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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 132 166
Rank change year-on-year +49 +34 -40
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,198 516 530
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.97% 2.14% 1.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.44% 5.76% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 359 348
10th Percentile £363 £387 £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 £623
90th Percentile £700 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £526
% change year-on-year -3.05% -0.10% -12.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 18
10th Percentile £48.00 £25.25 £28.63
25th Percentile £58.43 £25.72 £66.44
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 14,193 8,966 11,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.21% 37.17% 31.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,725 6,222 8,419
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 463 194 323
10th Percentile £15.52 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -34.98%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.50 £34.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.13 £65.10
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +43.64% +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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +42 699 £550 - 225
North of England +29 200 £488 +1.04% 159
Yorkshire +18 132 £476 -8.42% 61
Midlands +9 88 £500 +3.09% 60
South West +24 76 £500 -6.98% 57
South East -22 73 £500 - 124
West Midlands -3 72 £514 +5.98% 24
North West -9 58 £538 +13.16% 76
East of England -16 27 £500 -9.09% 45
East Midlands -17 15 £402 -17.54% 36
North East -12 12 £475 +13.43% 23
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 (8.68%) Confluence
2 38 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.25%) SharePoint
5 16 (1.34%) Apache
6 12 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.58%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.17%) CMS
9 2 (0.17%) nginx
9 2 (0.17%) SAS
10 1 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.083%) Appian
10 1 (0.083%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.083%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.083%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.083%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.083%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.083%) 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 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.083%) Actimize
4 1 (0.083%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.083%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.083%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.083%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.083%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 629 (52.50%) GitHub Actions
2 568 (47.41%) Azure
3 537 (44.82%) AWS
4 299 (24.96%) Azure DevOps
5 184 (15.36%) GCP
6 178 (14.86%) Serverless
7 121 (10.10%) AWS Lambda
8 109 (9.10%) Amazon S3
9 98 (8.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 97 (8.10%) Amazon EKS
11 92 (7.68%) Power Platform
12 85 (7.10%) Amazon ECS
13 78 (6.51%) Azure Data Factory
14 77 (6.43%) GitHub Copilot
15 74 (6.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 73 (6.09%) Azure AKS
17 70 (5.84%) Azure Monitor
18 59 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
19 53 (4.42%) Entra ID
20 52 (4.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 59 (4.92%) Firewall
2 58 (4.84%) DNS
3 36 (3.01%) VPN
4 25 (2.09%) Network Security
5 10 (0.83%) HTTP
6 7 (0.58%) Ethernet
6 7 (0.58%) Modbus
6 7 (0.58%) RS-232
6 7 (0.58%) RS-485
6 7 (0.58%) SSL
6 7 (0.58%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.33%) DSL
7 4 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.33%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.33%) WAN
8 3 (0.25%) BGP
8 3 (0.25%) Internet
8 3 (0.25%) NAS
8 3 (0.25%) SAN
9 2 (0.17%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (6.43%) Data Lake
3 72 (6.01%) SQL Server
4 64 (5.34%) Power BI
5 59 (4.92%) NoSQL
6 47 (3.92%) DynamoDB
7 45 (3.76%) MongoDB
8 42 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
9 40 (3.34%) Delta Lake
10 39 (3.26%) Redis
11 37 (3.09%) Relational Database
12 35 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
13 26 (2.17%) Big Data
13 26 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
14 24 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
15 21 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
15 21 (1.75%) Metadata
16 19 (1.59%) MySQL
17 15 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
18 14 (1.17%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 357 (29.80%) Jenkins
2 239 (19.95%) GitLab
3 229 (19.12%) Git
4 148 (12.35%) JIRA
5 75 (6.26%) JUnit
6 46 (3.84%) Selenium
7 42 (3.51%) Cucumber
8 35 (2.92%) CircleCI
9 34 (2.84%) Cypress.io
9 34 (2.84%) SonarQube
10 32 (2.67%) Bitbucket
10 32 (2.67%) Gradle
10 32 (2.67%) Maven
11 31 (2.59%) JMeter
12 29 (2.42%) Artifactory
12 29 (2.42%) Gatling
13 27 (2.25%) Postman
14 21 (1.75%) REST Assured
14 21 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
15 20 (1.67%) Mockito
General
1 278 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 204 (17.03%) Finance
3 139 (11.60%) Public Sector
4 93 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (6.26%) Banking
6 20 (1.67%) Military
6 20 (1.67%) Retail
7 17 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.25%) Legal
9 14 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (1.09%) Front Office
10 13 (1.09%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.58%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.50%) Law
16 5 (0.42%) Marketing
17 4 (0.33%) Automotive
17 4 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 229 (19.12%) Developer
2 196 (16.36%) Senior
3 168 (14.02%) DevOps Engineer
4 112 (9.35%) Data Engineer
5 100 (8.35%) Architect
6 86 (7.18%) Lead
7 79 (6.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 73 (6.09%) Platform Engineer
9 63 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
