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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 131 155
Rank change year-on-year +60 +24 -18
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,069 590 662
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.50% 1.89% 1.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.07% 5.27% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 763 397 465
10th Percentile £360 £313 £413
25th Percentile £413 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £724
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 18 4
10th Percentile £42.40 £27.56 £75.38
25th Percentile £46.00 £67.19 £75.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -9.68% +24.00%
75th Percentile £110.00 - £79.06
90th Percentile - - £79.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -10.71% -9.68% +24.00%

All Cloud 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 11,787 11,196 13,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.55% 35.81% 35.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,030 7,444 10,120
10th Percentile £304 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 148 278
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.93 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.27 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.44% +22.09% +21.11%
75th Percentile £47.50 £59.68 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.30 £29.86
% change year-on-year -14.18% +1.46% +35.73%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 +46 605 £550 - 624
North of England +38 164 £488 +10.80% 240
South East +64 98 £450 - 222
Midlands +29 85 £550 +4.76% 130
Yorkshire -1 84 £504 +14.49% 76
West Midlands +35 72 £575 +9.52% 80
North West +24 67 £425 +29.18% 141
South West 0 66 £650 - 77
East of England -10 16 £560 +6.67% 83
North East +8 15 £545 - 27
East Midlands -7 13 £418 -33.15% 50
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 88 (8.23%) Confluence
2 59 (5.52%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (1.96%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.40%) nginx
6 9 (0.84%) Apache
7 8 (0.75%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.56%) Mule
9 5 (0.47%) WordPress
10 4 (0.37%) SAS
11 3 (0.28%) CMS
12 2 (0.19%) CICS
12 2 (0.19%) JBoss
12 2 (0.19%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.19%) Traefik
12 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.094%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 26 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.47%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.19%) Trello
5 1 (0.094%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.094%) InDesign
5 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.094%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.094%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (0.37%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.094%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.094%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.094%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.094%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.094%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.094%) SAP FS
2 1 (0.094%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 522 (48.83%) AWS
2 510 (47.71%) GitHub Actions
3 454 (42.47%) Azure
4 212 (19.83%) Azure DevOps
5 185 (17.31%) GCP
6 149 (13.94%) Serverless
7 116 (10.85%) Amazon S3
8 100 (9.35%) AWS Lambda
9 83 (7.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 76 (7.11%) Amazon ECS
11 64 (5.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 60 (5.61%) OpenShift
13 57 (5.33%) Entra ID
14 55 (5.14%) Power Platform
15 54 (5.05%) Azure AKS
16 53 (4.96%) Amazon EKS
17 52 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
18 49 (4.58%) Azure Monitor
19 47 (4.40%) Datadog
19 47 (4.40%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.46%) DNS
1 37 (3.46%) Firewall
2 26 (2.43%) VPN
3 14 (1.31%) Network Security
3 14 (1.31%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.12%) WAN
5 11 (1.03%) HTTP
6 8 (0.75%) SD-WAN
6 8 (0.75%) SSL
7 7 (0.65%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.47%) Internet
8 5 (0.47%) OpenLDAP
8 5 (0.47%) SSH
9 4 (0.37%) LAN
9 4 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.28%) Multicast
10 3 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.19%) Calico
11 2 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
11 2 (0.19%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (14.78%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (6.83%) NoSQL
3 65 (6.08%) Amazon RDS
4 50 (4.68%) Relational Database
5 48 (4.49%) MongoDB
6 43 (4.02%) DynamoDB
7 40 (3.74%) SQL Server
8 35 (3.27%) Redis
9 34 (3.18%) MySQL
10 29 (2.71%) Data Lake
10 29 (2.71%) Power BI
11 23 (2.15%) BigQuery
12 21 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
13 20 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
13 20 (1.87%) Delta Lake
14 19 (1.78%) Big Data
15 17 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
15 17 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
15 17 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (1.31%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 295 (27.60%) Jenkins
2 227 (21.23%) Git
3 193 (18.05%) GitLab
4 168 (15.72%) JIRA
5 56 (5.24%) Sonatype Nexus
6 55 (5.14%) SonarQube
7 50 (4.68%) JUnit
8 48 (4.49%) Bitbucket
9 46 (4.30%) CircleCI
10 44 (4.12%) Cypress.io
11 42 (3.93%) Artifactory
12 39 (3.65%) Cucumber
12 39 (3.65%) Gradle
13 29 (2.71%) Maven
14 27 (2.53%) Selenium
15 26 (2.43%) Postman
16 21 (1.96%) JMeter
17 18 (1.68%) Snyk
17 18 (1.68%) SpecFlow
18 14 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 271 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 160 (14.97%) Finance
3 127 (11.88%) Public Sector
4 78 (7.30%) Banking
5 67 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
8 16 (1.50%) Military
9 15 (1.40%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.22%) Marketing
11 12 (1.12%) Front Office
11 12 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.03%) Aerospace
12 11 (1.03%) Telecoms
13 10 (0.94%) Retail
14 8 (0.75%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.56%) Games
16 5 (0.47%) Billing
16 5 (0.47%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 252 (23.57%) Developer
2 166 (15.53%) Senior
3 163 (15.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 94 (8.79%) AWS Engineer
5 75 (7.02%) Data Engineer
