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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 127 164
Rank change year-on-year +59 +37 -33
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,142 547 537
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.54% 2.07% 1.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.35% 5.59% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 372 388
10th Percentile £356 £345 £413
25th Percentile £412 £450 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% -1.32% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £701 £687 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 1
10th Percentile £40.00 £22.33 -
25th Percentile £41.50 £25.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £48.00 £27.38 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.34% -43.56% -10.19%
75th Percentile £60.31 £57.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £86.88 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £27.38 £48.50
% change year-on-year +75.34% -43.56% -10.19%

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 12,214 9,779 12,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.85% 36.97% 33.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,493 6,481 9,206
10th Percentile £304 £313 £270
25th Percentile £406 £425 £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 £700 £738 £732
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 137 286
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.55 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.46 £17.13
Median hourly rate £30.25 £27.50 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +18.39% -3.22%
75th Percentile £58.16 £45.00 £49.77
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 £66.66
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.02
% change year-on-year +9.09% +14.49% +3.76%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 +45 663 £550 - 238
North of England +29 176 £482 +1.47% 205
South East +42 105 £450 -0.55% 290
Yorkshire +2 88 £500 +3.63% 95
Midlands +21 78 £550 - 103
North West +24 73 £405 -14.74% 87
South West +10 71 £550 -10.20% 123
West Midlands +18 64 £575 +10.05% 40
North East 0 17 £545 +50.34% 26
East of England -3 17 £560 +76.10% 129
East Midlands -15 14 £402 -35.63% 61
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 95 (8.32%) Confluence
2 48 (4.20%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (2.19%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.66%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.14%) nginx
6 12 (1.05%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.53%) Apache
9 5 (0.44%) CMS
10 4 (0.35%) SAS
11 3 (0.26%) Mule
11 3 (0.26%) WordPress
12 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.18%) CICS
12 2 (0.18%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.18%) Traefik
12 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.088%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.088%) Appian
Applications
1 26 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.18%) Trello
5 1 (0.088%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (0.61%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.18%) Shopify
3 1 (0.088%) Actimize
3 1 (0.088%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.088%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.088%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.088%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.088%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 584 (51.14%) GitHub Actions
2 526 (46.06%) AWS
3 524 (45.88%) Azure
4 246 (21.54%) Azure DevOps
5 196 (17.16%) GCP
6 191 (16.73%) Serverless
7 127 (11.12%) AWS Lambda
8 115 (10.07%) Amazon S3
9 106 (9.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 92 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
11 88 (7.71%) Amazon ECS
12 85 (7.44%) Power Platform
13 76 (6.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 70 (6.13%) OpenShift
15 68 (5.95%) Azure AKS
16 62 (5.43%) Entra ID
17 61 (5.34%) Azure Data Factory
18 58 (5.08%) GitHub Copilot
19 55 (4.82%) Azure Monitor
20 52 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.38%) Firewall
2 43 (3.77%) DNS
3 25 (2.19%) Network Security
4 23 (2.01%) VPN
5 12 (1.05%) HTTP
5 12 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.96%) SSL
7 9 (0.79%) WAN
