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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 129 173
Rank change year-on-year +61 +44 -47
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,210 522 530
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.46% 2.06% 1.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.22% 5.47% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 872 361 372
10th Percentile £356 £324 £407
25th Percentile £412 £440 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 3
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 £27.35
25th Percentile £46.00 £26.19 £34.63
Median hourly rate £62.00 £27.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +125.45% -43.30% -10.19%
75th Percentile £74.00 £61.25 £58.63
90th Percentile £81.20 £68.75 £63.65
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £27.50 £44.25
% change year-on-year +103.64% -37.85% -18.06%

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 13,125 9,545 12,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.52% 37.60% 32.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,072 6,450 8,996
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £408 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 147 318
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.36 £14.21
25th Percentile £19.98 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.54 £27.50 £21.48
Median % change year-on-year +40.15% +28.03% -14.08%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £79.28 £74.45 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +36.36% +27.91% -14.00%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 24 February 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 +43 689 £540 -1.82% 217
North of England +32 193 £500 +5.26% 155
Yorkshire +13 113 £481 -2.83% 60
South East +38 110 £450 -7.69% 158
Midlands +20 90 £550 +11.11% 75
South West +15 75 £550 -15.38% 72
West Midlands +6 72 £575 +24.12% 31
North West +9 68 £513 +7.89% 69
East of England -12 19 £550 +72.41% 64
East Midlands -13 17 £402 -19.60% 44
North East -1 16 £545 +50.34% 27
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
1 111 (9.17%) Confluence
2 46 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (1.98%) Apache Spark
3 24 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 10 (0.83%) OpenStack
5 9 (0.74%) Apache
6 8 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.66%) nginx
7 4 (0.33%) CMS
8 3 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.17%) Magnolia
9 2 (0.17%) Traefik
9 2 (0.17%) WordPress
10 1 (0.083%) Appian
10 1 (0.083%) Mule
10 1 (0.083%) SAS
10 1 (0.083%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.083%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.083%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.58%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.083%) InDesign
6 1 (0.083%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.083%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.58%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.33%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.083%) Actimize
4 1 (0.083%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.083%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.083%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.083%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.083%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.083%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 605 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 547 (45.21%) Azure
3 542 (44.79%) AWS
4 261 (21.57%) Azure DevOps
5 189 (15.62%) GCP
6 184 (15.21%) Serverless
7 115 (9.50%) AWS Lambda
8 99 (8.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 97 (8.02%) Amazon EKS
10 96 (7.93%) Amazon S3
11 86 (7.11%) Power Platform
12 84 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
13 82 (6.78%) OpenShift
14 72 (5.95%) Azure Data Factory
15 71 (5.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 67 (5.54%) Azure AKS
16 67 (5.54%) GitHub Copilot
17 66 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
18 62 (5.12%) Entra ID
19 52 (4.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 54 (4.46%) Firewall
2 50 (4.13%) DNS
3 29 (2.40%) Network Security
4 27 (2.23%) VPN
5 12 (0.99%) HTTP
6 10 (0.83%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.74%) SSL
8 8 (0.66%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.66%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.66%) WAN
9 7 (0.58%) Ethernet
9 7 (0.58%) Modbus
9 7 (0.58%) RS-232
9 7 (0.58%) RS-485
10 5 (0.41%) Internet
10 5 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.17%) Calico
11 2 (0.17%) DSL
12 1 (0.083%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.083%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (13.72%) PostgreSQL
2 79 (6.53%) NoSQL
3 64 (5.29%) MongoDB
4 59 (4.88%) Data Lake
5 57 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
5 57 (4.71%) SQL Server
6 49 (4.05%) Power BI
6 49 (4.05%) Relational Database
7 45 (3.72%) DynamoDB
8 41 (3.39%) Redis
9 37 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
10 36 (2.98%) MySQL
11 31 (2.56%) Delta Lake
12 26 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
13 18 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (1.49%) Big Data
13 18 (1.49%) BigQuery
14 17 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
15 15 (1.24%) DocumentDB
16 13 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 367 (30.33%) Jenkins
2 227 (18.76%) Git
3 213 (17.60%) GitLab
4 173 (14.30%) JIRA
5 80 (6.61%) JUnit
6 59 (4.88%) Sonatype Nexus
7 48 (3.97%) Cucumber
8 44 (3.64%) Artifactory
8 44 (3.64%) Selenium
9 41 (3.39%) Cypress.io
10 39 (3.22%) Bitbucket
10 39 (3.22%) CircleCI
11 36 (2.98%) Gradle
11 36 (2.98%) Postman
12 33 (2.73%) JMeter
12 33 (2.73%) SonarQube
13 29 (2.40%) Maven
14 17 (1.40%) MLflow
15 16 (1.32%) REST Assured
16 15 (1.24%) Gatling
General
1 303 (25.04%) Social Skills
2 181 (14.96%) Finance
3 148 (12.23%) Public Sector
4 87 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (6.94%) Banking
6 21 (1.74%) Military
7 20 (1.65%) Retail
8 17 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
10 14 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.07%) Front Office
12 12 (0.99%) Investment Banking
13 9 (0.74%) Marketing
14 8 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.66%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.41%) Billing
