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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 134 165
Rank change year-on-year +57 +31 -46
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,247 517 526
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.16% 2.11% 1.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.79% 5.62% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 362 356
10th Percentile £363 £376 £386
25th Percentile £416 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £620 £630 £623
90th Percentile £700 £749 £675
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.24% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 -
25th Percentile £46.00 £25.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £27.38 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +126.48% -15.77% -40.91%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.44 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 £60.30
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +104.57% -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 14,185 9,204 11,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.93% 37.58% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,778 6,458 8,560
10th Percentile £313 £313 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 191 315
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.87
Median hourly rate £44.31 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +67.19% +27.59% -25.37%
75th Percentile £67.84 £42.49 £32.63
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £40.64 £27.63 £20.99
% change year-on-year +47.09% +31.67% -33.17%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 19 April 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 +42 711 £550 - 207
North of England +34 207 £500 +1.46% 128
Yorkshire +19 132 £482 -7.26% 43
South East +8 99 £454 -9.20% 109
Midlands +6 89 £500 +3.09% 52
South West +32 76 £525 -6.67% 57
West Midlands -1 72 £525 +13.51% 19
North West -7 65 £525 +12.00% 63
East of England -18 28 £500 -9.09% 53
East Midlands -17 16 £402 -33.00% 33
North East -5 12 £525 +44.83% 22
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
1 106 (8.50%) Confluence
2 43 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (2.65%) SharePoint
4 28 (2.25%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.12%) Apache
5 14 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.64%) nginx
7 7 (0.56%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.32%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.16%) SAS
10 2 (0.16%) WordPress
11 1 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.080%) Appian
11 1 (0.080%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.080%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.080%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.080%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.080%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.080%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.32%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.24%) Findur
4 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.080%) Actimize
5 1 (0.080%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.080%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.080%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 647 (51.88%) GitHub Actions
2 581 (46.59%) Azure
3 561 (44.99%) AWS
4 305 (24.46%) Azure DevOps
5 196 (15.72%) Serverless
6 178 (14.27%) GCP
7 137 (10.99%) AWS Lambda
8 115 (9.22%) Amazon S3
9 104 (8.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 96 (7.70%) Power Platform
11 95 (7.62%) Amazon EKS
12 86 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
13 84 (6.74%) Azure Data Factory
14 81 (6.50%) Azure Monitor
15 77 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 76 (6.09%) Azure AKS
17 72 (5.77%) GitHub Copilot
18 67 (5.37%) Entra ID
19 59 (4.73%) OpenShift
20 55 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 58 (4.65%) Firewall
2 55 (4.41%) DNS
3 33 (2.65%) VPN
4 29 (2.33%) Network Security
5 14 (1.12%) HTTP
6 9 (0.72%) SSL
7 7 (0.56%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.56%) Modbus
7 7 (0.56%) RS-232
7 7 (0.56%) RS-485
8 6 (0.48%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.40%) Internet
9 5 (0.40%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.32%) DSL
10 4 (0.32%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.32%) WAN
11 3 (0.24%) NAS
11 3 (0.24%) SAN
12 2 (0.16%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (11.71%) PostgreSQL
2 79 (6.34%) NoSQL
3 75 (6.01%) Data Lake
4 68 (5.45%) SQL Server
5 60 (4.81%) DynamoDB
5 60 (4.81%) Power BI
6 49 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 48 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
7 48 (3.85%) MongoDB
8 46 (3.69%) Relational Database
9 41 (3.29%) Delta Lake
10 37 (2.97%) Redis
11 30 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
12 29 (2.33%) MySQL
13 25 (2.00%) Big Data
14 23 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
15 20 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (1.52%) Metadata
17 15 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
18 13 (1.04%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 377 (30.23%) Jenkins
2 246 (19.73%) Git
3 234 (18.77%) GitLab
4 164 (13.15%) JIRA
5 86 (6.90%) JUnit
6 52 (4.17%) Cucumber
7 51 (4.09%) Selenium
8 41 (3.29%) Cypress.io
9 40 (3.21%) Artifactory
10 36 (2.89%) Sonatype Nexus
11 34 (2.73%) Bitbucket
11 34 (2.73%) JMeter
11 34 (2.73%) SonarQube
12 33 (2.65%) Postman
13 32 (2.57%) CircleCI
13 32 (2.57%) Gradle
14 29 (2.33%) Maven
15 25 (2.00%) Gatling
16 20 (1.60%) MLflow
17 19 (1.52%) REST Assured
General
1 293 (23.50%) Social Skills
2 209 (16.76%) Finance
3 151 (12.11%) Public Sector
4 92 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (6.34%) Banking
6 21 (1.68%) Military
7 20 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (1.60%) Retail
8 17 (1.36%) Front Office
9 15 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.12%) Investment Banking
11 12 (0.96%) Legal
12 11 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.64%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.56%) Law
