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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 132 158
Rank change year-on-year +62 +26 -20
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,113 539 583
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.54% 1.96% 1.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.29% 5.36% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 375 420
10th Percentile £358 £324 £413
25th Percentile £413 £440 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £638
90th Percentile £710 £685 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 0
10th Percentile £40.00 £21.35 -
25th Percentile £41.50 £26.19 -
Median hourly rate £54.25 £28.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +90.35% - -
75th Percentile £98.44 £61.25 -
90th Percentile £110.00 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £28.50 -
% change year-on-year +90.35% - -

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 11,984 10,058 12,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.10% 36.60% 34.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,294 6,722 9,121
10th Percentile £304 £313 £280
25th Percentile £406 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 134 235
10th Percentile £14.48 £16.41 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.36 £28.46 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.87% +26.47% -2.17%
75th Percentile £57.25 £46.18 £50.79
90th Percentile £77.70 £67.63 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £23.11
% change year-on-year -1.05% +19.01% +2.70%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +50 640 £550 -1.35% 287
North of England +34 164 £481 +5.42% 240
South East +58 106 £450 - 308
Midlands +30 86 £550 - 191
Yorkshire -2 83 £500 +12.36% 112
West Midlands +17 69 £575 +16.16% 101
North West +20 66 £402 -15.37% 104
South West +1 61 £649 +0.43% 118
North East +3 17 £545 +50.34% 27
East of England -2 17 £560 +76.10% 147
East Midlands -9 17 £407 -38.51% 81
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 97 (8.72%) Confluence
2 49 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (2.16%) SharePoint
4 21 (1.89%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.17%) nginx
6 12 (1.08%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.54%) Mule
9 5 (0.45%) Apache
10 4 (0.36%) SAS
11 3 (0.27%) CMS
11 3 (0.27%) WordPress
12 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.18%) CICS
12 2 (0.18%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.18%) Traefik
12 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.090%) Luigi
Applications
1 23 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.18%) Trello
5 1 (0.090%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.090%) InDesign
5 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.090%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.090%) Actimize
3 1 (0.090%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.090%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.090%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.090%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.090%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.090%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 576 (51.75%) GitHub Actions
2 538 (48.34%) AWS
3 506 (45.46%) Azure
4 237 (21.29%) Azure DevOps
5 193 (17.34%) GCP
6 184 (16.53%) Serverless
7 124 (11.14%) AWS Lambda
8 119 (10.69%) Amazon S3
9 99 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 87 (7.82%) Amazon ECS
11 80 (7.19%) Amazon EKS
12 79 (7.10%) Power Platform
13 76 (6.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 69 (6.20%) OpenShift
15 64 (5.75%) Azure AKS
16 60 (5.39%) Entra ID
16 60 (5.39%) GitHub Copilot
17 56 (5.03%) Amazon EC2
18 51 (4.58%) Azure Monitor
18 51 (4.58%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 51 (4.58%) Firewall
2 47 (4.22%) DNS
3 23 (2.07%) VPN
4 20 (1.80%) Network Security
5 16 (1.44%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.08%) HTTP
6 12 (1.08%) SSL
7 9 (0.81%) WAN
8 8 (0.72%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.72%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.54%) Ethernet
9 6 (0.54%) Modbus
9 6 (0.54%) RS-232
9 6 (0.54%) RS-485
10 5 (0.45%) Internet
10 5 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
10 5 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.45%) SSH
11 2 (0.18%) Calico
11 2 (0.18%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (15.99%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (7.73%) NoSQL
3 67 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
4 60 (5.39%) MongoDB
5 53 (4.76%) Relational Database
6 52 (4.67%) SQL Server
7 51 (4.58%) DynamoDB
8 48 (4.31%) Redis
9 43 (3.86%) Power BI
10 42 (3.77%) Data Lake
11 37 (3.32%) MySQL
12 28 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
13 25 (2.25%) BigQuery
13 25 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
14 21 (1.89%) Delta Lake
15 20 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
16 19 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
17 18 (1.62%) Big Data
18 14 (1.26%) Amazon QuickSight
19 13 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 320 (28.75%) Jenkins
2 221 (19.86%) Git
3 203 (18.24%) GitLab
4 169 (15.18%) JIRA
5 57 (5.12%) Sonatype Nexus
6 56 (5.03%) JUnit
7 49 (4.40%) CircleCI
8 48 (4.31%) SonarQube
9 43 (3.86%) Artifactory
9 43 (3.86%) Bitbucket
10 41 (3.68%) Cypress.io
11 37 (3.32%) Cucumber
11 37 (3.32%) Gradle
12 31 (2.79%) Postman
12 31 (2.79%) Selenium
13 25 (2.25%) JMeter
13 25 (2.25%) Maven
14 23 (2.07%) Snyk
15 16 (1.44%) SpecFlow
16 13 (1.17%) MLflow
General
1 277 (24.89%) Social Skills
2 169 (15.18%) Finance
3 137 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 82 (7.37%) Banking
5 67 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (1.71%) Military
7 18 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
8 15 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.35%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.26%) Retail
10 13 (1.17%) Front Office
11 11 (0.99%) Marketing
11 11 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.63%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.54%) Games
13 6 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.45%) Law
14 5 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 262 (23.54%) Developer
2 176 (15.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 173 (15.54%) Senior
