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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 132 166
Rank change year-on-year +65 +34 -33
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1,139 550 534
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.52% 2.05% 1.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.27% 5.57% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 824 376 386
10th Percentile £356 £325 £413
25th Percentile £412 £448 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -3.41% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £708 £686 £697
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 0
10th Percentile £40.00 £23.30 -
25th Percentile £43.00 £25.25 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% - -
75th Percentile £86.88 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £110.00 £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year +81.82% - -

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 12,283 9,875 12,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.94% 36.80% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,535 6,574 8,993
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £422 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 140 267
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.98 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.69 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.46 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% +22.57% +0.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.18 £48.92
90th Percentile £76.40 £68.75 £68.54
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £23.61
% change year-on-year +9.09% +16.48% +4.33%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 22 January 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 +39 662 £550 - 227
North of England +21 175 £485 +2.05% 197
South East +42 105 £450 - 291
Yorkshire -3 90 £500 +5.26% 91
Midlands +16 77 £550 -4.35% 98
North West +14 70 £402 -15.37% 80
South West +10 68 £600 +4.35% 120
West Midlands +10 62 £580 +11.00% 38
North East +2 17 £545 +50.34% 29
East of England -8 17 £560 +76.10% 133
East Midlands -10 15 £402 -39.30% 58
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 96 (8.43%) Confluence
2 49 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (2.19%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.14%) nginx
6 12 (1.05%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.53%) Apache
8 6 (0.53%) Mule
9 5 (0.44%) CMS
10 4 (0.35%) SAS
11 3 (0.26%) WordPress
12 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.18%) CICS
12 2 (0.18%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.18%) Traefik
12 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.088%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.088%) Appian
Applications
1 26 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.18%) Trello
5 1 (0.088%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (0.61%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.18%) Shopify
3 1 (0.088%) Actimize
3 1 (0.088%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.088%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.088%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.088%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.088%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 580 (50.92%) GitHub Actions
2 530 (46.53%) AWS
3 518 (45.48%) Azure
4 245 (21.51%) Azure DevOps
5 195 (17.12%) GCP
6 193 (16.94%) Serverless
7 128 (11.24%) AWS Lambda
8 116 (10.18%) Amazon S3
9 106 (9.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 93 (8.17%) Amazon ECS
11 91 (7.99%) Amazon EKS
12 86 (7.55%) Power Platform
13 76 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 70 (6.15%) OpenShift
15 67 (5.88%) Azure AKS
16 63 (5.53%) Entra ID
17 60 (5.27%) Azure Data Factory
18 58 (5.09%) GitHub Copilot
19 54 (4.74%) Azure Monitor
20 53 (4.65%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.30%) Firewall
2 44 (3.86%) DNS
3 23 (2.02%) Network Security
3 23 (2.02%) VPN
4 13 (1.14%) HTTP
5 12 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.97%) SSL
7 9 (0.79%) WAN
8 8 (0.70%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.70%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.61%) Ethernet
9 7 (0.61%) Modbus
9 7 (0.61%) RS-232
9 7 (0.61%) RS-485
10 5 (0.44%) Internet
10 5 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.18%) Calico
11 2 (0.18%) SNMP
11 2 (0.18%) SSH
12 1 (0.088%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (14.57%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (7.37%) NoSQL
3 65 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
4 61 (5.36%) MongoDB
5 55 (4.83%) DynamoDB
6 53 (4.65%) Relational Database
7 51 (4.48%) SQL Server
8 50 (4.39%) Power BI
9 48 (4.21%) Data Lake
10 44 (3.86%) Redis
11 40 (3.51%) MySQL
12 35 (3.07%) Azure SQL Database
13 29 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
14 25 (2.19%) BigQuery
15 19 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
15 19 (1.67%) Delta Lake
16 18 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
17 15 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
17 15 (1.32%) DocumentDB
18 14 (1.23%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 328 (28.80%) Jenkins
2 224 (19.67%) Git
3 206 (18.09%) GitLab
4 169 (14.84%) JIRA
5 65 (5.71%) JUnit
6 61 (5.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 46 (4.04%) Artifactory
8 43 (3.78%) Gradle
8 43 (3.78%) SonarQube
9 42 (3.69%) CircleCI
10 39 (3.42%) Cypress.io
11 37 (3.25%) Bitbucket
11 37 (3.25%) Cucumber
12 33 (2.90%) Maven
13 30 (2.63%) Postman
14 29 (2.55%) Selenium
15 25 (2.19%) JMeter
16 16 (1.40%) Snyk
16 16 (1.40%) SpecFlow
17 12 (1.05%) MLflow
General
1 285 (25.02%) Social Skills
2 173 (15.19%) Finance
3 142 (12.47%) Public Sector
4 87 (7.64%) Banking
5 73 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.58%) Military
7 18 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
8 16 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (1.40%) Investment Banking
9 15 (1.32%) Retail
10 13 (1.14%) Front Office
11 12 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (0.97%) Marketing
12 11 (0.97%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.53%) Games
14 5 (0.44%) Billing
14 5 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.44%) Law
15 4 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 275 (24.14%) Developer
2 182 (15.98%) DevOps Engineer
3 171 (15.01%) Senior
4 91 (7.99%) Data Engineer
