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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 104 139
Rank change year-on-year +18 +35 -11
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,377 692 590
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.01% 2.51% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.58% 6.74% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 935 475 394
10th Percentile £400 £363 £310
25th Percentile £450 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £628
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 34
10th Percentile £46.25 - £41.75
25th Percentile £56.32 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.87% +50.00% -9.68%
75th Percentile £75.00 £110.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £105.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -39.87% +50.00% -8.20%

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 16,045 10,267 11,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.05% 37.19% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,703 6,965 7,967
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £421 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 267 241
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +9.24% -29.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.00
90th Percentile £83.64 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.17
% change year-on-year +26.67% +14.34% -30.96%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 8 August 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 +22 804 £550 - 530
North of England +19 257 £500 +2.04% 172
Yorkshire +26 178 £500 - 61
Midlands +10 109 £496 +4.45% 72
West Midlands +8 99 £492 +3.63% 42
South East -39 83 £525 +10.53% 157
South West -4 72 £500 -16.67% 72
North West -22 64 £589 +25.48% 87
East of England +3 32 £505 -8.18% 54
North East -31 17 £450 -5.26% 26
East Midlands -7 9 £500 +1.01% 30
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
1 125 (9.08%) Confluence
2 48 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (2.69%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.60%) Apache
4 22 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (0.58%) nginx
7 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.44%) Tuxedo
9 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.15%) CMS
10 2 (0.15%) Mendix
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
10 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.073%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (0.65%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.29%) Trello
6 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.073%) Notion
7 1 (0.073%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.36%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.22%) Findur
3 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.22%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 742 (53.89%) GitHub Actions
2 702 (50.98%) Azure
3 630 (45.75%) AWS
4 405 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
5 216 (15.69%) GCP
6 163 (11.84%) Serverless
7 133 (9.66%) Amazon S3
8 119 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
9 114 (8.28%) Amazon EKS
9 114 (8.28%) GitHub Copilot
10 101 (7.33%) Azure Monitor
11 97 (7.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 86 (6.25%) Power Platform
13 82 (5.95%) Azure AKS
14 77 (5.59%) Entra ID
15 75 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
16 72 (5.23%) Amazon ECS
17 70 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
18 59 (4.28%) Snowflake
19 55 (3.99%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 71 (5.16%) Firewall
2 67 (4.87%) DNS
3 57 (4.14%) VPN
4 30 (2.18%) Network Security
5 19 (1.38%) TCP/IP
6 17 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 17 (1.23%) VLAN
7 14 (1.02%) SSL
8 12 (0.87%) BGP
9 10 (0.73%) DHCP
10 9 (0.65%) BIG-IP
10 9 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 9 (0.65%) OSPF
10 9 (0.65%) WAN
10 9 (0.65%) Wireless
11 8 (0.58%) IPsec
12 7 (0.51%) HTTP
12 7 (0.51%) Internet
13 6 (0.44%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (6.61%) SQL Server
3 75 (5.45%) NoSQL
4 63 (4.58%) Power BI
5 61 (4.43%) MongoDB
6 56 (4.07%) Data Lake
7 46 (3.34%) DynamoDB
7 46 (3.34%) Relational Database
8 43 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
9 39 (2.83%) Redis
10 38 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
11 37 (2.69%) Delta Lake
12 35 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
13 32 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
14 26 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
15 24 (1.74%) Metadata
16 21 (1.53%) Big Data
16 21 (1.53%) BigQuery
17 17 (1.23%) MySQL
18 16 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 425 (30.86%) Jenkins
2 294 (21.35%) GitLab
3 266 (19.32%) Git
4 179 (13.00%) JIRA
5 76 (5.52%) Selenium
6 73 (5.30%) JUnit
7 56 (4.07%) Cucumber
8 47 (3.41%) Bitbucket
8 47 (3.41%) SonarQube
9 42 (3.05%) Cypress.io
10 39 (2.83%) Gatling
10 39 (2.83%) JMeter
11 36 (2.61%) Gradle
12 33 (2.40%) REST Assured
13 32 (2.32%) Maven
14 31 (2.25%) CircleCI
15 30 (2.18%) Postman
16 27 (1.96%) Claude Code
17 23 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
18 21 (1.53%) WebDriver
General
1 338 (24.55%) Social Skills
2 260 (18.88%) Finance
3 155 (11.26%) Public Sector
4 113 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (5.88%) Banking
6 42 (3.05%) Retail
7 29 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.74%) Legal
9 23 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.16%) Law
12 15 (1.09%) Investment Banking
13 14 (1.02%) Telecoms
14 13 (0.94%) Military
15 12 (0.87%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (0.65%) Aerospace
17 9 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.58%) Manufacturing
18 8 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 256 (18.59%) Senior
2 242 (17.57%) Developer
3 175 (12.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 124 (9.01%) Architect
5 122 (8.86%) Lead
6 101 (7.33%) Data Engineer