4 87 (7.82%) AWS Engineer
5 84 (7.55%) Data Engineer
6 75 (6.74%) Architect
7 71 (6.38%) Lead
8 70 (6.29%) Cloud Engineer
9 65 (5.84%) Full-Stack Developer
10 58 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
11 54 (4.85%) Azure Engineer
11 54 (4.85%) Java Developer
12 53 (4.76%) Software Engineer
13 51 (4.58%) AWS DevOps
14 50 (4.49%) Senior Developer
15 47 (4.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 41 (3.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 39 (3.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 34 (3.05%) DevSecOps Engineer
19 32 (2.88%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (13.39%) REST
2 134 (12.04%) React
3 133 (11.95%) Kafka
4 132 (11.86%) Node.js
5 107 (9.61%) .NET
6 90 (8.09%) RESTful
7 88 (7.91%) Spring
8 76 (6.83%) Spring Boot
9 71 (6.38%) AngularJS
10 59 (5.30%) HTML
11 58 (5.21%) OAuth
12 56 (5.03%) CSS
13 52 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
14 50 (4.49%) Playwright
15 45 (4.04%) JSON
16 43 (3.86%) FastAPI
16 43 (3.86%) GraphQL
17 41 (3.68%) pytest
18 40 (3.59%) YAML
19 35 (3.14%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 189 (16.98%) Cloud Native
2 39 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (3.32%) Product Ownership
4 27 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
6 23 (2.07%) Onboarding
7 22 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (1.89%) Public Cloud
9 19 (1.71%) Algorithms
10 18 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.53%) AI Agents
12 15 (1.35%) Life Science
12 15 (1.35%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.26%) Genomics
13 14 (1.26%) Mobile App
13 14 (1.26%) Private Cloud
14 13 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
14 13 (1.17%) NHS
14 13 (1.17%) PKI
14 13 (1.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 146 (13.12%) Linux
2 42 (3.77%) Windows
3 27 (2.43%) Unix
4 21 (1.89%) Android
5 15 (1.35%) VMS
6 13 (1.17%) Apple iOS
6 13 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.63%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.54%) FreeRTOS
8 6 (0.54%) Solaris
9 5 (0.45%) CentOS
10 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.18%) zOS
13 1 (0.090%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.090%) MVS
13 1 (0.090%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 796 (71.52%) CI/CD
2 680 (61.10%) DevOps
3 408 (36.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 372 (33.42%) Agile
5 305 (27.40%) Containerisation
6 224 (20.13%) AI
7 223 (20.04%) Microservices
8 221 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
9 209 (18.78%) Test Automation
10 181 (16.26%) Observability
11 144 (12.94%) Migration
12 135 (12.13%) Full-Stack Development
13 130 (11.68%) Software Engineering
14 114 (10.24%) Data Pipeline
15 111 (9.97%) Analytics
16 104 (9.34%) Platform Engineering
17 98 (8.81%) DevSecOps
18 97 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
19 94 (8.45%) Machine Learning
20 91 (8.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 517 (46.45%) Python
2 244 (21.92%) SQL
3 226 (20.31%) Java
4 150 (13.48%) JavaScript
4 150 (13.48%) TypeScript
5 132 (11.86%) Bash
6 99 (8.89%) C#
7 98 (8.81%) PowerShell
8 84 (7.55%) Go
9 50 (4.49%) Bicep
10 31 (2.79%) Shell Script
11 30 (2.70%) Ruby
12 18 (1.62%) PHP
13 14 (1.26%) Groovy
14 11 (0.99%) C++
14 11 (0.99%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.81%) C
15 9 (0.81%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.72%) Korn
16 8 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 313 (28.12%) Security Cleared
2 252 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 89 (8.00%) Degree
4 54 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (3.68%) Azure Certification
6 39 (3.50%) DV Cleared
7 33 (2.96%) AWS Certification
8 22 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (1.89%) MCP
10 17 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.17%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.72%) OCP
13 8 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
14 7 (0.63%) CISSP
14 7 (0.63%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 4 (0.36%) CTC Cleared
16 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 2 (0.18%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (7.01%) QA
2 42 (3.77%) Accessibility
2 42 (3.77%) Data Quality
3 32 (2.88%) NIST
4 24 (2.16%) GDPR
4 24 (2.16%) NCSC
5 23 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.71%) WCAG
7 15 (1.35%) EU AI Act
8 7 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.63%) SLA
9 5 (0.45%) GRC
10 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.27%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.18%) FIPS 140-2
12 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.18%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.18%) MiFID
12 2 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 378 (33.96%) Docker
2 45 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.54%) Firmware
5 6 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.45%) NFS
7 4 (0.36%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.36%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.36%) vSphere
8 3 (0.27%) QEMU
8 3 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.18%) HDFS
9 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.18%) KVM
10 1 (0.090%) SRDF
10 1 (0.090%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.090%) Xen
Systems Management
1 495 (44.47%) Terraform
2 444 (39.89%) Kubernetes
3 159 (14.29%) Ansible
4 132 (11.86%) Grafana
5 104 (9.34%) Prometheus
6 61 (5.48%) Argo
7 34 (3.05%) Istio
8 28 (2.52%) Puppet
9 27 (2.43%) Progress Chef
10 13 (1.17%) Podman
11 11 (0.99%) Packer
12 10 (0.90%) Kibana
13 8 (0.72%) NetBackup
13 8 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.63%) linkerd
14 7 (0.63%) Sysdig
15 5 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.45%) logstash
16 4 (0.36%) QRadar
16 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 188 (16.89%) Microsoft
2 98 (8.81%) Google
3 67 (6.02%) Databricks
4 66 (5.93%) Splunk
5 47 (4.22%) VMware
6 43 (3.86%) OpenAI
7 39 (3.50%) Oracle
7 39 (3.50%) Red Hat
8 24 (2.16%) Atlassian
8 24 (2.16%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.44%) Foundry
10 14 (1.26%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.90%) Dynatrace
11 10 (0.90%) Sonatype
12 9 (0.81%) MuleSoft
12 9 (0.81%) NetApp
12 9 (0.81%) Okta
12 9 (0.81%) SAP
13 8 (0.72%) Commvault
14 7 (0.63%) Cisco