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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 113 160
Rank change year-on-year +32 +47 -35
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,273 574 555
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 2.35% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.53% 6.21% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 390 350
10th Percentile £372 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £426 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.91% -10.79%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 28
10th Percentile £50.84 £25.93 £42.10
25th Percentile £58.43 £26.94 £69.25
Median hourly rate £66.57 £47.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.14% -32.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £47.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +32.92% -32.14% +27.27%

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 14,924 9,236 11,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.75% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,132 6,296 8,585
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £510 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 520 225 331
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.78 £25.00 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +67.12% +16.50% -38.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.75 £41.63
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +33.25% +30.23% -41.89%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +31 736 £550 - 148
North of England +20 233 £490 -0.57% 101
Yorkshire +24 169 £483 -7.12% 36
Midlands +1 94 £488 +2.63% 46
West Midlands +1 80 £492 +3.63% 23
South West +24 75 £450 -25.00% 51
South East -34 75 £500 +4.60% 101
North West -24 56 £550 +15.79% 53
East of England -9 31 £500 -9.09% 39
East Midlands -18 13 £425 -12.82% 23
North East -20 13 £450 -5.26% 13
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
1 107 (8.41%) Confluence
2 46 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (2.36%) SharePoint
4 27 (2.12%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.26%) Apache
6 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.47%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.16%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) nginx
8 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.079%) Appian
9 1 (0.079%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.079%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.079%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.079%) SAS
9 1 (0.079%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.079%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.079%) Notion
5 1 (0.079%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.079%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.24%) Findur
2 3 (0.24%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.16%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.16%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.079%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 679 (53.34%) GitHub Actions
2 584 (45.88%) Azure
3 566 (44.46%) AWS
4 321 (25.22%) Azure DevOps
5 193 (15.16%) GCP
6 176 (13.83%) Serverless
7 123 (9.66%) AWS Lambda
8 117 (9.19%) Amazon S3
9 96 (7.54%) Amazon EKS
10 92 (7.23%) Power Platform
11 86 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 84 (6.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 81 (6.36%) GitHub Copilot
14 78 (6.13%) Amazon ECS
15 77 (6.05%) Azure Monitor
16 70 (5.50%) Azure AKS
16 70 (5.50%) Azure Data Factory
17 62 (4.87%) Amazon EC2
18 58 (4.56%) Entra ID
19 50 (3.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 71 (5.58%) Firewall
2 65 (5.11%) DNS
3 40 (3.14%) VPN
4 25 (1.96%) Network Security
5 15 (1.18%) TCP/IP
6 12 (0.94%) SSL
7 10 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (0.63%) BIG-IP
8 8 (0.63%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 8 (0.63%) HTTP
8 8 (0.63%) VLAN
9 6 (0.47%) WAN
10 5 (0.39%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.39%) Internet
10 5 (0.39%) Modbus
10 5 (0.39%) RS-232
10 5 (0.39%) RS-485
10 5 (0.39%) Wireless
11 4 (0.31%) DSL
11 4 (0.31%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (6.83%) SQL Server
3 76 (5.97%) Data Lake
4 63 (4.95%) Power BI
5 58 (4.56%) NoSQL
6 55 (4.32%) MongoDB
7 47 (3.69%) DynamoDB
7 47 (3.69%) Relational Database
8 44 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 43 (3.38%) Delta Lake
10 40 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
11 39 (3.06%) Redis
12 30 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
13 29 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
14 24 (1.89%) Big Data
15 22 (1.73%) Metadata
16 21 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
17 20 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
18 19 (1.49%) BigQuery
19 18 (1.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 391 (30.71%) Jenkins
2 258 (20.27%) GitLab
3 237 (18.62%) Git
4 157 (12.33%) JIRA
5 80 (6.28%) JUnit
6 59 (4.63%) Selenium
7 47 (3.69%) Cucumber
8 41 (3.22%) JMeter
9 39 (3.06%) Gatling
9 39 (3.06%) Gradle
10 38 (2.99%) Cypress.io
11 37 (2.91%) CircleCI
12 33 (2.59%) Bitbucket
12 33 (2.59%) SonarQube
13 32 (2.51%) Maven
14 31 (2.44%) REST Assured
15 28 (2.20%) Postman
16 25 (1.96%) Artifactory
17 22 (1.73%) Mockito
18 20 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 298 (23.41%) Social Skills
2 208 (16.34%) Finance
3 141 (11.08%) Public Sector
4 94 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (6.21%) Banking
6 27 (2.12%) Retail
7 24 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (1.57%) Military
9 18 (1.41%) Legal
10 17 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (1.18%) Law
12 13 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.71%) Front Office
14 9 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.55%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.55%) Marketing
16 6 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.31%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 239 (18.77%) Developer
