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

 6 months to
26 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 122 163
Rank change year-on-year +40 +41 -38
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,229 534 545
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.96% 2.24% 1.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.46% 6.00% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 360 350
10th Percentile £367 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £624
90th Percentile £700 £750 £676
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.22% -11.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 22
10th Percentile £45.63 - £32.80
25th Percentile £52.11 £25.25 £66.44
Median hourly rate £63.14 £27.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +129.58% -60.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £72.46 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £74.10 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.57 £27.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +127.52% -60.71% +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 14,525 8,907 11,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.42% 32.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,909 6,144 8,467
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £746
UK median daily rate £507 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.17% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 199 322
10th Percentile £15.61 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.08 £18.13 £15.86
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.50 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.03 £68.75 £66.88
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £27.76 £21.37
% change year-on-year +29.52% +29.90% -40.64%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +33 706 £550 - 209
North of England +28 222 £490 +1.55% 141
Yorkshire +15 153 £480 -7.65% 52
Midlands -2 84 £500 +3.09% 42
South West +28 78 £481 -14.44% 55
South East -30 76 £500 - 85
West Midlands -10 71 £500 +3.09% 19
North West -8 62 £538 +13.16% 69
East of England -21 31 £500 -9.09% 34
North East -15 12 £450 +7.46% 21
East Midlands -21 12 £413 -15.38% 23
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
1 102 (8.30%) Confluence
2 43 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (2.12%) Apache Spark
3 26 (2.12%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.30%) Apache
5 10 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.16%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) nginx
8 2 (0.16%) SAS
8 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.081%) Appian
9 1 (0.081%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.081%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.41%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.081%) Notion
6 1 (0.081%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.081%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.33%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.24%) Findur
3 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.081%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.081%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.081%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.081%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 642 (52.24%) GitHub Actions
2 574 (46.70%) Azure
3 561 (45.65%) AWS
4 310 (25.22%) Azure DevOps
5 186 (15.13%) GCP
6 181 (14.73%) Serverless
7 126 (10.25%) AWS Lambda
8 116 (9.44%) Amazon S3
9 95 (7.73%) Amazon EKS
10 92 (7.49%) Power Platform
11 91 (7.40%) AWS CloudFormation
12 78 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 77 (6.27%) Amazon ECS
14 76 (6.18%) Azure Data Factory
15 74 (6.02%) GitHub Copilot
16 69 (5.61%) Azure AKS
16 69 (5.61%) Azure Monitor
17 65 (5.29%) Amazon EC2
18 55 (4.48%) Entra ID
19 54 (4.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.96%) DNS
2 59 (4.80%) Firewall
3 36 (2.93%) VPN
4 24 (1.95%) Network Security
5 10 (0.81%) HTTP
5 10 (0.81%) SSL
6 9 (0.73%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.41%) Ethernet
7 5 (0.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 5 (0.41%) Modbus
7 5 (0.41%) RS-232
7 5 (0.41%) RS-485
8 4 (0.33%) DSL
8 4 (0.33%) Internet
8 4 (0.33%) WAN
9 3 (0.24%) BGP
9 3 (0.24%) DHCP
9 3 (0.24%) SAN
9 3 (0.24%) VLAN
9 3 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (9.11%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (6.35%) SQL Server
3 77 (6.27%) Data Lake
4 63 (5.13%) Power BI
5 62 (5.04%) NoSQL
6 57 (4.64%) MongoDB
7 48 (3.91%) DynamoDB
8 44 (3.58%) Delta Lake
9 42 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 41 (3.34%) Redis
11 40 (3.25%) Relational Database
12 39 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
13 28 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
14 25 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
15 23 (1.87%) Big Data
16 22 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
16 22 (1.79%) Metadata
17 19 (1.55%) MySQL
18 18 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
19 16 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 377 (30.68%) Jenkins
2 252 (20.50%) GitLab
3 232 (18.88%) Git
4 150 (12.21%) JIRA
5 74 (6.02%) JUnit
6 58 (4.72%) Selenium
7 45 (3.66%) Cucumber
8 39 (3.17%) Cypress.io
9 37 (3.01%) Gatling
10 36 (2.93%) Gradle
10 36 (2.93%) SonarQube
11 35 (2.85%) JMeter
12 34 (2.77%) Bitbucket
12 34 (2.77%) CircleCI
13 33 (2.69%) Maven
14 31 (2.52%) Postman
14 31 (2.52%) REST Assured
15 27 (2.20%) Artifactory
16 22 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
17 21 (1.71%) Mockito
General
1 284 (23.11%) Social Skills
2 207 (16.84%) Finance
3 133 (10.82%) Public Sector
4 94 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (6.51%) Banking
6 24 (1.95%) Retail
7 20 (1.63%) Military
8 17 (1.38%) Legal
9 16 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (1.14%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (0.98%) Front Office
14 10 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.73%) Law
16 8 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.57%) Financial Institution
17 7 (0.57%) Marketing
18 5 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