6 73 (6.83%) Architect
7 57 (5.33%) Lead
8 56 (5.24%) AWS DevOps
9 55 (5.14%) Cloud Engineer
10 53 (4.96%) Java Developer
10 53 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
10 53 (4.96%) Software Engineer
11 50 (4.68%) Full-Stack Developer
12 49 (4.58%) Senior Developer
13 47 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
14 44 (4.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 35 (3.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 32 (2.99%) DevSecOps Engineer
17 30 (2.81%) Security Engineer
18 29 (2.71%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (12.82%) REST
2 123 (11.51%) React
3 109 (10.20%) Node.js
4 106 (9.92%) Kafka
5 97 (9.07%) .NET
6 91 (8.51%) RESTful
7 75 (7.02%) AngularJS
7 75 (7.02%) Spring
8 65 (6.08%) HTML
9 60 (5.61%) Spring Boot
10 58 (5.43%) CSS
11 57 (5.33%) OAuth
12 48 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
13 45 (4.21%) JSON
13 45 (4.21%) Playwright
13 45 (4.21%) YAML
14 43 (4.02%) GraphQL
15 39 (3.65%) FastAPI
16 34 (3.18%) pytest
17 33 (3.09%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 165 (15.43%) Cloud Native
2 40 (3.74%) Product Ownership
3 35 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
5 29 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (2.71%) Public Cloud
6 27 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (1.87%) Algorithms
8 17 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.40%) Life Science
9 15 (1.40%) Mobile App
9 15 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.31%) Genomics
10 14 (1.31%) PKI
11 13 (1.22%) Clustering
11 13 (1.22%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.12%) AI Agents
12 12 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
12 12 (1.12%) Replication
12 12 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 138 (12.91%) Linux
2 42 (3.93%) Windows
3 32 (2.99%) Unix
4 22 (2.06%) Android
5 15 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (1.31%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.75%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.56%) Solaris
9 5 (0.47%) CentOS
10 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.28%) VMS
12 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.19%) zOS
13 1 (0.094%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.094%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.094%) MVS
13 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (68.66%) CI/CD
2 611 (57.16%) DevOps
3 383 (35.83%) Agile
4 379 (35.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 270 (25.26%) Containerisation
6 210 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
7 207 (19.36%) Microservices
8 197 (18.43%) Test Automation
9 179 (16.74%) AI
10 141 (13.19%) Observability
11 136 (12.72%) Migration
12 130 (12.16%) Software Engineering
13 120 (11.23%) Full-Stack Development
14 111 (10.38%) Scrum
15 106 (9.92%) Data Pipeline
16 95 (8.89%) Analytics
16 95 (8.89%) DevSecOps
16 95 (8.89%) TDD
17 86 (8.04%) Platform Engineering
18 84 (7.86%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 483 (45.18%) Python
2 226 (21.14%) SQL
3 210 (19.64%) Java
4 154 (14.41%) TypeScript
5 151 (14.13%) JavaScript
6 137 (12.82%) Bash
7 100 (9.35%) PowerShell
8 99 (9.26%) C#
9 92 (8.61%) Go
10 43 (4.02%) Bicep
11 26 (2.43%) Shell Script
12 23 (2.15%) Ruby
13 21 (1.96%) PHP
14 19 (1.78%) C++
14 19 (1.78%) Groovy
15 18 (1.68%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.84%) C
16 9 (0.84%) JSX
17 8 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.75%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 307 (28.72%) Security Cleared
2 250 (23.39%) SC Cleared
3 91 (8.51%) Degree
4 53 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (3.74%) DV Cleared
6 36 (3.37%) AWS Certification
6 36 (3.37%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 16 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (1.50%) OSCP
8 14 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 14 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.31%) CREST Certified
8 14 (1.31%) MCP
9 13 (1.22%) Tigerscheme
10 10 (0.94%) CHECK Team Member
11 8 (0.75%) CISSP
11 8 (0.75%) OCP
11 8 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (0.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (6.45%) QA
2 35 (3.27%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.18%) Data Quality
4 33 (3.09%) NIST
5 31 (2.90%) NCSC
6 27 (2.53%) GDPR
7 22 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (1.40%) EU AI Act
9 13 (1.22%) WCAG
10 8 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.65%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.47%) GRC
14 4 (0.37%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.37%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.28%) Def Stans
15 3 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.28%) ITGC
15 3 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 338 (31.62%) Docker
2 46 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.47%) NFS
6 5 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.37%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.37%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (0.37%) vSphere
8 3 (0.28%) Firmware
8 3 (0.28%) QEMU
9 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.19%) KVM
9 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.094%) etcd
10 1 (0.094%) SRDF
10 1 (0.094%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.094%) Xen
Systems Management
1 458 (42.84%) Terraform
2 401 (37.51%) Kubernetes
3 142 (13.28%) Ansible
4 131 (12.25%) Grafana
5 111 (10.38%) Prometheus
6 44 (4.12%) Argo
7 39 (3.65%) Puppet
8 28 (2.62%) Progress Chef
9 23 (2.15%) Istio
10 17 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (1.40%) Packer
12 14 (1.31%) Nmap
13 12 (1.12%) Podman
14 7 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.65%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.65%) Sysdig
15 5 (0.47%) Kibana
16 4 (0.37%) logstash
16 4 (0.37%) QRadar
Vendors
1 162 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 91 (8.51%) Google
3 67 (6.27%) Splunk
4 60 (5.61%) Databricks
5 43 (4.02%) VMware
6 40 (3.74%) Red Hat
7 28 (2.62%) OpenAI
8 27 (2.53%) Atlassian
9 26 (2.43%) Oracle
10 19 (1.78%) Veracode
11 17 (1.59%) ServiceNow
12 15 (1.40%) Foundry
12 15 (1.40%) Salesforce
13 11 (1.03%) CyberArk
14 10 (0.94%) Cisco
14 10 (0.94%) NetApp
14 10 (0.94%) Okta
15 9 (0.84%) IBM
15 9 (0.84%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.84%) Sonatype