Spring Boot
8 85 (7.05%) RESTful
9 70 (5.81%) AngularJS
10 62 (5.15%) CSS
11 59 (4.90%) Playwright
12 55 (4.56%) HTML
13 52 (4.32%) Elastic Stack
14 51 (4.23%) OAuth
15 41 (3.40%) PySpark
15 41 (3.40%) PyTorch
16 40 (3.32%) JSON
17 39 (3.24%) FastAPI
18 37 (3.07%) GraphQL
18 37 (3.07%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 190 (15.77%) Cloud Native
2 43 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (3.49%) Product Ownership
4 32 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.24%) Public Cloud
6 22 (1.83%) Algorithms
7 20 (1.66%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.41%) AI Agents
9 17 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.41%) Virtual Team
10 15 (1.24%) Life Science
11 14 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (1.16%) Replication
12 13 (1.08%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.08%) Private Cloud
12 13 (1.08%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.00%) Genomics
13 12 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
13 12 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 164 (13.61%) Linux
2 41 (3.40%) Windows
3 29 (2.41%) Android
4 27 (2.24%) Unix
5 18 (1.49%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.24%) VMS
7 13 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.58%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (0.41%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.33%) CentOS
10 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.25%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.17%) Solaris
12 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.083%) Debian
13 1 (0.083%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 862 (71.54%) CI/CD
2 708 (58.76%) DevOps
3 426 (35.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 381 (31.62%) Agile
5 311 (25.81%) Containerisation
6 240 (19.92%) Test Automation
7 237 (19.67%) AI
8 226 (18.76%) Problem-Solving
9 216 (17.93%) Microservices
10 202 (16.76%) Observability
11 173 (14.36%) Migration
12 142 (11.78%) Analytics
13 141 (11.70%) Full-Stack Development
14 139 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
15 123 (10.21%) Software Engineering
16 122 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
17 121 (10.04%) Data Pipeline
18 102 (8.46%) Data Engineering
19 101 (8.38%) DevSecOps
19 101 (8.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 564 (46.80%) Python
2 273 (22.66%) SQL
3 243 (20.17%) Java
4 168 (13.94%) JavaScript
5 144 (11.95%) TypeScript
6 140 (11.62%) Bash
7 105 (8.71%) PowerShell
8 99 (8.22%) C#
9 74 (6.14%) Go
10 52 (4.32%) Bicep
11 31 (2.57%) Shell Script
12 25 (2.07%) Ruby
13 17 (1.41%) Kotlin
14 14 (1.16%) PHP
15 13 (1.08%) Scala
16 12 (1.00%) C++
16 12 (1.00%) Groovy
17 9 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.66%) Korn
18 8 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 355 (29.46%) Security Cleared
2 273 (22.66%) SC Cleared
3 81 (6.72%) Degree
4 53 (4.40%) DV Cleared
5 46 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (3.24%) Azure Certification
7 34 (2.82%) AWS Certification
8 27 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 15 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.75%) CISSP
11 9 (0.75%) OCP
11 9 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (0.66%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 7 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.33%) CTC Cleared
14 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (6.64%) QA
2 54 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 51 (4.23%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.41%) NIST
5 23 (1.91%) NCSC
6 22 (1.83%) WCAG
7 21 (1.74%) GDPR
8 16 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (1.24%) EU AI Act
10 12 (1.00%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.58%) SLA
12 5 (0.41%) GRC
12 5 (0.41%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.25%) Def Stans
13 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.17%) ISO 8583
14 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 2 (0.17%) MiFID
14 2 (0.17%) PSD2
14 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 384 (31.87%) Docker
2 34 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
3 33 (2.74%) Active Directory
4 20 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (1.16%) vSphere
6 13 (1.08%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.58%) Firmware
8 6 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.25%) HDFS
9 3 (0.25%) QEMU
10 2 (0.17%) NFS
10 2 (0.17%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.083%) etcd
11 1 (0.083%) ISA Server
11 1 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 525 (43.57%) Terraform
2 465 (38.59%) Kubernetes
3 176 (14.61%) Ansible
4 133 (11.04%) Grafana
5 96 (7.97%) Prometheus
6 69 (5.73%) Argo
7 37 (3.07%) Istio
8 26 (2.16%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.66%) Puppet
10 13 (1.08%) vCenter Server
11 12 (1.00%) Kibana
11 12 (1.00%) Podman
12 11 (0.91%) Packer
13 9 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.58%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.58%) Sysdig
15 6 (0.50%) linkerd
16 5 (0.41%) logstash
17 4 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
17 4 (0.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 198 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 99 (8.22%) Google
3 81 (6.72%) Databricks
4 73 (6.06%) Splunk
5 53 (4.40%) VMware
6 45 (3.73%) OpenAI
7 42 (3.49%) Red Hat
8 41 (3.40%) Oracle
9 20 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.58%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.58%) Foundry
11 18 (1.49%) Sonatype
12 13 (1.08%) Dynatrace
12 13 (1.08%) Pure Storage
13 12 (1.00%) Salesforce
14 8 (0.66%) NetApp
14 8 (0.66%) New Relic
14 8 (0.66%) Okta
14 8 (0.66%) SAP
15 7 (0.58%) Veracode