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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 132 152
Rank change year-on-year +61 +20 -12
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,106 554 595
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.49% 1.97% 1.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.14% 5.38% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 805 386 427
10th Percentile £358 £322 £414
25th Percentile £413 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £680 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 2
10th Percentile £40.00 £21.35 -
25th Percentile £41.50 £26.19 £76.25
Median hourly rate £54.25 £28.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +90.35% -63.23% +40.91%
75th Percentile £98.44 £61.25 £78.75
90th Percentile £110.00 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £28.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year +90.35% -63.23% +40.91%

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 12,097 10,288 12,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.16% 36.60% 34.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,347 6,882 9,155
10th Percentile £304 £313 £280
25th Percentile £406 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £707 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 137 245
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.55 £14.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.41 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +20.33% +4.33%
75th Percentile £56.50 £46.18 £53.50
90th Percentile £77.25 £67.10 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £27.50 £25.38
% change year-on-year -0.53% +8.35% +12.80%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +43 633 £550 - 457
North of England +29 164 £480 +6.67% 222
South East +57 103 £450 - 236
Midlands +35 88 £550 - 123
Yorkshire -7 83 £500 +11.11% 85
West Midlands +30 72 £575 +16.16% 71
North West +13 65 £402 -15.37% 115
South West +1 61 £649 +0.43% 91
North East +8 18 £516 +42.41% 25
East of England -7 17 £560 +75.55% 100
East Midlands -5 16 £413 -37.71% 48
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 94 (8.50%) Confluence
2 50 (4.52%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.99%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.18%) nginx
6 12 (1.08%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.54%) Mule
9 5 (0.45%) Apache
9 5 (0.45%) WordPress
10 4 (0.36%) SAS
11 3 (0.27%) CMS
12 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.18%) CICS
12 2 (0.18%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.18%) Traefik
12 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.090%) Luigi
Applications
1 23 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.18%) Trello
5 1 (0.090%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.090%) InDesign
5 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.090%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.090%) Actimize
3 1 (0.090%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.090%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.090%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.090%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.090%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.090%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 570 (51.54%) GitHub Actions
2 539 (48.73%) AWS
3 502 (45.39%) Azure
4 234 (21.16%) Azure DevOps
5 191 (17.27%) GCP
6 179 (16.18%) Serverless
7 122 (11.03%) AWS Lambda
8 119 (10.76%) Amazon S3
9 98 (8.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 88 (7.96%) Amazon ECS
11 79 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
12 77 (6.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 77 (6.96%) Power Platform
13 69 (6.24%) OpenShift
14 63 (5.70%) Azure AKS
15 61 (5.52%) GitHub Copilot
16 58 (5.24%) Entra ID
17 56 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
18 52 (4.70%) Datadog
19 50 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.34%) DNS
1 48 (4.34%) Firewall
2 23 (2.08%) VPN
3 17 (1.54%) Network Security
4 16 (1.45%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.18%) HTTP
6 12 (1.08%) SSL
7 9 (0.81%) WAN
8 8 (0.72%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.72%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.45%) Ethernet
9 5 (0.45%) Internet
9 5 (0.45%) Modbus
9 5 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.45%) RS-232
9 5 (0.45%) RS-485
9 5 (0.45%) SSH
10 2 (0.18%) Calico
10 2 (0.18%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (16.09%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (7.78%) NoSQL
3 65 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 60 (5.42%) MongoDB
5 53 (4.79%) Relational Database
6 52 (4.70%) SQL Server
7 50 (4.52%) DynamoDB
8 47 (4.25%) Redis
9 41 (3.71%) Data Lake
9 41 (3.71%) Power BI
10 37 (3.35%) MySQL
11 26 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
12 25 (2.26%) BigQuery
12 25 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
13 20 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
13 20 (1.81%) Delta Lake
14 19 (1.72%) Big Data
14 19 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (1.27%) Amazon QuickSight
16 13 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 318 (28.75%) Jenkins
2 223 (20.16%) Git
3 202 (18.26%) GitLab
4 167 (15.10%) JIRA
5 57 (5.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 55 (4.97%) JUnit
7 49 (4.43%) CircleCI
8 48 (4.34%) SonarQube
9 43 (3.89%) Artifactory
9 43 (3.89%) Bitbucket
10 41 (3.71%) Cypress.io
11 37 (3.35%) Gradle
12 35 (3.16%) Cucumber
13 31 (2.80%) Postman
14 30 (2.71%) Selenium
15 26 (2.35%) Maven
16 24 (2.17%) JMeter
17 22 (1.99%) Snyk
18 16 (1.45%) SpecFlow
19 13 (1.18%) MLflow
General
1 277 (25.05%) Social Skills
2 172 (15.55%) Finance
3 136 (12.30%) Public Sector
4 84 (7.59%) Banking
5 67 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (1.81%) Military
7 18 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
8 17 (1.54%) Investment Banking
9 15 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.27%) Front Office
10 14 (1.27%) Retail
11 12 (1.08%) Marketing
12 11 (0.99%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.63%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.54%) Games
15 5 (0.45%) Billing
15 5 (0.45%) Law
15 5 (0.45%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 261 (23.60%) Developer
