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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 95 131
Rank change year-on-year +8 +36 +10
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,376 736 615
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.02% 2.70% 1.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.68% 7.23% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 944 508 414
10th Percentile £388 £363 £310
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -2.14% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £709 £725 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 32
10th Percentile £46.25 - £66.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.03% +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% -9.68%

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 15,845 10,186 11,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.72% 37.42% 34.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,613 6,888 7,730
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £639
90th Percentile £719 £733 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 261 189
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.38 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £34.18 £26.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -11.83% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £44.09 £59.95
90th Percentile £82.43 £71.45 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £29.16 £30.00
% change year-on-year +16.56% -2.80% -14.29%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +14 814 £550 - 905
North of England +9 253 £500 +5.26% 218
Yorkshire +20 172 £500 - 78
Midlands +3 110 £488 -6.25% 96
West Midlands -2 93 £496 -9.80% 41
South East -38 85 £525 +16.67% 183
South West -19 62 £525 -12.50% 92
North West -33 60 £550 +25.00% 108
East of England +3 33 £500 -7.41% 79
North East -23 23 £450 - 34
East Midlands -10 17 £400 -19.19% 55
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
1 112 (8.14%) Confluence
2 53 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (2.62%) SharePoint
4 25 (1.82%) Apache Spark
5 22 (1.60%) Apache
6 9 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.58%) nginx
8 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.44%) Tuxedo
10 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.22%) CMS
11 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.15%) Mendix
12 2 (0.15%) SAS
13 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.073%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.073%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.29%) Trello
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.073%) Notion
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.36%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.22%) Findur
3 3 (0.22%) Front Arena
3 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.22%) Summit
4 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.15%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.073%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 748 (54.36%) GitHub Actions
2 710 (51.60%) Azure
3 635 (46.15%) AWS
4 393 (28.56%) Azure DevOps
5 206 (14.97%) GCP
6 186 (13.52%) Serverless
7 138 (10.03%) Amazon S3
8 137 (9.96%) GitHub Copilot
9 126 (9.16%) AWS Lambda
10 114 (8.28%) Amazon EKS
11 103 (7.49%) Azure Monitor
12 98 (7.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 89 (6.47%) Power Platform
14 82 (5.96%) Entra ID
15 75 (5.45%) Azure AKS
16 72 (5.23%) Amazon EC2
17 70 (5.09%) Snowflake
18 68 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
19 66 (4.80%) AWS CloudFormation
20 52 (3.78%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.72%) DNS
1 65 (4.72%) Firewall
2 50 (3.63%) VPN
3 31 (2.25%) Network Security
4 21 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 20 (1.45%) VLAN
6 17 (1.24%) BGP
6 17 (1.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 14 (1.02%) DHCP
7 14 (1.02%) SSL
8 10 (0.73%) Wireless
9 9 (0.65%) BIG-IP
9 9 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
9 9 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (0.65%) OSPF
9 9 (0.65%) VXLAN
9 9 (0.65%) WAN
10 8 (0.58%) IPsec
10 8 (0.58%) NX-OS
11 7 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (6.18%) SQL Server
3 73 (5.31%) NoSQL
4 71 (5.16%) MongoDB
5 68 (4.94%) Power BI
6 58 (4.22%) Data Lake
7 52 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
8 51 (3.71%) Redis
9 47 (3.42%) DynamoDB
10 46 (3.34%) Relational Database
11 38 (2.76%) Delta Lake
12 35 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
12 35 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
13 31 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
14 27 (1.96%) MySQL
15 26 (1.89%) Metadata
16 25 (1.82%) BigQuery
17 22 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
18 20 (1.45%) Big Data
19 17 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 402 (29.22%) Jenkins
2 300 (21.80%) GitLab
3 275 (19.99%) Git
4 164 (11.92%) JIRA
5 71 (5.16%) Selenium
6 68 (4.94%) JUnit
7 54 (3.92%) SonarQube
8 50 (3.63%) Cucumber
9 47 (3.42%) Bitbucket
10 40 (2.91%) Gatling
11 39 (2.83%) Cypress.io
12 37 (2.69%) JMeter
13 36 (2.62%) Gradle
14 34 (2.47%) Maven
15 32 (2.33%) Claude Code
16 29 (2.11%) Postman
17 27 (1.96%) CircleCI
17 27 (1.96%) REST Assured
18 22 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
19 18 (1.31%) Snyk
General
1 332 (24.13%) Social Skills
2 278 (20.20%) Finance
3 155 (11.26%) Public Sector
4 122 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (5.89%) Banking
6 42 (3.05%) Retail
7 38 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (1.60%) Legal
10 18 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.16%) Law
12 15 (1.09%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.94%) Aerospace
13 13 (0.94%) Investment Banking
13 13 (0.94%) Marketing
14 11 (0.80%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.80%) Military
15 10 (0.73%) Local Government
16 9 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 268 (19.48%) Senior
2 249 (18.10%) Developer
