GitHub Contracts in England

GitHub
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring GitHub skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitHub over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 146 127
Rank change year-on-year +33 -19 +23
Contract jobs citing GitHub 636 592 991
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.40% 1.59% 2.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.37% 4.87% 5.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 374 666
10th Percentile £377 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £700
90th Percentile £750 £700 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -0.98% -8.70% +0.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 34 7
10th Percentile £25.48 £52.60 £52.30
25th Percentile £25.81 - £63.75
Median hourly rate £26.50 £70.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.14% -9.68% +7.27%
75th Percentile £27.06 - £79.38
90th Percentile £27.33 - £84.00
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -62.14% -6.67% +7.14%

All Cloud 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 9,983 12,155 17,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.64% 32.61% 36.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,731 8,674 12,778
10th Percentile £313 £308 £320
25th Percentile £410 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 329 301
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.15 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £16.06 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -33.33% +54.48%
75th Percentile £38.75 £43.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £27.63 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.59% -37.14% +59.09%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in England

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub in England.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in England

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in England

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitHub in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 5 July 2025. 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 +34 390 £550 +6.54% 1,583
North of England +6 83 £480 -12.73% 447
South East +49 59 £477 +0.32% 341
Yorkshire -1 44 £520 -6.77% 161
North West +14 34 £469 -6.20% 259
South West +17 29 £600 +12.57% 153
Midlands +22 27 £475 -7.32% 215
West Midlands +23 23 £475 -9.52% 134
East of England +25 16 £550 - 173
North East -2 5 £475 - 32
East Midlands +1 4 £488 +50.00% 81
GitHub
UK