15 7 (0.56%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.48%) Marketing
16 6 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 260 (20.85%) Developer
2 197 (15.80%) Senior
3 176 (14.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 111 (8.90%) Data Engineer
5 98 (7.86%) Architect
6 95 (7.62%) Lead
7 85 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 84 (6.74%) Platform Engineer
9 77 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
10 67 (5.37%) Full-Stack Developer
10 67 (5.37%) Java Developer
11 65 (5.21%) Azure Engineer
12 52 (4.17%) Software Engineer
13 47 (3.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 44 (3.53%) GCP Engineer
15 42 (3.37%) Senior Developer
16 38 (3.05%) AWS DevOps
17 34 (2.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 34 (2.73%) Tester
18 32 (2.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (10.99%) REST
1 137 (10.99%) Spring
2 136 (10.91%) Kafka
3 127 (10.18%) React
4 114 (9.14%) .NET
5 112 (8.98%) Node.js
6 106 (8.50%) Spring Boot
7 86 (6.90%) RESTful
8 69 (5.53%) Playwright
9 58 (4.65%) PySpark
10 57 (4.57%) AngularJS
11 43 (3.45%) JSON
12 42 (3.37%) OAuth
13 37 (2.97%) Jest
14 36 (2.89%) CSS
14 36 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
14 36 (2.89%) OpenTelemetry
15 34 (2.73%) HTML
16 30 (2.41%) .NET Framework
17 29 (2.33%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 218 (17.48%) Cloud Native
2 77 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 24 (1.92%) AI Agents
6 24 (1.92%) Onboarding
7 17 (1.36%) Mobile App
7 17 (1.36%) Security Posture
7 17 (1.36%) Virtual Team
8 15 (1.20%) NHS
9 14 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.12%) Private Cloud
10 12 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (0.88%) Data Centre
11 11 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (0.88%) Replication
11 11 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
12 10 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 136 (10.91%) Linux
2 44 (3.53%) Windows
3 27 (2.17%) Unix
4 22 (1.76%) Android
5 19 (1.52%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.12%) VMS
7 12 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.56%) FreeRTOS
8 7 (0.56%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.32%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.24%) Debian
10 3 (0.24%) Rocky
11 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.080%) CentOS
12 1 (0.080%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 922 (73.94%) CI/CD
2 728 (58.38%) DevOps
3 459 (36.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 383 (30.71%) Agile
5 302 (24.22%) Containerisation
6 270 (21.65%) Test Automation
7 238 (19.09%) Observability
8 227 (18.20%) AI
9 221 (17.72%) Microservices
10 193 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
11 188 (15.08%) Platform Engineering
12 179 (14.35%) Analytics
13 167 (13.39%) Migration
14 146 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
15 135 (10.83%) Software Engineering
16 124 (9.94%) Data Pipeline
16 124 (9.94%) Full-Stack Development
17 123 (9.86%) Data Engineering
18 120 (9.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 115 (9.22%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 578 (46.35%) Python
2 300 (24.06%) SQL
3 255 (20.45%) Java
4 154 (12.35%) JavaScript
5 153 (12.27%) Bash
6 130 (10.43%) C#
7 127 (10.18%) TypeScript
8 118 (9.46%) PowerShell
9 61 (4.89%) Bicep
10 52 (4.17%) Go
11 31 (2.49%) Shell Script
12 30 (2.41%) Scala
13 24 (1.92%) Ruby
14 18 (1.44%) Kotlin
15 16 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
16 13 (1.04%) Swift
17 10 (0.80%) C++
18 8 (0.64%) C
18 8 (0.64%) Groovy
18 8 (0.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 382 (30.63%) Security Cleared
2 305 (24.46%) SC Cleared
3 56 (4.49%) Degree
4 46 (3.69%) Azure Certification
5 37 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (2.89%) DV Cleared
7 35 (2.81%) AWS Certification
8 17 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.12%) Master's Degree
10 12 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.88%) OCP
11 11 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
12 10 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (0.64%) CISSP
15 7 (0.56%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.40%) CCNP
17 4 (0.32%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (8.26%) QA
2 69 (5.53%) Data Quality
3 46 (3.69%) Accessibility
4 25 (2.00%) GDPR
5 24 (1.92%) WCAG
6 18 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.44%) PCI DSS
7 14 (1.12%) NIST
8 11 (0.88%) NCSC
9 6 (0.48%) GRC
9 6 (0.48%) SLA
10 4 (0.32%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 377 (30.23%) Docker
2 35 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.68%) VMware NSX
5 21 (1.68%) vSphere
6 7 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.56%) Firmware
7 4 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.24%) HDFS
9 1 (0.080%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.080%) IAG
9 1 (0.080%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.080%) NFS
9 1 (0.080%) SRDF
9 1 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 568 (45.55%) Terraform
2 462 (37.05%) Kubernetes
3 182 (14.60%) Ansible
4 126 (10.10%) Grafana
5 90 (7.22%) Prometheus
6 67 (5.37%) Argo
7 38 (3.05%) Istio
8 22 (1.76%) Puppet
9 21 (1.68%) vCenter Server
10 18 (1.44%) Progress Chef
11 14 (1.12%) Packer
11 14 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (0.80%) Kibana
13 9 (0.72%) HAProxy
13 9 (0.72%) linkerd
13 9 (0.72%) NetBackup
14 4 (0.32%) Podman
14 4 (0.32%) Rancher
14 4 (0.32%) Sysdig
15 3 (0.24%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 236 (18.93%) Microsoft
2 111 (8.90%) Databricks
3 91 (7.30%) Google
4 78 (6.26%) Splunk
5 48 (3.85%) VMware
6 46 (3.69%) Oracle
7 44 (3.53%) OpenAI
8 36 (2.89%) Red Hat
9 21 (1.68%) Pure Storage
10 20 (1.60%) Atlassian
10 20 (1.60%) ServiceNow
11 16 (1.28%) Salesforce
12 15 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 14 (1.12%) Checkmarx
13 14 (1.12%) SAP
14 13 (1.04%) Sonatype
15 12 (0.96%) Informatica
16 9 (0.72%) Foundry
17 8 (0.64%) Cloudera
17 8 (0.64%) New Relic