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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 97 130
Rank change year-on-year +11 +33 +9
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,369 734 620
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.00% 2.68% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.64% 7.17% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 941 507 414
10th Percentile £390 £363 £310
25th Percentile £450 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £625
90th Percentile £705 £725 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 33
10th Percentile £46.25 - £54.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.03% +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% -9.68%

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 15,844 10,233 11,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.74% 37.37% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,600 6,926 7,845
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £718 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 265 196
10th Percentile £15.42 £15.15 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £18.42
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £59.66
90th Percentile £82.62 £69.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 +21 805 £550 - 887
North of England +8 253 £500 +5.26% 226
Yorkshire +21 173 £500 - 81
Midlands +1 111 £488 -6.25% 94
West Midlands -2 94 £500 -9.09% 43
South East -36 87 £525 +15.01% 178
South West -14 63 £525 -12.50% 99
North West -38 60 £550 +27.91% 114
East of England -2 33 £500 -7.41% 86
North East -31 22 £450 -2.70% 34
East Midlands -4 17 £400 -19.19% 51
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
1 112 (8.18%) Confluence
2 48 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 21 (1.53%) Apache
6 9 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.58%) nginx
8 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.44%) Tuxedo
10 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.15%) CMS
12 2 (0.15%) Mendix
12 2 (0.15%) SAS
13 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.073%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.073%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.073%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.29%) Trello
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.073%) Notion
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.37%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.22%) Findur
3 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.15%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.15%) Summit
5 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.073%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 742 (54.20%) GitHub Actions
2 704 (51.42%) Azure
3 635 (46.38%) AWS
4 391 (28.56%) Azure DevOps
5 206 (15.05%) GCP
6 184 (13.44%) Serverless
7 137 (10.01%) GitHub Copilot
8 135 (9.86%) Amazon S3
9 126 (9.20%) AWS Lambda
10 114 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
11 100 (7.30%) Azure Monitor
12 98 (7.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 88 (6.43%) Power Platform
14 80 (5.84%) Entra ID
15 76 (5.55%) Azure AKS
16 72 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
17 68 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
17 68 (4.97%) Snowflake
18 66 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
19 52 (3.80%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.89%) Firewall
2 64 (4.67%) DNS
3 50 (3.65%) VPN
4 31 (2.26%) Network Security
5 21 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 20 (1.46%) VLAN
7 17 (1.24%) BGP
7 17 (1.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 14 (1.02%) SSL
9 13 (0.95%) DHCP
10 10 (0.73%) Wireless
11 9 (0.66%) BIG-IP
11 9 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
11 9 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 9 (0.66%) OSPF
11 9 (0.66%) VXLAN
11 9 (0.66%) WAN
12 8 (0.58%) IPsec
12 8 (0.58%) NX-OS
13 7 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (6.36%) SQL Server
3 74 (5.41%) NoSQL
4 67 (4.89%) Power BI
5 66 (4.82%) MongoDB
6 55 (4.02%) Data Lake
7 51 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
7 51 (3.73%) Redis
8 48 (3.51%) DynamoDB
9 47 (3.43%) Relational Database
10 36 (2.63%) Delta Lake
11 35 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 34 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 30 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
14 27 (1.97%) MySQL
15 26 (1.90%) Metadata
16 25 (1.83%) BigQuery
17 22 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
18 21 (1.53%) Big Data
19 17 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 404 (29.51%) Jenkins
2 300 (21.91%) GitLab
3 273 (19.94%) Git
4 164 (11.98%) JIRA
5 71 (5.19%) Selenium
6 68 (4.97%) JUnit
7 51 (3.73%) SonarQube
8 50 (3.65%) Cucumber
9 47 (3.43%) Bitbucket
10 40 (2.92%) Gatling
11 39 (2.85%) Cypress.io
12 36 (2.63%) Gradle
12 36 (2.63%) JMeter
13 34 (2.48%) Maven
14 32 (2.34%) Claude Code
15 29 (2.12%) Postman
16 27 (1.97%) CircleCI
16 27 (1.97%) REST Assured
17 23 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
18 17 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 335 (24.47%) Social Skills
2 276 (20.16%) Finance
3 155 (11.32%) Public Sector
4 125 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (5.99%) Banking
6 38 (2.78%) Retail
7 37 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (1.61%) Legal
10 18 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.17%) Law
12 14 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.95%) Investment Banking
14 12 (0.88%) Aerospace
14 12 (0.88%) Military
15 11 (0.80%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.80%) Marketing
16 10 (0.73%) Local Government
17 9 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 263 (19.21%) Senior
2 247 (18.04%) Developer
3 166 (12.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 126 (9.20%) Architect
5 119 (8.69%) Lead
6 108 (7.89%) Data Engineer
