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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 127 170
Rank change year-on-year +48 +43 -51
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,242 524 533
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.10% 2.14% 1.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.71% 5.74% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 367 353
10th Percentile £360 £378 £383
25th Percentile £416 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £622 £625 £623
90th Percentile £700 £750 £685
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 11
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 £22.50
25th Percentile £46.00 £25.72 £39.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £27.38 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +126.48% -59.44% +22.73%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £27.38 £48.50
% change year-on-year +104.57% -43.56% -11.01%

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 14,263 9,136 11,857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.62% 37.34% 31.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,826 6,407 8,539
10th Percentile £315 £313 £288
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £714 £740 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 194 322
10th Percentile £16.15 £15.17 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.03 £18.13 £15.86
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -31.62%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.74 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £41.64 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +51.42% +30.95% -40.00%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +38 715 £550 - 183
North of England +38 211 £490 +3.16% 94
Yorkshire +11 137 £478 -6.25% 33
South East -9 96 £433 -13.50% 109
Midlands +12 88 £500 +5.26% 37
South West +24 73 £525 -6.67% 49
West Midlands +1 70 £525 +13.51% 16
North West -4 64 £538 +13.16% 49
East of England -21 27 £500 -9.09% 44
East Midlands -23 17 £402 -19.60% 21
North East -9 12 £475 +13.43% 12
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 (8.78%) Confluence
2 43 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 30 (2.42%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.21%) Apache
6 14 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.64%) nginx
8 7 (0.56%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
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 17 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.081%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.081%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.32%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.24%) Findur
4 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.081%) Actimize
5 1 (0.081%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.081%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.081%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 647 (52.09%) GitHub Actions
2 584 (47.02%) Azure
3 568 (45.73%) AWS
4 310 (24.96%) Azure DevOps
5 197 (15.86%) Serverless
6 183 (14.73%) GCP
7 137 (11.03%) AWS Lambda
8 115 (9.26%) Amazon S3
9 103 (8.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 96 (7.73%) Amazon EKS
11 92 (7.41%) Power Platform
12 88 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
13 85 (6.84%) Azure Monitor
14 83 (6.68%) Azure Data Factory
15 82 (6.60%) Azure AKS
16 79 (6.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 71 (5.72%) GitHub Copilot
18 64 (5.15%) Entra ID
19 58 (4.67%) OpenShift
20 57 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.91%) Firewall
2 58 (4.67%) DNS
3 36 (2.90%) VPN
4 29 (2.33%) Network Security
5 12 (0.97%) HTTP
6 9 (0.72%) SSL
7 7 (0.56%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.56%) Modbus
7 7 (0.56%) RS-232
7 7 (0.56%) RS-485
7 7 (0.56%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.40%) Internet
8 5 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.32%) DSL
9 4 (0.32%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.32%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.32%) WAN
10 3 (0.24%) BGP
10 3 (0.24%) NAS
10 3 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (11.27%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (6.20%) Data Lake
3 76 (6.12%) NoSQL
4 69 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 59 (4.75%) DynamoDB
5 59 (4.75%) Power BI
6 48 (3.86%) Amazon RDS
7 46 (3.70%) MongoDB
8 44 (3.54%) Relational Database
9 43 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 40 (3.22%) Delta Lake
11 36 (2.90%) Redis
12 29 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
12 29 (2.33%) MySQL
13 26 (2.09%) Big Data
14 22 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
15 20 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (1.61%) Metadata
16 15 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
17 13 (1.05%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 379 (30.52%) Jenkins
2 244 (19.65%) Git
3 234 (18.84%) GitLab
4 162 (13.04%) JIRA
5 86 (6.92%) JUnit
6 54 (4.35%) Cucumber
7 51 (4.11%) Selenium
8 40 (3.22%) Cypress.io
9 37 (2.98%) Artifactory
9 37 (2.98%) Bitbucket
10 35 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
11 34 (2.74%) JMeter
11 34 (2.74%) SonarQube
12 32 (2.58%) CircleCI
12 32 (2.58%) Postman
13 31 (2.50%) Gradle
14 29 (2.33%) Maven
15 26 (2.09%) Gatling
16 20 (1.61%) MLflow
17 19 (1.53%) REST Assured
General
1 296 (23.83%) Social Skills
2 211 (16.99%) Finance
3 148 (11.92%) Public Sector
4 96 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (6.28%) Banking
6 21 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (1.69%) Retail
7 20 (1.61%) Military
8 16 (1.29%) Front Office
9 15 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.05%) Legal
11 12 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.64%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.56%) Law
14 7 (0.56%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.48%) Marketing
16 5 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 251 (20.21%) Developer
2 192 (15.46%) Senior
3 176 (14.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 107 (8.62%) Data Engineer
5 100 (8.05%) Architect
6 89 (7.17%) Lead
