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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 117 142
Rank change year-on-year +29 +25 -16
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,324 660 612
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.95% 2.41% 1.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.44% 6.46% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 901 451 397
10th Percentile £393 £375 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 34
10th Percentile £46.25 - £41.75
25th Percentile £56.32 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £105.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.87% +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% -6.67%

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 15,689 10,212 11,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.96% 37.35% 33.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,471 6,902 8,342
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 267 281
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% +14.32% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.31 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.04% +25.00% -37.14%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +21 753 £550 - 305
North of England +41 262 £500 +4.17% 127
Yorkshire +31 182 £496 -2.67% 42
Midlands +4 105 £500 - 52
West Midlands -3 93 £500 +5.26% 31
South East -57 75 £525 +10.53% 109
South West +6 72 £488 -18.75% 35
North West -8 68 £564 +22.04% 66
East of England -7 33 £500 -9.09% 30
North East -26 17 £450 -5.26% 20
East Midlands -7 11 £470 -7.39% 21
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
1 124 (9.37%) Confluence
2 41 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (2.64%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.74%) Apache Spark
5 17 (1.28%) Apache
6 11 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.45%) nginx
7 6 (0.45%) Tuxedo
8 5 (0.38%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) CMS
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
10 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.076%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.076%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.076%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.076%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.076%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.15%) Trello
8 1 (0.076%) Notion
8 1 (0.076%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.38%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.23%) Findur
4 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.23%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.076%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 702 (53.02%) GitHub Actions
2 641 (48.41%) Azure
3 605 (45.69%) AWS
4 357 (26.96%) Azure DevOps
5 198 (14.95%) GCP
6 153 (11.56%) Serverless
7 125 (9.44%) Amazon S3
8 114 (8.61%) AWS Lambda
9 104 (7.85%) GitHub Copilot
10 103 (7.78%) Amazon EKS
11 93 (7.02%) Azure Monitor
12 85 (6.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 81 (6.12%) Power Platform
14 70 (5.29%) Azure AKS
15 69 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
16 68 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
16 68 (5.14%) Entra ID
17 66 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
18 53 (4.00%) Snowflake
19 51 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 67 (5.06%) Firewall
2 63 (4.76%) DNS
3 55 (4.15%) VPN
4 29 (2.19%) Network Security
5 17 (1.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 17 (1.28%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.13%) VLAN
7 11 (0.83%) SSL
8 10 (0.76%) BGP
9 9 (0.68%) BIG-IP
9 9 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (0.68%) OSPF
9 9 (0.68%) Wireless
10 8 (0.60%) IPsec
10 8 (0.60%) WAN
11 7 (0.53%) HTTP
11 7 (0.53%) Internet
12 6 (0.45%) DHCP
13 5 (0.38%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.80%) SQL Server
3 69 (5.21%) NoSQL
4 64 (4.83%) MongoDB
5 56 (4.23%) Data Lake
5 56 (4.23%) Power BI
6 48 (3.63%) Relational Database
7 44 (3.32%) DynamoDB
8 38 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
9 37 (2.79%) Delta Lake
9 37 (2.79%) Redis
10 34 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
11 33 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
12 30 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
14 21 (1.59%) Big Data
15 20 (1.51%) Metadata
16 19 (1.44%) BigQuery
17 18 (1.36%) MySQL
18 16 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 423 (31.95%) Jenkins
2 268 (20.24%) GitLab
3 249 (18.81%) Git
4 177 (13.37%) JIRA
5 76 (5.74%) JUnit
5 76 (5.74%) Selenium
6 55 (4.15%) Cucumber
7 42 (3.17%) Bitbucket
7 42 (3.17%) Cypress.io
8 39 (2.95%) Gatling
8 39 (2.95%) Gradle
8 39 (2.95%) JMeter
9 37 (2.79%) REST Assured
10 36 (2.72%) SonarQube
11 32 (2.42%) Postman
12 31 (2.34%) CircleCI
12 31 (2.34%) Maven
13 24 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
14 21 (1.59%) Claude Code
14 21 (1.59%) WebDriver
General
1 328 (24.77%) Social Skills
2 240 (18.13%) Finance
3 155 (11.71%) Public Sector
4 109 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (5.97%) Banking
6 39 (2.95%) Retail
7 28 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (1.74%) Legal
10 18 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.21%) Military
12 15 (1.13%) Law
13 14 (1.06%) Investment Banking
14 12 (0.91%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.76%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.60%) Marketing
17 8 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
18 7 (0.53%) Front Office
18 7 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 240 (18.13%) Senior
2 239 (18.05%) Developer
3 176 (13.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 118 (8.91%) Architect
5 115 (8.69%) Lead
6 99 (7.48%) Data Engineer
7 78 (5.89%) AWS Engineer
7 78 (5.89%) Platform Engineer
8 66 (4.98%) Cloud Engineer
9 64 (4.83%) Java Developer
