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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 129 174
Rank change year-on-year +60 +45 -50
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,282 507 515
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.37% 2.09% 1.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.21% 5.51% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 357 350
10th Percentile £360 £375 £389
25th Percentile £414 £456 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £622 £630 £625
90th Percentile £700 £743 £679
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -3.81% -0.94% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 5
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 -
25th Percentile £44.50 £25.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 £27.38 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +104.57% -15.77% -40.91%
75th Percentile £69.38 £58.44 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 £60.30
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +82.65% -15.77% -40.37%

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 13,917 9,194 12,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.58% 37.87% 32.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,590 6,488 8,722
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 425 182 328
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.78 £26.81 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.09% +27.68% -18.32%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.74 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.68 £74.88 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +42 726 £550 -2.65% 226
North of England +50 215 £500 +2.04% 145
Yorkshire +25 137 £481 -8.38% 64
South East +17 110 £462 -7.70% 123
Midlands +16 94 £514 +8.21% 55
South West +29 80 £525 - 55
West Midlands +11 78 £550 +18.92% 22
North West +5 67 £525 +10.53% 61
East of England -24 23 £500 -9.09% 53
East Midlands -23 15 £402 -19.60% 33
North East -1 13 £545 +50.34% 20
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 (8.74%) Confluence
2 48 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (2.57%) SharePoint
4 28 (2.18%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.25%) Apache
6 14 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.62%) nginx
7 8 (0.62%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.31%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.16%) WordPress
11 1 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.078%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.078%) Appian
11 1 (0.078%) SAS
11 1 (0.078%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.078%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.62%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.078%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.078%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (0.47%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.23%) Findur
3 3 (0.23%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.078%) Actimize
5 1 (0.078%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.078%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 650 (50.70%) GitHub Actions
2 592 (46.18%) Azure
3 590 (46.02%) AWS
4 313 (24.41%) Azure DevOps
5 202 (15.76%) Serverless
6 187 (14.59%) GCP
7 139 (10.84%) AWS Lambda
8 116 (9.05%) Amazon S3
9 111 (8.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 98 (7.64%) Amazon EKS
11 94 (7.33%) Power Platform
12 89 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
13 87 (6.79%) Azure Data Factory
14 79 (6.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 79 (6.16%) Azure Monitor
15 77 (6.01%) Azure AKS
16 69 (5.38%) GitHub Copilot
16 69 (5.38%) OpenShift
17 68 (5.30%) Entra ID
18 59 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 66 (5.15%) Firewall
2 60 (4.68%) DNS
3 38 (2.96%) VPN
4 30 (2.34%) Network Security
5 14 (1.09%) HTTP
6 11 (0.86%) SD-WAN
6 11 (0.86%) WAN
7 9 (0.70%) SSL
8 8 (0.62%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.55%) Ethernet
9 7 (0.55%) Modbus
9 7 (0.55%) RS-232
9 7 (0.55%) RS-485
10 6 (0.47%) Internet
10 6 (0.47%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.23%) DSL
13 2 (0.16%) BGP
13 2 (0.16%) NAS
13 2 (0.16%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (12.17%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (6.55%) NoSQL
3 78 (6.08%) Data Lake
4 62 (4.84%) SQL Server
5 57 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
5 57 (4.45%) DynamoDB
5 57 (4.45%) Power BI
6 52 (4.06%) MongoDB
7 50 (3.90%) Relational Database
8 48 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 42 (3.28%) Delta Lake
10 38 (2.96%) Redis
11 33 (2.57%) MySQL
12 27 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
13 23 (1.79%) Big Data
14 21 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
16 17 (1.33%) Metadata
17 14 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
17 14 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 397 (30.97%) Jenkins
2 255 (19.89%) GitLab
3 250 (19.50%) Git
4 174 (13.57%) JIRA
5 86 (6.71%) JUnit
6 55 (4.29%) Cucumber
7 52 (4.06%) Selenium
8 46 (3.59%) Sonatype Nexus
9 41 (3.20%) Artifactory
9 41 (3.20%) Cypress.io
10 39 (3.04%) JMeter
11 36 (2.81%) Bitbucket
12 33 (2.57%) Postman
13 32 (2.50%) CircleCI
13 32 (2.50%) Gradle
14 30 (2.34%) Maven
15 28 (2.18%) SonarQube
16 23 (1.79%) MLflow
17 21 (1.64%) Gatling
18 19 (1.48%) REST Assured
General
1 311 (24.26%) Social Skills
2 202 (15.76%) Finance
3 160 (12.48%) Public Sector
4 92 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (6.71%) Banking
6 21 (1.64%) Military
6 21 (1.64%) Retail
7 18 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (1.25%) Front Office
9 15 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.09%) Investment Banking
11 11 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (0.78%) Legal
13 9 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.55%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.55%) Law
