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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 92 129
Rank change year-on-year 0 +37 +10
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,384 787 617
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 2.83% 1.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.68% 7.48% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 942 537 409
10th Percentile £381 £360 £310
25th Percentile £448 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -10.64%
75th Percentile £629 £630 £625
90th Percentile £712 £701 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -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 15,949 10,519 11,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.44% 37.87% 34.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,632 7,122 7,740
10th Percentile £320 £306 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 247 174
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.40 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £20.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.92 £64.48
90th Percentile £82.30 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +7 825 £550 +1.85% 993
North of England +12 252 £500 +5.26% 252
Yorkshire +22 169 £500 - 82
Midlands -5 108 £476 -13.45% 103
West Midlands -14 88 £490 -14.45% 42
South East -27 88 £525 +20.69% 204
North West -34 60 £563 +27.84% 131
South West -20 57 £525 -14.29% 99
East of England -5 33 £500 -4.76% 86
North East -27 25 £425 -5.56% 40
East Midlands -5 20 £400 -15.79% 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
1 102 (7.37%) Confluence
2 43 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (2.75%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.16%) Apache
6 8 (0.58%) nginx
6 8 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.43%) Tuxedo
9 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.22%) CMS
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 2 (0.14%) SAS
13 1 (0.072%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.072%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.072%) Camunda
13 1 (0.072%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.072%) GeoServer
Applications
1 8 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.29%) Trello
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.072%) Notion
5 1 (0.072%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (0.51%) 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 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.22%) 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
6 1 (0.072%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.072%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.072%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 749 (54.12%) GitHub Actions
2 695 (50.22%) Azure
3 644 (46.53%) AWS
4 372 (26.88%) Azure DevOps
5 217 (15.68%) GCP
6 186 (13.44%) Serverless
7 163 (11.78%) GitHub Copilot
8 137 (9.90%) Amazon S3
9 124 (8.96%) Amazon EKS
10 121 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
11 104 (7.51%) Azure Monitor
12 101 (7.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 88 (6.36%) Entra ID
14 85 (6.14%) Power Platform
15 75 (5.42%) Amazon EC2
15 75 (5.42%) Azure AKS
15 75 (5.42%) Snowflake
16 65 (4.70%) Amazon ECS
17 64 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
18 56 (4.05%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.84%) DNS
2 66 (4.77%) Firewall
3 48 (3.47%) VPN
4 37 (2.67%) Network Security
5 23 (1.66%) VLAN
6 22 (1.59%) BGP
6 22 (1.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 22 (1.59%) TCP/IP
7 16 (1.16%) SSL
8 14 (1.01%) BIG-IP
8 14 (1.01%) DHCP
8 14 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 12 (0.87%) OSPF
9 12 (0.87%) Wireless
10 11 (0.79%) Ethernet VPN
10 11 (0.79%) VXLAN
11 10 (0.72%) NX-OS
12 8 (0.58%) IPsec
12 8 (0.58%) TACACS
12 8 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (6.21%) SQL Server
3 80 (5.78%) MongoDB
4 67 (4.84%) NoSQL
5 60 (4.34%) Power BI
6 55 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
7 50 (3.61%) Redis
8 48 (3.47%) Data Lake
9 46 (3.32%) Relational Database
10 43 (3.11%) DynamoDB
11 35 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 34 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
13 31 (2.24%) Delta Lake
14 28 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
14 28 (2.02%) MySQL
15 27 (1.95%) BigQuery
16 24 (1.73%) Metadata
17 22 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
18 18 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
18 18 (1.30%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 391 (28.25%) Jenkins
2 297 (21.46%) GitLab
3 283 (20.45%) Git
4 156 (11.27%) JIRA
5 68 (4.91%) Selenium
6 64 (4.62%) JUnit
7 60 (4.34%) SonarQube
8 52 (3.76%) Cucumber
9 46 (3.32%) Bitbucket
10 41 (2.96%) Gatling
11 38 (2.75%) Claude Code
12 37 (2.67%) Gradle
13 36 (2.60%) Cypress.io
14 33 (2.38%) JMeter
14 33 (2.38%) Maven
15 30 (2.17%) Postman
16 28 (2.02%) CircleCI
17 27 (1.95%) REST Assured
18 24 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
19 23 (1.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 346 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 287 (20.74%) Finance
3 146 (10.55%) Public Sector
4 136 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (6.36%) Banking
6 48 (3.47%) Retail
7 43 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (1.52%) Legal
10 17 (1.23%) Law
10 17 (1.23%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (0.94%) Aerospace
12 13 (0.94%) Marketing
12 13 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (0.79%) Local Government
13 11 (0.79%) Military
14 10 (0.72%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.65%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 278 (20.09%) Senior
2 256 (18.50%) Developer
