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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 128 166
Rank change year-on-year +47 +38 -40
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,239 527 543
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.98% 2.21% 1.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.51% 5.92% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 358 353
10th Percentile £366 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £622
90th Percentile £700 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £512 £520 £530
% change year-on-year -1.56% -1.91% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 22
10th Percentile £45.63 - £32.80
25th Percentile £52.11 £25.25 £66.44
Median hourly rate £63.14 £27.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +129.58% -60.71% +27.27%
75th Percentile £72.46 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £74.10 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.57 £27.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +127.52% -60.71% +27.27%

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 14,551 8,905 11,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.37% 32.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,936 6,160 8,458
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -0.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 487 194 323
10th Percentile £15.40 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.90 £18.13 £15.87
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -37.15%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.13 £36.56
90th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £66.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.88 £21.37
% change year-on-year +29.12% +30.46% -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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +35 712 £550 - 211
North of England +24 223 £488 +1.04% 149
Yorkshire +13 152 £482 -7.26% 56
Midlands -8 85 £500 +3.09% 37
South West +28 78 £500 -9.09% 51
South East -34 78 £500 - 86
West Midlands -9 72 £500 +3.09% 15
North West -11 62 £538 +13.16% 74
East of England -16 31 £500 -9.09% 21
North East -17 14 £463 +10.45% 20
East Midlands -22 12 £413 -15.38% 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
1 104 (8.39%) Confluence
2 43 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.18%) SharePoint
5 16 (1.29%) Apache
6 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.32%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
9 2 (0.16%) SAS
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.081%) Appian
10 1 (0.081%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.081%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.05%) 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%) Notion
6 1 (0.081%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.081%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.32%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.24%) Findur
3 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.081%) Actimize
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 (52.38%) GitHub Actions
2 577 (46.57%) Azure
3 567 (45.76%) AWS
4 310 (25.02%) Azure DevOps
5 189 (15.25%) Serverless
6 185 (14.93%) GCP
7 133 (10.73%) AWS Lambda
8 116 (9.36%) Amazon S3
9 98 (7.91%) Amazon EKS
9 98 (7.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 90 (7.26%) Power Platform
11 82 (6.62%) Amazon ECS
12 81 (6.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 78 (6.30%) Azure Data Factory
14 75 (6.05%) GitHub Copilot
15 70 (5.65%) Azure AKS
16 68 (5.49%) Azure Monitor
17 66 (5.33%) Amazon EC2
18 55 (4.44%) AWS CodePipeline
19 54 (4.36%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 63 (5.08%) DNS
2 60 (4.84%) Firewall
3 36 (2.91%) VPN
4 24 (1.94%) Network Security
5 11 (0.89%) SSL
6 10 (0.81%) HTTP
7 9 (0.73%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.48%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.48%) Modbus
8 6 (0.48%) RS-232
8 6 (0.48%) RS-485
9 5 (0.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 4 (0.32%) DSL
10 4 (0.32%) Internet
10 4 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.32%) WAN
11 3 (0.24%) BGP
11 3 (0.24%) BIG-IP
11 3 (0.24%) VLAN
11 3 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (9.12%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (6.30%) Data Lake
2 78 (6.30%) SQL Server
3 64 (5.17%) NoSQL
4 61 (4.92%) Power BI
5 58 (4.68%) MongoDB
6 49 (3.95%) DynamoDB
7 43 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 43 (3.47%) Delta Lake
8 42 (3.39%) Redis
9 41 (3.31%) Relational Database
10 40 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
12 25 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
12 25 (2.02%) Big Data
13 22 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
13 22 (1.78%) Metadata
14 19 (1.53%) MySQL
15 18 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 382 (30.83%) Jenkins
2 253 (20.42%) GitLab
3 237 (19.13%) Git
4 151 (12.19%) JIRA
5 75 (6.05%) JUnit
6 58 (4.68%) Selenium
7 45 (3.63%) Cucumber
8 39 (3.15%) Cypress.io
9 36 (2.91%) Gatling
9 36 (2.91%) Gradle
9 36 (2.91%) SonarQube
10 34 (2.74%) Bitbucket
10 34 (2.74%) CircleCI
10 34 (2.74%) JMeter
11 33 (2.66%) Maven
12 31 (2.50%) Postman
12 31 (2.50%) REST Assured
13 27 (2.18%) Artifactory
14 22 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
15 21 (1.69%) Mockito
General
1 288 (23.24%) Social Skills
2 206 (16.63%) Finance
3 140 (11.30%) Public Sector
4 97 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (6.46%) Banking
6 23 (1.86%) Retail
7 21 (1.69%) Military
8 17 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (1.29%) Legal
10 13 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (0.97%) Front Office
12 10 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (0.73%) Law
14 8 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.56%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.56%) Marketing
16 5 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.32%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 242 (19.53%) Developer
2 198 (15.98%) Senior
