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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 82 134
Rank change year-on-year -6 +52 +11
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,410 878 607
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.05% 3.14% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.85% 8.18% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 972 602 405
10th Percentile £381 £360 £314
25th Percentile £431 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £710 £700 £687
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - -0.05% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 32
10th Percentile £46.25 £69.00 £66.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £80.63 -
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 15,939 10,738 11,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.46% 38.37% 34.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,607 7,248 7,525
10th Percentile £322 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £640
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 253 161
10th Percentile £15.37 £15.04 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -1 828 £550 - 1,003
North of England +12 272 £480 +1.05% 197
Yorkshire +17 175 £483 -3.50% 75
Midlands -16 112 £475 -17.21% 93
West Midlands -18 91 £488 -15.22% 48
South East -34 90 £525 +16.67% 147
North West -23 74 £550 +25.00% 98
South West -41 50 £550 -15.38% 78
East of England -17 31 £549 -0.13% 83
North East -26 25 £425 -10.53% 24
East Midlands -1 21 £400 -15.79% 45
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
1 104 (7.38%) Confluence
2 41 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.35%) Apache
4 18 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.64%) nginx
6 8 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.50%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.43%) Tuxedo
9 4 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.21%) CMS
11 2 (0.14%) IIS
11 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 1 (0.071%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.071%) Camunda
12 1 (0.071%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.071%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.071%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 10 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.28%) Trello
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.071%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.071%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.071%) Notion
6 1 (0.071%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.071%) Sketch
6 1 (0.071%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.35%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.35%) Sage X3
3 5 (0.35%) Summit
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.071%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.071%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.071%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.071%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 757 (53.69%) GitHub Actions
2 727 (51.56%) Azure
3 665 (47.16%) AWS
4 385 (27.30%) Azure DevOps
5 226 (16.03%) GCP
6 188 (13.33%) Serverless
7 175 (12.41%) GitHub Copilot
8 135 (9.57%) Amazon EKS
8 135 (9.57%) Amazon S3
9 114 (8.09%) AWS Lambda
10 107 (7.59%) Azure Monitor
11 102 (7.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 99 (7.02%) Entra ID
13 93 (6.60%) Power Platform
14 81 (5.74%) Snowflake
15 76 (5.39%) Azure AKS
16 75 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
17 68 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
18 66 (4.68%) Amazon ECS
19 63 (4.47%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.25%) DNS
2 73 (5.18%) Firewall
3 43 (3.05%) Network Security
3 43 (3.05%) VPN
4 25 (1.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 24 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 23 (1.63%) VLAN
7 22 (1.56%) BGP
8 18 (1.28%) BIG-IP
8 18 (1.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 17 (1.21%) SSL
10 16 (1.13%) DHCP
11 13 (0.92%) Wireless
12 12 (0.85%) Ethernet VPN
12 12 (0.85%) VXLAN
13 11 (0.78%) OSPF
14 10 (0.71%) NX-OS
15 9 (0.64%) TACACS
16 8 (0.57%) WAN
17 7 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (8.58%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (6.74%) SQL Server
3 81 (5.74%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.61%) NoSQL
5 63 (4.47%) Power BI
6 54 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (3.76%) Redis
8 50 (3.55%) Data Lake
9 49 (3.48%) Relational Database
10 32 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
10 32 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 32 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 32 (2.27%) DynamoDB
11 30 (2.13%) Delta Lake
12 29 (2.06%) MySQL
13 26 (1.84%) BigQuery
14 23 (1.63%) Metadata
15 19 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
16 18 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
17 16 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 409 (29.01%) Jenkins
2 301 (21.35%) Git
2 301 (21.35%) GitLab
3 165 (11.70%) JIRA
4 79 (5.60%) Selenium
5 68 (4.82%) JUnit
6 64 (4.54%) Cucumber
7 61 (4.33%) SonarQube
8 47 (3.33%) Gatling
9 46 (3.26%) Bitbucket
10 45 (3.19%) Claude Code
11 37 (2.62%) Cypress.io
12 36 (2.55%) JMeter
13 35 (2.48%) Gradle
13 35 (2.48%) Postman
14 34 (2.41%) Maven
15 31 (2.20%) REST Assured
16 27 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
17 25 (1.77%) CircleCI
18 20 (1.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 368 (26.10%) Social Skills
2 294 (20.85%) Finance
3 160 (11.35%) Public Sector
4 147 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
5 96 (6.81%) Banking
6 51 (3.62%) Retail
7 43 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (1.28%) Legal
8 18 (1.28%) Telecoms
9 17 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (1.21%) Law
10 15 (1.06%) Aerospace
10 15 (1.06%) Marketing
10 15 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
11 14 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (0.99%) Military
12 13 (0.92%) Local Government
13 12 (0.85%) Investment Banking
13 12 (0.85%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.71%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 290 (20.57%) Senior