19 4 (0.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 241 (19.61%) Developer
2 199 (16.19%) Senior
3 163 (13.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 112 (9.11%) Data Engineer
5 102 (8.30%) Architect
6 96 (7.81%) Lead
7 78 (6.35%) Cloud Engineer
8 73 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
9 61 (4.96%) Java Developer
10 60 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
11 58 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
12 52 (4.23%) Senior Developer
13 49 (3.99%) Full-Stack Developer
13 49 (3.99%) Software Engineer
14 43 (3.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 42 (3.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 41 (3.34%) GCP Engineer
17 38 (3.09%) Test Engineer
18 32 (2.60%) Tester
19 30 (2.44%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (10.82%) REST
2 131 (10.66%) Spring
3 128 (10.41%) Kafka
4 106 (8.62%) Spring Boot
5 105 (8.54%) React
6 104 (8.46%) .NET
7 87 (7.08%) RESTful
8 83 (6.75%) Node.js
9 72 (5.86%) Playwright
10 67 (5.45%) PySpark
11 45 (3.66%) OpenTelemetry
12 40 (3.25%) AngularJS
13 35 (2.85%) JSON
13 35 (2.85%) OAuth
14 34 (2.77%) YAML
15 33 (2.69%) .NET Framework
15 33 (2.69%) GraphQL
16 32 (2.60%) HTML
17 30 (2.44%) FastAPI
18 28 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 222 (18.06%) Cloud Native
2 84 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 28 (2.28%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (1.79%) AI Agents
6 22 (1.79%) Public Cloud
7 20 (1.63%) Mobile App
8 19 (1.55%) Data Centre
9 17 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.22%) Security Posture
11 14 (1.14%) Private Cloud
11 14 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (0.98%) NHS
13 11 (0.90%) Data Structures
13 11 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
13 11 (0.90%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 129 (10.50%) Linux
2 54 (4.39%) Windows
3 28 (2.28%) Unix
4 25 (2.03%) Android
5 22 (1.79%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (1.22%) VMS
7 11 (0.90%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.41%) FreeRTOS
8 5 (0.41%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.33%) Debian
9 4 (0.33%) Rocky
10 3 (0.24%) CentOS
11 2 (0.16%) AIX
11 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.081%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.081%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.081%) MVS
12 1 (0.081%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 921 (74.94%) CI/CD
2 709 (57.69%) DevOps
3 469 (38.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 363 (29.54%) Agile
5 278 (22.62%) Test Automation
6 272 (22.13%) Containerisation
7 252 (20.50%) Observability
8 215 (17.49%) Microservices
9 202 (16.44%) AI
10 187 (15.22%) Platform Engineering
11 168 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
12 160 (13.02%) Analytics
12 160 (13.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 154 (12.53%) Migration
14 145 (11.80%) Software Engineering
15 121 (9.85%) Data Pipeline
15 121 (9.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 119 (9.68%) Data Engineering
17 113 (9.19%) Event-Driven
18 111 (9.03%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 537 (43.69%) Python
2 305 (24.82%) SQL
3 249 (20.26%) Java
4 154 (12.53%) Bash
5 141 (11.47%) JavaScript
6 130 (10.58%) C#
7 128 (10.41%) PowerShell
8 109 (8.87%) TypeScript
9 65 (5.29%) Bicep
10 42 (3.42%) Go
11 35 (2.85%) Scala
12 34 (2.77%) Shell Script
13 28 (2.28%) Kotlin
14 22 (1.79%) Ruby
15 16 (1.30%) Swift
16 10 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.65%) Groovy
18 7 (0.57%) C++
18 7 (0.57%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 369 (30.02%) Security Cleared
2 298 (24.25%) SC Cleared
3 51 (4.15%) Degree
4 39 (3.17%) Azure Certification
5 38 (3.09%) DV Cleared
6 31 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (2.28%) AWS Certification
9 20 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.90%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 7 (0.57%) OCP
15 7 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (0.49%) CISSP
16 6 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (9.60%) QA
2 73 (5.94%) Data Quality
3 54 (4.39%) Accessibility
4 25 (2.03%) GDPR
5 21 (1.71%) WCAG
6 19 (1.55%) PCI DSS
7 17 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.90%) NIST
9 8 (0.65%) NCSC
10 6 (0.49%) GRC
10 6 (0.49%) SLA
11 4 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.33%) PSD2
11 4 (0.33%) SEPA
12 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 362 (29.45%) Docker
2 29 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (1.55%) VMware NSX
5 19 (1.55%) vSphere
6 10 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.41%) Firmware
7 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.16%) HDFS
8 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.16%) NFS
8 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.081%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.081%) IAG
9 1 (0.081%) SRDF
9 1 (0.081%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.081%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 571 (46.46%) Terraform
2 433 (35.23%) Kubernetes
3 186 (15.13%) Ansible
4 145 (11.80%) Grafana
5 123 (10.01%) Prometheus
6 58 (4.72%) Argo
7 31 (2.52%) Istio
8 27 (2.20%) Puppet
9 19 (1.55%) vCenter Server
10 15 (1.22%) Packer
11 14 (1.14%) Kibana
11 14 (1.14%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.73%) HAProxy
13 9 (0.73%) NetBackup
14 8 (0.65%) linkerd
15 4 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
15 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.33%) Podman
15 4 (0.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 220 (17.90%) Microsoft
2 101 (8.22%) Databricks
3 87 (7.08%) Google
4 81 (6.59%) Splunk
5 54 (4.39%) Oracle
6 43 (3.50%) VMware
7 35 (2.85%) Red Hat
8 34 (2.77%) OpenAI
9 23 (1.87%) Dynatrace
10 19 (1.55%) Pure Storage
11 17 (1.38%) Salesforce
12 16 (1.30%) Informatica
13 15 (1.22%) ServiceNow
14 14 (1.14%) Atlassian
15 13 (1.06%) Checkmarx
15 13 (1.06%) Foundry
16 12 (0.98%) SAP
17 11 (0.90%) IBM
18 10 (0.81%) Cisco
18 10 (0.81%) Palantir
532 GitHub jobs in England