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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 132 157
Rank change year-on-year +59 +25 -19
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,074 594 637
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.45% 1.94% 1.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.00% 5.36% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 782 402 455
10th Percentile £360 £313 £413
25th Percentile £413 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 4
10th Percentile £40.00 £26.00 £75.38
25th Percentile £41.50 £39.50 £75.94
Median hourly rate £54.25 £70.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% -9.68% +47.62%
75th Percentile £98.44 - £79.06
90th Percentile £110.00 - £79.63
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £70.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -22.50% -9.68% +47.62%

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 11,931 11,085 13,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.30% 36.26% 35.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,163 7,389 9,709
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 148 267
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.32
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £32.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +28.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £51.83 £56.31 £54.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -12.33% +15.38% +17.33%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 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 +46 600 £550 - 249
North of England +30 165 £488 +10.80% 163
South East +62 100 £450 - 188
Midlands +36 85 £550 +4.76% 99
Yorkshire +5 84 £500 +12.36% 55
West Midlands +29 72 £575 +12.20% 67
South West +3 72 £650 - 62
North West +24 65 £410 +24.62% 91
North East +6 18 £545 - 21
East of England -11 16 £560 +6.67% 66
East Midlands -4 13 £418 -33.15% 32
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 92 (8.57%) Confluence
2 60 (5.59%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (1.96%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.86%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.21%) nginx
6 10 (0.93%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.65%) Apache
7 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.56%) Mule
9 5 (0.47%) SAS
9 5 (0.47%) WordPress
10 3 (0.28%) CMS
11 2 (0.19%) CICS
11 2 (0.19%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.19%) Traefik
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.093%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.093%) Luigi
Applications
1 26 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.47%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.19%) Trello
5 1 (0.093%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.093%) InDesign
5 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.093%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.37%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.19%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.093%) Actimize
3 1 (0.093%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.093%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.093%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.093%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.093%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.093%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.093%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 529 (49.26%) AWS
2 524 (48.79%) GitHub Actions
3 449 (41.81%) Azure
4 216 (20.11%) Azure DevOps
5 170 (15.83%) GCP
6 163 (15.18%) Serverless
7 116 (10.80%) Amazon S3
8 108 (10.06%) AWS Lambda
9 88 (8.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 81 (7.54%) Amazon ECS
11 68 (6.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 64 (5.96%) OpenShift
13 62 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
14 61 (5.68%) Entra ID
15 58 (5.40%) Azure AKS
16 56 (5.21%) Power Platform
17 53 (4.93%) Amazon EC2
18 52 (4.84%) GitHub Copilot
19 50 (4.66%) Azure Monitor
20 46 (4.28%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.63%) DNS
2 36 (3.35%) Firewall
3 26 (2.42%) VPN
4 15 (1.40%) Network Security
5 12 (1.12%) HTTP
5 12 (1.12%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.02%) SSL
7 9 (0.84%) WAN
8 8 (0.74%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.65%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.47%) Internet
10 5 (0.47%) OpenLDAP
10 5 (0.47%) SSH
11 4 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
12 2 (0.19%) Ethernet
12 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.19%) Modbus
12 2 (0.19%) RS-232
12 2 (0.19%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (15.08%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (7.45%) NoSQL
3 66 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
4 52 (4.84%) MongoDB
5 50 (4.66%) Relational Database
6 43 (4.00%) DynamoDB
7 40 (3.72%) Redis
8 38 (3.54%) SQL Server
9 34 (3.17%) MySQL
10 33 (3.07%) Data Lake
11 27 (2.51%) Power BI
12 22 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
13 21 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
13 21 (1.96%) BigQuery
14 20 (1.86%) Delta Lake
15 19 (1.77%) Big Data
16 18 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
17 17 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
17 17 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
18 14 (1.30%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 299 (27.84%) Jenkins
2 224 (20.86%) Git
3 192 (17.88%) GitLab
4 172 (16.01%) JIRA
5 56 (5.21%) Sonatype Nexus
6 52 (4.84%) JUnit
7 47 (4.38%) SonarQube
8 44 (4.10%) Bitbucket
8 44 (4.10%) Cypress.io
9 41 (3.82%) Cucumber
10 38 (3.54%) Artifactory
10 38 (3.54%) CircleCI
11 36 (3.35%) Gradle
12 28 (2.61%) Postman
12 28 (2.61%) Selenium
13 27 (2.51%) Maven
14 22 (2.05%) JMeter
15 18 (1.68%) Snyk
15 18 (1.68%) SpecFlow
16 13 (1.21%) MLflow
General
1 271 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 164 (15.27%) Finance
3 137 (12.76%) Public Sector
4 78 (7.26%) Banking
5 70 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
8 17 (1.58%) Military
9 14 (1.30%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.21%) Front Office
10 13 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.21%) Marketing
11 11 (1.02%) Telecoms
12 10 (0.93%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.74%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.65%) Retail
15 6 (0.56%) Games
16 5 (0.47%) Billing
