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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 133 173
Rank change year-on-year +65 +40 -44
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,279 519 513
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.47% 2.11% 1.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.39% 5.59% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 363 353
10th Percentile £358 £355 £400
25th Percentile £413 £452 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £625
90th Percentile £700 £720 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £544 £540
% change year-on-year -5.70% +0.65% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 5
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 -
25th Percentile £44.50 £25.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 £27.38 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +104.57% -15.77% -47.58%
75th Percentile £66.31 £58.44 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 £60.30
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +82.65% -15.77% -39.81%

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 13,627 9,291 12,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.99% 37.82% 32.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,382 6,465 8,817
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 409 166 326
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.19 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.58 £26.00 £21.19
Median % change year-on-year +44.54% +22.73% -15.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.66 £42.06
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.88 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 +39 723 £540 -4.42% 245
North of England +39 204 £500 +5.26% 158
Yorkshire +16 119 £481 -3.80% 75
South East +32 114 £462 -7.70% 154
Midlands +31 101 £525 +11.11% 68
West Midlands +6 82 £550 +22.22% 25
South West +28 79 £544 +1.16% 65
North West +8 72 £525 +10.53% 59
East of England -21 23 £510 +19.81% 66
East Midlands -14 18 £402 -19.60% 43
North East +2 15 £545 +50.34% 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
1 118 (9.23%) Confluence
2 52 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (2.35%) Apache Spark
3 30 (2.35%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.09%) Apache
4 14 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.70%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.63%) nginx
7 5 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.31%) CMS
9 2 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
9 2 (0.16%) WordPress
10 1 (0.078%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.078%) Appian
10 1 (0.078%) Luigi
10 1 (0.078%) SAS
10 1 (0.078%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.078%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 28 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.16%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.078%) InDesign
6 1 (0.078%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (0.55%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.31%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.16%) Findur
4 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.078%) Actimize
5 1 (0.078%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.078%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.078%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.078%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 641 (50.12%) GitHub Actions
2 595 (46.52%) Azure
3 584 (45.66%) AWS
4 304 (23.77%) Azure DevOps
5 201 (15.72%) Serverless
6 197 (15.40%) GCP
7 132 (10.32%) AWS Lambda
8 111 (8.68%) Amazon S3
9 109 (8.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 104 (8.13%) Amazon EKS
11 91 (7.11%) Power Platform
12 88 (6.88%) Amazon ECS
13 84 (6.57%) Azure Data Factory
14 82 (6.41%) Azure AKS
15 79 (6.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 79 (6.18%) OpenShift
16 78 (6.10%) Azure Monitor
17 72 (5.63%) GitHub Copilot
18 70 (5.47%) Entra ID
19 58 (4.53%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 65 (5.08%) Firewall
2 56 (4.38%) DNS
3 34 (2.66%) VPN
4 29 (2.27%) Network Security
5 13 (1.02%) HTTP
6 10 (0.78%) SD-WAN
6 10 (0.78%) WAN
7 9 (0.70%) SSL
8 8 (0.63%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.63%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.55%) Ethernet
9 7 (0.55%) Modbus
9 7 (0.55%) RS-232
9 7 (0.55%) RS-485
10 6 (0.47%) Internet
11 5 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.23%) DSL
13 1 (0.078%) BGP
13 1 (0.078%) Intranet
13 1 (0.078%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (13.21%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (7.04%) NoSQL
3 75 (5.86%) Data Lake
4 60 (4.69%) MongoDB
5 59 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
5 59 (4.61%) SQL Server
6 55 (4.30%) Power BI
7 52 (4.07%) DynamoDB
8 51 (3.99%) Relational Database
9 48 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 41 (3.21%) Redis
11 40 (3.13%) Delta Lake
12 33 (2.58%) MySQL
13 26 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
14 23 (1.80%) Big Data
15 20 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
17 16 (1.25%) BigQuery
18 15 (1.17%) DocumentDB
19 14 (1.09%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 391 (30.57%) Jenkins
2 257 (20.09%) Git
3 244 (19.08%) GitLab
4 175 (13.68%) JIRA
5 88 (6.88%) JUnit
6 56 (4.38%) Cucumber
7 54 (4.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 52 (4.07%) Selenium
9 43 (3.36%) Cypress.io
10 41 (3.21%) Artifactory
11 39 (3.05%) JMeter
12 38 (2.97%) Bitbucket
13 36 (2.81%) CircleCI
14 35 (2.74%) Gradle
15 34 (2.66%) Postman
16 31 (2.42%) SonarQube
17 28 (2.19%) Maven
18 23 (1.80%) MLflow
19 19 (1.49%) Mockito
19 19 (1.49%) REST Assured
General
1 313 (24.47%) Social Skills
2 199 (15.56%) Finance
3 163 (12.74%) Public Sector
4 96 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (6.88%) Banking
6 24 (1.88%) Military
7 20 (1.56%) Retail
8 18 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (1.25%) Front Office
10 15 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.09%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
13 12 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.63%) Marketing