3 172 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 125 (9.08%) Architect
5 119 (8.65%) Lead
6 111 (8.07%) Data Engineer
7 82 (5.96%) Platform Engineer
8 76 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
9 72 (5.23%) Azure Engineer
10 68 (4.94%) Senior Developer
11 67 (4.87%) Cloud Engineer
12 64 (4.65%) Software Engineer
13 63 (4.58%) Java Developer
14 49 (3.56%) Test Engineer
15 48 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
16 47 (3.42%) Senior DevOps
17 43 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 41 (2.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 39 (2.83%) Python Developer
20 35 (2.54%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 655 (47.60%) Terraform
2 216 (15.70%) REST
3 148 (10.76%) Kafka
4 140 (10.17%) RESTful
5 128 (9.30%) Spring
6 119 (8.65%) React
7 116 (8.43%) .NET
8 105 (7.63%) Spring Boot
9 85 (6.18%) Playwright
10 68 (4.94%) Node.js
11 57 (4.14%) OAuth
12 51 (3.71%) PySpark
13 49 (3.56%) YAML
14 46 (3.34%) HTML
14 46 (3.34%) JSON
14 46 (3.34%) OAuth2
15 43 (3.13%) FastAPI
16 41 (2.98%) AngularJS
17 40 (2.91%) OpenTelemetry
18 34 (2.47%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 304 (22.09%) Cloud Native
2 111 (8.07%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 67 (4.87%) AI Agents
5 42 (3.05%) Data Centre
5 42 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
6 38 (2.76%) Mobile App
7 37 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 35 (2.54%) Onboarding
9 28 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
10 23 (1.67%) Security Posture
11 22 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
11 22 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.53%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
14 19 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
15 18 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
16 16 (1.16%) Algorithms
17 15 (1.09%) Private Cloud
17 15 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 129 (9.38%) Linux
2 56 (4.07%) Windows
3 37 (2.69%) Unix
4 27 (1.96%) Android
5 24 (1.74%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (1.53%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.58%) VMS
9 4 (0.29%) 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%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.15%) zOS
12 1 (0.073%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,045 (75.94%) CI/CD
2 816 (59.30%) DevOps
3 566 (41.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 514 (37.35%) Agile
5 353 (25.65%) Observability
6 347 (25.22%) Test Automation
7 309 (22.46%) AI
8 297 (21.58%) Containerisation
9 268 (19.48%) Microservices
10 230 (16.72%) Software Engineering
11 222 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
12 193 (14.03%) Continuous Improvement
13 175 (12.72%) Event-Driven
14 159 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
15 156 (11.34%) Analytics
16 147 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
17 138 (10.03%) DevSecOps
17 138 (10.03%) Technical Leadership
18 132 (9.59%) Scrum
19 131 (9.52%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 608 (44.19%) Python
2 322 (23.40%) SQL
3 277 (20.13%) Java
4 191 (13.88%) Bash
5 168 (12.21%) PowerShell
6 150 (10.90%) TypeScript
7 138 (10.03%) JavaScript
8 128 (9.30%) C#
9 101 (7.34%) Bicep
10 47 (3.42%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.13%) Go
12 37 (2.69%) Shell Script
13 32 (2.33%) Scala
14 21 (1.53%) Ruby
15 19 (1.38%) Swift
16 11 (0.80%) Groovy
17 10 (0.73%) ActionScript
18 9 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.65%) Objective-C
19 8 (0.58%) C
Qualifications
1 424 (30.81%) Security Cleared
2 371 (26.96%) SC Cleared
3 63 (4.58%) Azure Certification
4 61 (4.43%) Degree
5 42 (3.05%) AWS Certification
6 39 (2.83%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.80%) CISSP
13 11 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 8 (0.58%) Master's Degree
17 7 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (13.95%) QA
2 82 (5.96%) Data Quality
3 71 (5.16%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.18%) GDPR
5 29 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.96%) WCAG
7 21 (1.53%) NIST
8 12 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.73%) NCSC
10 8 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.44%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.36%) GRC
12 5 (0.36%) HL7
12 5 (0.36%) PSD2
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.29%) SEPA
13 4 (0.29%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 1 (0.073%) IFRS
System Software
1 446 (32.41%) Docker
2 48 (3.49%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.80%) IAG
6 11 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (0.80%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.80%) vSphere
7 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (0.29%) NFS
8 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.15%) Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.15%) SRDF
9 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 499 (36.26%) Kubernetes
2 208 (15.12%) Ansible
3 189 (13.74%) Grafana
4 150 (10.90%) Prometheus
5 57 (4.14%) Argo
6 24 (1.74%) Puppet
7 23 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (1.45%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.31%) Packer
10 12 (0.87%) Control-M
11 11 (0.80%) Kibana
12 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (0.65%) HAProxy
13 9 (0.65%) Istio
14 8 (0.58%) Karpenter
14 8 (0.58%) vCenter Server
15 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
15 7 (0.51%) SCCM
16 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 268 (19.48%) Microsoft
2 108 (7.85%) Databricks
3 96 (6.98%) Splunk
4 94 (6.83%) Google
5 58 (4.22%) Oracle
6 56 (4.07%) Dynatrace
7 43 (3.13%) ServiceNow
8 40 (2.91%) OpenAI
9 39 (2.83%) VMware
10 34 (2.47%) Red Hat
11 30 (2.18%) Cisco
12 29 (2.11%) Salesforce
13 25 (1.82%) Informatica
14 22 (1.60%) IBM
15 21 (1.53%) Foundry
16 19 (1.38%) New Relic
17 18 (1.31%) Checkmarx
17 18 (1.31%) F5
18 15 (1.09%) Palo Alto
18 15 (1.09%) SAP
1,499 GitHub jobs in England