2 260 (18.44%) Developer
3 179 (12.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 130 (9.22%) Architect
5 124 (8.79%) Lead
6 97 (6.88%) Data Engineer
7 78 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
8 71 (5.04%) Platform Engineer
9 70 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
9 70 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
10 64 (4.54%) Java Developer
11 63 (4.47%) Senior Developer
12 58 (4.11%) Software Engineer
13 54 (3.83%) Senior DevOps
14 51 (3.62%) Full-Stack Developer
14 51 (3.62%) Test Engineer
15 50 (3.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 48 (3.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 45 (3.19%) Automation Engineer
18 41 (2.91%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 658 (46.67%) Terraform
2 265 (18.79%) REST
3 158 (11.21%) Kafka
4 144 (10.21%) RESTful
5 128 (9.08%) Spring
6 117 (8.30%) React
7 113 (8.01%) .NET
8 107 (7.59%) Spring Boot
9 98 (6.95%) Playwright
10 67 (4.75%) Node.js
11 60 (4.26%) HTML
11 60 (4.26%) OAuth
12 57 (4.04%) JSON
13 53 (3.76%) AngularJS
14 48 (3.40%) FastAPI
15 46 (3.26%) OAuth2
15 46 (3.26%) YAML
16 43 (3.05%) pytest
17 41 (2.91%) PySpark
18 40 (2.84%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 289 (20.50%) Cloud Native
2 101 (7.16%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (6.24%) AI Agents
4 75 (5.32%) Product Ownership
5 66 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (3.55%) Data Centre
7 46 (3.26%) Onboarding
8 36 (2.55%) Mobile App
9 35 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
10 28 (1.99%) Data Structures
11 27 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.70%) Security Posture
13 23 (1.63%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
14 22 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
15 21 (1.49%) Low-Code
16 17 (1.21%) Algorithms
16 17 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
17 16 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 132 (9.36%) Linux
2 64 (4.54%) Windows
3 28 (1.99%) Unix
4 26 (1.84%) Android
5 25 (1.77%) Apple iOS
6 19 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.35%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.57%) VMS
8 6 (0.43%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.28%) CentOS
10 2 (0.14%) AIX
10 2 (0.14%) Debian
10 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.14%) MVS
10 2 (0.14%) Rocky
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.14%) zOS
11 1 (0.071%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,077 (76.38%) CI/CD
2 826 (58.58%) DevOps
3 572 (40.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 530 (37.59%) Agile
5 368 (26.10%) Test Automation
6 364 (25.82%) Observability
7 361 (25.60%) AI
8 289 (20.50%) Microservices
9 287 (20.35%) Containerisation
10 250 (17.73%) Software Engineering
11 227 (16.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 208 (14.75%) Platform Engineering
13 193 (13.69%) Stakeholder Management
14 187 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
15 184 (13.05%) Event-Driven
16 155 (10.99%) Analytics
17 148 (10.50%) Technical Leadership
18 147 (10.43%) Scrum
19 136 (9.65%) Deployment Automation
20 133 (9.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 624 (44.26%) Python
2 316 (22.41%) SQL
3 284 (20.14%) Java
4 191 (13.55%) Bash
5 181 (12.84%) PowerShell
6 167 (11.84%) TypeScript
7 156 (11.06%) JavaScript
8 120 (8.51%) C#
9 104 (7.38%) Bicep
10 49 (3.48%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.05%) Go
12 34 (2.41%) Shell Script
13 30 (2.13%) Scala
14 20 (1.42%) Swift
15 19 (1.35%) ActionScript
16 14 (0.99%) Ruby
17 13 (0.92%) C
18 12 (0.85%) Objective-C
19 11 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
20 10 (0.71%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 419 (29.72%) Security Cleared
2 363 (25.74%) SC Cleared
3 66 (4.68%) Azure Certification
4 61 (4.33%) Degree
5 55 (3.90%) AWS Certification
6 52 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 41 (2.91%) DV Cleared
8 34 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 10 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (0.64%) CISSP
15 8 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
15 8 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (14.75%) QA
2 88 (6.24%) Accessibility
3 80 (5.67%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.55%) WCAG
5 29 (2.06%) GDPR
6 26 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (1.70%) NIST
8 11 (0.78%) NCSC
9 10 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.43%) GRC
11 6 (0.43%) HL7
11 6 (0.43%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.43%) PSD2
12 5 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.35%) SEPA
13 4 (0.28%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
16 1 (0.071%) NIST 800
System Software
1 450 (31.91%) Docker
2 45 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.71%) IAG
7 8 (0.57%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.50%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.28%) VirtualBox
9 4 (0.28%) vSphere
10 3 (0.21%) Firmware
10 3 (0.21%) NFS
11 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.071%) zsh
Systems Management
1 509 (36.10%) Kubernetes
2 198 (14.04%) Ansible
3 189 (13.40%) Grafana
4 141 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 51 (3.62%) Argo
6 22 (1.56%) Puppet
7 19 (1.35%) Progress Chef
8 18 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
9 15 (1.06%) Packer
10 13 (0.92%) Control-M
11 12 (0.85%) Istio
12 11 (0.78%) Kibana
13 9 (0.64%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.50%) SCCM
15 6 (0.43%) Kustomize
16 5 (0.35%) FortiGate
16 5 (0.35%) HAProxy
16 5 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
17 4 (0.28%) Bosun
Vendors
1 277 (19.65%) Microsoft
2 104 (7.38%) Databricks
3 94 (6.67%) Google
4 93 (6.60%) Splunk
5 73 (5.18%) Dynatrace
6 57 (4.04%) Oracle
7 56 (3.97%) OpenAI
8 51 (3.62%) ServiceNow
9 35 (2.48%) VMware
10 34 (2.41%) Cisco
11 30 (2.13%) Foundry
12 29 (2.06%) Red Hat
13 28 (1.99%) IBM
14 26 (1.84%) F5
14 26 (1.84%) Salesforce
15 22 (1.56%) New Relic
16 17 (1.21%) Palo Alto
17 15 (1.06%) SAP
18 14 (0.99%) CyberArk
19 13 (0.92%) AppDynamics