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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 129 167
Rank change year-on-year +48 +38 -42
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,215 522 532
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.98% 2.16% 1.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.48% 5.81% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 362 348
10th Percentile £363 £389 £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 £622
90th Percentile £700 £748 £679
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% -0.05% -12.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 19
10th Percentile £48.00 £25.25 £29.50
25th Percentile £58.43 £25.72 £66.63
Median hourly rate £63.14 £27.38 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.63% -60.89% +28.44%
75th Percentile £74.00 £58.44 -
90th Percentile £74.20 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £27.38 £70.00
% change year-on-year +130.63% -60.89% +28.44%

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 14,332 8,992 11,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.19% 37.16% 31.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,816 6,239 8,405
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £633 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.97% -1.97% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 195 324
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.40 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -35.19%
75th Percentile £67.67 £38.13 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.00 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.54 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +36.51% +28.69% -38.94%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +40 708 £550 - 215
North of England +27 208 £488 -0.51% 163
Yorkshire +16 137 £477 -8.23% 63
Midlands +3 89 £500 +1.01% 57
South West +30 76 £500 -6.98% 55
West Midlands -3 73 £505 +2.02% 20
South East -27 73 £500 - 131
North West -6 61 £538 +13.16% 79
East of England -19 27 £500 -9.09% 44
East Midlands -17 15 £402 -17.54% 37
North East -11 13 £475 +13.43% 22
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
1 106 (8.72%) Confluence
2 39 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (2.47%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.22%) SharePoint
5 16 (1.32%) Apache
6 12 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.58%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
9 2 (0.16%) SAS
10 1 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.082%) Appian
10 1 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.082%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.082%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.082%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.082%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (0.33%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.25%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.25%) Findur
2 3 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.082%) Actimize
4 1 (0.082%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.082%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.082%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.082%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.082%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 639 (52.59%) GitHub Actions
2 570 (46.91%) Azure
3 546 (44.94%) AWS
4 301 (24.77%) Azure DevOps
5 184 (15.14%) GCP
6 183 (15.06%) Serverless
7 125 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
8 113 (9.30%) Amazon S3
9 102 (8.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 100 (8.23%) Amazon EKS
11 92 (7.57%) Power Platform
12 86 (7.08%) Amazon ECS
13 78 (6.42%) GitHub Copilot
14 77 (6.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 77 (6.34%) Azure Data Factory
15 75 (6.17%) Azure AKS
16 70 (5.76%) Azure Monitor
17 65 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
18 55 (4.53%) Entra ID
19 54 (4.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 59 (4.86%) DNS
1 59 (4.86%) Firewall
2 36 (2.96%) VPN
3 25 (2.06%) Network Security
4 10 (0.82%) HTTP
5 7 (0.58%) Ethernet
5 7 (0.58%) Modbus
5 7 (0.58%) RS-232
5 7 (0.58%) RS-485
5 7 (0.58%) SSL
5 7 (0.58%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.33%) DSL
6 4 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.33%) WAN
7 3 (0.25%) BGP
7 3 (0.25%) Internet
7 3 (0.25%) NAS
7 3 (0.25%) SAN
7 3 (0.25%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.16%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (6.34%) Data Lake
3 76 (6.26%) SQL Server
4 64 (5.27%) Power BI
5 61 (5.02%) NoSQL
6 51 (4.20%) MongoDB
7 46 (3.79%) DynamoDB
8 42 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 41 (3.37%) Redis
9 41 (3.37%) Relational Database
10 40 (3.29%) Delta Lake
11 37 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (2.14%) Big Data
12 26 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
13 24 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
14 21 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
14 21 (1.73%) Metadata
15 19 (1.56%) MySQL
16 15 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
17 14 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 365 (30.04%) Jenkins
2 247 (20.33%) GitLab
3 234 (19.26%) Git
4 151 (12.43%) JIRA
5 73 (6.01%) JUnit
6 49 (4.03%) Selenium
7 43 (3.54%) Cucumber
8 35 (2.88%) CircleCI
8 35 (2.88%) Cypress.io
9 34 (2.80%) Gradle
9 34 (2.80%) SonarQube
10 33 (2.72%) Gatling
10 33 (2.72%) Maven
11 32 (2.63%) JMeter
12 31 (2.55%) Bitbucket
13 29 (2.39%) Artifactory
14 27 (2.22%) Postman
15 25 (2.06%) REST Assured
16 21 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
17 20 (1.65%) MLflow
General
1 287 (23.62%) Social Skills
2 205 (16.87%) Finance
3 140 (11.52%) Public Sector
4 95 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (6.34%) Banking
6 21 (1.73%) Military
6 21 (1.73%) Retail
7 17 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.23%) Legal
9 14 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (1.07%) Front Office
10 13 (1.07%) Investment Banking
11 12 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.58%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.49%) Law
16 5 (0.41%) Marketing
17 4 (0.33%) Automotive
17 4 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 233 (19.18%) Developer
2 197 (16.21%) Senior
3 167 (13.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 111 (9.14%) Data Engineer