15 5 (0.41%) Games
15 5 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 276 (22.81%) Developer
2 183 (15.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 181 (14.96%) Senior
4 91 (7.52%) Data Engineer
4 91 (7.52%) Lead
5 81 (6.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 80 (6.61%) Architect
7 76 (6.28%) AWS Engineer
7 76 (6.28%) Full-Stack Developer
8 67 (5.54%) Platform Engineer
9 64 (5.29%) Java Developer
10 59 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
11 50 (4.13%) Software Engineer
12 48 (3.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 45 (3.72%) AWS DevOps
14 43 (3.55%) Senior Developer
15 40 (3.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 36 (2.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 31 (2.56%) GCP Engineer
18 30 (2.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (12.15%) REST
2 146 (12.07%) Kafka
3 132 (10.91%) React
4 125 (10.33%) Node.js
5 123 (10.17%) Spring
6 111 (9.17%) .NET
7 88 (7.27%) Spring Boot
8 87 (7.19%) RESTful
9 73 (6.03%) AngularJS
10 66 (5.45%) Playwright
11 63 (5.21%) CSS
12 56 (4.63%) HTML
13 51 (4.21%) Elastic Stack
14 47 (3.88%) OAuth
15 44 (3.64%) PySpark
16 43 (3.55%) PyTorch
17 40 (3.31%) JSON
18 39 (3.22%) FastAPI
18 39 (3.22%) Jest
19 38 (3.14%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 199 (16.45%) Cloud Native
2 49 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (3.55%) Product Ownership
4 32 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.23%) Public Cloud
6 21 (1.74%) Algorithms
7 18 (1.49%) Virtual Team
8 17 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 17 (1.40%) Security Posture
9 16 (1.32%) AI Agents
9 16 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.24%) Life Science
10 15 (1.24%) Replication
11 14 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (1.16%) NHS
12 13 (1.07%) Private Cloud
13 12 (0.99%) Data Structures
13 12 (0.99%) Genomics
14 11 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 159 (13.14%) Linux
2 37 (3.06%) Windows
3 24 (1.98%) Unix
4 23 (1.90%) Android
5 16 (1.32%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.24%) VMS
7 13 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.58%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.33%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.25%) CentOS
10 3 (0.25%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.17%) Debian
11 2 (0.17%) Rocky
11 2 (0.17%) Solaris
11 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 874 (72.23%) CI/CD
2 715 (59.09%) DevOps
3 425 (35.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 389 (32.15%) Agile
5 314 (25.95%) Containerisation
6 256 (21.16%) Test Automation
7 237 (19.59%) AI
8 231 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
9 223 (18.43%) Microservices
10 210 (17.36%) Observability
11 169 (13.97%) Migration
12 150 (12.40%) Analytics
13 143 (11.82%) Platform Engineering
14 141 (11.65%) Full-Stack Development
15 130 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
16 122 (10.08%) Software Engineering
17 118 (9.75%) Data Pipeline
18 104 (8.60%) Data Engineering
19 102 (8.43%) Machine Learning
20 101 (8.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 565 (46.69%) Python
2 270 (22.31%) SQL
3 245 (20.25%) Java
4 171 (14.13%) JavaScript
5 141 (11.65%) Bash
6 140 (11.57%) TypeScript
7 102 (8.43%) C#
8 101 (8.35%) PowerShell
9 72 (5.95%) Go
10 49 (4.05%) Bicep
11 31 (2.56%) Shell Script
12 24 (1.98%) Ruby
13 16 (1.32%) Kotlin
13 16 (1.32%) Scala
14 14 (1.16%) PHP
15 12 (0.99%) Groovy
16 11 (0.91%) C++
17 10 (0.83%) Swift
18 9 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
19 8 (0.66%) C
Qualifications
1 350 (28.93%) Security Cleared
2 266 (21.98%) SC Cleared
3 78 (6.45%) Degree
4 51 (4.21%) DV Cleared
5 44 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (3.31%) Azure Certification
7 35 (2.89%) AWS Certification
8 27 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 15 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.83%) OCP
11 10 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.66%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 7 (0.58%) CISSP
14 4 (0.33%) CTC Cleared
14 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (6.53%) QA
2 51 (4.21%) Accessibility
3 50 (4.13%) Data Quality
4 26 (2.15%) NIST
5 24 (1.98%) WCAG
6 21 (1.74%) GDPR
6 21 (1.74%) NCSC
7 16 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (1.16%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.99%) EU AI Act
10 7 (0.58%) GRC
10 7 (0.58%) SLA
11 4 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.25%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.17%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 390 (32.23%) Docker
2 33 (2.73%) Active Directory
2 33 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.24%) VMware NSX
4 15 (1.24%) vSphere
5 7 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.58%) Firmware
6 3 (0.25%) HDFS
6 3 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.17%) NFS
7 2 (0.17%) Veritas File System
7 2 (0.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.083%) etcd
8 1 (0.083%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.083%) QEMU
8 1 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 525 (43.39%) Terraform
2 471 (38.93%) Kubernetes
3 182 (15.04%) Ansible
4 135 (11.16%) Grafana
5 97 (8.02%) Prometheus
6 71 (5.87%) Argo
7 39 (3.22%) Istio
8 25 (2.07%) Progress Chef
9 22 (1.82%) Puppet
10 15 (1.24%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.99%) Kibana
11 12 (0.99%) Podman
12 10 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.74%) NetBackup
13 9 (0.74%) Packer
14 7 (0.58%) Sysdig
15 6 (0.50%) linkerd
15 6 (0.50%) Rancher
16 5 (0.41%) logstash
17 3 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 196 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 98 (8.10%) Google
3 88 (7.27%) Databricks
4 73 (6.03%) Splunk
5 52 (4.30%) VMware
6 46 (3.80%) Red Hat
7 45 (3.72%) OpenAI
8 41 (3.39%) Oracle
9 20 (1.65%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.57%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.57%) Sonatype
11 18 (1.49%) Foundry
12 16 (1.32%) Salesforce
13 15 (1.24%) Pure Storage
14 14 (1.16%) Dynatrace
15 10 (0.83%) SAP
16 9 (0.74%) Commvault
17 8 (0.66%) New Relic
18 7 (0.58%) Okta
18 7 (0.58%) Veracode