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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 124 171
Rank change year-on-year +56 +47 -44
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,293 519 506
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.45% 2.13% 1.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.38% 5.63% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 929 366 348
10th Percentile £359 £355 £400
25th Percentile £415 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £547 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +3.25% -11.67%
75th Percentile £623 £629 £625
90th Percentile £700 £729 £688
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 5
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 -
25th Percentile £43.00 £25.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.65% -15.77% -47.58%
75th Percentile £68.50 £58.44 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 £60.30
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +75.34% -15.77% -39.81%

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 13,785 9,218 12,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.82% 37.90% 32.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,506 6,476 8,749
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £611 £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 418 173 332
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.51% +26.19% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £40.75
90th Percentile £80.06 £74.75 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £26.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +42.31% +23.81% -18.69%

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 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 24 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 24 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 +42 736 £550 -2.22% 224
North of England +47 211 £500 +5.26% 140
Yorkshire +16 129 £490 -2.00% 65
South East +18 110 £462 -7.70% 124
Midlands +17 99 £525 +13.51% 50
South West +31 82 £538 +2.38% 50
West Midlands +7 80 £550 +22.22% 22
North West +4 71 £513 +7.89% 58
East of England -20 23 £510 +19.81% 49
East Midlands -15 18 £402 -19.60% 28
North East -6 13 £545 +50.34% 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
1 121 (9.36%) Confluence
2 50 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (2.40%) SharePoint
4 29 (2.24%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.16%) Apache
6 14 (1.08%) 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 (0.15%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.15%) WordPress
11 1 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.077%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.077%) Appian
11 1 (0.077%) SAS
11 1 (0.077%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.077%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 28 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.62%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.077%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.077%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.077%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (0.54%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.23%) Findur
3 3 (0.23%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.077%) Actimize
5 1 (0.077%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.077%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.077%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.077%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.077%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 648 (50.12%) GitHub Actions
2 604 (46.71%) Azure
3 593 (45.86%) AWS
4 317 (24.52%) Azure DevOps
5 200 (15.47%) Serverless
6 195 (15.08%) GCP
7 135 (10.44%) AWS Lambda
8 116 (8.97%) Amazon S3
9 109 (8.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 103 (7.97%) Amazon EKS
11 92 (7.12%) Power Platform
12 91 (7.04%) Amazon ECS
13 86 (6.65%) Azure Data Factory
14 79 (6.11%) Azure AKS
14 79 (6.11%) Azure Monitor
15 78 (6.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 78 (6.03%) OpenShift
16 68 (5.26%) Entra ID
16 68 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
17 59 (4.56%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 65 (5.03%) Firewall
2 59 (4.56%) DNS
3 35 (2.71%) VPN
4 30 (2.32%) Network Security
5 14 (1.08%) HTTP
6 11 (0.85%) SD-WAN
6 11 (0.85%) WAN
7 9 (0.70%) SSL
8 8 (0.62%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.62%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.54%) Ethernet
9 7 (0.54%) Modbus
9 7 (0.54%) RS-232
9 7 (0.54%) RS-485
10 6 (0.46%) Internet
11 5 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.23%) DSL
13 1 (0.077%) BGP
13 1 (0.077%) Intranet
13 1 (0.077%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (13.30%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.96%) NoSQL
3 79 (6.11%) Data Lake
4 63 (4.87%) SQL Server
5 57 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
5 57 (4.41%) MongoDB
6 56 (4.33%) Power BI
7 55 (4.25%) DynamoDB
8 51 (3.94%) Relational Database
9 48 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 41 (3.17%) Delta Lake
11 39 (3.02%) Redis
12 33 (2.55%) MySQL
13 28 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
14 23 (1.78%) Big Data
15 21 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (1.16%) DocumentDB
16 15 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
16 15 (1.16%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 408 (31.55%) Jenkins
2 257 (19.88%) Git
3 254 (19.64%) GitLab
4 182 (14.08%) JIRA
5 88 (6.81%) JUnit
6 57 (4.41%) Cucumber
7 52 (4.02%) Selenium
7 52 (4.02%) Sonatype Nexus
8 43 (3.33%) Artifactory
8 43 (3.33%) Cypress.io
9 39 (3.02%) JMeter
10 36 (2.78%) Bitbucket
11 35 (2.71%) Gradle
12 33 (2.55%) Postman
13 32 (2.47%) CircleCI
14 31 (2.40%) Maven
15 27 (2.09%) SonarQube
16 21 (1.62%) Gatling
16 21 (1.62%) MLflow
17 19 (1.47%) REST Assured
General
1 326 (25.21%) Social Skills
2 208 (16.09%) Finance
3 159 (12.30%) Public Sector
4 94 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (6.88%) Banking
6 23 (1.78%) Military
7 20 (1.55%) Retail
8 16 (1.24%) Front Office
9 15 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.08%) Investment Banking
