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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 118 155
Rank change year-on-year +35 +37 -29
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,264 597 567
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.92% 2.39% 1.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.32% 6.34% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 848 408 356
10th Percentile £380 £384 £359
25th Percentile £438 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £529
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% -11.09%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £516 £532
% change year-on-year +1.74% -2.92% -9.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 32
10th Percentile £47.75 £25.48 £48.70
25th Percentile £54.22 £25.81 £69.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £26.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +138.25% -62.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £27.06 -
90th Percentile - £27.33 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £26.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +138.25% -62.14% +27.27%

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 15,187 9,412 12,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.05% 37.68% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,287 6,395 8,605
10th Percentile £325 £310 £306
25th Percentile £413 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 235 338
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.12 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.59 £25.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.03% +15.91% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £39.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.03 £69.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year +31.12% +30.00% -37.14%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +28 735 £550 - 176
North of England +20 233 £500 +4.17% 114
Yorkshire +26 170 £493 -5.24% 41
Midlands +17 96 £492 +3.58% 55
West Midlands +2 82 £492 +3.63% 22
South West +13 75 £456 -23.96% 55
South East -43 70 £500 +4.93% 128
North West -29 56 £550 +16.53% 57
East of England -12 31 £500 -9.09% 54
East Midlands -8 13 £447 -8.31% 33
North East -27 12 £450 -12.20% 17
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
1 109 (8.62%) Confluence
2 44 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (2.53%) SharePoint
4 24 (1.90%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.19%) Apache
6 13 (1.03%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.47%) Tuxedo
9 3 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) SAS
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.079%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.079%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.079%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.079%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.55%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.079%) Notion
6 1 (0.079%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.079%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.32%) Sage X3
2 4 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.24%) Findur
3 3 (0.24%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.079%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 671 (53.09%) GitHub Actions
2 582 (46.04%) Azure
3 561 (44.38%) AWS
4 335 (26.50%) Azure DevOps
5 185 (14.64%) GCP
6 178 (14.08%) Serverless
7 125 (9.89%) AWS Lambda
8 123 (9.73%) Amazon S3
9 93 (7.36%) Amazon EKS
10 92 (7.28%) Power Platform
11 83 (6.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 83 (6.57%) AWS CloudFormation
12 82 (6.49%) Azure Monitor
13 78 (6.17%) GitHub Copilot
14 77 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
15 70 (5.54%) Azure AKS
16 67 (5.30%) Azure Data Factory
17 64 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
18 61 (4.83%) Entra ID
19 48 (3.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 68 (5.38%) Firewall
2 63 (4.98%) DNS
3 45 (3.56%) VPN
4 29 (2.29%) Network Security
5 13 (1.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 12 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.87%) VLAN
8 10 (0.79%) SSL
9 9 (0.71%) BIG-IP
9 9 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 8 (0.63%) HTTP
11 7 (0.55%) Internet
11 7 (0.55%) Wireless
12 6 (0.47%) WAN
13 5 (0.40%) BGP
13 5 (0.40%) Ethernet
13 5 (0.40%) Modbus
13 5 (0.40%) RS-232
13 5 (0.40%) RS-485
14 4 (0.32%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (8.07%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (6.41%) SQL Server
3 75 (5.93%) Data Lake
4 63 (4.98%) NoSQL
5 62 (4.91%) Power BI
6 52 (4.11%) MongoDB
7 49 (3.88%) DynamoDB
8 47 (3.72%) Relational Database
9 46 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 43 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
11 41 (3.24%) Delta Lake
12 40 (3.16%) Redis
13 36 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
14 30 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
15 23 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
16 22 (1.74%) Big Data
16 22 (1.74%) Metadata
17 20 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
18 19 (1.50%) MySQL
19 18 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 395 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 257 (20.33%) GitLab
3 230 (18.20%) Git
4 162 (12.82%) JIRA
5 81 (6.41%) JUnit
6 61 (4.83%) Selenium
7 51 (4.03%) Cucumber
8 41 (3.24%) Gradle
8 41 (3.24%) JMeter
9 40 (3.16%) Gatling
10 36 (2.85%) Bitbucket
10 36 (2.85%) Cypress.io
11 35 (2.77%) SonarQube
12 34 (2.69%) Maven
12 34 (2.69%) REST Assured
13 31 (2.45%) CircleCI
14 30 (2.37%) Postman
15 23 (1.82%) Mockito
16 21 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
17 18 (1.42%) Artifactory
General
1 293 (23.18%) Social Skills
2 211 (16.69%) Finance
3 145 (11.47%) Public Sector
4 97 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (6.25%) Banking
6 28 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (1.98%) Retail
8 20 (1.58%) Military
9 19 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (1.34%) Legal
11 15 (1.19%) Law