7 82 (5.99%) Platform Engineer
8 77 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
9 70 (5.11%) Azure Engineer
9 70 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
10 67 (4.89%) Senior Developer
11 64 (4.67%) Software Engineer
12 63 (4.60%) Java Developer
13 49 (3.58%) Test Engineer
14 48 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
15 46 (3.36%) Senior DevOps
16 42 (3.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 41 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 39 (2.85%) Python Developer
19 35 (2.56%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 655 (47.85%) Terraform
2 216 (15.78%) REST
3 148 (10.81%) Kafka
4 138 (10.08%) RESTful
5 129 (9.42%) Spring
6 117 (8.55%) .NET
6 117 (8.55%) React
7 105 (7.67%) Spring Boot
8 85 (6.21%) Playwright
9 68 (4.97%) Node.js
10 56 (4.09%) OAuth
11 49 (3.58%) PySpark
11 49 (3.58%) YAML
12 46 (3.36%) HTML
12 46 (3.36%) JSON
13 45 (3.29%) OAuth2
14 42 (3.07%) FastAPI
15 41 (2.99%) AngularJS
16 38 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
17 34 (2.48%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 300 (21.91%) Cloud Native
2 112 (8.18%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 67 (4.89%) AI Agents
5 42 (3.07%) Data Centre
6 41 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 38 (2.78%) Mobile App
9 36 (2.63%) Onboarding
10 28 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
11 24 (1.75%) Security Posture
12 22 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
12 22 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.46%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
14 19 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
15 17 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
16 16 (1.17%) Algorithms
17 15 (1.10%) Private Cloud
17 15 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 131 (9.57%) Linux
2 57 (4.16%) Windows
3 37 (2.70%) Unix
4 27 (1.97%) Android
5 24 (1.75%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (1.46%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.58%) VMS
9 3 (0.22%) CentOS
9 3 (0.22%) Debian
9 3 (0.22%) Rocky
10 2 (0.15%) AIX
10 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.15%) MVS
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.15%) zOS
11 1 (0.073%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,040 (75.97%) CI/CD
2 811 (59.24%) DevOps
3 561 (40.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 515 (37.62%) Agile
5 348 (25.42%) Observability
6 344 (25.13%) Test Automation
7 308 (22.50%) AI
8 295 (21.55%) Containerisation
9 266 (19.43%) Microservices
10 231 (16.87%) Software Engineering
11 221 (16.14%) Platform Engineering
12 195 (14.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 173 (12.64%) Event-Driven
14 159 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
15 152 (11.10%) Analytics
16 146 (10.66%) Stakeholder Management
17 139 (10.15%) DevSecOps
18 138 (10.08%) Technical Leadership
19 130 (9.50%) Scrum
20 127 (9.28%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 606 (44.27%) Python
2 322 (23.52%) SQL
3 279 (20.38%) Java
4 193 (14.10%) Bash
5 172 (12.56%) PowerShell
6 149 (10.88%) TypeScript
7 138 (10.08%) JavaScript
8 129 (9.42%) C#
9 99 (7.23%) Bicep
10 47 (3.43%) Kotlin
11 44 (3.21%) Go
12 36 (2.63%) Shell Script
13 32 (2.34%) Scala
14 21 (1.53%) Ruby
15 19 (1.39%) Swift
16 11 (0.80%) Groovy
17 10 (0.73%) ActionScript
18 9 (0.66%) Objective-C
19 8 (0.58%) Apex Code
19 8 (0.58%) C
Qualifications
1 421 (30.75%) Security Cleared
2 368 (26.88%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.53%) Azure Certification
3 62 (4.53%) Degree
4 43 (3.14%) AWS Certification
5 39 (2.85%) DV Cleared
6 38 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 35 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.80%) CISSP
12 11 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 9 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 8 (0.58%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (14.02%) QA
2 79 (5.77%) Data Quality
3 70 (5.11%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.26%) GDPR
5 29 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (1.90%) WCAG
7 21 (1.53%) NIST
8 12 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.73%) NCSC
10 8 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.44%) GRC
13 5 (0.37%) HL7
13 5 (0.37%) PSD2
14 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.29%) SEPA
14 4 (0.29%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 1 (0.073%) IFRS
System Software
1 441 (32.21%) Docker
2 47 (3.43%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.80%) IAG
6 11 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (0.80%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.80%) vSphere
7 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (0.29%) NFS
8 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.15%) Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.15%) SRDF
9 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 494 (36.08%) Kubernetes
2 208 (15.19%) Ansible
3 189 (13.81%) Grafana
4 151 (11.03%) Prometheus
5 57 (4.16%) Argo
6 25 (1.83%) Puppet
7 23 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (1.46%) Progress Chef
9 19 (1.39%) Packer
10 12 (0.88%) Control-M
11 11 (0.80%) Istio
11 11 (0.80%) Kibana
12 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (0.66%) HAProxy
14 8 (0.58%) vCenter Server
15 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
15 7 (0.51%) SCCM
16 5 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.37%) Kustomize
16 5 (0.37%) Podman
Vendors
1 267 (19.50%) Microsoft
2 104 (7.60%) Databricks
3 94 (6.87%) Google
4 93 (6.79%) Splunk
5 58 (4.24%) Oracle
6 56 (4.09%) Dynatrace
7 43 (3.14%) ServiceNow
8 40 (2.92%) OpenAI
9 39 (2.85%) VMware
10 35 (2.56%) Red Hat
11 30 (2.19%) Cisco
12 29 (2.12%) Salesforce
13 25 (1.83%) Informatica
14 22 (1.61%) IBM
15 21 (1.53%) Foundry
16 19 (1.39%) New Relic
17 18 (1.31%) Checkmarx
17 18 (1.31%) F5
18 15 (1.10%) Palo Alto
19 14 (1.02%) SAP