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 51 (8.02%) Confluence
2 43 (6.76%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (1.89%) Apache
3 12 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.10%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.79%) CMS
6 4 (0.63%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.47%) JBoss
7 3 (0.47%) nginx
7 3 (0.47%) WordPress
8 2 (0.31%) Camunda
8 2 (0.31%) IIS
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.31%) SAS
9 1 (0.16%) Drupal
9 1 (0.16%) Gunicorn
9 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.31%) Trello
3 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (0.47%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.31%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.31%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.31%) Shopify
3 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.16%) Endur
3 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 332 (52.20%) AWS
2 235 (36.95%) GitHub Actions
3 234 (36.79%) Azure
4 98 (15.41%) Azure DevOps
5 94 (14.78%) GCP
6 83 (13.05%) Serverless
7 69 (10.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 68 (10.69%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (7.08%) Amazon S3
10 38 (5.97%) SaaS
11 33 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
12 31 (4.87%) dbt
13 30 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 30 (4.72%) Entra ID
14 27 (4.25%) Power Platform
15 25 (3.93%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (3.46%) AWS CodePipeline
16 22 (3.46%) Azure Monitor
17 20 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
17 20 (3.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 44 (6.92%) DNS
2 28 (4.40%) Firewall
3 24 (3.77%) TCP/IP
4 20 (3.14%) VPN
5 18 (2.83%) HTTP
6 14 (2.20%) Network Security
7 13 (2.04%) SMTP
8 9 (1.42%) DHCP
8 9 (1.42%) SSL
9 6 (0.94%) BGP
9 6 (0.94%) OSPF
9 6 (0.94%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (0.94%) VSAN
10 5 (0.79%) LAN
10 5 (0.79%) WAN
11 4 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
11 4 (0.63%) FTP
12 3 (0.47%) IPsec
12 3 (0.47%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.47%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (4.56%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (4.25%) SQL Server
5 25 (3.93%) NoSQL
5 25 (3.93%) Power BI
6 24 (3.77%) DynamoDB
7 18 (2.83%) Big Data
8 15 (2.36%) BigQuery
8 15 (2.36%) Relational Database
9 14 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (2.20%) Data Lake
10 13 (2.04%) MySQL
10 13 (2.04%) Redis
11 12 (1.89%) Delta Lake
11 12 (1.89%) Metadata
12 11 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.73%) MongoDB
13 9 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 168 (26.42%) Jenkins
2 127 (19.97%) Git
3 98 (15.41%) GitLab
4 95 (14.94%) JIRA
5 26 (4.09%) Bitbucket
6 23 (3.62%) CircleCI
6 23 (3.62%) Cucumber
6 23 (3.62%) SonarQube
7 22 (3.46%) Artifactory
7 22 (3.46%) Cypress.io
8 21 (3.30%) Gradle
9 16 (2.52%) JUnit
9 16 (2.52%) Selenium
10 14 (2.20%) Burp Suite
10 14 (2.20%) Metasploit
10 14 (2.20%) Postman
11 13 (2.04%) Subversion
12 12 (1.89%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.73%) Maven
13 11 (1.73%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 170 (26.73%) Social Skills
2 113 (17.77%) Finance
3 67 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 62 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (6.92%) Banking
6 15 (2.36%) Investment Banking
7 13 (2.04%) Retail
8 11 (1.73%) Marketing
9 10 (1.57%) Military
10 9 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.42%) Front Office
11 8 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.94%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (0.94%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.63%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.63%) Legal
15 3 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 143 (22.48%) Developer
2 87 (13.68%) Senior
3 81 (12.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 69 (10.85%) Architect
5 54 (8.49%) AWS Engineer
6 50 (7.86%) Lead
7 41 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
8 39 (6.13%) Cloud Engineer
9 38 (5.97%) Data Engineer
10 29 (4.56%) Software Engineer
11 28 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
11 28 (4.40%) Python Developer
12 25 (3.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 24 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
14 23 (3.62%) Security Engineer
15 22 (3.46%) Python Engineer
15 22 (3.46%) Senior Developer
16 21 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
17 19 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 19 (2.99%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (12.11%) REST
2 59 (9.28%) Node.js
2 59 (9.28%) React
3 51 (8.02%) Kafka
4 45 (7.08%) RESTful
5 41 (6.45%) HTML
6 32 (5.03%) CSS
7 31 (4.87%) .NET
8 29 (4.56%) AngularJS
9 24 (3.77%) Jest
9 24 (3.77%) Spring
10 23 (3.62%) AWS CDK
10 23 (3.62%) JSON
10 23 (3.62%) OAuth
10 23 (3.62%) Spring Boot
11 19 (2.99%) Jinja
11 19 (2.99%) YAML
12 18 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
12 18 (2.83%) Pandas
12 18 (2.83%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 44 (6.92%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.35%) Public Cloud
3 19 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 12 (1.89%) Algorithms
6 12 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.73%) Mobile App
7 11 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.57%) Clustering
9 9 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.26%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.94%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.79%) Replication
12 5 (0.79%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.63%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.63%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 74 (11.64%) Linux
2 32 (5.03%) Windows
3 25 (3.93%) Unix
4 18 (2.83%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.04%) Android
6 12 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.42%) VMS
8 7 (1.10%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.94%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.79%) Solaris
11 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.31%) CentOS
12 2 (0.31%) SUSE
12 2 (0.31%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (59.43%) CI/CD
2 269 (42.30%) DevOps
3 236 (37.11%) Agile
4 195 (30.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 115 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
6 95 (14.94%) Containerisation
7 91 (14.31%) Test Automation
8 84 (13.21%) Microservices
9 79 (12.42%) Scrum
10 74 (11.64%) Analytics
11 69 (10.85%) Software Engineering
12 66 (10.38%) Artificial Intelligence
13 61 (9.59%) Migration
14 60 (9.43%) TDD
15 53 (8.33%) Observability
16 52 (8.18%) Cloud Security
17 51 (8.02%) Continuous Integration
18 48 (7.55%) Data Pipeline
19 46 (7.23%) Mentoring
19 46 (7.23%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 283 (44.50%) Python
2 125 (19.65%) SQL
3 101 (15.88%) JavaScript
4 97 (15.25%) Java
5 78 (12.26%) Bash
6 74 (11.64%) TypeScript
7 73 (11.48%) PowerShell
8 45 (7.08%) C#
9 33 (5.19%) Go
10 28 (4.40%) Kotlin
11 23 (3.62%) Bicep
12 22 (3.46%) Shell Script
13 19 (2.99%) C++
13 19 (2.99%) Groovy
14 15 (2.36%) Scala
15 13 (2.04%) Perl
16 8 (1.26%) Apex Code
17 7 (1.10%) PHP
17 7 (1.10%) Ruby
18 6 (0.94%) C
Qualifications
1 153 (24.06%) Security Cleared
2 130 (20.44%) SC Cleared
3 43 (6.76%) Degree
4 27 (4.25%) AWS Certification
5 18 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 15 (2.36%) Azure Certification
8 14 (2.20%) CREST Certified
8 14 (2.20%) OSCP
9 13 (2.04%) Tigerscheme
10 12 (1.89%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.57%) CHECK Team Member
11 10 (1.57%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.94%) OCP
12 6 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 3 (0.47%) VCAP
15 3 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.81%) QA
2 26 (4.09%) Data Quality
3 25 (3.93%) GDPR
4 16 (2.52%) NCSC
5 15 (2.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 13 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.89%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.73%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.42%) HIPAA
10 8 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (1.26%) NIST
11 4 (0.63%) GxP
11 4 (0.63%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.63%) WCAG
12 3 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.31%) ITGC
14 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 124 (19.50%) Docker
2 31 (4.87%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.10%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.79%) vSphere
8 3 (0.47%) Lustre
8 3 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.47%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.31%) Ceph
9 2 (0.31%) Firmware
9 2 (0.31%) NFS
9 2 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.31%) Veritas File System
9 2 (0.31%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.16%) iptables
Systems Management
1 269 (42.30%) Terraform
2 191 (30.03%) Kubernetes
3 106 (16.67%) Ansible
4 56 (8.81%) Grafana
5 47 (7.39%) Prometheus
6 35 (5.50%) Puppet
7 14 (2.20%) Nmap
8 13 (2.04%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.26%) Argo
11 7 (1.10%) Istio
11 7 (1.10%) Packer
11 7 (1.10%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.94%) Nessus
12 6 (0.94%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.79%) Control-M
13 5 (0.79%) HP Fortify
13 5 (0.79%) Tivoli
13 5 (0.79%) VxRail
Vendors
1 60 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 43 (6.76%) Google
3 42 (6.60%) Splunk
4 37 (5.82%) Databricks
5 22 (3.46%) Red Hat
5 22 (3.46%) VMware
6 20 (3.14%) Salesforce
7 19 (2.99%) Oracle
8 16 (2.52%) Atlassian
9 14 (2.20%) Veracode
10 12 (1.89%) SAP
11 11 (1.73%) CyberArk
12 10 (1.57%) Cisco
12 10 (1.57%) Dell
12 10 (1.57%) IBM
12 10 (1.57%) Qualys
13 9 (1.42%) ServiceNow
14 8 (1.26%) Virgin Media
15 6 (0.94%) Informatica
15 6 (0.94%) SaltStack