12 13 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (0.95%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.63%) Financial Institution
16 8 (0.63%) Front Office
17 7 (0.55%) Marketing
17 7 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
18 4 (0.32%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 230 (18.20%) Developer
2 220 (17.41%) Senior
3 169 (13.37%) DevOps Engineer
4 117 (9.26%) Architect
5 112 (8.86%) Data Engineer
6 88 (6.96%) Lead
7 83 (6.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 81 (6.41%) Platform Engineer
9 73 (5.78%) AWS Engineer
10 60 (4.75%) Azure Engineer
10 60 (4.75%) Java Developer
11 57 (4.51%) Software Engineer
12 50 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 50 (3.96%) Senior Developer
13 43 (3.40%) Full-Stack Developer
14 42 (3.32%) Test Engineer
15 40 (3.16%) GCP Engineer
16 35 (2.77%) Senior DevOps
16 35 (2.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 34 (2.69%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (11.39%) REST
2 127 (10.05%) Spring
3 125 (9.89%) Kafka
4 102 (8.07%) .NET
4 102 (8.07%) RESTful
5 99 (7.83%) React
5 99 (7.83%) Spring Boot
6 68 (5.38%) Playwright
7 64 (5.06%) PySpark
8 63 (4.98%) Node.js
9 47 (3.72%) OpenTelemetry
10 40 (3.16%) OAuth
11 37 (2.93%) YAML
12 35 (2.77%) .NET Framework
13 34 (2.69%) GraphQL
14 32 (2.53%) FastAPI
14 32 (2.53%) OAuth2
15 31 (2.45%) HTML
15 31 (2.45%) WireMock
16 30 (2.37%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 254 (20.09%) Cloud Native
2 107 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (5.22%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.77%) Data Centre
5 32 (2.53%) Onboarding
6 30 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 27 (2.14%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.06%) Mobile App
9 25 (1.98%) AI Agents
10 18 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
11 17 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.03%) NHS
14 12 (0.95%) Low-Code
14 12 (0.95%) Security Posture
15 11 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
15 11 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 121 (9.57%) Linux
2 60 (4.75%) Windows
3 28 (2.22%) Android
4 26 (2.06%) Apple iOS
5 25 (1.98%) Unix
6 18 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.95%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.71%) VMS
9 5 (0.40%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.32%) Debian
10 4 (0.32%) Rocky
11 3 (0.24%) CentOS
12 2 (0.16%) AIX
12 2 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.16%) MVS
12 2 (0.16%) zOS
13 1 (0.079%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.079%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 951 (75.24%) CI/CD
2 728 (57.59%) DevOps
3 482 (38.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 404 (31.96%) Agile
5 288 (22.78%) Test Automation
6 266 (21.04%) Containerisation
7 260 (20.57%) Observability
8 228 (18.04%) Microservices
9 210 (16.61%) AI
10 209 (16.53%) Platform Engineering
11 166 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 165 (13.05%) Software Engineering
13 164 (12.97%) Analytics
14 157 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
15 152 (12.03%) Migration
16 123 (9.73%) Event-Driven
17 122 (9.65%) Data Pipeline
18 116 (9.18%) Data Engineering
19 115 (9.10%) Data Modelling
20 111 (8.78%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 536 (42.41%) Python
2 311 (24.60%) SQL
3 237 (18.75%) Java
4 155 (12.26%) Bash
5 136 (10.76%) PowerShell
6 130 (10.28%) C#
7 129 (10.21%) JavaScript
8 113 (8.94%) TypeScript
9 72 (5.70%) Bicep
10 35 (2.77%) Go
11 34 (2.69%) Scala
12 33 (2.61%) Kotlin
13 29 (2.29%) Shell Script
14 22 (1.74%) Ruby
15 20 (1.58%) Swift
16 10 (0.79%) Groovy
16 10 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.71%) ActionScript
18 8 (0.63%) C
18 8 (0.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 370 (29.27%) Security Cleared
2 304 (24.05%) SC Cleared
3 51 (4.03%) Degree
4 44 (3.48%) DV Cleared
5 42 (3.32%) Azure Certification
6 36 (2.85%) AWS Certification
7 28 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.87%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.63%) CISSP
14 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 7 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 6 (0.47%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.47%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (10.44%) QA
2 77 (6.09%) Data Quality
3 62 (4.91%) Accessibility
4 33 (2.61%) GDPR
5 27 (2.14%) WCAG
6 23 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.58%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.42%) NIST
9 8 (0.63%) GRC
10 7 (0.55%) NCSC
11 6 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.40%) PSD2
13 4 (0.32%) SEPA
14 3 (0.24%) HL7
14 3 (0.24%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
15 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 349 (27.61%) Docker
2 32 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.58%) vSphere
6 19 (1.50%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.47%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.40%) Firmware
10 4 (0.32%) NFS
11 3 (0.24%) IAG
12 2 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.16%) SRDF
12 2 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 579 (45.81%) Terraform
2 428 (33.86%) Kubernetes
3 185 (14.64%) Ansible
4 156 (12.34%) Grafana
5 138 (10.92%) Prometheus
6 48 (3.80%) Argo
7 23 (1.82%) Istio
7 23 (1.82%) Puppet
8 20 (1.58%) vCenter Server
9 16 (1.27%) Packer
10 14 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
11 13 (1.03%) Kibana
11 13 (1.03%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.71%) HAProxy
12 9 (0.71%) NetBackup
13 5 (0.40%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.32%) Rancher
15 3 (0.24%) Consul
Vendors
1 221 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 97 (7.67%) Databricks
3 85 (6.72%) Google
4 77 (6.09%) Splunk
5 46 (3.64%) Oracle
6 39 (3.09%) VMware
7 33 (2.61%) Red Hat
8 31 (2.45%) Dynatrace
9 30 (2.37%) OpenAI
10 20 (1.58%) Pure Storage
11 19 (1.50%) Salesforce
11 19 (1.50%) ServiceNow
12 16 (1.27%) Checkmarx
12 16 (1.27%) Informatica
13 15 (1.19%) Cisco
13 15 (1.19%) Foundry
14 14 (1.11%) Atlassian
14 14 (1.11%) F5
14 14 (1.11%) IBM
15 13 (1.03%) SAP