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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 129 171
Rank change year-on-year +64 +42 -46
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,230 508 540
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.46% 2.03% 1.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.24% 5.37% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 884 350 371
10th Percentile £356 £350 £413
25th Percentile £413 £450 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £632
90th Percentile £700 £734 £700
UK median daily rate £518 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 4
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.25 -
25th Percentile £44.50 £25.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 £27.38 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year +104.57% -25.51% -40.73%
75th Percentile £66.31 £58.44 £54.44
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.75 £61.98
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £40.00
% change year-on-year +82.65% -31.56% -25.93%

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 13,311 9,457 12,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.39% 37.80% 32.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,183 6,447 8,905
10th Percentile £310 £313 £274
25th Percentile £409 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 375 146 325
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.27 £14.18
25th Percentile £20.31 £21.05 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.38 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +46.12% +28.10% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.69 £43.75
90th Percentile £79.20 £71.25 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £27.13 £21.37
% change year-on-year +45.62% +26.93% -14.52%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 3 March 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 +41 701 £550 - 236
North of England +45 194 £500 +2.62% 202
Yorkshire +13 112 £491 -1.80% 82
South East +38 111 £450 -10.00% 220
Midlands +20 91 £550 +11.11% 108
South West +26 78 £550 - 99
West Midlands +13 72 £550 +18.73% 38
North West +8 71 £525 +10.53% 86
East of England -17 19 £550 +72.41% 107
East Midlands -13 18 £402 -19.60% 65
North East 0 15 £560 +54.48% 38
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
1 117 (9.51%) Confluence
2 46 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (2.11%) SharePoint
4 24 (1.95%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.73%) Apache
5 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.73%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.65%) nginx
7 4 (0.33%) CMS
7 4 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.16%) Traefik
8 2 (0.16%) WordPress
9 1 (0.081%) Appian
9 1 (0.081%) Luigi
9 1 (0.081%) SAS
9 1 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.081%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.081%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.16%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.081%) InDesign
6 1 (0.081%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (0.57%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.33%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.081%) Actimize
4 1 (0.081%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.081%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.081%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.081%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.081%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.081%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.081%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 613 (49.84%) GitHub Actions
2 555 (45.12%) AWS
2 555 (45.12%) Azure
3 266 (21.63%) Azure DevOps
4 197 (16.02%) GCP
5 186 (15.12%) Serverless
6 117 (9.51%) AWS Lambda
7 101 (8.21%) Amazon EKS
8 100 (8.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 98 (7.97%) Amazon S3
10 88 (7.15%) Power Platform
11 85 (6.91%) Amazon ECS
12 81 (6.59%) OpenShift
13 74 (6.02%) Azure Data Factory
14 72 (5.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 72 (5.85%) Azure AKS
15 67 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
15 67 (5.45%) GitHub Copilot
16 62 (5.04%) Entra ID
17 58 (4.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 56 (4.55%) Firewall
2 52 (4.23%) DNS
3 31 (2.52%) VPN
4 27 (2.20%) Network Security
5 13 (1.06%) HTTP
6 9 (0.73%) SSL
6 9 (0.73%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.65%) Kerberos
7 8 (0.65%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.65%) WAN
8 7 (0.57%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.57%) Modbus
8 7 (0.57%) RS-232
8 7 (0.57%) RS-485
9 5 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.33%) Internet
11 2 (0.16%) Calico
11 2 (0.16%) DSL
12 1 (0.081%) Intranet
12 1 (0.081%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (13.82%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (6.50%) NoSQL
3 66 (5.37%) MongoDB
4 59 (4.80%) Data Lake
5 58 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
5 58 (4.72%) SQL Server
6 51 (4.15%) Power BI
7 49 (3.98%) Relational Database
8 46 (3.74%) DynamoDB
9 41 (3.33%) Redis
10 38 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
11 35 (2.85%) MySQL
12 31 (2.52%) Delta Lake
13 26 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
14 18 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (1.46%) Big Data
14 18 (1.46%) BigQuery
15 17 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
16 15 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
16 15 (1.22%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 381 (30.98%) Jenkins
2 232 (18.86%) Git
3 227 (18.46%) GitLab
4 176 (14.31%) JIRA
5 85 (6.91%) JUnit
6 57 (4.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 55 (4.47%) Cucumber
8 47 (3.82%) Selenium
9 42 (3.41%) Artifactory
10 40 (3.25%) Cypress.io
11 39 (3.17%) CircleCI
12 37 (3.01%) Bitbucket
12 37 (3.01%) JMeter
13 36 (2.93%) Postman
14 35 (2.85%) Gradle
15 32 (2.60%) SonarQube
16 29 (2.36%) Maven
17 18 (1.46%) MLflow
17 18 (1.46%) Mockito
17 18 (1.46%) REST Assured
General
1 309 (25.12%) Social Skills
2 184 (14.96%) Finance
3 150 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 87 (7.07%) Banking
5 86 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (1.79%) Military
7 21 (1.71%) Retail
8 16 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.14%) Front Office
11 13 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (0.98%) Investment Banking
13 9 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.65%) Marketing