7 81 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
8 76 (5.52%) Platform Engineer
9 73 (5.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 66 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
11 64 (4.65%) Senior Developer
12 62 (4.50%) Software Engineer
13 60 (4.36%) Java Developer
14 47 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
15 46 (3.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 46 (3.34%) Test Engineer
16 44 (3.20%) Full-Stack Developer
17 43 (3.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 37 (2.69%) AWS DevOps
19 36 (2.61%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (15.18%) REST
2 131 (9.51%) Kafka
3 128 (9.30%) RESTful
4 126 (9.15%) Spring
5 117 (8.50%) .NET
6 114 (8.28%) React
7 96 (6.97%) Spring Boot
8 84 (6.10%) Playwright
9 66 (4.79%) Node.js
10 53 (3.85%) PySpark
11 46 (3.34%) OAuth
12 42 (3.05%) AngularJS
13 40 (2.90%) .NET Framework
13 40 (2.90%) OpenTelemetry
13 40 (2.90%) YAML
14 38 (2.76%) HTML
14 38 (2.76%) JSON
14 38 (2.76%) OAuth2
15 37 (2.69%) FastAPI
16 33 (2.40%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 294 (21.35%) Cloud Native
2 120 (8.71%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (5.30%) Product Ownership
4 50 (3.63%) AI Agents
5 40 (2.90%) Mobile App
6 37 (2.69%) Data Centre
6 37 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 34 (2.47%) Onboarding
8 30 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
9 26 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
11 21 (1.53%) Data Structures
11 21 (1.53%) Security Posture
12 20 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
12 20 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (1.16%) Algorithms
15 15 (1.09%) NHS
15 15 (1.09%) Private Cloud
15 15 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 127 (9.22%) Linux
2 64 (4.65%) Windows
3 33 (2.40%) Android
4 31 (2.25%) Apple iOS
5 30 (2.18%) Unix
6 22 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (1.45%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.65%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.36%) VMS
10 4 (0.29%) Debian
10 4 (0.29%) Rocky
11 3 (0.22%) CentOS
12 2 (0.15%) AIX
12 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.15%) MVS
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,038 (75.38%) CI/CD
2 816 (59.26%) DevOps
3 556 (40.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 490 (35.58%) Agile
5 357 (25.93%) Test Automation
6 336 (24.40%) Observability
7 308 (22.37%) Containerisation
8 279 (20.26%) AI
9 271 (19.68%) Microservices
10 216 (15.69%) Software Engineering
11 215 (15.61%) Platform Engineering
12 203 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 167 (12.13%) Analytics
14 164 (11.91%) Problem-Solving
15 160 (11.62%) Event-Driven
16 129 (9.37%) Technical Leadership
17 127 (9.22%) Data Pipeline
17 127 (9.22%) DevSecOps
18 121 (8.79%) Stakeholder Management
19 120 (8.71%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 589 (42.77%) Python
2 323 (23.46%) SQL
3 260 (18.88%) Java
4 200 (14.52%) Bash
5 175 (12.71%) PowerShell
6 144 (10.46%) C#
7 139 (10.09%) JavaScript
8 137 (9.95%) TypeScript
9 88 (6.39%) Bicep
10 47 (3.41%) Kotlin
11 44 (3.20%) Go
12 30 (2.18%) Shell Script
13 29 (2.11%) Scala
14 23 (1.67%) Ruby
14 23 (1.67%) Swift
15 14 (1.02%) Groovy
16 12 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.65%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.65%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.65%) C
Qualifications
1 432 (31.37%) Security Cleared
2 376 (27.31%) SC Cleared
3 63 (4.58%) Degree
4 62 (4.50%) Azure Certification
5 47 (3.41%) AWS Certification
6 41 (2.98%) DV Cleared
7 36 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.80%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.65%) CISSP
15 9 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 8 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (0.44%) CCNP
18 5 (0.36%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (12.85%) QA
2 76 (5.52%) Data Quality
3 66 (4.79%) Accessibility
4 35 (2.54%) GDPR
5 24 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.74%) WCAG
6 14 (1.02%) NIST
7 10 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (0.58%) GRC
9 7 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.51%) NCSC
10 5 (0.36%) HL7
10 5 (0.36%) PSD2
11 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.29%) SEPA
12 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.073%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.073%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 425 (30.86%) Docker
2 46 (3.34%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.16%) vSphere
6 14 (1.02%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.80%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.58%) IAG
9 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.29%) NFS
10 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.15%) Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.15%) SRDF
11 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 657 (47.71%) Terraform
2 492 (35.73%) Kubernetes
3 203 (14.74%) Ansible
4 184 (13.36%) Grafana
5 156 (11.33%) Prometheus
6 62 (4.50%) Argo
7 29 (2.11%) Puppet
8 20 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.31%) Packer
9 18 (1.31%) Progress Chef
10 16 (1.16%) Istio
11 13 (0.94%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.73%) Control-M
12 10 (0.73%) Kibana
13 9 (0.65%) HAProxy
13 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (0.65%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.44%) SCCM
16 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 253 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 99 (7.19%) Databricks
3 96 (6.97%) Google
4 88 (6.39%) Splunk
5 52 (3.78%) Oracle
6 51 (3.70%) Dynatrace
7 40 (2.90%) VMware
8 36 (2.61%) Red Hat
9 33 (2.40%) Salesforce
10 32 (2.32%) ServiceNow
11 30 (2.18%) OpenAI
12 24 (1.74%) Cisco
13 23 (1.67%) Informatica
14 19 (1.38%) F5
15 18 (1.31%) Palo Alto
16 17 (1.23%) Checkmarx
16 17 (1.23%) Foundry
16 17 (1.23%) IBM
16 17 (1.23%) SAP
17 15 (1.09%) New Relic