3 172 (12.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 125 (9.03%) Architect
5 118 (8.53%) Lead
6 100 (7.23%) Data Engineer
7 78 (5.64%) AWS Engineer
8 75 (5.42%) Platform Engineer
9 70 (5.06%) Senior Developer
10 68 (4.91%) Azure Engineer
10 68 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
11 65 (4.70%) Software Engineer
12 63 (4.55%) Java Developer
13 50 (3.61%) Full-Stack Developer
14 48 (3.47%) Senior DevOps
15 44 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 44 (3.18%) Test Engineer
16 40 (2.89%) Automation Engineer
17 39 (2.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 39 (2.82%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 657 (47.47%) Terraform
2 239 (17.27%) REST
3 151 (10.91%) Kafka
4 142 (10.26%) RESTful
5 126 (9.10%) Spring
6 121 (8.74%) .NET
7 118 (8.53%) React
8 108 (7.80%) Spring Boot
9 84 (6.07%) Playwright
10 68 (4.91%) Node.js
11 57 (4.12%) OAuth
12 52 (3.76%) JSON
13 51 (3.68%) HTML
13 51 (3.68%) YAML
14 48 (3.47%) FastAPI
15 44 (3.18%) OAuth2
15 44 (3.18%) PySpark
16 39 (2.82%) GraphQL
17 38 (2.75%) AngularJS
17 38 (2.75%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 294 (21.24%) Cloud Native
2 102 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
3 84 (6.07%) AI Agents
4 73 (5.27%) Product Ownership
5 54 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
6 48 (3.47%) Data Centre
7 41 (2.96%) Onboarding
8 38 (2.75%) Mobile App
9 33 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 29 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
11 25 (1.81%) Security Posture
12 24 (1.73%) Data Structures
12 24 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.59%) Public Cloud
14 20 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
14 20 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
14 20 (1.45%) Low-Code
15 17 (1.23%) Algorithms
15 17 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (1.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 128 (9.25%) Linux
2 62 (4.48%) Windows
3 31 (2.24%) Unix
4 27 (1.95%) Android
5 25 (1.81%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.45%) Windows Server
7 19 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.58%) 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 (0.072%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,045 (75.51%) CI/CD
2 808 (58.38%) DevOps
3 571 (41.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 505 (36.49%) Agile
5 354 (25.58%) Observability
6 344 (24.86%) AI
7 342 (24.71%) Test Automation
8 286 (20.66%) Containerisation
9 269 (19.44%) Microservices
10 240 (17.34%) Software Engineering
11 209 (15.10%) Platform Engineering
12 205 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 184 (13.29%) Event-Driven
14 177 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
15 172 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
16 149 (10.77%) Analytics
17 146 (10.55%) Technical Leadership
18 139 (10.04%) Scrum
19 130 (9.39%) Data Modelling
20 126 (9.10%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 616 (44.51%) Python
2 307 (22.18%) SQL
3 273 (19.73%) Java
4 184 (13.29%) Bash
5 178 (12.86%) PowerShell
6 160 (11.56%) TypeScript
7 145 (10.48%) JavaScript
8 129 (9.32%) C#
9 99 (7.15%) Bicep
10 49 (3.54%) Kotlin
11 43 (3.11%) Go
12 33 (2.38%) Shell Script
13 28 (2.02%) Scala
14 19 (1.37%) Swift
15 18 (1.30%) Ruby
16 15 (1.08%) ActionScript
17 12 (0.87%) C
18 11 (0.79%) Objective-C
19 10 (0.72%) Groovy
19 10 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 401 (28.97%) Security Cleared
2 348 (25.14%) SC Cleared
3 69 (4.99%) Azure Certification
4 62 (4.48%) Degree
5 46 (3.32%) AWS Certification
6 41 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (2.82%) DV Cleared
8 36 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (0.72%) CISSP
13 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 9 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 8 (0.58%) SAFe Agilist
16 7 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 7 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (14.67%) QA
2 80 (5.78%) Accessibility
3 79 (5.71%) Data Quality
4 32 (2.31%) WCAG
5 26 (1.88%) GDPR
6 24 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 22 (1.59%) NIST
8 12 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.79%) NCSC
10 7 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.43%) PSD2
12 5 (0.36%) GRC
12 5 (0.36%) HL7
12 5 (0.36%) SEPA
13 4 (0.29%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
16 1 (0.072%) IFRS
System Software
1 437 (31.58%) Docker
2 46 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.79%) IAG
5 11 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.43%) vSphere
8 4 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.29%) NFS
9 3 (0.22%) 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
1 495 (35.77%) Kubernetes
2 211 (15.25%) Ansible
3 187 (13.51%) Grafana
4 147 (10.62%) Prometheus
5 51 (3.68%) Argo
6 26 (1.88%) Puppet
7 22 (1.59%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (1.16%) Packer
10 13 (0.94%) Control-M
10 13 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (0.79%) Kibana
12 8 (0.58%) Istio
12 8 (0.58%) Karpenter
13 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.51%) SCCM
14 5 (0.36%) HAProxy
14 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.36%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 257 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 107 (7.73%) Databricks
3 94 (6.79%) Google
3 94 (6.79%) Splunk
4 61 (4.41%) Dynatrace
5 54 (3.90%) Oracle
6 49 (3.54%) OpenAI
7 48 (3.47%) ServiceNow
8 38 (2.75%) VMware
9 37 (2.67%) Cisco
10 29 (2.10%) Red Hat
11 28 (2.02%) Foundry
11 28 (2.02%) Salesforce
12 26 (1.88%) IBM
13 23 (1.66%) F5
14 22 (1.59%) New Relic
15 17 (1.23%) Informatica
15 17 (1.23%) Palo Alto
16 15 (1.08%) SAP
17 14 (1.01%) Checkmarx