5 86 (7.55%) AWS Engineer
6 79 (6.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 73 (6.41%) Lead
8 72 (6.32%) Full-Stack Developer
9 69 (6.06%) Architect
10 62 (5.44%) Platform Engineer
11 60 (5.27%) Java Developer
12 56 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
13 55 (4.83%) Software Engineer
14 52 (4.57%) AWS DevOps
15 46 (4.04%) Senior Developer
16 45 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 43 (3.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 39 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 32 (2.81%) Senior Data Engineer
20 28 (2.46%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (12.82%) REST
2 141 (12.38%) Kafka
3 127 (11.15%) Node.js
3 127 (11.15%) React
4 110 (9.66%) .NET
5 102 (8.96%) Spring
6 93 (8.17%) RESTful
7 81 (7.11%) Spring Boot
8 70 (6.15%) AngularJS
9 62 (5.44%) OAuth
10 59 (5.18%) HTML
11 57 (5.00%) CSS
12 51 (4.48%) Elastic Stack
12 51 (4.48%) Playwright
13 45 (3.95%) JSON
14 43 (3.78%) GraphQL
15 42 (3.69%) YAML
16 41 (3.60%) FastAPI
17 37 (3.25%) Jest
18 36 (3.16%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 195 (17.12%) Cloud Native
2 41 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 26 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (2.19%) Public Cloud
6 22 (1.93%) Onboarding
7 21 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (1.76%) Algorithms
8 20 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.49%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.40%) Life Science
10 16 (1.40%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.32%) Private Cloud
12 14 (1.23%) Genomics
12 14 (1.23%) NHS
13 13 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
13 13 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.14%) PKI
13 13 (1.14%) Replication
13 13 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 152 (13.35%) Linux
2 40 (3.51%) Windows
3 26 (2.28%) Unix
4 22 (1.93%) Android
5 15 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 15 (1.32%) VMS
6 14 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
7 7 (0.61%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.53%) Solaris
9 5 (0.44%) CentOS
10 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.18%) zOS
13 1 (0.088%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.088%) MVS
13 1 (0.088%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 813 (71.38%) CI/CD
2 686 (60.23%) DevOps
3 410 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 370 (32.48%) Agile
5 309 (27.13%) Containerisation
6 225 (19.75%) AI
7 223 (19.58%) Test Automation
8 219 (19.23%) Microservices
8 219 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
9 185 (16.24%) Observability
10 145 (12.73%) Migration
11 140 (12.29%) Full-Stack Development
12 127 (11.15%) Software Engineering
13 126 (11.06%) Analytics
14 118 (10.36%) Data Pipeline
14 118 (10.36%) Platform Engineering
15 108 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
16 98 (8.60%) DevSecOps
17 95 (8.34%) Machine Learning
18 94 (8.25%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 532 (46.71%) Python
2 254 (22.30%) SQL
3 239 (20.98%) Java
4 161 (14.14%) JavaScript
5 145 (12.73%) TypeScript
6 127 (11.15%) Bash
7 101 (8.87%) C#
8 98 (8.60%) PowerShell
9 74 (6.50%) Go
10 52 (4.57%) Bicep
11 32 (2.81%) Shell Script
12 27 (2.37%) Ruby
13 15 (1.32%) PHP
14 12 (1.05%) C++
14 12 (1.05%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.79%) Groovy
16 8 (0.70%) C
16 8 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.61%) Perl
17 7 (0.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 328 (28.80%) Security Cleared
2 258 (22.65%) SC Cleared
3 85 (7.46%) Degree
4 50 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (4.13%) DV Cleared
6 39 (3.42%) Azure Certification
7 31 (2.72%) AWS Certification
8 22 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (1.93%) MCP
9 18 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.32%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.79%) CISSP
12 8 (0.70%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.70%) OCP
12 8 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
15 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.35%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (6.50%) QA
2 48 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 44 (3.86%) Accessibility
4 27 (2.37%) NIST
5 25 (2.19%) NCSC
6 22 (1.93%) GDPR
7 21 (1.84%) WCAG
8 16 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (1.32%) EU AI Act
10 13 (1.14%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.61%) SLA
12 5 (0.44%) GRC
12 5 (0.44%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.26%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.26%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
15 2 (0.18%) FIPS 140-2
15 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 386 (33.89%) Docker
2 35 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.61%) Firmware
6 6 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.44%) NFS
8 4 (0.35%) Veritas File System
8 4 (0.35%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 4 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.35%) vSphere
9 3 (0.26%) QEMU
9 3 (0.26%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.18%) HDFS
10 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.18%) KVM
11 1 (0.088%) SRDF
11 1 (0.088%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.088%) Xen
Systems Management
1 504 (44.25%) Terraform
2 445 (39.07%) Kubernetes
3 161 (14.14%) Ansible
4 129 (11.33%) Grafana
5 99 (8.69%) Prometheus
6 58 (5.09%) Argo
7 35 (3.07%) Istio
8 29 (2.55%) Puppet
9 28 (2.46%) Progress Chef
10 13 (1.14%) Podman
11 11 (0.97%) Packer
12 10 (0.88%) Kibana
13 9 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.70%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.61%) linkerd
15 7 (0.61%) Sysdig
16 5 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.44%) logstash
17 4 (0.35%) Rancher
17 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 197 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 106 (9.31%) Google
3 73 (6.41%) Databricks
4 68 (5.97%) Splunk
5 44 (3.86%) OpenAI
6 43 (3.78%) VMware
7 39 (3.42%) Oracle
8 35 (3.07%) Red Hat
9 22 (1.93%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.67%) Foundry
11 18 (1.58%) Atlassian
12 14 (1.23%) Sonatype
13 11 (0.97%) Salesforce
14 9 (0.79%) Dynatrace
14 9 (0.79%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.79%) NetApp
14 9 (0.79%) Okta
14 9 (0.79%) SAP
15 8 (0.70%) Commvault
15 8 (0.70%) New Relic