5 102 (8.40%) Architect
6 89 (7.33%) Lead
7 80 (6.58%) Cloud Engineer
8 74 (6.09%) Platform Engineer
9 63 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
10 61 (5.02%) AWS Engineer
11 55 (4.53%) Java Developer
12 51 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
13 50 (4.12%) Software Engineer
14 48 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 47 (3.87%) Senior Developer
16 44 (3.62%) GCP Engineer
17 40 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 32 (2.63%) Tester
19 30 (2.47%) Senior DevOps
19 30 (2.47%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (10.70%) REST
2 129 (10.62%) Kafka
3 128 (10.53%) Spring
4 107 (8.81%) .NET
5 103 (8.48%) React
6 101 (8.31%) Spring Boot
7 90 (7.41%) Node.js
8 78 (6.42%) RESTful
9 69 (5.68%) Playwright
10 62 (5.10%) PySpark
11 40 (3.29%) OpenTelemetry
12 39 (3.21%) AngularJS
13 33 (2.72%) .NET Framework
14 32 (2.63%) JSON
15 31 (2.55%) YAML
16 30 (2.47%) HTML
17 29 (2.39%) FastAPI
18 28 (2.30%) Jest
19 27 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
19 27 (2.22%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 230 (18.93%) Cloud Native
2 84 (6.91%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (5.35%) Product Ownership
4 27 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (2.06%) Onboarding
5 25 (2.06%) Public Cloud
6 21 (1.73%) AI Agents
7 18 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (1.48%) Mobile App
8 16 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (1.32%) Security Posture
9 15 (1.23%) Data Centre
9 15 (1.23%) Private Cloud
10 14 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.07%) NHS
12 12 (0.99%) Virtual Team
13 11 (0.91%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.82%) Replication
15 9 (0.74%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 135 (11.11%) Linux
2 53 (4.36%) Windows
3 28 (2.30%) Unix
4 24 (1.98%) Android
5 19 (1.56%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.32%) VMS
7 14 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.82%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.58%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.41%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.33%) Debian
11 4 (0.33%) Rocky
12 3 (0.25%) CentOS
13 2 (0.16%) AIX
13 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.082%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.082%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.082%) MVS
14 1 (0.082%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 907 (74.65%) CI/CD
2 702 (57.78%) DevOps
3 470 (38.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 368 (30.29%) Agile
5 288 (23.70%) Containerisation
6 270 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 242 (19.92%) Observability
8 209 (17.20%) Microservices
9 203 (16.71%) AI
10 186 (15.31%) Platform Engineering
11 180 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
12 162 (13.33%) Analytics
13 161 (13.25%) Migration
14 150 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
15 142 (11.69%) Software Engineering
16 125 (10.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 122 (10.04%) Data Engineering
18 120 (9.88%) Data Pipeline
19 110 (9.05%) Data Modelling
20 107 (8.81%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 536 (44.12%) Python
2 287 (23.62%) SQL
3 237 (19.51%) Java
4 156 (12.84%) Bash
5 142 (11.69%) JavaScript
6 132 (10.86%) C#
7 127 (10.45%) PowerShell
8 106 (8.72%) TypeScript
9 63 (5.19%) Bicep
10 47 (3.87%) Go
11 34 (2.80%) Scala
12 33 (2.72%) Shell Script
13 24 (1.98%) Kotlin
13 24 (1.98%) Ruby
14 13 (1.07%) Swift
15 12 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (0.82%) C++
17 8 (0.66%) C
17 8 (0.66%) Groovy
18 7 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 371 (30.53%) Security Cleared
2 301 (24.77%) SC Cleared
3 51 (4.20%) Degree
4 40 (3.29%) Azure Certification
5 36 (2.96%) DV Cleared
6 35 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 33 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (2.30%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.07%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.82%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 8 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (0.58%) CISSP
14 7 (0.58%) OCP
14 7 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.49%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (8.81%) QA
2 66 (5.43%) Data Quality
3 49 (4.03%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.98%) GDPR
5 20 (1.65%) PCI DSS
5 20 (1.65%) WCAG
6 19 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.07%) NIST
8 9 (0.74%) NCSC
9 7 (0.58%) GRC
10 6 (0.49%) SLA
11 4 (0.33%) PSD2
11 4 (0.33%) SEPA
12 3 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.25%) 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
1 370 (30.45%) Docker
2 31 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
3 28 (2.30%) Active Directory
4 21 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (1.56%) VMware NSX
5 19 (1.56%) vSphere
6 9 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.58%) Firmware
8 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.25%) HDFS
10 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.16%) NFS
10 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.082%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.082%) IAG
11 1 (0.082%) ISA Server
11 1 (0.082%) SRDF
11 1 (0.082%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 572 (47.08%) Terraform
2 441 (36.30%) Kubernetes
3 184 (15.14%) Ansible
4 132 (10.86%) Grafana
5 106 (8.72%) Prometheus
6 62 (5.10%) Argo
7 35 (2.88%) Istio
8 27 (2.22%) Puppet
9 19 (1.56%) vCenter Server
10 15 (1.23%) Packer
11 14 (1.15%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.91%) Kibana
13 10 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.74%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.74%) NetBackup
15 8 (0.66%) linkerd
16 5 (0.41%) Podman
17 4 (0.33%) Rancher
18 3 (0.25%) Karpenter
18 3 (0.25%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 227 (18.68%) Microsoft
2 98 (8.07%) Databricks
3 86 (7.08%) Google
4 75 (6.17%) Splunk
5 50 (4.12%) Oracle
6 42 (3.46%) VMware
7 34 (2.80%) OpenAI
8 32 (2.63%) Red Hat
9 25 (2.06%) Dynatrace
10 19 (1.56%) Pure Storage
11 16 (1.32%) Salesforce
12 15 (1.23%) Atlassian
12 15 (1.23%) Informatica
13 14 (1.15%) ServiceNow
14 13 (1.07%) Checkmarx
15 12 (0.99%) SAP
16 11 (0.91%) Sonatype
17 10 (0.82%) Cisco
18 9 (0.74%) AppDynamics
18 9 (0.74%) IBM