3 164 (13.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 113 (9.12%) Data Engineer
5 106 (8.56%) Architect
6 96 (7.75%) Lead
7 76 (6.13%) Cloud Engineer
8 71 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
9 60 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
9 60 (4.84%) Java Developer
10 59 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
11 51 (4.12%) Full-Stack Developer
11 51 (4.12%) Senior Developer
12 50 (4.04%) Software Engineer
13 44 (3.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 42 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 41 (3.31%) GCP Engineer
16 37 (2.99%) Test Engineer
17 32 (2.58%) Tester
18 30 (2.42%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (10.73%) REST
1 133 (10.73%) Spring
2 129 (10.41%) Kafka
3 108 (8.72%) Spring Boot
4 106 (8.56%) React
5 104 (8.39%) .NET
6 88 (7.10%) RESTful
7 85 (6.86%) Node.js
8 72 (5.81%) Playwright
9 64 (5.17%) PySpark
10 44 (3.55%) OpenTelemetry
11 40 (3.23%) AngularJS
12 34 (2.74%) HTML
12 34 (2.74%) JSON
12 34 (2.74%) OAuth
13 33 (2.66%) .NET Framework
13 33 (2.66%) GraphQL
13 33 (2.66%) YAML
14 31 (2.50%) FastAPI
15 29 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 223 (18.00%) Cloud Native
2 83 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 28 (2.26%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (1.78%) Public Cloud
7 21 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 20 (1.61%) Data Centre
8 20 (1.61%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.21%) Private Cloud
10 15 (1.21%) Security Posture
11 14 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.05%) NHS
13 12 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (0.89%) Data Structures
14 11 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
14 11 (0.89%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 134 (10.82%) Linux
2 54 (4.36%) Windows
3 28 (2.26%) Unix
4 25 (2.02%) Android
5 21 (1.69%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.29%) VMS
7 15 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.89%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.40%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.32%) Debian
11 4 (0.32%) Rocky
12 3 (0.24%) CentOS
13 2 (0.16%) AIX
13 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.081%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.081%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.081%) MVS
14 1 (0.081%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 928 (74.90%) CI/CD
2 717 (57.87%) DevOps
3 474 (38.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 366 (29.54%) Agile
5 281 (22.68%) Containerisation
5 281 (22.68%) Test Automation
6 255 (20.58%) Observability
7 218 (17.59%) Microservices
8 203 (16.38%) AI
9 189 (15.25%) Platform Engineering
10 173 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
11 164 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 159 (12.83%) Analytics
13 156 (12.59%) Migration
14 147 (11.86%) Software Engineering
15 124 (10.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 122 (9.85%) Data Pipeline
17 120 (9.69%) Data Engineering
18 114 (9.20%) Event-Driven
19 111 (8.96%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 542 (43.74%) Python
2 304 (24.54%) SQL
3 251 (20.26%) Java
4 157 (12.67%) Bash
5 141 (11.38%) JavaScript
6 131 (10.57%) C#
7 129 (10.41%) PowerShell
8 110 (8.88%) TypeScript
9 65 (5.25%) Bicep
10 42 (3.39%) Go
11 35 (2.82%) Scala
12 34 (2.74%) Shell Script
13 28 (2.26%) Kotlin
14 25 (2.02%) Ruby
15 15 (1.21%) Swift
16 10 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.65%) C++
17 8 (0.65%) Groovy
18 7 (0.56%) C
18 7 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 376 (30.35%) Security Cleared
2 302 (24.37%) SC Cleared
3 51 (4.12%) Degree
4 41 (3.31%) DV Cleared
5 38 (3.07%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 32 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.34%) AWS Certification
9 20 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.89%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 7 (0.56%) OCP
15 7 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (0.48%) CISSP
16 6 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (9.77%) QA
2 73 (5.89%) Data Quality
3 54 (4.36%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.94%) GDPR
5 21 (1.69%) WCAG
6 19 (1.53%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.97%) NIST
9 8 (0.65%) NCSC
10 6 (0.48%) GRC
10 6 (0.48%) 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
1 369 (29.78%) Docker
2 29 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (1.53%) VMware NSX
5 19 (1.53%) vSphere
6 10 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.48%) Firmware
8 5 (0.40%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.16%) HDFS
9 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.16%) NFS
9 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.081%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.081%) IAG
10 1 (0.081%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.081%) SRDF
10 1 (0.081%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 576 (46.49%) Terraform
2 443 (35.75%) Kubernetes
3 188 (15.17%) Ansible
4 144 (11.62%) Grafana
5 121 (9.77%) Prometheus
6 58 (4.68%) Argo
7 31 (2.50%) Istio
8 28 (2.26%) Puppet
9 19 (1.53%) vCenter Server
10 15 (1.21%) Packer
10 15 (1.21%) Progress Chef
11 13 (1.05%) Kibana
12 12 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.73%) HAProxy
13 9 (0.73%) NetBackup
14 8 (0.65%) linkerd
15 4 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
15 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.32%) Podman
15 4 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 222 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 101 (8.15%) Databricks
3 87 (7.02%) Google
4 81 (6.54%) Splunk
5 53 (4.28%) Oracle
6 43 (3.47%) VMware
7 35 (2.82%) OpenAI
7 35 (2.82%) Red Hat
8 23 (1.86%) Dynatrace
9 19 (1.53%) Pure Storage
10 18 (1.45%) Salesforce
11 16 (1.29%) Informatica
12 15 (1.21%) ServiceNow
13 14 (1.13%) Atlassian
13 14 (1.13%) Checkmarx
14 12 (0.97%) Foundry
14 12 (0.97%) SAP
15 11 (0.89%) Cisco
15 11 (0.89%) IBM
16 10 (0.81%) Sonatype