10 61 (5.09%) AWS Engineer
11 55 (4.59%) Java Developer
12 52 (4.34%) Full-Stack Developer
13 48 (4.01%) Software Engineer
14 47 (3.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 46 (3.84%) Senior Developer
16 43 (3.59%) GCP Engineer
17 40 (3.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 32 (2.67%) Tester
19 30 (2.50%) Senior DevOps
19 30 (2.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (10.52%) REST
2 124 (10.35%) Spring
3 123 (10.27%) Kafka
4 106 (8.85%) .NET
5 103 (8.60%) React
6 97 (8.10%) Spring Boot
7 89 (7.43%) Node.js
8 78 (6.51%) RESTful
9 65 (5.43%) Playwright
10 62 (5.18%) PySpark
11 41 (3.42%) AngularJS
12 38 (3.17%) OpenTelemetry
13 32 (2.67%) .NET Framework
14 31 (2.59%) HTML
14 31 (2.59%) YAML
15 30 (2.50%) JSON
16 29 (2.42%) FastAPI
17 28 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
17 28 (2.34%) Jest
18 25 (2.09%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 229 (19.12%) Cloud Native
2 83 (6.93%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 28 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (2.09%) Onboarding
5 25 (2.09%) Public Cloud
6 21 (1.75%) AI Agents
7 18 (1.50%) Mobile App
8 17 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.42%) Security Posture
9 16 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (1.34%) Private Cloud
10 15 (1.25%) Data Centre
11 13 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.00%) NHS
12 12 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.00%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.83%) Data Structures
13 10 (0.83%) Replication
14 9 (0.75%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 133 (11.10%) Linux
2 51 (4.26%) Windows
3 28 (2.34%) Unix
4 24 (2.00%) Android
5 19 (1.59%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.34%) VMS
7 14 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.83%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.58%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.42%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.33%) Debian
11 4 (0.33%) Rocky
12 3 (0.25%) CentOS
13 2 (0.17%) AIX
13 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.083%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.083%) MVS
14 1 (0.083%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 891 (74.37%) CI/CD
2 690 (57.60%) DevOps
3 463 (38.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 362 (30.22%) Agile
5 289 (24.12%) Containerisation
6 264 (22.04%) Test Automation
7 236 (19.70%) Observability
8 206 (17.20%) Microservices
9 202 (16.86%) AI
10 183 (15.28%) Platform Engineering
11 176 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
12 163 (13.61%) Analytics
13 161 (13.44%) Migration
14 144 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
15 140 (11.69%) Software Engineering
16 124 (10.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 123 (10.27%) Data Engineering
18 121 (10.10%) Data Pipeline
19 110 (9.18%) Data Modelling
20 108 (9.02%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 533 (44.49%) Python
2 284 (23.71%) SQL
3 231 (19.28%) Java
4 154 (12.85%) Bash
5 141 (11.77%) JavaScript
6 131 (10.93%) C#
7 123 (10.27%) PowerShell
8 104 (8.68%) TypeScript
9 62 (5.18%) Bicep
10 48 (4.01%) Go
11 34 (2.84%) Scala
12 33 (2.75%) Shell Script
13 24 (2.00%) Kotlin
13 24 (2.00%) Ruby
14 13 (1.09%) Swift
15 12 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (0.83%) C++
17 8 (0.67%) C
17 8 (0.67%) Groovy
18 7 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 368 (30.72%) Security Cleared
2 300 (25.04%) SC Cleared
3 50 (4.17%) Degree
4 41 (3.42%) Azure Certification
5 36 (3.01%) DV Cleared
6 35 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 33 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (2.17%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.09%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 9 (0.75%) SAFe Agilist
12 8 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.58%) CISSP
13 7 (0.58%) OCP
13 7 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (0.50%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (8.68%) QA
2 66 (5.51%) Data Quality
3 46 (3.84%) Accessibility
4 24 (2.00%) GDPR
5 20 (1.67%) PCI DSS
5 20 (1.67%) WCAG
6 19 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.09%) NIST
8 9 (0.75%) NCSC
9 7 (0.58%) GRC
10 6 (0.50%) 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 (0.17%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 365 (30.47%) Docker
2 31 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (2.25%) Active Directory
4 22 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (1.59%) VMware NSX
5 19 (1.59%) vSphere
6 9 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.58%) Firmware
8 5 (0.42%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.25%) HDFS
10 2 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.17%) NFS
10 2 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.083%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.083%) IAG
11 1 (0.083%) ISA Server
11 1 (0.083%) SRDF
11 1 (0.083%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 564 (47.08%) Terraform
2 441 (36.81%) Kubernetes
3 183 (15.28%) Ansible
4 128 (10.68%) Grafana
5 102 (8.51%) Prometheus
6 61 (5.09%) Argo
7 34 (2.84%) Istio
8 27 (2.25%) Puppet
9 19 (1.59%) vCenter Server
10 15 (1.25%) Packer
11 14 (1.17%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.92%) Kibana
13 10 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.75%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.75%) NetBackup
15 8 (0.67%) linkerd
16 5 (0.42%) Podman
16 5 (0.42%) Rancher
17 3 (0.25%) Karpenter
17 3 (0.25%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 224 (18.70%) Microsoft
2 98 (8.18%) Databricks
3 88 (7.35%) Google
4 72 (6.01%) Splunk
5 50 (4.17%) Oracle
6 43 (3.59%) VMware
7 34 (2.84%) OpenAI
8 32 (2.67%) Red Hat
9 24 (2.00%) Dynatrace
10 19 (1.59%) Pure Storage
11 16 (1.34%) Salesforce
12 15 (1.25%) Atlassian
12 15 (1.25%) Informatica
13 13 (1.09%) Checkmarx
13 13 (1.09%) ServiceNow
14 11 (0.92%) Sonatype
15 10 (0.83%) Cisco
15 10 (0.83%) SAP
16 9 (0.75%) AppDynamics
16 9 (0.75%) IBM