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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 87 132
Rank change year-on-year -3 +45 +9
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,400 806 618
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.01% 2.89% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.72% 7.62% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 959 551 405
10th Percentile £381 £360 £310
25th Percentile £435 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £625
90th Percentile £710 £700 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.19% -2.14% -8.70%
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 16,046 10,572 11,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.48% 37.96% 34.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,693 7,158 7,642
10th Percentile £319 £306 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 254 166
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.50 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £26.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +20.75% -19.70% -5.44%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +6 827 £550 - 967
North of England +16 259 £500 +4.17% 243
Yorkshire +22 173 £500 - 85
Midlands 0 114 £474 -16.66% 97
West Midlands -5 93 £488 -15.22% 46
South East -36 89 £525 +20.69% 180
North West -41 63 £550 +22.22% 125
South West -24 55 £518 -20.38% 96
East of England -12 34 £500 -4.76% 82
North East -30 25 £425 -10.53% 33
East Midlands +3 21 £400 -15.79% 51
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
1 103 (7.36%) Confluence
2 42 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.93%) SharePoint
4 20 (1.43%) Apache Spark
5 19 (1.36%) Apache
6 8 (0.57%) nginx
6 8 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.50%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.43%) Tuxedo
9 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.21%) CMS
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 2 (0.14%) SAS
13 1 (0.071%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.071%) Camunda
13 1 (0.071%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.071%) IIS
13 1 (0.071%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 9 (0.64%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.29%) 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%) Sketch
6 1 (0.071%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.36%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.36%) Sage X3
3 5 (0.36%) Summit
4 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.071%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.071%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 748 (53.43%) GitHub Actions
2 703 (50.21%) Azure
3 650 (46.43%) AWS
4 372 (26.57%) Azure DevOps
5 215 (15.36%) GCP
6 188 (13.43%) Serverless
7 172 (12.29%) GitHub Copilot
8 137 (9.79%) Amazon S3
9 127 (9.07%) Amazon EKS
10 121 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
11 104 (7.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 103 (7.36%) Azure Monitor
13 91 (6.50%) Power Platform
14 90 (6.43%) Entra ID
15 78 (5.57%) Snowflake
16 75 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
17 74 (5.29%) Azure AKS
18 65 (4.64%) Amazon ECS
18 65 (4.64%) AWS CloudFormation
19 59 (4.21%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 68 (4.86%) DNS
1 68 (4.86%) Firewall
2 46 (3.29%) VPN
3 37 (2.64%) Network Security
4 23 (1.64%) BGP
4 23 (1.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 23 (1.64%) VLAN
5 22 (1.57%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.14%) SSL
7 15 (1.07%) BIG-IP
7 15 (1.07%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 14 (1.00%) DHCP
9 12 (0.86%) Ethernet VPN
9 12 (0.86%) OSPF
9 12 (0.86%) VXLAN
9 12 (0.86%) Wireless
10 11 (0.79%) NX-OS
11 9 (0.64%) TACACS
12 8 (0.57%) IPsec
13 7 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (8.36%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (6.29%) SQL Server
3 80 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 66 (4.71%) NoSQL
5 62 (4.43%) Power BI
6 57 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
7 51 (3.64%) Redis
8 48 (3.43%) Data Lake
9 46 (3.29%) Relational Database
10 40 (2.86%) DynamoDB
11 34 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
11 34 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 31 (2.21%) Delta Lake
13 29 (2.07%) MySQL
14 26 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
14 26 (1.86%) BigQuery
15 24 (1.71%) Metadata
16 20 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
17 18 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
18 17 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 392 (28.00%) Jenkins
2 295 (21.07%) GitLab
3 289 (20.64%) Git
4 158 (11.29%) JIRA
5 73 (5.21%) Selenium
6 65 (4.64%) JUnit
7 63 (4.50%) SonarQube
8 57 (4.07%) Cucumber
9 47 (3.36%) Bitbucket
10 46 (3.29%) Gatling
11 40 (2.86%) Claude Code
12 36 (2.57%) Gradle
13 34 (2.43%) Cypress.io
13 34 (2.43%) JMeter
14 32 (2.29%) Maven
15 31 (2.21%) Postman
16 28 (2.00%) CircleCI
16 28 (2.00%) REST Assured
17 24 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
17 24 (1.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 349 (24.93%) Social Skills
2 288 (20.57%) Finance
3 146 (10.43%) Public Sector
4 140 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (6.71%) Banking
6 49 (3.50%) Retail
7 43 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (1.36%) Legal
10 18 (1.29%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.14%) Law
12 15 (1.07%) Aerospace
13 14 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.00%) Marketing
13 14 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (0.79%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.79%) Local Government
14 11 (0.79%) Manufacturing
14 11 (0.79%) Military
15 9 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 282 (20.14%) Senior
2 262 (18.71%) Developer
3 170 (12.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 124 (8.86%) Architect
5 119 (8.50%) Lead
6 98 (7.00%) Data Engineer
7 77 (5.50%) AWS Engineer
8 76 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