2 220 (17.28%) Senior
3 173 (13.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 112 (8.80%) Data Engineer
5 109 (8.56%) Architect
6 94 (7.38%) Lead
7 85 (6.68%) Cloud Engineer
8 75 (5.89%) Platform Engineer
9 70 (5.50%) AWS Engineer
10 63 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
11 60 (4.71%) Java Developer
12 54 (4.24%) Software Engineer
13 53 (4.16%) Senior Developer
14 50 (3.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 47 (3.69%) Full-Stack Developer
16 44 (3.46%) GCP Engineer
17 41 (3.22%) Test Engineer
18 40 (3.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 35 (2.75%) AWS DevOps
19 35 (2.75%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (11.39%) REST
2 131 (10.29%) Spring
3 129 (10.13%) Kafka
4 108 (8.48%) React
5 105 (8.25%) .NET
6 103 (8.09%) Spring Boot
7 95 (7.46%) RESTful
8 75 (5.89%) Node.js
9 69 (5.42%) Playwright
10 66 (5.18%) PySpark
11 49 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
12 39 (3.06%) OAuth
13 36 (2.83%) AngularJS
13 36 (2.83%) GraphQL
14 34 (2.67%) .NET Framework
14 34 (2.67%) YAML
15 32 (2.51%) OAuth2
16 31 (2.44%) HTML
16 31 (2.44%) WireMock
17 30 (2.36%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 242 (19.01%) Cloud Native
2 97 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 31 (2.44%) Data Centre
6 28 (2.20%) Mobile App
7 27 (2.12%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 23 (1.81%) AI Agents
10 18 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
11 17 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
13 14 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (1.02%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.02%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.94%) NHS
16 11 (0.86%) Low-Code
16 11 (0.86%) Private Cloud
16 11 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 129 (10.13%) Linux
2 62 (4.87%) Windows
3 29 (2.28%) Android
4 28 (2.20%) Unix
5 26 (2.04%) Apple iOS
6 18 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (1.10%) VMS
8 12 (0.94%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.31%) Debian
10 4 (0.31%) Rocky
11 3 (0.24%) CentOS
12 2 (0.16%) AIX
12 2 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.16%) MVS
12 2 (0.16%) zOS
13 1 (0.079%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.079%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 955 (75.02%) CI/CD
2 732 (57.50%) DevOps
3 496 (38.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 392 (30.79%) Agile
5 286 (22.47%) Test Automation
6 273 (21.45%) Containerisation
7 268 (21.05%) Observability
8 225 (17.67%) Microservices
9 209 (16.42%) AI
10 202 (15.87%) Platform Engineering
11 163 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 162 (12.73%) Analytics
12 162 (12.73%) Software Engineering
13 159 (12.49%) Problem-Solving
14 156 (12.25%) Migration
15 126 (9.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 121 (9.51%) Data Pipeline
17 118 (9.27%) Data Engineering
17 118 (9.27%) Event-Driven
18 113 (8.88%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 542 (42.58%) Python
2 315 (24.74%) SQL
3 243 (19.09%) Java
4 160 (12.57%) Bash
5 139 (10.92%) PowerShell
6 131 (10.29%) JavaScript
7 129 (10.13%) C#
8 112 (8.80%) TypeScript
9 68 (5.34%) Bicep
10 40 (3.14%) Go
11 35 (2.75%) Scala
12 34 (2.67%) Kotlin
13 33 (2.59%) Shell Script
14 22 (1.73%) Ruby
15 20 (1.57%) Swift
16 10 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.63%) ActionScript
17 8 (0.63%) C
17 8 (0.63%) Groovy
17 8 (0.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 381 (29.93%) Security Cleared
2 312 (24.51%) SC Cleared
3 54 (4.24%) Degree
4 43 (3.38%) Azure Certification
5 42 (3.30%) DV Cleared
6 35 (2.75%) AWS Certification
7 33 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.86%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 10 (0.79%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.55%) CISSP
13 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 7 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 6 (0.47%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.47%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (10.45%) QA
2 77 (6.05%) Data Quality
3 62 (4.87%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.51%) GDPR
5 28 (2.20%) WCAG
6 21 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.57%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.18%) NIST
9 9 (0.71%) NCSC
10 8 (0.63%) GRC
11 6 (0.47%) SLA
12 5 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.39%) PSD2
13 4 (0.31%) SEPA
14 3 (0.24%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
15 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 356 (27.97%) Docker
2 30 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.57%) vSphere
6 19 (1.49%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.47%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.39%) Firmware
10 4 (0.31%) NFS
11 2 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.16%) SRDF
11 2 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.079%) HDFS
12 1 (0.079%) IAG
Systems Management
1 593 (46.58%) Terraform
2 435 (34.17%) Kubernetes
3 193 (15.16%) Ansible
4 160 (12.57%) Grafana
5 137 (10.76%) Prometheus
6 59 (4.63%) Argo
7 32 (2.51%) Istio
8 25 (1.96%) Puppet
9 20 (1.57%) vCenter Server
10 16 (1.26%) Packer
11 13 (1.02%) Kibana
11 13 (1.02%) Progress Chef
11 13 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.71%) HAProxy
12 9 (0.71%) NetBackup
13 7 (0.55%) linkerd
14 5 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.31%) Rancher
16 3 (0.24%) Consul
Vendors
1 220 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 100 (7.86%) Databricks
3 92 (7.23%) Google
4 81 (6.36%) Splunk
5 56 (4.40%) Oracle
6 43 (3.38%) VMware
7 37 (2.91%) Red Hat
8 28 (2.20%) OpenAI
9 27 (2.12%) Dynatrace
10 20 (1.57%) Pure Storage
11 19 (1.49%) ServiceNow
12 16 (1.26%) Informatica
13 15 (1.18%) Salesforce
14 14 (1.10%) Atlassian
14 14 (1.10%) IBM
15 13 (1.02%) Checkmarx
15 13 (1.02%) Cisco
15 13 (1.02%) Foundry
16 11 (0.86%) F5
16 11 (0.86%) SAP