14 8 (0.65%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.49%) Law
16 5 (0.41%) Billing
16 5 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.33%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 272 (22.11%) Developer
2 190 (15.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 190 (15.45%) Senior
3 94 (7.64%) Lead
4 93 (7.56%) Data Engineer
5 83 (6.75%) Cloud Engineer
6 79 (6.42%) Architect
6 79 (6.42%) AWS Engineer
7 74 (6.02%) Full-Stack Developer
8 68 (5.53%) Platform Engineer
9 64 (5.20%) Java Developer
10 59 (4.80%) Azure Engineer
11 48 (3.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 48 (3.90%) Software Engineer
12 47 (3.82%) AWS DevOps
13 44 (3.58%) Senior Developer
14 40 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 38 (3.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 34 (2.76%) GCP Engineer
17 32 (2.60%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (12.20%) REST
2 149 (12.11%) Kafka
3 130 (10.57%) Spring
4 128 (10.41%) React
5 125 (10.16%) Node.js
6 109 (8.86%) .NET
7 92 (7.48%) Spring Boot
8 88 (7.15%) RESTful
9 72 (5.85%) AngularJS
10 67 (5.45%) Playwright
11 62 (5.04%) CSS
12 55 (4.47%) HTML
13 49 (3.98%) Elastic Stack
14 45 (3.66%) PySpark
15 44 (3.58%) OAuth
16 43 (3.50%) PyTorch
17 39 (3.17%) FastAPI
17 39 (3.17%) JSON
18 38 (3.09%) GraphQL
18 38 (3.09%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 202 (16.42%) Cloud Native
2 51 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 32 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.20%) Public Cloud
6 21 (1.71%) Algorithms
7 18 (1.46%) Virtual Team
8 17 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.38%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.30%) AI Agents
9 16 (1.30%) Security Posture
10 15 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.14%) Life Science
11 14 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (1.14%) NHS
11 14 (1.14%) Replication
12 12 (0.98%) Data Structures
12 12 (0.98%) Genomics
12 12 (0.98%) Private Cloud
13 11 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 156 (12.68%) Linux
2 39 (3.17%) Windows
3 24 (1.95%) Unix
4 22 (1.79%) Android
5 15 (1.22%) Apple iOS
5 15 (1.22%) VMS
6 12 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.57%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.24%) CentOS
9 3 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.16%) Debian
10 2 (0.16%) Rocky
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.081%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.081%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 888 (72.20%) CI/CD
2 725 (58.94%) DevOps
3 437 (35.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 388 (31.54%) Agile
5 316 (25.69%) Containerisation
6 263 (21.38%) Test Automation
7 241 (19.59%) AI
8 231 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
9 225 (18.29%) Microservices
10 212 (17.24%) Observability
11 168 (13.66%) Migration
12 156 (12.68%) Analytics
13 146 (11.87%) Platform Engineering
14 141 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
15 137 (11.14%) Full-Stack Development
16 123 (10.00%) Software Engineering
17 120 (9.76%) Data Pipeline
18 106 (8.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 105 (8.54%) Data Engineering
20 103 (8.37%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 572 (46.50%) Python
2 276 (22.44%) SQL
3 249 (20.24%) Java
4 167 (13.58%) JavaScript
5 148 (12.03%) Bash
6 137 (11.14%) TypeScript
7 107 (8.70%) PowerShell
8 106 (8.62%) C#
9 70 (5.69%) Go
10 51 (4.15%) Bicep
11 29 (2.36%) Shell Script
12 25 (2.03%) Ruby
13 17 (1.38%) Scala
14 16 (1.30%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.06%) PHP
16 12 (0.98%) Groovy
17 11 (0.89%) C++
18 10 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
18 10 (0.81%) Swift
19 8 (0.65%) C
Qualifications
1 360 (29.27%) Security Cleared
2 276 (22.44%) SC Cleared
3 76 (6.18%) Degree
4 49 (3.98%) DV Cleared
5 44 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (3.50%) Azure Certification
7 39 (3.17%) AWS Certification
8 26 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 15 (1.22%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (0.81%) OCP
11 10 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
12 9 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.65%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.57%) CISSP
15 4 (0.33%) CCNP
15 4 (0.33%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (6.67%) QA
2 49 (3.98%) Data Quality
3 48 (3.90%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.11%) NIST
5 23 (1.87%) WCAG
6 20 (1.63%) NCSC
7 19 (1.54%) GDPR
8 15 (1.22%) PCI DSS
9 14 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 12 (0.98%) EU AI Act
11 8 (0.65%) GRC
12 7 (0.57%) SLA
13 4 (0.33%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.24%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.16%) MiFID
15 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 395 (32.11%) Docker
2 34 (2.76%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.22%) VMware NSX
4 15 (1.22%) vSphere
5 7 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.57%) Firmware
6 3 (0.24%) HDFS
6 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.081%) etcd
7 1 (0.081%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.081%) NFS
7 1 (0.081%) QEMU
7 1 (0.081%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.081%) Veritas File System
7 1 (0.081%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 539 (43.82%) Terraform
2 480 (39.02%) Kubernetes
3 186 (15.12%) Ansible
4 140 (11.38%) Grafana
5 101 (8.21%) Prometheus
6 75 (6.10%) Argo
7 41 (3.33%) Istio
8 24 (1.95%) Progress Chef
9 22 (1.79%) Puppet
10 15 (1.22%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.98%) Kibana
12 11 (0.89%) Podman
13 10 (0.81%) NetBackup
13 10 (0.81%) Packer
14 9 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (0.65%) linkerd
16 7 (0.57%) Sysdig
17 6 (0.49%) Rancher
18 5 (0.41%) logstash
19 4 (0.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 198 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 102 (8.29%) Google
3 89 (7.24%) Databricks
4 79 (6.42%) Splunk
5 51 (4.15%) VMware
6 45 (3.66%) Red Hat
7 44 (3.58%) OpenAI
8 40 (3.25%) Oracle
9 22 (1.79%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.54%) Foundry
10 19 (1.54%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.54%) Sonatype
11 15 (1.22%) Pure Storage
11 15 (1.22%) Salesforce
12 14 (1.14%) Dynatrace
13 11 (0.89%) SAP
14 9 (0.73%) Commvault
14 9 (0.73%) New Relic
15 7 (0.57%) Adobe
15 7 (0.57%) Veracode