8 8 (0.70%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.70%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.61%) Ethernet
9 7 (0.61%) Modbus
9 7 (0.61%) RS-232
9 7 (0.61%) RS-485
10 5 (0.44%) Internet
10 5 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.18%) Calico
11 2 (0.18%) SNMP
11 2 (0.18%) SSH
12 1 (0.088%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (14.45%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (7.18%) NoSQL
3 65 (5.69%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (4.99%) MongoDB
5 54 (4.73%) Relational Database
6 53 (4.64%) DynamoDB
7 52 (4.55%) SQL Server
8 49 (4.29%) Power BI
9 48 (4.20%) Data Lake
10 43 (3.77%) Redis
11 40 (3.50%) MySQL
12 34 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
13 29 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
14 25 (2.19%) BigQuery
15 19 (1.66%) Amazon Aurora
16 18 (1.58%) Delta Lake
16 18 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
17 15 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
17 15 (1.31%) DocumentDB
18 14 (1.23%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 327 (28.63%) Jenkins
2 225 (19.70%) Git
3 207 (18.13%) GitLab
4 163 (14.27%) JIRA
5 67 (5.87%) JUnit
6 58 (5.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 46 (4.03%) Artifactory
8 43 (3.77%) CircleCI
8 43 (3.77%) Gradle
8 43 (3.77%) SonarQube
9 38 (3.33%) Cypress.io
10 37 (3.24%) Bitbucket
11 36 (3.15%) Cucumber
12 32 (2.80%) Maven
13 31 (2.71%) Postman
13 31 (2.71%) Selenium
14 27 (2.36%) JMeter
15 16 (1.40%) Snyk
16 14 (1.23%) SpecFlow
17 13 (1.14%) Storybook
General
1 279 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 173 (15.15%) Finance
3 144 (12.61%) Public Sector
4 83 (7.27%) Banking
5 74 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.58%) Military
7 18 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
8 17 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.31%) Investment Banking
9 15 (1.31%) Retail
10 13 (1.14%) Front Office
10 13 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (0.96%) Marketing
12 10 (0.88%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.53%) Games
14 5 (0.44%) Billing
14 5 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.44%) Law
15 4 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 278 (24.34%) Developer
2 182 (15.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 172 (15.06%) Senior
4 90 (7.88%) Data Engineer
5 85 (7.44%) AWS Engineer
6 79 (6.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 75 (6.57%) Full-Stack Developer
8 74 (6.48%) Lead
9 71 (6.22%) Architect
10 61 (5.34%) Platform Engineer
11 59 (5.17%) Java Developer
12 57 (4.99%) Azure Engineer
13 54 (4.73%) Software Engineer
14 52 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
15 45 (3.94%) Senior Developer
15 45 (3.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 43 (3.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 39 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 31 (2.71%) Senior Data Engineer
19 28 (2.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (12.70%) REST
2 140 (12.26%) Kafka
3 129 (11.30%) React
4 123 (10.77%) Node.js
5 109 (9.54%) .NET
6 105 (9.19%) Spring
7 93 (8.14%) RESTful
8 84 (7.36%) Spring Boot
9 69 (6.04%) AngularJS
10 61 (5.34%) OAuth
11 60 (5.25%) CSS
11 60 (5.25%) HTML
12 51 (4.47%) Elastic Stack
12 51 (4.47%) Playwright
13 45 (3.94%) JSON
14 41 (3.59%) GraphQL
15 40 (3.50%) FastAPI
16 36 (3.15%) ARM Templates
16 36 (3.15%) Jest
16 36 (3.15%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 193 (16.90%) Cloud Native
2 41 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
2 41 (3.59%) Product Ownership
3 26 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (2.28%) Public Cloud
4 20 (1.75%) Algorithms
4 20 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 19 (1.66%) Onboarding
6 18 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (1.49%) AI Agents
8 16 (1.40%) Life Science
8 16 (1.40%) Virtual Team
9 15 (1.31%) Private Cloud
10 14 (1.23%) Genomics
10 14 (1.23%) NHS
10 14 (1.23%) Replication
11 13 (1.14%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.14%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
12 12 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 154 (13.49%) Linux
2 40 (3.50%) Windows
3 25 (2.19%) Unix
4 22 (1.93%) Android
5 15 (1.31%) Apple iOS
5 15 (1.31%) VMS
6 13 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