9 69 (4.93%) Azure Engineer
10 68 (4.86%) Senior Developer
11 66 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
12 64 (4.57%) Java Developer
12 64 (4.57%) Software Engineer
13 51 (3.64%) Full-Stack Developer
13 51 (3.64%) Senior DevOps
14 47 (3.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 45 (3.21%) Test Engineer
16 43 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 43 (3.07%) Automation Engineer
17 39 (2.79%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 658 (47.00%) Terraform
2 245 (17.50%) REST
3 156 (11.14%) Kafka
4 142 (10.14%) RESTful
5 128 (9.14%) Spring
6 121 (8.64%) .NET
7 117 (8.36%) React
8 108 (7.71%) Spring Boot
9 88 (6.29%) Playwright
10 67 (4.79%) Node.js
11 60 (4.29%) OAuth
12 57 (4.07%) JSON
13 53 (3.79%) HTML
14 48 (3.43%) FastAPI
14 48 (3.43%) YAML
15 44 (3.14%) OAuth2
16 43 (3.07%) PySpark
17 39 (2.79%) AngularJS
17 39 (2.79%) GraphQL
18 38 (2.71%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 296 (21.14%) Cloud Native
2 102 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (6.36%) AI Agents
4 72 (5.14%) Product Ownership
5 56 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (3.57%) Data Centre
7 42 (3.00%) Onboarding
8 38 (2.71%) Mobile App
9 33 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 29 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.86%) Data Structures
12 25 (1.79%) Security Posture
12 25 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
13 23 (1.64%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.50%) Low-Code
15 20 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
16 17 (1.21%) Algorithms
16 17 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
16 17 (1.21%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 129 (9.21%) Linux
2 63 (4.50%) Windows
3 30 (2.14%) Unix
4 27 (1.93%) Android
5 25 (1.79%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.43%) Windows Server
7 19 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.57%) VMS
9 6 (0.43%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.29%) CentOS
11 2 (0.14%) AIX
11 2 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.14%) Debian
11 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.14%) MVS
11 2 (0.14%) Rocky
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.14%) zOS
12 1 (0.071%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,061 (75.79%) CI/CD
2 810 (57.86%) DevOps
3 567 (40.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 512 (36.57%) Agile
5 355 (25.36%) AI
6 354 (25.29%) Observability
7 353 (25.21%) Test Automation
8 282 (20.14%) Containerisation
9 272 (19.43%) Microservices
10 243 (17.36%) Software Engineering
11 210 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 207 (14.79%) Platform Engineering
13 184 (13.14%) Event-Driven
14 180 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
15 178 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
16 151 (10.79%) Analytics
17 145 (10.36%) Technical Leadership
18 143 (10.21%) Scrum
19 129 (9.21%) Data Modelling
20 127 (9.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 621 (44.36%) Python
2 307 (21.93%) SQL
3 276 (19.71%) Java
4 181 (12.93%) Bash
5 178 (12.71%) PowerShell
6 160 (11.43%) TypeScript
7 147 (10.50%) JavaScript
8 128 (9.14%) C#
9 97 (6.93%) Bicep
10 49 (3.50%) Kotlin
11 42 (3.00%) Go
12 33 (2.36%) Shell Script
13 29 (2.07%) Scala
14 19 (1.36%) Swift
15 16 (1.14%) ActionScript
16 15 (1.07%) Ruby
17 13 (0.93%) C
18 11 (0.79%) Objective-C
19 10 (0.71%) Groovy
19 10 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 403 (28.79%) Security Cleared
2 348 (24.86%) SC Cleared
3 65 (4.64%) Azure Certification
4 62 (4.43%) Degree
5 47 (3.36%) AWS Certification
6 44 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 40 (2.86%) DV Cleared
8 36 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (0.64%) CISSP
13 9 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 8 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 6 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (14.50%) QA
2 83 (5.93%) Accessibility
3 78 (5.57%) Data Quality
4 35 (2.50%) WCAG
5 28 (2.00%) GDPR
6 26 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.64%) NIST
8 12 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.79%) NCSC
10 8 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.43%) GRC
11 6 (0.43%) PSD2
12 5 (0.36%) HL7
12 5 (0.36%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.36%) SEPA
13 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.21%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.071%) JSP 440
System Software
1 442 (31.57%) Docker
2 44 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.79%) IAG
5 11 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.64%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.43%) vSphere
8 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.29%) NFS
9 3 (0.21%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.14%) Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.14%) SRDF
10 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 498 (35.57%) Kubernetes
2 206 (14.71%) Ansible
3 183 (13.07%) Grafana
4 142 (10.14%) Prometheus
5 51 (3.64%) Argo
6 21 (1.50%) Puppet
7 20 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (1.21%) Progress Chef
9 16 (1.14%) Packer
10 14 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (0.93%) Control-M
12 11 (0.79%) Kibana
13 8 (0.57%) Istio
13 8 (0.57%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.50%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.50%) SCCM
15 5 (0.36%) HAProxy
15 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.36%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 259 (18.50%) Microsoft
2 106 (7.57%) Databricks
3 93 (6.64%) Splunk
4 90 (6.43%) Google
5 63 (4.50%) Dynatrace
6 53 (3.79%) OpenAI
7 51 (3.64%) ServiceNow
8 50 (3.57%) Oracle
9 39 (2.79%) VMware
10 38 (2.71%) Cisco
11 30 (2.14%) Red Hat
12 29 (2.07%) Foundry
13 28 (2.00%) Salesforce
14 27 (1.93%) IBM
15 24 (1.71%) F5
16 23 (1.64%) New Relic
17 17 (1.21%) Palo Alto
18 15 (1.07%) SAP
19 14 (1.00%) Informatica
20 13 (0.93%) CyberArk