2 177 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 171 (15.46%) Senior
4 88 (7.96%) AWS Engineer
5 82 (7.41%) Data Engineer
6 73 (6.60%) Architect
7 71 (6.42%) Lead
8 65 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
9 63 (5.70%) Full-Stack Developer
10 57 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
11 55 (4.97%) Java Developer
12 52 (4.70%) AWS DevOps
12 52 (4.70%) Software Engineer
13 51 (4.61%) Azure Engineer
14 50 (4.52%) Senior Developer
15 45 (4.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 42 (3.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 38 (3.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 34 (3.07%) DevSecOps Engineer
19 31 (2.80%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (13.29%) REST
2 136 (12.30%) React
3 131 (11.84%) Kafka
3 131 (11.84%) Node.js
4 107 (9.67%) .NET
5 89 (8.05%) RESTful
6 88 (7.96%) Spring
7 76 (6.87%) Spring Boot
8 73 (6.60%) AngularJS
9 60 (5.42%) HTML
10 58 (5.24%) OAuth
11 56 (5.06%) CSS
12 52 (4.70%) Elastic Stack
13 49 (4.43%) Playwright
14 45 (4.07%) JSON
15 44 (3.98%) YAML
16 43 (3.89%) GraphQL
17 42 (3.80%) FastAPI
18 40 (3.62%) pytest
19 35 (3.16%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 184 (16.64%) Cloud Native
2 39 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (3.25%) Product Ownership
4 27 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
6 24 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 19 (1.72%) Algorithms
9 18 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (1.63%) Public Cloud
10 17 (1.54%) AI Agents
11 16 (1.45%) Virtual Team
12 15 (1.36%) Life Science
13 14 (1.27%) Genomics
13 14 (1.27%) Mobile App
13 14 (1.27%) Private Cloud
13 14 (1.27%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
14 13 (1.18%) NHS
14 13 (1.18%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 149 (13.47%) Linux
2 42 (3.80%) Windows
3 28 (2.53%) Unix
4 21 (1.90%) Android
5 13 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.18%) VMS
6 7 (0.63%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.54%) Solaris
8 5 (0.45%) CentOS
8 5 (0.45%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.18%) zOS
12 1 (0.090%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.090%) MVS
12 1 (0.090%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 789 (71.34%) CI/CD
2 676 (61.12%) DevOps
3 404 (36.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 368 (33.27%) Agile
5 304 (27.49%) Containerisation
6 224 (20.25%) Microservices
7 222 (20.07%) AI
8 219 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
9 208 (18.81%) Test Automation
10 181 (16.37%) Observability
11 140 (12.66%) Migration
12 134 (12.12%) Full-Stack Development
13 129 (11.66%) Software Engineering
14 111 (10.04%) Data Pipeline
15 110 (9.95%) Analytics
16 104 (9.40%) Platform Engineering
17 98 (8.86%) DevSecOps
18 94 (8.50%) Machine Learning
19 92 (8.32%) Continuous Improvement
20 88 (7.96%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 511 (46.20%) Python
2 244 (22.06%) SQL
3 226 (20.43%) Java
4 152 (13.74%) TypeScript
5 149 (13.47%) JavaScript
6 132 (11.93%) Bash
7 99 (8.95%) C#
8 98 (8.86%) PowerShell
9 84 (7.59%) Go
10 49 (4.43%) Bicep
11 31 (2.80%) Ruby
11 31 (2.80%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.81%) PHP
13 14 (1.27%) Groovy
14 11 (0.99%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.90%) C++
16 9 (0.81%) C
16 9 (0.81%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.72%) Korn
17 8 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 313 (28.30%) Security Cleared
2 252 (22.78%) SC Cleared
3 90 (8.14%) Degree
4 55 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (3.71%) Azure Certification
6 39 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 33 (2.98%) AWS Certification
8 21 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (1.90%) MCP
9 17 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.18%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.72%) OCP
12 8 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.63%) CISSP
13 7 (0.63%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.36%) CTC Cleared
15 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.18%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (6.87%) QA
2 42 (3.80%) Accessibility
3 41 (3.71%) Data Quality
4 33 (2.98%) NIST
5 24 (2.17%) GDPR
6 23 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (2.08%) NCSC
7 20 (1.81%) WCAG
8 15 (1.36%) EU AI Act
9 7 (0.63%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.63%) SLA
10 5 (0.45%) GRC
11 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.27%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.18%) FIPS 140-2
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.18%) MiFID
13 2 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 380 (34.36%) Docker
2 44 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 27 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (0.45%) Firmware
6 5 (0.45%) NFS
7 4 (0.36%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.36%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.36%) vSphere
8 3 (0.27%) QEMU
8 3 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.18%) HDFS
9 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.18%) KVM
10 1 (0.090%) SRDF
10 1 (0.090%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.090%) Xen
Systems Management
1 493 (44.58%) Terraform
2 443 (40.05%) Kubernetes
3 159 (14.38%) Ansible
4 132 (11.93%) Grafana
5 105 (9.49%) Prometheus
6 61 (5.52%) Argo
7 33 (2.98%) Istio
8 29 (2.62%) Progress Chef
9 28 (2.53%) Puppet
10 13 (1.18%) Podman
11 11 (0.99%) Packer
12 10 (0.90%) Kibana
13 8 (0.72%) NetBackup
13 8 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.63%) linkerd
14 7 (0.63%) Sysdig
15 5 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.45%) logstash
16 4 (0.36%) QRadar
16 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 183 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 96 (8.68%) Google
3 67 (6.06%) Splunk
4 63 (5.70%) Databricks
5 47 (4.25%) VMware
6 43 (3.89%) OpenAI
7 39 (3.53%) Oracle
7 39 (3.53%) Red Hat
8 25 (2.26%) Atlassian
9 24 (2.17%) ServiceNow
10 17 (1.54%) Foundry
11 14 (1.27%) Salesforce
12 10 (0.90%) Dynatrace
12 10 (0.90%) Sonatype
13 9 (0.81%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.81%) NetApp
13 9 (0.81%) Okta
13 9 (0.81%) SAP
14 8 (0.72%) Commvault
15 7 (0.63%) Cisco