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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 118 159
Rank change year-on-year +32 +41 -31
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,268 611 573
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.90% 2.40% 1.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.27% 6.36% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 857 413 361
10th Percentile £378 £386 £350
25th Percentile £443 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £748 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 33
10th Percentile £47.75 £25.48 £50.65
25th Percentile £54.22 £25.81 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £26.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +138.25% -62.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £75.00 £27.06 -
90th Percentile - £27.33 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £26.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +138.25% -62.14% +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 15,331 9,600 12,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.03% 37.64% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,333 6,486 8,597
10th Percentile £325 £311 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 247 331
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.21 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.73 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.35 £69.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +24 728 £550 - 181
North of England +30 245 £500 +4.17% 112
Yorkshire +25 178 £493 -5.24% 38
Midlands +6 94 £492 +3.63% 46
West Midlands +4 82 £492 +3.63% 20
South West +15 76 £463 -22.92% 48
South East -52 70 £500 +4.93% 125
North West -23 58 £550 +19.11% 55
East of England -11 31 £500 -9.09% 42
North East -24 14 £450 -12.20% 19
East Midlands -9 11 £470 -3.59% 26
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
1 108 (8.52%) Confluence
2 44 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (2.37%) SharePoint
4 24 (1.89%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.18%) Apache
6 13 (1.03%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.47%) Tuxedo
9 3 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) SAS
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.079%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.079%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.079%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.079%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.55%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.079%) Notion
6 1 (0.079%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.079%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.39%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.39%) Sage X3
3 4 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.24%) Findur
4 3 (0.24%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.079%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 674 (53.15%) GitHub Actions
2 591 (46.61%) Azure
3 567 (44.72%) AWS
4 337 (26.58%) Azure DevOps
5 186 (14.67%) GCP
6 174 (13.72%) Serverless
7 125 (9.86%) Amazon S3
8 123 (9.70%) AWS Lambda
9 91 (7.18%) Amazon EKS
10 87 (6.86%) Azure Monitor
11 86 (6.78%) Power Platform
12 84 (6.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 81 (6.39%) AWS CloudFormation
14 80 (6.31%) GitHub Copilot
15 77 (6.07%) Amazon ECS
16 70 (5.52%) Azure AKS
17 63 (4.97%) Amazon EC2
17 63 (4.97%) Azure Data Factory
18 62 (4.89%) Entra ID
19 49 (3.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 64 (5.05%) Firewall
2 63 (4.97%) DNS
3 46 (3.63%) VPN
4 29 (2.29%) Network Security
5 13 (1.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 11 (0.87%) SSL
6 11 (0.87%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.87%) VLAN
7 9 (0.71%) BIG-IP
7 9 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 8 (0.63%) HTTP
9 7 (0.55%) Internet
9 7 (0.55%) Wireless
10 6 (0.47%) WAN
11 5 (0.39%) BGP
12 4 (0.32%) DHCP
12 4 (0.32%) DSL
12 4 (0.32%) IPsec
12 4 (0.32%) OSPF
12 4 (0.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (6.86%) SQL Server
3 69 (5.44%) Data Lake
4 66 (5.21%) NoSQL
5 58 (4.57%) Power BI
6 55 (4.34%) MongoDB
7 49 (3.86%) DynamoDB
8 47 (3.71%) Relational Database
9 46 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 41 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
11 40 (3.15%) Delta Lake
12 37 (2.92%) Redis
13 35 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
14 32 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
15 24 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
16 22 (1.74%) Big Data
17 21 (1.66%) MySQL
18 20 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
18 20 (1.58%) Metadata
19 18 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 403 (31.78%) Jenkins
2 258 (20.35%) GitLab
3 238 (18.77%) Git
4 164 (12.93%) JIRA
5 83 (6.55%) JUnit
6 64 (5.05%) Selenium
7 50 (3.94%) Cucumber
8 42 (3.31%) Gradle
9 40 (3.15%) JMeter
10 39 (3.08%) Gatling
11 37 (2.92%) Maven
11 37 (2.92%) REST Assured
12 35 (2.76%) Bitbucket
12 35 (2.76%) Cypress.io
12 35 (2.76%) SonarQube
13 31 (2.44%) CircleCI
13 31 (2.44%) Postman
14 27 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
15 23 (1.81%) Mockito
16 19 (1.50%) WebDriver
General
1 294 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 215 (16.96%) Finance
3 144 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 96 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (6.31%) Banking
6 29 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (2.05%) Retail
8 23 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
9 18 (1.42%) Legal
9 18 (1.42%) Military
10 15 (1.18%) Law
11 14 (1.10%) Investment Banking
12 11 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (0.79%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.63%) Front Office
15 8 (0.63%) Marketing
16 7 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 236 (18.61%) Developer
2 220 (17.35%) Senior