11 12 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.62%) Legal
14 8 (0.62%) Marketing
15 7 (0.54%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.54%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.46%) Law
Job Titles
1 269 (20.80%) Developer
2 206 (15.93%) Senior
3 187 (14.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 114 (8.82%) Data Engineer
5 99 (7.66%) Lead
6 93 (7.19%) Architect
7 90 (6.96%) Cloud Engineer
8 81 (6.26%) Platform Engineer
9 78 (6.03%) AWS Engineer
10 74 (5.72%) Full-Stack Developer
11 66 (5.10%) Azure Engineer
12 65 (5.03%) Java Developer
13 49 (3.79%) Software Engineer
14 47 (3.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 45 (3.48%) AWS DevOps
16 44 (3.40%) Senior Developer
17 39 (3.02%) GCP Engineer
18 38 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 35 (2.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 35 (2.71%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (11.60%) Kafka
2 149 (11.52%) REST
3 143 (11.06%) Spring
4 135 (10.44%) React
5 124 (9.59%) Node.js
6 109 (8.43%) .NET
7 101 (7.81%) Spring Boot
8 89 (6.88%) RESTful
9 69 (5.34%) AngularJS
10 66 (5.10%) Playwright
11 56 (4.33%) CSS
12 54 (4.18%) PySpark
13 49 (3.79%) HTML
14 48 (3.71%) Elastic Stack
15 41 (3.17%) JSON
16 40 (3.09%) Jest
16 40 (3.09%) OAuth
17 36 (2.78%) PyTorch
18 35 (2.71%) FastAPI
18 35 (2.71%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 216 (16.71%) Cloud Native
2 68 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (4.10%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 21 (1.62%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.39%) Algorithms
7 18 (1.39%) Virtual Team
8 17 (1.31%) AI Agents
8 17 (1.31%) Security Posture
9 15 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
10 13 (1.01%) NHS
11 12 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (0.93%) Mobile App
12 11 (0.85%) Private Cloud
12 11 (0.85%) Replication
12 11 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 152 (11.76%) Linux
2 43 (3.33%) Windows
3 28 (2.17%) Unix
4 21 (1.62%) Android
5 17 (1.31%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.08%) VMS
7 11 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.54%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.39%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.23%) Debian
11 3 (0.23%) Rocky
11 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.077%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.077%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 939 (72.62%) CI/CD
2 780 (60.32%) DevOps
3 457 (35.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 406 (31.40%) Agile
5 329 (25.44%) Containerisation
6 281 (21.73%) Test Automation
7 243 (18.79%) AI
8 237 (18.33%) Microservices
8 237 (18.33%) Observability
9 231 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
10 178 (13.77%) Migration
11 177 (13.69%) Analytics
12 175 (13.53%) Platform Engineering
13 152 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 138 (10.67%) Full-Stack Development
15 134 (10.36%) Data Pipeline
16 129 (9.98%) Software Engineering
17 126 (9.74%) Data Engineering
18 114 (8.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 110 (8.51%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 614 (47.49%) Python
2 312 (24.13%) SQL
3 269 (20.80%) Java
4 169 (13.07%) Bash
5 164 (12.68%) JavaScript
6 134 (10.36%) TypeScript
7 124 (9.59%) PowerShell
8 116 (8.97%) C#
9 66 (5.10%) Go
10 61 (4.72%) Bicep
11 31 (2.40%) Shell Script
12 30 (2.32%) Ruby
13 26 (2.01%) Scala
14 16 (1.24%) Kotlin
15 15 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (0.93%) Swift
17 11 (0.85%) Groovy
18 10 (0.77%) C++
18 10 (0.77%) PHP
19 8 (0.62%) C
Qualifications
1 408 (31.55%) Security Cleared
2 321 (24.83%) SC Cleared
3 71 (5.49%) Degree
4 48 (3.71%) Azure Certification
5 45 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (3.40%) DV Cleared
7 42 (3.25%) AWS Certification
8 31 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 13 (1.01%) OCP
11 13 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
12 11 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.62%) CISSP
15 5 (0.39%) CCNP
16 4 (0.31%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (7.42%) QA
2 66 (5.10%) Data Quality
3 45 (3.48%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.93%) GDPR
4 25 (1.93%) WCAG
5 21 (1.62%) NIST
6 19 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.39%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.16%) NCSC
9 7 (0.54%) EU AI Act
9 7 (0.54%) GRC
10 6 (0.46%) SLA
11 5 (0.39%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.23%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.15%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.15%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 404 (31.25%) Docker
2 35 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
3 34 (2.63%) Active Directory
4 20 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.55%) VMware NSX
4 20 (1.55%) vSphere
5 7 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.54%) Firmware
6 5 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.23%) HDFS
8 1 (0.077%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.077%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 568 (43.93%) Terraform
2 495 (38.28%) Kubernetes
3 195 (15.08%) Ansible
4 149 (11.52%) Grafana
5 109 (8.43%) Prometheus
6 77 (5.96%) Argo
7 40 (3.09%) Istio
8 28 (2.17%) Puppet
9 23 (1.78%) Progress Chef
10 20 (1.55%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.93%) NetBackup
12 11 (0.85%) Kibana
12 11 (0.85%) Packer
12 11 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.70%) linkerd
14 8 (0.62%) Podman
15 7 (0.54%) Sysdig
16 5 (0.39%) Rancher
17 4 (0.31%) HAProxy
17 4 (0.31%) logstash
Vendors
1 233 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 102 (7.89%) Databricks
3 100 (7.73%) Google
4 82 (6.34%) Splunk
5 51 (3.94%) Red Hat
6 49 (3.79%) VMware
7 47 (3.63%) Oracle
8 42 (3.25%) OpenAI
9 20 (1.55%) Atlassian
9 20 (1.55%) Pure Storage
10 19 (1.47%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.47%) Sonatype
11 16 (1.24%) Dynatrace
12 15 (1.16%) Foundry
12 15 (1.16%) Salesforce
13 13 (1.01%) SAP
14 11 (0.85%) Commvault
14 11 (0.85%) Informatica
15 9 (0.70%) Checkmarx
15 9 (0.70%) New Relic