7 7 (0.61%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.53%) Solaris
9 4 (0.35%) CentOS
9 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.18%) zOS
12 1 (0.088%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.088%) MVS
12 1 (0.088%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 812 (71.10%) CI/CD
2 681 (59.63%) DevOps
3 407 (35.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 367 (32.14%) Agile
5 306 (26.80%) Containerisation
6 227 (19.88%) AI
7 224 (19.61%) Test Automation
8 220 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
9 213 (18.65%) Microservices
10 188 (16.46%) Observability
11 149 (13.05%) Migration
12 141 (12.35%) Full-Stack Development
13 127 (11.12%) Software Engineering
14 126 (11.03%) Analytics
15 119 (10.42%) Platform Engineering
16 116 (10.16%) Data Pipeline
17 111 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
18 100 (8.76%) DevSecOps
19 96 (8.41%) Machine Learning
20 93 (8.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 533 (46.67%) Python
2 254 (22.24%) SQL
3 241 (21.10%) Java
4 160 (14.01%) JavaScript
5 148 (12.96%) TypeScript
6 128 (11.21%) Bash
7 99 (8.67%) C#
8 98 (8.58%) PowerShell
9 74 (6.48%) Go
10 51 (4.47%) Bicep
11 30 (2.63%) Shell Script
12 26 (2.28%) Ruby
13 15 (1.31%) PHP
14 12 (1.05%) C++
14 12 (1.05%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.79%) Groovy
16 8 (0.70%) C
16 8 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.61%) Perl
17 7 (0.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 335 (29.33%) Security Cleared
2 260 (22.77%) SC Cleared
3 83 (7.27%) Degree
4 50 (4.38%) DV Cleared
5 48 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (3.42%) Azure Certification
7 32 (2.80%) AWS Certification
8 22 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (1.93%) MCP
9 18 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.79%) CISSP
12 8 (0.70%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.70%) OCP
12 8 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 6 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
14 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.35%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.22%) QA
2 48 (4.20%) Data Quality
3 45 (3.94%) Accessibility
4 28 (2.45%) NIST
5 24 (2.10%) NCSC
6 23 (2.01%) GDPR
7 22 (1.93%) WCAG
8 16 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (1.31%) EU AI Act
10 14 (1.23%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.61%) SLA
12 5 (0.44%) GRC
12 5 (0.44%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.26%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.26%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
15 2 (0.18%) FIPS 140-2
15 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 383 (33.54%) Docker
2 35 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.61%) Firmware
6 6 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.44%) NFS
8 4 (0.35%) Veritas File System
8 4 (0.35%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 4 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.35%) vSphere
9 3 (0.26%) QEMU
9 3 (0.26%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.18%) HDFS
10 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.18%) KVM
11 1 (0.088%) SRDF
11 1 (0.088%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.088%) Xen
Systems Management
1 500 (43.78%) Terraform
2 444 (38.88%) Kubernetes
3 158 (13.84%) Ansible
4 129 (11.30%) Grafana
5 100 (8.76%) Prometheus
6 58 (5.08%) Argo
7 36 (3.15%) Istio
8 28 (2.45%) Progress Chef
9 26 (2.28%) Puppet
10 13 (1.14%) Podman
11 10 (0.88%) Kibana
11 10 (0.88%) Packer
12 9 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
13 8 (0.70%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.61%) linkerd
14 7 (0.61%) Sysdig
15 5 (0.44%) logstash
16 4 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
16 4 (0.35%) Rancher
16 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 199 (17.43%) Microsoft
2 105 (9.19%) Google
3 73 (6.39%) Databricks
4 65 (5.69%) Splunk
5 44 (3.85%) OpenAI
5 44 (3.85%) VMware
6 38 (3.33%) Oracle
7 35 (3.06%) Red Hat
8 22 (1.93%) ServiceNow
9 19 (1.66%) Foundry
10 17 (1.49%) Atlassian
11 14 (1.23%) Sonatype
12 13 (1.14%) Salesforce
13 9 (0.79%) Dynatrace
13 9 (0.79%) NetApp
13 9 (0.79%) SAP
14 8 (0.70%) Commvault
14 8 (0.70%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.70%) New Relic
14 8 (0.70%) Okta