16 7 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.55%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.47%) Law
17 6 (0.47%) Legal
18 5 (0.39%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 270 (21.11%) Developer
2 197 (15.40%) Senior
3 182 (14.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 108 (8.44%) Data Engineer
5 98 (7.66%) Lead
6 91 (7.11%) Architect
7 89 (6.96%) Cloud Engineer
8 81 (6.33%) AWS Engineer
9 77 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
10 72 (5.63%) Full-Stack Developer
11 64 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
12 63 (4.93%) Java Developer
13 49 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
14 48 (3.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 47 (3.67%) Software Engineer
16 41 (3.21%) Senior Developer
17 40 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 39 (3.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 36 (2.81%) GCP Engineer
20 34 (2.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (12.12%) REST
2 152 (11.88%) Kafka
3 139 (10.87%) Spring
4 135 (10.56%) React
5 124 (9.70%) Node.js
6 113 (8.84%) .NET
7 97 (7.58%) Spring Boot
8 90 (7.04%) RESTful
9 68 (5.32%) AngularJS
10 63 (4.93%) Playwright
11 59 (4.61%) CSS
12 52 (4.07%) HTML
12 52 (4.07%) PySpark
13 49 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
14 44 (3.44%) OAuth
15 43 (3.36%) PyTorch
16 42 (3.28%) Jest
16 42 (3.28%) JSON
17 37 (2.89%) FastAPI
18 34 (2.66%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 219 (17.12%) Cloud Native
2 62 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (3.83%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.11%) Public Cloud
6 23 (1.80%) Algorithms
7 20 (1.56%) Onboarding
8 19 (1.49%) Virtual Team
9 18 (1.41%) Security Posture
10 17 (1.33%) AI Agents
10 17 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.17%) NHS
12 13 (1.02%) Life Science
13 12 (0.94%) Data Structures
13 12 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
13 12 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
13 12 (0.94%) Replication
14 11 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 152 (11.88%) Linux
2 42 (3.28%) Windows
3 27 (2.11%) Unix
4 22 (1.72%) Android
5 18 (1.41%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.09%) VMS
7 9 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.31%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.23%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.16%) CentOS
11 2 (0.16%) Debian
11 2 (0.16%) Rocky
12 1 (0.078%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 919 (71.85%) CI/CD
2 763 (59.66%) DevOps
3 448 (35.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 404 (31.59%) Agile
5 323 (25.25%) Containerisation
6 283 (22.13%) Test Automation
7 254 (19.86%) AI
8 238 (18.61%) Observability
9 232 (18.14%) Microservices
9 232 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
10 178 (13.92%) Analytics
11 177 (13.84%) Migration
12 162 (12.67%) Platform Engineering
13 151 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
14 136 (10.63%) Full-Stack Development
15 135 (10.56%) Data Pipeline
16 132 (10.32%) Software Engineering
17 124 (9.70%) Data Engineering
18 114 (8.91%) Machine Learning
19 111 (8.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 603 (47.15%) Python
2 309 (24.16%) SQL
3 258 (20.17%) Java
4 164 (12.82%) JavaScript
5 158 (12.35%) Bash
6 131 (10.24%) TypeScript
7 119 (9.30%) PowerShell
8 114 (8.91%) C#
9 67 (5.24%) Go
10 58 (4.53%) Bicep
11 31 (2.42%) Shell Script
12 27 (2.11%) Ruby
13 22 (1.72%) Scala
14 16 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (1.17%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.94%) Swift
17 11 (0.86%) Groovy
18 10 (0.78%) C++
18 10 (0.78%) PHP
19 8 (0.63%) C
Qualifications
1 394 (30.81%) Security Cleared
2 306 (23.92%) SC Cleared
3 76 (5.94%) Degree
4 47 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (3.60%) DV Cleared
6 43 (3.36%) Azure Certification
7 40 (3.13%) AWS Certification
8 28 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 15 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 15 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (0.78%) OCP
12 10 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
13 9 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (0.55%) CISSP
16 5 (0.39%) CCNP
17 4 (0.31%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (7.04%) QA
2 61 (4.77%) Data Quality
3 47 (3.67%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.03%) NIST
5 25 (1.95%) WCAG
6 23 (1.80%) GDPR
7 19 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (1.41%) PCI DSS
9 17 (1.33%) NCSC
10 12 (0.94%) EU AI Act
11 7 (0.55%) GRC
12 6 (0.47%) SLA
13 5 (0.39%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.23%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 398 (31.12%) Docker
2 35 (2.74%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (1.25%) VMware NSX
3 16 (1.25%) vSphere
4 7 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.55%) Firmware
5 3 (0.23%) HDFS
5 3 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.078%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.078%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 558 (43.63%) Terraform
2 489 (38.23%) Kubernetes
3 184 (14.39%) Ansible
4 143 (11.18%) Grafana
5 105 (8.21%) Prometheus
6 72 (5.63%) Argo
7 40 (3.13%) Istio
8 23 (1.80%) Puppet
9 20 (1.56%) Progress Chef
10 16 (1.25%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.94%) Kibana
12 11 (0.86%) NetBackup
12 11 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
13 10 (0.78%) Packer
14 9 (0.70%) linkerd
14 9 (0.70%) Podman
15 7 (0.55%) Sysdig
16 5 (0.39%) logstash
16 5 (0.39%) Rancher
17 4 (0.31%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 227 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 100 (7.82%) Databricks
2 100 (7.82%) Google
3 80 (6.25%) Splunk
4 46 (3.60%) VMware
5 45 (3.52%) Red Hat
6 44 (3.44%) OpenAI
6 44 (3.44%) Oracle
7 22 (1.72%) Atlassian
8 20 (1.56%) Foundry
9 19 (1.49%) ServiceNow
9 19 (1.49%) Sonatype
10 16 (1.25%) Pure Storage
11 15 (1.17%) Dynatrace
12 14 (1.09%) Salesforce
12 14 (1.09%) SAP
13 11 (0.86%) Checkmarx
14 10 (0.78%) Commvault
15 9 (0.70%) New Relic
16 8 (0.63%) Cloudera