3 172 (13.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 118 (9.31%) Architect
5 109 (8.60%) Data Engineer
6 89 (7.02%) Lead
7 80 (6.31%) Cloud Engineer
7 80 (6.31%) Platform Engineer
8 75 (5.91%) AWS Engineer
9 64 (5.05%) Java Developer
10 58 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
11 57 (4.50%) Software Engineer
12 51 (4.02%) Senior Developer
13 49 (3.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 44 (3.47%) Full-Stack Developer
15 41 (3.23%) Test Engineer
16 40 (3.15%) GCP Engineer
17 37 (2.92%) Senior DevOps
18 36 (2.84%) AWS DevOps
19 34 (2.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (12.07%) REST
2 131 (10.33%) Spring
3 123 (9.70%) Kafka
4 109 (8.60%) .NET
5 104 (8.20%) RESTful
6 102 (8.04%) Spring Boot
7 97 (7.65%) React
8 72 (5.68%) Playwright
9 63 (4.97%) PySpark
10 61 (4.81%) Node.js
11 46 (3.63%) OpenTelemetry
12 41 (3.23%) OAuth
13 37 (2.92%) AngularJS
13 37 (2.92%) GraphQL
14 36 (2.84%) .NET Framework
14 36 (2.84%) YAML
15 33 (2.60%) OAuth2
16 32 (2.52%) HTML
17 31 (2.44%) FastAPI
18 30 (2.37%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 261 (20.58%) Cloud Native
2 110 (8.68%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (5.05%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.68%) Data Centre
5 31 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 30 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 26 (2.05%) Mobile App
8 25 (1.97%) AI Agents
8 25 (1.97%) Public Cloud
9 19 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
11 17 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.03%) NHS
13 12 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
13 12 (0.95%) Low-Code
13 12 (0.95%) Replication
13 12 (0.95%) Security Posture
14 11 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 122 (9.62%) Linux
2 59 (4.65%) Windows
3 27 (2.13%) Android
4 26 (2.05%) Apple iOS
5 24 (1.89%) Unix
6 18 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.95%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.55%) VMS
9 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.32%) Debian
10 4 (0.32%) Rocky
11 3 (0.24%) CentOS
11 3 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.16%) AIX
12 2 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.16%) MVS
12 2 (0.16%) zOS
13 1 (0.079%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.079%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 958 (75.55%) CI/CD
2 740 (58.36%) DevOps
3 486 (38.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 400 (31.55%) Agile
5 303 (23.90%) Test Automation
6 268 (21.14%) Containerisation
7 266 (20.98%) Observability
8 235 (18.53%) Microservices
9 214 (16.88%) Platform Engineering
10 209 (16.48%) AI
11 167 (13.17%) Software Engineering
12 166 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 165 (13.01%) Analytics
14 151 (11.91%) Problem-Solving
15 145 (11.44%) Migration
16 128 (10.09%) Event-Driven
17 122 (9.62%) Data Pipeline
18 114 (8.99%) Data Engineering
19 112 (8.83%) Data Modelling
20 110 (8.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 538 (42.43%) Python
2 317 (25.00%) SQL
3 241 (19.01%) Java
4 161 (12.70%) Bash
5 142 (11.20%) PowerShell
6 132 (10.41%) C#
7 127 (10.02%) JavaScript
8 116 (9.15%) TypeScript
9 72 (5.68%) Bicep
10 36 (2.84%) Go
11 34 (2.68%) Scala
12 32 (2.52%) Kotlin
13 29 (2.29%) Shell Script
14 23 (1.81%) Ruby
15 20 (1.58%) Swift
16 13 (1.03%) Groovy
17 10 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.71%) ActionScript
19 8 (0.63%) VB
20 7 (0.55%) C
Qualifications
1 371 (29.26%) Security Cleared
2 307 (24.21%) SC Cleared
3 54 (4.26%) Degree
4 45 (3.55%) DV Cleared
5 44 (3.47%) Azure Certification
6 35 (2.76%) AWS Certification
7 30 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.87%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.63%) CISSP
14 7 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 6 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.47%) OCP
15 6 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (11.04%) QA
2 73 (5.76%) Data Quality
3 60 (4.73%) Accessibility
4 33 (2.60%) GDPR
5 25 (1.97%) WCAG
6 23 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.58%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.42%) NIST
9 8 (0.63%) GRC
10 6 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.47%) NCSC
11 5 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.32%) PSD2
13 3 (0.24%) HL7
13 3 (0.24%) SEPA
13 3 (0.24%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 1 (0.079%) IFRS
System Software
1 361 (28.47%) Docker
2 34 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.58%) vSphere
6 19 (1.50%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.47%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.32%) IAG
9 4 (0.32%) NFS
10 3 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 3 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.24%) Firmware
11 2 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.16%) SRDF
11 2 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 587 (46.29%) Terraform
2 442 (34.86%) Kubernetes
3 190 (14.98%) Ansible
4 158 (12.46%) Grafana
5 139 (10.96%) Prometheus
6 48 (3.79%) Argo
7 24 (1.89%) Puppet
8 22 (1.74%) Istio
9 20 (1.58%) vCenter Server
10 16 (1.26%) Packer
11 15 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (1.10%) Progress Chef
13 13 (1.03%) Kibana
14 9 (0.71%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.71%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.39%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
16 4 (0.32%) Rancher
17 3 (0.24%) Consul
Vendors
1 222 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 96 (7.57%) Databricks
3 84 (6.62%) Google
4 80 (6.31%) Splunk
5 47 (3.71%) Oracle
6 39 (3.08%) VMware
7 35 (2.76%) Dynatrace
8 33 (2.60%) Red Hat
9 28 (2.21%) OpenAI
10 21 (1.66%) Salesforce
11 20 (1.58%) Pure Storage
12 18 (1.42%) ServiceNow
13 16 (1.26%) Checkmarx
13 16 (1.26%) Informatica
14 15 (1.18%) Cisco
14 15 (1.18%) Foundry
15 14 (1.10%) F5
15 14 (1.10%) IBM
16 13 (1.03%) Atlassian
16 13 (1.03%) SAP