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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 129 159
Rank change year-on-year +58 +30 -20
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,090 562 609
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.45% 1.95% 1.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.05% 5.32% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 804 383 437
10th Percentile £359 £318 £413
25th Percentile £413 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £683 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 3
10th Percentile £40.00 £23.30 £75.25
25th Percentile £41.50 £27.13 £75.63
Median hourly rate £54.25 £52.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -32.26% +40.91%
75th Percentile £98.44 £68.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £110.00 £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £52.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year +3.33% -32.26% +40.91%

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 12,038 10,554 12,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.10% 36.66% 34.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,279 7,053 9,297
10th Percentile £305 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
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 293 137 243
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.90 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.21 £29.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +16.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.34 £68.75 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £26.75
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.80% +18.89%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +44 617 £550 - 351
North of England +37 167 £480 +9.09% 289
South East +59 101 £450 - 335
Yorkshire +8 87 £500 +11.11% 121
Midlands +27 85 £550 +4.76% 204
West Midlands +32 71 £575 +9.52% 117
North West +20 64 £402 +18.06% 146
South West +5 61 £649 +0.43% 120
North East +7 18 £516 +42.41% 26
East of England -9 17 £560 +32.54% 141
East Midlands -6 14 £418 -33.15% 80
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 87 (7.98%) Confluence
2 59 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.02%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.83%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.19%) nginx
6 12 (1.10%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.55%) Apache
8 6 (0.55%) Mule
9 5 (0.46%) WordPress
10 4 (0.37%) SAS
11 3 (0.28%) CMS
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%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.092%) Luigi
Applications
1 23 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.18%) Trello
5 1 (0.092%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.092%) InDesign
5 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.092%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.37%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.092%) Actimize
3 1 (0.092%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.092%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.092%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.092%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.092%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.092%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.092%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.092%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 567 (52.02%) GitHub Actions
2 537 (49.27%) AWS
3 488 (44.77%) Azure
4 227 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
5 191 (17.52%) GCP
6 170 (15.60%) Serverless
7 120 (11.01%) AWS Lambda
8 117 (10.73%) Amazon S3
9 96 (8.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 85 (7.80%) Amazon ECS
11 77 (7.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 73 (6.70%) Amazon EKS
13 68 (6.24%) OpenShift
14 65 (5.96%) Power Platform
15 59 (5.41%) Azure AKS
16 58 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
17 57 (5.23%) Entra ID
18 55 (5.05%) GitHub Copilot
19 49 (4.50%) Azure Monitor
19 49 (4.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.31%) DNS
2 46 (4.22%) Firewall
3 26 (2.39%) VPN
4 17 (1.56%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.28%) Network Security
6 13 (1.19%) HTTP
6 13 (1.19%) SSL
7 9 (0.83%) WAN
8 8 (0.73%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.73%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.46%) Internet
9 5 (0.46%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.46%) SSH
10 4 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (0.28%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.28%) Modbus
11 3 (0.28%) RS-232
11 3 (0.28%) RS-485
12 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (15.96%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (7.43%) NoSQL
3 63 (5.78%) Amazon RDS
4 60 (5.50%) MongoDB
5 52 (4.77%) Relational Database
6 49 (4.50%) SQL Server
7 45 (4.13%) DynamoDB
8 42 (3.85%) Redis
9 34 (3.12%) Data Lake
9 34 (3.12%) MySQL
10 33 (3.03%) Power BI
11 25 (2.29%) BigQuery
12 23 (2.11%) Delta Lake
13 22 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
14 21 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
15 19 (1.74%) Big Data
15 19 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
16 17 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
17 14 (1.28%) Amazon QuickSight
18 13 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 312 (28.62%) Jenkins
2 226 (20.73%) Git
3 195 (17.89%) GitLab
4 161 (14.77%) JIRA
5 57 (5.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 51 (4.68%) JUnit
7 49 (4.50%) SonarQube
8 48 (4.40%) CircleCI
9 43 (3.94%) Bitbucket
10 42 (3.85%) Artifactory
10 42 (3.85%) Cypress.io
11 36 (3.30%) Gradle
12 34 (3.12%) Cucumber
13 31 (2.84%) Postman
14 29 (2.66%) Selenium
15 26 (2.39%) Maven
16 23 (2.11%) JMeter
17 21 (1.93%) Snyk
18 17 (1.56%) SpecFlow
19 13 (1.19%) MLflow
General
1 280 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 165 (15.14%) Finance
3 136 (12.48%) Public Sector
4 84 (7.71%) Banking
5 69 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (1.74%) Military
7 18 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
8 17 (1.56%) Investment Banking
9 15 (1.38%) Front Office
9 15 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.19%) Retail
11 12 (1.10%) Marketing
12 11 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.64%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.55%) Games
15 5 (0.46%) Billing
15 5 (0.46%) Law