10 60 (4.53%) Senior Developer
11 59 (4.46%) Software Engineer
12 54 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
13 46 (3.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 46 (3.47%) Test Engineer
14 42 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
15 41 (3.10%) Full-Stack Developer
16 38 (2.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 37 (2.79%) GCP Engineer
18 36 (2.72%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (14.65%) REST
2 128 (9.67%) Kafka
3 127 (9.59%) Spring
4 119 (8.99%) RESTful
5 107 (8.08%) React
6 106 (8.01%) .NET
7 101 (7.63%) Spring Boot
8 84 (6.34%) Playwright
9 65 (4.91%) Node.js
10 53 (4.00%) PySpark
11 43 (3.25%) OpenTelemetry
12 40 (3.02%) AngularJS
12 40 (3.02%) OAuth
13 38 (2.87%) .NET Framework
14 36 (2.72%) JSON
15 35 (2.64%) OAuth2
15 35 (2.64%) YAML
16 34 (2.57%) GraphQL
16 34 (2.57%) HTML
17 33 (2.49%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 273 (20.62%) Cloud Native
2 116 (8.76%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (5.21%) Product Ownership
4 43 (3.25%) AI Agents
5 38 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 36 (2.72%) Data Centre
6 36 (2.72%) Mobile App
7 35 (2.64%) Onboarding
8 26 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
10 23 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
12 18 (1.36%) Data Structures
13 17 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
14 16 (1.21%) Security Posture
15 15 (1.13%) Algorithms
15 15 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.13%) Public Cloud
16 14 (1.06%) Private Cloud
17 13 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 123 (9.29%) Linux
2 58 (4.38%) Windows
3 33 (2.49%) Android
4 27 (2.04%) Apple iOS
5 26 (1.96%) Unix
6 20 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (1.13%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.38%) VMS
10 3 (0.23%) CentOS
10 3 (0.23%) Debian
10 3 (0.23%) Rocky
11 2 (0.15%) AIX
11 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.15%) MVS
11 2 (0.15%) zOS
12 1 (0.076%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.076%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.076%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 994 (75.08%) CI/CD
2 770 (58.16%) DevOps
3 508 (38.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 463 (34.97%) Agile
5 332 (25.08%) Test Automation
6 316 (23.87%) Observability
7 284 (21.45%) Containerisation
8 258 (19.49%) Microservices
9 248 (18.73%) AI
10 209 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
11 193 (14.58%) Software Engineering
12 187 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 168 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
14 151 (11.40%) Analytics
15 149 (11.25%) Event-Driven
16 129 (9.74%) Migration
17 119 (8.99%) Data Pipeline
18 118 (8.91%) Technical Leadership
19 116 (8.76%) Validation
20 115 (8.69%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 556 (41.99%) Python
2 309 (23.34%) SQL
3 254 (19.18%) Java
4 190 (14.35%) Bash
5 156 (11.78%) PowerShell
6 130 (9.82%) C#
6 130 (9.82%) TypeScript
7 129 (9.74%) JavaScript
8 76 (5.74%) Bicep
9 42 (3.17%) Go
9 42 (3.17%) Kotlin
10 31 (2.34%) Scala
11 27 (2.04%) Shell Script
12 24 (1.81%) Ruby
13 20 (1.51%) Swift
14 14 (1.06%) Groovy
15 10 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (0.68%) ActionScript
16 9 (0.68%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.68%) C
Qualifications
1 401 (30.29%) Security Cleared
2 343 (25.91%) SC Cleared
3 55 (4.15%) Degree
4 53 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 43 (3.25%) DV Cleared
6 39 (2.95%) AWS Certification
7 32 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 13 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.83%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 7 (0.53%) CISSP
14 7 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.45%) CCNP
15 6 (0.45%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (12.46%) QA
2 72 (5.44%) Data Quality
3 65 (4.91%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.19%) GDPR
5 23 (1.74%) WCAG
6 20 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.76%) NIST
7 10 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.60%) GRC
9 7 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.30%) HL7
11 4 (0.30%) NCSC
12 3 (0.23%) PSD2
13 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.15%) SEPA
13 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.076%) SLA
14 1 (0.076%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 385 (29.08%) Docker
2 37 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (1.59%) vSphere
6 20 (1.51%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.60%) Hyper-V
9 7 (0.53%) IAG
10 4 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.30%) NFS
11 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.15%) Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.15%) SRDF
11 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.15%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 612 (46.22%) Terraform
2 458 (34.59%) Kubernetes
3 205 (15.48%) Ansible
4 182 (13.75%) Grafana
5 154 (11.63%) Prometheus
6 64 (4.83%) Argo
7 28 (2.11%) Puppet
8 20 (1.51%) vCenter Server
9 18 (1.36%) Istio
9 18 (1.36%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (1.21%) Packer
11 13 (0.98%) Kibana
12 9 (0.68%) HAProxy
12 9 (0.68%) NetBackup
13 7 (0.53%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.45%) Control-M
14 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.38%) Podman
Vendors
1 227 (17.15%) Microsoft
2 91 (6.87%) Splunk
3 90 (6.80%) Databricks
4 87 (6.57%) Google
5 55 (4.15%) Oracle
6 42 (3.17%) Dynatrace
6 42 (3.17%) VMware
7 37 (2.79%) Red Hat
8 29 (2.19%) Salesforce
9 28 (2.11%) OpenAI
10 24 (1.81%) ServiceNow
11 22 (1.66%) Cisco
12 20 (1.51%) Pure Storage
13 19 (1.44%) F5
14 18 (1.36%) Informatica
14 18 (1.36%) Palo Alto
15 16 (1.21%) Checkmarx
15 16 (1.21%) SAP
16 15 (1.13%) Foundry
16 15 (1.13%) IBM