16 5 (0.47%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 246 (22.91%) Developer
2 170 (15.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 166 (15.46%) Senior
4 99 (9.22%) AWS Engineer
5 78 (7.26%) Data Engineer
6 69 (6.42%) Architect
7 60 (5.59%) Lead
8 57 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
9 56 (5.21%) AWS DevOps
10 55 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
10 55 (5.12%) Java Developer
11 53 (4.93%) Full-Stack Developer
12 52 (4.84%) Software Engineer
13 47 (4.38%) Senior Developer
14 45 (4.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 45 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
15 39 (3.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 34 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 32 (2.98%) DevSecOps Engineer
18 31 (2.89%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (12.76%) REST
2 126 (11.73%) React
3 116 (10.80%) Kafka
4 111 (10.34%) Node.js
5 96 (8.94%) .NET
6 95 (8.85%) RESTful
7 81 (7.54%) Spring
8 77 (7.17%) AngularJS
9 68 (6.33%) Spring Boot
10 62 (5.77%) HTML
11 57 (5.31%) OAuth
12 55 (5.12%) CSS
13 49 (4.56%) Elastic Stack
14 45 (4.19%) Playwright
14 45 (4.19%) YAML
15 42 (3.91%) FastAPI
15 42 (3.91%) JSON
16 41 (3.82%) GraphQL
17 35 (3.26%) pytest
18 30 (2.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 170 (15.83%) Cloud Native
2 38 (3.54%) Product Ownership
3 33 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (2.89%) Data Protection Act
4 31 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (1.86%) Public Cloud
7 19 (1.77%) Algorithms
8 18 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.40%) Life Science
9 15 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.30%) AI Agents
10 14 (1.30%) Genomics
10 14 (1.30%) PKI
11 12 (1.12%) Clustering
11 12 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
11 12 (1.12%) Private Cloud
11 12 (1.12%) Replication
11 12 (1.12%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 147 (13.69%) Linux
2 40 (3.72%) Windows
3 32 (2.98%) Unix
4 18 (1.68%) Android
5 15 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (1.12%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.65%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.56%) Solaris
9 5 (0.47%) CentOS
9 5 (0.47%) VMS
10 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.19%) zOS
13 1 (0.093%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.093%) MVS
13 1 (0.093%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 741 (68.99%) CI/CD
2 627 (58.38%) DevOps
3 379 (35.29%) Agile
3 379 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 293 (27.28%) Containerisation
5 217 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
6 211 (19.65%) Microservices
7 201 (18.72%) Test Automation
8 193 (17.97%) AI
9 148 (13.78%) Observability
10 133 (12.38%) Migration
11 132 (12.29%) Software Engineering
12 124 (11.55%) Full-Stack Development
13 111 (10.34%) Data Pipeline
14 105 (9.78%) Scrum
15 99 (9.22%) Analytics
16 97 (9.03%) Platform Engineering
17 92 (8.57%) Machine Learning
18 88 (8.19%) DevSecOps
19 87 (8.10%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 502 (46.74%) Python
2 233 (21.69%) SQL
3 210 (19.55%) Java
4 148 (13.78%) JavaScript
4 148 (13.78%) TypeScript
5 137 (12.76%) Bash
6 98 (9.12%) PowerShell
7 96 (8.94%) C#
8 90 (8.38%) Go
9 45 (4.19%) Bicep
10 28 (2.61%) Ruby
11 25 (2.33%) Shell Script
12 21 (1.96%) PHP
13 17 (1.58%) Groovy
14 15 (1.40%) C++
15 9 (0.84%) C
16 8 (0.74%) Korn
16 8 (0.74%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.74%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 307 (28.58%) Security Cleared
2 250 (23.28%) SC Cleared
3 89 (8.29%) Degree
4 52 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (3.54%) DV Cleared
6 36 (3.35%) Azure Certification
7 35 (3.26%) AWS Certification
8 17 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.49%) MCP
10 15 (1.40%) Master's Degree
10 15 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (0.84%) OCP
12 9 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.65%) CISSP
13 7 (0.65%) OSCP
14 6 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 6 (0.56%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.47%) CREST Certified
15 5 (0.47%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.24%) QA
2 37 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 33 (3.07%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.07%) NIST
4 27 (2.51%) GDPR
5 24 (2.23%) NCSC
6 23 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.40%) EU AI Act
8 14 (1.30%) WCAG
9 6 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.47%) GRC
10 5 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.37%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.28%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.28%) ITGC
12 3 (0.28%) SLA
13 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 358 (33.33%) Docker
2 46 (4.28%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.47%) NFS
6 5 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.37%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.37%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (0.37%) vSphere
8 3 (0.28%) QEMU
8 3 (0.28%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.19%) Firmware
9 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.19%) KVM
9 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.093%) SRDF
10 1 (0.093%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.093%) Xen
Systems Management
1 471 (43.85%) Terraform
2 419 (39.01%) Kubernetes
3 142 (13.22%) Ansible
4 129 (12.01%) Grafana
5 107 (9.96%) Prometheus
6 46 (4.28%) Argo
7 36 (3.35%) Puppet
8 29 (2.70%) Progress Chef
9 22 (2.05%) Istio
10 15 (1.40%) Packer
11 14 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (1.12%) Podman
13 8 (0.74%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.65%) Sysdig
15 6 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
15 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
16 5 (0.47%) Kibana
16 5 (0.47%) Nmap
17 4 (0.37%) logstash
17 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 167 (15.55%) Microsoft
2 90 (8.38%) Google
3 67 (6.24%) Splunk
4 65 (6.05%) Databricks
5 43 (4.00%) VMware
6 40 (3.72%) Red Hat
7 36 (3.35%) OpenAI
8 26 (2.42%) Atlassian
9 25 (2.33%) Oracle
10 16 (1.49%) Foundry
10 16 (1.49%) ServiceNow
11 14 (1.30%) Salesforce
12 11 (1.02%) CyberArk
12 11 (1.02%) Okta
13 10 (0.93%) Sonatype
13 10 (0.93%) Veracode
14 9 (0.84%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.84%) NetApp
15 8 (0.74%) Cisco
15 8 (0.74%) Commvault