15 5 (0.46%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 252 (23.12%) Developer
2 177 (16.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 176 (16.15%) Senior
4 91 (8.35%) AWS Engineer
5 84 (7.71%) Data Engineer
6 72 (6.61%) Lead
7 71 (6.51%) Architect
8 61 (5.60%) Full-Stack Developer
9 60 (5.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 56 (5.14%) Platform Engineer
11 55 (5.05%) AWS DevOps
12 52 (4.77%) Java Developer
12 52 (4.77%) Senior Developer
13 51 (4.68%) Software Engineer
14 47 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
15 45 (4.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 43 (3.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 34 (3.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 34 (3.12%) Senior Data Engineer
18 33 (3.03%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (12.94%) REST
2 133 (12.20%) React
3 131 (12.02%) Node.js
4 124 (11.38%) Kafka
5 106 (9.72%) .NET
6 87 (7.98%) RESTful
7 83 (7.61%) Spring
8 74 (6.79%) AngularJS
9 71 (6.51%) Spring Boot
10 58 (5.32%) HTML
11 57 (5.23%) OAuth
12 54 (4.95%) Elastic Stack
13 53 (4.86%) CSS
14 50 (4.59%) Playwright
15 44 (4.04%) YAML
16 43 (3.94%) GraphQL
16 43 (3.94%) JSON
17 40 (3.67%) FastAPI
18 37 (3.39%) pytest
19 33 (3.03%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 181 (16.61%) Cloud Native
2 35 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (3.21%) Product Ownership
3 29 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
4 25 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
4 25 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (2.02%) Onboarding
6 19 (1.74%) Algorithms
7 18 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (1.56%) Public Cloud
9 15 (1.38%) AI Agents
9 15 (1.38%) Life Science
10 14 (1.28%) Genomics
10 14 (1.28%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.28%) NHS
10 14 (1.28%) Private Cloud
10 14 (1.28%) Security Posture
10 14 (1.28%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.19%) PKI
11 13 (1.19%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 149 (13.67%) Linux
2 41 (3.76%) Windows
3 28 (2.57%) Unix
4 19 (1.74%) Android
5 13 (1.19%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.92%) VMS
7 7 (0.64%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.55%) Solaris
9 5 (0.46%) CentOS
10 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
11 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.18%) zOS
13 1 (0.092%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.092%) MVS
13 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 779 (71.47%) CI/CD
2 665 (61.01%) DevOps
3 401 (36.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 366 (33.58%) Agile
5 305 (27.98%) Containerisation
6 218 (20.00%) Microservices
7 214 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
8 211 (19.36%) AI
9 209 (19.17%) Test Automation
10 170 (15.60%) Observability
11 133 (12.20%) Migration
12 130 (11.93%) Software Engineering
13 129 (11.83%) Full-Stack Development
14 117 (10.73%) Data Pipeline
15 108 (9.91%) Analytics
16 103 (9.45%) Platform Engineering
17 99 (9.08%) DevSecOps
18 96 (8.81%) Machine Learning
19 92 (8.44%) Data Engineering
20 91 (8.35%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 508 (46.61%) Python
2 242 (22.20%) SQL
3 221 (20.28%) Java
4 147 (13.49%) TypeScript
5 146 (13.39%) JavaScript
6 135 (12.39%) Bash
7 100 (9.17%) PowerShell
8 97 (8.90%) C#
9 88 (8.07%) Go
10 46 (4.22%) Bicep
11 31 (2.84%) Shell Script
12 30 (2.75%) Ruby
13 20 (1.83%) PHP
14 15 (1.38%) Groovy
15 10 (0.92%) C
15 10 (0.92%) C++
16 9 (0.83%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.83%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.73%) Korn
17 8 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 316 (28.99%) Security Cleared
2 255 (23.39%) SC Cleared
3 90 (8.26%) Degree
4 54 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 39 (3.58%) DV Cleared
7 32 (2.94%) AWS Certification
8 20 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.47%) MCP
10 14 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.73%) OCP
13 8 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
14 7 (0.64%) CISSP
14 7 (0.64%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 4 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
16 4 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 3 (0.28%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.15%) QA
2 41 (3.76%) Accessibility
3 35 (3.21%) Data Quality
4 32 (2.94%) NIST
5 25 (2.29%) GDPR
6 23 (2.11%) NCSC
7 22 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (1.74%) WCAG
9 15 (1.38%) EU AI Act
10 7 (0.64%) SLA
11 5 (0.46%) GRC
12 4 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.37%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.28%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.18%) FIPS 140-2
14 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 2 (0.18%) ITGC
14 2 (0.18%) MiFID
15 1 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 381 (34.95%) Docker
2 44 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.46%) NFS
7 4 (0.37%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.37%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.37%) vSphere
8 3 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.28%) Firmware
8 3 (0.28%) QEMU
8 3 (0.28%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.18%) HDFS
9 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.18%) KVM
10 1 (0.092%) etcd
10 1 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.092%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 496 (45.50%) Terraform
2 441 (40.46%) Kubernetes
3 155 (14.22%) Ansible
4 134 (12.29%) Grafana
5 106 (9.72%) Prometheus
6 59 (5.41%) Argo
7 32 (2.94%) Istio
8 29 (2.66%) Progress Chef
8 29 (2.66%) Puppet
9 13 (1.19%) Podman
10 12 (1.10%) Packer
10 12 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.92%) Kibana
12 8 (0.73%) NetBackup
13 7 (0.64%) linkerd
13 7 (0.64%) Sysdig
14 5 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.46%) logstash
14 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 172 (15.78%) Microsoft
2 93 (8.53%) Google
3 69 (6.33%) Splunk
4 64 (5.87%) Databricks
5 47 (4.31%) VMware
6 40 (3.67%) Red Hat
7 39 (3.58%) Oracle
8 38 (3.49%) OpenAI
9 24 (2.20%) Atlassian
10 20 (1.83%) ServiceNow
11 17 (1.56%) Foundry
12 14 (1.28%) Salesforce
13 10 (0.92%) Dynatrace
13 10 (0.92%) Sonatype
14 9 (0.83%) CyberArk
14 9 (0.83%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.83%) NetApp
14 9 (0.83%) Okta
14 9 (0.83%) SAP
15 8 (0.73%) Commvault