14 7 (0.55%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 260 (20.28%) Developer
2 204 (15.91%) Senior
3 183 (14.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 115 (8.97%) Data Engineer
5 99 (7.72%) Architect
5 99 (7.72%) Lead
6 88 (6.86%) Cloud Engineer
7 82 (6.40%) Platform Engineer
8 78 (6.08%) AWS Engineer
9 64 (4.99%) Azure Engineer
9 64 (4.99%) Full-Stack Developer
10 62 (4.84%) Java Developer
11 46 (3.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 46 (3.59%) Software Engineer
12 45 (3.51%) AWS DevOps
13 43 (3.35%) Senior Developer
14 39 (3.04%) GCP Engineer
15 38 (2.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 37 (2.89%) Tester
17 35 (2.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (11.39%) Kafka
2 144 (11.23%) REST
3 131 (10.22%) Spring
4 128 (9.98%) React
5 114 (8.89%) Node.js
6 109 (8.50%) .NET
7 98 (7.64%) Spring Boot
8 92 (7.18%) RESTful
9 67 (5.23%) Playwright
10 57 (4.45%) AngularJS
10 57 (4.45%) PySpark
11 48 (3.74%) Elastic Stack
12 45 (3.51%) CSS
13 44 (3.43%) JSON
14 41 (3.20%) OAuth
15 40 (3.12%) Jest
16 37 (2.89%) HTML
16 37 (2.89%) PyTorch
17 36 (2.81%) FastAPI
18 35 (2.73%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 210 (16.38%) Cloud Native
2 70 (5.46%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (4.37%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (2.26%) Public Cloud
6 20 (1.56%) Onboarding
7 19 (1.48%) Virtual Team
8 18 (1.40%) AI Agents
8 18 (1.40%) Algorithms
9 16 (1.25%) Security Posture
10 14 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.09%) NHS
11 12 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (0.94%) Mobile App
12 11 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
12 11 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (0.86%) Life Science
12 11 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (0.86%) Replication
12 11 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 153 (11.93%) Linux
2 43 (3.35%) Windows
3 30 (2.34%) Unix
4 20 (1.56%) Android
5 17 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.09%) VMS
7 11 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
9 6 (0.47%) Windows Server
10 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.23%) Debian
12 3 (0.23%) Rocky
12 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.078%) Alpine Linux
14 1 (0.078%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 931 (72.62%) CI/CD
2 766 (59.75%) DevOps
3 461 (35.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 395 (30.81%) Agile
5 318 (24.80%) Containerisation
6 285 (22.23%) Test Automation
7 246 (19.19%) Observability
8 245 (19.11%) AI
9 220 (17.16%) Microservices
10 213 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
11 179 (13.96%) Analytics
12 176 (13.73%) Migration
13 175 (13.65%) Platform Engineering
14 152 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
15 136 (10.61%) Data Pipeline
16 130 (10.14%) Full-Stack Development
17 129 (10.06%) Software Engineering
18 126 (9.83%) Data Engineering
19 116 (9.05%) Data Modelling
20 114 (8.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 608 (47.43%) Python
2 306 (23.87%) SQL
3 252 (19.66%) Java
4 162 (12.64%) Bash
5 154 (12.01%) JavaScript
6 132 (10.30%) TypeScript
7 123 (9.59%) PowerShell
8 118 (9.20%) C#
9 60 (4.68%) Go
10 59 (4.60%) Bicep
11 34 (2.65%) Shell Script
12 26 (2.03%) Scala
13 23 (1.79%) Ruby
14 16 (1.25%) Kotlin
15 15 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (0.94%) Swift
17 11 (0.86%) Groovy
18 10 (0.78%) C++
19 9 (0.70%) C
20 7 (0.55%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 405 (31.59%) Security Cleared
2 317 (24.73%) SC Cleared
3 60 (4.68%) Degree
4 45 (3.51%) Azure Certification
5 44 (3.43%) DV Cleared
6 37 (2.89%) AWS Certification
7 35 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 11 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.86%) OCP
11 11 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
12 10 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (0.62%) CISSP
15 5 (0.39%) CCNP
16 4 (0.31%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (7.49%) QA
2 68 (5.30%) Data Quality
3 45 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.03%) GDPR
5 25 (1.95%) WCAG
6 20 (1.56%) NIST
7 19 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (1.40%) PCI DSS
9 14 (1.09%) NCSC
10 7 (0.55%) EU AI Act
10 7 (0.55%) GRC
11 6 (0.47%) SLA
12 5 (0.39%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.23%) Def Stans
13 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
14 2 (0.16%) MiFID
14 2 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 393 (30.66%) Docker
2 34 (2.65%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.56%) VMware NSX
3 20 (1.56%) vSphere
4 7 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.55%) Firmware
5 6 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.23%) HDFS
7 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.078%) IAG
8 1 (0.078%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 575 (44.85%) Terraform
2 473 (36.90%) Kubernetes
3 196 (15.29%) Ansible
4 146 (11.39%) Grafana
5 107 (8.35%) Prometheus
6 66 (5.15%) Argo
7 38 (2.96%) Istio
8 28 (2.18%) Puppet
9 23 (1.79%) Progress Chef
10 20 (1.56%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.94%) NetBackup
12 11 (0.86%) Kibana
12 11 (0.86%) Packer
12 11 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.70%) linkerd
13 9 (0.70%) Podman
14 7 (0.55%) Sysdig
15 4 (0.31%) HAProxy
15 4 (0.31%) Kubeflow
15 4 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 235 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 108 (8.42%) Databricks
3 93 (7.25%) Google
4 83 (6.47%) Splunk
5 49 (3.82%) VMware
6 47 (3.67%) Oracle
7 42 (3.28%) OpenAI
8 41 (3.20%) Red Hat
9 20 (1.56%) Pure Storage
9 20 (1.56%) ServiceNow
10 18 (1.40%) Atlassian
11 16 (1.25%) Sonatype
12 15 (1.17%) Dynatrace
12 15 (1.17%) Foundry
12 15 (1.17%) Salesforce
13 13 (1.01%) SAP
14 11 (0.86%) Commvault
14 11 (0.86%) Informatica
15 10 (0.78%) New Relic
16 9 (0.70%) Cisco