7 87 (7.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 84 (6.76%) Platform Engineer
9 76 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
10 69 (5.56%) Java Developer
11 66 (5.31%) Azure Engineer
11 66 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
12 51 (4.11%) Software Engineer
13 48 (3.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 43 (3.46%) GCP Engineer
15 40 (3.22%) Senior Developer
16 38 (3.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 35 (2.82%) AWS DevOps
18 34 (2.74%) Tester
19 32 (2.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (11.11%) Spring
2 136 (10.95%) REST
3 129 (10.39%) Kafka
4 121 (9.74%) React
5 113 (9.10%) .NET
6 107 (8.62%) Node.js
7 106 (8.53%) Spring Boot
8 83 (6.68%) RESTful
9 68 (5.48%) Playwright
10 57 (4.59%) PySpark
11 51 (4.11%) AngularJS
12 39 (3.14%) OAuth
13 37 (2.98%) OpenTelemetry
14 36 (2.90%) HTML
14 36 (2.90%) JSON
15 35 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
16 34 (2.74%) Jest
17 33 (2.66%) CSS
18 32 (2.58%) .NET Framework
19 28 (2.25%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 223 (17.95%) Cloud Native
2 83 (6.68%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (4.43%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (2.01%) Onboarding
5 25 (2.01%) Public Cloud
6 24 (1.93%) AI Agents
7 18 (1.45%) Mobile App
7 18 (1.45%) Security Posture
8 17 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.37%) Virtual Team
9 15 (1.21%) NHS
9 15 (1.21%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (0.97%) Data Centre
12 11 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
12 11 (0.89%) Replication
13 10 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 142 (11.43%) Linux
2 50 (4.03%) Windows
3 30 (2.42%) Unix
4 22 (1.77%) Android
5 18 (1.45%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.13%) VMS
7 12 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.72%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.56%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.32%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.24%) Debian
11 3 (0.24%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.24%) Rocky
12 2 (0.16%) AIX
12 2 (0.16%) CentOS
13 1 (0.081%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 925 (74.48%) CI/CD
2 724 (58.29%) DevOps
3 466 (37.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 386 (31.08%) Agile
5 297 (23.91%) Containerisation
6 270 (21.74%) Test Automation
7 240 (19.32%) Observability
8 221 (17.79%) AI
9 220 (17.71%) Microservices
10 193 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
11 188 (15.14%) Platform Engineering
12 180 (14.49%) Analytics
13 167 (13.45%) Migration
14 149 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 137 (11.03%) Software Engineering
16 124 (9.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 122 (9.82%) Data Engineering
17 122 (9.82%) Data Pipeline
17 122 (9.82%) Full-Stack Development
18 115 (9.26%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 577 (46.46%) Python
2 298 (23.99%) SQL
3 253 (20.37%) Java
4 157 (12.64%) Bash
5 155 (12.48%) JavaScript
6 137 (11.03%) C#
7 123 (9.90%) PowerShell
8 116 (9.34%) TypeScript
9 65 (5.23%) Bicep
10 52 (4.19%) Go
11 33 (2.66%) Shell Script
12 30 (2.42%) Scala
13 24 (1.93%) Ruby
14 22 (1.77%) Kotlin
15 15 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (0.97%) Swift
17 10 (0.81%) C++
18 8 (0.64%) C
18 8 (0.64%) Groovy
18 8 (0.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 382 (30.76%) Security Cleared
2 310 (24.96%) SC Cleared
3 55 (4.43%) Degree
4 44 (3.54%) Azure Certification
5 36 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 32 (2.58%) AWS Certification
7 17 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.13%) Master's Degree
9 12 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (0.81%) OCP
10 10 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
11 9 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 8 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (0.64%) CISSP
13 6 (0.48%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.40%) CCNP
15 4 (0.32%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (8.37%) QA
2 70 (5.64%) Data Quality
3 42 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.09%) GDPR
5 20 (1.61%) WCAG
6 19 (1.53%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.05%) NIST
9 11 (0.89%) NCSC
10 7 (0.56%) GRC
11 6 (0.48%) SLA
12 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.24%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.16%) PSD2
13 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 377 (30.35%) Docker
2 33 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (2.58%) Active Directory
4 23 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.69%) VMware NSX
5 21 (1.69%) vSphere
6 7 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.56%) Firmware
7 4 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.24%) HDFS
9 1 (0.081%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.081%) IAG
9 1 (0.081%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.081%) NFS
9 1 (0.081%) SRDF
9 1 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 576 (46.38%) Terraform
2 464 (37.36%) Kubernetes
3 187 (15.06%) Ansible
4 127 (10.23%) Grafana
5 93 (7.49%) Prometheus
6 65 (5.23%) Argo
7 36 (2.90%) Istio
8 23 (1.85%) Puppet
9 21 (1.69%) vCenter Server
10 19 (1.53%) Progress Chef
11 16 (1.29%) Packer
12 15 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
13 10 (0.81%) Kibana
14 9 (0.72%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.72%) linkerd
14 9 (0.72%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.40%) Rancher
16 4 (0.32%) Podman
17 3 (0.24%) Karpenter
17 3 (0.24%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 237 (19.08%) Microsoft
2 107 (8.62%) Databricks
3 90 (7.25%) Google
4 80 (6.44%) Splunk
5 49 (3.95%) VMware
6 47 (3.78%) Oracle
7 43 (3.46%) OpenAI
8 34 (2.74%) Red Hat
9 21 (1.69%) Pure Storage
10 19 (1.53%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.53%) Dynatrace
11 17 (1.37%) ServiceNow
12 16 (1.29%) Salesforce
13 14 (1.13%) Checkmarx
13 14 (1.13%) SAP
14 13 (1.05%) Sonatype
15 12 (0.97%) Informatica
16 9 (0.72%) Cisco
16 9 (0.72%) Cloudera
17 8 (0.64%) Foundry